Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Free Comic Book Day - Beyond Comics Gaithersburg - Meet Local Comic Artist John Watkins Chow.
April 26 at Princeton U: A Cartoon History of Latino USA with Lalo Alcaraz
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/24/2023
INTERVIEW: How the pandemic influenced the filmmakers of the JUSTICE LEAGUE X RWBY crossover animated film
Screenwriter Meghan Fitzmartin and producer/director Kerry Shawcross discuss working on a movie involving simulated realities
04/24/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-filmmakers-justice-league-x-rwby-animated-film/
Joe Kessler and The Gull Yettin [England; wordless comics]
Dash Shaw | April 24, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/joe-kessler-and-the-gull-yettin/
'Curb Your Enthusiasm actor Ray Buffer pleads guilty to caught-on-tape comic book heist
April 21, 2023
https://nypost.com/2023/04/21/ray-buffer-pleads-guilty-to-caught-on-tape-comic-book-heist/
ACTOR RAY BUFFER PLEADS GUILTY TO COMICS THEFT
Caught After Retailer Put Photos on Social Media
Brigid Alverson on April 21, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53917/actor-ray-buffer-pleads-guilty-comics-theft
Pornsak Pichetshote, part two
Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode thirty-two April 24 2023
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/well-im-not-going-that-way
Myers, Russell. "Russell Myers: Cartoonist, Creator of Broom-Hilda Comic" Interview by John Erling. Voices of Oklahoma, April 20, 2020, https://www.voicesofoklahoma.com/interviews/myers-russell, https://voicesofoklahoma.com/assets/pdf/Russell-Myers-Transcript.pdf
Want to Get in at Beginning? [Willy Lumpkin comic strip]
Arkansas Gazette December 3, 1959
Meet Lumpy [Willy Lumpkin comic strip]
Arkansas Gazette December 5, 1959
Willy Lumpkin - Pal of the High School Crowd
Arkansas Gazette, Sunday, December 06, 1959, 54
A Brief History of Computer Time: 60 Years Of Computer Technology And The People Who Helped Make It Happen [New Yorker cartoons]
David Pessel
Washington DC: IEEE Computer Society 2006
Bob Mankoff,
Have I Got A Cartoon For You! The Moment Magazine Book of Jewish Cartoons [Roz Chast intro].
Moment Magazine 2019
Web 3 publisher InterPop and the Emergents TCG shut down after two years
Heidi MacDonald
04/21/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/web-3-publisher-interpop-emergents-tcg-shut-down/
NFT-based comics publisher InterPop calls it quits after two years
Tiffany Babb
April 19, 2023
https://www.thepopverse.com/interpop-comics-digital-2023-april
Inside DSTLRY and its plan to rewrite the creator-owned comics business model
Zach Rabiroff
Popverse April 19, 2023
https://www.thepopverse.com/dstlry-comics-david-steinberger-chip-mosher-interview-april-2023
Rowser & Smith's Wash Day Diaries and Segura's Secret Identity win 2023 LA Times Book Prizes
Rowser and Smith the first Black women to be nominated - and win - in the LA Times Book Prize graphic novel category
Dean Simons
04/24/2023
Monday, April 24, 2023
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "A Successful Launch"
"A Successful Launch"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3625
"With a test like this, success comes from what we learn, and we
learned a tremendous amount about the vehicle and ground systems today
that will help us improve on future flights of Starship. Thank you to
our customers, Cameron County, and the wider community for the
continued support and encouragement. And congratulations to the entire
Space team on an exciting first flight test of Starship!"
— SpaceX statement 04.20.2023
"Where's the KABOOM?
There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering KABOOM!"
— Marvin The Martian
So, I was hitting some sativa bud and banging my head on the table the
other day trying to shake loose a decent France uprising cartoon, and
THIS weirdness fell out. I'd given up on a France cartoon at the
moment and was just doing my daily space geekery, reading about the
spectacular SpaceX launch failure and the attendant "hah, I MEANT to
do that" spin from SpaceX, when I found my train of thought wandering
to the Twitter valuation crash and the Paid Blue Check shitshow and
was suddenly, like...
