Friday, January 24, 2025

Although Feiffer will be remembered first and foremost as a cartoonist, he was also a comics scholar, playwright, screenwriter, graphic novelist, memoirist, illustrator and teacher.

Michael Tisserand

Jan. 22 2025

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-jules-feiffer-changed-american-comics-and-culture/

A Dance to Feiffer

Ten ways that Jules Feiffer changed comics and the culture

by Michael Tisserand

Jan 2025

https://www.michaeltisserand.com/feiffer

Massive Publishing Ends Exclusive Diamond Comics Deal Over Bankruptcy

Massive Publishing ends its exclusive distribution deal with Diamond Comic Distributors over its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing

22 Jan 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/massive-publishing-ends-exclusive-diamond-comics-deal-over-bankruptcy/

Diamond Comic Distributors Delays Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW Next Week

Diamond Comic Distributors has announced that it will be delaying many Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW and Kodansha titles published next week

22 Jan 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comic-distributors-delays-marvel-dark-horse-idw-next-week/

Jules Feiffer, 1929-2025
What a talent. Period.
Jack Ohman's You Betcha!
Jan 24 2025 https://jackohman.substack.com/p/jules-feiffer-1929-2025

Virtual Memories Show News January 23, 2025
JULES THA G.O.A.T.
We've got a new episode with Fred Kaplan, The Time I Met Jules Feiffer, and more!
Gil Roth
https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/jules-tha-goat/

Jules Feiffer—Author, Illustrator, Cartoonist, and More—Dies at 95
By Emma Kantor
Jan 23, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/96916-jules-feiffer-author-illustrator-cartoonist-and-more-dies-at-95.html

Licensing Hotline: January 2025
By Karen Raugust
Jan 23, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/96917-licensing-hotline-january-2025.html

Eric Meyer and Gianluca Costantini
Xi Jinping, meeting with Eric Meyer and Gianluca Costantini [French graphic biography]
https://www.channeldraw.org/2024/12/08/xi-jinping-meeting-with-eric-meyer-and-gianluca-costantini/

Palestinian Activist Issa Amro: 'I Have Spent My Entire Life Believing in Nonviolence.'
Francesca Mannocchi and Gianluca Costantini
August 16, 2024 https://dawnmena.org/palestinian-activist-issa-amro-i-have-spent-my-entire-life-believing-in-nonviolence/

Drawn Together While Social Distancing: A Case Study of Digital Graphic Novel Use in Citizenship Pedagogy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
A. Pridemore
Received 15 Dec 2023, Accepted 04 Oct 2024, Published online:

Pridemore, Amelia A. 2024. Drawn Together While Social Distancing: A Case Study of Digital Graphic Novel Use in Citizenship Pedagogy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Political Science Educatio (21 Oct): https://doi.org/10.1080/15512169.2024.2416014 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15512169.2024.2416014

TOP 20 GRAPHIC NOVELS - FULL YEAR 2024
Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data
ICv2 January 23, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/58681/top-20-graphic-novels-full-year-2024

The massive, ugly South Park lawsuit moves a little closer to trial
A judge has shot down Paramount's efforts to wriggle out of the $200 million South Park lawsuit it's facing
By William Hughes | January 23, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/south-park-law-suit-moves-closer-to-trialhttps://www.avclub.com/south-park-law-suit-moves-closer-to-trial

Disneyland Shake-Up: Thomas Mazloum Named President of Theme Park in Experiences Reorg
Ken Potrock, the current president of Disneyland, will shift to a new role as president of The Walt Disney Company Major Events Integration, with Disney Signature Experiences and Shanghai Disney also getting new chiefs.
Alex Weprin
January 23, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disneyland-new-president-thomas-mazloum-1236116604/

American graphic novel spotlighting Taiwan to be released in Mandarin [Mark Crilley's graphic novel "Lost in Taiwan"]
09 December, 2024
Amanda Ruth Stephens
https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2012132

