That darn Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby

The Oct. 27 editorial cartoon. (Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby/The Washington Post)

Are we out of our gourd? [ Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby 'editorial cartoon' letter]

Mary McComb, Washington

Washington Post November 11 2023

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/10/melt-lee-statue-frank-howard-matthew-perry/

The Oct. 27 editorial page was another disappointment. Where are the substantive reviews by the editors of current events and issues? Starting with the "editorial" cartoon, the "editorial" part is missing. The cartoon by Pia Guerra and Ian Boothby was cute, but it added nothing to the discussion of important issues (political, social, historical). On top of that, these days there is only one editorial. Maybe there is a goal of adding more room for letters like mine, but l look to The Post to help me think about major issues of the day, hearing from people who are more connected to the players than I am.

Zach Weinersmith in conversation with Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about A CITY ON MARS

Zach Weinersmith in conversation with Dr. Teasel Muir-Harmony of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum about A CITY ON MARS

Scrawl Books (November 10 2023):

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzcmdhCtWsS/

AAEC statement on WaPo and Ramirez

https://editorialcartoonists.com/a-statement-on-the-michael-ramirez-cartoon-in-the-washington-post/ 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/10/2023

Research Guides: Comic Books
Brian Flota
James Madison University Library
https://guides.lib.jmu.edu/comics

INTERVIEW: Chris Oliveros talks ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE?

The new work of nonfiction chronicles the rise of a radical separatist group in 1960s Canada.

Zack Quaintance

11/10/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-chris-oliveros-talks-are-you-willing-to-die-for-the-cause/

 

Frank Frazetta Comics Held Over Creator Payments as Opus Moves to UK

Yesterday, Sedat Oezgen posted to social media, allegations that Opus Comics has not been paying him for his work on Frank Frazetta titles.

by Rich Johnston

  09 Nov 2023

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/frank-frazetta-comics-held-over-creator-payments-as-opus-moves-to-uk/

 

Kate Micucci Confesses To Drawing Cartoons Outside Jazba In New York

Kate Micucci turned to TikTok to confess that she drew all the cartoons on the outside of the Jazba restaurant in the East Village.

by Rich Johnston

  09 Nov 2023

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/kate-micucci-confesses-to-drawing-cartoons-outside-jazba-in-new-york/

 

Mark Millar Suggests Royalty Rate Of 50% To Save The Comics Industry

There has been a lot of chatter recently about page rates for work-for-hire at Marvel and DC Comics. It's time to light the Mark Millar Signal

09 Nov 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-millar-suggests-royalty-rate-of-50-to-save-the-comics-industry/

 

Sales Charts: Wimpy Kid sales decline

Heidi MacDonald

11/10/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/sales-charts-wimpy-kid-sales-decline/

 

The Sun Never Sets on Amazon's Anti-Superhero Empire

Between 'The Boys,' 'Gen V,' and 'Invincible,' Prime Video has become the go-to streamer for mature, subversive superhero stories

By Miles Surrey Nov 3, 2023, https://www.theringer.com/tv/2023/11/3/23943895/gen-v-season-finale-invincible-season-2-the-boys-amazon-prime

 

2024 Oscars Short Film Contenders: 'Aikāne' Directors Daniel Sousa, Dean Hamer, And Joe Wilson

By Jamie Lang | 11/09/2023

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/2024-oscars-short-film-contenders-aikane-directors-daniel-sousa-dean-hamer-and-joe-wilson-234637.html

 

Bay Dariz and Phil Earnest Discuss the Making of Their Doc, 'Pencils vs. Pixels'

By Ramin Zahed

November 9, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/3241130/

 

Fullmetal Alchemist: 20th Anniversary Book by Hiromu Arakawa and Square Enix (VIZ Media 2023

 

'Fullmetal Alchemist 20th Anniversary Book': Steampunk Brothers Save the Day!

