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New Publication: "How to Be a Fanboy"

New Publication: "How to Be a Fanboy"

Benjamin Woo
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In a new co-authored article out in Popular Communication, Kalervo Sinervo, Anna Peppard, and I look back at Wizard, a glossy lifestyle magazine for comic book and other fans published between 1991 and 2011. Based on a close reading of several “milestone” issues from across Wizard’s run, we explore how Wizard’s address to fans did and didn’t change over its twenty-year history.

Benjamin Woo
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Benjamin Woo

Benjamin Woo is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. He holds a PhD in communication studies from Simon Fraser University and is the author of several academic articles on comics and their fans. As a younger man, Ben aspired to be a cartoonist. He submitted several embarassing pitches to Marvel and DC while in elementary school, drew editorial cartoons and a newspaper strip in college, joined a webcomics collective, and published stories in The SPX Anthology and You Ain't No Dancer vol. 2 before “retiring” from comics to follow the much more secure career path of the academic researcher.

New Publication: “From Comic-Con to Amazon”

New Publication: “From Comic-Con to Amazon”