PR: VENOM & VANISH superstar Ryan Stegman signs tonight at Third Eye Annapolis!

Meet the comics superstar at our VANISH #5 Launch Signing!

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Al Goodwyn's cartoons

The formerly local cartoonist has a new set online.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/21/2023

DAN SANTAT for A FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING — March 2023 Kids' Club Selection

Comix Experience

  Mar 19, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ4mEjWV2hg

 

Rob Liefeld The 2011 Perspective pt 1-2

word balloon March 19 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYAPzy70zNk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--_qXKmhYy0

 

Reprint Mark Millar from a 2015 perspective

word balloon March 20 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t726cQiysw

 

ComicsBeat Happy Hour Episode 1: Dean Haspiel

Heidi MacDonald

Comics Beat March 20 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02TYkjzJ-dk

 

COMICS APPARENTLY HASN'T GOTTEN THE MEMO ABOUT 'STARTUP WINTER' [digital distribution]

 Rob Salkowitz on March 20, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/53627/comics-apparently-hasnt-gotten-memo-about-startup-winter

 

Kodansha reveals more details about new K Manga app for US

Deb Aoki

03/21/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/kodansha-reveals-more-details-about-new-k-manga-app-for-us/

 

TOONIT, KOREAN WEBTOON CREATION TOOL

Funded by Webtoon Parent Naver Corp.

 Milton Griepp on March 20, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53625/toonit-korean-webtoon-creation-tool

 

CSotD: Revisiting Iraq [editorial cartoons]

Mike Peterson

Daily Cartoonist March 21 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/03/21/csotd-revisiting-iraq/

 

2022 National Newspaper Awards Nominees [editorial cartoons]

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/03/20/2022-national-newspaper-award-nominees/

 

Knoxville is lucky Charlie's cartoons were 'unacceptable' [Charlie Daniel]

Sam Venable

Knoxville News Sentinel March 16 2023

https://www.knoxnews.com/story/entertainment/columnists/sam-venable/2023/03/16/sam-venable-knox-is-lucky-charlies-cartoons-were-unacceptable/70012770007/

 

Ed Steckley B.A. '18 :  Ed Steckley named UW-Whitewater 2023 Distinguished Alumnus for Professional Achievement

Written by Dave Fidlin

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater March 2023

https://www.uww.edu/alumni/awards/steckley

 

Weekend Spill: Personal History…The New Yorker Cartoonists Non-Deadline Deadline

Ink Spill March 18, 2023 michael Maslin

https://michaelmaslin.com/weekend-spill-personal-history-the-new-yorker-cartoonists-non-deadline-deadline-the-tilley-watch-online-march-13-17-2023/

 

Wonder women of cartooning a popular draw during SF pop-up celebration of graphic arts

by Janis Mara, Bay City News March 16, 2023

https://localnewsmatters.org/2023/03/16/wonder-women-of-cartooning-a-popular-draw-during-sf-pop-up-celebration-of-graphic-arts/

 

John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, dies at 90 [in print as Dramatized history in best-selling novels]

Michael S. Rosenwald

Washington Post March 20, 2023 : B5.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/16/john-jakes-bestselling-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-90/

 

 

In His Own Words: Willie Ito on his Animation Career

by Jim Korkis

March 17, 2023

https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/in-his-own-words-willie-ito-on-his-animation-career/

 

Caitlin Cass.

A peek inside the pencil bags of New Yorker cartoonists. Created/edited/run by Jane Mattimoe.

A Case For Pencils.

2023-03-15

https://afinecaseforpencils.com/post/711873281216692224/caitlin-cass

 

Doucet and Valium, Angoulême and Marseille [Canada, Quebec]

Marc Tessier | March 21, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/doucet-and-valium-angouleme-and-marseille/

 

They met at Toronto Comicon 10 years ago -- now, they're friends and award-winning collaborators [Jason Loo and Allison O'Toole; Canada].

Metro Morning March 17, 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-39-metro-morning/clip/15972910-they-met-toronto-comicon-10-years-ago-

 

4 new graphic novels will make you picture the world differently

Including new work from Chip Zdarsky and Ho Che Anderson, and a debut comic that channels 'Spinal Tap' [Canada]

By Mike Donachie

Toronto Star March 17, 2023

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/reviews/2023/03/17/4-new-graphic-novels-will-make-you-picture-the-world-differently.html

 

Made it, Told Everyone [comics journalist]

Dan Berry

March 15, 2023

https://makeitthentelleverybody.com/2023/03/made-it-told-everyone/

 

Blake's Buzz Episode 58  March 16 2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-buzz-episode-58/id1575556615?i=1000604556147

This week, Declan Shalvey joins me to talk about his new creator-owned title, Old Dog, as well as the upcoming Aliens title from the house of Marvel! We had an awesome time chatting, and I hope you guys dig it!

