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FanX Salt Lake (formerly Salt Lake Comic Con) is an annual multi-genre pop culture expo held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.It is produced by Dan Farr and Bryan Brandenburg [1] under Dan Farr Productions and is Utah's most attended convention according to the Governor's Office of Economic Development.
This category collects images that either "fan" or "spec" art. This includes images made or commissioned by fans rather that the owners of the depicted character(s), unpublished work by perofessionals working with the owners, fan made costumes, and the like.
Fans of these franchises generated creative products like fan art and fan fiction at a time when typical science fiction fandom was focused on critical discussions. The MediaWest convention provided a video room and was instrumental in the emergence of fan vids , or analytic music videos based on a source, in the late 1970s. [ 15 ]
Fan art can take many forms. In addition to traditional paintings, drawings, and digital art, fan artists may also create conceptual works, sculptures, video art, livestreams, web banners, avatars, graphic designs, web-based animations, photo collages, and posters, Fan art includes artistic representations of pre-existing characters both in new contexts and in contexts that are keeping with ...
A fan wiki is a wiki [a] that is created by fans, primarily to document an object of popular culture. Fan wikis cover television shows, film franchises, video games, comic books, sports, and other topics. [1] They are a part of fandoms, which are subcultures dedicated to a common popular culture interest.
In the United States, the fan community began as an offshoot of science fiction fan community, with fans bringing imported copies of Japanese manga to conventions. [8] Before anime began to be licensed in the U.S., fans who wanted to get a hold of anime would leak copies of anime movies and subtitle them, thus marking the start of fansubs .
Fan fiction is the most widely known fan labor practice, and arguably one of the oldest, beginning at least as early as the 17th century. [4] [5] Fan fiction stories ("fan fic") are literary works produced by fans of a given media property, rather than the original creator.
The list of modern fan conventions for various genres of entertainment extends to the first conventions held in the 1930s. Some fan historians claim that the 1936 Philadelphia Science Fiction Conference, a.k.a. Philcon , was the first science fiction convention ever held.