Monday, November 28, 2022

EXTRA SPECIAL INTERVIEW: Marvel Writer / Editor Mark Gruenwald Tribute + Catherine Schuller Gruenwald on his legacy (plus the Marvel Bullpen, how to be an editor, comics continuity rules, and more) - ABRIDGED VERSION

guido of earth-1218 and Robert Ribar

November 21, 2022 / 59:52/E72

https://www.dearwatchers.com/episodes/cat-gruenwald

'Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' Review: Antonio Banderas in Fine Feline Form

Frank Scheck

November 26, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/puss-in-boots-the-last-wish-review-antonio-banderas-florence-pugh-1235269723/

Art History for Comics: Past, Present and Potential Futures

Palgrave Macmillan 2022

Ian Horton,

Maggie Gray

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-07353-3

Front Matter

Pages i-xv

PDF

Why Does Comics Studies Need Art History (and Vice Versa)?

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 1-10

Correction to: Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan Moore's "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages C1-C1

The History of Art History and Comics Studies

Front Matter

Pages 11-11

PDF

Establishing Canons, Styles and Schools at the Dawn of Comics Studies

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 13-20

Iconography and Cultural History in Comics Studies

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 21-29

Art History Turned Upside Down: David Kunzle and the Social History of Art

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 31-42

Variations of Formalism, Modernism, Abstraction

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 43-55

Possibilities for Comics Art History Now

Front Matter

Pages 57-57

PDF

Challenging Canons and the Challenge of Style: Visualising the Baroque Storyworld of Judge Dredd's "The Cursed Earth"

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 59-82

Iconography for Comics Studies Reconsidered: Interpreting Visual Transformations in Jack Kirby's The Mighty Thor

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 83-114

Cultural History for Comics Studies: Reinterpreting the Eagle and "Dan Dare - Pilot of the Future"

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 115-140

A Social History of Comics Art: Looking at Writers and Readers' Capitalism for Beginners

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 141-168

Re-framing the Avant-Garde: Different Ways of Seeing Escape

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 169-196

Modernism and Comics Revisited: Form and Fragmentation in Alan Moore's "I Can Hear the Grass Grow"

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 197-223

Conclusion: Future Directions

Ian Horton, Maggie Gray

Pages 225-227

Seeing Comics through Art History: Alternative Approaches to the Form

Palgrave Macmillan2022

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-93507-8#:~:text=Back%20to%20top-,About%20this%20book,materiality%2C%20perception%20and%20visual%20style.

Editors:

Maggie Gray,

Ian Horton

Ways of Seeing Comics: Art-Historical Approaches to the Form

Maggie Gray, Ian Horton

Pages 1-9

Old Skool Art History

Front Matter

Pages 11-11

PDF

The Lives of the Artists

Tobias J. Yu-Kiener

Pages 13-32

Connoisseurship, Attribution, and Comic Strip Art: The Case of Jack B. Yeats

Michael Connerty

Pages 33-52

Reading Comics with Aby Warburg: Collaging Memories

Maaheen Ahmed

Pages 53-71

Perception, Reception and Meaning

Front Matter

Pages 73-73

PDF

Psychologies of Perception: Stories of Depiction

John Miers

Pages 75-95

Aesthetics of Reception: Uncovering the Modes of Interaction in Comics

Nina Eckhoff-Heindl

Pages 97-119

Reading Richard Felton Outcault's "Yellow Kid" Through Perception of the Image

Christine Mugnolo

Pages 121-140

Colour in Comics: Reading Lorenzo Mattotti Through the Lens of Art History

Barbara Uhlig

Pages 141-160

The New and Newer Art Histories

Front Matter

Pages 161-161

PDF

Feminist Art History as an Approach to Research on Comics: Meta Reflections on Studies of Swedish Feminist Comics

Margareta Wallin Wictorin, Anna Nordenstam

Pages 163-183

Towards Feminist Comics Studies: Feminist Art History and the Study of Women's Comix in the 1970s in the United States

Małgorzata Olsza

Pages 185-206

Real Queer Bodies: Visual Weight and Imagined Gravity in Sport Manga

Ylva Sommerland

Pages 207-221

Comics for/Beyond Art History

Front Matter

Pages 223-223

PDF

Afrofuturism and Animism as Method: Art History and Decolonisation in Black Panther

Danielle Becker

Pages 225-246

What Is an Image? Art History, Visual Culture Studies, and Comics Studies

Jeanette Roan

Pages 247-268

From Giotto to Drnaso: The Common Well of Pictorial Schema in 'High' Art and 'Low' Comics

Bruce Mutard

Pages 269-288

VAST/O Exhibition (De)Construction: Exploring the Potentials of Augmented Abstract Comics and Animation Installations as a Method to Communicate Health Experiences

Alexandra P. Alberda, João Carola, Carolina Martins, Natalie Woolf

Pages 289-311

Variant Covers: Comics' Greatest Heroes or Most Fearsome Foes?

