Monday, April 04, 2022

The Post on Disney vs Florida, or rather Florida vs Disney

How Disney fell flat in fight over LGBTQ talk in Florida's schools

The usual political tactics failed, leaving the influential company pledging to do more [in print as For Disney, first silence. Then damage control].

**Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/3/22

 

Factoid, Shmacktoid — Tom Shapira Reviews AMERICAN COMICS: A HISTORY

Tom Shapira

March 29, 2022

https://solrad.co/american-comics-a-history

 

Life as a Syndicated Strip Cartoonist with Jonathan Lemon

Chuck Whelon

Chuck Whelon Comics March 29 2022

https://www.facebook.com/Whelon/videos/533650161727598/

 

Modern Workflow in the World of Humorous Illustration | Sponsored by Wacom

Scott Jolson

B&H Event Space  Mar 31, 2022 1

Speakers: Ed Steckley - Jason Chatfield - Wacom

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/eventDetails.jsp/id/4135

https://vimeo.com/689700834?embedded=true&source=vimeo_logo&owner=148832852

 

Stan Mott – RIP [Automobile cartoonist]

by D. D. Degg

April 2, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/04/02/stan-mott-rip/ 

Sunday, April 03, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/2/22

 

'Morbius' and When the Critical Consensus Bites

There's nothing wrong with legitimate criticism or not liking a movie, but the reaction to the poorly reviewed Jared Leto started months before it even opened.

Richard Newby

April 1, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/morbius-reviews-critics-1235123608/

 

Best-of du Festival d'Angoulême 2022

Mar 22, 2022

Angoulême International comics festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9783EdaFKo

 

L'Art de Christophe Blain vu par Michel Hazanavicius

Mar 14, 2022

Angoulême International comics festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVBksaNoNgA

 

Comic Culture with Chuck Patton

Apr 1, 2022

terence dollard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J-_IYHpcRg

 

"Apollo 10 1/2," Reviewed: Richard Linklater Unites Inner and Outer Life

This grandly original animated autobiographical fantasy sends a fourth grader to the moon.

By Richard Brody

March 31, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/apollo-10-12-reviewed-richard-linklater-unites-inner-and-outer-life

 

An overlooked cost of digital currency [Mark Trail letter]

Mary Minarovich-Cheniae

Washington Post April 2 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/readers-critique-post-what-about-womens-teams-that-made-ncaa-tournament/

 

Why are Italians still fair game? [Sherman's Lagoon letter]

Luigi Gobbi

Washington Post April 2 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/readers-critique-post-what-about-womens-teams-that-made-ncaa-tournament/

 

'Doonesbury's' time should be over

Jeff Strohl

Washington Post April 2 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/01/readers-critique-post-what-about-womens-teams-that-made-ncaa-tournament/

Saturday, April 02, 2022

That darn Doonesbury, Sherman's Lagoon, and Mark Trail

An overlooked cost of digital currency [Mark Trail letter]

Mary Minarovich-Cheniae, Alexandria

Washington Post April  2 2022


Why are Italians still fair game? [Sherman's Lagoon letter]


'Doonesbury's' time should be over

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/1/22

 

Exhibition video walkthrough: Chris Ware at the 49th Angoulême International Comics Festival

 -Nick Nguyen

International Journal of Comic Art blog March 27, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/03/exhibition-video-walkthrough-chris-ware.html

 

Exhibition in photos: Chris Ware at the 49th Angoulême International Comics Festival

-Nick Nguyen

International Journal of Comic Art blog March 30, 2022

http://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/03/exhibition-in-photos-chris-ware-at-49th.html

 

In Memoriam: Garry Leach

Scoop April 1 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=258239

 

R.I.P. GARRY LEACH: '2000AD' Artist Collaborated with Alan Moore 'Miracleman'

  Brigid Alverson on March 31, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50828/r-i-p-garry-leach

 

Convention Recap: Big Apple Comic Con

Contributed by collector and Overstreet Advisor Art Cloos

Photos by Alice Cloos

Scoop April 1 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=258216

 

Big Apple Comic Con in Photos

Alice Cloos.