Ai Weiwei, China, and Art as Resistance in the "Graphic Memoir" by Costantini and Stamboulis
The Ravenna-based illustrator and scriptwriter have created a book of rare intensity and poetry, in which the personal story of one of the world's most famous artists is intertwined with the 12 signs of the Chinese zodiac.
By Serena Simoni for Ravenna&Dintorni (Italian weekly)
https://www.channeldraw.org/2024/12/07/ai-weiwei-china-and-art-as-resistance-in-the-graphic-memoir-by-costantini-and-stamboulis/

Basic Ali Superhero graphic novel set for release next Boi Mela [Bangladesh]
TBS Report
The Business Standard 8 December, 2024, https://www.tbsnews.net/splash/basic-ali-superhero-graphic-novel-set-release-next-boi-mela-1013641

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred twenty-three | Tyler Boss Returns, part one
Jan 23, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/thats-how-we-came-to-be-in-your-service

European Comic Art Volume 17, Issue 2
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca.17.issue-2.xml

Introduction

Historical Perspectives

pages 1-6

https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170201.xml

A Short-Lived Children's Periodical
The Case of Mickey Revista Infantil Ilustrada
By: Eva Van de Wiele
Pages: 7–29
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170202.xml

Photography in Non-Fiction Comics
The Encounter of Two Languages
By: Gerardo Vilches
Pages: 30–48
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170203.xml

German Comic Art
Intergenerational Memory and Everyday Objects
By: Jakob F. Dittmar and Anders Høg Hansen
Pages: 49–82
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170204.xml

Love, Maternity, and Feminism
Exploring Alternative Relationships in the Works of Ah!Nana Artists Chaland, Claveloux, and Capuana
By: Valentina Denzel
Pages: 83–116
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170205.xml

Reporting from a Migrant Camp 'with Humour and Humanity'
Absurdity as a Strategy
By: Leïla Ennaïli
Pages: 117–142
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/eca/17/2/eca170206.xml

Book Reviews
By: Jamie Bienhoff, Isaac Veysey-White, and Anne Deckbar
Pages: 143–152

Dona Pursall and Eva Van de Wiele, eds., Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice: Comics Picturing Girlhood (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023). 250 pp. ISBN: 9789462703612 (€30.00)

María Porras Sánchez and Gerardo Vilches, eds., Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives: Young Lives in Crisis (New York: Routledge, 2023). 288 pp. ISBN: 9781032123592 (Hardback: $180, eBook: $41.24)

David Pinho Barros, The Clear Line in Comics and Cinema: A Transmedial Approach (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022). 266 pp. ISBN: 9789462703209 (€59.50).

Josep Maria Beà : "Me intoxiqué por lamer las viñetas de los tebeos"
15/03/2017
https://www.lavanguardia.com/lacontra/20170315/42887916059/me-intoxique-por-lamer-las-vinetas-de-los-tebeos.html

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/22/2025

TOP 50 COMICS - FULL YEAR 2024; Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data

ICv2 on January 21, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/58667/top-50-comics-full-year-2024

DIAMOND, ALLIANCE SALES ON FAST TRACK, MORE

Takeaways from the Interim DIP Financing Order

Milton Griepp on January 22, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58671/diamond-alliance-sales-fast-track-more

Diamond Comic Distributors, Wolf's Head, and Me

Von Allan

Von Allan Studio Jan 21, 2025

https://www.vonallan.com/2025/01/Diamond-Comic-Distributors-Wolfs-Head-and-Me.html

Diamond UK Does Deal With Lunar To Distribute Image Comics

Diamond UK does a deal with Lunar Distribution to sell Image Comics titles into comic shops in the United Kingdom.

21 Jan 2025 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-uk-does-deal-with-lunar-to-distribute-image-comics/

What Is The Future For Diamond Previews Catalogue After Bankruptcy?

We hear from the person responsible for putting it all together.

