Graphic Novel Review: UNCLE SAM is a timeless American parable
The book by Steve Darnall, Alex Ross, and Todd Klein got a new Special Election Edition this month.
Zack Quaintance
08/09/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-uncle-sam-is-a-timeless-american-parable/
'Uncle Sam' Remains A Powerful Deconstruction Of American Democracy 27 Years Later
Josh Weiss
Aug 6, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2024/08/06/uncle-sam-remains-a-powerful-deconstruction-of-american-democracy-27-years-later/
Mohammad Sabaaneh wins Sweden's EWK Award of 2024
By John Freeman on August 8, 2024
https://downthetubes.net/mohammad-sabaaneh-wins-swedens-ewk-award-of-2024/
SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2024 PHOTOS, PART 1
One View of the Four-Day Show
ICv2 August 9, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/57542/san-diego-comic-con-2024-photos-part-1
San Diego Comic-Con in Photos: Part III
Scoop August 9 2024
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=276899
Convention Recap: Hot Flips Comic and Collectible Show
Art Cloos
Scoop August 9 2024
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=276985
Hot Flips Comic and Collectible Show in Photos
Alice Cloos.
Scoop August 9 2024
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=276987
Egypt accused of torturing arrested cartoonist Ashraf Omar
Alan Gardner
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/08/08/egypt-accused-of-torturing-arrested-cartoonist-ashraf-omar/
Political cartoonist visits Findlay [Gary Varvel]
The Courier Aug 02, 2024
https://thecourier.com/news/534010/political-cartoonist-visits-findlay/
'Fax Check! Drawing From History, This Cartoonist Travels the Old Golden Road
From Davies' Chuck Wagon Diner to Meow Wolf...with a stop by the pink palace that shall not be named. [comics journalism]
By Karl Christian Krumpholz
August 6, 2024
https://www.westword.com/news/west-colfax-is-full-of-denver-landmarks-from-meow-wolf-to-casa-bonita-21575834
The 'New Economic Bill of Rights' Comic Strip: A Vision for 2024 and Beyond
Harvey J. Kaye and Matt Strackbein
Aug 07, 2024 Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/economic-bill-of-rights-comic
Paramount Sells ComicBook.com & PopCulture.com to Savage Ventures
Paramount has sold ComicBook.com and PopCulture.com websites to Savage Ventures, pitting Sam Savage back in charge.
by Rich Johnston 08 Aug 2024 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/paramount-sells-comicbook-com-popculture-com-to-savage-ventures/
Paramount Sells Two Entertainment Websites Amid Cost-Cutting Effort
ComicBook and PopCulture, which were acquired in 2018, were sold to a venture run by Sam Savage, an executive who had held the CEO title at the brands.
BY ERIK HAYDEN
AUGUST 8, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/paramount-comicbook-popculture-1235968725/
A Hulkologist's Lament - Book Review of The Incredible Hulk: Worldbreaker, Hero, Icon.
reviewed by José Alaniz, University of Washington, Seattle
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG August 9, 2024 https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-hulkologists-lament-book-review-of.html
Johnson, Rich. The Incredible Hulk: Worldbreaker, Hero, Icon. Universe, 2022. https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780789341242/
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 166 - Drew Dernavich
AUGUST 07, 2024 VIN COCA, BETH LAWLER, PAUL NESJA, NICOLE CHROLAVICIUS SEASON 4 EPISODE 166
HTTPS://WWW.BUZZSPROUT.COM/1719352/15547191-EPISODE-166-DREW-DERNAVICH
Kibbles 'n' Bit 8/9/24: ComicBook.Com sold to Savage Ventures and MORE!
