Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/6/2024

More Comic Book Creators Leaving Cadence Comic Art, And Why

A number of additional creators have announced their departure from Cadence, while the former business manager secured art for return to several artists.

by Rich Johnston

05 Feb 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/more-comic-book-creators-leave-cadence-comics-art-and-why/

Comics JobWatch: Random House Graphic & IDW Promotions & Appointments

Here's a Bleeding Cool JobWatch look at recent hirings and promotions at a number of publishers, including DC, IDW and Random House Graphic.

Published Mon, 05 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comics-jobwatch-random-house-graphic-idw-promotions-appointments/

CGC FILES SUIT AGAINST TWO FORMER EMPLOYEES ALLEGING THEFT, LABEL-SWAPPING In the Wake of Recent Holder Tampering Incident

Milton Griepp on February 6, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56168/cgc-files-suit-against-two-former-employees-alleging-theft-label-swapping

Jose Delbo – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/05/jose-delbo-rip/

CSotD is XIV

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/06/csotd-is-xiv/

Anime Giant Toei Teams With 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Designer, 'Shrek 2' Writer on 'Hypergalactic'

Adam Devine, Elsie Fisher, J.K. Simmons and Sam Richardson are among the voice cast attached to the English-language animation feature from the Japanese studio behind 'One Piece Film: Red' and 'The First Slam Dunk.'

Scott Roxborough

February 6, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/toei-sonic-the-hedgehog-designer-shrek-2-writer-hypergalactic-1235817114/

Off Panel #435: Woo! with Chip Zdarsky

By David Harper

February 5, 2024

https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-435-woo-with-chip-zdarsky/

INTERVIEW: Talking heart and fart jokes with the cast & crew of Nickelodeon's ROCK PAPER SCISSORS cartoon

We chat with creators and executive producers Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman as well as voice actors Ron Funches, Thomas Lennon, Carlos Alazraqui, and Melissa Villaseñor!

Taimur Dar

02/06/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nickelodeon-rock-paper-scissors-cartoon-cast-crew/

Manouach, Ilan, and Barbara Postema. "A Faint Narrative." Critical Humanities 2, 2 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/2836-3140.1054 and https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol2/iss2/12/

Postema, Barbara, and Ilan Manouach. ""The Hard Work of Programming Germinates Soft Pleasures": Creating Synthetic Comics with AI Collaboration." Critical Humanities 2, 2 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/2836-3140.1053 and https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol2/iss2/10/

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh

Politics and Prose

Feb 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0KwZ-IJQE

'Rock Paper Scissors' Creators Kyle Stegina & Josh Lehrman Discuss Their Competition-Fueled Nickelodeon Comedy

By Ramin Zahed

February 5, 2024

March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/rock-paper-scissors-creators-kyle-stegina-josh-lehrman-discuss-their-competition-fueled-nickelodeon-comedy/

'El Americano' Producer Gerry Cardoso Talks About His New Indie Movie 'The Language of Birds' [Mexico]

By Ramin Zahed

February 5, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/el-americano-producer-gerry-cardoso-talks-his-new-indie-movie-the-language-of-birds/

Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/seattle-wa/frank-renlie-11447385

ICv2 launches ICv2 Direct ordering platform

Heidi MacDonald

02/06/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/icv2-launches-icv2-direct-ordering-platform/

'Hazbin Hotel' Creator Vivienne Medrano On Why Now Is The Golden Age Of Indie Animation

By Cole Delaney | 02/05/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/hazbin-hotel-creator-vivienne-medrano-encourages-fellow-indie-artists-were-in-the-golden-age-of-indie-animation-237692.html

HAZBIN HOTEL Creator Vivienne Medrano On Why Now Is The Golden Age Of Indie Animation

Inbtwn Animation Fest Feb 5, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83SzpN42Qs

Designing An Annie-Nominated Series: This Year's TV/Media Production Design Nominees Share The Tricks Of Their Trade

By Jamie Lang | 02/05/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/designing-an-annie-nominated-series-this-years-tv-media-production-design-nominees-share-the-tricks-of-their-trade-237652.html

Mark Gustafson, Stop-Motion Veteran Who Co-Directed Oscar-Winning 'Pinocchio,' Dies At 64

By Jamie Lang | 02/02/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/mark-gustafson-stop-motion-veteran-who-co-directed-oscar-winning-pinocchio-dies-at-64-237586.html

