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 DC Comics announced that the company is canceling all of its comic book
convention appearances through the end of March 2020 and into April including
April’s Wonder Con in Anaheim (scheduled for April 10-12), due to the spread of the Coronavirus in the United States. This announcement came
just days after the
company announced the canceling the New York City premiere of their latest animated film,
"Superman: Red Son", earlier in the week over the same concerns.
“As the health and safety of our employees are always our primary concerns, DC
staffers will not be attending conventions during the month of March,” a DC
spokesperson said Tuesday in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter. “Future
convention attendance will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, factoring in
the latest information from a variety of organizations, including the CDC, WHO,
U.S. State Department and local health agencies.”
The past few weeks have been full of turmoil for DC Comics. The publisher is
currently undergoing a major structural shake-up in the wake of the abrupt
departure of Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, which occurred in the middle of the
ComicsPro 2020 conference. DC Comics has also been dogged by rumors that they
are in danger of being sold to Disney by parent company AT&T in the wake of
dropping sales and a lower market share, but Jim Lee (now the sole Publisher of
DC Comics) was quick to dismiss these rumors at the recent C2E2 convention.
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