

They’re fans, but they’re not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. I think a lot of fairy tales have that sort of unease built into them, just because they introduce so many elements that they never explain, and use fairy tale logic-the kind that isn’t really logic at all, but has that matter-of-fact feel to it anyway-and the reader just has to roll with it.ĭark Matter - Author Lev Grossman on fan fiction for Time Magazine:įan fiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker.

Comic Unease - Cartoonist Emily Carroll talks about comics, fairy tales, dreams, and her story His Face All Red with The Comics Journal:
