Author Sean Kleefeld

I have never been to the city of San Diego, much less attended the increasingly well-known "nerd prom" known as San Diego Comic-Con. Honestly, it's gotten large and crowded enough that I personally don't know...

I caught part of an online discussion recently where folks were bemoaning the lack of manga coverage on the larger comic news sites. Not only were they disappointed in not seeing more, but they also felt as if...

When I read comic books as a kid and young adult, I would rotate through which comics were my favorite. I wasn't so flighty as to change from month to month, but I would periodically realize that I was...

Sportswriter John Tunis identified what he called The Great Sports Myth in his book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics. Tunis pointed out that the idea that if only you worked hard enough and practiced that you...

When Bill Watterson left Calvin & Hobbes, the strip he had been working so hard on for a decade, readers were shocked. In part, because they enjoyed Watterson's work and would prefer to see it continue,...

When I first started collecting comic books as a boy, the small size of my collection, coupled with the limited resources I had to spend on it, made it pretty easy to keep track of what I had. I could go...

The past decade or so has seen the rise of something dubbed "transmedia" in our entertainment. The basic idea is that instead of presenting an audience with a story or stories via one medium, there are...

There are a lot of comics out there that many people don't think of as comics. Assembly instructions for Ikea furniture. The safety procedures pamphlet in commercial airplanes. Magic books that explain how you...

I'm not a big fan of Disney. Don't get me wrong, I've watched and enjoyed many of their shows and movies over the years, but I just don't follow the goings-on of the company or any of the characters they...

I recently read a review of Noelle Stevenson's Nimona that cited it as her debut graphic novel. And it got me thinking about that notion of a debut. Stevenson's story was actually her senior thesis at...