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 year, Gabriel de Laubier grabbed a bit of attention by re-designing a Calvin & Hobbes comic in three dimensions. He modeled the two characters and some of their environment, roughly approximating...
You ever think about what makes a business successful? Obviously, there's some degree of providing people with what they want at an affordable price, but beyond that, how do they get to that? Take a look at...
When they were first casting Spamalot, the stage production of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Hank Azaria landed the role of Sir Lancelot, and most of the other parts played in the movie by John Cleese. He...
Largely lost to news out of Puerto Rico and Las Vegas, the US Senate on Monday confirmed Ajit Pai for a five-year term on the Federal Communications Commission's regulatory panel where he gets to preside over...
Creators might develop a webcomic for any of a number of reasons. Frequently, you hear how someone just had this story dancing around in their brain, and doing it as a webcomic was their best way to get it...
When people first started considering that they might be able to make money from doing webcomics, there were a flurry of different approaches. After all, since webcomics were a new thing, no one knew how to...
I first became interested in studying fandom in the late 1990s. Henry Jenkins' ground-breaking Textual Poachers had come out in 1992 and his co-authored follow-up, Science Fiction Audiences, was out in 1995,...
Have I ever told you how I became interested in webcomics? Back in the day, I used to play Dungeons & Dragons and I would sporadically pick up Dragon magazine as part of that. In the back was a comic...
Today's question is: can you be a fan without being in fandom? And it's corollary: can you be in fandom without being a fan? Perhaps counter-intuitively, the answer to both is "yes." Let's start with some...
Back in January, I talked about then-recently-appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai and how he had spent a good chunk of his career prior to 2017 lobbying to de-regulate the internet. Once he came into a position of...