Author Sean Kleefeld

This past weekend saw the announcement of the latest Ignatz Award winners and, as I expect you've heard by now, Meredith Gran won in the Outstanding Online Comic category for Octopus Pie. The series has been...

I've lamented before about the general lack of webcomics coverage. "Why don't more people embrace webcomics? They're every bit as good -- and in some cases better -- than what gets published." A few years...

You may have caught notice last week that we jut celebrated the 50th anniversary of when Star Trek debuted on television. The original series lasted from 1966 until 1969, and was cancelled despite some valiant...

One of the key dividing points I've made over the years between webcomics and, well, all other comics has been that webcomics have a different delivery mechanism. The term "comics" was first applied to the...

If you read a serial webcomic for a length of time, there's a good chance that you'll get to a chapter break. One of the nice things about webcomics, compared to traditional pamphlet comics, is that you don't...

I'll start today's column with a confession: it took me the longest damn time to understand cosplay. I just didn't get how cosplay was a fandom in and of itself. I understood furries before I figured out...

One thing that continues to puzzle me is the general lack of discussion about webcomics. There are people who do reviews and spotlight pieces—The Beat began running reviews towards the end of last year and...

Many people, when asked to think about comic books, default to superheroes. Batman, Spider-Man, Wonder Woman... There are plenty of comic books that do not involve superheroes, of course, and the genre isn't...

I somehow missed it when it first started circulating back in January, but I recently came across a paired set of still images from Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It's from the end of the movie as Rey hands the...

If it seems like we were just talking about LINE Webtoons last week, that's because we were. But where last week, they had just announced a partnership with Patreon, seemingly in the hope of attracting more...