Long Beach Comic Con isn’t the big kahuna, and yet, its intimate seaside setting is an exceptional venue for attendees to show off their fabulous, freaky, and fannish good selves. Between the stitch-perfect cosplayers and the shelves of comic book back issues I found aisle after aisle of talented, intrepid artists....

Hogwarts is probably the coolest school in the world, but it’s a bit of a hassle, too, between the dementors, the ghosts, the revolving door of Defense Against the Dark Arts professors. What if you could still hang out with your favorite fantasy characters without all the drama and danger of...

Hollywood could take a lesson or two (or seven) from these fan artists. These posters look better than most of the billboards I’ve seen along Sunset Boulevard. 1. The Maze Runner Loaded with easter eggs, hidden details, and (careful!) spoilers, this poster was made by a true Maze Runner fan (http://bloodygreenie.tumblr.com/). But...

Fan artist Kiki Jenkins flips our expectations on their head with this gorgeous and surprising genderbent piece featuring Dean Winchester and Castiel from TV’S Supernatural. Genderbending, or genderswapping, is the practice of taking familiar characters and switching their gender. At times, it may be a political statement about the treatment of women...