 

Blake's Buzz Episode 59  March 20 2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blakes-buzz-episode-59/id1575556615?i=1000605064811

Richard Mommsen and talk about the new nonfiction graphic narrative about a religious uprising led by Felix Manz. I thought our discussion was wildly pertinent considering today's political environment, and I really hope you all dig this and give the graphic novel a shot!

 

Joshua Williamson talks new Green Arrow & Knight Terrors! | All Stars Podcast

ComicPop Returns

  Mar 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DFLCVl-YQM

 

How many comics shops closed in 2022?

Heidi MacDonald

03/21/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/how-many-comics-shops-closed-in-2022/

 

 

New Think - with Gregg Hurwitz

Jonathan Pageau

Mar 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR53MJd8VLI

 

Marvel unveils PRIDE plans with new MARVEL'S VOICES one-shot, variant covers

Sarah Galley makes their Marvel debut, a new Nightshade rises, and more as Marvel spotlights its LGBTQIA+ creators and characters.

Joe Grunenwald

03/21/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-unveils-pride-plans-with-new-marvels-voices-one-shot-variant-covers/

 

Gold Key Comics is back with Boris Karloff's Gold Key Mysteries

A Silver Age brand returns from the dead.....booooooo!

Heidi MacDonald

03/21/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/gold-key-comics-is-back-with-boris-karloffs-gold-key-mysteries/

 

Sammy Harkham's Unbleached Perspective on an Oft-Maligned Medium

In "Blood of the Virgin," the cartoonist chronicles the spectrum of surprises that his protagonist encounters at home and on set in Hollywood of the nineteen-seventies.

By Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes

March 21, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/sammy-harkhams-blood-of-the-virgin

 

Chaim Topol, Zandra Flemister, Bill Tidy MBE, Avis Fawcitt

Matthew Bannister

BBC Radio 4 Last Word March 17 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001k14v

John Jakes obituary in WaPo

John Jakes, best-selling author of historical novels, dies at 90 [in print as Dramatized history in best-selling novels]

Mr. Jakes published more than a dozen best-selling historical novels, including the 'North and South' trilogy on the Civil War

By Michael S. Rosenwald

Washington Post March 20, 2023 : B5.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/03/16/john-jakes-bestselling-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-90/

He also wrote a few comics - https://www.comics.org/creator/7016/

Telnaes and Toles mentioned in Iraq invasion cartoon retrospective

This is one of the best articles I've seen, cartoon or not.

CSotD: Revisiting Iraq [editorial cartoons]

Mike Peterson

Daily Cartoonist March 21 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/03/21/csotd-revisiting-iraq/

PR: The 2023 SPX Lottery is Here!

The 2023 SPX Lottery is Here!

Hello Everyone! The SPX 2023 Lottery is now open! Go to the Lottery Submission Form to apply. Please read the following info: Here are the key dates (please excuse us if we are a few days late here and there): March 21: The lottery will open at Midnight Eastern Time April 1 - Lottery closes at 11:59PM Eastern Time April 24 - Lottery winners and Wait Listed exhibitors contacted May 15- Table payment and hotel room block information sent to all table holders. June 5 - Payments due for all tables. Here is some key information about the lottery: We will be checking to make sure you publish comics (minicomix/comics, graphic novels, anthologies, etc., etc.), so if you're exclusively an illustrator, novelist, cosplayer or anime figure retailer (we get them) you will not be eligible for tables. We will not be picking the randomized lottery winners until after all applications have been received; this means there is no benefit to applying early or late (except maybe peace of mind). You can only apply for the lottery once, and multiple entries will result in you being removed from the lottery pool (unless you email us and tell us you accidentally clicked twice or something, we do have a heart!). For exhibitors, due to Covid/health concerns, we will once again limit the number of people behind tables to 2-3 people, with medical exceptions allowed. COVID-19 AND SPX In these times of pandemics and other easily transmitted diseases, the health and safety of the SPX Community is paramount in our minds. So here is where we stand with health measures at this year's show: Masking will be required for everybody, attendees, exhibitors and SPX staff/volunteers. If there is a current Covid wave close to the show, proof of vaccination will once again be required to gain entry. This decision will be made and communicated to the SPX Community in mid-late August. For exhibitors, we will once again limit the number of people behind tables to 2-3 people, with medical exceptions allowed. If you have any questions email us at exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com. Best of luck to everyone! Jamie, Meg, Warren and the rest of the SPX Executive Committee Copyright © 2022 Small Press Expo, All rights reserved.  You are getting this email because we know you might want a table to SPX 2022!!  Our mailing address is:  Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704, Bethesda, MD 20824

