
CultureSubculture Fashion: How Underground Style Keeps Resurfacing
Punk patches, Harajuku color, skate shoes — the looks that start at the edges keep showing up in the mall window.
Conventions, cosplay, fan projects, fan translations and the recurring arguments about canon, casting and credit, reported from inside the communities.

Punk patches, Harajuku color, skate shoes — the looks that start at the edges keep showing up in the mall window.

Memes work like folk tales once did: passed hand to hand, reshaped with each retelling, governed by unwritten rules nobody wrote down.

The creator of Brooklyn Nine-Nine looked back at New York Comic-Con — and the story confirms something about how fans shape what stays on air.

The unwritten rules of convention floors, lines and artist alleys, explained for first-timers.

Seventeen years and one billion dollars later, comic art and movie props now hang beside Kahlo and Rockwell in Los Angeles.

The industry wrote its own censorship rules in 1954 after a Senate subcommittee leaned on it — here is what the seal banned, who broke it, and how it died in 2011.