Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Jules Feiffer's Oral History, interviewed by Christa Whitney, Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Shelter Island, New York, November 1, 2017.

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/collections/oral-histories/interviews/woh-fi-0000994/jules-feiffer-2017 and https://archive.org/details/JulesFeiffer1Nov2017YiddishBookCenter

Canadian writer Chip Zdarsky is the comic-book world's very own Nostradamus

BARRY HERTZ

March 24 2025

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-canadian-writer-chip-zdarsky-is-the-comic-book-worlds-very-own/

How reading comics as a boy led to successful career as cartoonist for Milton Keynes author [Paul B Rainey, UK]

Sally Murrer

Milton Keynes Citizen 13th Mar 2025, https://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news/people/how-reading-comics-as-a-boy-led-to-successful-career-as-cartoonist-for-milton-keynes-author-5031830

Disney Celebrates 30 Years of 'Toy Story' with New Product Collabs & Brand Spot

Mercedes Milligan

March 24, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/disney-celebrates-30-years-of-toy-story-with-new-product-collabs-brand-spot/

Oscar-Winning Pixar Animator Pete Docter On 30 Years of 'Toy Story,' the Future of AI in Animation and New Sequel (Exclusive)

Danielle Directo-Meston

March 24, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/toy-story-5-pete-docter-interview-future-of-pixar-animation-new-products-1236170265/

Horror Beat: BRIDGIT CONNELL talks all things Lady Baltimore!
D. Morris on 03/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/bridgit-connell-lady-baltimore

At Home with Paul B. Rainey
Drawn & Quarterly March 25 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMVcz7rXQPA

Words, Images, & Worlds with Danny Harrell
Jason DeHart
Mar 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSBxu-SL9Ug

Underground Comix Legend Denis Kitchen
word balloon Mar 25, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb2jXMPkQ4w

Godzilla Talk With Gabriel Hardman
word balloon Mar 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcaSNqa_5fo

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Aaron Kuder
Pop Culture Squad
March 25 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IckLK_-oLPo

Daredevil star Charlie Cox says keeping his Spider-Man: No Way Home cameo a secret for two years was a "nightmare"
Megan Garside
March 24, 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/daredevil-star-charlie-cox-says-112547644.html

What we know about the Alliance Entertainment and Diamond Comics deal
Heidi MacDonald on 03/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-we-know-about-the-alliance-entertainment-and-diamond-comics-deal/

Huda Fahmy on Airing Dirty Laundry Taboos in YA
By Huda Fahmy |
Mar 25, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/97411-huda-fahmy-on-airing-dirty-laundry-taboos-in-ya.html

The Death Of Comics Journalism (and how we'll rebuild it) - Heidi MacDonald -Comic Industry Insiders
Atom! Freeman
Prana: Direct Market Solutions
Mar 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s8ryecBuSE

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Upcoming California Rare Book School course "The Social and Material Lives of Comic Art,"

Prof. Charles Hatfield's California Rare Book School course, "The Social and Material Lives of Comic Art," is to be held at UCLA from July 28 through August 1 (the week after the San Diego Comic-Con).

https://www.calrbs.org/the-social-and-material-lives-of-comic-art-or-how-comics-get-around-2025/

Comic strips turning political in WaPo print edition

The Post may have lost (aka gotten rid of) most of its political cartoonists, but the daily strips are starting to make up for that.

Wiley Miller's Non Sequitur mocked Doge and Musk this week:

Scott Stantis' Prickly City has often been more political than most other strips. This week, both strips could have been political cartoons instead:

Barney and Clyde got there several times last week, as they have been doing since January:

A Secure Line by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/24/2025

British cartoonist was sent home in chains [R. E. Burke]

Heidi MacDonald on 03/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/british-cartoonist-was-sent-home-in-chains/

Comic Creator RE Burke: Her Visa Story

John Freeman on March 23, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/comic-creator-re-burke-her-visa-story/

Father of R.E. Burke Details Her Experience in ICE Detention

Alan Gardner

March 24, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/24/father-of-r-e-burke-details-her-experience-in-ice-detention/

HIDIVE expands global reach with new streaming partnerships [anime]

Hayame Kawachi on 03/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/hidive-expands-global-reach-new-streaming-partnerships/

WaPo Lets Edith Pritchett Go?

