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Every year, thousands of comic book, sci-fi, and movie fans flock to crowded convention centers and large arenas to reenact and cosplay some of their favorite characters.
Sergio Aragones is one of the icons of cartoon art. A contributor to MAD Magazine since the 1960s, Aragones continues to attend comic book conventions around the county.
The contributions of women to comic books are often ignored. "Womanthology" is part of a feminist movement emerging in the comic book world.
Art inhabits an unusual space at regional Comic-Cons. Certain genres of art -- from fantasy to pop surrealism to designer toys -- have long had a home at the convention.
At the gallery Giant Robot 2, "Post It" has become something of an L.A. tradition, an egalitarian exhibition, not just for the artists, but for the patrons.
Japanese American artist and writer, Stan Sakai draws on the multi-cultural artistic nexus that is Los Angeles, creating characters, settings and imagery that are Japanese, but whose lettering and narrative style originate mostly in the West.