Editing Comiket (section)

===Schedule===
[[Image:3, 2, 1... Fight! (29648964575).jpg|thumb|220px|Entry queue to Comiket 90 in August 2016]]
Comiket is held twice yearly, in August and December. These events are distinguished as "Summer Comic Market" (''Natsukomi'') and "Winter Comic Market" (''Fuyukomi'').<ref name="McCarthy">{{cite book |last=McCarthy |first=Helen |author-link=Helen McCarthy |title=500 Manga Heroes & Villains |year=2006 |publisher= Chrysalis Book Group |location= Hauppauge, New York, USA |isbn=978-0-7641-3201-8 |page=14 |chapter= Manga: A Brief History }}</ref> Since 1995, both events have run for three days each, with Summer Comiket generally occurring Friday to Sunday in mid-August, and Winter Comiket generally occurring the three days prior to [[New Year's Day]]. Starting with Comiket 96, the events have been four days long,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-08-12/comic-market-to-use-smaller-venue-for-record-4-days-for-2019-events/.135394|title=Comic Market to Use Smaller Venue for Record 4 Days for 2019 Events|last=Loo|first=Egan|date=2018-08-12|website=AnimeNewsNetwork|access-date=8 February 2020}}</ref> with the exception of Comiket 103 and 104, which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, were reduced to two days each. Both events run daily from 10:00{{nbsp}}a.m. to 4:00{{nbsp}}p.m, with corporate booths open until 5:00{{nbsp}}p.m and the entire convention closing an hour early on the final day of the event.<ref name=jpn76>{{cite web |url=http://www.comiket.co.jp/info-a/C76/C76info.html |title=コミックマーケット７６のご案内 |work=一般参加者サポートページ ({Comiket} General Participant Support Page) |publisher=Comiket Inc |language=ja |trans-title=Guide to Comic Market 76 |access-date=July 5, 2010}}</ref> Comiket has been held at [[Tokyo Big Sight]] in [[Ariake, Tokyo]] since 1996.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csuchico.edu/~mtoku/vc/Articles/toku/Wil_Toku_BoysLove.html |title='Boys' Love,' Yaoi, and Art Education: Issues of Power and Pedagogy |last1=Wilson |first1=Brent |last2=Toku |first2=Masami |year=2003 |work=Visual Culture Research in Art and Education |access-date=July 5, 2010 |archive-date=19 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719052019/http://www.csuchico.edu/%7Emtoku/vc/Articles/toku/Wil_Toku_BoysLove.html |url-status=dead }} Citing {{cite journal |last= Inokai |first=K. |year=2000 |title=Manga dojinshi-shi |journal=Comic Fan |issue=10 |pages=4–59 |language=ja |trans-title=History of manga dojinshi }}</ref> Comiket 98, which was planned for August 2020, was the event's first cancellation in its history as a result of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Japan|COVID-19 pandemic]];<ref name="c98-cancelled"/> Comiket 99, which would have been held in December 2020 was instead held in December 2021, two years after the last time it was held, and ran for only two days.<ref name="CRcomiket99">{{cite web |last1=Harding |first1=Daryl |title=Comiket 99 to Require Proof of COVID-19 Vaccination or Negative PCR Test |url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2021/11/12-1/comiket-99-to-require-proof-of-covid-19-vaccination-or-negative-pcr-test |website=[[Crunchyroll]] |access-date=29 December 2021 |date=12 November 2021}}</ref>