Fan studies journal Transformative Works and Cultures has published its thirteenth issue on comics fandom. Here are links to all the articles, on topics ranging from women in comics fandom to fans on 4chan to Captain America and various other Avengers-related things. Enjoy! As usual, we’ll be posting some good quotes from the articles too.
Editorial:
Matthew J. Costello: The super politics of comic book fandom
Theory:
Suzanne Scott: Fangirls in refrigerators: The politics of (in)visibility in comic book culture
Praxis:
Catherine Coker: Earth 616, Earth 1610, Earth 3490—Wait, what universe is this again? The creation and evolution of the Avengers and Captain America/Iron Man fandom
Lyndsay Brown: Pornographic space-time and the potential of fantasy in comics and fan art
Tim Bavlnka: /Co/operation and /co/mmunity in /co/mics: 4chan’s Hypercrisis
Symposium (short articles):
Forrest Phillips: Captain America and fans’ political activity
Amanda Odom: Professionalism: Hyperrealism and play
Rebecca Lucy Busker: Fandom and male privilege: Seven years later
Kayley Thomas: Revisioning the smiling villain: Imagetexts and intertextual expression in representations of the filmic Loki on Tumblr
Ora C. McWilliams: Who is afraid of a black Spider(-Man)?
Interviews:
Matthew J. Costello: Interview with comics artist Lee Weeks
Kate Roddy, Carlen Lavigne, Suzanne Scott: Toward a feminist superhero: An interview with Will Brooker, Sarah Zaidan, and Suze Shore
Reviews:
Daniel Stein: “Comic books and American cultural history: An anthology,” edited by Matthew Pustz
Drew Morton: “Of comics and men: A cultural history of American comic books,” by Jean-Paul Gabilliet