Sunday, April 16, 2023

Arlington Reads: Get Graphic—two authors in one week!



New Third Eye Store to open

Opening 4/29/23: Third Eye Buys & Bargains!


A new sidekick outlet store to our ANNAPOLIS super-stores!


Great deals, new treasures, and a dedicated storefront to sell your stuff to Third Eye!


Just 1 block down from our ANNAPOLIS super-stores!


This companion shop to our massive super-stores is a Third Eye Throwback to our earlier years, make sure you check it out!


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William Brown's latest on Ukraine

Saturday, April 15, 2023

Big Lick Comic Con NOVA this weekend

WaPo on the start of AI animation

AI can make movies, edit actors, fake voices. Hollywood isn't ready. [in print as Hollywood unprepared for AI's growing role in filmmaking; animation]

A new short film made with AI highlights the possibilities and pitfalls of using the technology in entertainment

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/14/2023

 

CLOVER PRESS TO REISSUE VOLS. 1-6 OF LOAC 'DICK TRACY' COLLECTIONS With Larger Trim Size, Rescanned Sunday Pages

  by Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53858/clover-press-reissue-vols-1-6-loac-dick-tracy-collections 

 

FORMER COMIXOLOGY EXECS TO MIX DIGITAL AND PRINT WITH NEW PUBLISHER, DSTLRY; Collectible Print Issues, Limited Digital, and Equity Stake For Creators 

Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53854/former-comixology-execs-mix-digital-print-new-publisher-dstlry

 

New Comic Book Publisher Sees Creators as Partners, and Stockholders

By George Gene Gustines

A version of this article appears in print on April 14, 2023, Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: New Comic Book Publisher Sees Artists as Partners, Offering a Bigger Slice of the Financial Pie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/business/comic-books-creators-dstlry.html

 

Ex-Amazon Execs Announce New Comics And Collectibles Venture DSTLRY

Rob Salkowitz

Apr 13, 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2023/04/13/ex-amazon-execs-announce-new-comics-and-collectibles-venture-dstlry/

 

ComiXology Veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher Launch Comic Book Publishing Company

By Emell Adolphus

Apr 14, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91985-comixology-veterans-david-steinberger-and-chip-mosher-launch-comic-book-publishing-company.html

 

Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77

By George Gene Gustines

April 13, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html

 

Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77

Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma

David Barnett

8 Apr 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/08/rachel-pollack-trans-activist-and-comic-book-writer-dies-aged-77

 

Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102

By Jessica Gelt

April 10, 2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-04-10/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-cartooning-legend-dies-at-102

 

Al Jaffee, legendary Mad magazine cartoonist, dies aged 102

The artist behind the magazine's famous "fold-in" drawing, Jaffee was Mad's longest-tenured contributor and only retired when he was 99

Sian Cain

10 Apr 2023  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/11/al-jaffee-legendary-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-aged-102

 

MAD's Al Jaffee

Mark Frauenfelder and  Ruben Bolling

Gweek 20 (2011)

https://soundcloud.com/boing-boing/020-mads-al-jaffee

 

DC Comics Giving Away Green Lantern Rings Again With New #1

The new Green Lantern #1 for May will come with free rings. For every 50 copies of #1 ordered, retailers will qualify to order one free bag.

13 Apr 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-giving-away-green-lantern-rings-again-with-new-1/

 

Wild River Comics Publisher Closing Down, Staff Laid Off [England]

Bleeding Cool has been informed that the editorial, marketing and publication staff have all been laid off and the company is expected to close.

 13 Apr 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/wild-river-comics-publisher-closing-down-staff-laid-off/

 

Trust The Fungus – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | April 14, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/trust-the-fungus-this-weeks-links/

 

'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein

Pop art founder made millions, but the comic book artists he copied struggled financially

Dalya Alberge

Sun 9 Apr 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/09/new-allegations-of-plagiarism-against-roy-lichtenstein

 

Jeremy Holt and Axel Alonso on "Gatsby"

By Chris Cole | April 10th, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/jeremy-holt-axel-alonso-gatsby/

 

A Florida school banned an adaptation of Anne Frank's diary because Moms for Liberty deemed it 'sexually explicit'

Isobel van Hagen

Apr 9, 2023,

https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T

 

Version of 'Anne Frank' removed from Vero Beach High School library after complaint

 Colleen Wixon

Treasure Coast Newspapers April 4 2023

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/education/indian-river-county-schools/2023/04/04/illustrated-anne-frank-book-pulled-from-shelves-after-complaint/70076573007/

 

ImageText 13.3

https://imagetextjournal.com/category/volume-13-issue-3/

 

    The Joke Work of Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Olszewski

    https://imagetextjournal.com/the-joke-work-of-batman-the-killing-joke/

 

    Journey to the West goes Queer by Christopher Younie

https://imagetextjournal.com/journey-to-the-west-goes-queer/

 

    Searching for Legitimacy: Spawn, McFarlane, and the Homage Cover by Jake Zawlacki

https://imagetextjournal.com/searching-for-legitimacy-spawn-mcfarlane-and-the-homage-cover/

