Fandom as legitimate

[bzoppa]

This is a little incoherent but I'm late on my homework and need some direction. Want to get this up as quick as possible and get back to the nitty-gritty parts of the assignment

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[madolan]

I like When Fangirls Attack as a sort of metablog, but most of its links are amateur.

Dirk Deppey at Journalista is one of the best. He'll have links to pertinent conversations, boards, columns, and sites, so he's a good resource.

Brian Hibbs' Tilting at Windmills column deals more with the sales side of the industry, but he is not without his opinions on other aspects. The whole CBR website might be a good one for you.

Warren Ellis runs weird and active web communities. His latest is Whitechapel.

I don't know if this is close to what you're looking for, but the Scans Daily community is a vibrant place for sharing comics. People post a few pages of things they like, things that make them go WTF, or things others have requested. Sometimes-- most often when it's old or out of print-- they'll post an entire comic. The community was driven off LJ by charges of copyright infringement (probably true) and by artist/writer snitfits. That community seems like it would be a good demographic for accessing an old archived comics

[madolan]

Come other sites I read on RSS:

http://www.savagecritic.com/
http://comicscomicsmag.com/
http://www.housetoastonish.com/ (Never mind the British music and wrestling; there's comics in there, too)
http://thatsmyskull.blogspot.com/
http://comicsmakenosense.blogspot.com/

[bzoppa]

Yup :) I wanted more "legitimacy" than "my friend Madolan posts about themes in comics and I think it's cool" :D

Thanks, I was hoping you're around!

[madolan]

I have another! Just today I was reading this blog post from a professor at Amherst who teaches a course on graphic novels. There's some proof that college students studying comics and graphic novels under formal curricula may also have need of historic context.