Unique UNT: Comic book studies, Willis Library's collection and going 'Into the Archieverse'

Emmi Tinajero

Jan 23, 2024

https://dentonrc.com/denton_u/unique-unt-comic-book-studies-willis-librarys-collection-and-going-into-the-archieverse/article_29823ed3-3a95-530f-9377-afb65faa619c.html

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published

Ruben Bolling

Feb 6, 2024

https://boingboing.net/2024/02/06/when-he-died-his-family-discovered-50-years-of-cartooning-output-the-secret-comics-of-frank-johnson-are-published.html

The Intersection of Education and Entertainment: Comic Book Influence in College Lectures

by Steven Miller

Jan 24, 2024

https://thegww.com/the-intersection-of-education-and-entertainment-comic-book-influence-in-college-lectures/

Redditors step in to help "heartbroken" comic book fan trying to sell his collection

Christopher Baggett

Jan 24, 2024

https://www.dexerto.com/comics/redditors-step-in-to-help-heartbroken-comic-book-fan-trying-to-sell-his-collection-2496526/

Accused comic book crook busted by store owner

Shay Arthur

WREG Jan 29, 2024

https://wreg.com/news/local/comic-book-crook-busted-by-store-owner/

Comic Book Grading Company Hits Ex-Employees With Trademark Suit

Peter Hayes

Bloomberg Law Feb. 1, 2024,

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/comic-book-grading-company-hits-ex-employees-with-trademark-suit

UCD exhibit explores racism through cartoons [Brumsic Brandon Jr. and Barbara Brandon-Croft, "STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons"]

By Michael G. French

Davis Enterprise Jan 19, 2024

https://www.davisenterprise.com/arts_and_entertainment/ucd-exhibit-explores-racism-through-cartoons/article_e0d4dcb2-b713-11ee-86d9-474e84ace9f5.html

Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh Video

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh

Politics and Prose

Feb 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0KwZ-IJQE

. PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9...

When Val's love for Valentine's Day turns into a high school disaster, she's ready to give up on the idea of love altogether. Everyone in her family has been unlucky in love, and she is pretty sure she's cursed anyway. But when a Lunar New Year festival introduces her to a local group of lion dancers, it ignites her lost passion for dance and introduces her to a pair of cute cousins with a lot to offer. Can Val figure out love as she learns more about herself in this Lunar New Year Love Story? This graphic novel's coming-of-age story will draw readers in while the dynamic and joyful illustrations sweep them away

. About the Contributors: Gene Luen Yang writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. He was named the 2016 Library of Congress National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. His graphic novel American Born Chinese is a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner. His two-volume graphic novel Boxers & Saints won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award Finalist. His nonfiction graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, received an Eisner award and a Printz honor. In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fello

w. LeUyen Pham has illustrated more than one hundred books for children, including the Caldecott Honor book Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris and the bestselling Princess in Black series by Shannon and Dean Hale. She is the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the bestselling graphic memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever. Her own books include The Bear Who Wasn't There and Big Sister, Little Sister. A graduate of the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, LeUyen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons.

Ellen Oh is an award-winning author of the middle grade novels Haru, Zombie Dog Hero, Finding Junie Kim, Dragon Egg Princess, and the Spirit Hunters trilogy. She is the editor of the middle grade anthology You Are Here and Flying Lessons and Other Stories as well as the YA novel The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee. She is a founding member of We Need Diverse Books, a groundbreaking, grassroots non-profit organization that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/5/2024

IDW HIRES FOR MARKETING To Book Trade, and for Social

Milton Griepp on February 5, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56157/idw-hires-marketing

ONI GETS WEBTOON TITLE WITH THREE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS For Print Release in September [SubZero]

Milton Griepp on February 5, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56158/oni-gets-webtoon-title-three-million-subscribers

See what's on the page [Phantom history, legacy, and racism]

by Tony DePaul

The Nickels of the Man February 1, 2024

https://www.tonydepaul.net/see-whats-on-the-page/

New 'Peanuts' special will finally let Franklin sit by White friends [in print as 'Peanuts' special will feature origin story of Franklin, the first black character]

Upcoming Apple TV Plus program will focus on the origin story of the first Black 'Peanuts' character and attempt to rectify a controversial scene from 50 years ago