21 Jan 2025

Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/what-is-the-future-for-diamond-previews-catalogue-after-bankruptcy/

Diamond Files for Bankruptcy | News and Analysis

January 15, 2025 by Brigid Alverson

https://goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2025/01/15/diamond-files-for-bankruptcy-news-and-analysis/

R.I.P. MIKE FERRERO OF FAT JACK'S AND WARREN JAYCOX OF GALAXY OF COMICS; BURGLARS HIT COMIC AND GAME STORES; RETAILERS ASK FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT; NEW STORES LAUNCH IN THE NEW YEAR

Shop Talk, January 2025

Brigid Alverson on January 21, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58663/r-i-p-mike-ferrero-fat-jacks-warren-jaycox-galaxy-comics-burglars-hit-comic-game-stores-retailers-ask-community-support-new-stores-launch-new-year

["I honestly can't believe it. Mike Ferrero passed away." Fat Jack's Comicrypt store]

Nick Barrucci

Nick Barrucci's Post Jan 17 2025

https://www.facebook.com/nick.barrucci/posts/pfbid02E5XQuReoyPryJ6gqWDjvButKVfboNwYcK5GHYyEQs64MoxZR2zNvZSFmSd5dDTKtl

Remembering Mike Ferrero of Fat Jack's Comicrypt

Ferrero had been in the comic book business for nearly half a century, with shops in Philadelphia and Oaklyn that preceded an industry boom in the 1990s and outlived most of its competitors. Friends remember him as gentle and generous to a fault in an industry that frequently rallies around its own.

By Matt Skoufalos | January 22, 2025

https://www.njpen.com/remembering-mike-ferrero-of-fat-jacks-comicrypt/

R.I.P. STEVE BENNETT

Longtime ICv2 Columnist

ICv2 January 22, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58672/r-i-p-steve-bennett

R.I.P. JULES FEIFFER

Sharp-Eyed Chronicler of Modern Mores

Brigid Alverson on January 21, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58668/r-i-p-jules-feiffer

Jules Feiffer and the art of crossing the line

Known for Nixon cartoons, noir and "The Phantom Tollbooth," the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and satirist attacked lies, weasel words and half-truths wherever he saw them.

Guest column by Michael Cavna

January 22, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/01/22/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-military-cartoons/

Warped by Michael Cavna for January 22, 2025

"F-E-I-F-F-E-R"

https://www.gocomics.com/warped/2025/01/22

Jules Feiffer, Cartoonist, Playwright and Screenwriter, Dies at 95

Carmel Dagen

Variety Jan 21, 2025

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/jules-feiffer-dead-cartoonist-playwright-screenwriter-1236280167/

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

By Andy Webster

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 22, 2025, Section A, Page 24 of the New York edition with the headline: Jules Feiffer, Piercing Pen Behind Cartoons, Novels and Plays, Dies at 95.

R.I.P. Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist

Feiffer drew satirical cartoons for The Village Voice for more than 40 years and illustrated The Phantom Tollbooth. He was 95.

By Matt Schimkowitz | January 21, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/rip-jules-feiffer-cartoonist

Amid economic uncertainty, downtown Santa Cruz comics store Comicopolis calls for community help

by Jessica M. Pasko

Lookout Santa Cruz November 21, 2024

https://lookout.co/amid-economic-uncertainty-downtown-santa-cruz-comics-store-comicopolis-calls-for-community-help/

'It's extremely frustrating': Jacksonville comic book store burglarized

By Alexus Cleavenger, Action News Jax

January 02, 2025

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/its-extremely-frustrating-jacksonville-comic-book-store-burglarized/IZ2FE3ZILVFQZEJJVYOPXZ3W4M/

Green Cove Springs comic shop second target in alarming theft trend

Chris Will, News4JAX Reporter, Jacksonville

January 6, 2025

https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2025/01/07/green-cove-springs-comic-shop-second-target-in-alarming-theft-trend/

Beloved comics, video game store closing at this N.J. mall

Jan. 18, 2025,

Eric Conklin | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com

https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2025/01/beloved-comics-video-game-store-closing-at-this-nj-mall.html

Adventures in Ink comic book store opening in Leander this January

Steve Guntli

Dec 31, 2024 https://communityimpact.com/austin/cedar-park-far-northwest-austin/arts-entertainment/2024/12/31/adventures-in-ink-comic-book-store-opening-in-leander-this-january/

New Graphic Novel Tackles Thorny Questions Around Animal Cruelty

Dog Days examines the complexity of human-canine relationships in light of intergenerational tensions in South Korean society.

