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Pustz, Matthew. "Fanboys and True Believers: Comic Book Reading Communities and the Creation of Culture," American Studies Department, University of Iowa, May 1998.
This work analyzes the variety of reading communities involved with American comic books, demonstrating in the process that they function not just as separate entities, with different goals, preferences, and practices regarding their favored texts, but also as a broader (albeit not entirely unified) culture. Using ethnographic interviews and analyses of fan texts, this work characterizes the worlds of these readers, illuminating heretofore ignored aspects of a generally maligned form of popular culture, and examines how the comic books themselves contribute to the construction of these fan cultures.
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