D. D. Degg

March 24, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/24/wapo-lets-edith-pritchett-go/

Titmouse Studio Co-Founders Chris & Shannon Prynoski Share the Secrets of 25 Years of Success

Tom McLean

March 21, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/titmouse-studio-co-founders-chris-shannon-prynoski-share-the-secrets-of-25-years-of-success/

This article was written for the

April '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 349).

Murderers' Row – Dwayne Turner

Tegan O'Neil | March 24, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/murderers-row-dwayne-turner/

'One Piece' Co-Showrunner Matt Owens Steps Down

Rick Porter

March 21, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/one-piece-co-showrunner-matt-owens-stepping-down-1236170279/

Box Office: 'Snow White' Limps to Alarming $43M Domestic Opening, $87.3M Globally

Pamela McClintock

March 23, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/snow-white-box-office-opening-in-danger-1236170493/

Did the New 'Snow White' Change Things for the Better?

Any remake of a nearly 90-year-old movie will need an update, but some of the adjustments were more successful than others.

Josh Spiegel

March 22, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/snow-white-new-movie-changes-1236170119/

Smallville animated sequel to remain in Phantom Zone

With another Superman taking flight soon, Tom Welling must channel some superhuman patience before voicing Big Blue again.

By Matt Schimkowitz | March 23, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/smallville-animated-sequel-on-hold

The comics world awaits the results pf the Diamond bankrupcty (sic) auction
Heidi MacDonald on 03/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-comics-world-awaits-the-results-pf-the-diamond-bankrupcty-auction/

Alien Books and IDW announce partnership, including Valiant Universe
Heidi MacDonald on 03/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/alien-books-and-idw-announce-partnership-including-valiant-universe/

Hyman 'Hy' Roth, 1937-2011
Chicago Tribune December 29, 2011 https://www.chicagotribune.com/2011/12/29/hyman-hy-roth-1937-2011/

Avery Hill Publishing 2025 Virtual Preview Event [ interview with Kit Anderson - creator of 'Second Shift!']
Ricky Miller and Katrina Chapman
Avery Hill Publishing
Mar 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-haNTWrjBs

R. Kikuo Johnson's "Upstairs, Downstairs"
A tale of two schlepps.
By Françoise Mouly
March 24, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-03-31

Disney's latest take on girl power is just monarchy
The warped politics of Snow White spark a revolution headed right back to the status quo.
By Caroline Siede | March 24, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/snow-white-girl-power-politics-monarchy

Adult Swim's Common Side Effects Defiantly Critiques the Medical-Industrial Complex
By Joshua Harris | March 24, 2025
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/common-side-effects/adult-swims-common-side-effects-defiantly-critiques-the-medical-industrial-complex

CityLine: Boston Comics in Color Festival [African-American]
Karen Holmes Ward, Cagen Luse, Barbara Brandon Croft
WCVB Channel 5 Boston Mar 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=tCfdIKAYcrw

Why Disney wants to erase this beloved cartoonist from history [Don Rosa]
matttt - comic & manga history Mar 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDge_uZHTQ

Monday, March 24, 2025

Group Chat by Daniel Boris UPDATED

Daniel Boris writes in to say, "This is by far my most shared and liked cartoon. Ever. The Daily Cartoonist published it. An Influencer with 420k+ followers showed it in a video he made. Anonymous posted it on their Twitter page (currently has 128,000 views, 5.5k likes, and 1000 shares), and lots of love on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and Reddit. And today it was also selected as Cartoon Movement's "Editor's Choice", which comes with it a one time payment of 75 Euros.

Boris' blog can be seen at https://danielboris.blogspot.com/ and there's plenty of stories about him, and cartoons by him here on ComicsDC.

PR: SPX 2025 Table Lottery Is Now Open!!

Hello Everyone!

The SPX 2025 Table Lottery is now open!

Go to the this page on the web site and register for the lottery today.

Here are the key dates for the Lottery:

Monday March 24: The lottery will open at Midnight Eastern Time.
Monday April 7 - Lottery closes at 11:59PM Eastern Time.

Here is some key information about the lottery:

We will be checking to make sure you publish comics (minicomix/comics, graphic novels, anthologies, etc., etc.), so if you're exclusively an illustrator, novelist, cosplayer or anime figure retailer you will not be eligible for tables.