Jesse Lambert

Hyperallergic January 21 2025

https://hyperallergic.com/983876/keum-suk-gendry-kim-new-graphic-novel-dog-days-tackles-thorny-questions-around-animal-cruelty/

Round, Julia.

'"There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed": Supernatural Possession in British Girls' Comics' in The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals, ed. Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers, and Michelle J. Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2024), pp112-129.

Mel Gibson

'My friend really loves history … can she look at that really old Jackie?' Contemporary Girls Encountering Historical Periodicals for Girls in The Edinburgh History of Children's Periodicals, ed. Kristine Moruzi, Beth Rodgers, and Michelle J. Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2024)

Multiverse films take characters to increasingly dark places – as Robert Downey Jr's Doctor Doom casting shows [MCU]

Alex Fitch and Julia Round

August 19, 2024 https://theconversation.com/multiverse-films-take-characters-to-increasingly-dark-places-as-robert-downey-jrs-doctor-doom-casting-shows-236827

Comic book page—featuring Deadpool's first appearance—sells for nearly $1m at auction

This is the second most valuable page of comic art ever sold at auction

Joel Meadows

6 December 2024

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/06/comic-book-pagefeaturing-deadpools-first-appearancesells-for-nearly-1m-at-auction

9 Middle Grade & YA Graphic Novels About the Holocaust

by SLJ Reviews

Jan 22, 2025 https://www.slj.com/story/9-middle-grade-and-ya-graphic-novels-about-the-holocaust

Future Quest: Elizabeth Cox Discusses Her Fascinating New TED-Ed Show, 'Ada'

Ramin Zahed

January 21, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/01/future-quest-elizabeth-cox-discusses-her-fascinating-new-ted-ed-show-ada/

CXC 2024 Welcome and Awards Ceremony
Rebecca Perry et. al.
CXC Festival
Jan 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70R22CUN26E

#207: Ed Brisson - Writer of SilverHawks
Justin Soderberg
Jan 22, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DE8baaBVU

Jules Feiffer: A CONVERSATION
Michael Tisserand, Liza Donnelly, Keith Knight and Matt Wuerker,
Improv Conference New Orleans Oct 21 2020
https://mushroom-krill-fj8m.squarespace.com/

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95
[in print as Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist had an acerbic wit and a flair for satire]
Ali Bahrampour
Washington Post January 22, 2025 : B4
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

The Daily Heller: Jules Feiffer Dies—But His Wit, Satire and Wisdom Will Long Be Remembered
The Daily Heller Jan 21 2025
By Steven Heller
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-jules-feiffer-dies-but-his-wit-and-satire-will-long-be-remembered/

American Mythology might pack it in following Diamond bankruptcy
Heidi MacDonald on 01/22/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/american-mythology-might-pack-it-in-following-diamond-bankruptcy/

Stop the Presses: A Letter from the President
Marc Murphy
AAEC January 22, 2025
https://editorialcartoonists.com/stop-the-presses-a-letter-from-the-president/

Naoko Yamada is carving an abstract path to the top of the anime world
We interview anime's most well-known female director and her regular collaborators about finding humanity in music and light.
By Autumn Wright | January 22, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/naoko-yamada-reiko-yoshida-kensuke-ushio-interview-anime-collaboration

'South Park' Streaming Rights Standoff: Warner Bros. Discovery Wins Ruling Clearing Way for Trial
Winston Cho
January 22, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-streaming-rights-standoff-warner-bros-discovery-wins-ruling-clearing-way-for-trial-1236115255/

How America Tuned In to the TV Dinner
The illustrator Koren Shadmi chronicles the half-baked history of the once beloved Swanson meal-in-a-tray.
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 22, 2025, Section D, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: The History of the TV Dinner.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/dining/america-tv-dinner.html

What the Songs of 'Moana 2' Owe to Beyoncé and 'Beauty and the Beast'
By Sarah Bahr
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/movies/moana-2-abigail-barlow-emily-bear.html
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 22, 2025, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: What Songs in 'Moana 2' Owe to Divas and Flute Solos.