Scoop April 1 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=258214

 

'Twice Upon A Time' And 'Sesame Street' Director John Korty: An Appreciation

By Taylor Jessen | 03/31/2022

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/twice-upon-a-time-and-sesame-street-director-john-korty-an-appreciation-214581.html

 

Tenerife Grows As An International Animation Production Hub [Spain]

By Cartoon Brew Connect | 03/31/2022

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/presented-by-tenerife-film-commission/tenerife-grows-as-an-international-animation-production-hub-214484.html 

 

Nickelodeon Unveils 2022-23 Slate With 3 New Series And Lots Of Franchise Expansions

By Amid Amidi | 03/26/2022

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/series/nickelodeon-unveils-2022-23-slate-with-3-new-series-and-lots-of-franchise-expansions-214512.html

 

INTERVIEW: DMZ Showrunner Roberto Patino Explains Why Now Is The Time For His Adaptation [aka, DMZ Showrunner Roberto Patino breaks down his adaptation]

Kay-B

04/01/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dmz-showrunner-roberto-patino-interview/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rJ8gVbczRE

 

INTERVIEW: Jayme Lawson on the real life inspiration for Bella Reál in THE BATMAN [aka, Is THE BATMAN Jayme Lawson's Gotham Mayor Based on a Real Person?

Kay-B

03/12/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-batman-jayme-lawson-interview/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1mb5OSGLE4

 

PLAYBOY, PLASTIC MAN, & the COMICS CODE - Jack Cole was one of the BEST cartoonists ever!

Ed Piksor, Jim Rugg and Warren Bernard

Mar 29, 2022 Cartoonist Kayfabe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjIG1UWZ35k

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 510: The MoCCA Arts Fest Is Back

Calvin Reid

on 03/25/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1192

 

Comics' Mobility Across Time, Space, and Media

New Readings Volume 18 - 2022

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/21/volume/18/issue/0/

Themed issue edited by Tilmann Altenberg and Agustín Corti

 

    Comics' Mobility Across Time, Space, and Media: Introduction

    Tilmann Altenberg,  Agustín Corti

    24 Mar 2022

    18:i-ix

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.130/

 

    Reading Comics in Time

    Jan Baetens

    24 Mar 2022

    18:1–13

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.119/

 

    Two Distant Soils: Colleen Doran's Authorial Journey

    Isabelle Licari-Guillaume

    24 Mar 2022

    18:14–29

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.128/

 

    Translating "Irmina" (2014), by Barbara Yelin, from German into Spanish

    Itziar Hernández Rodilla

    24 Mar 2022

    18:30–51

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.120/

 

    Global Comic Book Heroes: Intra- and Inter-Cultural Translations of Tintin, Asterix, and Paperinik Comics

    Federico Zanettin

    24 Mar 2022

    18:52–69

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.126/

 

    "Modesty Blaise" Cut up in Sweden: The Challenges of Adapting a Newspaper Comic Strip to the Comic Book Format

    Pascal Lefèvre

    24 Mar 2022

    18:70–87

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.129/

 

    Transmediality against Transphobia: The Politics of Transsexual Self-Portraiture in Fumettibrutti's Work between Comics and Photography

    Nicoletta Mandolini

    24 Mar 2022

    18:88–108

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.121/

 

    Mobile Masculinities: Changing Representations of the Gay Male Form in Comics over Time

    Garry McLaughlin

    24 Mar 2022

    18:109–133

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.123/

 

    Remediating Photography in Second-Generation Graphic Narratives: Haptic Imaginaries and Genealogies

    Natalie Dupré, Inge Lanslots

    24 Mar 2022

    18:134–147

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.122/

 

Comics and Translation -New Readings Volume 15 2015

Share Issue:

Themed issue edited by Tilmann Altenberg and Ruth J. Owen

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/15/volume/15/issue/0/

Introduction

 

    Comics and Translation: Introduction

    Tilmann Altenberg,  Ruth Owen

    01 Jan 2015

    15:i-iv

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.100/

 

    Re-Illustrating Multimodal Texts as Translation: Hebrew Comic Books 'Uri Cadduri' and 'Mr. Fibber, the Storyteller'

    Rachel Weissbrod,  Ayelet Kohn

    01 Jan 2015

    15:1-20

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.101/

 

    Translating Japanese Typefaces in 'Manga': Bleach

    William Armour,  Yuki Takeyama

    01 Jan 2015

    15:21-45

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.102/

 

    The 'Manga Shakespeare' Series Translated into Brazilian Portuguese

    Márcia Peixoto Martins

    01 Jan 2015

    15:46-56

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.104/

 

    El contrato social: El manga o Rousseau en el espejo del canon

    Nayelli Castro

    01 Jan 2015

    15:57-75

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.105/

 

    Domesticating Gender: Localising the "We" in Translations of Maitena Burundarena's 'Women on the Edge'

    Sarah Viren

    01 Jan 2015

    15:76-92

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.106/

 

    Translating British and US-American Graphic Novels into French: A Conversation with the Translator Lili Sztajn

