Graphic Public Health: An Interview with Meredith Li Vollmer
Ishani Anwesha Joshi & Sathyaraj Venkatesan
2023, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (November 25):
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2287224
online at https://www.academia.edu/109901938/_Graphic_Medicine_Graphic_Public_Health_An_Interview_with_Meredith_Li_Vollmer
Batman's Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham's Souls
Edited by Justin F. Martin and Marco Favaro -
Lexington Books 2023
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666930832/Batman%E2%80%99s-Villains-and-Villainesses-Multidisciplinary-Perspectives-on-Arkham%E2%80%99s-Souls
Introduction. Not Exactly a Cowardly Lot: Gotham's Villains
Marco Favaro and Justin F. Martin
Chapter 1. Death, Monk, and Strange: The Predecessors to the Supervillain in Detective Comics
John Darowski
Part I. Arkham City: The Asylum, the City and the Ones Who Rule Them
Chapter 2. "This Place Isn't a Prison": Institutions, Choice, and the Case of Arkham Asylum
Tony Spanakos and Damien K. Picariello
Chapter 3. "You Can't Fight City Hall!": The Villains Hidden in Gotham's Government
Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd
Chapter 4. The Owls Nesting in the Bat's City: Secrecy, Gotham's Social Structures, and the Court of Owls
James C. Taylor
Part II. Confronting Batman: Outsiders, Doppelgängers and Parodies
Chapter 5. The Mutants, the Sons of Batman, and the Long Shadow of the Bat
Damien K. Picariello
Chapter 6. Bane: the Man Who "Doppelgängered" the Bat
Jesús Jiménez-Varea
Chapter 7. Outcasts and Oppressors: Killer Moth and Killer Croc
Jason D. DeHart
Part III Creating a Villainous Identity: Form, Function, and Reboots
Chapter 8. Flesh, Scars and Clay: The Role of Pain and Bodies in the Creation of Identity and Meaning
Marco Favaro
Chapter 9. Controlling the Appearances: Thomas Elliot's Hush, His Masks, and the Desire to Dominate Perceptions
Sean C. Hadley
Chapter 10. "My relationship with Batman has never been what I'd call 'stable'": Catwoman's Flirtations with Superheroism and Her Evolving Role as the Monstrous Feline Fatale. Carl Wilson
Chapter 11. "Kite Man, Hell Yeah!": Revisionism, Masculinity, and the Role of the D-tier Supervillain
Nicholas T. James
Part IV. Dangerous Women: Victims, Vixens, and Villainesses
Chapter 12. From Good Girl to Bad Girl to…Something In-Between: Harley Quinn as a Morally Complex Character
Nathan Miczo
Chapter 13. "There Is One Thing You Have Never Understood About Me, Batman": The Liminality of Talia al Ghul
Tosha R. Taylor
Chapter 14. Militant Earth Mother: Viewing Poison Ivy as an Ecofeminist rather than as an Ecoterrorist
Christina M. Knopf
Chapter 15. "Hear me Roar": Trauma Representation of Catwoman in Comic Books and Cinema from 1983-1995
Sean Travers
Chapter 16. Arkham's Sirens: Analyzing the Roles of the Body and the Transcendental Subject in Arkham's Villainesses and Antiheroines
Marco Favaro
Part V. We Are What We Believe: Ethics, Theology, and Motivations
Chapter 17. The Demon's Head and the Ethics of the Anthropocene
Daniel Goff
Chapter 18. Cold-Hearted: Mr. Freeze and Moral Development
Justin F. Martin
Chapter 19. The Pleasure of Fear: the Scarecrow as an Extremely Immoral, Vicious and Pro-Passion Character According to Stoicism
Francisco Miguel Ortiz
Chapter 20. Batman, Defender of the Status Quo?: On Anarchy and Anarky (Guest Villain: The Ventriloquist)
Eduardo Veteri and Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Chapter 21. The Hole in Things: Dr. Hurt's Textual History, Religious Significance, and Role in Grant Morrison's Batman Run
Matthew Brake
FORMER HEAVY METAL CEO, MANAGING EDITOR, PEN NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL
'Mutant Cats' Is Sci-Fi Satire
Brigid Alverson on November 30, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55721/former-heavy-metal-ceo-managing-editor-pen-new-graphic-novel
'INVINCIBLE' DISPUTE BETWEEN KIRKMAN AND CRABTREE CLEARED TO GO TO TRIAL
Judge Denies Two of Colorist's Claims But Allows Others to Go Forward
Brigid Alverson on November 30, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55726/invincible-dispute-between-kirkman-crabtree-cleared-go-trial
Colleen Doran's Funny Business newsletter
https://colleendoran.substack.com/
ALLEN BERREBBI OF BIG BANG COMICS ON 'CAN COMICS BE SAVED?'
