Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Marvel sequel covers up its inability to move on by resorting to repetitive action sequences, maudlin emotion and an uninvolving, occasionally incoherent story

Review by Ann Hornaday

November 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/11/08/black-panther-wakanda-forever-movie-review/

"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" forced Marvel Studios to decide how to handle the death of its main character on — and off — the screen. (Video: Allie Caren/The Washington Post

https://wapo.st/3SK4lWp

ALL-NEGRO COMICS 75th anniversary hardcover reprint launches on Kickstarter

Archival reprint of this landmark artifact in sequential storytelling history, along with new stories by Black creators

Taimur Dar

11/08/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/all-negro-comics-75th-anniversary-hardcover-reprint-launches-on-kickstarter/

Fox Nabs Animated Comedy from Bleacher Report Duo

Brothers Adam and Craig Malamut are behind the series, co-produced by Sony and due to premiere in 2024.

Rick Porter

November 7, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/fox-animation-malamut-brothers-1235257282/

'Robin Hood': THR's 1973 Review

On Nov. 8, 1973, Buena Vista unveiled its 83-minute animated adaptation.

November 21, 2018

— Alan R. Howard, originally published Nov. 2, 1973.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/robin-hood-review-1973-animated-movie-1163432/

Off Panel #374: The Gentle Bus with Chip Zdarsky

David Harper

Nov 7, 2022

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-374-the-gentle-bus-with-chip-zdarsky

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Chip_Zdarsky_2022.mp3

Did a Children's Cartoon Predict the Upside-Down Mondrian Blooper?

Binky the "art expert" showed us how to correctly hang a Piet Mondrian painting in an episode of Arthur more than two decades ago.

by Sarah Rose Sharp

Hyperallergic November 7 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/777614/binky-arthur-childrens-cartoon-predict-upside-down-mondrian-blooper/

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

The Post only half likes Black Panther

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever': One long eulogy to Chadwick Boseman

Marvel sequel covers up its inability to move on by resorting to repetitive action sequences, maudlin emotion and an uninvolving, occasionally incoherent story

Review by Ann Hornaday

November 8, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/11/08/black-panther-wakanda-forever-movie-review/

(2 stars) of four

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Nearly 90 Percent"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Nearly 90 Percent"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3540

Y'know, it's truly amazing when clowns like these just come right out
and say it, and seem so obviously bummed about it — like, just exactly
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is wrong with nearly 90 percent of the goddamn
Earth, anyway? Can't they see we're fighting for democracy? Bwah ha ha
ha ha ha hahhh.

Perhaps it's because nearly 90% of the Earth has already seen the USA
in action in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Korea, Guantanamo, My Lai,
Abu Ghraib, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Bolivia, Cuba, Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.

Perhaps it's because unlike nearly 100% of Americans, nearly 90% of
the rest of Earth isn't a bunch of goddamn indoctrinated idiots.

-----

"Nearly 90 Percent of the World Isn't Following Us on Ukraine",
Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell in Newsweek, 09.15.2022
https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-90-percent-world-isnt-following-us-ukraine-opinion-1743061

"87% of world doesn't support West's new cold war on Russia", Ben
Norton in Multipolarista 09.21.2022
https://multipolarista.com/2022/09/21/global-south-west-cold-war-russia/

"Many Global South countries blame US/NATO for Ukraine war, not
Russia", Ben Norton in Multipolarista 03.28.2022
https://multipolarista.com/2022/03/28/global-south-blame-us-nato-ukraine-war-russia/

_________________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Monday, November 07, 2022

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Bayleigh Underwood

Get Graphic: Navigating 'Nature's Labyrinth' with Bayleigh Underwood

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Nov 01, 2022

https://previewsworld.com/Article/265004-Get-Graphic-Navigating-Natures-Labyrinth-with-Bayleigh-Underwood

Nov 9: Lynda Barry interviews Eric Gansworth online

P&P Live! Eric Gansworth - My Good Man - with Lynda Barry

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/pp-live-eric-gansworth-my-good-man-with-lynda-barry-tickets-444251126077

Join award- winning author Eric Gansworth for a discussion about his new book, My Good Man, in conversation with Lynda Barry

By Politics and Prose

When and where

Date and time

Wed, Nov 9, 2022, 7:00 PM EST

Location

Online

About this event

Mobile eTicket

Brian is a rookie reporter and the only Indigenous writer in the newsroom. He is tired of being forced into reporting on the common crime stories that stereotype his community, the nearby Tuscarora reservation. But when a mysterious roadside assault lands Tim, a white man, in the hospital, Brian cannot tell just another bad story from the rez. Tim is the brother of Brian’s mother’s late boyfriend who Brian has known for many years. Through flashback reflections of Brian’s childhood, poetry, black and white art that opens each new thematic section and slice-of-life stories on the reservation, My Good Man reflects Brian’s attempt to create balance between Haudenosaunee and American life, as he fights to tell the story of his people with nuance.