We will not be picking the randomized lottery winners until after all applications have been received; this means there is no benefit to applying early or late (except maybe peace of mind).

You can only apply for the lottery once, and multiple entries will result in you being removed from the lottery pool (unless you email us and tell us you accidentally clicked twice or something, we do have a heart!).

We will determine what masking requirements there will be at the show this Summer.

If you have any questions email us at exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com.

Best of luck to everyone!

The SPX Executive Committee

You are getting this email because we know you might want a table to SPX 2022!!

Our mailing address is:

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Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704 | Bethesda, MD 20824 US

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/22-23/2025

The Fangirl Diaries: Finding Community in Anime Fandom of the '90s and '00s

Erica Victoria Espejo

McFarland 2025

https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/the-fangirl-diaries/

Donation [Schulz Museum]

Nat Gertler

The AAUGH Blog March 21, 2025

https://aaugh.com/wordpress/2025/03/donation/

Experts share top five recommendations for discovering French comics as an adult

First-time readers of bandes dessinées might want to start with this list of suggestions

Victoria Gibson

06 January 2025

https://www.connexionfrance.com/magazine/experts-share-top-five-recommendations-for-discovering-french-comics-as-an-adult/698206

Discover the capital of comics books in the west of France

We hear from the advisers of Angoulême's museum ahead of the festival which runs from January 29 to February 2

Victoria Gibson

3 January 2025

https://www.connexionfrance.com/magazine/discover-the-capital-of-comics-books-in-the-west-of-france/688885

French love of comic books is writ large on Angoulême walls

We discover why the Charente city encourages mural artists to turn beloved bande dessinée heroes into huge works of art

Julia Faiers

27 June 2022

https://www.connexionfrance.com/magazine/french-love-of-comic-books-is-writ-large-on-angoulme-walls/246481

France's Editis acquires graphic novel publisher Delcourt

Jan 3, 2025

by Barbara Casassus

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/frances-editis-acquires-graphic-novel-publisher-delcourt

France Cancels Beauty and the Beast Book; Artist Cites Racism [Julien "Jul" Berjeaut]

Alan Gardner

March 21, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/21/france-cancels-beauty-and-the-beast-book-artist-cites-racism/

French Ministry of Education cancels retelling of 'Beauty and the Beast' deemed 'inappropriate'

Sarah Miansoni

Africanews English March 20 2025

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/french-ministry-of-education-cancels-retelling-of-beauty-and-the-beast-deemed-inappropriate/ar-AA1BiMlq

France cancels modern 'Beauty and the Beast' for schoolkids

Hugues Honore, Catherine Fay de Lestrac and Alice Hackman

AFP 20 March 2025

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/france-cancels-modern-beauty-beast-142355967.html

UPenn Lays Off Cartoonist Mr. Fish

D. D. Degg

March 22, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/22/upenn-fires-cartoonist-mr-fish/

Jeff Weigel answers the phans' questions [Phantom]

ChronicleChamber Team

March 17 2025

https://www.chroniclechamber.com/post/jeff-weigel-answers-the-phans-questions

Skybound Entertainment Make Layoffs, Two Identified

21 Mar 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/skybound-entertainment-make-layoffs-two-identified/

Maus author Art Spiegelman to collaborate with Palestine writer Joe Sacco on new comic about Gaza

By Fleur Hargreaves

3 January 2025

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/maus-author-art-spiegelman-announces-collaboration-palstine-writer-joe-succo-new-comic

Local Photography Legend Turns Focus to Graphic Novel [Livermore, CA, Bill Owens]

By Christina Cavallaro

Jan 2, 2025 https://www.independentnews.com/news/regional_and_ca/local-photography-legend-turns-focus-to-graphic-novel/article_70ab6660-c7be-11ef-8986-63f543ecb48c.html

Black Cat's Debut Leads Heritage's January Comics & Comic Art Auction [Spider-Man]

Jan 2 2025 https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/black-cats-debut-leads-heritages-january-comics-comic-art-auction

Ben Hatke - "Things in the Basement" - at Politics and Prose Conn. Ave in the Children and Teens Department