 

Book Reviews

 

    Review of Drawing on Religion by Matthew Brake

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-drawing-on-religion/

 

    Review of Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension by Jason DeHart

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-who-understands-comics-questioning-the-universality-of-visual-language-comprehension/

 

    Review of R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self by Jesse Matlock

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-r-crumb-literature-autobiography-and-the-quest-for-self/

 

    Review of Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny by Chandler Mordecai

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-vigilante-feminists-and-agents-of-destiny/

 

    Review of The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In by Noah Mullens

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel-from-the-outside-in/

 

    Review of Understanding China Through Comics by Sophia Pan

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-understanding-china-through-comics/

 

    Review of Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal by Victoria Rahbar

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-ms-marvels-america-no-normal/

 

From the Classroom

 

    Amity Teen: New Mobile Game Ad by Estefania Alfonso

https://imagetextjournal.com/amity-teen-new-mobile-game-ad/

 

    When You Hear Hoofbeats by Kaitlyn Mi

https://imagetextjournal.com/when-you-hear-hoofbeats/

 

    From the Classroom: Critical-Making with Comics and Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Justin Wigard, Zaria Cannon, and Claudia Kramer

https://imagetextjournal.com/from-the-classroom-critical-making-with-comics-and-graphic-medicine-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

 

Breaking down '007: For King and Country' with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson

The latest comics series features heaps of globe-trotting and character development galore.

Chris Coplan

April 11, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/11/007-for-king-and-country-qa/

 

The Art and Comics of Austin English @ Davidson College, 3/23/2023

Austin English

Apr 12, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhPDxcIVS4

 

Marry, F---, or Kill with Alternative Manga Artist Shiu Yoshijima

by Reuben Baron, Apr 9th 2023

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2023-04-09/marry-f-or-kill-with-alternative-manga-artist-shiu-yoshijima/.196921

 

'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman' Review: This Giant Frog Needs Your Help

By Claire Shaffer

April 13, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/movies/blind-willow-sleeping-woman-review.html

 

'Suzume' Review: Gods, Spells and Instagram Posts

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on April 14, 2023, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Girl on a Mythical Mission.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/movies/suzume-review-makoto-shinkai.html

 

Bob Iger Addresses Ike Perlmutter Firing, Says He'd Be "Glad" to Meet With Ron DeSantis

Alex Weprin

April 13, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bob-iger-ike-perlmutter-ron-desantis-1235373351/

 

The 2023 CARTOONIST STUDIO PRIZE winners revealed!

The Award is presented by The Center for Cartoon Studies and The Beat.

Avery Kaplan

04/14/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2023-cartoonist-studio-prize-winners/

 

Garth Ennis on The Ribbon Queen from AWA Studios

AWA Studios

Apr 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eufYMZgiw

 

County Noir With Stephan Franck

wordballoon

April 13 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DDLzaedwEE

 

How to make a comic book studio

Steve Lieber

Helioscope PDX

Apr 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgavcF1gHM

 

Storycomic Presents (Episode 257): Andre Owens, Comic Creator

Barney Smith

Storycomic Presents! Apr 11, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U5Pl-cgk_E

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 561: Chris Robinson interview [black comics]

Calvin Reid

on 04/10/2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1252

 

Off Panel #396: The Thing with Joe Sparrow

David Harper

Apr 10, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-397-the-thing-with-joe-sparrow

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

 

Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality [Pan Cooke]

Jonathan Franklin

April 10, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1153842458/cartoon-illustrations-police-brutality-pan-cooke

 

Mostly through images, a daughter grieves her mother in 'Ephemera'

Tahneer Oksman

April 9, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168334853/briana-loewinsohn-graphic-novel-ephemera-a-love-letter-to-her-mother

 

As a female gamer, here's how I tune out the trolls

I've been called every gross name under the sun

Perspective by Tenzing Lhamo Dorjee

April 9, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/04/09/female-gamer-heres-how-i-tune-out-trolls/

 

Towards Manga as Cultural Potpourri: Dramaturgy of Ethnicity and Diversity in Selected Malaysian Manga                               

Rachel Suet Kay Chan

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies (JOEDS)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4207-023X

https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/7

https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/7/2

 

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea has sold 378,000 copies in two weeks

It was the third week in a row a graphic novel was #1

Heidi MacDonald

04/14/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dog-man-sales-378262-copies-in-two-weeks/

 

Ardipa, I. P. M. C., Utami, N. M. V., & Jayantini, I. G. A. S. R. (2023). An Analysis Types of Onomatopoeia Words in Justice League Comic. Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.22334/traverse.v4i1.221

https://traverse.asia/index.php/traverse/article/view/221

https://traverse.asia/index.php/traverse/article/view/221/96

 

A friend's mysterious death becomes a writer's inspiration [in print as A relative larger than life, and his sudden death; William Nealy]

In 'This Isn't Going to End Well,' Daniel Wallace explores the mysterious life of a man he thought of as a brother

Review by Joan Frank

Washington Post April 14, 2023 : C1, 3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/13/daniel-wallace-memoir-this-isnt/

