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Friday, December 01, 2023
TOMORROW: Something is Killing the Children superstar James Tynion IV comes to Third Eye Annapolis!
Bruce Guthrie's Stephan Pastis photos
PCHH on Wish
Disney's 'Wish' conjures up familiar dreams
Ariana DeBose as Asha in Wish.
It's been said that a dream is a wish your heart makes. But what happens when you entrust your dream to a charismatic but shady leader? That's the premise of Disney's latest animated movie Wish. It's a musical fantasy that stars ArianaDe Bose as an idealist who goes head-to-head with Chris Pine's selfish King. There are catchy songs, cute talking animals, and a few heartfelt moments — in other words, the Disney blueprint.
Robert Hunter Comics and Graphic Novels Collection @ 2nd Story Books
Some VERY surprising prices here. They've had this on sale for months now though.
Robert Hunter Comics and Graphic Novels Collection
Indie Publishers
Golden Age
https://www.secondstorybooks.com/searchResults.php?category_id=529&action=browse&orderBy=mostrecentGraphic Novels
https://www.secondstorybooks.com/searchResults.php?category_id=536&action=browse&orderBy=mostrecentThursday, November 30, 2023
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/30/2023
Historian Mike Voiles of Mike's Amazing World Of Comics Has Died
Dan Greenfield on Nov 27, 2023
https://13thdimension.com/historian-mike-voiles-of-mikes-amazing-world-of-comics-has-died/
CSotD: Kissinger in the Rear View Mirror
Mike Peterson
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/11/30/csotd-kissinger-in-the-rear-view-mirror/
Why the hell did Henry Kissinger play a bumbling cartoon duck in a '90s kids show?
Henry Kissinger's credits included Secretary of State, controversial Nobel Peace Prize Winner, and, one time, "Ducky Daddles" on Happily Ever After
William Hughes
AV Club November 29 2023
https://www.avclub.com/why-the-hell-did-henry-kissinger-play-a-bumbling-cartoo-1851060363
FORMER MARVEL PUBLISHER JOHN NEE, THREE IDW VETERANS FORM NEW COMPANY
Currently Running 'Conan the Barbarian - Colossal Edition' Crowdfunder [ Pan-Universal Galactic Worldwide (PUG-W)]
Brigid Alverson on November 29, 2023
CHUCK ROZANSKI OF MILE HIGH COMICS ON 'CAN COMICS BE SAVED?'
'What I Am Witnessing Today Is an Inexorable Disintegration of the… Comic Book Distribution System that I Helped… Create.'
Chuck Rozanski,
ICv2 November 29, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/talk-back/view/55717/chuck-rozanski-mile-high-comics-can-comics-be-saved
Where Did Nightcrawler Come From? It's Now Official (Spoilers)
X-Men Origins: Blue published today does just what it had been threatening, rewrites the already repeatedly rewritten origins of Nightcrawler
29 Nov 2023
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/where-did-nightcrawler-come-from-its-now-official-spoilers/
Marvel just retconned Nightcrawler and Mystique's relationship in the most X-Men way possible
By George Marston
Newsarama November 29 2023
'Invincible' Profits Showdown Heading to Trial
William Crabtree accused famed comic writer Robert Kirkman of duping him into signing a contract that characterized his contributions as a "work-for-hire," leaving him with no ownership stake in the series.
Winston Cho
November 29, 2023
Eternal Breath – Ron Regé, Jr.'s Spiritual Cycle
Hagai Palevsky | November 30, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/eternal-breath-ron-rege-jr-s-spiritual-cycle/
Gil Roth
Danny Fingeroth
Virtual Memories Show 565 November 28, 2023
https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-565-danny-fingeroth
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_565_-_Danny_Fingeroth.mp3
Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Sends a Familiar Story Into the Stratosphere
Molly Templeton
Nov 20, 2023
https://www.tor.com/2023/11/20/scott-pilgrim-takes-off-sends-a-familiar-story-into-the-stratosphere/
Interview: Greg Weisman on Gargoyles Quest and his 399 page Gargoyles timeline
Heidi MacDonald
11/30/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-greg-weisman-gargoyles-quest-399-page-gargoyles-timeline/
What Someone Who Doesn't Own a Dog Imagines Owning a Dog Is Like
By Chris Scott
Illustration by Malaka Gharib
November 30, 2023
JewCE Panel Archive
https://jewce.org/index.php/jewce-panels/
Jewish Roots of the Comic Industry
Arie Kaplan (From Krakow to Krypton), Roy Schwartz (Is Superman Circumcised?), Simcha Weinstein (Up, Up and Oy Vey!) and moderator Danny Fingeroth
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDwMViZB3k4
Jewish Folklore in Comics
Moderator: Eddy Portnoy, Dani Colman, Trina Robbins, Chanan Beizer, and Yehudi Mercado
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_thuP-qqE4
Queering Jewish Comics
Moderator: Tahneer Oksman, Ben Kahn, Shira Spector, Barry Deutsch, and Miriam Libicki
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX9yhnAzTtE
Breaking the Mainstream Getting Past Ashkenormativity and Secularism in Comics
Moderator: Arnon Shorr, Daniel Lobell, Emily Bowen Cohen, Joshua Sky, Carol Isaacs
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY8wFhmCJIY
Comics for Mini Mensches
Moderator: Jeremy Dauber, Yehudi Mercado, Terri Libenson, Chari Pere, Barry Deutsch
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCE3QUNbBFs
Canons are Made to Blow Up! Retconning, Rebooting, Jossing, and other Paradigm Shifts
Moderator: Jenny Caplan, Brian Michael Bendis (via Zoom), Brian Azzarello, Joshua Sky, and Barbara Slate
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ77sFTwXl8
Jewish Comics and Remembrance Culture
Moderator: Samantha Baskind, Moderator: Danny Fingeroth, Ken Krimstein, Stan Mack, and Trina Robbins
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mGkYJPdvik
Will Eisner The First Poet Laureate of the Jewish Graphic Novel
Paul Levitz and Jules Feiffer
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CygLMjYauJs
Telling Other People's Stories
Moderator: Julian Voloj, Tracy White, Stephanie Phillips, Koren Shadmi, and Neil Kleid
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRpGwQc_ODM
Jewish Female Narratives in the Graphic Arts
Moderator: Karen Green, Leela Corman, Amy Kurzweil, Alisa Kwitney, and Miriam Libicki
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxC0PS6a6eU
Holy Graphic Novels!
