Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/15/2024

Trina Robbins, comic book author and feminist historian, has died at 85

In addition to writing for 'Wonder Woman,' the comic artist was relentless in her efforts to highlight the frequently minimized role of women in comic book history.

By Pierre Trouvé and Pauline Croquet

Le Monde April 11, 2024, https://www.lemonde.fr/en/culture/article/2024/04/11/trina-robbins-comic-book-author-and-feminist-historian-has-died_6668155_30.html

 

Remembering Trina Robbins

Trina Robbins was one of a kind

Heidi MacDonald

04/15/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/remembering-trina-robbins/

 

Trina Robbins: Cartoonist, Historian and Lady of the Canyon

Heidi MacDonald

This interview is part of the Open California Oral History Project, and was made possible by a grant from the California State Library.

May 10, 2023

https://capitolweekly.net/oral-histories/trina-robbins-cartoonist-historian-and-lady-of-the-canyon/

 

PANTHEON TO PUBLISH COVID ANTHOLOGY EDITED BY RETAILER GABE FOWLER

Desert Island Comics Put Out Call for Entries on Instagram in April 2020

Posted by Brigid Alverson on April 12, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56693/pantheon-publish-covid-anthology-edited-retailer-gabe-fowler

 

RALPH DIBERNARDO OF JETPACK COMICS ON BROKEN RELEASE DATES

'How Would You Deal with This?'

 ICv2 on April 15, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/talk-back/view/56700/ralph-dibernardo-jetpack-comics-broken-release-dates

 

"I Was Done With Not Being Noticed": The Matt Lesniewski Interview

Jake Zawlacki | April 15, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/i-was-done-with-not-being-noticed-the-matt-lesniewski-interview/

 

Interview: Acky Bright, illustrator of WcDonald's THE MANGA

From designing some of the crew to how long it took to create the manga, theres a lot to learn about the creation of WcDonald's THE MANGA.

Justin Guerrero

04/15/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-acky-bright-illustrator-of-wcdonalds-the-manga/

 

The San Luis Obispo Tribune Ditches Dailies – A McClatchy Trend?

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/15/the-san-luis-obispo-tribune-ditches-dailies-a-mcclatchy-trend/

 

Meet the punk icons who wrote early 2024's best graphic novel [Merriment; Joe Steinhardt; Marissa Paternoster; Screaming Females]

Andru Zodrow NonStop Local Digital Journalist

Apr 12, 2024

https://www.khq.com/news/meet-the-punk-icons-who-wrote-early-2024-s-best-graphic-novel/article_33d08b20-f93e-11ee-b655-2f80db73cb07.html

 

Thousands of comic books donated to SLPS students [library, literacy]

By Elizabeth Barmeier  

  Apr. 11, 2024

https://spectrumnews1.com/mo/st-louis/news/2024/04/11/thousands-of-comic-books-donated-to-slps-students

 

Graphic novels on the rise, with students hungry for comics [New Zealand]

Frances Chin

April 13, 2024

https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350238307/graphic-novels-rise-students-hungry-comics

 

From blues to vampires, Tucson musician releases graphic novel [Tom Walbank; "Summerbides, AZ"]

Cathalena E. Burch

Apr 13, 2024

https://tucson.com/life-entertainment/local/music/tom-walbank-vampires-mount-lemmon-tucson/article_ec9af63a-ed23-11ee-ad52-e3adc60613e6.html

 

Embark with your child on a 'Catholic Sacraments Adventure' [Seek and You Will Find; religion]

Apr 13, 2024

https://www.thefloridacatholic.org/entertainment/book-reviews/embark-with-your-child-on-a-catholic-sacraments-adventure/article_682d6c7a-f2aa-11ee-b295-43b5b04966f4.html

 

An exhibition has brought to life the colourful history of (mostly black-and-white) comics in Bengal

The Comics Culture Collective's show was an overview of the evolution of Bengali comics.

