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.
Jen Aggleton is working on her PhD in Education at the University of Cambridge, and is completing a work placement at the British Library on the subject of digital comics. The degree she's working on is...
Today, a total solar eclipse will be visible across much of the United States. Despite the vast amount of hype surrounding the event, total solar eclipses actually aren't all that rare, occurring roughly about...
One of the ways that webcomic creators earn money from their work, as you probably well know, is to sell printed copies of it. They might publish it as a typical monthly floppy or some form of trade paperback...
I was thinking about webcomics formatting recently. I think most people—myself included—tend to think of webcomics as falling into one of two camps: gag strips and extended, dramatic narratives....
This past weekend, all five members of GeekGirlCon's operations team resigned in a fairly public manner, using the corporate email to send a message to attendees, vendors, and everyone else on their mailing...
Often for these columns, I use whatever the webcomics news of the day (or week, if things are slow) as a launching point. This week, I did something I tried something I normally don't bother with when it comes...
One of the things that I've complained about over the past several years has been that many comic-related awards that have recognized webcomics seem to lump webcomics and digital comics into the same category....
Comic-Con International just wrapped up in San Diego and, by all the accounts I've seen, was generally a rousing success. I didn't see any reports of Twilight fans getting bullied, no one was stabbed in the...
Marvel editor Tom Brevoort recently asked on Twitter for readers' best "done-in-one single issue Marvel stories." Naturally, there were a bevy of responses, many of which you would almost expect. "This Man,...
Let's say you've got your webcomic going, and it's been going on long enough that you're starting to get into a regular groove with it. You've blocked out enough time to regularly sit down and draw out the...