We take a deep look at the merits and position of variant covers in today's industry

By David Harper

February 16, 2016

https://sktchd.com/longform/variant-cover-longform/

Grant Morrison Wrote The Question & Blue Beetle As Them & Mark Millar

November 26, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrison-wrote-the-question-blue-beetle-as-them-mark-millar/

National Book Foundation to Present Lifetime Achievement Award to Art Spiegelman

September 2022

https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-foundation-to-present-lifetime-achievement-award-to-art-spiegelman/

73rd Annual National Book Awards - Full Ceremony [Art Spiegelman, Neil Gaiman, starting at 42:00]

Padma Lakshmi

National Book Foundation

Nov 16, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNtsKasx5U

John Lotshaw – RIP

D. D. Degg

November 27, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/27/john-lotshaw-rip/

The Power of Family Memory in "The Garbage Man"

In Laura Gonçalves's animated short, a late uncle returns to the family table as a mythic figure.

Film by Laura Gonçalves

Text by Ella Murdock Gardner

November 25, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/screening-room/the-power-of-family-memory-in-the-garbage-man

AIPT Comics Podcast episode 199: A celebration of sci-fi with sharp edges: John Harris Dunning talks 'Wiper'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

November 27, 2022

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/11/27/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-199-john-harris-dunning/

Comics USA: An Impossibly Rich Celebrity's Guide

Alan Moore

Escape Magazine 6 1984

online at https://www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego/alan-moore-visits-new-york-in-1984/

Nick Galifianakis

[" I looked at the list of people who still needed an obituary portrait and was surprised to see Charles Schulz available."]

November 27 2022

https://www.facebook.com/nick.galifianakis/posts/pfbid02BkKPkQBZmFYdymehEC7NAKPDWxm9GgFhN1xjR3UpZiZPShtBMXR6BSFBcGTwrsiEl

Behind The Label with Ralph talking about his design for Flying Dog Brewery's Family Drama.

Ralph Steadman Art Collection November 27 2022

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1117816819101993

Homer Confinement [Gareth Hinds]

John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn

Judge John Hodgman Episode 592

9th November 2022

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/episode-592-homer-confinement/

Cleto e Pina, F. 2022.

Morreu José Ruy, o último autor da idade de ouro da BD portuguesa.

JN (November 24): https://www.jn.pt/artes/morreu-jose-ruy-o-ultimo-autor-da-idade-de-ouro-da-bd-portuguesa-15384591.html

Gravett, Paul. 2022.

[José Ruy (1930-2022): The Last Author Of Portugal's Golden Age Of Comics Died Yesterday, Aged 92].

PaulGravett (November 24): https://www.facebook.com/paulgravett/posts/pfbid036SzuddpW4YFTAGzMsummx3N7Dvn7xDts9bpVPvTY9oCrUdgroNED4n2epaomTpJLl

Unknown. 2022.

Morreu o autor de banda desenhada José Ruy aos 92 anos.

Sabado (November 24): https://www.sabado.pt/ultima-hora/detalhe/morreu-o-autor-de-banda-desenhada-jose-ruy-aos-92-anos

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Gareth Hinds' Odyssey before Judge John Hodgman

Homer Confinement [Gareth Hinds]

John Hodgman and Jesse Thorn

Judge John Hodgman Episode 592

9th November 2022

https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/episode-592-homer-confinement/

Is Homer's The Odyssey appropriate bedtime reading for a 3 year old? Aslan says yes, but his wife, Tamar, says it's giving their son nightmares!

Episode notes

Tamar brings the case against her husband, Aslan. Aslan reads Homer's The Odyssey to their three year old child at bedtime. Tamar claims that this bedtime routine is contributing to their son having nightmares. But Aslan says their son requests it! Who's right? Who's wrong?

Behind The Label with Ralph talking about his design for Flying Dog Brewery's Family Drama.

Ralph Steadman Art Collection November 27 2022

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1117816819101993

Behind The Label with Ralph talking about his design for Flying Dog Brewery's Family Drama.

