Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/14/2025

DIAMOND CONSIGNMENT SUPPLIERS UNITING TO FIGHT INVENTORY SEIZURE

Filing this Week to Block Move

  Milton Griepp on July 14, 2025   https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60022/diamond-consignment-suppliers-uniting-fight-inventory-seizure

 

The week in Diamond: Publishers band together to get their inventory back…and a precedent found?

Heidi MacDonald on 07/14/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-week-in-diamond-publishers-band-together-to-get-their-inventory-back-and-a-precedent-found/

 

The Diamond Bankruptcy: At Last, It All Starts to Make Sense

Brigid Alverson | July 14, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-diamond-bankruptcy-at-last-it-all-starts-to-make-sense/

 

The Love We Leave Behind [Jules Feiffer]

Roger Rosenblatt

July 13, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opinion/immortality-death-love.html

 

Why the World Needs Superman

Is James Gunn's new feature the best Man of Steel movie ever? Maybe not. But it's the Superman we could all really use right now. Plus, THR ranks the rest.

Benjamin Svetkey

July 14, 2025   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/superman-james-gunn-movies-ranked/superman-1978/

 

I saw the new liberal 'Superman' movie and it gave me the woke mind virus | Opinion

The last thing I want to do is go to the movie theater and hear something that doesn't precisely conform to my worldview.

Rex Huppke

USA TODAYJuly 11 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/11/superman-2025-woke-immigrants-james-gunn/84535442007/

 

The Fantastic Four Were Too OP For the Infinity Saga

Sounds like Thanos caught a lucky break the Fantastic Four weren't there to wreck his shop come 'Avengers: Endgame.'

By Justin Carter

io9 July 13, 2025  https://gizmodo.com/the-fantastic-four-were-too-op-for-the-infinity-saga-2000628605

 

Felix the Cat heirs claim they were cut out of $100M in business from popular cartoon feline

Kathianne Boniello       

  July 12, 2025,  https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/felix-the-cat-heirs-claim-they-were-cut-out-of-100-million-lawsuit/

 

LA cartoonist 'Summer of ICE' painting goes viral with powerful message

Alcaraz said the painting asks the question: If a mild-mannered ice cream vendor can be snapped up off the street, what about everybody else in the U.S.?

By Gordon Tokumatsu

July 9, 2025       •  https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-cartoonist-painting-viral-immigration/3741730/

 

Interview: Brandon Rogers on HELLUVA BOSS and HAZBIN HOTEL

By Avery Kaplan on 07/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-brandon-rogers-on-helluva-boss-and-hazbin-hotel/

 

Universal Distribution's Angelo Exarhakos speaks: "We hope to bring in new readers to the comic book marketplace."

By Heidi MacDonald on 07/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/universal-distributions-angelo-exarhakos-speaks-we-hope-to-bring-in-new-readers-to-the-comic-book-marketplace/


Superman gets a big, blue reboot that supercharges a beleaguered genre
James Gunn's film is a much-needed course correction for DC's Man Of Steel.
By Jarrod Jones  |  July 8, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/superman-review

'Superman': The original superhero is back, with a brisk new attitude
Review by Ann Hornaday
Washington Post July 9 2025: B1, 3
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/08/superman-corenswet-gunn-review/

Superman's father taught me how to write
It wasn't Bradley Cooper, who is in the new movie, nor Marlon Brando. I'll always have my own favorite.
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
July 13, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/13/superman-fd-christopher-reeve-father-jor-el/

Fear of a 'woke' Superman
Conservatives are upset with a very un-MAGA Superman movie. But the character has always engaged with the politics of his time.
Larry Tye
July 12, 2025  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/12/superman-woke-controversy-immigration-trump/

Dean Cain offers inexplicable take on Superman and Somalia
Cain agrees Superman is an immigrant, but also thinks the "immigrant thing" will hurt the movie's "numbers."
By Mary Kate Carr  |  July 10, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/superman-dean-cain-woke-politics

David Zaslav reportedly "dismissed" a Black Superman movie for being "too woke"
Ta-Nehisi Coates' script for a movie focused on a Black Superman made headlines in 2021—and then disappeared shortly after Zaslav took over Warner Bros. Discovery.
By William Hughes  |  July 10, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/david-zaslav-ta-nahesi-coates-black-superman-movie-too-woke

