Thursday, August 10, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/9/2023


VAULT GIVES AWAY THE 'A' COVER, CHARGES FOR VARIANTS On 'Unnatural Order' #1

 Brigid Alverson, Milton Griepp on August 8, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54807/vault-gives-away-a-cover-charges-variants

 

FUND-RAISER SET UP TO AID WILLIAM MESSNER-LOEBS

Veteran Writer and Artist Now Threatened with Eviction

  Brigid Alverson on August 8, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54809/fund-raiser-set-up-aid-william-messner-loebs

 

PRIVATE EQUITY FUND ACQUIRING LARGEST U.S. DISTRIBUTOR OF GRAPHIC NOVELS

KKR to Buy Simon & Schuster for $1.6 Billion—Cash

Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 8, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54812/private-equity-fund-acquiring-largest-u-s-distributor-graphic-novels

 

CAPTAIN ACTION PANTHEON EXPANDS FOR NEW FIGURE LINE, PLUS ANIMATION, LICENSING UPDATE

ICv2 Interview: Michael Polis

 Milton Griepp on August 9, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54820/captain-action-pantheon-expands-new-figure-line-plus-animation-licensing-update

 

Comic Creators Pull Lawsuit Against Action Lab, But Plan To Refile

We have discovered the delayed civil action class lawsuit against comics publisher Action Lab has been dismissed by the Pennsylvania courts.

Published Tue, 08 Aug 2023  

by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-creators-pull-lawsuit-against-action-lab-but-plan-to-refile/

 

'Heartstopper' Boss Alice Oseman on "Letting the Show Grow Up" in Season 2

The creator of the viral web comic turned critically praised queer drama also talks about those somewhat perplexing 'Euphoria' comparisons and the value of showcasing mental health and asexuality.

Lacey Rose

August 4, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/heartstopper-creator-mature-season-2-mental-health-asexuality-1235549665/

 

Pageturners: Launching Spacewarp during Covid and feedback from kids

Pat Mills

Iconoblast Aug 9, 2023

https://iconoblast.substack.com/p/pageturners-launching-spacewarp-during

 

Business Round-Up: Simon & Schuster, IDW, Mad Cave & more

Heidi MacDonald

08/09/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/business-round-up-simon-schuster-idw-originals-mad-cave/

 

Ilan Manouach in Review: Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics

Edited By Pedro Moura

Routledge 2024

https://www.routledge.com/Ilan-Manouach-in-Review-Critical-Approaches-to-his-Conceptual-Comics/Moura/p/book/9781032399713

 

Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics

Pedro Moura

Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces

1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo: Ilan Manouach's Critical Manifesto

Xavier Guilbert

2. Ilan Manouach's Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories

Simon Grennan

3. Whitewashing the Smudge. The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan

Manouach's Cascao

Ana Matilde Sousa

4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier

Greice Schneider

5. Replacing and Reorganizing: A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production

Lorenz Ohrmer

Part 2: Reading Practices

6. Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao

Maaheen Ahmed

7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader

José Alaniz

8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch

Ian Hague

9. Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books

Moritz Küng

Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics

10. Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing.

Morvandiau

11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past

Barbara Postema

12. [CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives

Benoît Crucifix

13. Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island

Daniel Worden

14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker

Maria Clara da S. R. Carneiro and Lielson Zeni

Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function

Xavier Löwenthal

 

Wagner, Cassie. "Graphic Novel Collections in Academic ARL Libraries." [final draft version].

OpenSIUC ( Jan 2010): https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1048&context=morris_articles

 

VON ALLAN'S "road" TO LI'L KIDS

Jennifer M. Contino

Comicon's The Pulse 09-26-2008  

Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20080928072318/http://www.comicon.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=36;t=007495

 

Comic Book Artist Ian McGinty Has Passed Away at Age 38

McGinty's work includes comics for Invader Zim and Adventure Time, along with his creator-owned series Welcome to Showside.

Justin Carter

June 10, 2023

https://gizmodo.com/obituary-ian-mcginty-artist-adventure-time-age-38-1850525304


Szyk's Political Faces

Irvin Ungar

Historicana / Arthur Szyk News August 9 2023

https://mailchi.mp/historicana/szyks-political-faces

 

When Phallocrats Go Limp: Adrian Tomine's dark comedy of ethnic self-hatred and male inadequacy.

Jeet Heer

August 4, 2023

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/adrian-tomine-shortcomings/

 

The Time of Monsters / Aug 6, 2023

The Secret Origins of Marvel

On this episode of The Time of Monsters, Elana Levin discusses Disney's dishonest documentary and the greatness of Jack Kirby.

Jeet Heer

https://www.thenation.com/podcast/culture/tom-elevin-marvel/

 

The Amazing, Uncanny, Inclusive Story of the World's Best Comics Shop, Books With Pictures

By Bennett Campbell Ferguson and Seaerra Miller.

August 09, 2023

https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2023/08/09/the-amazing-uncanny-inclusive-story-of-the-worlds-best-comics-shop-books-with-pictures/

 

Transmissions from the Void: On Vacuum Decay and Harry Nordlinger's Evolving Nihilistic Vision

Ryan Carey | August 9, 2023 | 2 comments

https://www.tcj.com/transmissions-from-the-void-on-vacuum-decay-and-harry-nordlingers-evolving-nihilistic-vision/

 

Shannon Hale on Adapting Middle Grade Graphic Novel "Best Friends" as an Audiobook

by Shannon Hale

School Library Journal Aug 09, 2023

https://www.slj.com/story/shannon-hale-on-adapting-middle-grade-graphic-novel-best-friends-as-an-audiobook

 

Making a Graphic Novel from Start to Finish, a guest post by Kate Wheeler

School Library Journal August 3, 2023

https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2023/08/03/making-a-graphic-novel-from-start-to-finish-a-guest-post-by-kate-wheeler/

 

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