...like, yeah; Musk was really laughing off the Twitter valuation and
the hot mess about the paid Blue Check accounts that's been all over
the news lately, and then a day or two later another one of his
goddamn Starship tests goes sideways on him and the SpaceX PAO flacks
are babbling a bunch of balloon juice about how much they learned
today, and it was one of those moments of inspiration and serendipity
that screamed "quit twisting your panties trying to think of a France
cartoon for a moment and jump on THIS shit, man! Here it is!" Like,
yeah — crashing and burning, in metaphor and reality.
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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/22-23/2023
Cinema Therapy meets Robert Kirkman // Narcissism in RENFIELD
Jonathan Decker and Alan Seawright
Cinema Therapy
Apr 21, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0N43Xv-ceo
Ridgewood Podcaster Recreates World Of 'Pogo' Comic Strip Creator
"'Songs of the Pogo' is truly my passion project," podcast producer and host Frank Farrell said of the eight-episode series.
Logan Williamson,
Ridgewood-Glen Rock Patch Apr 13, 2023
https://patch.com/new-jersey/ridgewood/ridgewood-podcaster-recreates-world-pogo-comic-strip-creator
INTERVIEW: Ron Marz and Andy Lanning on the challenge of creating a vast new cosmic world in RESOLUTION
Resolution is only crowdfunding for a limited period on Zoop.
Rebecca Oliver Kaplan
04/21/2023
Barbara Brandon-Croft was 1st Black woman with nationally syndicated comic strip
Nour Rahal
Detroit Free Press
A note from the Star Tribune's new editorial cartoonist
By Mike Thompson
Minneapolis Star Tribune April 22, 2023
https://www.startribune.com/a-note-from-the-star-tribunes-new-editorial-cartoonist/600269319/
'Cyborg' writer Morgan Hampton talks growth and evolution amid Dawn of DC relaunch
Writer Morgan Hampton unpacks the new series before it debuts May 16.
David Brooke
April 21, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/21/morgan-hampton-cyborg-qa/
AIPT Comics Podcast episode 218: Evolving Myth: Steve Orlando talks Iceman, X-Men 2099, Scarlet Witch and more
David Brooke and Nathan Simmons
April 16, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/16/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-218-steve-orlando/
X-Reads Podcast Episode 98: 'X-Men: Emperor Vulcan' #1 with Neil Kleid
Marvel author Neil Kleid joins the pod to talk about his upcoming novel.
Chandler and Chris
X-Reads Podcast
April 19, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/19/x-reads-podcast-episode-98-x-men-emperor-vulcan-1-with-neil-klied/
Episode 14: Justin Leach [animation]
Left Brain vs. Right Brain with Stu Levy APR 21, 2023
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-14-justin-leach/id1614478426?i=1000610059077
Episode 12: Kun Gao [Crunchyroll anime distributor]
Left Brain vs. Right Brain with Stu Levy FEB 27, 2023
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-12-kun-gao/id1614478426?i=1000601975831
Episode13: Adina Pitt [animation]
Left Brain vs. Right Brain with Stu Levy MAR 17, 2023
Episode 13: Adina Pitt
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-13-adina-pitt/id1614478426?i=1000604610036
Peter Pickersgill – RIP [Canadian political cartoonist Pic].
Daily Cartoonist (April 21): https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/21/peter-pickersgill-rip/
Unknown. 2023.
Peter Pickersgill (Wednesday, September 5th, 1945 - Saturday, April 15th, 2023) Obituary.
Stacey's Funeral Home: https://www.staceysfuneralhome.ca/book-of-memories/5178984/Pickersgill-Peter/index.php
Unknown. 2023.
Political cartoonist Peter Pickersgill, dead at 77, remembered for his love of Newfoundland.
