Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Best-Selling Comics based on data from some local stores

Local stores include Beyond Comics, Big Planet Comics, and Fantom Comics.

The Top Nine Best-Selling Comics Of 2024 In Comic Book Stores

Absolute Batman #1 leads the Top Nine Best-Selling Comics of 2024 in comic book stores, followed by Ultimate Spider-Man #1

30 Dec 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/top-nine-best-selling-comics-of-2024-absolute-batman-ultimate-spider-man/

1/7: Griffin McElroy at Connie Morella Library in Bethesda

Author Talk Griffin McElroy Your Sweet Baby Brother 30 Under 30 Media Luminary

Graphic novelist Griffin McElroy appears at Connie Morella Library on 1/7 to read from the acclaimed Adventure Zone graphic novel series, with a signing to follow!
Register here.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/30/2024

The 10 Best Animated Movies of 2024

By Paste Staff | December 29, 2024

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/animation/best-animated-movies-of-2024-ranked-anime-pixar-disney-cartoons

Homalco First Nation Launches Graphic Novel

Jay Herrington

Raven Country News November 22, 2024

https://www.theraven.fm/news1/raven-country-news/homalco-first-nation-launches-graphic-novel/

Why Viz Is Still the Biz

Forty-five years on, the adult humour comic is as funny as ever

By Paul Wilson

21 November 2024

https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a62976584/why-viz-is-still-the-biz/

Young Artists are 'Reshaping the Future' in UN in Indonesia Comic Competition

21 November 2024

https://indonesia.un.org/en/284063-young-artists-are-%E2%80%98reshaping-future%E2%80%99-un-indonesia-comic-competition

Fairfield Library Expands Graphic Novel / Manga Section Thanks to Generous Donation

Nov 21, 2024

https://freestonecountytimesonline.com/fairfield-library-expands-graphic-novel-manga-section-thanks-to-generous-donation/

Best Sellers of 2024

Big Planet Comics on Dec 30, 2024

https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/best-sellers-of-2024

Bach to Basics: Why Anna Samo Used Toilet Paper to Animate Her Acclaimed Short, 'The Wild-Tempered Clavier'

Ramin Zahed

December 27, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/bach-to-basics-why-anna-samo-used-toilet-paper-to-animate-her-acclaimed-short-the-wild-tempered-clavier/

CSotD: Not a Carpenter, But He Followed One [President Carter editorial cartoons]

Mike Peterson December 30, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/30/csotd-not-a-carpenter-but-he-followed-one

Monday, December 30, 2024

Snailords' FREAKING ROMANCE v. 3 coming out in March

FREAKING ROMANCE GN

WEBTOON UNSCROLLED
JAN252278
(W) Snailords (A) Snailords
Sure, he can't see you and you can't touch him, but who said every relationship starts out perfectly? Freaking Romance, by the creator of Snailogy and Death: Rescheduled, gives star-crossed lovers a whole new meaning. Convinced that they don't have a future together because they're universes apart, Zelan convinces Zylith to ask Vera out on a date, despite the fact that he's falling more and more for her himself. Zylith is torn between pursuing love or her career, struggling to unpack her true feelings for her best friend, and her growing connection with the man from another world she cannot touch. This volume collects episodes 37-51 of the supernatural hit WEBTOON comic.
In Shops: Mar 05, 2025

Big Planet Comics' Best Sellers of 2024

Best Sellers of 2024

Big Planet Comics on Dec 30, 2024

https://www.bigplanetcomics.com/best-sellers-of-2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/28-29/2024

Graphic artist Tadam Gyadu from Arunachal Pradesh sketches for Marvel comics

Tadam Gyadu, from Diyun village in Arunachal Pradesh, started sketching on the walls of his mud house. He now works for Marvel, adding Indian elements to scenes

November 19, 2024

Prabalika M. Borah

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/art/tadam-gyadu-is-a-graphic-artist-from-arunachal-pradesh-who-sketches-for-marvel-comics/article68881364.ece

Tadam Gyadu: illustrating for the iconic Marvel Comics series

Bengia Ajum

November 22, 2024

https://arunachaltimes.in/index.php/2024/11/22/tadam-gyadu-illustrating-for-the-iconic-marvel-comics-series/

Comic Book Distributor Disruption & Delays Over Christmas, Into 2025

Rich Johnston

27 Dec 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-distributor-disruption-delays-over-christmas-into-2025/

Op-comic: What my 5-year-old taught me about the Velvet Underground

By Navied Mahdavian

Dec. 27, 2024

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-12-27/op-comic-navied-mahdavian-velvet-underground

'Drawn from the Street' highlights Japan's Postwar social issues through Manga [Tadao Tsuge, exhibit]

Art Daily December 17 2024

https://artdaily.com/news/176557/-Drawn-from-the-Street--highlights-Japan-s-Postwar-social-issues-through-Manga

The Walking Dead creator teases the comic's future: "It's possible we just keep going"

The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman subtly hints at the future of the series. He certainly doesn't rule out writing an entirely new run of comics!

