Saturday, March 01, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/28/2025

Business News Round-Up: Z2, Archie, Rocketship, DC Infinite Ultra, Marvel Insiders, more

Heidi MacDonald on 02/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-universe-infinite-ultra-z2-rocketship-marvel-insider/

 

TOKYOPOP introduces TOKYOPOP Rewards program for manga fans

Hayame Kawachi on 02/28/2025

https://www.comicsbeat.com/tokyopop-introduces-tokyopop-rewards-program-manga-fans/

 

Creating Monsters: The Story behind the new Doctor Who comic strip,  "Dance 'Til You Drop"

John Freeman on February 27, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/creating-monsters-the-story-behind-the-new-doctor-who-comic-strip-dance-til-you-drop/

 

Mike Collins: Comic Book and Storyboard Artist Interview

Geek Retrospective

Feb 25, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtJVheMu8s0

 

'The Eclipse' Short Film Is A Magical Directorial Debut For Gabriel Schemoul [France]

By Joe Fordham | 02/25/2025  https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/the-eclipse-short-film-is-a-magical-directorial-debut-for-gabriel-schemoul-245878.html

 

Sweet Image Comics Digital News To Follow Dark Horse Comics' Sour

Sweet Image Comics Digital News To Follow Dark Horse Comics' Sour Lamentations

27 Feb 2025   Rich Johnston  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/sweet-image-comics-digital-news-to-follow-dark-horse-comics-sour/

 

TokyoPop Cancels Disney's Stitch For Free Comic Book Day

TokyoPop cancels Disney's Stitch: Best Food Forever by Tom Mason and Nao Kodaka for Free Comic Book Day, but will still publish full comic

27 Feb 2025  Rich Johnston  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tokyopop-cancels-disney-stitch-free-comic-book-day/

 

Mad Cave Studios Cancels Four Free Comic Book Day Titles

Mad Cave cancels four for FCBD, Princess Gwenevere & King Arthur Crossover, Phineas & Ferb, Flash Gordon Adventures Herobear And The Kid. 

27 Feb 2025  by Rich Johnston  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mad-cave-studios-cancels-four-free-comic-book-day-titles/

 

Mad Cave Studios Cancels Four Free Comic Book Day Titles

Mad Cave cancels four for FCBD, Princess Gwenevere & King Arthur Crossover, Phineas & Ferb, Flash Gordon Adventures Herobear And The Kid. 

27 Feb 2025  by Rich Johnston  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mad-cave-studios-cancels-four-free-comic-book-day-titles/

 

Chip Zdarsky on ZCN and the Struggle of Polyamory at ComicsPRO

Chip Zdarsky on Zdarsky Comics News - ZCN - and the Struggle of Polyamory at ComicsPRO last week.

  Rich Johnston|  27 Feb 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/chip-zdarsky-on-zcn-and-the-struggle-of-polyamory-at-comicspro/

 

Reviews: From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey

Austin English | February 28, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/from-ted-to-tom-the-illustrated-envelopes-of-edward-gorey/

 

COMIC STORE RISES FROM THE ASHES, ROZANSKI CELEBRATES 70TH BIRTHDAY WITH AUCTION AND SALE, DESTINY CITY COMICS TO CLOSE, NEW GAME STORE OPENS IN OHIO

Shop Talk, February 2025

Brigid Alverson on February 27, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58946/comic-store-rises-ashes-rozanski-celebrates-70th-birthday-auction-sale-destiny-city-comics-close-new-game-store-opens-ohio

 

The Dwindling Party – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | February 28, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/the-dwindling-party-this-weeks-links/


O'Connor's Vampires Embark on the Final Leg of their Mission to Mars
Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff Feb 28, 2025

https://www.patreon.com/posts/oconnors-embark-123280629

Steve Cook from Secret Oranges
Feb 28, 2025
 S T E R A N K O
https://secretoranges.substack.com/p/s-t-e-r-a-n-k-o

 Colleen Doran from Colleen Doran's Funny Business  Feb 28, 2025
Conan Process [drawing]
https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/conan-process

'A Sloth Story' Review: Slow Cooking
Natalia Winkelman
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 28, 2025, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: A Sloth Story.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/movies/a-sloth-story-review.html

