Sean Kleefeld is an independent researcher whose work has been used by the likes of Marvel Entertainment, Titan Books and 20th Century Fox. He writes the ongoing “Incidental Iconography” column for The Jack Kirby Collector and had weekly “Kleefeld on Webcomics” and "Kleefeld's Fanthropology" columns for MTV Geek. He’s also contributed to Alter Ego, Back Issue and Comic Book Resources. Kleefeld’s 2009 book, Comic Book Fanthropology, addresses the questions of who and what comic fans are. He blogs daily at KleefeldOnComics.com.
I happened to catch two stories on Twitter this weekend from comic book professionals about other comic book professionals that seemed to echo one another. Cullen Bunn is a writer who's currently working on...
This week, the Eisner Awards judges announced two women to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame as well as sixteen additional nominees that other comic professionals will vote on. Of no...
The internet, pretty much by definition, is a network. A whole bunch of computers connected together and sharing information. The challenge, though, is that if you have a network of essentially every computer...
For several years now, Marvel has done a good job of generating excitement for their movies. A combination of the individual movies being done well in the first place, plus their expansion of their broad...
I think most people have a general perception of how becoming a doctor happens. After you graduate high school, you go to college. Then you go to college some more. And then you go to college some more....
I went about looking for holiday themed webcomics recently. Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Festivus... whatever. Anything that celebrated the holiday spirit generally. And I found just about nothing. There are...
Though perhaps not at the level of Eisner or Ignatz Awards in terms of notoriety, the Broken Frontier Awards are nonetheless a reasonably solid honor for many cartoonists, having been established over a decade...
I have spent a good chunk of the weekend avoiding spoilers for The Last Jedi. The Star Wars films are one of the few that will actually get me into the theater instead of just waiting until I can watch it at...
My apologies for the overly long title this week, but for webcomics, this week is turning into a steaming pile of bantha poodoo (if you'll also pardon my mixed pop culture references). One major part we've...
It's hard not to check the news these days without a new story about some sexual harassment or sexual assault issue. Famous people who took advantage of their power and celebrity to molest (or worse) some...