It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon SC (2014) comic books

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1st printing. Edited by Ben Bolling and Matthew J. Smith. Foreword by Matthew Pustz. Afterword by Randy Duncan and Peter M. Coogan. This 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 marketers. The collection seeks to expand fan studies, exploring Comic-Con International more deeply than any publication before it. Softcover, 6-in. x 9-in., 216 pages, Text. Cover price $35.00.