'We Need More Long-Term Thinking.'
Allen Berrebbi,
ICv2 on November 30, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/talk-back/view/55725/allen-berrebbi-big-bang-comics-can-comics-be-saved
The DC Comics Grant Morrison Pitches That Warner Bros. Turned Down
Grant Morrison, revealed how their Wonder Woman Earth One graphic novel series with Yanick Paquette was originally a movie pitch.
by Rich Johnston
29 Nov 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-dc-comics-grant-morrison-pitches-that-warner-bros-turned-down/
INTERVIEW: Neil Kleid talks brotherhood, betrayal, and bar mitzvahs in NICE JEWISH BOYS
By Noam Steinerman
12/01/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/neil-kleid-interview-nice-jewish-boys/
Edward Sorel website
https://www.edwardsorel.net/
Kissing Image in a Graphic Novel Can Lead to Porn Addiction, Claims Activist Trying to Censor Books
Kelas Lloyd
12/01/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/kissing-images-can-lead-to-porn-addiction-claims-activist/
My Claremont Year- Inferno (Sept/Oct)
Madelyne Pryor died in Inferno so that Jean Grey could live (and die and live again.)
Scott Cederlund
Nov 30, 2023
https://www.fromcovertocover.com/my-claremont-year-inferno-sept-oct/?ref=from-cover-to-cover-newsletter
Poetry Comics Month Guest Artists, Part Two
Travis Jonker, Austin Kleon, Vikram Madan, and Summer Pierre
Grant Snider
Incidental Comics Dec 1, 2023
https://incidentalcomics.substack.com/p/poetry-comics-month-guest-artists
Michael Moreci & Nicholas Eames! Ep 3 of The Vault Cast! [Barbaric]
Daniel Crary
Nov 27, 2023 The Vault Cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug8j2Dguk08
The Crew Of 'Trolls Band Together' On How To Set Up A Collaborative And Creative Production
By Cole Delaney | 11/29/2023
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/dreamworks-trolls-band-together-inbtwn-animation-235177.html
TROLLS BAND TOGETHER directors and crew on creativity and collaboration
Walt Dohrn. Tim Heitz, Colin Jack, vfx supervisor Marc Scott, and head of character animation Ben Willis.
Inbtwn Animation Fest
Nov 29, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xv50Ovd89yM
Trolls Band Together Behind The Voices
FilMonger
Nov 3, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxDBrj4mtwU
'Invincible' Studio Skybound Expands to Japan with Focus on Anime & Local IP
By Mercedes Milligan
November 30, 2023
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/invincible-studio-skybound-expands-to-japan-with-focus-on-anime-local-ip/
'Mavka,' One of the Year's Top Indie Toons Worldwide, Shares Success Story at Cartoon Business [Ukraine]
By Mercedes Milligan
November 30, 2023
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/mavka-one-of-the-years-top-indie-toons-worldwide-shares-success-whats-next-at-cartoon-business/
'The Boy and the Heron' Wins New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film
By Animation Magazine
November 30, 2023
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/the-boy-and-the-heron-wins-new-york-film-critics-circle-award-for-best-animated-film/
'Titina' Director Kajsa Næss Details the Grand Artistic Expedition
By Kajsa Naess
November 30, 2023
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2023/11/titina-director-kajsa-naess-details-the-grand-artistic-expedition/
This article was written for the January '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 336)
Carmen Selam's Debut Comic Is Self-Love Medicine
In the limited-edition risograph comic Rezbians, Selam shares a solution for the scarcity of queer Indigenous representation in pop culture.