By: Heidi MacDonald
08/09/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/kibbles-n-bit-8-9-24-comicbook-com-sold-to-savage-ventures-and-more/
Culture clash as Book Festival and Comic Con share date
Publishers, booksellers and illustrators will have to juggle their time between these two large events
Giulia Magri
Times of Malta August 9 2024
https://timesofmalta.com/article/culture-clash-book-festival-comic-con-share-date.1096505
'WHEN IT COMES TO ART, I THINK IT'S VERY SPECIAL IF WE CAN LET IT BE FREE TO EXIST HOWEVER IT WANTS': AN INTERVIEW WITH IAN BERTRAM
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | August 8, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/when-it-comes-to-art-i-think-its-very-special-if-we-can-let-it-be-free-to-exist-however-it-wants-an-interview-with-ian-bertram/
POPULAR 'EVERYTHING'S FINE' FIRE MEME IS BY A MASSACHUSETTS CARTOONIST [KC Green].
Jolana Miller
WCYY (August 3, 2024
Https://Wcyy.Com/One-Of-The-Most-Popular-Memes-Across-The-World-Was-Created-By-A-Guy-Massachusetts/
Mary Wings, Pioneering Creator of Queer Comics, Dies at 75
She was the first openly gay woman to write a comic book about lesbians. She went on to write detective novels with a queer woman in the lead.
By Clay Risen
Aug. 8, 2024
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/08/arts/mary-wings-dead.html
Farmers carve 'Peanuts' comic characters in corn mazes nationwide to celebrate 75-year anniversary
Over 80 farmers dedicated their corn mazes to Snoopy and the 'Peanuts' gang by Charles M. Schulz
By Brittany Kasko Fox News
August 8, 2024 https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/farmers-carve-peanuts-comic-characters-corn-mazes-nationwide-celebrate-75-year-anniversary
How 'Inside Out' and Its Sequel Changed Therapy
Mental health professionals and educators say the movies are remarkably helpful in providing a common language they can use with children and parents.
By Melena Ryzik
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 11, 2024, Section AR, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: How Pixar Helped Change Therapy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/07/movies/inside-out-2-therapy-schools.html
'Looney Tunes' Movie Picked Up for NorAm Release by Ketchup Ent.
Mercedes Milligan
August 8, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/08/looney-tunes-movie-picked-up-for-noram-release-by-ketchup-ent/
Ketchup Entertainment Picks Up N. American Rights To 'The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie'
By AMID AMIDI | 08/09/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/distribution/ketchup-entertainment-picks-up-n-american-rights-to-the-day-the-earth-blew-up-a-looney-tunes-movie-242296.html
Animation Worker Rally In Burbank Wants Cartoon Fans To Come Out And Show Support
By AMID AMIDI | 08/06/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/u-k-kids-content-distributor-cake-to-acquire-competing-distributor-jetpack-242253.html
Major Hollywood Unions And Guilds Issue Joint Statement Urging Studios To 'Value And Respect' Animation Workers
By AMID AMIDI | 08/07/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/major-hollywood-unions-and-guilds-issue-joint-statement-urging-studios-to-value-and-respect-animation-workers-242265.html
Aardman Academy Appoints 'Farmageddon' Director Will Becher as Stop-Mo Lead
Mercedes Milligan
August 8, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/08/aardman-academy-appoints-farmageddon-director-will-becher-as-stop-mo-lead/
U.K. Kids' Content Distributor Cake To Acquire Competing Distributor Jetpack
By AMID AMIDI | 08/07/2024 https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/u-k-kids-content-distributor-cake-to-acquire-competing-distributor-jetpack-242253.html
Study Shows Pay Gap for Historically Women-Dominated Animation Roles
Animation Magazine
August 8, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/08/study-shows-pay-gap-for-historically-women-dominated-animation-roles/
A Gender Wage Equity Study: Work and Pay in Film and Television Production Local 839
Clare Hammonds
Anna Walden
Labor Center
University of Massachusetts Amherst
May 30, 2024
