Friday, July 25, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/24/2025

DIAMOND MOVES TO SELL DIAMOND UK TO EMPLOYEE GROUP By Selling Shares

  Milton Griepp on July 24, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60125/diamond-moves-sell-diamond-uk-employee-group

 

JOE ILLIDGE, KEVIN RODITELI LAUNCH NEW CREATIVE SERVICES AGENCIES

One Working with Creators, One Partnering with Publishers

  Milton Griepp on July 24, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60120/joe-illidge-kevin-roditeli-launch-new-creative-services-agencies

 

https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2025/02/18/black-culture/

Stephen Lawrence Research Centre backs art contest exploring Black culture

The charity has partnered with Opal22 Arts and Edutainment to launch a comic strip competition aimed at young artists

 

Graphic novels inspire readers [library]

Abby Kolosovskiy

Verona Press Feb 18, 2025 

https://www.veronapress.com/opinion/columns/kolosovskiy-graphic-novels-inspire-readers/article_7df5a1ce-eb12-11ef-b6f9-b79dabbd2a32.html

 

Here come the winners of the Graphic Medicine Awards 2025

Dean Simons on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/here-come-the-winners-of-the-graphic-medicine-awards-2025/

 

Reviews: Daredevil by Nocenti and Romita Jr. Omnibus volume 1

Tom Shapira | July 24, 2025 | https://www.tcj.com/reviews/daredevil-by-nocenti-and-romita-jr-omnibus-volume-1/

 

Reviews: Boat Life Vol. 1

Valerio Stivé | July 22, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/reviews/boat-life-vol-1/

 

Boat Life Vol. 1

Tadao Tsuge

Floating World Comics

 

Jim Shooter, Sept. 27, 1951-June 30, 2025

Steven Ringgenberg | July 24, 2025 

https://www.tcj.com/jim-shooter-sept-27-1951-june-30-2025/

 

The Beat Digest 07/24/25: Marvel's STRANGE TALES returns

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-072425/

 

I tried a new AI-generated comic book app and Marvel has nothing to worry about

Eric Hal Schwartz

February 19, 2025

https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-tried-a-new-ai-generated-comic-book-app-and-marvel-has-nothing-to-worry-about

 

White House Slams 'South Park' as "Desperate" for Attention After Unflattering Depiction of Trump

The season 27 premiere of the series finally saw its creators bring a satirical depiction of the president to the show.

Kevin Dolak

July 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/white-house-south-park-trump-desperate-for-attention-1236328272/

 

SDCC '25: What to do if ICE crashes the con

 Beat Staff on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-what-to-do-if-ice-crashes-the-con/

 

LDC Fair comics plumb the cute, the grotesque

Arpad Okay on 07/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ldc-online-comics-fair/

 

Lisa Launches Comic Company to Accompany Debut Album 'Alter Ego' [Lalisa Comics]

by Jeff Benjamin, 18 February 2025

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/lisa-launches-comic-company-debut-album-alter-ego-1236311368/

 

LISA of BLACKPINK Launches Lalisa Comics Ahead of 'Alter Ego' Album

The first release is a 56-page graphic novel titled Alter-Ego: The Official Comic.

02/18/2025

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/blackpink-lisa-alter-ego-comic-book-new-album-1235904935/

 

Comic Book Creator Special Thanks For The Fantastic Four: First Steps

The comic book creators who get special thanks in the credits for The Fantastic Four: First Steps movie

Rich Johnston 24 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creator-special-thanks-for-the-fantastic-four-first-steps/

 

Black Mask Sell New Calexit Comic At SDCC To Benefit ICE Victims

Black Mask sells a brand new Calexit comic at San Diego Comic-Con To benefit the victims of those targeted by ICE

23 Jul 2025   Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/black-mask-sell-new-calexit-comic-at-sdcc-to-benefit-ice-victims/

 

Diamond Comics Sells Diamond UK For Over $2 Million To… Diamond UK

  24 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-sells-diamond-uk-for-over-2-million-to-diamond-uk/

Rich Johnston

 

Graphic novel brings Indigenous creation stories to a new generation [Alex Mankiewicz; Australia; When the World was Soft]

February 19, 2025 BY Angela Saurine

https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/tweedcoasttimes/news/graphic-novel-brings-indigenous-creation-stories-to-a-new-generation/

 

Los Altos resident releases first graphic novel [Kyle Hurlbut]

By Ella Henn Town Crier Editorial Intern

Feb 18, 2025

https://www.losaltosonline.com/community/los-altos-resident-releases-first-graphic-novel/article_fe611c32-ee2b-11ef-8e69-9f0bf7597edb.html

 

Inks Volume 9, Issue 1, Spring 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/54898