Nick Galifianakis on donating his Schulz obituary drawing

He was able to retrieve a drawing he did over 20 years ago for US News & World Report and have it sent to the Schulz Museum -

Nick Galifianakis

[" I looked at the list of people who still needed an obituary portrait and was surprised to see Charles Schulz available."]

November 27 2022

https://www.facebook.com/nick.galifianakis/posts/pfbid02BkKPkQBZmFYdymehEC7NAKPDWxm9GgFhN1xjR3UpZiZPShtBMXR6BSFBcGTwrsiEl

Gareth Hinds' latest newsletter

Happy Holidays!

Saturday, November 26, 2022

Charles Schulz Tribute Strips in today's Post

Here's an AP article on it https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/cartoonists-honor-peanuts-creator-in-saturday-funny-pages/2022/11/22/9b82b7ee-6a78-11ed-8619-0b92f0565592_story.html and Carolyn Hax column had one

New comic strip by Arlington college student

Toby Kant, of Lyon Park, just started a comic strip "Earl the Squirrel" at the William & Mary school newspaper -- https://flathatnews.com/2022/11/14/new-comic-strip-introducing-earl-the-squirrel/

Friday, November 25, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/24/22

Variants 101!

Chip Zdarsky

November 25 2022

https://zdarsky.substack.com/p/variants-101

On 'Krazy Kat' and 'Peanuts'

Umberto Eco

—translated by William Weaver

New York Review of Books June 13, 1985 issue

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/06/13/on-krazy-kat-and-peanuts/

Where do the pictures fit in the overall picture? : graphic novels as literature [MA thesis]

Hardy-Vallée, Michel

McGill University 2007

https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/theses/n296x3234

https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/downloads/ww72bg77x?locale=en

'Strange World': Beautiful to look at, but not much below the surface [in print as Animation is beautiful, but there's not much below the surface]

Kristen Page-Kirby

Washington Post November 25, 2022 : Weekend 32, 35

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/11/22/strange-world-movie-review/

'Strange World' Review: All Too Familiar

By Beatrice Loayza

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 25, 2022, Section C, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Strange World.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/movies/strange-world-review.html

DreamWorks Animation Unveils New Curtain Raiser, Introduces Reimagined "Moon Child" (Exclusive)

Abbey White

November 25, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dreamworks-animation-moon-child-curtain-raiser-1235269225/

'Scrooge: A Christmas Carol' Review: Netflix's Trippy Take on Dickens

Frank Scheck

November 23, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/scrooge-a-christmas-carol-dickens-1235268948/

How 'Black Panther' Builds Complex Characters From the Politics of Colonization

By Maya Phillips

Nov. 25, 2022,

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/movies/black-panther-wakanda-forever-colonization.html

'Fresh Air' marks the centennial of Charles Schulz, creator of Charlie Brown

Terry Gross and Kevin Whitehead

Fresh Air

November 24, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/24/1138611246/fresh-air-marks-the-centennial-of-charles-schulz-creator-of-charlie-brown

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2022/11/20221124_fa_01.mp3

Remembering cartoonist Charles Schulz

A Martinez

NPR's Morning Edition November 25, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139190193/remembering-cartoonist-charles-schulz

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2022/11/20221125_me_remembering_cartoonist_charles_schulz.mp3

Schulz at 100: How 'Peanuts' lifts those on stage, on ice and in space [in print as From Schulz, 'good grief' and abundant joy]

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post November 24, 2022 C1, 3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/11/23/charles-schulz-peanuts-100-birthday/

Popeye Announces First Manga With Special First Look (Exclusive)

By Megan Peters - November 21, 2022

https://comicbook.com/anime/news/popeye-sailor-man-manga-comic/

The Wall Street Journal Cartoon Collection at Baker Library

Harvard Business School's Baker Library

https://www.library.hbs.edu/hc/wsj/about.html

Student cartoonist gives Trojan Times a lift

Chesterton Tribune November 24, 2022

SUSAN HAUSER

https://www.chestertontribune.com/articles/student-cartoonist-gives-trojan-times-a-lift/

Have you heard of the Holodomor?

By Ivanka Theodosia Galadza Nov. 25, 2022

https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/illustrating-holodomor

STEGMAN SPEAKS | #1

RYAN STEGMAN

KLC Press

May 11, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuJnV1mG67U

In this first installment of the new edu-series STEGMAN SPEAKS, comics artist RYAN STEGMAN teaches you about facial feature placement.

STEGMAN SPEAKS | #2

KLC Press

May 23, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwgrcUEY0ac

In this installment, Ryan touches on line weight and rendering.

