Searching for Culture, Creativity and Resistance in Comic Books

Chris Ware, Panels from "Wingnutz"

Bart Beaty - "Searching for Artists in the Entertainment Empire" from Comics Versus Art

Cosplay at Occupy Wall Street?

Henry Jenkins - "Super-Powered Fans": The Many Worlds of San Diego Comic-Con
you can also access a copy of the Boom: A Journal of California printed version on Slideshare here.

Jeffrey A. Brown - Ethnography: Wearing One's Fandom
Brian Swafford - Critical Ethnography: The Comics Shop As Cultural Clubhouse
Joli Jenson - Fandom as Pathology
John Fiske - The Cultural Economy of Fandom

Finally, totally unrelated breaking news:

Superman quits Daily Planet day job to go online: mourns "how journalism has given way to entertainment" making it impossible for him to fight for "truth, justice and the American way".