Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/12/2025

 

Explaining forensic science in court with comics

February 5, 2025 by International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) https://phys.org/news/2025-02-forensic-science-court-comics.html

 

Peru's Red Animation Studio Opens Canary Islands Outpost

Animation Magazine

May 9, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/perus-red-animation-studio-opens-canary-islands-outpost/

 

8th Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards Reveal Winners

Mercedes Milligan

May 11, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/8th-ibero-american-animation-quirino-awards-reveal-winners/

 

Emerald City Comic Con, Noah Van Sciver reading and Fantagraphics Office Field Trip

Chris Anthony Diaz | May 10, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/emerald-city-comic-con-noah-van-sciver-reading-and-fantagraphics-office-field-trip/

 

Author turns Hanford's nuclear past into graphic novels with horror, humor [Tim Mulligan, "Snitchland"]

Cindy Hval

February 5, 2025 https://favs.news/author-turns-hanfords-nuclear-graphic-novels-horror-humor/

 

Joe Casey Writes  May 12, 2025

 STILL AT THE END OF THE LINE?  Where we find ourselves (Part Two of Two) [superhero comics]

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/still-at-the-end-of-the-line

 

A Mystical, Obsessive Encounter With the Ginseng Root

Craig Thompson's rhizomatic new graphic novel about the root's farming industry exposes the paradoxes of Trump's America.

   Noah Fischer

Hyperallergic May 11 2025

https://hyperallergic.com/1011467/a-mystical-obsessive-encounter-with-the-ginseng-root/             

 

Countdown to Lawless 2025: An Interview with Aly Fell [UK]

Richard Sheaf on May 11, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/countdown-to-lawless-2025-an-interview-with-aly-fell/

Aubrey, Dan. 2013.
Schlegel Draws the Line on Political Misbehavior.
Princeton Info (August 20):    https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/schlegel-draws-the-line-on-political-misbehavior/article_54e0d0ba-c0e0-5c6c-b4c1-c6f410eda7ae.html
 
Degg, D. D. 2025.
Ralph Schlegel – RIP.
Daily Cartoonist (May 12): https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/12/ralph-schlegel-rip/

Purcell, Janet. 2013.
Cartoonist and illustrator Ralph Schlegel shows work at library.
Times of Trenton (August 23): https://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/2013/08/cartoonist_and_illustrator_ral.html

Unknown. 2025.
Ralph Alan Schlegel Obituary.
Murphy Funeral Home (May): https://www.murphyfh.com/obituaries/Ralph-Alan-Schlegel?obId=42381034

 

Interview: Steve Cuzor on THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

Javier Perez on 05/12/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-steve-cuzor-on-the-red-badge-of-courage/

 

Graphic novel comes to life in a play within a play [Dog Man: The Musical]

Geoff Hanson, Aspen Daily News

Feb 6, 2025 https://www.aspendailynews.com/arts_and_entertainment/graphic-novel-comes-to-life-in-a-play-within-a-play/article_c68b704e-e441-11ef-8944-c75d6507102b.html

 

Local comic shops navigate distribution shortages [Diamond bankruptcy].

Ashley Cortez,  

Feb 5, 2025

https://fscollegian.com/2025/02/local-comic-shops-navigation-distribution-shortages/

 

The High Cost of Comic Books: Assemble a Collection Wisely

 Nerd Voices February 4, 2025

https://nerdbot.com/2025/02/04/the-high-cost-of-comic-books-assemble-a-collection-wisely/

Tasmin Humphries (ed.). 2017-.
The Aspiring Kryptonian [Superman blog].
https://theaspiringkryptonian.com/

Get A Head Start on the DCU With the Best Tom King Comics
TJ Pistilli
CBR May 10 2025
https://www.cbr.com/best-tom-king-comics-dcu-pre-req/

Springfield alum Brian Ahearn's unique comics spread awareness of wildlife conservation [Zoodraws].
Ty Sangesby
February 5, 2025 https://scstudentmedia.com/springfield-alum-brian-ahearns-unique-comics-spread-awareness-of-wildlife-conservation/

    Artists and fans flock to Taipei annual comics fair
        Staff writer, with CAN
Feb 07, 2025 page3
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/02/07/2003831484

Daniel Best - Author May 12, 2025
Marvel Litigation: Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Don Rico (estates of) & Larry Lieber. An Ongoing Series Looking At Who Claimed What.
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/marvel-litigation-gene-colan-steve

