Bootleg Simpsons

Fanthropology: Bootleg Fandom

If you've gone to a convention or shopped around online for any length of time, you've probably run across some merchandise featuring your favorite hero. Regardless of genre or format, you can find something...
Diesel Sweeties

Webcomics Wednesday: Catching Up

A great deal of my life relies on being online. Beyond your typical bill paying and wasting time on Facebook and reading webcomics and whatnot, pretty much everything that I'm paid for (and that I should be...
Hardware Wars

Fanthropology: Fan Filming

The notion of fan films goes back pretty much to the beginning of film itself. Thomas Edison himself famously filmed "a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelly's famous story" called Frankenstein in 1910. However,...
Ghostbusters

Fanthropology: Afraid of What?

What would you say Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Ghostbusters have in common? I expect you could actually come up with a number of things, really, but the similarity I'd like to discuss today is that they all...
Cheshire Cat Studios

Webcomics Wednesday: Break Time!

We are, of course, towards the end of 2015 and there are plenty of holidays and general festivities going on if you hadn't noticed. There are uncomfortable office parties, taking your kids to see holiday icons...