Friday, April 04, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/3/2025

CSotD: A Sad Sack of Different Things [Trump tariffs editorial cartoons]

Mike Peterson 

April 3, 2025  https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/04/03/csotd-a-sad-sack-of-different-things/

 

Cartoonist Joins Haddam Killingworth News [Robert Summers;  "Shiver Me Timbers"]

By Joanne Nesti

Haddam Killingworth News April 2, 2025

https://hk-now.com/2025/04/02/cartoonist-joins-haddam-killingworth-news/

 

DARK HORSE TO SHUT DOWN TFAW SITE In One of Several 'Tough Decisions'

Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59231/dark-horse-shut-down-tfaw-site

 

TFAW.Com To Close, Next Week's Subs Will Be Their Last

TFAW.Com to close, next week's subscriptions will be their last, site will close at the end of the month, stores will continue

  02 Apr 2025   Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tfaw-com-to-close-next-weeks-subs-will-be-their-last/

 

MY FATHER - SerioComics 60 + Q&A with Author Shannon Wheeler

Dave Cowen and David Cowen

SerioComics Mar 21, 2025 https://seriocomics.substack.com/p/my-father-seriocomics-60-q-and-a

 

Interview: Writer Tim Sheridan on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS #7

By Avery Kaplan on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-writer-tim-sheridan-on-star-trek-lower-decks-7/

 

UDON SWITCHES BOOK DISTRIBUTOR, BAD IDEA ADDS CANADA:Comic, Graphic Novel Distribution Changes Round-Up

  Milton Griepp on April 3, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59233/udon-switches-book-distributor-bad-idea-adds-canada

 

Clive Revill, Original Voice of Emperor Palpatine in 'Star Wars,' Dies at 94

His voice can be heard for only a minute in "The Empire Strikes Back," but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.

Sopan Deb

A version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2025, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Clive Revill, 94, Icy Voice Of Emperor in 'Star Wars'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/movies/clive-revill-star-wars-dead.html

 

Montgomery County art teacher publishes 8th children's book on space adventures [Jonathan Roth]

April 2, 2025

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/montgomery-county-art-teacher-publishes-8th-childrens-book-on-space-adventures/3881870/

 

INTERVIEW: Alex Segura and Sara Century talk new comic, THE FORGOTTEN FIVE

Zack Quaintance on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-alex-segura-and-sara-century-talk-new-comic-the-forgotten-five/

 

Barrie, Ont. collector sells rare $30K Spider-Man comic from 1962 [Amazing Fantasy No. 15]

By Julianna Balsamo

  March 28, 2025

https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/barrie-ont-collector-sells-rare-30k-spiderman-comic-from-1962/

 

Montreal indie comic shop part of changing game in the industry

CTV News

Mar 10, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rv6BScugmk

 

Reviews: Welcome to Casa Baba

Hagai Palevsky | April 3, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/welcome-to-casa-baba/

 

Win or Lose: Pixar Animator Posts Kai's Original Trans Storyline Look

Pixar animator Danny Barnhart shared a look at the care given to Kai's original Win or Lose transgender storyline before Disney pulled it.

01 Apr 2025 20:07:07 -0500 by Ray Flook

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/win-or-lose-pixar-animator-posts-kais-original-trans-storyline-look/

 

Welcome to Casa Baba

Jurijs Tatarkins, Jindrich Janiček, and Giulia Cellino

kuš!

 

Holy Art Show, Batman! Comic-Inspired Works by Fountain House Artists Land in Hell's Kitchen

by Dashiell Allen

January 9, 2025              

https://w42st.com/post/holy-art-show-batman-comic-inspired-works-by-fountain-house-artists-land-in-hells-kitchen/

 

Searching for Feminist Superheroes

Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

by Sam Langsdale

University of Texas Press September 17, 2024

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329788/

 

Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics

Edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick Lawrence

University of Texas Press

2025

https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/

 

Foreword. Your Obscene Is Not Mine: A Defense of the Art of Comics (Frederick Luis Aldama)

Introduction. "A Cultural Slaughter of the Innocents" (Patrick S. Lawrence and Jorge J. Santos Jr.)