By Samantha Chery

Washington Post February 5, 2024 : B2.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2024/02/03/franklin-apple-tv-peanuts-charlie-brown-special/

Two 'foreigners' arrested for leaking Shonen Jump manga online before release dates

Arrests spark a wave of closures, changes at scanlation sites for One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen and more

Matias De la Piedra

02/04/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/foreigners-arrested-for-shonen-jump-manga-leaks/

"Girls Like Us": Karina Shor & Natalie Norris in Conversation about the Perils and Triumphs of Making Graphic Memoirs About Trauma

Gina Gagliano | February 5, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/girls-like-us-karina-shor-natalie-norris-in-conversation-about-the-perils-and-triumphs-of-making-graphic-memoirs-about-trauma/

Jameson criticizes 'reprehensible' political cartoons amid antisemitism claims against Penn lecturer [Mr. Fish]

By Jessica Wu

Daily Pennsylvanian February 5 2024

https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-antisemitism-cartoons-jameson-statement

Darick Robertson Saw The Future In Transmetropolitan

Darick Robertson is the co-creator of both The Boys with Garth Ennis, Happy with Grant Morrison and Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis.

04 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/darick-robertson-saw-the-future-in-transmetropolitan/

Comic Book Creators Leaving Cadence Comic Art

Over the last few days, a number of comic book creators have been announcing that they will no longer be represented by Cadence Comic Art.

04 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creators-leaving-cadence-comic-art/

What is happening at Cadence Comic Art?

Heidi MacDonald

02/05/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-is-happening-at-cadence-comic-art/

'Lyla in the Loop' Creator and Head Writer Introduce Us to PBS Kids' New Problem-Solver Star

By Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/lyla-in-the-loop-creator-and-head-writer-introduce-us-to-pbs-kids-new-problem-solver-star/

March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

'Our Uniform' Director Yegane Moghaddam Discusses the Inventive Fabric of Her Oscar-Nominated Short [Iran]

By Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/our-uniform-director-yegane-moghaddam-discusses-the-inventive-fabric-of-her-oscar-nominated-short/

Yegane Moghddam, "Our Uniform" I Women in Short [Iran, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5yorTmwqs

Flóra Anna Buda, "27" I Women in Short [Hungary, France, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMAf4x00HA

27 by Flora Anna Buda - Making Of [Hungary, France, animation]

MIYU

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCBK2slMtU

Making Of - Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor [Israel, animation]

MIYU

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnhJZRlcp7c

Maria Lorenzo Hernández, "Fashion Victims 2.0" I Women in Short [Spain, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNynUk70Jg

Making of Electra # 1-3 | Daria Kashcheeva [Czech Republic, animation]

Maur film

Jun 12, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpcC6BAjWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJyQGdtN94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQujW3j0eU

Daria Kashcheeva, "Electra" I Women in Short [Czech Republic, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent Jun 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afkDEky4y1k

Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha, "Saleem" I Women in Short [Jordan, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 17, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJ1CTSWdY4

'Peter Pan': THR's 1953 Review

On Feb. 5, 1953, Walt Disney unveiled its animated adaptation in theaters.

February 5, 2019

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/peter-pan-review-1953-movie-1177780/

Oscar-winning 'Pinocchio' Co-Director Mark Gustafson Dies of a Heart Attack at 64

Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/oscar-winning-pinocchio-co-director-mark-gustafson-dies-of-a-heart-attack-at-64/

Mark Gustafson "AM Northwest" (1996)

ClaymationKid

Feb 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4aa-xZSl0

'Grimsburg' Showrunner Chadd Gindin Clues Us in on FOX's Defective Detective

By Ramin Zahed

February 4, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/grimsburg-showrunner-chadd-gindin-clues-us-in-on-foxs-defective-detective/

This article was written for the March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode seventy-three | Alex Segura, part one

Feb 5, 2024

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/you-can-waste-time-with-your-friends

Enseñar con el cómic: investigación y aplicaciones [teaching with comics]

Francesco Rodrigo, Jerónimo Méndez, Jerónimo , Dominika Fajkisová,

Madrid, Spain: Dykinson, 2023

online at https://www.dykinson.com/libros/ensenar-con-el-comic-investigacion-y-aplicaciones/9788411708883/

Enseñar con el cómic: dinámicas transversales y específicas del aula [teaching with comics]

Álvaro M. Pons Moreno, and Noelia Ibarra-Rius, (eds.).