Debotri Ghosh

April 15 2024

https://scroll.in/article/1066322/an-exhibition-has-brought-to-life-the-colourful-history-of-mostly-black-and-white-comics-in-bengal

 

    A tech tale: A graphic novel that aims to demystify AI and serves as an explainer of sorts [India]

    However, beyond writing and drawing, can AI offer any goodness? "It's neither good nor bad. It's technology, just like a knife, which you can use to cut a vegetable or stab your neighbour," quips Daudet.

    Written by Shubhangi Shah

    April 14, 2024 01:45 IST

https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/a-tech-tale-a-graphic-novel-that-aims-to-demystifynbspai-and-serves-as-an-explainer-of-sorts/3455952/

Interview: 30 Years of TWOmorrow

Interview by Nicki Faust

 Apr 09, 2024

https://previewsworld.com/Article/273924-Interview-30-Years-of-TWOmorrow

 

The George Lucas Talk Show with Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick

The George Lucas Talk Show

 

Apr 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R6E7KgcRK0

 

Ana Juan's "Clickbait": The artist captures the mesmerizing—and distracting—glow of modern entertainment.

By Françoise Mouly

April 15, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-04-22

 

'Good Times' Creator Ranada Shepard on Bringing the Pioneering Sitcom to the World of Adult Animation

  Animation Magazine

April 14, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/04/good-times-creator-ranada-shepard-on-bringing-the-pioneering-sitcom-to-the-world-of-adult-animation/

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode eighty-three | Sean Lewis, part one

Apr 15, 2024

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/but-that-r2-unit-is-in-prime-condition

 

Off Panel #445: Do It Yourself with Zainab Akhtar

By David Harper

April 15, 2024

 https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-445-do-it-yourself-with-zainab-akhtar/

https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Zainab_Akhtar.mp3

 

A Video Game Made Out of Brick, Clay and Tenacity

The handcrafted Harold Halibut, about a hapless janitor stuck in an undersea city, was more than a decade in the making.

By Rollo Romig

April 15, 2024,

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/15/arts/harold-halibut-slow-bros.html

 

Review: Lúz La Luminosa battles goons and endometriosis in her new own solo comic

 Ricardo Serrano Denis

04/15/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/review-luz-la-luminosa/

 

Doctor Who missing story THE CELESTIAL TOYMAKER gets animated recreation

Fresh from his return in "The Giggle," the Toymaker re-returns in this home video release.

Derrick Crow

04/15/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/doctor-who-missing-story-the-celestial-toymaker-gets-animated-recreation/

 

ComicsPRO releases results of Comics Retailer Survey

Heidi MacDonald

04/15/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/comicspro-releases-results-of-comics-retailer-survey/

 

Kathleen Herles voiced Dora the Explorer — now she's voicing Dora's mom [in print as Kathleen Herles voiced Dora the Explorer — now she's Dora's mom

By Valentina Valentini

Washington Post April 15, 2024 : C8.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/04/11/dora-explorer-reboot-kathleen-herles/

¡Vámonos! Dora Is Back for a New Round of Exploring
    By Laurel Graeber
A version of this article appears in print on April 15, 2024, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 'Dora' Returns to Embark on a New Round of Exploration
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/television/dora-nickelodeon.html

WaPo talks to Dora's mom

Kathleen Herles voiced Dora the Explorer — now she's voicing Dora's mom [in print as Kathleen Herles voiced Dora the Explorer — now she's Dora's mom

By Valentina Valentini

Washington Post April 15, 2024 : C8.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/04/11/dora-explorer-reboot-kathleen-herles/

The future of 1/6: The Graphic Novel (and our Democracy) is in your hands!

[They've corrected the shipping charge, and it's now a reasonable $4.]