Moderator: Jordan B. Gorfinkel, JT Waldman, Jessica Tamar Deutsch, Mat Tonti, and Willy Mendes
Center for Jewish History JewCE Panel Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkF7uTePbnE
Out of Time: Bill Watterson's first book since Calvin and Hobbes envisions a medieval world on the brink of extinction.
Gabriel Winslow-Yost
New York Review of Books December 21, 2023 issue
online at https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/21/out-of-time-the-mysteries-watterson-kascht/
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust | Review
November 30, 2023 by Esther Keller
https://goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2023/11/30/courage-to-dream-tales-of-hope-in-the-holocaust-review/
Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust
By Neal Shusterman. Art by Andrés Vera Martínez
Scholastic, October 2023.
Post-It Reviews: Six quick reviews of recent graphic novels
November 28, 2023 by Amanda MacGregor
https://teenlibrariantoolbox.com/2023/11/28/post-it-reviews-12/
Steve Breen's Drawing Conclusions newsletter
The creator of the comic strip 'Mutts' frees his Guard Dog character after decades
By MARK KENNEDY
Associated Press November 30, 2023
https://apnews.com/article/mutts-guard-dog-free-comics-d831d5fe301ca92bb4e0e45631dda8b0
On Tour with Stephan Pastis
Compiled by Diane Roback
Nov 30, 2023
Frontier is a stunning new sci-fi graphic novel from Citizen Sleeper artist Guillaume Singelin;
Interview | The writer/artist discusses his new project
By Will Salmon
Newsarama November 29 2023
Singelin avec Frontier prix Landerneau BD 2023
Jean-Laurent Truc
30 novembre 2023
https://www.ligneclaire.info/singelin-prix-landerneau-bd-2023-285191.html
Christopher Nolan Is Right: Zack Snyder's Watchmen Was Ahead of Its Time
By David Crow | November 29, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/christopher-nolan-right-zack-snyder-watchmen-ahead-of-time/
10 R-Rated or Adult-Skewing Movies That Were Turned into Children's Cartoons
The 1980s and '90s were a glorious time where any subject matter could be a cartoon show or toy line if the executives were cynical enough, and the parents otherwise oblivious.
By Jack Beresford | November 30, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/r-rated-adult-skewing-movies-turned-into-childrens-cartoons/
45 best manga of Fall 2023
An manga adaptation of three classic Murakami stories tops a star-studded list of LGBTQ, horror and historical fiction.
Nancy Powell
11/30/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/45-anticipated-manga-for-fall-2023/
100 œuvres de Morris pour son centenaire à Bruxelles
Jean-Laurent Truc
29 novembre 2023
https://www.ligneclaire.info/100-ans-100-oeuvres-284906.html
Pastis' tour with Guthrie photos
Bruce Guthrie caught him in Takoma Park...
On Tour with Stephan Pastis
Former local Malaka Gharib on the New Yorker site
What Someone Who Doesn't Own a Dog Imagines Owning a Dog Is Like
Dec 20: Sara Duke's virtual presentation highlighting Library of Congress cartoon art collections
Finding Pictures: Cartoon CavalcadeThe Library of Congress has amassed a collection of 140,000 cartoon prints and drawings over the past 150 years, including political cartoons, comic strip and comic book illustrations, gag cartoons, and animation cels. Join Sara W. Duke, Curator of Popular & Applied Graphic Art for an insider's perspective of the wealth of cartoon art in the collections of the Prints & Photographs Division. While the cartoons date back to the European Renaissance and Japanese Edo period, most of the cartoons date from the 20th century United States. Wednesday, December 20th, 2023, 3:00-4:00 pm (EDT) Registration: https://loc.zoomgov.com/webinar/register/WN_og_Kh-pcSQeK6S8D4FR3-w |  A group of vultures waiting for the storm to "Blow Over" - "Let Us Prey," print by Thomas Nast, 1871. |