    Isabelle Guillaume

    01 Jan 2015

    15:93-110

https://newreadings.cardiffuniversitypress.org/articles/abstract/10.18573/newreadings.107/

 

Fools' Silver – The Great Switcheroonie [April Fools Day comic strips]

by D. D. Degg

April 1, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/04/01/fools-silver-the-great-switcheroonie/ 

 

At Home with Matthew Thurber Live

 Mar 29, 2022 Drawn & Quarterly

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hmZf3VPFco

 

MÍRIAM BONASTRE TUR for HOOKY — March 2022 Kids' Club Selection

 Mar 27, 2022  Comix Experience

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2pBWOe8d_U

 

VICTOR LaVALLE for EVE — March 2022 Graphic Novel Selection

 Mar 30, 2022  Comix Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXgt4ROpko

 

EXCLUSIVE: Read course notes from BBC Maestro's Alan Moore-led Storytelling class

Learn how to develop extreme characters from the co-creator of WATCHMEN and FROM HELL.

Joe Grunenwald

04/01/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/alan-moore-storytelling-course-notes-bbc-maestro/

 

[Have you heard of Nubia from the DC comic books?]

BBC's Woman's Hour

01 Apr 2022

Anita

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0015vl5

 

Two graphic novels in one day! What am I gonna do? (Live cartoonist hangout!)

Noah Van Sciver, Josh Pettinger, Nate Garcia, MS Harkness, Brian Baynes, and Koren Shadmi

Noah Van Sciver Mar 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKebobxf0Qs

 

INTERVIEW: Keith Knight on the second season of Woke and surviving fame

What's it like to have a TV show based on your life?

Heidi MacDonald

04/01/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-keith-knight-on-the-second-season-of-woke-and-surviving-fame/

 

'Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood' Review: OK, Boomer

By A.O. Scott

A version of this article appears in print on April 1, 2022, Section C, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Having Fun With A Moon Landing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/movies/apollo-10-1-2-a-space-age-childhood-review.html

 

'Morbius' Review: The Other Bat, Man

By Manohla Dargis

A version of this article appears in print on April 1, 2022, Section C, Page 15 of the New York edition with the headline: Yet Another Souped-Up Bat, Man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/movies/morbius-review.html

 

Bill Skarsgard to Star in 'The Crow' Reboot, Rupert Sanders Directing (Exclusive)

After years of stop and go, this iteration is on the runway and production is slated to begin in June.

Borys Kit

April 1, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-crow-reboot-bill-skarsgard-1235123704/

 

Robert Kirkman's 'Walking Dead' Profits Case Dealt Crushing Blow

Winston Cho

In a tentative ruling, an L.A. judge dismissed Kirkman's most substantive claims in an order that may spell the beginning of the end for his case.

April 1, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/robert-kirkmans-walking-dead-profits-case-dealt-crushing-blow-1235123776/

 

A Cartoonist Makes Space for Grief

Anders Nilsen illustrates his attempts through the years to live with the death of his fiancée.

By Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes

April 1, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/a-cartoonist-makes-space-for-grief

 

Mangasplaining Ep. 55: Listen to Me! With Jamila Rowser

Interview conducted and audio editing by David Brothers

March 29 2022

https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-55-interview-with-jamila-rowser-black-josei-press/

 

 

Friday, April 01, 2022

PR: Ignatz Awards 2022 Submissions Now Open



Hello Creators and Publishers!!

Submissions for the ten Ignatz categories are now open and are due by May 31.

The forms to submit your works for all ten of the Ignatz Awards categories are available on our web site off the top menu.

Hope you get nominated!!!
Here are the changes we made to the submission process:

  • You will now make your submissions to a specific category and yes, you can submit a work to more than one, such as Best Comic and Best Artist.
  • Please send us PDFs only of no more than two 200meg files in size per submission
  • PDF file naming convention for Mini-comics, Comics, Series, Story, Artist, Promising New Talent, Collections and Graphic Novels is: CreatorLastName.CreatorFirstName.Comic_Title.IssueNumber.Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf If there is no Issue Number, then do not put one in the file nameIf it is self published, put Self as the Publisher
  • PDF file naming convention for Anthologies is: EditorLastName.EditorFirstName.Comic_Title..Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf

In addition to the digital submission, you will be required to send us one physical copy so we can display the Ignatz noms at the show, as well as preserve your works for future generations in the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress:

  • Please mail the submission to Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

If you have any questions, email us at ignatzawards@smallpressexpo.com.
Best of luck to everyone!

Warren and Francesca

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