ByAshley Hurst

Nov 19, 2024

https://winteriscoming.net/the-walking-dead-creator-teases-the-comic-s-future-it-s-possible-we-just-keep-going-01jd26fnb06x

KIERON GILLEN + STEPHANIE HANS for WE CALLED THEM GIANTS

Comix Experience Dec 29 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY9S-LnZutU

RICK PARKER for DRAFTED

Comix Experience

Nov 24, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4F73W5S35g

Creature Commandos Star Benjamin Byron Davis Talks Playing Batman Villain & His Future in the DCU

C.M. Ramsburg

CBR Presents

Dec 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60Rsb9VbPic

LIVESTREAM: Jeff Smith Talks Bone: The Valley Kickstarter!

The Comics Cube with Duy Tano

Dec 27, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G90ObmcLkQI

A Memory Jogger – Part 4 of 4 [Russell Myers]

Mark Evanier

News from ME December 25, 2024

https://www.newsfromme.com/2024/12/25/a-memory-jogger-part-4-of-4/

Marvel-ous Santa Rosa cartoonist's graphic novel considered for Spanish-language TV series

Tom Beland, known for his graphic novel 'Chicacabra' and a 'Black Panther' comic cover, is seeing his work being shopped for a live-action streaming series.

DAN TAYLOR

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT December 27, 2024,

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/tom-beland-tv-series-marvel/

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/27/2024

As Far As I Can Tell, One Peanuts Star Knew They Were in a Comic the Whole Time (And It's Not Who You'd Think)

By Ambrose Tardive

Nov 16, 2024 https://screenrant.com/peanuts-snoopy-woodstock-comic-fourth-wall-joke/

Jim Mora.

Alan Moore on life, nuclear war and the coming AI apocalypse

RNZ Online

17 November 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/534026/alan-moore-on-life-nuclear-war-and-the-coming-ai-apocalypse

Watchmen and V for Vendetta author Alan Moore returns

Jim Mora.

Sunday Morning 16 November 2024

https://podcast.radionz.co.nz/downloads/sun/sun-20241117-1130-watchmen_and_v_for_vendetta_author_alan_moore_returns-128.mp3

Amid Rising Prices, Some Comic Publishers Are Crashing Under the Industry's Climate

Joe Anthony Myrick

Nov 18, 2024 https://screenrant.com/comics-expensive-price-economy-indie-publishers/

Author of 'Shrink' tells us how her graphic novel challenges everything you know about fat bodies [Rachel M. Thomas; graphic medicine]

Laura Butler

November 18, 2024

https://thenewfeminist.co.uk/2024/11/author-of-shrink-tells-us-how-her-graphic-novel-challenges-everything-you-know-about-fat-bodies/

I read the government graphic novels Elon Musk thinks are a waste of money.

Jonny Diamond

November 18, 2024

https://lithub.com/i-read-the-government-graphic-novels-elon-musk-thinks-are-a-waste-of-money/

Somehow, Nintendo Began Secretly Publishing a Comic Over a Year Without Anyone Noticing [Pikmin webcomic by Kino Takahashi]

By Spencer Connolly

Nov 16, 2024 https://screenrant.com/nintendo-comic-pikmin-secret/

Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Insists 'Madame Web' Isn't "Terrible" and Says the "Press Just Crucified It"

Lexi Carson

December 26, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sony-ceo-madame-web-isnt-terrible-press-crucified-1236094135/

Still Sounding Young at 85, She Is the Voice of Old Japan

Midori Kato is the last original member of the cast of "Sazae-san," a cartoon series that premiered in 1969 and never quite joined the modern world.

By Motoko Rich and Hisako Ueno

Dec. 26, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/asia/japan-society-television-cartoon-sazae.html

Comic, Art Auctioneers & Dealers Reflect on the Market in 2024

Scoop Dec 27 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=279187

Ex-Pixar Staffers Decry 'Win or Lose' Trans Storyline Being Scrapped: "Can't Tell You How Much I Cried"

Ryan Gajewski

December 27, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/win-or-lose-pixar-staff-trans-storyline-1236093299/

Former Pixar staffers disappointed, but not surprised, at trans storyline being cut

One former staffer, citing a decision to re-cut the completed show: "It's just very frustrating that Disney has decided to spend money to not save lives."

By William Hughes | December 27, 2024

https://www.avclub.com/pixar-staffers-win-or-lose-trans-storyline

Tim Allen has started recording Toy Story 5

Allen praised the film, while also noting it was "really, really weird to get back in it" after 5 years—and one Lightyear—away.

