Tag: Fandom

It started, as we noted the other day, when Allie Conti, a writer for Vice, The Atlantic and New Times in Florida, wrote a review of a small local con and deemed it "depressing"....

by Brett Schenker -- It’s Monday, which means it’s a new edition of Facebook Fandom Spotlight, where I break down the demographics of a particular group of fans. For this week I attempt to figure out who exactly is creating and delivering us out comic books. That’s right, I attempt to break down those employed in the comic book industry. We’ll compare this group to the greater comic fandom.

In all the gender controversies rattling the comics world, one of the most frequently cited paradoxes is that although research such as DC's 2011 reader survey showed only 7% of comics readers were female, yet when you walk around any comicksy event you see a lot more than 7% women. Women make up a lot of tweeters, tumblrs, and cosplayers and cartoonists. Why this disparity?

Given the popularity of "Face Off", the SFX makeup competition show, it was only a matter of time before Cosplay got tome TV time—it's colorful and obsessive and the people who do it are...

By Megan Byrd In the weeks and months leading up to the annual spectacle known as "San Diego Comic Con", dread of this event is expressed as frequently as anticipation by attendees, professionals, and fans...

Tumblr, Twitter and what was left of LiveJournal reacted with shock and then outrage this morning as news of a deleted shower scene starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the new Star Trek film was revealed....

Well my inbox this morning was stuffed with people telling me how big an announcement this is: Basically, Amazon has licensed Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Vampire Diaries from WB's Alloy division, and...

We all want Wonder Woman to be in a movie. In fact, I'm going to go out on a limb and say we want her to be in EVERY film. And every TV show....