 

This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By Daniel Wallace. Illustrations by William Nealy

Algonquin. 258 pp. $28

Friday, April 14, 2023

William Nealy recalled, in Post book review

A friend's mysterious death becomes a writer's inspiration [in print as A relative larger than life, and his sudden death; William Nealy]

In 'This Isn't Going to End Well,' Daniel Wallace explores the mysterious life of a man he thought of as a brother

NPR on comics

Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality [Pan Cooke]

Latest Lily webcomic on gaming

As a female gamer, here's how I tune out the trolls

I've been called every gross name under the sun

AIPT talks to PKJ about 007

Breaking down '007: For King and Country' with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson

The latest comics series features heaps of globe-trotting and character development galore.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/13/2023



Maurice C Horn June 28, 1931  -  December 30, 2022

https://www.kleinbergfunerals.com/obituaries/Maurice-C-Horn?obId=26903201

 

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book [in print as Teachers conference boots climate deniers for pro-carbon comic book].

By Maxine Joselow

April 13, 2023: A7

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

 

MARCH 2023 CIRCANA BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 KIDS GRAPHIC NOVELS

A First - DC Gets a Title in the Top 20

Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53848/march-2023-circana-bookscan-top-20-kids-graphic-novels

 

WORLD ACCORDING TO GRIEPP: PHIL SEULING AND BUD PLANT DESERVE TO BE IN THE EISNER HALL OF FAME

This Year, for the 50th Anniversary of the Direct Market

  by Milton Griepp on April 13, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/53849/world-according-griepp-phil-seuling-bud-plant-deserve-to-be-eisner-hall-fame

 

DSTLRY launches from David Steinberger and Chip Mosher

Heidi MacDonald

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dstlry-launches-from-david-steinberger-and-chip-mosher/

 

Desegregating Comics

Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Edited by Qiana Whitted
 Rutgers University Press, 2023

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/desegregating-comics/9781978825017

 

Introduction: "An Apt Cartoon" 
QIANA WHITTED

Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism

1 Rose O'Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness 
IAN GORDON
2 The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat 
NICHOLAS SAMMOND
3 "How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?": Racial Caricature and Will Eisner's Legacy 61
ANDREW J. KUNKA

Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range

4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation 
REBECCA WANZO
5 Misdirections in Matt Baker's Phantom Lady 
CHRIS GAVALER AND MONALESIA EARLE
6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth 
BLAIR DAVIS
7 "Hello Public!": Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier 
ELI BOONIN-VAIL

Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics

8 "Never Any Dirty Ones": Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century 
CAROL L. TILLEY
9 All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age 
QIANA WHITTED
10 "This Business of White and Black": Captain Marvel's Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett's Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero 
BRIAN CREMINS
11 Al Hollingsworth's Kandy: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics 
MORA J. BEAUCHAMP-BYRD

Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention

12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in "The Voodoo Man" 
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
13 Love in Color: Fawcett's Revolutionary Negro Romance 
JACQUE NODELL
14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital 
JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS
15 "For They Were There!": Dell Comics' Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books 
MIKE LEMON

 

Disney's Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch' Finds Its Nani, Lilo's Sister (Exclusive)

Newcomer Maia Kealoha is playing Lilo, while Zach Galifianakis also joined the cast in February.

Beatrice Verhoeven

April 13, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/disney-lilo-stitch-live-action-nani-lilos-sister-1235373828/

 

Episode 574: Paul Rainey

Brian Heater

RiYL April 07, 2023

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-574-paul-rainey

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/6430be0def5a97001196ff83/media.mp3

 

Episode 570: Charles R. Johnson

Brian Heater

RiYL March 09, 2023

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-570-charles-r-johnson

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/640a46a6c84e2f001164bcd4/media.mp3

 

Legendary Mad cartoonist Al Jaffee passes away at 102

By Will Salmon

Newsarama April 12 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/legendary-mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-passes-away-at-102/

 

The Bestselling Comic in North America, CAT KID COMIC CLUB, Returns… In Musical Form! TheaterWorkUSA's CAT KID COMIC CLUB: THE MUSICAL will debut this summer. Avery Kaplan 04/13/2023 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-bestselling-comic-in-north-america-cat-kid-comic-club-returns-in-musical-form/

 

David Steinberger and Chip Mosher explain DSTLRY, their new comics company

Heidi MacDonald

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/david-steinberger-chip-mosher-explain-dstlry-new-comics-company/

 

Ty Whitton

    COMIC BOOK YETI Jan 17 2023

 

Come Discover the Secret Origin of Santa Claus - An Interview with VALYA DUDYCZ LUPESCU

https://www.comicbookyeti.com/post/come-discover-the-secret-origin-of-santa-claus-an-interview-with-valya-dudycz-lupescu

 

Raina Telgemeier exhibition coming to Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum next month

The new exhibition will spotlight YA comics superstar Raina Telgemeier's own work, as well as the work of those who influenced her.

Dean Simons

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/raina-telgemeier-exhibition-billy-ireland-cartoon-museum/