To our amazing supporters and lovers of Democracy:

To our amazing family of 1/6: The Graphic Novel supporters and Democracy lovers: We're 40% of the way to our Kickstarter goal to get 1/6: The Graphic Novel–Issue #3 into the world!  Thank you again for the support and enthusiasm that you've shown this vital project. We now have 33 days left to get to the finish line!  If you haven't supported Issue #3, please consider doing so.  If you have contributed, thank you! and please share our campaign with friends, social media followers, comic book fans, and...basically everyone you know. Click here to lend your support now. Issue #3 will feature this amazing cover by renowned artist Pia Guerra: And it will deliver on the compelling core premise of this series: What if the January 6, 2021 Insurrection had been successful?  As always, we'll balance the threats and mayhem with hope, fun, and good old fashioned comic book action. And there are some great rewards for contributing! We hope you'll pledge your support while there's still time! Thank you! Alan, Gan and the OneSixComics Team Copyright (C) 2024 OneSixComics. All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: Post Office Box 1577, Montclair, NJ 07042

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/13-14/2024

Trina Robbins, cartoonist who elevated women's stories, dies at 85

She put out the first American comic book created entirely by women. Years later, she chronicled the history of female comics artists, writing books that excavated the stories of overlooked writers and illustrators.

By Harrison Smith

April 12, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/trina-robbins-dead/

 

Different Styles, Different Stories in April's Graphic Novels

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month's diverse offerings.

By Sam Thielman

April 12, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/books/review/new-graphic-novels-april-review.html

 

"Deadpool" comic artist overcame poverty, tragedy [ Mike Hawthorne]

    Isaac Avilucea

    Apr 12, 2024 -

    https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/04/12/deadpool-comic-artist-overcame-poverty-tragedy

 

Illustrator Mike Hawthorne Brings Years of Industry Experience to Moore's First Annual Comics Expo

When asked to give the keynote speech at the Moore Comics Expo on April 13, the celebrated comic artist said his answer was "an easy yes."

Posted April 9, 2024

— by Gabi Stevenson, Communications Manager

https://moore.edu/news/illustrator-mike-hawthorne-brings-years-of-industry-experience-to-moore-s-first-annual-comics-expo/

 

Neil Grahame, Our Newest Senior Stripper

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/12/neil-grahame-our-newest-senior-stripper/

 

Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90

By Sam Roberts

Published April 13, 2024Updated April 14, 2024, 12:44 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/business/media/don-wright-dead.html

 

Signs of the New Season

Girl Scout cookies surplus, skimpy-clothes anxiety? It must be spring!

By Emily Flake

April 8, 2024

Published in the print edition of the April 15, 2024, issue, with the headline "Signs of Spring."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/signs-of-the-new-season

 

Apples and oranges and shrooms ["Rhymes With Orange" letter]

Steven P. Levine, Bethesda

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

 

Last rites for the last rights [Ann Telnaes letter]

Arina van Breda, Alexandria

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 269: Adventure of a lifetime: David Pepose unpacks 'Space Ghost'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

April 3, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/03/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-269-david-pepose-space-ghost/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 267: The future of Oni Press: Publisher Hunter Gorinson and EiC Sierra Hahn interview

David Brooke

AIPT Comics podcast March 27, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/27/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-267-oni-press/

 

Oral History Center University of California

The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California

2021  

Trina Robbins: Feminist Herstorian

Bay Area Women in Politics

Interviews conducted by Amanda Tewes in 2021

https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/robbins_trina_2021.pdf

 

The "Annie"-Versary: A Hundred Years of Little Orphan Annie

Lombard Historical Society

April 27, 2024-December 23, 2024

https://www.lombardhistory.org/the-annie-versary

 

AI can write you a poem and edit your video. Now, it can help you be funnier. AI tool helps people unlock their inner comedian. University of Sydney researchers have developed an AI application using cartoons from The New Yorker to help people be funnier.