STEGMAN SPEAKS | #3

KLC Press

May 27, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MMV8zlquNo

Ryan is back to teach all of you about dynamic layouts and panelling!

STEGMAN SPEAKS | #4

KLC Press

Jun 4, 2022

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

Thumbnails, planning, and pacing- all in this installment of Ryan Stegman's edu-series STEGMAN SPEAKS! Use #StegmanSpeaks to get your question answered!

STEGMAN SPEAKS | #5

KLC Press

Jun 15, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lQs96ITnYs

Get some perspective in this instructional video in which Ryan Stegman teaches you about exactly that!

Techniques and Tricks: Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez Breaks Panel Borders

Duy Tano

The Comics Cube

Nov 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlV1voT6xy0

Five More News Headlines In America About Gender Queer Graphic Novel

November 24, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/five-more-news-headlines-in-america-about-gender-queer-graphic-novel/

Gender Queer, White Fragility to remain in high school library

By Pam Harnden

Livermore Falls Advertiser November 15 2022

https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/11/15/gender-queer-white-fragility-to-remain-in-high-school-library/

Two books in Spruce Mountain High School library challenged [Gender Queer]

One book deals with gender identity and sexuality, the other on racism.

By Pam Harnden

Livermore Falls Advertiser September 9 2022

https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/09/09/two-books-in-spruce-mountain-high-school-library-challenged/

Cavna on Charles Schulz's 100th

Schulz at 100: How 'Peanuts' lifts those on stage, on ice and in space [in print as From Schulz, 'good grief' and abundant joy]

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post November 24, 2022 C1, 3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/11/23/charles-schulz-peanuts-100-birthday/

Remembering cartoonist Charles Schulz on NPR

Remembering cartoonist Charles Schulz

A Martinez

NPR's Morning Edition November 25, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139190193/remembering-cartoonist-charles-schulz

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2022/11/20221125_me_remembering_cartoonist_charles_schulz.mp3

This weekend, cartoonist Charles M. Schulz would have turned 100. NPR's A Martinez speaks to his widow, Jean Schulz, and Schulz Museum director Gina Huntsinger.

The Post reviews ‘Strange World’

'Strange World': Beautiful to look at, but not much below the surface [in print as Animation is beautiful, but there's not much below the surface]

The latest from Disney Animation is visually stunning but hamstrung by a basic story and thin characters

Review by Kristen Page-Kirby

Washington Post November 25, 2022 : Weekend 32, 35

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/movies/2022/11/22/strange-world-movie-review/

(2 stars)

Thursday, November 24, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/23/22

After Swift Return, Iger Faces Disney's Long-Term Challenges

Robert A. Iger had been gone from the company for less than a year, but he returns to a very different Disney.

By Brooks Barnes

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 23, 2022, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Iger Returns to a Disney That's Taken a Dark Turn.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/business/media/disney-bob-iger.html

ANIME NYC PHOTOS - PART 1-2

Friday and Saturday

Posted by Brigid Alverson on November 23, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52716/anime-nyc-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52724/anime-nyc-photos-part-2

Anime NYC '22: The Highs and Lows of this year's event

Ricardo Serrano Denis

11/23/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/anime-nyc-22-highs-lows/

The Walking Dead' Ends With a Promise of More Life

By Calum Marsh

Nov. 20, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/arts/television/the-walking-dead-series-finale.html

Lucca Comics & Games 2022

Valerio Stivé | November 23, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/lucca-comics-games-2022/

'Wednesday' Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case

Netflix's addition to the Addams Family universe turns the death-obsessed daughter into a high school sleuth.

By Mike Hale

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 23, 2022, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Spooky, Kooky And On the Case

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/arts/television/wednesday-review.html

Jenna Ortega Knows What Wednesday Addams Wants

By Sarah Bahr

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 24, 2022, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Happily Between Tuesday and Thursday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/arts/television/jenna-ortega-wednesday-netflix.html

Spawn Takeover: DC and Image Spawn variant covers for December

Todd McFarlane's Spawn will appear on variant covers for more than 50 comics, not counting the ones he stars in, beginning in December.

Joe Grunenwald

11/23/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/spawn-takeover-dc-and-image-spawn-variant-covers-for-december/

'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' Review: Disney+'s Delightful Standalone

Angie Han

November 23, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special-james-gunn-1235267941/

Vic Carrabotta, 1950s-Era Marvel Comics Artist, Passes Away

By Brian Cronin