Associate professor, Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University
Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies, Carleton University, researching the producers, intermediaries, and audiences of "geek culture" with a particular focus on comic books and graphic novels. Director of the Research on Comics, Con Events, and Transmedia Laboratory.
Comic-Con@Home: Virtual comics event declared a failure by industry critics, but fans loved it
Sep 09, 2020 06:35 am UTC| Entertainment
With the vast majority of North Americas thousand-plus fan conventions cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual conventions (called cons) have been a bright spot for fans in an otherwise bleak year. Although...
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