Luisa Low

13 April 2024

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/04/13/ai-can-write-you-a-poem-and-edit-your-video--now--it-can-help-yo.html

 

 

Extra! Extra! Steve Brodner's Brilliance Recognized by Herblock Prize

Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is both a great caricaturist and a great portraitist.

Jeet Heer

April 10, 2024

This article appears in the April 2024 issue, with the headline "Facial Recognition."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-brodner-herblock-prize/

 

My Strange Respect For Garfield

Posted By Tristan "Drunk Napoleon" Nankervis on April 8, 2024

https://www.the-solute.com/my-strange-respect-for-garfield/

 

The Uneasy Heartbreak of End of Evangelion   

More than a quarter century after its original release, US audiences can finally watch Hideaki Anno's mecha anime masterpiece in theaters.

 Michael Piantini April 10, 2024

https://hyperallergic.com/900185/the-uneasy-heartbreak-of-hideaki-anno-end-of-evangelion/

 

Marvel, Valiant & IDW Comics Artist Jeffrey Veregge Dies, Aged 50

Comic book and cover artist for Marvel, IDW and Valiant, Jeffrey Veregge died yesterday, at the age of 50, after a long battle with lupus.

 , 13 Apr 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-valiant-idw-comics-artist-jeffrey-veregge-dies-aged-50/

 

Famed comic book artist Jeffrey Veregge is in a battle for his life

Evening on KING 5   Mar 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQ4W0r_EN4

 

Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes

National Museum of the American Indian

New York

October 6, 2018–February 17, 2020

https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=969

 

Mark Millar To Publish Public Domain Superman Comics – Did DC Say No?

Mark Millar plans to publish public domain Superman comics by himself in 2033 - did DC Comics say no to his plans?

  14 Apr 2024

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-millar-to-publish-public-domain-superman-comics-did-dc-say-no/

On Creating THE AUTHORITY With Bryan Hitch
Warren Ellis
May 31, 2023
https://warrenellis.ltd/work/on-creating-the-authority-with-bryan-hitch/

Jeet Heer on Brodner's Herblock award

Extra! Extra! Steve Brodner's Brilliance Recognized by Herblock Prize

Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is both a great caricaturist and a great portraitist.

Jeet Heer

April 10, 2024

This article appears in the April 2024 issue, with the headline "Facial Recognition." 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-brodner-herblock-prize/

 

That darn Ann Telnaes and Rhymes with Orange.

Last rites for the last rights  [Ann Telnaes letter]

Arina van Breda, Alexandria

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

The March 29 editorial cartoon. (Ann Telnaes/The Washington Post)

I am a big fan of Ann Telnaes, a gifted editorial cartoonist with a keen ability to capture the political zeitgeist. But I must take issue with her March 29 cartoon, "The right wing's to-do list."

She was all too correct about the right wing's goal of eroding many rights that Americans have enjoyed for decades. But putting "voting rights" at the bottom of that list was incorrect. It is precisely by eroding voting rights at each and every opportunity that conservative Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and state and local officials will further eradicate our other rights. Once we lose unfettered access to the ballot, our most fundamental right, the rest of our rights will be at risk. Let's hope Americans realize what is at stake in this year's elections and vote.

Apples and oranges and shrooms [ "Rhymes With Orange" letter]

Steven P. Levine, Bethesda

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

The Post's cartoonists need a refresher on the Book of Genesis, it seems. A "Rhymes With Orange" cartoon featured prominently in the March 30 Free for All cited Eve, of biblical renown, saying, "The trouble didn't start after I ate the apple. It was after I ate the mushroom — that's when the snake started talking."

On first glance, I didn't even get the cartoon. It was only after seeing it for the second time that I realized it was alluding to psychedelic mushrooms, not the regular kind, with which I am more familiar. But that closer glance also revealed the comic's basic ignorance of the sacred text. As almost every beginning Sunday school pupil knows, the snake started talking to Eve before she ate the apple, not after.

First Day of Trial by Daniel Boris