Friday, February 28, 2025

Now called Old Town Café & Comics, the Taft Corners café is open with Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea and Miss Weinerz doughnuts. A full menu is coming soon.

By Jordan Barry

January 14, 2025 https://www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/willistons-comic-shop-cafe-rebrands-with-new-operators-42665709

Williston's Comic Shop-Café Rebrands With New Operators

Now called Old Town Café & Comics, the Taft Corners café is open with Vermont Artisan Coffee & Tea and Miss Weinerz doughnuts. A full menu is coming soon.

By Jordan Barry

January 14, 2025 https://www.sevendaysvt.com/food-drink/willistons-comic-shop-cafe-rebrands-with-new-operators-42665709

Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again |Born Again | Characters Reborn | Disney+

Marvel Entertainment

Feb 21, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrGGexbU2dg

Vincent D'Onofrio says Mayor Fisk storyline in Daredevil: Born Again is 'bigger and crazier' than you think (exclusive)

Kingpin makes a run for political office in the new trailer for the upcoming Disney+ superhero revival.

Christian Holub

January 15, 2025

https://ew.com/daredevil-born-again-trailer-exclusive-vincent-donofrio-teases-mayor-fisk-8774644

An Interview with K. Woodman-Maynard

While working in watercolor complicates my process, it also adds joy so I prefer to work in it.

Amaris Ketcham

Autobiographix Feb 26 2025 https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-k-woodman-maynard

Edward Gorey and the Eccentric Macabre

R.C. Harvey | September 24, 2014 https://www.tcj.com/edward-gorey-and-the-eccentric-macabre/

PHIL SEULING, BILL AND STEVE SCHANES NAMED TO EISNER AWARDS HALL OF FAME

First Retailers, Distributors, to Be Recognized

Brigid Alverson on February 25, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58930/phil-seuling-bill-steve-schanes-named-eisner-awards-hall-fame

2025 Eisner Hall of Fame Class – Their Comic Strip Credentials

D. D. Degg

February 25, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/02/25/2025-eisner-hall-of-fame-class-their-comic-strip-credentials/

COMICSPRO: COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS UNVEILS RETAILER KITS

Plus: CB4K Annual Event Will Be February 28 - March 2, 2025

Brigid Alverson on February 25, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58929/comicspro-comicbooks-kids-unveils-retailer-kits

All The ComicsPRO Exclusive Variants Hitting eBay

All the ComicsPRO Exclusive Variants hitting eBay from Batman Hush 2 and DC Absolute to Planet Death and Exquisite Corpses

25 Feb 2025 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/all-the-comicspro-exclusive-variants-hitting-ebay/

Real Spy Comics and UltiSim Inc. Join Forces to Bring Stories of Espionage and Covert Operations to Life in Graphic Novels and Games

Former spies and gaming veterans form groundbreaking partnership to deliver immersive, high-stakes experiences across multiple platforms

BUSINESS WIRE February 25, 2025

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250220850865/en/Real-Spy-Comics-and-UltiSim-Inc.-Join-Forces-to-Bring-Stories-of-Espionage-and-Covert-Operations-to-Life-in-Graphic-Novels-and-Games

Roberto Orci, Star Trek and Transformers Writer-Producer, Dies at 51 [IDW Star Trek writer]

Jeremy Dick

CBR Feb 25 2025

https://www.cbr.com/roberto-orci-dead/

Jon Bernthal to Return in 'Punisher' Special for Marvel and Disney+
Etan Vlessing
February 25, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-bernthal-punisher-special-marvel-disney-1236146371/

New Digital Comics Store to Launch This Summer [Sweet Shop]
Feb 26, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5227

Dark Horse Digital Has Shut Down
Feb 25, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5226

A Lukewarm First Year for the Newly Public Webtoon Entertainment
By Jim Milliot
Feb 26, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/97182-a-lukewarm-first-year-for-the-newly-public-webtoon-entertainment.html

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred twenty-eight | Matthew Rosenberg Returns, part two
Feb 26, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/im-not-much-more-than-an-interpreter

Image joins forces with new comics reading app Sweet Shop
Heidi MacDonald on 02/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/image-sweet-shop/

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Distracted Driving by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/7-8/2024

These never got sent to the blog, but are still relevant.

Sam Blanchard (aka Shlepzig)

["Many of you may have already heard that Sam passed away Monday night.]

