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, Sophie LaBelle's website was hacked, and much of the art was replaced with Nazi imagery. Her home address was posted on a variety of neo-Nazi forums, and she began receiving literally thousands of...
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When I was a kid, the Cedar Point theme park had a dark ride entitled Earthquake, loosely based on the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Guests would sit in a Model-T and be guided through quaint early 20th...
I attended a reasonably large meeting yesterday, and since it was a diverse group of folks who, by and large, had never met one another, they started the meeting with introductions and an ice breaker. Each...
You're probably reading this column in English. That's certainly the language I'm using to write it. Despite taking a few years of Spanish in high school and a semester of ASL, English is the only language I...
One of the more viral news items from last week was a new ad featuring Kendall Jenner. The ad itself didn't go viral so much as the negative reactions to it. I won't rehash all the ways the ad came across as...