Samantha Anne Carrillo
Hyperallergic November 20 2023
https://hyperallergic.com/859274/carmen-selam-debut-comic-rezbians-is-self-love-medicine/
Gratuitous Ninja
Ronald Wimberly. Beehive, $100 (636p) ISBN 978-1-948886-34-5
rev. by Meg Lemke
https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-948886-34-5
Back to December – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | December 1, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/back-to-december-this-weeks-links/
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 595: Matt Lesniewski Interview
Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald
on 11/27/2023
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1286
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 594: Dan Santat Wins the NBA for Young Peoples Literature
, Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons
on 11/20/2023
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1285
Off Panel #426: Boy at the End with Skottie Young
David Harper
Nov 27, 2023
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel426-boy-at-the-end-with-skottie-young
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Skottie_Young_2023.mp3
Seth Conversation (part two)
Noah Van Sciver
Nov 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSx0ZATfK-U
Shary Boyle on Storyshifting, Nov. 21, 2023
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
376 ; Nov 22, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR4pRJ6Nr-I
Melek Zertal and Christina Svenson , Today's Special / poetry in comics, Nov 28, 2023
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
377 Nov 30, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BLWH84L4DY
Jillian and Mariko Tamaki
Bullseye with Jesse Thorn November 17, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1197954636/jillian-mariko-tamaki
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510309/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR2774828865.mp3
Paralanguage in the Translation of Children's Graphic Novels into Arabic: Jeff Kinney's Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Julieta Alós
13 November 2023
Children's Literature in Education
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10583-023-09558-4
Submitting to Loving Authority: Wonder Woman's DeleuzoGuattarian Ethics
Troy Michael Bordun
Reden Vol. 5 No. 1 (2023)
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/article/view/2171
https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/article/view/2171/1353
https://doi.org/10.37536/reden.2023.5.2171
Iconicity in the Visual Lexicons of Comics
November 2023
Michał Szawerna
Neil Cohn
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375714938_Iconicity_in_the_Visual_Lexicons_of_Comics
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/375714938_Iconicity_in_the_Visual_Lexicons_of_Comics/link/65576d19b1398a779d95cc7b/download?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIn19
Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature and Comic Art ed. by Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava (review)
Brian Maidment
Victorian Periodicals Review
Volume 56, Number 2, Summer 2023
pp. 312-314
10.1353/vpr.2023.a912323
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/912323
Richard Scully and Andrekos Varnava, eds., Comic Empires: Imperialism in Cartoons, Caricature and Comic Art (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2020),
Unravelling crip temporalities: epilepsy, chronic illness and Elodie Durand's Parenthesis
Sathyaraj Venkatesan & Prerna Tolani
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 17 Nov 2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2280203
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2280203
Slippers, canes and hospitalisations: adult to child violence in 1970s UK comics
Robert Hagan
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 15 Nov 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2023.2279148
https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2279148
Branded webtoon, the rise of the digital comic industry in South Korea
South Korea's webtooniverse and digital comic revolution by Brian Yecies and Ae-Gyung Shim, Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
Diah Ayu Candraningrum & Hanipa Yansari
Asian Journal of Communication 22 Nov 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01292986.2023.2282433?casa_token=F_5QktyCDRoAAAAA%3An7o93VoVjO9KxIbDosf_TaD2gS2IpVs354iHcMUVDfcLBpv_-ONCK7-QKl1aRlmbq5rlJZ3OxIth
https://doi.org/10.1080/01292986.2023.2282433