Sam Blanchard's Post December 4 2024

https://www.facebook.com/1128473458/posts/10225635930701587/

Shuntaro Tanikawa, Poet and Translator of 'Peanuts,' Dies at 92

Michael S. Rosenwald

Dec. 6, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/books/shuntaro-tanikawa-dead.html

Tom Tomorrow Wins 2024 Berryman Cartoonist Award

Learn More About This Award

Dec 06, 2024

https://nationalpress.org/award-story/tom-tomorrow-dan-perkins-wins-2024-berryman-cartoonist-award/

Tom Tomorrow wins Berryman Award for This Modern World comic strip

by Paul Brennan

Dec 6, 2024

https://littlevillagemag.com/tom-tomorrow-wins-berryman-award/

2024 UK Political Cartoon Award Winners

Alan Gardner December 6, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/06/2024-uk-political-cartoon-award-winners/

Directory of Cartoonists on Bluesky

Alan Gardner November 19, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/11/19/directory-of-cartoonists-on-blue-sky/

My So-Called Disability Turned out to be My Greatest Asset [ADHD, Bizarro]

Nov 14 2024

Dan Piraro

https://www.bizarro.com/blog/2024/11/14/my-so-called-disorder

'Moana 2' Director Dana Ledoux Miller Was Shopping at Target While Her Movie Broke Box Office Records

Mia Galuppo

December 7, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/moana-2-director-dana-ledoux-1236079993/

Hell is other people: Inside Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's 'The Lucky Devils'

David Brooke

December 6, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/06/the-lucky-devils-qa/

Lawyer jokes: Former attorney Phil Witte, JD'83, quit his job to be a full-time cartoonist. Now he has a book of cartoon criticism.

Carrie Golus, AB'91, AM'93

The University of Chicago Magazine Fall/24

https://mag.uchicago.edu/law-policy-society/lawyer-jokes-0

December 6, 2024

Interview: Indiana's Dale Messick broke barriers for women cartoonists

Kyle Long

https://www.wfyi.org/news/articles/interview-indianas-dale-messick-broke-barriers-for-women-cartoonists

December 5, 2024

Telgemeier, McCloud chosen as National Library Week honorary chairs

Raymond Garcia

https://www.ala.org/news/2024/12/telgemeier-mccloud-chosen-national-library-week-honorary-chairs

Fit for the National Cartoon Museum [Mark Trail letter]

Susie Van Pool

Washington Post December 7 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/12/06/doge-hegseth-madeleine-riffaud-women-military/

The Story Behind Top 10, From the Artists Who Helped Define It

David Harper

January 24, 2023

https://sktchd.com/longform/top-10-retrospective/

Creators and Industry Folks Share What Stood Out From the World of Comics in 2024

David Harper

December 4, 2024

https://sktchd.com/column/creators-on-2024-in-comics/

Homelander [The Boys]

David Farrier

Flightless Bird podcast September 17th, 2024 | 55:03 | E99

https://flightless-bird.simplecast.com/episodes/homelander-uK8TxRRT

Event Recording: Charles Burns in conversation with Seth

-Nick Nguyen

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 8, 2024

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/12/event-recording-charles-burns-in.html

https://archive.org/details/20241024-burns-seth-beguiling

Turning the page: Tales of what draws people to Chicago helps me connect with the city [AlleyCat Comics]

By Kwame Opam

Nov 29, 2024, https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2024/11/29/chicago-alleycat-comics-selene-gill-eve-ewing-exceptional-x-men-kwame-opam

P. Craig Russell

Sandman: Dark Star

Behind The Drawing Board December 8 2024

https://lurid.com/watch/v/sandman-dark-star

Comic Book Creators, Publishers, Shops Affected By Canada Post Strike

07 Dec 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creators-publishers-shops-affected-by-canada-post-strike/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/25/2025

ICV2 INTERVIEW: TERRY KAVANAGH ON '247 PRESENTS'

The Veteran 'Marvel Comics Presents' Editor Talks About His Newest Project

Brigid Alverson on February 24, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58920/icv2-interview-terry-kavanagh-247-presents

Graphic Novel Review: Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I, by Scott Hampton

reviewed by Julian Lawrence

International Journal of Comic Art blog February 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/02/graphic-novel-review-wicked-graphic.html

Wicked: The Graphic Novel Part I. Gregory Maguire, adapted and illustrated by Scott Hampton. New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2025. https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wicked-the-graphic-novel-part-i-gregory-maguirescott-hampton

Why the Prince Valiant Comic Strips Deserve Another Adaptation

By Lukas Shayo

CBR February 23 2025

https://www.cbr.com/prince-valiant-deserve-new-adaptation/

Garry Trudeau Responds to DMN Dropping Doonesbury From Sundays

"Unlike Fox News, I don't cynically pretend to be 'fair and balanced.'"