https://safe.menlosecurity.com/doc/docview/viewer/docN62C089566CA836b79549707226fc00306ebdd91f810d787142b0fb377ad6fdf80be1c200cfc6
August and Everything After – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | August 9, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/august-and-everything-after-this-weeks-links/
Comic Book Creators Tim Fielder and Walter Greason on the History of Hip Hop
Jamie Broadnax
August 2024
https://blackgirlnerds.com/comic-book-creators-tim-fielder-and-walter-greason-on-the-history-of-hip-hop/
The graphic world of cartoonist Ant Sang [New Zealand]
André Chumko
August 7, 2024
https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350363664/graphic-world-cartoonist-ant-sang
Tony Millionaire Conversation
Noah Van Sciver
Aug 4, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8NkhTHelf4
Why was Steve Dillon one of the greatest artists of all time? – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
Aug 5, 2024 The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_THxgeBn5E
The comic-strip hero who charged into history [The Victor comic book]
Brian Farmer
BBC News, Norfolk August 5 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjjj5wd27dgo
Author of 'Dr. Dyslexia Dude' graphic novels first learned to read at a Wisconsin college
Shawn Robinson now holds a Ph.D. in language and literacy
By Jonah Beleckis
Wisconsin Public Radio August 7, 2024
https://www.wpr.org/news/author-of-dr-dyslexia-dude-graphic-novels-first-learned-to-read-at-a-wisconsin-college
https://mp3.wpr.org/download.php?f=https://wpr-podcast.streamguys1.com/mlr/mlr240722f1.mp3
Comic classics that portray the Holocaust
Jewish artists and storytellers in particular have illustrated the evils of the Holocaust in comic books since the 1940s, including in superhero classics from Captain Marvel to Superman.
Stuart Braun
August 5, 2024
https://www.dw.com/en/comic-classics-that-portray-the-holocaust/a-69765586
Joyce Brabner, Comic Book Writer and Wife of Late Harvey Pekar, Dies at 72
Brabner carved out her own distinguished career in comics separate from her legacy with Pekar
By Mark Oprea on Wed, Aug 7, 2024
https://www.clevescene.com/news/joyce-brabner-comic-book-writer-and-wife-of-late-harvey-pekar-dies-at-72-44871250
Art of rebellion | Review of 'Woman, Life, Freedom' by Marjane Satrapi
Who better than the renowned author of 'Persepolis' to headline an inspiring set of graphic novel-style essays on life in Iran?
August 02, 2024
Joshua Muyiwa
https://www.thehindu.com/books/book-review-woman-life-freedom-graphic-novelist-illustrator-marjane-satrapi-essays-life-iran-graphic-novel-style/article68449879.ece
Christopher Cantwell vehemently declares 'Plastic Man No More!'
The writer talks about the body horror, hard truths, and big emotions in Plastic Man's "final" story.
Chris Coplan
August 8, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/08/christopher-cantwell-plastic-man-feature/
Exploring the cosmic horror of 'The Dark Empty Void' #1 [ Zack Kaplan and Chris Shehan interview]
David Brooke
August 6, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/06/mad-cave-preview-the-dark-empty-void-1/
All leading to this: Brian K. Vaughan and Chris Burnham talk 'Kids Rule OK'
Brian K. Vaughan and Chris Burnham unpack their story in 'Battle Action' out this October.
David Brooke
August 8, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/08/kids-rule-ok-feature/
Anatomy of Design: Michael Gaydos unpacks the 'Beneath' monsters
Check out what went into crafting a brand new monster in 'Beneath' from artist Michael Gaydos.
David Brooke
August 8, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/08/michael-gaydos-beneath/
Stephanie Phillips talks redemption, trauma, and Florida in 'Red Before Black' feature
Chris Coplan
August 6, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/06/red-before-black-qa/
Kieron Gillen and Caspar Wijngaard outline 'The Power Fantasy'
Chris Coplan
August 6, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/08/06/the-power-fantasy-creator-qa/
Smash Pages Q&A | Samuel Sattin on 'Unico: Awakening'
The writer of the new manga based on the work of Osamu Tezuka talks about the project, what Tezuka means to him and more.
