The Animation Time Machine Takes You Back to November 1923
By Graham Edwards
November 5, 2023
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/animation-time-machine-graham-edwards-max-fleischer-out-of-the-inkwell-aesops-fairy-tales-do-women-pay-felix-the-cat/
Forum Talk 9 – Press cartoonist: a profession in danger
Vladimir VASAK, Terry ANDERSON, KAK, Jean-Paul MARTHOZ, Rachita TANEJA, Tanja GONGGRIJP, Laetitia MERZOUK
World Forum for Democracy
7 November 2023 - 16.45-18.30 / Room 6 Palais de l'Europe
https://www.coe.int/en/web/world-forum-democracy/forum-talk-9-press-cartoons-a-profession-in-danger
Report on Threat to Cartoonists Worldwide – "Cartoonists on the Line 2020-2022"
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/11/07/report-on-threatened-cartoonists-worldwide-cartoonists-on-the-line-2020-2022/
Mike Hawthorne Art Newsletter
https://mikehawthorneart.substack.com/
The Graffo Broadsheet
Adam Dwight Griffiths
https://thegraffobroadsheet.substack.com/
A Visit with M.S. Harkness in Pittsburgh
Matt Petras | November 7, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/a-visit-with-m-s-harkness-in-pittsburgh/
INTERVIEW: Seasons play a pivotal role in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's adaptation of THE NAKED TREE
Gendry-Kim's turns Park Wan Suh's classic novel into a stunning graphic masterpiece.
Nancy Powell
11/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-gendry-kim-the-naked-tree/
INTERVIEW: The Jazz Odyssey of MILES DAVIS AND THE SEARCH FOR SOUND
AJ Frost
11/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/chisholm-davis-interview/
1/6: The Graphic Novel, Issue #1 – What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol had Succeeded?
George Carmona 3rd
11/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/1-6-the-graphic-novel/
Crunchyroll joins forces with Walmart for Fan Shops
2400 Crunchyroll Fan Shops are coming to Walmarts
Derrick Crow
11/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/crunchyroll-joins-forces-with-walmart-for-fan-shops/
Marvel quietly admits there's too much MCU homework
A new Marvel Spotlight banner will, like your favorite teacher, let you know there's no homework required
By Joshua Rivera Nov 6, 2023,
https://www.polygon.com/23948889/marvel-spotlight-mcu-echo-standalone-too-many-movies-man
'Echo' to Launch Marvel Spotlight Banner for Projects Without "Larger MCU Continuity"
The new chapter will separate TV shows and movies that require previous Marvel knowledge from those that don't.
Christy Pina
November 6, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/echo-marvel-spotlight-banner-mcu-continuity-standalone-1235638292/
Apple Sets 'Peanuts' Animated Film, Featuring Charlie Brown and Snoopy Going to the Big City
The Apple TV+ computer-generated project from Wildbrain Studios and Peanuts Worldwide will see the classic Charles M. Schulz characters embark on an epic adventure.
Etan Vlessing
November 6, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/new-peanuts-animated-movie-apple-1235637832/
How 'Blue Eye Samurai's' Exploration of Mixed Race Identity Helps It "Break All of the Boxes" in Animated Storytelling
Co-creators Amber Noizumi and Michael Green discuss how various elements of the Netflix animated series' production — including its art, music composition, setting and casting — helped deliver their 17th century tale of revenge.
Abbey White
November 6, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blue-eye-samurai-michael-green-amber-noizumi-interview-1235636619/
Publisher TPub Comics Changes Name To Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics
TPub Comics, the British graphic novel/anthology publisher is changing its name to Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics.
06 Nov 2023
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/publisher-tpub-comics-changes-name-to-neil-gibsons-twisted-comics/
Bad Idea Comics To Be Published In French, Spanish & Lithuanian
Bad Idea Comics are weird. So when they sell foreign translation rights, you know there will be something other than expected going down.
, 06 Nov 2023
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bad-idea-comics-to-be-published-in-french-spanish-lithuanian/
AI IS COMING TO COMICS WHETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT. ARE THERE WAYS IT COULD HELP?
