Browsing: Creators & Fan Culture

A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support nationally recognized comic book artist, educator and Massachusetts resident Andy Fish as he undergoes treatment for two rare blood cancers.

KPop Demon Hunters has that rare kind of staying power where a movie stops being a “watch” and starts becoming a shared reference point. A year after release, fans are still streaming it at scale, quoting it, and treating its characters like a cast you can carry into real life through collectibles, clothes, and collabs.

For years, American football looked like the one sport that would stay American. Its rules seemed too intricate. Its season ran too short. Its culture stayed too tied to college towns and Thanksgiving traditions to travel. Yet that assumption has quietly collapsed. Today, from São Paulo to Munich to Melbourne, the NFL commands passionate audiences…

Original maker of UK coins The Royal Mint has made an appointment to a newly-created role aimed at strengthening collector engagement.

In the K-pop market, an idol group surpassing the so-called “curse of seven years” to reach its 10th anniversary since debut is an extremely symbolic and unprecedented milestone.

Canva Philippines, together with SB19 and Sony Music Entertainment, rolled out the “Kaya sa Canva” campaign, providing SB19’s fanbase, A’TIN, with access to official design assets, editable templates and creative tools through a dedicated Creative Hub on Canva. 

The graphic novel Cannon by Lee Lai was awarded this year’s A$60,000 Stella Prize, establishing historic firsts in more than one area. Cannon is the first graphic novel, and Lai the first non-binary author, to win this major literary prize. The same weekend, Lai was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, the…

Disney fandom has always been participatory, from quoting lines to remixing scenes into memes and edits. What’s changed is where that fan creativity lives and how directly it can feed back into the viewing experience people already pay for.

There are a few fandom rituals that feel like a yearly holiday, even if you are not in the fandom. For Harry Potter fans, 1 September is one of them:“Back to Hogwarts,” the day the story’s students head back to school, has turned into a real-world tradition people plan around.

The Royal Mint is continuing its evolution into a pop-culture player by naming Tim Muhall as its first Head of Fandom.