By Charles Solomon

November 9, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/fullmetal-alchemist-20th-anniversary-book-steampunk-brothers-save-the-day/

This article was written for the December '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 335)

 

'Carl the Collector' Introduces PBS KIDS' First Autistic Lead Character

By Mercedes Milligan

November 9, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/carl-the-collector-introduces-pbs-kids-first-autistic-lead-character/

 

Jeffrey Katzenberg: AI Will Drastically Cut Number of Workers It Takes to Make Animated Movies

"It took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie," Katzenberg said at a Bloomberg conference. "I don't think it will take 10 percent of that [with AI]."

Alex Weprin

November 9, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/jeffrey-katzenberg-ai-entertainment-animation-prediction-1235643311/

 

Katzenberg Says AI Will Reduce Animation Crews by 90%; 'Shrek 5' Release Year Leaked

By Animation Magazine

November 9, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/katzenberg-says-ai-will-reduce-animation-crews-by-90-shrek-5-release-year-leaked/

 

Jeff Katzenberg: AI Will Cut Cost of Animated Films by 90%

Bloomberg November 9th, 2023,

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-11-09/katzenberg-ai-will-cut-cost-of-animated-films-by-90-video

 

Washington Post Takes Down Offensive Anti-Palestinian Cartoon

The drawing by conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was widely criticized as "racist" and "orientalist."

  Rhea Nayyar

Hyperallergic November 9 2023

https://hyperallergic.com/855654/washington-post-takes-down-offensive-anti-palestinian-cartoon/

 

Philippe Francq s'expose avec Largo Winch – Rétrospective chez Huberty à Paris

Jean-Laurent Truc

10 novembre 2023

https://www.ligneclaire.info/philippe-francq-largo-winch-2023-283568.html

 

'The Marvels' Review: You've Seen This Movie 32 Times Before

By Manohla Dargis

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 10, 2023, Section C, Page 9 of the New York edition with the headline: Honestly, You've Seen the Movie 32 Times Before

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/09/movies/the-marvels-review-brie-larson.html

 

'The Marvels' is a light comedy about light powers

Glen Weldon, Linda Holmes, Daisy Rosario, and Ronald Young Jr.

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour November 10, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1197956743/the-marvels-is-a-light-comedy-about-light-powers

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5227976760.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956743

 

Hollywood's not afraid of superheroes anymore, but it's still afraid of real superhero stories

It shouldn't be this hard to make great movies for, say, The Marvels or the Flash when there are decades of terrific storylines to be tapped in the comics

Sam Barsanti

AV Club November 9 2023

https://www.avclub.com/hollywood-loves-superheroes-just-not-their-stories-1850983371

 

Think Like a Cartoonist with Leigh Rubin and friends

Leigh Rubin, Rodger Nichols, Deb Goodrich, Robin Blakely, and Jeff Harman

RIT Libraries  Nov 9, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkIF03aSWvg

 

INTERVIEW: Masaaki Ninomiya, creator of horror manga Gannibal

The creator of a gripping, gory tale set in a secretive rural community in Japan talks about getting published in English for the first time.

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Nov 9, 2023

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/interview-masaaki-ninomiya-creator

 

Can joy of the arts bring us together? A Boston project tests the idea. [Liza Donnelly]

The Jar, founded in 2019, has a goal of inviting people who don't look or think like each other to share an art-filled evening

By Peter Marks

November 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2023/11/10/the-jar-boston-arts-diversity/

 

Coyote v. Acme won't have its day in court, shelved by WBD for tax write-offs

Warner Bros. doesn't have space for the Looney Tunes anymore

Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club November 9 2023

https://www.avclub.com/max-s-coyote-v-acme-won-t-have-its-day-in-court-shelv-1851009483

 

The Hand (and Mind) Is Where It All Begins: The Rich History of Printing Comic Strips

Glenn Fleishman

How Comics Were Made Newsletter Nov. 6, 2023

https://buttondown.email/howcomics/archive/the-hand-and-mind-is-where-it-all-begins/

 