Rob Salkowitz on November 6, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/55521/ai-coming-comics-whether-we-like-it-not-are-there-ways-it-could-help
OCTOBER 2023 CIRCANA BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS
New Fall Releases Hit Chart
Brigid Alverson on November 6, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/55520/october-2023-circana-bookscan-top-20-adult-graphic-novels
Blade will be R-rated, so Mahershala Ali will get to say all of the fun words
If the movie ever comes out, Blade will get to kill all the "monkey-fighting" vampires he wants to
Sam Barsanti
AV Club November 6 2023
https://www.avclub.com/marvel-blade-r-rating-mahershala-ali-1850997504
Episode 102 - Bubble City Boys (Ft. Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson) [Justice Warriors]
The Deprogram Season 1 Episode 102
October 27, 2023
JT, Hakim, and Yugopnik
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1890340/13856744-episode-102-bubble-city-boys-ft-matt-bors-and-ben-clarkson
Alex Segura Interview: On Noir, Crime, Archie Comics, and Secret Identity
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
Nov 6, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAldT0SqhQQ
Matt Bors and Ben Clarkson [Justice Warriors]
S.W. Conser
KBOO's Words and Pictures 09/28/2023
online at https://kboo.fm/media/118112-matt-bors-and-ben-clarkson and https://kboo.fm/sites/default/files/audio/station_content/bors_clarkson_pledge.mp3
Superheroes Beyond
Edited by Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis
Hardcover : 9781496850096, 288 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, March 2024
Paperback : 9781496850102, 288 pages, 22 b&w illustrations, March 2024
Foreword: Planetary Superheroes as Collective Daydream
Frederick Luis Aldama
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Cormac McGarry
Section 1: Beyond Men of Steel
Introduction: Beyond Men of Steel
Angela Ndalianis
Chapter 1: All New, All Different, or No Normal?: Marvel Comics and Superhero Diversity
Naja Later
Chapter 2: The Heart of a Hero: Disability and Humanity in the Origin Stories of Marvel Studios' Superheroes
Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling
Chapter 3: Monstrosity, Mutation, and the World without Us
Octavia Cade
Chapter 4: Midnight's Children and The Fortress of Solitude as Superhero Origin Stories
Julian Novitz
Chapter 5: African American Viewers Watching Black Panther: The Power of Representation
Sheena C. Howard
Section 2: Beyond Comic Books
Introduction: Beyond Comic Books
Ian Gordon
Chapter 6: Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: Generational Taste and the Moral Panic of the 1968 Television Season
Djoymi Baker
Chapter 7: The Toy Biz of Superheroes: Superhero Action Figures
Jason Bainbridge
Chapter 8: From Comic Books to Courtroom: Unmasking the Intellectual Property behind the Superhero
Mitchell Adams
Chapter 9: Capes, Tights, and Motherships: Superheroes and New Transmedia Star Systems
Cormac McGarry
Chapter 10: Super Fans or Toxic Madmen?: Fantasy, Reality, and Marginalized Identities in Subversive "DIY Superhero" Indie Films
Jack Teiwes
Section 3: Beyond the United States
Introduction: Beyond the United States
Liam Burke
Chapter 11: We Need Another Hero: The Incompatibility of Superheroes and Australia
Liam Burke
Chapter 12: Without Seeing the Dawn: Monstrous (Super)Heroes and Philippine Myths in Mervin Malonzo's Tabi Po
Maria Lorena M. Santos
Chapter 13: Is There a Colombian National Superhero?: How Colombian Superheroes Help Define Ethnicity and Race in a Multicultural Society
Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Hernan David Espinosa-Medina
Chapter 14: Where Does Black Panther's Music Come From? Authorship, "the Other," and the Musical Representation of Africa in Hollywood
Dan Golding
Chapter 15: The Phantom in Aboriginal Australia: Educational Comics, National Identity, and Indigeneity
Aaron Humphrey
About the Contributors
Index
Graphic Content: Chris Claremont and the Making of an X-Men Icon
The legendary X-Men writer on the idea of Dark Phoenix as a femme fatale and more
CrimeReads June 1, 2020 By Alex Segura
https://crimereads.com/graphic-content-chris-claremont-and-the-making-of-an-x-men-icon/
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Alex Beringer
Ohio State University Press January, 2024
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215395.html
Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip
Alex Beringer
Ohio State University Press January, 2024
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215395.html
2024 Oscars Short Film Contenders: 'Teacups' Directors Alec Green And Finbar Watson [Australia]
By Jamie Lang | 11/03/2023
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/2024-oscars-short-film-teacups-directors-alec-green-finbar-watson-234481.html
2024 Oscars Short Film Contenders: 'Home Of The Heart' Director Sarah Saidan [France]
By Jamie Lang | 11/06/2023
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/2024-oscars-short-film-contenders-home-of-the-heart-director-sarah-saidan-234521.html
Whiteboard Geeks Workers File To Unionize With The Animation Guild
By Jamie Lang | 11/03/2023
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/whiteboard-geeks-workers-file-to-unionize-with-the-animation-guild-234474.html
Space Billionaires Should Spend More Time Thinking About Sex
By Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith
Nov. 5, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/05/opinion/space-billionaires-sex.html
Anna Readman's DANCING QUEEN wins Observer/Faber Graphic Short Story Prize 2023
Candy Gourlay's 'Safe Passage' named as runner up of the esteemed annual competition
Dean Simons
11/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/anna-readmans-dancing-queen-wins-observer-faber-graphic-short-story-prize-2023/
Ride Beside Me
Lucy Knisley. Knopf, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-9848-9719-0
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781984897190
AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 245: On Alan Scott: Green Lantern: Tim Sheridan and Cian Tormey unpack the new series
David Brooke and Chris Hassan
October 29, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/10/29/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-245green-lantern-tim-sheridan-tormey/
With 'Detective Comics,' Ram V is the industry's most thoughtful maestro
A new arc in issue #1,076 extends the writer's specific interests and ideas.
Chris Coplan
October 31, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/10/31/ram-v-detective-comics-qa/
X-Men Monday #225 – X Me Anything With the X-Office
Chris Hassan
October 30, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/10/30/x-men-monday-225-x-me-anything-x-office/
Tim Seeley, Jim Terry on sex, gore, and storytelling in 'Deathstalker' OGN
Chris Coplan
November 2, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/02/deathstalker-kickstarter-qa/
Creator of the Month: Sarah H. Cho
AWA Studios November 2023
https://awastudios.com/creator-of-the-month-sarah-h-cho/
Finally, new work from "Calvin & Hobbes's" Bill Watterson: The graphic novel "The Mysteries"
Ruben Bolling
Nov 2, 2023
https://boingboing.net/2023/11/02/finally-new-work-from-calvin-hobbess-bill-watterson-the-graphic-novel-the-mysteries.html
What Happens to Illustrators When Robots Can Draw Robots? [Michael Whelan]
By Erik Ofgang
A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 6, 2023, Section B, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Use of A.I. Worries Those Who Create Covers for Books
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/books/booksupdate/ai-books-illustration.html