Table of Contents
One Does Not Simply Overlook New Forms of Sequential Art: Memes as Fixed-Image Comics
Michelle Ann Abate
pp. 1-23
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960641
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960641/pdf

From Bleachman to the PrEP Heroes: Superhero Fantasies and the Fight Against HIV/AIDS
Nicholas Derda
pp. 24-46
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960642
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960642/pdf

Beyond Icons: Contemporary Perspectives on Breast Cancer in Graphic Pathographies
Christian Lenemark
pp. 47-70
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960643
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960643/pdf

Black Comics Studies Now
Joanna Davis-McElligatt, D'Arcee Charington Neal, Sasha Sanders, Kiana T. Murphy, Julia Brown, Christian M. Hines
pp. 71-90
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960644
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960644/pdf

No Substitute for the Experience: A Case for Practice-Based Comics Teaching and Research
Nicholas Wirtz
pp. 91-120
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960645
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960645/pdf

Blockheads, Beagles and Sweet Babboos by Michelle Ann Abate (review)
Kerry Soper
pp. 121-124
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960646
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960646/pdf

The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daily Comics in the Twenty-First Century by Jeff Karnicky (review)
Fi Stewart-Taylor
pp. 124-127
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960647
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960647/pdf

On Comics and Grief by Dale Jacobs (review)
Paul Young
pp. 127-131
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960648
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/960648/pdf

Most of us love memes. But are they a form of comics?
Research says the two art forms share visual, verbal elements [Michelle Ann Abate]
 Jeff Grabmeier
Ohio State News  Jul 15, 2025
https://news.osu.edu/most-of-us-love-memes-but-are-they-a-form-of-comics/

Our New Comics and Poetry Nebula Awards!
February 18, 2025
by the SFWA Publications Crew in conversation with Jessica Maison, Holly Lyn Walrath, and Wendy Van Camp
https://www.sfwa.org/2025/02/18/sfwa-presents-get-to-knowthe-road-to-sfwas-new-comics-and-poetry-nebula-awards/

Whiteboard warrior: Marvel is priming Mister Fantastic to be the new leader of the Avengers
Ben Child
Fri 18 Jul 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/18/mister-fantastic-avengers-pedro-pascal-fantastic-four-first-steps

A real wag: Superman gets the bleak realities of dog ownership spot on
Stuart Heritage
Thu 17 Jul 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/17/tiresome-useless-superman-may-be-sci-fi-but-it-dog-ownership-right

Puppy power: canine in new Superman movie spurs pet adoption interest
Searches for 'adopt a dog near me' on Google increased by 513% after Superman, starring Krypto, released in the US
Ramon Antonio Vargas
Thu 17 Jul 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/17/superman-movie-krypto-dog-adoption

'Superman' is here to to save us, despite MAGA backlash
Man of Steel was always a flashpoint for controversy
John Paul King
Washington Blade July 18, 2025: 28.
Online at https://www.washingtonblade.com/2025/07/15/superman-movie-review/

Smurfs review – Rihanna is star turn of the new generation of floppy-hatted blue elves
Peter Bradshaw
Wed 16 Jul 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/16/smurfs-review-rihanna-james-corden-animation

Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado review – plucky teen explorer goes looking for lost Incan magic
Cath Clarke
Tue 15 Jul 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jul/15/dora-and-the-search-for-sol-dorado-review-plucky-teen-dora-the-explorer

DreamWorks Commissary Workers Strike Amid Union Contract Negotiations
Katie Kilkenny
July 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dreamworks-studio-commissary-workers-strike-1236328124/

David Wright's Carol Day Showcase reprint confirmed
John Freeman on February 17, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/david-wrights-carol-day-showcase-reprint-confirmed/

'South Park' Creators Reveal Network Battle Over Premiere's Trump Penis as They Joke: "We're Terribly Sorry"
Ryan Gajewski
July 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/south-park-trey-parker-matt-stone-trump-comic-con-1236328836/

'South Park' makes fun of Trump over Epstein list, Paramount lawsuit
 Samantha Chery and  Emily Yahr
July 24, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/24/south-park-trump-episode-paramount-season-27-premiere/

'The Bad Guys 2' Review: Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron and Awkwafina Return for More Criminally Fun Animated Antics
Frank Scheck
July 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-bad-guys-2-review-sam-rockwell-marc-maron-1236328110/

Fall 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
Compiled by Meg Lemke and Shaenon K. Garrity              
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Fall 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98238-fall-2025-comics-graphic-novels-preview.html

Joe Sacco Asks Why History Repeats Itself
By Meg Lemke                
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Mob Rules
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/98247-joe-sacco-asks-why-history-repeats-itself.html