How Comics Were Made! A Visual History from the Drawing Board to the Printed Page

By Glenn Fleishman

https://buttondown.email/howcomics

 

Brian Biggs' Random Orbit

https://brianbiggs.substack.com

free

 

Golden Lawns, Village Green – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | November 10, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/golden-lawns-village-green-this-weeks-links/

 

The Scarcity of Comic Books in American Research Libraries

Kelli Hansen 2023

Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library

online at https://mospace.umsystem.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10355/97165/TheScarcityOfComicBooksInAmericanResearchLibraries.pdf

 

Brian Bendis Masterpiece and more

wordballoon  Nov 3, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqcAO4kN3g

 

Enter ... The Punisher , With David Pepose

wordballoon November 9 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZwg0lm5SLQ

 

NEIL GAIMAN'S Masterclass! Worthless? Worthwhile? We'll Help You Decide!

Cartoonist Kayfabe November 3 2023

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

 

Gilbert Hernandez (LOVE AND ROCKETS) Shoot Interview!

Cartoonist Kayfabe

November 5 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abr8hrQny-k

 

Stanley Wany Conversation [Canada]

Noah Van Sciver

 Nov 7, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3LKZmeQj8g

 

Off Panel #423: Expect the Unexpected with Morgan Perry [Skybound]

David Harper

Nov 6, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel423-expect-the-unexpected-with-morgan-perry

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

 

Ms. Marvel, mutants, and the MCU problem: how Iman Vellani is writing the path forward

The young hero's treatment has sparked some massive ideas.

Lia Williamson

November 9, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/09/ms-marvel-mutants-mcu-essay/

 

X-Men Monday #226 – Christopher Cantwell Talks 'Thanos'

Chris Hassan

November 6, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/06/x-men-monday-christopher-cantwell-thanos/

 

Talking old glories and new ideas for the future of 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

Editor Jamie S. Rich breaks down the start of the "Road to 150" celebration.

Collier Jennings

November 9, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/09/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-150-event/

 

Scott Duvall on death, grief, and monsters in 'Going Green'

 

'Going Green' is currently crowdfunding via Zoop.

Chris Coplan

November 7, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/07/going-green-zoop-qa/

 

In Praise of Untamable Women – A Conversation with Mary M. Talbot

Tasha Lowe-Newsome

November 6, 2023

https://solrad.co/in-praise-of-untamable-women-a-conversation-with-mary-m-talbot

 

The Cliff by Manon Debaye review – misfits with a monstrous plan

This deceptively charming story of preteen friends seeking refuge in the French countryside is a modern-day Lord of the Flies

Rachel Cooke 6 Nov 2023 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/06/the-cliff-by-manon-debaye-review-graphic-novel

 

Figuring it out: 'confusing' non-binary gender in Runaways and The Order of the Stick

Melissa Shani Brow & Jude Roberts

Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies

  30 Oct 2023

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10304312.2023.2272566

    https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2023.2272566

    

Your translated memory or mine? Re-membering graphic novels in performed audio descriptions for The Cartoon Museum, London

Dimitris Asimakoulas

 01 Nov 2023

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2023.2277382

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21504857.2023.2277382

    https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2277382

 

Background check: cross-cultural differences in the spatial context of comic scenes

Fred Atilla, Bien Klomberg, Bruno Cardoso, Neil Cohn

      Multimodal Communication  November 2023

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375116696_Background_check_cross-cultural_differences_in_the_spatial_context_of_comic_scenes

https://doi.org/10.1515/mc-2023-0027

 

Ep. 107: Nejishiki, by Yoshiharu Tsuge

            Mangasplaining, November 7, 2023

https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-107-nijishiki-by-yoshiharu-tsuge/

 

A Third Way: Questions of Perspective in Strange Adventures #10

By Steve Baxi              

Shelfdust: November 8, 2023

https://shelfdust.com/2023/11/08/a-third-way-questions-of-perspective-in-strange-adventures-10/

 

 

NPR PCHH likes The Marvels

'The Marvels' is a light comedy about light powers

Glen Weldon, Linda Holmes, Daisy Rosario, and Ronald Young Jr.

NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour November 10, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/10/1197956743/the-marvels-is-a-light-comedy-about-light-powers

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5227976760.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197956743

Liza Donnelly in WaPo

The former DC native is featured in this story -

Can joy of the arts bring us together? A Boston project tests the idea. [Liza Donnelly]

The Jar, founded in 2019, has a goal of inviting people who don't look or think like each other to share an art-filled evening

By Peter Marks

November 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater/2023/11/10/the-jar-boston-arts-diversity/

Article on an issue of Tom King's Strange Adventures

A Third Way: Questions of Perspective in Strange Adventures #10

By Steve Baxi

Shelfdust: November 8, 2023

https://shelfdust.com/2023/11/08/a-third-way-questions-of-perspective-in-strange-adventures-10/

Another article on WaPo's Ramirez cartoon

Washington Post Takes Down Offensive Anti-Palestinian Cartoon

The drawing by conservative cartoonist Michael Ramirez was widely criticized as "racist" and "orientalist."

  Rhea Nayyar

Hyperallergic November 9 2023

https://hyperallergic.com/855654/washington-post-takes-down-offensive-anti-palestinian-cartoon/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/9/2023

Washington Post deletes editorial cartoon criticized as racist [Michael Ramirez].

By Elahe Izadi and Will Sommer

Washington Post November 8, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/08/washington-post-hamas-cartoon-michael-ramirez/

 

Readers respond to a Hamas cartoon [Michael Ramirez].

David Shipley, et. al.

Washington Post November 9, 2023 : A22.

Online at  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/08/readers-response-hamas-cartoon/

 

"Fire All the Editorial Cartoonists"

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/11/08/fire-all-the-editorial-cartoonists/

 

Fire All the Editorial Cartoonists

The Washington Post's latest racist crime against art is no outlier.

Jack Crosbie

Discourse blog Nov 8, 2023

https://www.discourseblog.com/p/fire-all-the-editorial-cartoonists

 

Washington Post apologises, takes down 'racist' Gaza cartoon

The New Arab Staff

09 November, 2023

https://www.newarab.com/news/washington-post-apologises-takes-down-racist-gaza-cartoon

 

Washington Post cartoon slammed as 'racist, vile', ignites controversy

Publication takes down Hamas drawing by Michael Ramirez after it was criticised as dehumanising towards Palestinians

By Al Jazeera Staff

Published On 8 Nov 2023

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/8/racist-vile-cartoon-in-washington-post-ignites-controversy

 

Washington Post takes down editorial cartoon after criticism

by Dominick Mastrangelo - 11/09/23
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4301670-washington-post-takes-down-editorial-cartoon/

 

Washington Post publishes, then deletes 'racist, vile' Palestine cartoon after public backlash

Post slammed for offensive cartoon by Michael Ramirez that dehumanised Palestinians

Published:  November 09, 2023 15:19 Sadiq Shaban, Opinion Editor

https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/washington-post-publishes-then-deletes-racist-vile-palestine-cartoon-after-public-backlash-1.99295365

 

Edel Rodriguez Isn't Afraid to Live With the Consequences

By Benjamin P. Russell

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 9, 2023, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: He Sounded the Alarm. Now It's Louder..

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/books/edel-rodriguez-worm.html

 

What to Know About 'The Marvels' and Its Tumultuous Back Story

By Brandon Yu

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 9, 2023, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Battling the Villain of 'Superhero Fatigue'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/movies/the-marvels-brie-larson.html

 

9 things to know before you see 'The Marvels' [in print as What to know before seeing 'The Marvels']

'The Marvels' might be the MCU's most 'homework required' film yet. Here's what to know and watch.

