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Coca-Cola Japan is giving V fans a reason to keep receipts long after the commercial has finished playing. The current promotion turns a celebrity campaign into a repeated shopping ritual: buy eligible Coke products, upload the receipt through LINE, collect digital entry seals, then use those entries for V-linked prizes.

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The National Cartoonists Society and Lakes International Comic Art Festival have announced Frank Quitely as the winner of the Sergio Aragonés International Award for Excellence in Comic Art.

POV: You’re on a date with a moody, hardworking professor. He’s not the most outgoing, but he’s got a furrowed brow over his eyes that you just know are hiding some sexy secrets. “Dr. Evil” is what they call him, but after a few minutes, you realize he’s actually a highly sought after scientist and…

For generations, comic art has done more than entertain. It gave American culture some of its most enduring icons and its clearest visual language for hope, courage, justice, and equality. Panel by panel, it shaped how generations understood their own values.

For this year’s New York Comic Con (NYCC), Fanhome really is the home for superfans. With new merch, booth activities, and a guest appearance, Fanhome knows how to win your fandom heart.

In tenth grade, I clicked “publish” on a One Direction fan fiction and waited for judgment. Somewhere between volleyball, student council, AP classes, and dates with an objectively terrible boyfriend, I’d found the time to write a Harry Styles–centered short story, in which Styles saved me from Texas and took me to the big city. (Naturally,…

A classic bumper catch-up edition of this (and last) week’s links, below, as I return from Scotland with an average daily step count of 17,000, an average daily Irn Bru count of 1, an average daily muddy pawprint on my trousers count of 7.5, and an inbox count that I’m trying my best to not…

The appellate hearing in singer Steve Yoo’s third lawsuit over visa issuance was held at the Seoul High Court on the 2nd. What stood out most inside and outside the courtroom, almost as much as the verdict itself, were fans who had followed Steve Yoo’s career for many years.

A Fredonia professor has just published a book exploring the topic of musical theatre fandom.