Episode 10: Supernerds [Superman]
Joe MacLeod and Sam Thielman
 Flaming Hydra Round Table 13 Jun 2025 · 31 minutes
https://pod.link/1734067425/episode/9e0b7450be608914ed51cbab40df0ebe

Episode 11: The Ultimate Truth of Superman
Joe MacLeod., Josephine Riesman, S.I. Rosenbaum, Sam Thielman, and Zach Rabiroff.
Flaming Hydra Round Table 14 Jul 2025 · 46 minutes
https://pod.link/1734067425/episode/8346f69dd8ef9d6319aae20ff0bd7d07

Superman Is as Good as We Can Stand Him Being
by Zach Rabiroff
Flaming Hydra 14 Jul 2025
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-359/#superman-is-as-good-as-we-can-stand-him-being

INTERVIEW: Paul Pope (7/7/25) | The Oblivion Bar
The Oblivion Bar: A Comic Book Podcast
 Jul 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjteZzQCh1M

Interview: Brandon Rogers on Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel
Avery Kaplan
Comics Beat July 14 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSuW0kOi32A

The Numbers Game: On the surge of comics and covers, what that really looks like, and how retailers are feeling about it.
By David Harper
July 10, 2025
sktchd.com/longform/too-many-comics-2025/

As Everything in the Direct Market Changes, Comic Shops are Thriving
 David Harper
July 9, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/retailer-feature-july-2025/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred forty-four | Greg Rucka, part one
Jul 14, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/is-there-any-more-of-this-recording

Greg Rucka Front Towards Enemy newsletter. 2025-
https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io/

Jaffe, Alex. 2025. Greg Rucka Maintains Integrity As A Freelance Comics Writer So Alex Jaffe Thinks You Can Too. Attach Your Resume (July 10): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2C7MXshEhSorDxjg2aCqeQ

Sifu Mimi Chan interviews Greg Rucka & Nicola Scott on Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League. [aka Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott on creating Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League]
Wah Lum Films
420; May 13, 2025 The Sifu Mimi Chan Show Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XbOCZyEsn4
https://www.sifumimichan.com/greg-rucka-nicola-scott/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/culturechatpodcast/420_mixdown.mp3

Wattpad Webtoon Studios Rebrands, Names David Madden President
Jul 14, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5448

Alex Jaffe Should Be the DC Comics Historian, And You Should Have Your Dream Job Too!
Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin,
Attach Your Résumé
February 6, 2025
https://multitude.productions/attach-your-rsum-episodes/alex-jaffe

Inside the $3 Billion 'South Park' Fight That May Blow Up Its Future
Winston Cho, Gary Baum, Alex Weprin
July 14, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-skydance-paramount-fight-1236314541/

Seth Green says anyone who would have greenlit a full season of Robot Chicken "got fired"
With a Robot Chicken special arriving this weekend, Green says he took a page out of the South Park playbook.
By Drew Gillis  |  July 14, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/seth-green-robot-chicken-20th-anniversary

Spider-Man: Brand New Day to leave the soundstage and enter the real world
Tom Holland's fourth film as Spidey will reportedly lean into "old school filmmaking" after COVD-19 relegated No Way Home to soundstages.
By Emma Keates  |  July 14, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/spider-man-brand-new-day-leaving-soundstage-real-locations

Krysten Ritter spent the last two years lying about Jessica Jones
William Hughes  |  July 11, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/krysten-ritter-lying-for-two-years-jessica-jones

10 years and 15 superhero movies weren't enough to fight the DCEU out of second place
Marvel's rival universe was messier and stranger than its more streamlined competitors—which made it feel closer to comics.
By Jesse Hassenger  |  July 10, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/dceu-run-the-series

Local Artist Creates Painting to Protest Deportations [ Lalo Alcaraz]
Gordon Tokumatsu
NBC4 News July 9, 2025
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-cartoonist-painting-viral-immigration/3741730/

Kevin KAL Kallaugher
Freelance Follies #1: Cartoon Coasters for The Famous Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington DC
Kal Draws The Line Jul 14, 2025  
https://kaltoons.substack.com/p/freelance-follies-1

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