Ben Hatke

Washington, DC: Politics and Prose Bookstore

2023-09-06

https://archive.org/details/hatke-ben-p-p-230906

Zach Weinersmith - "A City On Mars" - At Scrawl Books

Zach Weinersmith; Teasel Muir-Harmony

Reston, VA: Scrawl Books 2023-11-09

https://archive.org/details/zach-weinersmith-at-scrawl-books-231109

Sierra Barnes - "Hans Vogel Is Dead vol. 1" - At Fantom Comics

Sierra Barnes; Jacob Shapiro; Mike Rhode; Sarahti Gassmalla

Washington, DC: Fantom Comics 2023-10-17

https://archive.org/details/sierra-barnes-at-fantom-comics-231017

Sweet, Violet. 1931.

Argentine Party Arrives Aboard ·Buenos Aires Maru To Visit in Japan [Rakuten Kitazawa and M. Zavala (aka Pelele)],

Japan Times and Mail (August 4)

DJ Ben Ha Meen: Remixing Black Music History Through Comics

Ezae Darby

Brooklyn College Vanguard October 16, 2024 https://vanguard.blog.brooklyn.edu/2024/10/dj-ben-ha-meen-remixing-black-music-history-through-comics/

Mangie Kpaka.

Meet the Author: NY Best Selling Author "Jeffrey Brown"

NBM Graphic Novels March 21 2025

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=433054443204346&rdid=Iyr9BZCYzxBBuD2u

Contino, Jennifer. 2001.

Creeps are People Too! Dan Mishkin.

Sequential Tart (September): http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/sept01/mishkin.shtml

Contino, Jennifer. 2001.

Creepy Concepts: Tom Mandrake [Creeps].

Sequential Tart (November): http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/nov01/mandrake.shtml

Disney's "Snow White" Remake Whistles But Doesn't Work

Loathed even before its release, the latest live-action version of an animated classic embodies many of the cynical moves of the remake racket.

By Justin Chang

March 22, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/disneys-snow-white-remake-whistles-but-doesnt-work

March 23, 2025

Edith Pritchett dropped by WaPo?

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/03/edith-pritchett-dropped-by-wapo.html

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen dies at 66

AILSA CHANG and MARY LOUISE KELLY

All Things Considered March 19, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333316/courage-the-cowardly-dog-head-writer-david-steven-cohen-dies-at-66

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/03/20250319_atc_courage_the_cowardly_dog_writer_obit.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5333316

Jim Keefe (via Patreon) Mar 23, 2025

Work for Hire – The Fallout [creators rights]

https://www.patreon.com/posts/work-for-hire-122139678

Jim Keefe (via Patreon)

Mar 23, 2025

MoCCA 2025

https://www.patreon.com/posts/mocca-2025-124894875

Jason Bateman is Gotham City's New Dark Knight in BATMAN VS. BATEMAN State Farm Commercial

by Eric Diaz

Mar 14 2025

https://nerdist.com/article/jason-bateman-batman-vs-bateman-state-farm-commercial/

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 320: Martian Manhunter, time crises, and the future of superheroes: A conversation with Deniz Camp

David Brooke and Alex Schlesinger

March 16, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/16/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-320-deniz-camp/

Joey Weiser on 'The Littlest Fighter:' Big battles, bigger heart

David Brooke

March 18, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/18/the-littlest-fighter-joey-weiser-interview/

Oni Press levels up: Unpacking a blockbuster 2024 (sic 2025) with Hunter Gorinson and Sierra Hahn

Publisher Hunter Gorinson and editor-in-chief Sierra Hahn discuss how they're building on last year's successes.

David Brooke

March 20, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/20/oni-press-hunter-gorinson-sierra-hahn-qa/

One Piece loses one showrunner

Matt Owen, the co-showrunner of Netflix's One Piece, is exiting the role ahead of season two.

By Matt Schimkowitz | March 23, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/netflix-one-piece-showrunner-exit-matt-owens

The Design of Absolute DC: Nick Robles on Getting Up to Speed on Absolute Flash

David Harper

March 19, 2025

https://sktchd.com/longform/absolute-flash-nick-robles-feature/

The Looney Tunes frog was based on a true story

A Texas horned toad once survived 31 years in a time capsule.