Seth MacFarlane Explains Origins Of 'Family Guy' Meme Of 'The Godfather' & "It Insists Upon Itself" Quote
Armando Tinoco
Deadline January 21, 2025
https://deadline.com/2025/01/seth-macfarlane-explains-origins-family-guy-meme-the-godfather-it-insists-upon-itself-quote-1236263190/

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 187 - Mark Parisi, Dave Blazek & Wayno
January 15, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius • Season 4 • Episode 187
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/16445131-episode-187-mark-parisi-dave-blazek-wayno

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Cavna on Feiffer

Jules Feiffer and the art of crossing the line

Known for Nixon cartoons, noir and "The Phantom Tollbooth," the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and satirist attacked lies, weasel words and half-truths wherever he saw them.

Guest column by Michael Cavna

January 22, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/01/22/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-military-cartoons/

Warped by Michael Cavna for January 22, 2025

"F-E-I-F-F-E-R"

https://www.gocomics.com/warped/2025/01/22

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/21/2025

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95

The Pulitzer-winning writer found his voice in comics that provided a sardonic and sarcastic takedown of authority and conventional wisdom. He was also a playwright and screenwriter.

By Ali Bahrampour

January 21, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

An Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007

By Alan Fern

International Journal of Comic Art blog January 21, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-evening-with-jules-feiffer-at-cosmos.html

Jules Feiffer, Famed Cartoonist and 'Carnal Knowledge' Screenwriter, Dies at 95

The Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony nominee started out with Will Eisner, and his work appeared in The Village Voice for decades.

Chris Koseluk

January 21, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jules-feiffer-dead-cartoonist-1236113743/

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

By Andy Webster

Jan. 21, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html

Jules Feiffer, legendary cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and illustrator, dead at 95
By Luke Cornelius, on 01/21/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/jules-feiffer-rip/

"Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95
Neda Ulaby
All Things Considered January 21, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-2904918/phantom-tollbooth-illustrator-jules-feiffer-dies-at-95 and
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/01/20250121_atc_phantom_tollbooth_illustrator_jules_feiffer_dies_at_95.mp3

TOKYOPOP ADDS $10,000 TO BINC MATCHING GIFTS For Los Angeles Fire Relief

Milton Griepp on January 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58655/tokyopop-adds-10-000-binc-matching-gifts

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CARTOONIST CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Some AI-Generated

Milton Griepp on January 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58654/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-charged-child-pornography

Comic Book Creator Arthur Nichols Dies At The Age Of 63

Comic book creator Arthur Nichols of Magnus Robot Fighter, Night Thrasher and The Ray had sadly died at the age of 63

21 Jan 2025 by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creator-arthur-nichols-dies-at-the-age-of-63

Chad Townsend

["It is with a heavy heart I let people know, Comic artist Arthur Nichols passed away last night after a long battle with cancer."]

Jan 20, 2025

https://x.com/ChadTHX1138/status/1881455168908317023?mx=2

Professor Larissa Brown's graphic novel "Blake Laser" highlights representation, biracial identity

Jasper Coleman

Dec 2, 2024 https://www.coastreportonline.com/arts_and_culture/article_770f1f96-b0f9-11ef-ad4e-b3c9f19d5fe1.html

Why 'Weirdo' Is the Book Every Parent Should Read With Their Kids

The middle-grade graphic novel memoir shares important lessons for children.

By Ambreia Meadows-Fernandez

Published on December 5, 2024

https://www.parents.com/weirdo-book-kids-should-read-8754497

He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he's making Jewish comics history

At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry's Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like

By Jay Deitcher 4 December 2024

https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-wrote-the-history-of-jews-in-comics-now-hes-making-jewish-comics-history/

Empowering students through music, art and comic books [Mark Mindt].

by: Jordan DeSmet

Dec 4, 2024

https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/empowering-students-through-music-art-and-comic-books/

Image Comics Reduce Discounts To Comic Book Stores Significantly

20 Jan 2025 by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-reduce-discounts-comic-book-stores-significantly/

Image Comics Says That No, They Are Not Talking To Diamond Comics

20 Jan 2025

Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-says-that-no-they-are-not-talking-to-diamond-comics/

How Many Comic Store Closures Will The Diamond Bankruptcy Cause?