By Tim Rogers

D Magazine February 24, 2025

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2025/02/garry-trudeau-responds-to-dmn-dropping-doonesbury-from-sundays/

Unmasking The Ghost Who Walks: Exploring The Phantom's Legendary Origin

By Tony DePaul

February 21, 2025

https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2025/02/21/the-phantom-origin-myth

Montreal's ON Animation Studios Announces Closure

Animation Magazine

February 24, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/02/montreals-on-animation-studios-announces-closure/

Montreal's On Animation Studios Shuts Down

By Amid Amidi | 02/24/2025 https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/montreals-on-animation-studios-shuts-down-246041.html

Charlie Cox Applauds Marvel for 'Daredevil' Creative Overhaul: "We Ended Up in the Place We Wanted"

Kirsten Chuba

February 25, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/charlie-cox-marvel-daredevil-born-again-creative-overhaul-1236146475/

Fantagraphics Drops Out Of Free Comic Book Day, Pulls "Lost Marvels"

Fantagraphics drops out of Free Comic Book Day for 2025 and pulls their Lost Marvels by Howard Chaykin preview.

24 Feb 2025by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fantagraphics-drops-out-of-free-comic-book-day-pulls-lost-marvels/

Z2 Comics Announces Direct-To-Retail Distribution at ComicsPRO

Z2 Comics announces Direct-To-Retail Distribution at ComicsPRO, in response to Diamond Comic Distributors' bankruptcy

24 Feb 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/z2-comics-announce-direct-to-retail-distribution-comicspro/

Reviews: The Gashlycrumb Tinies

J Webster Sharp | February 25, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-gashlycrumb-tinies/

The Importance of Being Ogdred: A Conversation with Mark Dery

Mark Newgarden | January 28, 2019 https://www.tcj.com/the-importance-of-being-ogdred-a-conversation-with-mark-dery/

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: SKULLKICKERS Reimagined! Jim Zub Talks New Digest Edition and Upcoming Crowdfunding Launch.

By Diego Higuera on 02/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-interview-skullkickers-reimagined-jim-zub-talks-new-digest-edition-and-upcoming-crowdfunding-launch/

Discovering What Makes Skullkickers Stand Out In The World Of Comics

Tommy.

Worldatwarcomics Feb 25, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8CNpESy6fc

Everyone's Dad's Favorite Comic Writer Jim Zub talks Conan Crossovers & Future Plans | Interview

Sword & Sorcery Book Club

Feb 23, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8jbp6s5Ox0

Warner Bros. Cancels 'Wonder Woman' Video Game and Shutters Three Studios

Monolith Productions, Player First Games and Warner Bros. Games San Diego will shut down as the company focuses its gaming effort on certain IP.

Alex Weprin

February 25, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/wonder-woman-video-game-canceled-gaming-studios-shut-down-1236146772/

GEORGE HARRISON, THE BEATLES and the Long, Tortured Birth of the YELLOW SUBMARINE Graphic Novel

By BILL MORRISON

Feb 24, 2025 https://13thdimension.com/george-harrison-the-beatles-and-the-long-tortured-birth-of-the-yellow-submarine-graphic-novel/

When the power of storytelling has real-world effects [Brink Literacy Project]
This project is helping young adults and incarcerated individuals become epic heroes — literally
Dec 2024
https://standtogether.org/stories/strong-safe-communities/incarcerated-individuals-are-learning-to-read-through-this-project

Illiteracy holds millions back. But now they can tell their own stories.
Stand Together
Dec 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyR3Z5Nq3H0

Celebrate comics with the Comic Book in a Day Challenge
Parker Carlson
Dec 18, 2024 https://www.wishtv.com/news/local-news/comic-book-in-a-day-challenge-2/

Stephanie Cox awarded Creative Individuals grant from MSAB for graphic novel
18 December 2024
https://www.carleton.edu/grants-office/news/stephanie-cox-msab-creative-individuals/

Step Into the World of Comic Books in Alex Segura's "Alter Ego"
Aurora Dominguez
December 17, 2024 https://booktrib.com/2024/12/17/alex-segura-alter-ego/

Young people help create comic strip designs to have a voice on health services
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board 18/12/2024
https://bcuhb.nhs.wales/news/2024/young-people-help-create-comic-strip-designs-to-have-a-voice-on-health-services/