CBC News (April 21): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/peter-pickersgill-obit-1.6817917
'Draw for Change!,' Documentary Series on Female Cartoonists, Debuts Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
Leo Barraclough
Apr 21, 2023
https://variety.com/2023/film/global/draw-for-change-1235591052/
Sunday, April 23, 2023
May 21 Comic Logic Books & Artwork's Comic Logic Books & Artwork
Spring Lot Con!
Saturday, April 22, 2023
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/21/2023
James Kochalka Interview for Glork Patrol (Book Three): Glork Patrol and the Magic Robot
Gig Patta
LRM Online Mar 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFSDmxXo6w4
Storycomic Presents (Episode 261): Matta Sorcier, Comic Creator
Barney Smith
StoryComic Apr 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebN4PV-Za70
Marc Guggenheim on why movies can't always be true to comics
Ben and Shane
Comic Book Squares Apr 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGFw7uBYUA8
Comic Creator Interview - Marc Guggenheim
Ben and Shane
Comic Book Squares Apr 14, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq6-g59WxX8
Comic Creator Interview - Liam Sharp
Ben and Paul
Comic Book Squares Mar 31, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUyDDdLvSNY
Comic Creator Interview - Ryan Drost
Ben, Paul, Shane and Mike
Comic Book Squares Mar 24, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4gB1JMAh0
Comic Creator Interview - Jason Inman
Ben and Shane
Comic Book Squares Feb 10, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smcoOYX5aGw
Comic Creator Interview - Steve Prince
Ben and Shane
Comic Book Squares Jan 27, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xde8AN6_X9o
Comic Creator Interview - Aaron Dowen
Ben, Mike, and Shane
Comic Book Squares Jan 13, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BbjvpEHiw
Comic Creator Interview - AJ O Mason
Paul and Shane
Comic Book Squares Feb 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMAi6E33hoA
In Discussion with Paul Pope - Alex Toth In Depth Episode 022
Paul Fricke
Alex Toth In Depth Apr 17, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWyvkrNTx8
Joshua Williamson on Batman & Robin, 90's Comics and Comic Con! | All Stars Podcast
ComicPop Returns Apr 18, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aew4TTlsNCg
Valiant, Blackstone Publishing Partner on New Novels
Scoop April 21 2023
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=267950
Michael Ramirez Cartoons Are Back on Ricochet!
April 19, 2023
https://ricochet.com/1436759/michael-ramirez-cartoons-are-back-on-ricochet/
For Black comic fans and cosplayers, a Harlem festival provides a safe space for community
Gothamist Apr 21, 2023
The Schomburg's 'SchomCom 2023' Black Comic Book Festival
Kerry Nolan
WNYC's All Of It Apr 10, 2023
https://www.wnyc.org/story/schomburgs-schomcom-2023-black-comic-book-festival/
INTERVIEW: Nidhi Chanani on SHARK PRINCESS: SHARK PARTY!
04/21/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nidhi-chanani-shark-party/
'South Park' Standoff: Paramount Global Fires Back in Warner Bros. Discovery Dispute
Trey Parker and Matt Stone's long-running and lucrative animated series is at the center of a legal battle and the streaming wars.
Ashley Cullins
April 20, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-lawsuit-paramount-warner-bros-discovery-1235392943/
Jeff Koterba's Plea for Support!
Apr 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoyZnWPH-1s
Premium Rush – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | April 21, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/premium-rush-this-weeks-links/
Comics Creators Stand Up For Choice With New Planned Parenthood Benefit Book [Won't Back Down]
Apr 14, 2023
EXCLUSIVE Interview: Al Ewing unpacks 'Fury' and celebrating 60 years of Nick Fury
Al Ewing gives us insights into new anniversary one-shot 'Fury' out in comic shops on May 24th.
