Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/23/2024

Artist Rian Gonzales caught copying another's work in debate over referencing versus tracing

By Christian Angeles on 12/23/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/artist-rian-gonzales-caught-copying-anothers-work-in-debate-over-referencing-versus-tracing/

 

The Secret of Great Graphic Novel Adaptations

Eileen Gonzalez speaks to A. David Lewis—who adapted THE PROPHET by Kahlil Gibran into a graphic novel—about graphic novel adaptations.

Eileen Gonzalez Nov 15, 2024 https://bookriot.com/the-secret-of-great-graphic-novel-adaptations/

 

Hundreds of free comics offered at city libraries

15 November 2024

Steve Jones

BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj7w6edpwpo

 

Wayne Horne – RIP

D. D. Degg December 22, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/22/wayne-horne-rip/

 

Wayne Horne Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Dec. 22, 2024.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/wayne-horne-obituary?id=57072828

 

Alexandra Bowman Signs with Cagle Cartoons

D. D. Degg

December 22, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/22/alexandra-bowman-signs-with-cagle-cartoons/

 

'Creature Commandos' Renewed for Second Season at Max

The James Gunn-created animated series is the first release in the new DC Universe.

Rick Porter

December 23, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/creature-commandos-renewed-season-2-max-1236092964/

 

Horror Comics and Religion

Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine

Edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead. Series Editor Matthew Brake

2025

McFarland

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/horror-comics-and-religion/

 

Foreword: The Spirit Hidden Within the Grid—Clay McLeod Chapman 1

Introduction: Gaps and Frames—Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead 5

 

Part One: The Classics

Justice through the Resurrection of the Dead: Moral Theology and Eschatology in EC Comics—Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 19

Holy Horror: DC Comics' the Spectre as Theodic Monster—Brandon Dean 38

Capitalism as a Religion: Political Theology and Alan Moore's From Hell—Jon Greenaway 54

"The Power of Sequential Art Compels You!": Exorcism in Comics—John McGuire and Adam Possamai 70

Religion and Racial Horror: Comics Voodoo in the Golden Age—Yvonne Chireau 87

 

Part Two: To Hell and Back

Children of God: Divine Abuse and the Devil in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman—Lucinda Holdsworth 109

"Violent persons must always be disobeyed": René Girard in Conversation with Ghost Rider: The War for Heaven—Neal Foster 126

The Mother, the Daughter, and the Wholly Monster: Personhood in Monstress—Emily FitzGerald 141

 

Part Three: Beyond Marvel and DC

"But you are dead": Life-Death Ambiguation in Yukito Ayatsuji and Hiro Kiyohara's Another and Revelation 3:1–6—Kai Akagi 161

Nothing Is What It Seems, No One Is Who They Are: The Problem of "Religion" in the Work of Junji Ito—Douglas E. Cowan 177

TNT and the Myths He Bu(r)sts: Analyzing the Subversive Portrayal of Tantriks in City of Sorrows—Debaditya Mukhopadhyay 196

 

Part Four: Breaking the Frames

Mingling the Sacred and the Abject in The Devil is a Handsome Man's "The Case of the Cryers"—Ayanni C.H. Cooper 213

Gideon Falls: Cosmic Horror in a Gnostic Cosmos—Vasileios M. Meletiadis 231

"But three days later, my brother came from the woods": (Un)Divine Horror in Emily Carroll's Through the Woods—Brianna Anderson 251

 

Avant-Garde Anime & Manga Creator Yōji Kuri Dies Age 96

Animation Magazine

December 20, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/avant-garde-anime-manga-creator-yoji-kuri-dies-age-96/

 

Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi Discusses the Stop-Motion Magic of His Oscar-Shortlisted 'Bottle George'

Ramin Zahed

December 20, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/dice-tsutsumi-discusses-the-stop-motion-magic-of-his-oscar-shortlisted-bottle-george/

 

In Memoriam: Remembering the Many Animation & VFX Greats We Lost This Year

Ramin Zahed

December 21, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/in-memoriam-remembering-the-many-animation-vfx-greats-we-lost-last-year/

 

"Make a Thing, Make it Now" Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation

Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo | December 23, 2024 |

https://www.tcj.com/make-a-thing-make-it-now-multimedia-art-and-the-experimental-lonnie-garcia-and-yugo-limbo-in-conversation/

 

All the Best Christmas Political Cartoons! Cagle and McKee! Caglecast!
Daryl Cagle and Rick McKee
 Caglecast 53 (Dec 23, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwov9OL4ybI

A 'Bluey' movie is coming to theaters [in print as TV's 'Bluey' will romp into theaters in 2027]
By Samantha Chery
Washington Post December 18, 2024: C2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/17/bluey-movie-disney-bbc/

How Marvel turned 'What If …?' into a cozy holiday special [in print as Marvel's hypothetical holiday anthology]
Herb Scribner
Washington Post December 23, 2024: C1-2.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/12/22/marvel-what-if-mcu-loki-schedule/

Weaving Folklore and Heroism: An Interview with Ben and Max Berkowitz on The Writer
Mike Szymanski
Dec 17, 2024
https://previewsworld.com/Article/279261-Weaving-Folklore-and-Heroism-An-Interview-with-Ben-and-Max-Berkowitz-on-The-Writer

'Lion King' Prequel Falls Prey to 'Sonic' at the Box Office
Brooks Barnes
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2024, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: 'Lion King' Falls Prey to 'Sonic' at the Box Office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/business/sonic-mufasa-lion-king-box-office.html

Lin-Manuel Miranda on 'Mufasa' and the Secret to a Disney Hit
Sarah Bahr
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Lin-Manuel Miranda On the Songs of 'Mufasa'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/arts/music/lin-manuel-miranda-mufasa.html

Mufasa stares Disney's "live-action" problem in the face
Disney rules over all the light touches, and even the uncanny valley where light can never reach.
By Jacob Oller  |  December 23, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/mufasa-the-lion-king-disney-live-action-problem-faces

Animation Guild Ratifies Contract With Studios and Streamers
A little more than three quarters of voting members opted to accept the three-year deal.
Rick Porter
December 23, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/animation-guild-ratifies-2024-27-contract-1236092993/



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