Eric Gansworth, S˙ha-weñ na-saeˀ, is an enrolled Onondaga writer and visual artist, raised at the Tuscarora Nation. His award-winning books include If I Ever Get Out of Here, Give Me Some Truth, and Apple, which was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award. He is a professor and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College.

Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher. She has written four bestselling how-to graphic novels for Drawn & Quarterly, including What It Is which won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel. She is associate professor of art and Discovery Fellow at University of Wisconsin Madison.

The Post's theater critic on 25 years of The Lion King family fun

25 years on, dad and daughter return to 'Lion King.' Cue the tears.

A theater critic comes back to a pivotal musical on Broadway in his quest to pass on his love of theater [in print as It's the circle, the circle of life]

Perspective by Peter Marks

Theater critic

Washington Post November 6, 2022 : E1, 12

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/04/lion-king-25th-anniversary-broadway/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/5-6/22

George Booth Took In Life and Laughed

By Emma Allen

November 5, 2022

Published in the print edition of the November 14, 2022, issue, with the headline "George Booth."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/14/george-booth-took-in-life-and-laughed

Walker Mettling, November 1st, 2022

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

#334 Nov 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocQrJ7I4afc

CXC 2022: Heathcliff is Having a Moment with Peter Gallagher

Andrew Neal

CXC Festival Oct 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8_8En04p08

CXC 2022: The Art of Writing Comics with Grace Ellis

CXC Festival

Oct 14, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNU44RZtQjg

CXC 2022:The Magic Fish: Behind-the-Scenes with Trung Le Nguyen

CXC Festival Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyezMiK9J0s

CXC 2022: Principles of Page and Panel Layout with Ben Towle

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0-st1L13g

CXC 2022: Spotlight on manga scholar Frederik Schodt, Tom Spurgeon Award Winner

Ann Marie Davis.

CXC Festival Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7KGGbFF048

CXC 2022: Experience: Exploring Representation in Comics Studies

Natalia Colón Alvarez, Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero, Mikel Bermello Isusi, and Christian Hines.

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5Xc4H-HrXw

CXC 2022: Welcome and Awards Ceremony

CXC Festival

Nov 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm8ps3OA7zU

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Keith Knight

James Spooner

CXC Festival

Nov 4, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du_lOVFlM-A

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Mathew Klickstein [San Diego Comic-Con]

Michael Cavender and Jeff Smith

CXC Festival

Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTLZAPvkBS4

CXC 2022: Historical Biography in Comics

Grace Ellis, Nate Powell, and Scott Chantler , along with moderator Andrew Kunka

CXC Festival

Oct 26, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is38bMLG4ck

CXC 2022: Newspaper Comics Roundtable

Barbara Brandon-Croft, Peter Gallagher, Steenz, and Jim Keefe, Moderated by Shena Wolf

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olEFssNq-ZQ

CXC 2022: Celebrating Sparky: Cultivating the Legacy of Charles M. Schulz with Paige Braddock

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6NT3pir_gI

CXC 2022: Taking the Pain of Drawing – Presented by AAEC by Kriota Willberg

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGocxIGGx6U

CXC 2022: Spotlight on James Sturm

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFCiXSgO7LE

CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC [editorial cartoons]

Lalo Alcaraz, Clay Jones, Signe Wilkinson, Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher.

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h65RUsf8-FY

CXC 2022: Storytelling is the Key with Lee Marrs

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCJzquP7c_k

CXC 2022: AdHouse Books: A Farewell and Appreciation

Jim Rugg

CXC Festival

Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV3RyDvXqcs

Creating Kinetic Comics: Breaking Anatomy A Conversation with Ronald Wimberly and Bryan Moss

CXC Festival

Oct 27, 2022

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

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Tom Gauld

Jeff Smith

CXC Festival

Oct 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pekWt6FpbzE

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Maia Kobabe

Justin Hall

CXC Festival

Oct 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNGlFI5VTs

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Maria Scrivan

Oct 17, 2022

CXC Festival

Oct 17, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Tg7PFnuDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8Uc2dZBF3E

CXC 2022: The Standard Comics Script with Steenz

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ5gbPK2aX0

CXC 2022: Reflecting on the CXC Discord – Making Communities Where People Feel Seen

Jerzy Drozd, Coni Yovaniniz and Rodrigo Vargas, with Aaron Polk

CXC Festival

Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLqf1fyomuU

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Barbara Brandon-Croft

Susan Kirtley,

CXC Festival

Oct 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSyItILq4Y

CXC 2022: Spotlight on Jeff Smith

Irene Velentzas

CXC Festival

Oct 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETOdsKQ-KUA

Danny Bulanadi – RIP

D. D. Degg

November 5, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/05/danny-bulanadi-rip/