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/20/2023

Now Dark Horse Charges $25 For A Star Wars Comic With Jaxxon In It

Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories Annual - Jaxxon 2023 is a convention-exclusive comic... and that is, apparently, why it costs so much.

  18 Mar 2023  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/now-dark-horse-charges-25-for-a-star-wars-comic-with-jaxxon-in-it/

 

Box Office: 'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' Opens to Dismal $30.5M Domestically

The sequel's opening marks one of the worsts starts for a title in the DC Cinematic Universe, including those released during the pandemic.

Pamela McClintock

March 19, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/shazam-fury-gods-box-office-opening-1235355902/

 

COMICSPRO: NEW GROUP TO LOOK AT WAYS TO STREAMLINE COMICS METADATA To Improve Ordering, Tracking, and Finding Comics

  Brigid Alverson on March 17, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53604/comicspro-new-group-look-ways-streamline-comics-metadata

 

FANTAGRAPHICS TO OMNIBIZE ED PISKOR'S 'HIP HOP FAMILY TREE'

Also: New 'Red Room' Series in the Works

 Brigid Alverson on March 17, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53605/fantagraphics-omnibize-ed-piskors-hip-hop-family-tree

 

2022 COMIC STORE SALES: BOOM CYCLE GOES BUST

New Comics, Back Issues, Graphic Novels Not All Bad

 Jim McLauchlin on March 20, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53612/2022-comic-store-sales-boom-cycle-goes-bust

 

TOP KIDS GRAPHIC NOVEL FRANCHISES - FALL 2022

From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #103

 ICv2 on March 20, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53609/top-kids-graphic-novel-franchises-fall-2022

 

TOP AUTHOR GRAPHIC NOVEL FRANCHISES - FALL 2022

From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #103

 ICv2 on March 20, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53610/top-author-graphic-novel-franchises-fall-2022

 

TOP SUPERHERO GRAPHIC NOVEL FRANCHISES - FALL 2022

From 'ICv2's Internal Correspondence' #103

  ICv2 on March 20, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53608/top-superhero-graphic-novel-franchises-fall-2022

 

Zestworld supports exhibiting creators in C2E2's Artist Alley

Fans going to the show can receive exclusives from the platform's creators in attendance

Deanna Destito

03/20/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/zestworld-supports-creators-in-c2e2s-artist-alley/

 

Shazam 2 is Sha-thud – is the Rock to blame?

Plus: What happened to Helen MIrren's pinkie?

Heidi MacDonald

03/20/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/shazam-2-is-sha-thud-is-the-rock-to-blame/ 

 

'Shazam! Fury Of The Gods' Doesn't Fly With Moviegoers At $30M+ Opening: Here's Why – Sunday Box Office

  Anthony D'Alessandro

March 19, 2023  

https://deadline.com/2023/03/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-box-office-bomb-1235303827/

 

Mark Thomas Gibson's Cartoons See the US Going Nowhere

If Thomas Nast, who is considered the "Father of the American Cartoon," has an heir, it is Gibson, who goes one step further and elevates caricature and commentary into art.

  John Yau

Hyperallergic March 19 2023

https://hyperallergic.com/808770/mark-thomas-gibson-cartoons-see-the-us-going-nowhere/

 

INTERVIEW: Patrick Fabian subverts expectations as Harvey Dent in THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM

Plus the actor discusses his prior familiarity with the works of Lovecraft

Taimur Dar

03/20/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-patrick-fabian-harvey-dent-batman-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham/

 

Shocker: Marvel Studios Veteran Victoria Alonso Exits (Exclusive)

She has served as executive producer on its titles since the first 'Avengers' movie.