Marvel Ad-Men [advertising]
Alan McKenzie
Marvel in the Silver Age 22 February 2025
https://marvelsilverage.blogspot.com/2025/02/marvel-ad-men.html

6 new comics to read in March, including the next phase of DC's Absolute titles
Plus: a forbidden vampire romance, a post-Alcatraz crime yarn, and an L.A. wildfire benefit anthology.
By Oliver Sava  |  February 28, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/new-comic-books-march-2025-absolute-martian-manhunter

Cassandra Calin on fulfilling a lifelong dream
Inderjit Deogun
February 26th, 2025
https://quillandquire.com/omni/cassandra-calin-on-fulfilling-a-lifelong-dream/


Women's Voices in Manga: Japanese Cultural and Historical Perspectives
        Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase,
        Masami Toku
        Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2025 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-73330-7

        Maternal Monstrosities in Horror Manga: Umezu Kazuo's Snake Ladies and Scary Mommies
            Jon Holt
        Pages 17-34
        Hidden Flowers: Depictions of Sexuality in Shōjo and Redikomi Versions of The Tale of Genji
            Emerald L. King
        Pages 35-51
        The Zany Aesthetic of Manga for Women: A Reading of Anno Moyoko's Happy Mania
            Luciana Sanga
        Pages 53-71
        "Don Your Armor!": The Politics of Dress in Higashimura Akiko's Princess Jellyfish (Kuragehime)
            Keiko Miyajima
        Pages 73-91
        The Landlady and I (Ōya-San to Boku): The Tale of an Elderly Woman's Life
            Barbara Hartley
        Pages 93-108
        The Malaise of the Modern Family: Examining Depictions of Child Abuse in Manga
            Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
        Pages 109-126
        Comics at the Intersection of Womanhood and Disability: Essay Manga, Affect, and Community
            Shige (CJ) Suzuki
        Pages 127-147
        Manga's 2.5 D Women: Professional Cosplayers in Men's Manga Magazines
            Mia Lewis
        Pages 149-166
        Rethinking Gender and Genre in Contemporary Women's Manga
            Rebecca Suter
        Pages 167-181
        The Legacy of the Artists of Shōjo Manga's Early Phase: Analysis of the "Shōjo Manga Roundtable"
            Nozomi Masuda
        Pages 185-200
        Reflections on the Touring Exhibition "World of Shojo Manga" (2005–2023)
            Masami Toku
        Pages 201-214
        Interviews with Three Legendary Manga-ka: Watanabe Masako, Mizuno Hideko, and Satonaka Machiko
            Masami Toku, Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase
        Pages 215-243
        Abe: A Young Woman Emperor-in-Waiting by Satonaka Machiko
            Barbara Hartley
        Pages 247-264

Off Panel #488: Sweet Dreams with Kenny Meyers [digital comic store, Sweet Shop].
feb 24 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-488-sweet-dreams-with-kenny-meyers

More to Come 662: ComicsPRO Report
Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons
PW Comics World: More To Come 02/28/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1357

"He Realized It Was Useful to Stop Running From the 500 Pound Maus Chasing After Him": Molly Bernstein and Philip Dolin on Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse!
by Lauren Wissot
Feb 24, 2025
https://filmmakermagazine.com/129805-art-spiegelman-disaster-is-my-muse/

Reviews: Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse
Glenn Kenny
Feb 24 2025
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/art-spiegelman-disaster-is-my-muse-documentary-film-review-2025

'Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse' Review: 'Maus' Cartoonist Grapples with the Weight of His Most Seminal Work
Carlos Aguilar
Variety Feb 25, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/film/reviews/art-spiegelman-disaster-is-my-muse-review-1236319663/

X-Men Monday #286 – Alyssa Wong Talks 'Psylocke'
Chris Hassan
February 24, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/02/24/x-men-monday-286-alyssa-wong-psylocke/

Unleashing the Beast: A one-on-one with Thomas Jane on 'The Lycan'
David Brooke
February 27, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/02/27/thomas-jane-the-lycan-comixology/

Appupen interview: On adapting Vaadivaasal into a graphic novel with Perumal Murugan [India]
Kavitha Shanmugam
26 Feb 2025
https://thefederal.com/category/features/appupen-vaadivaasal-tamil-novella-perumal-murugan-jallikattu-cs-chellappa-173793