April 20, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/20/al-ewing-interview-nick-fury-2023/
'Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow' writer Kenny Porter talks fresh starts and high adventure
April 18, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/18/superboy-kenny-porter-qa/
The US hunt for truth serum during WWII shaped our superheroes
From DC to Marvel, the pantheon of crime fighters is all wrapped up in America's spy history
By Rosie Knight
Polygon Apr 17, 2023, https://www.polygon.com/23680401/truth-serum-us-spy-history-wonder-woman-comics
EASTMAN and LAIRD Return to Cartoonist Kayfabe with TMNT Issue 6 Under the Microscope!
Cartoonist Kayfabe Apr 16, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_5Y5BZnZck
TMNT 7 with Eastman and Laird - Fugitoid, Triceratons, Utroms, April, Splinter, and Joseph Campbell!
Cartoonist Kayfabe Apr 19, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85zXlU7ZNKI
Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg & Neil Cohn (2023): Navigating meaning in the spatial layouts of comics: A cross-cultural corpus analysis, Visual Cognition,
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13506285.2023.2198271
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13506285.2023.2198271
SATIRICAL COMMUNICATION: A STUDY OF CARTOONS IN SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS
Isaac Olajide Fadeyi, Oluwawapelumi Iyinoluwa Ola
Sapientia Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Development Studies (SGOJAHDS), Vol.6 No.1 March, 2023; p.g. 221 – 233
http://sgojahds.com/index.php/SGOJAHDS/article/view/443
http://sgojahds.com/index.php/SGOJAHDS/article/download/443/466
Werber, Niels, and Daniel Stein. 2023. "Paratextual Negotiations: Fan Forums as Digital Epitexts of Popular Superhero Comic Books and Science Fiction Pulp Novel Series" Arts 12, no. 2: 77. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020077
https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020077 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/12/2/77
https://mdpi-res.com/d_attachment/arts/arts-12-00077/article_deploy/arts-12-00077-v3.pdf
Cosmic Cadets: Ben Crane and Mimi Alves
By Sheena McNeil |
http://sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=3772
Lessons In Alien Diplomacy: An Interview With The Creators Of 'Cosmic Cadets' Book One
by Rachel Bellwoar
DeSantis's political war on Disney makes Trump look reasonable
April 20, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/20/desantis-disney-battle-bad-politics/
The Archie/Sabrina Universe: Essays on the Comics and Their Adaptations
Edited by Heather McAlpine, W. Ron Sweeney and Jess Wind
McFarland , 2023
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-archie-sabrina-universe/
Introduction
Heather McAlpine, W. Ron Sweeney and Jess Wind 1
Archie Must Die: On the Many Lives and Deaths of Archie Andrews
W. Ron Sweeney 11
On Becoming a Citizen of Riverdale: Narrative Expansion Through Fanfiction, Interactive Fiction, and Other Apocryphal (Hyper)Texts
Dessa Bayrock 28
Endless Authorship: Fanfiction, Copyright, and the Extended Archie Universe
Kirsten Bussière 45
Chilling Adventures in Feminism: Sabrina Is Not the Feminist Heroine We Need
Katie Stobbart 62
"When will the world learn? Women should be in charge of everything": Lilith as Villain, Victim, and Feminist in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Sarah Stang 84
"Put your cape away": Riverdale's #MeToo Moment
Melissa Wehler 105
Watching Them, Watch Them: The Coded Movement of Betty's Pole Dance and Our Passive Audience Gaze
Hannah Meghan Celinski 124
Punk Rock Prom Queen to Covergirl: Teens and Consumption in Riverdale and Josie and the Pussycats
Kaarina Mikalson 139
Archie Got Hot: How Embracing the Queer Art of Failure Allows the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina to Shift Queer Readings Away from Identity
Mat Wenzel 155
Disability in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Whitney Tiffany Renville 173
"First as tragedy, then as farce": The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina and Satanic Moral Panic
Brett Pardy 190
Raising Felix: This Is Forty (with a Toddler)
By Julia Wertz
April 20, 2023
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/raising-felix-this-is-forty-with-a-toddler
The Incredible Hulk: Worldbreaker, Hero, Icon
Rich Johnson
New York: Universe 2023
The Amazing Spider-Man: Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon
Rich Johnson
New York: Universe 2022
Captain America: Avenger, Hero, Icon
Rich Johnson
New York: Universe 2022
Best Practices for Cataloging Comics and Graphic Novels Using RDA and MARC21
Version 1
September 2022
Prepared by the Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table
Friday, April 21, 2023
April 22: Tom King at Third Eye Annapolis
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May 23: “The Fight for Free Expression: Defending Cartoonists Around the World”
"The Fight for Free Expression: Defending Cartoonists Around the World"
Tuesday May 23rd 2023, 11.30-13.00
West Dining Room, James Madison Building, Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave SE, Washington, DC 20540
Open to the public, but places limited • Event will also be livestreamed
Further details at loc.gov/events/
May 3: RFK awards
Register for the 2023 Book and Journalism AwardsJoin us for the ceremony on May 3!