How I got started in Comics

This interview was conducted on June 3, 2006 at Danny Bulandi's home in South San Francisco, California, USA

Frank Baldevarona

The Art of Danny Bulanadi

http://www.bulanadiart.com/id16.html

Frank and Ernest – A Fifty Year Partnership

D. D. Degg

November 6, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/06/frank-and-ernest-a-fifty-year-partnership/

The Old (Gold) Frank and Ernest Comics of 1928 [Clare Briggs]

D. D. Degg

November 6, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/06/the-old-gold-frank-and-ernest-comics-of-1928/

The Working Class Heroes of Clare Briggs

September 3, 2022 by Steve Smith

https://panelsandprose.com/2022/09/03/the-working-class-heroes-of-clare-briggs/

Republican Candidate for Auditor Steals Ann Telnaes Cartoon, Apologizes Later

JP Trostle

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists November 3rd, 2022

https://editorialcartoonists.com/republican-candidate-for-auditor-steals-ann-telnaes-cartoon-apologizes-later/

That darn de Adder and Popeye - letters on comics reveal the Post's biases

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog November 06, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/11/that-darn-de-adder-and-popeye.html

More like Pop-eyes [comics letter]

Jonathan Sanford, Daniel B. Johnston

Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

Wake up, Post! [Michael de Adder letter]

Bridget Zarate

Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

Paul Madonna's You Know Exactly What You Have to Do, the Third Collection of All Over Coffee, reviewed by Cord Scott

Reviewed by Cord Scott

International Journal of Comic Art blog

November 6, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/11/paul-madonnas-you-know-exactly-what-you.html

Paul Madonna. You Know Exactly What You Have to Do, the Third Collection of All Over Coffee. Portland, OR: West Margin Press, 2022. 176 pp. US $34.99. ISBN: 978-1-5131-3481-9. https://www.westmarginpress.com/book-details/9781513134819/you-know-exactly-the-third-collection-of-all-over-coffee/

Steve Martin: How I got Hollywood to embrace Cyrano de Bergerac

By Steve Martin and Harry Bliss

Washington Post November 6, 2022 : B4-5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/11/04/steve-martin-how-i-got-hollywood-embrace-cyrano-de-bergerac/

The case for slow travel

Travel can often feel like a sprint. Slowing down helped us see places in a different light.

Perspective by Dabin Han

Washington Post November 6 2022 : F6

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/tips/slow-travel-local-experience/

25 years on, dad and daughter return to 'Lion King.' Cue the tears.

A theater critic comes back to a pivotal musical on Broadway in his quest to pass on his love of theater [in print as It's the circle, the circle of life]

Perspective by Peter Marks

Theater critic

Washington Post November 6, 2022 : E1, 12

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/11/04/lion-king-25th-anniversary-broadway/

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Coming soon! Compleating Cul de Sac, second expanded edition!

Coming soon! Compleating Cul de Sac, second expanded edition! 80 pages more than the 1st edition. It's the perfect Thanksgiving gift!

Building on the original 2016 edition (designed by Richard's friend Bono Mitchell), editor Mike Rhode and layout designer Barbara Sutliff added additional material done by Richard as dedicaces in his books, more interviews, and the CDS children's theater play, in addition to the over 80 original CDS strips he left out of The Complete Cul de Sac.

We've also included many of the drawings of the CDS characters done for and in remembrance of Richard, and charity ones that have raised money for the Fox Foundation's Parkinson's disease research (after the initial Team Cul de Sac book and auction project by Chris Sparks).

All money from the book will go to Team Cul de Sac for the Fox Foundation. The book will be available to order via print on demand before the holidays.

Dedicace for cartoonist Harold Buchholz

Team Cul de Sac fundraising drawing by Karl Kesel

That darn de Adder and Popeye - letters on comics reveal the Post's biases

More like Pop-eyes

Jonathan Sanford, Daniel B. Johnston

Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

So these letters from the print edition on Nov. 4th continue the Post's habit of running irrelevant letters from aging comics readers (of which I am one). It's absolutely obvious, and has been for years, that the Post's Style editor has no interest in the comics pages, and the editorial page isn't interested in fact checking when it selects letters about those pages. The Post in fact dissolved its own syndicate for comics and editorial cartoons this year, leading Amy Lago, the editor of that side business to decamp for Counterpoint's new syndicate.

