Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/22/2025

Working Cartoons: Ted Key's Hazel and Domestic Labor Across Media

Daniel Worden

The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 16 (1), 73-92, 2025

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.16.1.0073

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jmps/article-abstract/16/1/73/402284/Working-Cartoons-Ted-Key-s-Hazel-and-Domestic

 

MARVEL TO INCLUDE SIGNED ORIGINALS IN 'TRUE BELIEVER BLIND BAGS' For 'Ultimate Endgame' #1

Brigid Alverson on September 19, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60591/marvel-include-signed-originals-true-believer-blind-bags

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 697: SPX 2025 Interviews [Tom Devlin of Drawn & Quarterly, and Lee Lai]

Meg Lemke

on 09/19/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1393

 

Bud Plant is calling it a day: A conversation with the comics retail pioneer

Zach Rabiroff | September 22, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/bud-plant-is-calling-it-a-day-a-conversation-with-the-comics-retail-pioneer/

 

Hey Kids! Free Comics!

D. D. Degg

 September 21, 2025 

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/21/hey-kids-free-comics/

 

Joe Casey Writes   Sep 22, 2025

  I'VE BEEN AROUND 003: My Image Comics life (so far)

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/ive-been-around-003

 

'The Late Show' Hits Back at Jimmy Kimmel Suspension with Animated "Be Our Guest" Riff; Protestors March at Disney; Disney+ Subscribers Cancel in Droves

By Animation Magazine

September 19, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/the-late-show-hits-back-at-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-with-animated-be-our-guest-riff/

 

'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' Is the Top Japanese Movie of All Time, Scores No. 1 for Second Week in NorAm

By Animation Magazine

September 21, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-is-the-top-japanese-movie-of-all-time-scores-no-1-in-noram/

 

Book Review: Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations

reviewed by Cecilia Garrison, Teaching/Research Assistant, California Institute of Integral Studies

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 22, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-analyzing-marvel-universe.html

 

Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2024.

Graphic Novel Review: Should We Buy a Gun?
 Reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-Okinawa
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 22, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-should-we-buy-gun.html

Dave Cowen and Gabriel Wexler. Should We Buy a Gun? Los Angeles:  SerioComics, 2025.

Kreneck, Kevin. 2025. Dangerous Days and Really Long Nights: Forty Years of National And World Events Through The Lens Of Political Cartooning. Tribune Content Agency. Online at https://tribuneagency.wpenginepowered.com/files/2025/6079-promo-op-art/Kevin-Kreneck-Dangerous-Days-80pp.pdf

Moran, Tom. 1974. R. Cobb Interview. Venice SideShow (September). Online at https://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/2025/09/venice-sideshow.html

Crunchyroll CEO on the Blockbuster Implications of 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle': "It's Now Undeniable How Big Anime Has Become"
Crunchyroll chief Rahul Purini discusses how much bigger the $555 million hit might grow, plans for the next two films in the trilogy and why anime is now a core Sony growth engine.
Patrick Brzeski
September 22, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/crunchyroll-ceo-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-anime-success-1236377193/

The Chairman in Profile: Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history
Mark Rozzo
Photographs by Jonathan Becker
Air Mail September 20, 2025  https://airmail.news/issues/2025-9-20/the-chairman-in-profile