By Herb Scribner

Washington Post November 9, 2023 : C3.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2023/11/07/marvels-what-to-watch/

 

Comiclicious Available to Print Newspapers

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/11/09/comiclicious-available-to-print-newspapers/

 

Sutton, Draughon Win 2023 Eppys

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/11/08/sutton-draughton-win-2023-eppys/

 

Retailer warns that comics are dying again

Heidi MacDonald

11/09/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/retailer-warns-that-comics-are-dying-again/

 

ONI PRESS SENDS OUT COMIC SHOP STARTER KIT

Swag to Promote Upcoming Titles

  Johanna Draper Carlson on November 8, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55537/oni-press-sends-out-comic-shop-starter-kit

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern is a queer mainstream superhero story like few others

Writer Tim Sheridan talks about being unapologetically queer and brutally honest in his Alan Scott: The Green Lantern comic

By George Marston

Newsarama November 7 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/alan-scott-the-green-lantern-is-a-queer-mainstream-superhero-story-like-few-others/

 

INTERVIEW: James Sturm and Joe Sutphin on the legacy (and bunnies) of WATERSHIP DOWN: THE GRAPHIC NOVEL

Interview by Avery and Rebecca Oliver Kaplan

11/09/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-james-sturm-and-joe-sutphin-on-watership-down-the-graphic-novel/

 

The Indirect Market // It's Nearly 2024 and I'm More Than Optimistic

Brandon Schatz & Danica LeBlanc

11/09/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-indirect-market-its-nearly-2024-and-im-more-than-optimistic/

 

ACBD Critic's Prize 2024 longlists French editions of DUCKS and THE NICE HOUSE ON THE LAKE

Some familiar titles in the longlist of French comics critics association's Grand Prix de la Critique 2024

Dean Simons

11/09/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/acbd-critics-prize-2024-longlists-french-editions-of-ducks-and-the-nice-house-on-the-lake/

 

'Most Magnificent' Series Expands into Toys, TV [Millie Magnificent animation]

By Pamela Brill

Nov 09, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/93703-most-magnificent-series-expands-into-toys-tv.html

 

On Tour with Derrick Barnes

Compiled by Iyana Jones

Nov 09, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/93695-on-tour-with-derrick-barnes.html

 

Warner Bros. Shelves John Cena's 'Coyote vs. Acme' Movie a Year After It Completed Filming (Exclusive)

 

The animated feature was greenlit as an HBO Max film before being considered for a theatrical release.

By Borys Kit, Aaron Couch       

November 9, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/john-cena-coyote-vs-acme-movie-shelved-1235643235/

 

The First Invasion: An Interview with Author Zack Soto

Megan Ciskowski

The Lerner Blog

https://lernerbooks.blog/2023/11/the-first-invasion-an-interview-with-author-zack-soto.html

 

Strikers: An Interview with Author Kiel Phegley

Megan Ciskowski

The Lerner Blog

https://lernerbooks.blog/2023/10/strikers-an-interview-with-author-kiel-phegley.html

 

"The Marvels" and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise

How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?

By Richard Brody

November 9, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-marvels-and-the-paradox-of-the-superhero-franchise

 

CTN Founder Tina Price Reflects on 15 Years of Opening Doors for Toon Talent

By Animation Magazine

November 8, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/ctn-founder-tina-price-reflects-on-15-years-of-opening-doors-for-toon-talent/

 

Wild Child Animation Expands Slate, Joyce Miller Boards as Consultant [Scotland]

By Mercedes Milligan

November 8, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/wild-child-animation-expands-slate-joyce-miller-boards-as-consultant/

 

Moonbug & Spin Master Forge Content, Licensing & Media Management Pact

By Mercedes Milligan

November 8, 2023

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/moonbug-spin-master-forge-content-licensing-media-management-pact/

Zach Weinersmith at Scrawl Books

With Apollo historian Teasel Muir-Harmony. Standing room only crowd.

Note Watterson's The Mysteries on the shelf. Bill never saw how web cartoonists would make money.

Store event manager Leah