Rumiko Takahashi's sex comedy in URUSEI YATSURA and RANMA 1/2: a model for queer writing?
Antoine Rozier
SOLRAD February 24, 2025
https://solrad.co/rumiko-takahashis-sex-comedy-in-urusei-yatsura-and-ranma-1-2-a-model-for-queer-writing-by-antoine-rozier

Reimagination of National Self: Cosmopatriotism and Religion in Borobudur and Baladeva Comics [India]
Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras
February 2025
In book: Pluralism in India and Indonesia: Diversity in the Quest for Unity (pp.305-323)
 India International Centre and Konark Publishers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389216702_Reimagination_of_National_Self_Cosmopatriotism_and_Religion_in_Borobudur_and_Baladeva_Comics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389216702_Reimagination_of_National_Self_Cosmopatriotism_and_Religion_in_Borobudur_and_Baladeva_Comics/link/67b9628c461fb56424e50f7d/download

Words, Images, & Worlds: Morgan Beem Returns!
Jason DeHart
 Feb 27, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyqAk7p1vA

Words, Images, & Worlds with Uko Smith
Jason DeHart
 Feb 27, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gV08YPgRAnw

Japan manga sales top 700 bil. yen for 1st time on digital growth
February 25, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250225/p2g/00m/0et/027000c

Manga-based films claimed top 4 spots at box office in 2024
HARUTO HIRAOKA
February 17, 2025  https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15614934

Hyogo museum holding special exhibition on Buichi Terasawa
HIROSHI MIURA
January 8, 2025
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15556927

Masuda, Yusuke. 2024.
Exhibition shows creative secrets of horror artist Shigeru Mizuki.
Asahi Shimbun (February 13): https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15135717

Miyagi, Hiroya and Hiroshi Higa. 2024.
Japan publisher to apologize after manga suggests US base relocation protesters are hired ["Outside Director Kosaku Shima"].
Mainichi Japan (October 22): https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241022/p2a/00m/0na/016000c

Yamazaki, Satoshi and Satsuki Tanahashi. 2024.
Manga blasted for scene about 'paid protesters' in Henoko ["Outside Director Kosaku Shima"].
Asahi Shimbun (October 22): https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15475941

Hit Japanese manga 'Captain Tsubasa' to end, author to continue story in different form
(Japanese original by Misaki Morokuma, Cultural News Department)
January 6, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240105/p2g/00m/0et/048000c

Author of popular manga 'Captain Tsubasa' inducted into Japan Football Hall of Fame
(Japanese original by Hironobu Murakoso, Sports News Department)
September 13, 2023 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20230912/p2a/00m/0sp/015000c

Japan soccer savior: Captain Tsubasa creator Yoichi Takahashi on the power of manga
(Japanese original by Shohei Oshima, Sports News Department)
December 8, 2019 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191204/p2a/00m/0et/025000c

Train station in Tokyo scores a goal with Captain Tsubasa manga makeover
(Japanese original by Shohei Kawamura, Tokyo Bureau)
June 30, 2019 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20190630/p2a/00m/0na/007000c

Michael Leunig remembered by cartoonists Cathy Wilcox, Oslo Davis and Wes Mountain
By Anna Kelsey-Sugg
    ABC Entertainment 19 December 2024
    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-20/remembering-michael-leunig-australian-cartoonists-legacy/104749906

Australian cartoonist and poet Michael Leunig dies aged 79
  ABC NEWS 19 December 2024
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-19/australian-cartoonist-michael-leunig-dies/104748614

Welcome Back: Aron Nels Steinke
Jonathan Roth
Beep Boop Blog February 27, 2025
https://jonathan-roth.com/2025/02/27/welcome-back-aron-nels-steinke/

Getting to Know: Dana Jeri Maier
Jonathan Roth
Beep Boop Blog  October 14, 2024
https://jonathan-roth.com/2024/10/14/getting-to-know-dana-jeri-maier/

Getting to Know: Dave Roman
Jonathan Roth
Beep Boop Blog April 4, 2024
https://jonathan-roth.com/2024/04/04/getting-to-know-dave-roman/

Graphic Medicine Review Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
Editors: Jane Burns (Guest Editor)
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/issue/63/info/

Pancreas: Comic Biography of an Organ
Veronica Moretti, Stefano Ratti, Alessandro Cucchetti, Carlo Fabbri and Matteo Farinella
2025-02-03 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1020/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1020