'Black lines on white paper': how comic artist Barbara Brandon-Croft draws on Where [she's] Coming from
Darnel Degand
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 20 Nov 2023
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2282063
https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2282063
Statistical characteristics of comic panel viewing times
Hikaru Ikuta, Leslie Wöhler & Kiyoharu Aizawa
Scientific Reports volume 13, Article number: 20291 (2023)
20 November 2023
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47120-w
Non-Violent Resistance in Nazar's Comics: A Verbo-Visual Discourse Analysis
Authors
Sehrish Aslam Ph D Scholar, Department of English, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr. Fauzia Janjua Professor, Department of English, International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan
Pakistan Languages and Humanities Review, 7(4), 351–361
https://ojs.plhr.org.pk/journal/article/view/694
https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2023(7-IV)30
Martin Barker and Comics Studies: A Personal Appreciation
Roger Sabin
Participations Volume 19 Issue 3 November 2023
https://www.participations.org/19-03-03-sabin.pdf
How to Read Uncle $crooge After How to Read Donald Duck
Henry Jenkins
Participations Volume 19 Issue 3 November 2023
https://www.participations.org/19-03-04-jenkins.pdf
Mutually Supportive and Inclusive Societies Driven by Community Social Workers in Japan: A Thematic Analysis of Japanese Comics
Ryuichi Ohta,Yumi Naito and Chiaki Sano
Geriatrics 2023, 8(6), 113; https://doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics8060113
18 November 2023
https://www.mdpi.com/2308-3417/8/6/113
Reviews: One Hundred Tales
Tegan O'Neil | November 30, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/one-hundred-tales/
One Hundred Tales
Osamu Tezuka, translated by Iyasu Adair Nagata
Ablaze
Reviews: The Atlas Comics Library No. 1: Adventures into Terror Vol. 1
Chris Mautner | November 29, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-atlas-comics-library-no-1-adventures-into-terror-vol-1/
The Atlas Comics Library No. 1: Adventures into Terror Vol. 1
Edited by Dr. Michael J. Vassallo
Fantagraphics
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust. Charlotte Schallié [book review]
But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, ed. Charlotte Schallié (Toronto, ON: New Jewish Press, 2022), 200 pp., hardcover $29.95, ebook $29.95.
Holocaust and Genocide Studies, https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcad039
23 November 2023
https://academic.oup.com/hgs/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/hgs/dcad039/7445655
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Timmy Heague, Danielle Paige and Michael Northrop of Fear the Funhouse: Toybox of Terror
Lisa Fernandes November 23, 2023
https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/11/exclusive-interview-timmy-heague-danielle-paige-and-michael-northrop-of-fear-the-funhouse-toybox-of-terror/
Paul Dano's 'Riddler' comic book tries to unravel the Batman villain: He wasn't 'born evil'
By Jevon Phillips Multiplatform Editor
Nov. 21, 2023
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-11-21/paul-dano-riddler-comic-book-year-one-batman-villain
Declan Shalvey and Drew Moss detail their forthcoming 'ThunderCats' series
The new 'ThunderCats' #1 debuts in February 2024.
Chris Coplan
November 28, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/11/28/thundercats-dynamite-qa/
SKYBOUND launches a new division in Japan
Their first project is Heart Attack
Merve Giray
12/01/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/skybound-launches-a-new-division-in-japan/
Jim Starlin and Warlock
by David Beard
Rain Taxi Online Edition Fall 2023
https://raintaxi.com/jim-starlin-and-warlock/
Disney's 'Wish' conjures up familiar dreams
Stephen Thompson and Aisha Harris
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour November 27, 2023
https://www.npr.org/2023/11/27/1197958456/disneys-wish-conjures-up-familiar-dreams
https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5254990376.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197958456
ALAN MOORE: PORTRAITS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMAN: Conceived and edited by smoky man with assistance from Omar Martini, Gary Spencer Millidge and Angelo Secci (Italian Edition) Paperback – November 28, 2023
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP8HRRTF
Featured Artist: Sam Sharpe
Adam Dwight Griffiths
Graffo Broadsheet December 1 2023
https://thegraffobroadsheet.substack.com/p/from-teleos-to-the-beyond
