Author Sean Kleefeld

I was born in the early 1970s, and was very much the target audience for Star Wars when it originally debuted in 1977. I was old enough to understand the straightforward story of good versus evil, and the...

There's a concept in business called disruptors. The idea is that a business can be going along just fine, when suddenly some new variable appears that completely changes how the business has to be run. Think...

Daily newspaper strips have long been, well... long. They're typically three or four panels placed side by side to create a single, straight, horizontal narrative. The specific sizes may have changed a bit,...

I was getting new tires last week and sitting around the waiting room with a dozen or so other people. They were idly flipping through magazines or playing games on their phones or whatever, and then I heard a...

Back in July, I talked about how webcomics apps have been on the rise, following the ubiquitous of smartphones. I noted that one primary benefit they have is that they help curate the number of webcomic titles...

Let's look at some webcomics ideas that are based around human functionality. You may have noticed that many webcomics, particularly gag strips, use a horizontal format. And the most logical response to...

Nick Trujillo is probably most well-known for his appearance on Penny Arcade's reality game show, Strip Search. In case you missed it, back in 2011, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik came up with the idea of a...

When I first began researching fandom, there was very little literature about it. There were plenty of fanzines and such, of course, going back decades, but little in the way of histories and almost nothing...

From time to time, you'll see dredged up the discussion about whether the term "webcomics" is useful and/or necessary. That if you talk to casual readers of The Oatmeal or xkcd or some other comic with a...

One of the things that is often touted as a great benefit about webcomics is that, because of the lack of gatekeepers, virtually anyone can publish their own webcomic. Creators are not reliant on a large...