R. Crumb, King Of Underground Comics [2005 interview inc. Aline Kominsky Crumb]
Terry Gross
Fresh Air May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191991/r-crumb-king-of-underground-comics
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5167041886.mp3

[Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new Marvel film, Thunderbolts* (at 43:15)]
Fresh Air May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191991/r-crumb-king-of-underground-comics
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5167041886.mp3

Rare WWII Posters by Bill Mauldin
Rob Stolzer
 Inkslingers May 12, 2025
https://inkslingers.ink/2025/05/12/rare-wwii-posters-by-bill-mauldin/

Making Comics Sales Data Work Harder, with Atom! Freeman
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
May 12, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGK1MJbGzFs

Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander Present J VS. K!
Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander
Little, Brown Young Readers
 Mar 19, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npfsQR2iOTg

John A. Walsh (ed.). 2025-.
Comic Book Paratexts.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University.
https://biblicon.org/cbp/

CBR's Tom King reading list ahead of the Superman movie

Get A Head Start on the DCU With the Best Tom King Comics

By  TJ Pistilli

CBR May 10 2025

https://www.cbr.com/best-tom-king-comics-dcu-pre-req/

Cara Gormally book tour starts tonight on Zoom

Book tour!

First up: zoom book launch May 12 @7pm EST–sign up here for the zoom link!

I'll be in conversation with Sacha Mardou, author of Past Tense, a graphic memoir about unpacking family secrets with IFS therapy. MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns, a graphic memoir about being a nurse during the AIDS crisis, will moderate.

NYC: I'll be in conversation with Emi Nietfeld on May 20 @7pm at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn. We'll be drawing, too, yay! Please RSVP here.

DC: I'm reading at Little District Books on June 5 @7pm.

Philly: I'm reading at Partners & Son on June 28 @6pm. And I'll be at ALA that weekend on a panel about LGBTQ+ literature. Come say hello!

Virginia: I'm at Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church on October 26 at 2pm.

If you'd like to check out my graphic memoir, Everything is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder, before the event, it's at your local bookshop or indie books.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/10-11/2025

Peter Sanderson  
A Road Not Taken  [ "What If…Captain America Were Revived Today?"]
Sanderson on Comics May 11, 2025
https://substack.com/inbox/post/163349602

BL Anime Studio Grizzly Dissolves
  2025-05-05   Anita Tai
Studio animated Twittering Birds Never Fly film, Yarichin Bitch-bu OAV
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-05-05/bl-anime-studio-grizzly-dissolves/.224083

Finding the Human Heart in a Cyberpunk World: An Interview with YOUR FORMA Director Takaharu Ozaki
by Richard Eisenbeis, May 5th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025-05-05/finding-the-human-heart-in-a-cyberpunk-world-an-interview-with-your-forma-director-takaharu-ozaki/.222086

Answerman: How Will President Trump's Proposed Foreign Film Tariff Affect Anime?
by Jerome Mazandarani, May 9th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2025-05-09/.224282

Exhibit walk-thru with editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in Switzerland!
A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video
Liza Donnelly
Seeing Things May 10, 2025
https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/exhibit-walk-thru-with-editorial

Right Decision by Left Cartoonist [Telnaes]
D. D. Degg
May 9, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/09/right-decision-by-left-cartoonist/

Creator Interview: Cavan Scott [Gwenpool]
Evan
The Comics Collective May 9 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creator-interview-cavan-scott/id1493143752?i=1000706966527

This shall not stand [Mark Trail letter]
Shirin Ikram,
Washington Post May 10 2025: A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/invasive-bamboo-verklempt-dyngus-vance-alijah-arenas/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred thirty-six | Mark Waid, part one
May 10, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/old-data

DC High Volume: Batman | Interviews with Batman Actor Jason Spisak & DC's Mike Pallotta | DC
Coy Jandreau
DC
 Apr 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKF6MvobiOU

Vladimir Popov | Star Wars Week [colorist]
Justin Soderberg
 May 9, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast #224
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv51M8p35yA

Words, Images, & Worlds: Student Government Edition, AKA How to YA [Joe Eisma, Dave Justus, and Lilah Sturges]
Jason DeHart
 May 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9-4WNmdjQ