How Many Comic Store Closures Will The Diamond Bankruptcy Cause? Atom! Freeman talks to Bleeding Cool about the industry's new challenges

Rich Johnston

20 Jan 2025

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/how-many-comic-store-closures-will-the-diamond-bankruptcy-cause/

IDW Defends New Logo as Surfing The Rogue Wave Backward In Sunglasses

Aub Driver VP Marketing at IDW defends its new logo in terms of "surfing the rogue wave backward in sunglasses"

20 Jan 2025

Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-defends-new-logo-surfing-rogue-wave-backward-sunglasses/

Reviews: The Legend of Kamui Vol. 1 (of 10)
Joe McCulloch | January 14, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-legend-of-kamui-vol-1-of-10/

Reviews: Drafted
Kristian Williams | January 21, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/drafted/

China's Communist Comic Books
How did the People's Republic of China cope with a literary canon filled with un-communist ideas? Comics called lianhuanhua were the answer, at least for a while.
Rebecca Scott | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 12 December 2024 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/chinas-communist-comic-books

'Moana 2' Crosses $1 Billion At Global Box Office
By Amid Amidi | 01/20/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/moana-2-crosses-1-billion-at-global-box-office-245145.html

'Out Of The Nest': A Challenging Production Turns Into A Thai-Chinese Animated Hit
By Kévin Giraud | 01/20/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/out-of-the-nest-a-challenging-production-turns-into-a-thai-chinese-animated-hit-244130.html

Family is a cult: Troy Nixey and Yo Kuri on their upcoming horror comic, Blood Magic Tales
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | January 21, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/family-is-a-cult-troy-nixey-and-yo-kuri-on-their-upcoming-horror-comic-blood-magic-tales/

'I won the Pulitzer Prize and I'm busking on a corner': 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning
Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform.
BY Zachary Petit
01-21-2025
https://www.fastcompany.com/91262247/i-won-the-pulitzer-prize-and-im-busking-on-a-corner-3-top-artists-on-the-uncertain-future-of-political-cartooning

Maryland Court Approves Diamond Debtor-in-Possession Refinancing
Jan 21, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5156

Creator of the Month: Steve Wands
1/13/25
https://awastudios.com/creator-of-the-month-steve-wands/

Selling Superman Documentary Review with Adam Schomer
wordballoon January 21 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTh06BJbbvQ

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live - Episode #075: With Special Guest Gene Ha
Jan 21 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4Vugmw0UA

Revisiting "The Plot Against America"
I read and reread Philip Roth's book to try to understand the present, to make sense of what may happen.
By Navied Mahdavian
January 20, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-plot-against-america

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Pardon Me While I ReWrite History by Daniel Boris

Spy vs Spy Inauguration by Daniel Boris

Some candid photos of Jules Feiffer in DC

Here's some pictures I took at times he was visiting DC.

Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 - Library of Congress

Wednesday, November 1, 2006 - Library of Congress

Thursday, March 18, 2010 - Politics and Prose Bookstore

Friday, September 12, 2014 - Politics and Prose Bookstore

I'm sure I have more, but this is what Google Photos found tonight.

NPR: "Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95

"Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95

Neda Ulaby

All Things Considered January 21, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-2904918/phantom-tollbooth-illustrator-jules-feiffer-dies-at-95

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/01/20250121_atc_phantom_tollbooth_illustrator_jules_feiffer_dies_at_95.mp3

Satirical cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer has died at the age of 95. He was the illustrator of the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth."

Jules Feiffer dead, says WaPo

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95

The Pulitzer-winning writer found his voice in comics that provided a sardonic and sarcastic takedown of authority and conventional wisdom. He was also a playwright and screenwriter.

By Ali Bahrampour

January 21, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

IJOCA ran this interview in print in Fall 2008, and it appears online for the first time now.

An Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007

By Alan Fern

International Journal of Comic Art blog January 21, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-evening-with-jules-feiffer-at-cosmos.html

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/20/2025

'Grand Theft Hamlet': The (Game) Play's the Thing [videogame animation]
By Alissa Wilkinson
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 20, 2025, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: With 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' The Gameplay's the Thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/movies/grand-theft-hamlet-review.html

Dueben, Alex. 2025.
Remembering John Cassaday, Dec. 14, 1971-Sept. 9, 2024.
TCJ (January 20): https://www.tcj.com/remembering-john-cassaday-dec-14-1971-sept-9-2024/

THE LAB PRESS unveils its entire Graphic Novel Slate for 2025

By Christian Angeles on 01/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-lab-press-unveils-its-entire-graphic-novel-slate-for-2025/

The Loyal Opposition
An essay about a Cartoon Controversy...
Lee Judge
Jan 20 2025
https://leejudge.substack.com/p/the-loyal-opposition

'Stomp! Stomp! Rhinos!' Becomes the First Lithuanian Preschool Toon to Get Worldwide Distribution
Mercedes Milligan
January 17, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/01/stomp-stomp-rhinos-becomes-the-first-lithuanian-toon-to-get-worldwide-distribution/

NFB Animation Filmmaker Robert Verrall Dies Age 97 [Canada].
Mercedes Milligan
January 17, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/01/nfb-animation-filmmaker-robert-verrall-dies-age-97/

A New AAEC Administration
D. D. Degg
January 20, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/20/a-new-aaec-administration/

Words, Images, & Worlds with Morgan B. Herron
Jason DeHart
Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxScqP9_Fc

Words, Images, & Worlds with William Russell
Jason DeHart
Jan 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxjA8ghLb0

TERRY LaBAN for MENDEL THE MESS UP
Comix Experience
Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlQNYHTMKI

Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar introduce BUG WARS!
Andrew Sumner
Forbidden Planet TV
Jan 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zderOQwlVE

Jason Aaron Talks Bug Wars, Scalped, Superheroes & More.
Let's Talk Comics 2
Jan 16 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-ep-2-jason-aaron-on-bug-wars-more

The Pat Chat Plus: Jason Aaron's War on Bugs
Pat Loika
The Pat Chat Plus Jan 17, 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/494968/the-pat-chat-plus-jason-aarons-war-on-bugs

'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids' Meets 'Conan The Barbarian' In Jason Aaron & Mahmud Asrar's 'Bug Wars' Comic
Josh Weiss
Jan 14, 2025,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2025/01/14/honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-meets-conan-the-barbarian-in-jason-aaron--mahmud-asrars-bug-wars-comic/

Honey , I Shrunk The Kids Meets Game Of Thrones In Bug Wars
Jace -The Comic Source
Jan 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEwZ15QO0pU

Absolute Batman: Year One with Scott Snyder
Jace -The Comic Source
Jan 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rulz9S7UCQE

"A Huge Rebound": Retailers Share Their Thoughts on a "Much Busier" Year in Their Comic Shops
David Harper
January 16, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/january-2025-retailer-feature/

Conversations with Artists 1 19 25
[David Cooper, Lalo Alcaraz, Steve Brodner, Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper, Marc Murphy, Jack Ohman, Jen Sorensen, Seth Tobocman, Sam Viviano. ]
Steve Brodner
Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTDRmipP08

Nick Anderson from Pen Strokes
Jan 20, 2025
Best Cartoons from 2024
https://nickanderson.substack.com/p/best-cartoons-from-2024

Keith Giffen: The Interview [1988] pts 3.
Harry Broertjes
Interlac APA.
reprinted at https://glencadigan.substack.com/p/is-this-thing-on-xxii

Monday, January 20, 2025

Mordor in America. by Daniel Boris

RFK editorial cartoon award submissions still open

As they say,

There is still time to submit for the 2025 @RFKHumanRights Book & Journalism Awards! These prestigious awards honor work which embodies the values of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: advocating for justice, uplifting the powerless, and championing equality and opportunity for all.

I encourage all journalists and authors whose works were published in 2024—including student journalists—to submit!

Deadline: January 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.

Application Link: https://rfkhumanrights.org/awards/book-and-journalism-awards/