Frederick Wright asks, ‘How can 575 comic books weigh less than an ounce?: Comic book collecting in the digital age.’ This is a very interesting paper for anyone interested in serious collection of comic books and explores the possible consequences for the comic book collecting hobby and the comics industry as a subculture traditionally based in printbegins to mutate in the digital age.
Seen in The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP)
The Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography (SEPB)
Frederick Wright, Ph.D., has long been interested in how electronic publishing affects aspects of popular culture previously based in print. His doctoral dissertation, From Zines to Ezines: Electronic Publishing and the Literary Underground (available online at http://zinebook.com/resource/wrightdissertation.pdf), explored how zine publishers dealt with the rise of the World Wide Web at the turn of the century. Currently an assistant professor of English and the Pre-Law Program Coordinator at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, Wright, like most comic book superheroes, also has a secret identity, as the novelist Wred Fright. His most recent novel published on paper is The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus (ULA Press, 2006), chronicling the misadventures of a garage rock band in a college town, and his most recent novel published electronically is Blog Love Omega Glee (currently being serialized on Wredfright.com), concerning two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart. Wright earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from Kent State University, and his B.A. from Bowling Green State University. He can be contacted at either fwright@ursuline.edu or wredfright@yahoo.com.
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