By Borys Kit, Aaron Couch

March 20, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marvel-studios-victoria-alonso-exits-1235356853/ 

 

Interview: The Bloody Chaos of 'Dead by Daylight' Comes to Comics

Mar 16, 2023

Interview by Nicki Faust

https://previewsworld.com/Article/267300-Interview-The-Bloody-Chaos-of-Dead-by-Daylight-Comes-to-Comics

 

Mar 20  2023

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode twenty-seven | Meghan Fitzmartin, part one

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/we-seem-to-be-made-to-suffer

 

An Industry Without Diamond

How would the industry change?

Brandon Schatz

The Indirect Market March 20 2023

https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/an-industry-without-diamond

 

Proto-Josh Neufeld: To Superhero or Not To Superhero? [interview]

Dean Haspiel

Dean Haspiel's Newsletter March 20 2023

https://deanhaspiel.substack.com/p/proto-josh-neufeld

 

I Prefer To Explore The Contradictions, The Nuances": A Conversation with Valencian artist Ana Penyas [Spain]

Esther Claudio-Moreno | March 20, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/i-prefer-to-explore-the-contradictions-the-nuances-a-conversation-with-valencian-artist-ana-penyas/

 

 

Stunner: Victoria Alonso leaves Marvel Studios

A key player in the MCu has departed

Heidi MacDonald

03/20/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/stunner-victoria-alonso-leaves-marvel-studios/

 

Sarula Bao's "Fresh Gear"

The artist discusses design as a playground for self-expression and connection.

By Françoise Mouly

March 20, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2023-03-27

 

Shazam 2 and the Birth of the Lame Duck Superhero Movie

Shazam! Fury of the Gods might be the victim of a new Hollywood trend: shared universe movies that lead to nowhere.

  By David Crow | March 20, 2023

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/shazam-2-lame-duck-superhero-movie/

Today: Matt Tavares - Hoops 6 p.m. at Takoma Park, MD Library (registration required)

I'm aiming to go - anyone else I know?

Matt Tavares Hoops / Ages 8-12 6 p.m. at Takoma Park, MD Library

Takoma Park, MD Library Details

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/18-19/2023

 

'Shazam! Fury of the Gods' Director David F. Sandberg Talks Wonder Woman Cameo, the Marketing Swerve and Those Credit Scenes

Brian Davids

March 18, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-director-david-sandberg-wonder-woman-1235355894/

 

Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu and the Joy of Playing Villainous Goddesses

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

A version of this article appears in print on March 19, 2023, Section AR, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Tapping Their Inner Villainous Goddess.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/movies/helen-mirren-lucy-liu-shazam-fury-of-the-gods.html

 

Beowulf in Comic Books and Graphic Novels

Richard Scott Nokes

McFarland 2023

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/beowulf-in-comic-books-and-graphic-novels/

 

Not worth the ink ["Heart of the City" letter].

Jeff Carver,

Washington Post March 18 2023 : A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/17/chris-rock-slap-oscars-netflix/

 

Shaky Kane & The Call of the Kraken: Adventures on The Lizard Lighthouse

Steven Cook

March 19 2023

https://secretoranges.substack.com/p/shaky-kane-and-the-call-of-the-kraken

 

Who's Your Stilt-Man?: Creators on Their Favorite Characters Outside the A-List

By David Harper

March 16, 2023

https://sktchd.com/interview/whos-your-stilt-man/

 

Alison Gill, Retiring From DC Comics After 24 Years?

Bleeding Cool understands Alison Gill, one of the longest-standing employees of the comic book industry, will be retiring after over 40 years at Marvel and DC

 17 Mar 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/alison-gill-retiring-from-dc-comics-after-24-years/

 

I MADE AI WRITE THIS ESSAY — Thoughts About Art, Capital, AI, and A Review of "This One Summer" by Jillian and Mariko Tamaki

Alex Hoffman

Solrad March 15, 2023

https://solrad.co/i-made-ai-write-this-essay-thoughts-about-art-capital-ai-and-a-review-of-this-one-summer-by-jillian-and-mariko-tamaki

 

Obituary for Robert Moncrieff [Harvard Lampoon cartoonist]

Chapel of the Chimes Oakland March 2023

https://oakland.chapelofthechimes.com/obituaries/Robert-Moncrieff/#!/Obituary

See You on the Q Train, Alligator

By Will McPhail

Published in the print edition of the March 20, 2023, issue, with the headline "Meet the Gators of N.Y.C.."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/20/see-you-on-the-q-train-alligator

That darn “Heart of the City”

Not worth the ink ["Heart of the City" letter].

Jeff Carver, Alexandria

Washington Post March 18 2023 : A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/03/17/chris-rock-slap-oscars-netflix/