Besti Cadwaladr University Health Board Children's Charter ENG
Betsi Cadwaladr Dec 6, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzTqW4bpgcU

Edward Gorey's Mysterious Animations — The Rewind
Ben Leddy
GBH Oct 31, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxxQVZh7_RA

Words, Images, & Worlds with Dee Fish
Jason DeHart
Feb 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TS3Gbr0b7U

Collin Kelly [and] Jackson Lanzing Talk Marvel Star Trek and More
wordballoon Feb 25 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5ZBZE8n5m

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live - Episode #079: With Special Guest Adriana Melo
Pop Culture Squad Feb 25 25
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUVQjApTkCI

Erased in the Sunshine State: PW Talks with Lee Dean
By Shaenon K. Garrity
Feb 21, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 02/24/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Lee Dean
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/97147-erased-in-the-sunshine-state-pw-talks-with-lee-dean.html

Fumi Kitahara, Beloved Animation Publicity Exec and Awards Consultant, Dies at 56
She worked on titles for DreamWorks, Aardman, Netflix, Disney and many others.
Mike Barnes
February 25, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fumi-kitahara-dead-animation-publicity-exec-awards-consultant-1236147151/

Colin Farrell has "no deep desire" to punish himself with more Penguin
It's hard to believe that Colin Farrell has "no deep desire" to apply a metric ton of makeup to his face again.
By Matt Schimkowitz | February 24, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/colin-farrell-penguin-no-desire-season-two

You're Not a Real Dog Owner Until...
by Scott Dooley, Jason Chatfield
Andrews McMeel Publishing 2025

DC Studios' Slate Evolution: Some Projects Put on Backburner as Others Are Full Steam Ahead
Borys Kit
February 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dc-movies-tv-shows-updates-superman-batman-1236145240/

DC Studios' Caped Crusader Conundrum: No Script for 'The Batman' Sequel, 'The Penguin' Season Two a Question Mark
By Borys Kit, Aaron Couch
February 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/no-the-batman-robert-pattinson-1236145435/

MoCCA 2025 announces its programming schedule and headliners
Christian Angeles on 02/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/mocca-2025-announces-its-programming-schedule-and-headliners/

ComicsPRO '25: Meet AMP COMICS, they've got deals with Ryan Reynolds and a Kobra Kai
Christian Angeles on 02/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/comicspro-25-meet-amp-comics-theyve-got-deals-with-ryan-reynolds-and-a-kobra-kai/

The Animation Lady shares some cherries [ Nancy Beiman]
Céu D'Ellia, September 19, 2016
http://ailhadoceu.com.br/the-animation-lady-shares-some-cherries/

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

March 29: Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

DCEFF | Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature

Saturday, March 29, 2025
Screening starts 1:00 pm

📌AFI Silver
🎟️Registration Required

Join us for a FREE film screening! Ticket registration is currently open.

Join us for a special screening to celebrate the work of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. As a part of this year's DC Environmental Film Festival, we will be showing the brand-new documentary Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature at the AFI Silver Theatre.

For over 50 years, Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting the world with his animation. His 12 feature films (including My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and The Boy and The Heron), 10 shorts and several manga form a luminous body of work, full of now-iconic characters. Often autobiographical, Miyazaki's films also reflect the state of the world, frequently referencing the wars and ecological disasters of the 20th and 21st centuries to create profound works of art that question our relationship with the natural world and living beings. Thanks to exceptional access granted by Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki, Spirit of Nature uses numerous film excerpts and rare archival material from Japanese television to uncover the life of Miyazaki and his profoundly ecological body of work. Thinkers like anthropologist Philippe Descola and philosopher Timothy Morton; family members such as Miyazaki's son, film director Gorō Miyazaki; and collaborators, including his longtime producer and friend Toshio Suzuki, bring us closer to this tireless, obsessive and mysterious artist.

In Japanese, English and French |
2024 | 82 min | Documentary | Directed by Léo Favier

JICC EVENT & PHOTO POLICIES

Tickets are limited to four per reservation and are not a guarantee of admission. You must be seated at least 15 min. prior to showtime. Seating is limited, so please arrive early. Empty seats will be released to standby line guests.

This event will be at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center, for directions and more please visit their website.

The JICC reserves the right to use any photograph/video taken at any event sponsored by JICC without the express written permission of those included within the photograph/video. In the event of a cancellation or if you require further assistance, please contact us at jicc@ws.mofa.go.jp. Thank you for your patience and cooperation!

Friday, February 28, 2025