By Mike Vago | March 23, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/ol-rip-the-horned-toad-looney-tunes-frog

Gwyneth Paltrow sounds genuinely shocked to learn she was in seven Marvel movies

"That can't be right," Paltrow responds when her tenure as Pepper Potts is brought up. "I can't have been in seven."

By William Hughes | March 20, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/gwyneth-paltrow-shocked-seven-marvel-movies

Stephen Barone Explores Dark Humor in "The Dirty, the Filthy, and the Dead"

Barney Smith

StoryComic

Mar 15, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DJ85aSVcZo

Braxton Cosby on the Challenges of Writing Dystopian Young Adult Fiction [Starchild Comics company]

Barney Smith

StoryComic

Mar 20, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLrJv6nD010

Words, Images, & Worlds with Brendan Albetski

Jason DeHart

Mar 23, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS5HP7qA05c

Brandon Adler

Author Talk with Randall Munroe

Library Speakers Consortium

Jan 31, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAEutGwIQ9c and https://libraryc.org/monroetwplibrary/21987

Author Talk with Kate Beaton: Bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant!

Brandon Adler

Library Speakers Consortium

Apr 4, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV_7OSDWJC8 and https://libraryc.org/monroetwplibrary/25134

Graphic Novels are Life! Telling Your Own Story in a Graphic Novel with Dan Santat (5th-8th Grade)

Jazmin Castillo

Library Speakers Consortium

Jul 30, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYIECEny1K0

https://libraryc.org/monroetwplibrary/50973

Opus 9 - Breakdown on the Starship Remembrance (1979)

The Art of P. Craig Russell March 23 2025

https://www.waynealanharold.com/listen

All the controversies surrounding Disney's 'Snow White,' explained

The new live-action "Snow White" film has made headlines for years due to its casting decisions and changes to the original story.

By Herb Scribner

March 21, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/03/20/snow-white-controversy-explained/

Fair enough: A new 'Snow White' is surprisingly entertaining [in print as To be fair, this redo is pretty entertaining]

Ty Burr

Washington Post March 21, 2025: Weekend 22, 24.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/03/20/snow-white-rachel-zegler-review/

Sunday, March 23, 2025

WaPo on new ‘Snow White’

Fair enough: A new 'Snow White' is surprisingly entertaining [in print as To be fair, this redo is pretty entertaining]

Ugly CGI dwarves aside, it's a tuneful amplification of Disney's 1937 classic.

Review by Ty Burr

Washington Post March 21, 2025: Weekend 22, 24.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/03/20/snow-white-rachel-zegler-review/

All the controversies surrounding Disney's 'Snow White,' explained

The new live-action "Snow White" film has made headlines for years due to its casting decisions and changes to the original story.

By Herb Scribner

March 21, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/03/20/snow-white-controversy-explained/

Make Mine a Double by Daniel Boris

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen obit on NPR

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen dies at 66

AILSA CHANG and MARY LOUISE KELLY

All Things Considered March 19, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/19/nx-s1-5333316/courage-the-cowardly-dog-head-writer-david-steven-cohen-dies-at-66

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/03/20250319_atc_courage_the_cowardly_dog_writer_obit.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5333316

Edith Pritchett dropped by WaPo?

Edith Pritchett hasn't appeared for 2 weeks and the website shows her last cartoon on March 8th. She may have been let go after David Shipley was forced out by Bezos. Shipley had hired her. If so, the Post has no cartoonists left on staff and only rightwing Michael Ramirez on contract.

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/25/2025

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Upcoming California Rare Book School course "The Social and Material Lives of Comic Art,"

Comic strips turning political in WaPo print edition

A Secure Line by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/24/2025

Monday, March 24, 2025

Group Chat by Daniel Boris UPDATED

PR: SPX 2025 Table Lottery Is Now Open!!

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/22-23/2025

Sunday, March 23, 2025

WaPo on new ‘Snow White’

Fair enough: A new 'Snow White' is surprisingly entertaining [in print as To be fair, this redo is pretty entertaining]

All the controversies surrounding Disney's 'Snow White,' explained

Make Mine a Double by Daniel Boris

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen obit on NPR

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' head writer David Steven Cohen dies at 66

Edith Pritchett dropped by WaPo?

DJ Ben Ha Meen and Julian Lytle at Fantom Comics

What's it all mean in the end?