JK Parkin
August 5, 2024
https://smashpages.net/2024/08/05/smash-pages-qa-samuel-sattin-on-unico-awakening/
Holloway, Steven W., Allison Bailund, Carole Sussman, Deborah Tomaras. 2024. "From 'Afrofuturist Comics' to 'Zombies in Comics': Inclusive Comics Cataloging from A to Z," in Amber Billey, Elizabeth Nelson and Rebecca Uhl (eds.), Inclusive Cataloging: Histories, Context, and Reparative Approaches (Chicago: ALA Editions, 2024), 99-107.
online at https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1262&context=letfspubs
Busi Rizzi, Giorgio, Lorenzo Di Paola, & Rodolfo Dal Canto. (2024). Mon Semblable, Mon Frère: Identity Needs, Imaginary, and Aesthetics in Marco and Antonio Manetti's Diabolik Trilogy. Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 13(25), 117–129. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/18922 and https://cinergie.unibo.it/article/view/18922
Harold Makes the World With His Purple Crayon. Who Made Harold?
By A.O. Scott
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 11, 2024, Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Harold Makes His World. Who Made Harold?.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/03/books/review/harold-and-the-purple-crayon.html
Lalo Alcaraz Joins CALÓ News as Editoonist
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/08/08/lalo-alcarez-joins-calo-news-as-editoonist/
Chicano artist and writer Lalo Alcaraz joins CALÓ News
Denise Florez, Abelardo de la Peña Jr.
Aug 7, 2024
https://www.calonews.com/featured-topics/media/chicano-artist-and-writer-lalo-alcaraz-joins-cal-news/article_1f75dafe-54e2-11ef-94de-9b14fa8adf74.html
What's up with that cartoon billboard on 6th Ave. in Tacoma warning of nuclear weapons? [ Pat Moriarty]
By Simone Carter
Tacoma News Tribune August 08, 2024
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/article290850129.html
Retired architect Kilpatrick III brings levity with humorous cartoons [Hugh Kilpatrick III, religion]
By HASKEL BURNS
Tue,08/06/24
https://www.hubcityspokes.com/local-content/retired-architect-kilpatrick-iii-brings-levity-humorous-cartoons
Next On Netflix: At 60, Mafalda Is Just As (Im)Pertinent As Ever
Irene Caselli
Worldcrunch Today August 08, 2024
https://worldcrunch.com/culture-society/mafalda-netflix-cartoon-activism
Shawn Levy Unpacks 'Deadpool & Wolverine' Cameos and Spoilers: Channing Tatum's Gambit, Jennifer Garner's Ben Affleck Divorce Joke, Henry Cavill's Wolverine and More
Rebecca Rubin
Aug 5, 2024
https://variety.com/2024/film/news/shawn-levy-deadpool-and-wolverine-spoilers-cameos-1236089059/
20 Years of Laughs: Stegelin skewers, roasts and can make you spit out your coffee
by Andy Brack and Steve Stegelin
August 9, 2024
https://charlestoncitypaper.com/2024/08/09/20-years-of-laughs-stegelin-skewers-roasts-and-can-make-you-spit-out-your-coffee/
Comic & Cartoonist: Charlie Hall reflects on star-studded legacy
Warwick Beacon August 7, 2024
https://warwickonline.com/stories/comic-cartoonist,259697
By ANISHA KUMAR
Sales Charts: Image Comics announce Top 10 comics and books July 2024
By: Heidi MacDonald
08/09/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/sales-charts-image-comics-announce-top-10-comics-and-books-july-2024/
Sales Charts: Top Ten Most Read Comics on GlobalComix August 9, 2024
Heidi MacDonald
08/09/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/sales-charts-top-ten-most-read-comics-on-globalcomix-august-9-2024/
WEBTOON Entertainment stock takes a dive, but it's not a big deal
Humberto Saabedra
08/09/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/webtoon-entertainments-stock-takes-a-dive-but-its-not-a-big-deal/
WBD evicts Foster's Imaginary Friends and the rest of Cartoon Network from its home on the internet
R.I.P. cartoonnetwork.com. You were a courageous dog among cowards.
By Emma Keates | August 9, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/cartoon-network-scrubbed-warner-bros