Timeline of Significant Events

Part One. Out of the Gutters: Comics' History of Obscenity

1. Why Sex? (Hillary Chute)

2. "Wise Up, Old Hags! Th' Weak One Is a Valuable Possession to Us": R. Crumb's Bible of Filth and Obscenity as Artificial Scarcity (Patrick S. Lawrence)

3. Howard Cruse's War on the War on Obscenity (Andrew J. Kunka)

4. Obscene Histories: Indexing the Racial Phantasms of Blazing Combat (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)

Part Two. Obscenity in the Gutters and at the Margins

5. Graphic Storytelling, Book Challengers, and Obscenity (Richard S. Price)

6. Big-Boned Sapphic Smut: The Reading Pleasure of Comics by and about Black Women (Cathy Thomas)

7. Robert Kirkman's Gays in the Gutter: Anti-Queer Censorship, Obscenity, and The Walking Dead (Jarred Wiehe)

Part Three. Theorizing the Obscene, Seeing Obscenity

8. Planet Xeno: Obscenity as Erotic Alienation in Charles Burns (Jordan Carroll)

9. Seen, Unseen, and Obscene: Historical Violence in Comic Books (Jennifer Caplan)

10. Obscene Empathy: Kink and the Comics Code Authority in X-Men's "Dark Phoenix Saga" (Anthony D'Agostino)

11. Boobs + Monsters: Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Horror Comics, and the Fate of Disciplinary Normalization in the Twenty-First Century (Lee Konstantinou)

Afterword. A Conversation about Community with MariNaomi (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)


AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
Regan Chambers-Kleiner
Headlines & Heroes:  Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print 04/03/2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/ahha-discovering-black-hispanic-and-indigenous-comic-book-creators/

'A Really Off-Base Comment': Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Originally Written Off as Not 'Charming' Enough by Official Publisher
By  Nic Guastella
March 31 2025
https://www.cbr.com/frieren-not-charming-publisher/

'Stories About Overthrowing the Government Are No Longer Allowed': Anime Censorship Overseas Adding to Broadcast Woes [China]
By  Renee Senzatimore
April 1 2025 https://www.cbr.com/anime-censorship-broadcast-difficult/

#32 Book birthdays
Books & babies arrive early sometimes
Cara Gormally
Soft Things: Comics about science, research, & being human! Apr 03, 2025
https://caragormally.substack.com/p/32-book-birthdays

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Jason Chatfield
DMA#1: Draw Me Anything!
Process Junkie! Apr 3, 2025
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything

Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."
April 03, 2025
Cul de Sac blog https://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html
ComicsDC blog
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html

Disney's 'Tangled' Live-Action Movie Hits the Pause Button (Exclusive)
Borys Kit, Mia Galuppo
April 3, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tangled-live-action-remake-pause-disney-1236180940/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Kwento Comics' Waverley and Cecilia Lim on Their Return to Kickstarter for 'The Mask of Haliya Volume 2: Echoes of the Forgotten Past' in Collaboration with Clover Press
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    March 28, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56527-fanbase-press-interviews-kwento-comics-waverley-and-cecilia-lim-on-their-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-mask-of-haliya-volume-2-echoes-of-the-forgotten-past-in-collaboration/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Jorge Jiménez on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for 'The DC Art of Jorge Jiménez' with Clover Press
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    April 1, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56540-fanbase-press-interviews-jorge-jimenez-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-dc-art-of-jorge-jimenez-with-clover-press/

CinemaCon: Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Teases Slate of Updated Classics and New Originals
Animation Magazine
April 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/cinemacon-warner-bros-pictures-animation-teases-slate-of-updated-classics-and-new-originals/

Fantastic Planet: A Surreal, Unsettling Allegory of Oppression Systemic dehumanization, cutout animation, and avant-garde jazz [France].
Kali Wallace
Reactor April 2, 2025
https://reactormag.com/fantastic-planet-a-surreal-unsettling-allegory-of-oppression/


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