Drawing Prompts in Medical Education
Michael J. Green
2025-02-04 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1022/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1022

Draíocht: Sparking Creativity, Proceedings of the 2024 International Graphic Medicine Conference

Jane Burns
2025-01-27 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
 https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1068/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1068

The Loneliness Epidemic and the Comics of Nagata Kabi
A. David Lewis
2025-01-27 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1019/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1019
 
On Tarot, Divination, and Comics
Briana Leigh Martino
2025-01-27 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1030/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1030

The Heroine's Journey and The Journey of Integrity: Illustrating Women's Truths in a Graphic Memoir on Health, Disability, and Childhood Trauma
Maja Aleksandra Milkowska-Shibata
2025-02-05 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1033/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1033

Reframing Alzheimer's through Comics: A Close Reading of Works by Walrath, Campbell, Farmer, and Roca
Davida Pines
2025-02-16 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1029/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1029

Techniques and Social Functions of the Graphic Documentary Style: How Japanese Manga Depicts Health-Related Social Issues
Kotaro Nakagaki
2025-02-16 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1036/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1036

Critical Conversations in Critical Care: Ensuring Dignity in All We Do
Christine Lynn Chen and Alice Gallo de Moraes
2025-01-27 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/986/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.986

A Year of Mourning
Michael J. Green
2025-01-27 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1032/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1032

Fanzines for a local celebration of the World Stroke Day 2023.

Eugenia García Amor, Laura Pérez Peñarroja, Elia Dolz Feliu, Sonia Medina Soria, Alejandro Bustamante Rangel, Mercedes Molleda, Clara Larrañaga de Bofarull, Belén Flores Pina, Jaime Carbonell Gisbert and Natalia Pérez de la Ossa
2025-02-10 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1023/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1023
 
Mabeob, Nyankomade, Salamangka: Illustrating the Intersection of Medicine, Diversity, and Ethics in Three Original Comics set in Korea, Ghana, and the Philippines
Grace Soojin Ryu, Anne Francine Pino, Edna Bonsu, Hyelim Sim, Amber Vinluan and Kimberly Myers
2025-02-20 Volume 5 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Proceedings of the Graphic Medicine International Collective Annual Conference, July 16-18, 2024
https://publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/gmr/article/id/1028/
https://doi.org/10.7191/gmr.1028


Another Dimension Comics
["After 42 years in business, Another Dimension Comics has made the difficult decision to close our doors."][Canada, store]
Another Dimension Comics's Post February 28 2025
https://www.facebook.com/100064163673572/posts/1026399556175491/?rdid=f5hBIgs0PdmGPFDN

Comic shop rises from ashes, will reopen at Orillia Square mall [Canada]
'We're excited. We've got double the space now, and we see a lot of promise for what we can do in this new location,' says Dr. Comics owner
Tyler Evans
Feb 22, 2025
https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/comic-shop-rises-from-ashes-will-reopen-at-orillia-square-mall-10264047

How does a comic book shop stay open in 2025? Ask this longtime Miami business owner
By Michael Butler
This story was originally published January 31, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/south-miami/article298990490.html

Mrz. Hulk comic shop in Mount Vernon opens door to exciting new worlds
 Samantha Antrum
Rockland/Westchester Journal News February 17 2025
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/mount-vernon/2025/02/17/mrz-hulk-4-life-black-woman-owned-comics-cards-business-mount-vernon-ny/76628528007/

Gulf Coast Cosmos Comics is fighting for Black stories even amid uncertain future
Local Blerds may soon have to get their comic book fix elsewhere.
By Craig Lindsey
Feb 22, 2025
https://www.chron.com/culture/article/gulf-coast-comics-closing-20173611.php

'Multiverse' is a husband-and-wife-owned comic shop that's making culture pop in Philadelphia
Nick Iadonisi
WPVI February 17, 2025
https://6abc.com/post/multiverse-is-husband-wife-owned-comic-shop-making-culture-pop-philadelphia/15917239/

Can This Man Save The Comics Industry??
Chip Zdarsky
Feb 27, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhRaZsqBwPY

Batman Hulk Bucky With Phillip K Johnson
word balloon February 28 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvzJvM61WAU

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