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.
The nominees for this year's Ignatz Awards were announced last week. The Ignatz is "the festival prize of the Small Press Expo, that since 1997 has recognized outstanding achievement in comics and...
Back in April, I wrote here about the Sad Puppies campaign to essentially make the Hugo Awards all about cishetero white men. Much to the relief of many fans, the Sad Puppies campaign went down in flames...
Hervé St-Louis posted a piece recently talking about webcomic piracy. He was specifically talking about in relation to some work he did to help bring down the Manga for Adult website earlier this month. MfA...
One of the arguments sometimes made against webcomics is that you need something to read them on, and that requires both power and a working internet connection. Whether that's a phone, a laptop, or some other...
The term "nostalgia" was coined in 1688 by Johannes Hofer in a dissertation in which he described it as a disease he saw in Swiss mercenaries. He saw it as an acute form of homesickness, and ascribed to it...
One of the discussions that not infrequently comes up around webcomics is: what are webcomics? The obvious answer—comics that are available through the web—glosses over the reality a bit, though, and...
I am not a number-crunching kind of guy. I hate Excel. My primary interest in charts and graphs is how visually pleasing they are, not what the numbers show. But I work on the internet every day, so numbers...
One of the dreams for many fans is to be able to make money off their hobby. Whether that's turning costuming skills into a brand of cosplay paraphernalia like Yaya Han, or taking thematic cues from J.K....
One of the problems webcomics have these days—and this is a brilliant problem to have—is that there are so many of them, it actually becomes hard to find ones that you really like. There's just so much...
You would think that webcomikers would be all over social media, given that they've already displayed their comfort level with presenting work digitally, but that's not always the case. However digitally...