Browsing: Creators & Fan Culture

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.

In the heart of White River Junction, Vt., The Center for Cartoon Studies offers a two-year Master of Fine Arts degree alongside one- and two-year certificates and summer workshops in cartooning. Accepting students with a wide range of experience, the school delivers an integrated curriculum spanning design, drawing, storytelling and writing under the direction of…

The beauty product demo is getting harder to separate from the culture around it. At no na’s Island Girl album pop-up in Jakarta, fans were not just walking past a Pantene display. They could ride a branded angkot to the venue, step into a Hair Gloss Room and leave with a hairstyle built around the…

DoorDash is trying to make the food question part of hockey fandom, not just an ad break around it.

[Sportschosun | Cho Yoon-sun, Reporter] Yano Shiho revealed her genuine admiration for Rowoon.