It Happens At Comic-Con Softcover title-HEARTTHROB TP

It Happens At Comic-Con Softcover title-HEARTTHROB TPThis collection of 13 new essays employs ethnographic methods to investigate San Diego's Comic Con International, the largest annual celebration of the popular arts in North America. Working from a common grounding in fan studies, these individual explorations examine a range of cultural practices at an event drawing crowds of nearly 125,000 each summer. Investigations range from the practices of fans costuming themselves to the talk of corporate

When Charles Cox

Chester Brown: Conversations collects interviews covering all facets of the cartoonist's long career and includes several pieces from now-defunct periodicals and fanzines

Sparring With Gil Kane is a Master Class on the comics form

* The most collectable figures get comic book companions

his sort-of-maybe-wannabe kids keep getting into trouble with the most insane killers imaginable

Dracula in Salem and the X-Men in Japan

and he wants to make sure fools everywhere take note

Could there be a Christmas miracle in store for everybody's favorite wall-crawler

Written by GARTH ENNIS Penciled by HOWARD CHAYKIN Cover by JOHN CASSADAY Set against the grim backdrop of Word War I

until they meet a strange ally

Bounty-hunter Matthew MacGregor investigates a series of strange happenings in the dusty Texas town of Blest where drought has brought famine and hardship to most of the town and surrounding ranches

Romany's a remarkable subject