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.
Last week saw the announcement of a new webcomics venture broadly titled Electricomics. It was something of a surprise announcement that I don't believe much of anyone outside of its small crew aniticpated....
HBO's Game of Thrones series debuted in April 2011, and I completely missed it. I vaguely recall hearing about it, but nothing substantive enough to drive me to watch. Over the next couple of years, I heard...
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I first noticed Kat Leyh's work in her short Pancakes book from a couple of years ago. It was beautiful, both from an illustrative as well as a narrative perspective. So when I first saw her Bird Witch...
Ray Wall first caught many people's attention when he release "The Fantastic Four Song" in back in 2005. It sold well, even outranking the official movie soundtrack music on iTunes. In his pursuit of creating...
Troy Brownfield has been in and around comics a lot longer than you might guess. He wrote some short webcomics for his Shotgun Reviews website back in 2000, and later became an editor for Fangoria Comics and a...
Convention season has not quite gotten to an ongoing, year-round status, but there is no shortage of conventions going on these days. The Toronto Comic Arts Festival was this past weekend, AniMinneapolis...