Register now for the virtual celebration on World Press Freedom Day, where we'll reveal this year's winners. The ceremony will premiere at 12 p.m. EDT and will re-air at 3 p.m. EDT.
About the awards
The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was founded in 1980 with the proceeds from Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s bestselling biography, Robert Kennedy and His Times. Each year, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights presents an award to the book that, as Schlesinger said, "most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes – his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity."
Founded by the reporters who covered Robert F. Kennedy's historic 1968 presidential campaign, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards honor outstanding reporting on issues that reflect Robert Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action in the United States and around the world. Entries should provide insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and critical analysis of relevant policies, programs, individual actions, and private endeavors that foster positive change. The Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards are among the few in which winners are determined by their peers. Entries should provide insights into the causes, conditions, and remedies of human rights violations and injustice, and critical analysis of relevant policies, programs, individual actions, and private endeavors that foster positive change.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/20/2023
Marvel Comics App Shuts Down In June, Purchases May Be Deleted
The Marvel Comics app which is operated by Comixology, is shutting down in June. And from May, the ability to purchase comics will be removed
19 Apr 2023
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-comics-app-shuts-down-in-june-purchases-may-be-deleted/
MARVEL'S COMIXOLOGY-BASED APP TO GO DARK ON JUNE 2
Prior Purchases, Digital Codes to Move to Marvel Unlimited
Brigid Alverson on April 19, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53896/marvels-comixology-based-app-go-dark-june-2
ABLAZE LICENSES MANHWA WITH 1.3 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS ON WEBTOON
Story of School Violence Has Almost 80 Million Views [Get Schooled, by writer Yongtaek Chae and artist Garam Han]
Brigid Alverson on April 19, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53898/ablaze-licenses-manhwa-1-3-million-subscribers-webtoon
Rachel Pollack, 1945-2023
Ian Thomas | April 20, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/rachel-pollack-1945-2023/
How people-watching helps me connect with the world around me
Recently, I've been overwhelmed by seeing over-curated videos about people's lives everywhere on the internet
Perspective by Pepita Sándwich
April 16, 2023
Q & A with Rex Ogle
By Cheryl E. Klein
Apr 20, 2023
Deacon went from superheroes to God [Mike Friedrich]
By Jim Patterson
July 15, 2019 | UM News
https://www.umnews.org/en/news/deacon-went-from-superheroes-to-god
Victoria Alonso and Disney Reach Settlement Over Former Marvel Executive's Firing
Aaron Couch
April 20, 2023
Paper Solution To Cartoon Criticism? Less
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/20/paper-solution-to-cartoon-criticism-less/
Start the Presses: Political cartoons and the editorial page
Dan Evans
Apr 18, 2023
A Director and a Rock Band Are Redrawing the Contours of Anime
For hits like "Your Name" and now "Suzume," Makoto Shinkai has worked with Radwimps on the narrative as well as the score. The results have won awards.
By Carlos Aguilar
'Black Panther' and the New Blueprint for Female Warriors Onscreen
Danai Gurira and Dominique Thorne on acting, superheroes and grief.
Interviews by Nancy Coleman
April 20, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/t-magazine/danai-gurira-dominique-thorne.html