The Fastest Way to a Comics Fan's Heart
This season lays out a banquet of stories about cooking, restaurants, eating, and imbibing, including memoirs with recipes, a fantastical tale of a café in the belly of a beast, and slice-of-life comics.
by Meg Lemke                
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Fastest Way to a Fan's Heart
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98243-the-fastest-way-to-a-comics-fan-s-heart.html

We Can Do Hard Things: Inspirational Comics for Kids
by Meg Lemke                
Jul 18, 2025  
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/childrens-announcements/article/98246-we-can-do-hard-things-inspirational-comics-for-kids.html

INTERVIEW: Paul Pope on the enduring influence of THB
Nancy Powell on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-paul-pope-on-the-enduring-influence-of-thb/

'The Sandman' Showrunner Allan Heinberg Explains Decision to End Netflix Series After Two Seasons
Max Gao
July 7, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-sandman-season-2-part-1-showrunner-allan-heinberg-interview-1236308149/

'The Sandman' Star Ruairi O'Connor Breaks Down That Fatal Choice
Max Gao
July 7, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-sandman-season-2-orpheus-death-tom-sturridge-ruairi-oconnor-1236308134/

'Sandman' Creator on How the Part 2 Finale Lays Groundwork for a Possible Return to the Universe
Max Gao
July 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/sandman-part-2-finale-netflix-future-allan-heinberg-interview-1236327950/

Back in Black: Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton Break Their Silence on 'Wednesday' Season 2
James Hibberd
July 23, 2025
This story appeared in the July 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/jenna-ortega-tim-burton-wednesday-season-two-interview-1236325035/

Tecknad pornografi marknadsfördes till barn på Akademibokhandeln [Sweden; censorship]
 17 juli 2025
 https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/stockholm/tecknad-pornografi-marknadsfordes-till-barn-pa-akademibokhandeln

Interview: Prepare to be illuminated – Jose Villarrubia and Josh O'Neill on THE ILLUMINATED WONDER BOOK
Diego Higuera on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-prepare-to-be-illuminated-jose-villarrubia-and-josh-oneill-on-the-illuminated-wonder-book/

Itch.io delists & removes explicit comics, zines, games & more under pressure from payment processors
Samantha Puc on 07/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/itch-io-delists-removes-explicit-comics-zines-games-more-under-pressure-from-payment-processors/

Jeremy Adams Take 2 Green Lantern Aquaman Superman film and More
wordballoon
   Jul 23, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x7CUSaVkeY

Words, Images, & Worlds: Jana Tropper Returns!
Jason DeHart
Jul 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8SkkQ3dalE

Fantastic Four Interview: Julia Garner & Ralph Ineson on IMAX, Comic Villains & Marvel Movies
CBR Presents Jul 24, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK3NS8yv0Rg

Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, And The Fantastic Four Cast Play Marvel Trivia
Sean O'Connell
CBR Presents Jul 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQlRjxVc98Y

The Fantastic Four Director Matt Shakman Talks Comic Influences and Finding Ben Grimm's Voice
Sean O'Connell
CBR Presents   Jul 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-Pzuj2D2_o

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige on Bringing Marvel's First Family into the MCU
Marvel Entertainment
Jul 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAxcQ6D8DLE

A Comic Art Page I Love with Pat Olliffe [Uncanny X-Men #141 by John Byrne and Terry Austin!]
  Kevin Sharp
CAF+   Jul 23, 2025 #141  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66lrqGaHr4

ALEX SAVIUK | PENCIL TO PENCIL 7/23/25
JAMAR NICHOLAS, STEVE CONLEY and MIKE MANLEY
Pencil to Pencil  Jul 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kTWAKPdF9Y

Simon Spurrier discusses his departure from THE FLASH and his final issue: THE FLASH 25!
Forbidden Planet TV
 Jul 23, 2025 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfxGUxNc3ls

Murewa Ayodele Teases Thunder War! Storm Author Joins the Comic Corner [Antoine Dodson]
TJ Pistilli
Agents of Fandom  Jul 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHCy-m7g7Xs

Phillip Kennedy Johnson Picks His Favorite Comic Books: The Stacks Episode 4
  Brad and Lisa Gullickson
Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast
  Jul 22, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Actr8U-DUMQ

Rob Liefeld Biographical Interview Part 2 by Alex Grand (2025)
Comic Book Historians
Jul 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdxfRsSSD78

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guests Adam Schlagman & Doug Pasko [T.A.M.A.]
Pop Culture Squad  Jul 22, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc6qTATEoPc

Live: Mike Carlin Talks Superman 2025!
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
 Jul 22, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBitizDP_dc

Tree Texture Armor: Easier Than You'd Think!
Chris Schweizer
Jul 24, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wQ_HF6Q2QE


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