ABOUT

Benjamin Woo is Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), where he directs the Research on Comics, Con Events, and Transmedia Laboratory. Ben is the author of Getting a Life: The Social Worlds of Geek Culture, co-author of The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books,  and co-editor of The Comics World: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics, among other works.