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Discover New TV shows, Movies, Comics and Books that will give us common ground and bring us together by slowing down to appreciate each other's fandoms. You Might think that we’re living in a Golden Age of TV, Movies, Comics and Books, but sometimes it feels like we have to jump from fandom to fandom so quickly that we don’t even get to understand why we should like something, which means that we often miss out on something that could become a new favorite But if we take a minute to slow down and really look at a fandom there is always some redeeming quality, something that someone loves....

As the first anthology to assess the nature of fan response and the band's enduring appeal, Fandom and The Beatles: The Act You've Known for All These Years defines and explores the key ways in which this particular pop fusion has inspired such loyalty and multigenerational popularity.

In the Summer of 1970, a ragtag group of teenage hippies, proto-punks, artists, and science buffs assembled in a small, obscure town called San Diego to celebrate their pop culture heroes … and each other. They couldn’t possibly have known that the San Diego Comic-Con would over the decades grow into the largest pop culture gathering worldwide. Join original scream queen and cosplay pioneer Brinke Stevens as she, nearly 50 of her childhood cohorts, and a cadre of uber-geeky celebrity guests reveal their most fascinating, funny, and fannish memories of how they brought the Comic-Con ...