Back to the letters - Jonathan Sanford wrote upon the retirement of the single-client Post-only Flashbacks strip by the 79-year old Patrick Reynolds "at least get some new strips that are funny and enlightening. I suppose "Calvin and Hobbes" is no longer available." No, in fact it's not. Because Bill ended it in 1995 - 27 years ago.

Daniel B. Johnston objects to Popeye's reboot (by a young cartoonist) because "When I watched Popeye on TV as a youth, I began to note its overuse of politically incorrect terminology and actions... Why not replace misogynistic "Popeye" with one of [a new female-written comic]?", but those cartoons he's complaining about were movie animation reruns from 1933 -1957, (65 years ago if you're counting) and completely irrelevant to the current comic strip which, at least on the Sundays we've seen, barely features Popeye in favor of female characters.

And Nancy, which Sanford complained about, is done by an anonymous woman cartoonist, and Mark Trail has been rebooted with a woman cartoonist doing it. I agree that the Post should revisit its comics page though, first increasing the size to make it legible, and then dropping zombie strips such as the daily Doonesbury and Peanuts, which are pure reruns and not even legacy strips

This weekend the Post ran a 2-page full-size Steve Martin / Harry Bliss cartoon in the Book World and a full-page Dabin Han strip in the Travel section - proving that some of the paper's editors get the idea that comics still attract readers.

They were supporting earlier letter writer, Michael Zarowny's opinion "The Post's daily comic section contains a number of strips that already have a loyal readership who would applaud getting an additional Sunday helping of beloved characters, such as Ray Billingsley's "Curtis," Tom Thaves's "Frank and Ernest" or Bill Holbrook's "On the Fastrack." Even giving us the Sunday retreads of "Classic Doonesbury" would be superior to "Popeye," especially if they were Watergate-era Sunday strips from when Garry Trudeau was funny." As I noted previously on this blog, Doonesbury is new on Sundays, the only day it's not a repeat.

I don't agree with the editorial cartoon letter either which disagrees with Michael de Adder drawing Kanye West as a clown due to his outspoken political beliefs - if you're a public figure and you act like a clown, it's fair game to draw you as a clown even if some members of the public such as Bridget Zarate would like to diagnosis you from afar as mentally ill and give you a pass.

Wake up, Post!

Bridget Zarate
Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

Telnaes cartoon stolen and altered

Republican Candidate for Auditor Steals Ann Telnaes Cartoon, Apologizes Later

—JP Trostle

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists November 3rd, 2022

https://editorialcartoonists.com/republican-candidate-for-auditor-steals-ann-telnaes-cartoon-apologizes-later/

CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC

CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC [editorial cartoons]

Lalo Alcaraz, Clay Jones, Signe Wilkinson, Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher.

CXC Festival

Oct 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h65RUsf8-FY

CXC 2022:Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC Join three award-winning cartoonists as they debate the end of the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning, whether cartooning awards are worth it, and the current state of editorial cartooning. Presented by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Panelists include Lalo Alcaraz, who was snubbed for the Pulitzer in 2021 but won the Herblock in 2022, Clay Jones, a Herblock finalist who won this year's Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartooning, and Signe Wilkinson, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Moderated by Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher. Recorded at The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Video production by Nicolettecinemagraphics: https://www.nicolettecinemagraphics.com/ Part of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus - October 6-9, 2022

Wednesday, November 09, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/8/22

Tuesday, November 08, 2022

The Post only half likes Black Panther

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever': One long eulogy to Chadwick Boseman

Marvel sequel covers up its inability to move on by resorting to repetitive action sequences, maudlin emotion and an uninvolving, occasionally incoherent story

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Nearly 90 Percent"

Monday, November 07, 2022

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Bayleigh Underwood

Get Graphic: Navigating 'Nature's Labyrinth' with Bayleigh Underwood

Nov 9: Lynda Barry interviews Eric Gansworth online

P&P Live! Eric Gansworth - My Good Man - with Lynda Barry

When and where

Date and time

Location

About this event

The Post's theater critic on 25 years of The Lion King family fun

25 years on, dad and daughter return to 'Lion King.' Cue the tears.

A theater critic comes back to a pivotal musical on Broadway in his quest to pass on his love of theater [in print as It's the circle, the circle of life]

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/5-6/22

George Booth Took In Life and Laughed

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Coming soon! Compleating Cul de Sac, second expanded edition!

That darn de Adder and Popeye - letters on comics reveal the Post's biases

More like Pop-eyes

Wake up, Post!

Bridget Zarate
Washington Post November 5 2022 p A19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/04/reader-critiques-kanye-west-headline-wrong/

Telnaes cartoon stolen and altered

Republican Candidate for Auditor Steals Ann Telnaes Cartoon, Apologizes Later

CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC

CXC 2022: Do Awards Still Matter? Presented by AAEC [editorial cartoons]

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