Monday, October 20, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/18-19/2025

  *Rhode, Mike. 2025. Baltimore Comic-Con day 1 in photos. ComicsDC blog (October 18): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/10/baltimore-comic-con-day-1-in-photos.html

Navarro, Meagan. 2025. IDW and WEBTOON to Launch Digital Comics Partnership with 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' and More. Bloody Disgusting (April 14): https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3864130/idw-and-webtoon-to-launch-digital-comics-partnership-with-beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-and-more/

Yanes, Nicholas. 2025. Wes Eastin on his career, love of comics, and his documentary "Shopping for Superman". Scifi Pulse (April 7): https://www.scifipulse.net/wes-eastin-on-his-career-love-of-comics-and-his-documentary-shopping-for-superman/

Ladner, Ryan. 2025. From Panels to Partners: The Story of Martheus and Janet Wade, and 25 Years of the Toshigawa Universe. Choose 901 (April 14): https://choose901.com/from-panels-to-partners-the-story-of-martheus-and-janet-wade-and-25-years-of-the-toshigawa-universe/

Leith, Sam. 2022. Watchmen author Alan Moore: 'I'm definitely done with comics'. Guardian (October 7): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/07/watchmen-author-alan-moore-im-definitely-done-with-comics

  *Nadel, Dan. 2025. How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art. Dan Nadel on the Formative Awkward Adolescence of an Iconic American Cartoonist [excerpt from Nadel's Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life]. Literary Hub (April 15): https://lithub.com/how-robert-crumb-channeled-mid-century-teenage-angst-into-art/

Unknown. 2025. Pasadena Native Co-Authors Newest Graphic Novel [Nilah Magruder; Creaky Acres]. Pasadena Voice (April 15): https://pasadenavoice.com/stories/pasadena-illustrator-co-authors-newest-graphic-novel,67741

Manning, Shaun. 2025. So Much Larger Than Life: Meggie Ramm's winsome "Batcat: Cooking Contest!" graphic novel helps kids process big-time emotions. A2Pulp (April 16): https://pulp.aadl.org/node/640941

TOKYOPOP announces FANGS and other titles have arrived on Manga Plaza
Ollie Kaplan on 10/18/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/tokyopop-announces-fangs-and-other-titles-have-arrived-on-manga-plaza/

DRAGON BALL's Masako Nozawa becomes first VA to receive Persons of Cultural Merit recognition
Ollie Kaplan on 10/18/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dragon-balls-masako-nozawa-becomes-first-va-to-receive-persons-of-cultural-merit-recognition/

Frazer, Jenni. 2025. Acclaimed author's Jewish refugee story republished as a graphic novel [17 Martin Street; pre-World War II Ireland]. Jewish Chronicle (April 16): https://www.thejc.com/community/acclaimed-authors-jewish-refugee-story-republished-as-a-graphic-novel-bpytc3po

Parr, Brendan. 2025.  Comic Books Are Literally Literary Art [editorial]. [Loyola University] Phoenix] (April 16): https://loyolaphoenix.com/2025/04/comic-books-are-literally-literary-art/

Gelderman, Andrew. 2025. Mat-Su Borough reshelves graphic novel adaptation of Anne Frank's Diary to Adult section. KTNA 88.9FM (April 15): https://ktna.org/2025/04/mat-su-borough-reshelves-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-anne-franks-diary-to-adult-section/

Delgado, Christopher. 2025. Breaking the boundaries of comics [Latino comic book exhibition]. [University of Texas at San Antonio] Paisano (April 15): https://paisano-online.com/45744/arts-life/breaking-the-boundaries-of-comics/
  *Ohman, Jack. 2025. No Kings, Just Jacks... A keynote speech I gave to the California Writers Club. Jack Ohman's You Betcha! (October 19): https://jackohman.substack.com/p/no-kings-just-jacks

Cavan Scott
 A perfect Sunday with... Soo Lee
 The Cavletter Oct 19, 2025
https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-soo-lee/

  *Jones, Clay. 2025. Stroke day. Claytoonz (October 19): https://claytoonz.substack.com/p/stroke-day

  *Degg, D. D. 2025. Whoa, We're Half Way There [Clay Jones stroke fundraiser]. Daily Cartoonist (October 17): https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/17/whoa-were-half-way-there/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. The Answers To Life, The Universe And Everything From Grant Morrison. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-answers-to-life-the-universe-and-everything-from-grant-morrison/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Grant Morrison On The Legion Comic With Jim Lee That Never Happened. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-on-the-legion-comic-with-jim-lee-that-never-happened/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Grant Morrison On Using A.I. To Create Art, But Not Owning A Cellphone. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-on-using-a-i-to-create-art-but-not-owning-a-cellphone/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Grant Morrison On Alan Moore, Watchmen And Peter Thiel. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-alan-moore-watchmen-peter-thiel/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Grant Morrison On Damian Wayne's Past, Present And Future. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-damian-wayne-batman/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Grant Morrison On The Great Lie Of Kryptonite, 5G And "Lightray Is". Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-great-lie-of-kryptonite-5g-lightray-is/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Deniz Camp Explains Why The Ultimate Universe Is Ending. Bleeding Cool (October 17): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/deniz-camp-explains-why-the-ultimate-universe-is-ending/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Absolute Batman #13 Sold Almost 200,000 Copies, No Blind Bag Required. Bleeding Cool (October 18): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/absolute-batman-13-sold-almost-200000-copies-no-blind-bag-required/

  *Johnston, Rich. 2025. Batman: The World's Argentinian Team, Salvador Sanz & Luciano Saracino. Bleeding Cool (October 18): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/batman-the-worlds-argentinian-team-salvador-sanz-sarcino-luciano/

  *Lamberti, Rod. 2025. Comic Store In Your Future – A Government Shuts Down For Your Birthday. Bleeding Cool (October 19): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-a-government-shuts-down-for-your-birthday/

3 Picture Books That Capture the Essence of Friendship [Matthew Diffee]
Laurel Snyder
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 19, 2025, Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Looking for Friends in All New Places.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/books/review/jane-godwin-joshua-david-stein-matthew-diffee-childrens-picture-books.html

41st Annual Stan Cross Awards (2025) [Australia]
 D. D. Degg  
October 18, 2025  
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/18/41st-annual-stan-cross-awards-2025/

Signs of the No Kings Times [political cartoons]
 D. D. Degg  
October 19, 2025  
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/19/signe-of-the-no-kings-times/

Netflix removes all the pesky Roald Dahl from their Roald Dahl adaptations with The Twits
Diluted, simplistic animation, as cloying and feckless and smoothed over as anything from the last decade of Illumination, taints the film.
By Jacob Oller  |  October 17, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/the-twits-review

A St. Louis Bird That Crosses Divides Gets His Own Show
 By Valerie Schremp Hahn
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 19, 2025, Section F, Page 35 of the New York edition with the headline: The Weatherbird on Show.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/arts/design/weatherbird-st-louis-post-dispatch.html

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