Madrid, Spain: Dykinson, 2023

https://www.dykinson.com/libros/ensenar-con-el-comic-dinamicas-transversales-y-especificas-del-aula/9788411708876/

The final installment of the 'Amulet' graphic novel series is about to be released

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Morning Edition February 5, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1229114625/the-final-installment-of-the-amulet-graphic-novel-series-is-about-to-be-released

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2024/02/20240205_me_the_final_installment_of_the_amulet_graphic_novel_series_is_about_to_be_published.mp3

Jose Delbo 1933-2024

Jim Keefe

Jim Keefe Patreon February 5 2024

https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-delbo-1933-97921663

Jack C. Harris

["I am absolutely crushed and saddened to learn of the passing of my friend and collaborator, artist Jose Delbo."]

Jack C. Harris Facebook page February 5 2024

https://www.facebook.com/1306880759/posts/10233390207239601/

Brad Guigar: Godfather of Webcomics & Transforming the Comic Landscape with Webcomics.com & Evil Inc

Kurt Sasso

Two Geeks Talking

Jan 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xot6cXVNEyE

Words, Images, & World with Raúl the Third

Jason DeHart

Feb 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAltsGPJs_4

Words, Images, & Worlds: Comics Pedagogy Edition with Jill Gerber [literacy]

Jason DeHart

Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71GVaZdjCA

Words, Images, & Worlds with Peter Clinton

Jason DeHart

Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszrykzT6cI

Words, Images, & Worlds with Kwanza Osajyefo

Jason DeHart

Feb 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBYTpLhpB-I

Jim Valentino "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT!"

Nile Scala and Brian Blevins

POPXP! Network!

Feb 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb67E0ECVvA

A Talk With Political Cartoonists Emanuele Del Rosso, Stellina Chen and Angelo Lopez [Italy, the Netherlands and Taiwan]

Angelo Lopez

Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXz7kqXCJg

Monday, February 05, 2024

The final installment of the 'Amulet' graphic novel series is about to be released

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Morning Edition February 5, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1229114625/the-final-installment-of-the-amulet-graphic-novel-series-is-about-to-be-released

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2024/02/20240205_me_the_final_installment_of_the_amulet_graphic_novel_series_is_about_to_be_published.mp3

Fans have been waiting more than five years for this book, with no indication of when it would come out. It hits bookstores on Tuesday.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/3-4/2024

De nieuwe Brecht Evens is een visueel verbluffende fabel over complotdenkers

02 februari 2024

Veerle Vanden Bosch

https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20240131_95728463

'In mijn eigen land bestaat mijn boek niet': In de graphic novel K1ND schetst Ning Wang vier families die hun enig kind verloren. Maar hoe persoonlijk hij het ook houdt, voor de Chinese overheid is alles politiek. 'Ze kunnen me nochtans vertrouwen.'

Johan Faes

4 maart 2023

https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230302_96064502

Veel scherven onder de mat: Het is makkelijk om meewarig te doen over mei '68, maar de klassenstrijd was zo echt als hij vandaag is. Iedere reminder is welkom, en onvolkomen. [Tardi review]

Johan Faes

25 februari 2023

https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230224_98134785

Woordeloos en sprakeloos: Stephan Louwes is even vastberaden als zijn hoofdpersonage: het donker het zwijgen opleggen met licht. Soms is zwart-wit het verhaal op zich.

Johan Faes

11 februari 2023 https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230210_98232964

Postkoets op de périphérique: Amazing Améziane doet niets met de Franse slag. Ook deze biopic over Quentin Tarantino is geen half werk, maar anderhalf, zo vol zit het bijwijlen.

Johan Faes

4 februari 2023

https://www.standaard.be/cnt/dmf20230203_96121823

An end to the age-old old-age shunning? [Big Nate letter]

Pamela Ehrenberg, Washington

Washington Post February 3 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/02/buffalo-bills-mafia-slur-woodrow-wilson-racist/

He just can't wait to get on the road again [ Michael Ramirez letter]

Susan Clark, and John Spitzak

Washington Post February 3 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/02/buffalo-bills-mafia-slur-woodrow-wilson-racist/

No, *you're* the nice guy [Doonesbury letter]