Author Sean Kleefeld

It's almost impossible for me to write a regular column on fandom writ large, and not comment on the recent controversy over this year's Hugo Awards. By way of background, they're named after science fiction...

One of my favorite movies is Fritz Lang's Metropolis from 1927. It's one of the earliest science fiction feature films, and addresses concerns ranging from industrialization to income inequality. Critical...

Last night, I attended the opening reception for an "Amerimanga!" exhibit at Northern Illinois University. It focused on the influence of manga on American comics, and had original art from a number of comic...

Melvin Purvis is probably most widely known today as the character played by Christian Bale in the 2009 movie Public Enemies. But the character was based on the real FBI agent who famously tracked down Baby...

Most of the time, when we're talking about webcomics, we're talking about the here and now. By their very nature, webcomics are an inherently contemporary art form, even when they deliberately harken back to...

A lot of folks interested in comics like to think that it's a great club to be a member of. And it absolutely is! I love comics in all forms, and I've made some fantastic friends through a shared love of the...

Recently, I heard someone bemoaning the fact that we collectively don't have a common frame of reference with respect to media. It used to be, for example, that pretty much everyone who owned a television...

I've mentioned in various platforms before that I'm a big fan of reading webcomics via RSS feeds. I follow enough of them that it's almost impossible to click through a series of bookmarks, checking for...

Hervé St-Louis had a piece last week looking at webcomics from an information architecture (IA) perspective. He provides more in-depth definitions than I can devote time to here, but the upshot is that the...

I'm a fan of a variety of disparate different things: Firefly, Alice in Wonderland, King Crimson... The depth of my fandom for each of these is different, not surprisingly, and how I choose to showcase my...