By William Hughes | December 27, 2024

https://www.avclub.com/tim-allen-has-started-recording-toy-story-5

A Feathered Menace Triumphantly Returns in Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

By Jim Vorel | December 27, 2024

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/wallace-gromit/wallace-and-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl-review-netflix-feathers-mcgraw-norbot-plot

(Re)Draw Pardner – book review

D. D. Degg December 27, 2024

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/27/redraw-pardner-book-review/

Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West by William Grady (2024)

University of Texas

Dogmatix celebrated in new exhibition in Brussels
John Freeman on December 26, 2024
https://downthetubes.net/dogmatix-celebrated-in-new-exhibition-in-brussels/

Interview : Patrick Wong et les ambitions des 5 Terres
Jean-Laurent Truc
27 décembre 2024
https://www.ligneclaire.info/patrick-wong-les-5-terres-299453.html

Friday, December 27, 2024

That Musky Smell in the House by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/25/2024

The top 10 manga of 2024

Austin Wood

December 18, 2024

https://www.gamesradar.com/comics/the-top-10-manga-of-2024/

Comic Store In Your Future With 2024 Ending Like A Dumpster Fire

25 Dec 2024

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-with-2024-ending-like-a-dumpster-fire/

Thursday, December 26, 2024

Dec 28: TEKKONKINKREET BOOK CLUB joined by RONALD WIMBERLY

At Fantom Comics

2010 P St NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 241-6498
fantomhq@fantomcomics.com

TEKKONKINKREET BOOK CLUB joined by RONALD WIMBERLY

>> SATURDAY, December 28th @ 4pm
Jacob's been meaning to host a book club for his favorite comic TEKKONKINKREET for a long time. To celebrate Taiyo Matsumoto's opus, we're bringing in award-winning cartoonist (& Fantom family) Ronald Wimberly to talk about it with us. Available at Fantom now… how else are you spending the Saturday after Xmas??

In the somewhere-sprawl of Treasure Town, two young boys, Black and White, rule the streets. Like avatars of the city itself, they are its will and its voice, full of love and compassion, as well as danger and violence. As they leap from rooftop to rooftop, from lamppost to lamppost, nothing escapes their notice. But the city is changing beneath their feet as a yakuza-backed corporate development moves in. When the gangsters make a play to remove Black and White, the boys push back. The police have an interest in Black and White as well, trying to make sure things don't get out of hand-but things will. A battle begins between corruption and innocence, a struggle for the soul of the city itself, that will change Black and White and the city around them forever.
Get copies in store or on our website: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/tekkonkinkreet-black-white-30th-annv-edition-hardcover

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/25/2024

Craig Yoe Biographical Interview 2024 by Alex Grand

Comic Book Historians

Dec 18, 2024

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

Steve Rude Biographical Interview 2024 by Alex Grand & Bill Field

Comic Book Historians

May 4, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH836EJe0oM

Todd McFarlane Marvel Origins Interview 2024 by Alex Grand & Mike Alderman

Comic Book Historians Podcast

Mar 25, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4qA1e4R-s

Dave Gibbons Biographical Interview 2024 by Alex Grand & Mike Alderman

Dec 9, 2023 Comic Book Historians Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0mjN6PFFAs

Rob Liefeld Marvel Origins Interview 2024 by Alex Grand

Sep 27, 2024 Comic Book Historians Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20Ro5Kt1k8Y

Jim Starlin Biographical Interview 2024 parts 1-2 by Alex Grand

Nov 8 and 29 2024 Comic Book Historians Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dOFRxg-p6Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YLGZar_I7Y

Dave Gibbons' Christmas Day Message 2024

Forbidden Planet TV

Dec 25, 2024 Conversations with Andrew Sumner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-iJVMQ_3Y0

The Bendis Tapes Xmas 24 edition

wordballoon

Dec 23, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrZae6pYWck

2024 Comics of the Year

Justin Soderberg and Paul Eaton

Dec 24, 2024 Capes and Tights Podcast #203

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd05jJQ_iv8

10 Best Webtoons of 2024

Hayame Kawachi on 12/25/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/10-best-webtoons-of-2024/

Tim Miller Reveals the Shockingly Low Salary He Received for 'Deadpool' [Exclusive]

By Chris McPherson

Collider December 24 2024

https://collider.com/deadpool-tim-miller-salary-explained/

Remembering When 'the World Really Made Sense' on the Comics Pages

Wildly popular strips like "Bloom County," "Calvin and Hobbes," "Cathy," "The Far Side" "and "Doonesbury" peaked in the 1980s, but they left their mark.

By Brian Raftery

Dec. 23, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/books/booksupdate/comic-strips-era-1980s.html

Lesser-Known Christmas Ghosts

By Sage Coffey

December 25, 2020

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/lesser-known-christmas-ghosts

Mail on Sunday's peerless cartoonist Stan 'Mac' McMurtry is chosen as an Oldie of the Year alongside former Rolling Stone and iconic film director

Mail On Sunday 21 December 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14217919/Mail-Sundays-peerless-cartoonist-Stan-Mac-McMurtry-chosen-Oldie-Year-alongside-former-Rolling-Stone-iconic-film-director.html

Mail on Sunday cartoonist Stan 'Mac' McMurtry – Oldie Lead in his Pencil Award. By Quentin Letts. Listen here!

Blog | By Quentin Letts | Dec 22, 2024