Fanthropology: Fans vs Fandom Sean Kleefeld Sep 4, 2017 Lifestyle Today's question is: can you be a fan without being in fandom? And it's corollary: can you be in fandom without being a fan? Perhaps...
Fanthropology: The Sports Fan Myth Sean Kleefeld Jun 29, 2015 Lifestyle Sportswriter John Tunis identified what he called The Great Sports Myth in his book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics. Tunis pointed out that the idea...
Fanthropology: The Authorities Sean Kleefeld Oct 27, 2014 Lifestyle Nearly every fandom is a pretty loosely knit group. Even those that have formal fan clubs associated with them aren't all-inclusive. After all, since...
Fanthropology: Fans of Fandom Sean Kleefeld Sep 29, 2014 Lifestyle I first became interested in going beyond studying my favorite comics and TV shows, and into the people who become fans of them back in the late...
Fanthropology: Fandom’s Growing Up? Sean Kleefeld Jul 7, 2014 Lifestyle Back in 2008, I went looking for various solutions for storing my comics collection. I had just inhereted my father's old collection, essentially...
Fanthropology: The Diversity Issue Sean Kleefeld Apr 28, 2014 Lifestyle At C2E2 this past weekend, tens of thousands of people came out to McCormick Place in Chicago to buys toys, comics, and video games; get signatures...