Off Panel #498: Committed to Beef with Jonathan Hickman
May 5 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-498-committed-to-beef-with-jonathan-hickman

Jonathan Hickman Confirms Ultimate Universe Was Meant For Donny Cates
08 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jonathan-hickman-confirms-ultimate-universe-was-meant-for-donny-cates/

Jonathan Hickman's X-Men, His "Most Disappointing Creative Experience"
 09 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jonathan-hickman-x-men-his-most-disappointing-creative-experience/

Jack Katz, Pioneer of the Graphic Novel, Is Dead at 97
Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work "The First Kingdom" from no less a model than Homer.
By Alex Williams
May 9, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/arts/jack-katz-dead.html


Liam McGuire
 Interview: Justin Gradin Talks Pageant from Fantagraphics
Comic Frontier May 9, 2025
https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/interview-justin-gradin-talks-pageant-from-fantagraphics

Darryl Cunningham's "Elon Musk – American Oligarch" gets English edition
John Freeman on May 9, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/darryl-cunninghams-elon-musk-american-oligarch-gets-english-edition/

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade [ Craig Thompson's graphic memoir, Ginseng Roots]
Andrew Limbong
May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5137011/ginseng-roots-craig-thompson-blankets

The Brooding Elric
P. Craig Russell
Behind the Drawing Board May 11 2025
https://www.waynealanharold.com/watch/v/the-brooding-elric

Diamond Comics Releases Addresses For Every Single Comic Book Store
Rich Johnston
 10 May 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-releases-addresses-for-every-single-comic-book-store/

Cooking with Comics
Zach Welhouse, (Moderator), Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Deb Aoki, Heidi Knuth, Vivian Truong.
 BooklistOnline and GNCRT
  May 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIeApyAhwDU

The Thursday Island Reading Series Hosts Its First Ever Children's Event with Acclaimed Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce, Author of Big Nate, on Thursday, May 29 at 6pm at Twice Sold Tales
May 3, 2025
https://dailybulldog.com/arts/the-thursday-island-reading-series-hosts-its-first-ever-childrens-event-with-acclaimed-cartoonist-lincoln-peirce-author-of-big-nate-on-thursday-may-29-at-6pm-at-twice-sold-tales/

Sandy Murphy: Bringing Lake Champlain to Life Through Graphic Novels ["Our Scrumptious Lake PHYTOTASTIC!"; environmental]
Barney Smith
StoryComic  May 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv7gK8_7_fM

News from Wayno
https://waynocartoons.substack.com/

Book of the Month June 2005: Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass
Julie Gardham
Glasgow University Library's Special Collections Department June 2005
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/june2005.html

A short history of Mexican political satire
Sheryl Losser
May 4, 2025
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/a-history-of-mexican-political-cartoons/

Villagers thought Spanish cartoonist was a WW2 spy [Mario Armengol; UK]
Simon Ward
BBC News, East Midlands May 7 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql6glgd3ezo

Rare Giles cartoons fetch £8,500
ORIGINAL drawings by Daily Express cartoonist Carl Giles have made £8,500 at auction.
  Mar 4, 2013
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/381621/Rare-Giles-cartoons-fetch-8-500

The nation's favourite cartoonist: A tribute to Ronald 'Carl' Giles
IN ITS 116-year history many famous names have written for the Daily Express.
By Neil Clark
  Sep 24, 2016
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/714007/nation-favourite-cartoonist-tribute-ronald-carl-giles

Daily Express cartoonist who mocked Hitler so successfully he was put on a Nazi death list
The 'Cockney Disney' Carl Giles ridiculed the Nazis as a bunch of clowns... no wonder they wanted to murder him
By Tim Benson – Cartoon Expert
  Apr 26, 2025
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2046755/Carl-Giles-Expres-Cartoonist-Tim-Benson

The Daily Express cartoonist who mocked the Kaiser with mud in WW1 trenches
Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction in the trenches of the First World War before returning to Fleet Street as the highest paid journalist of the 1930s
By Tim Benson Cartoon Expert
  Apr 22, 2025
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2045147/daily-express-cartoonist-sidney-strube-kaiser-ww1

Countdown to Lawless 2025: An Interview with Hunt Emerson
Richard Sheaf on May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/countdown-to-lawless-2025-an-interview-with-hunt-emerson/

CREATOR PROFILE: HUNT EMERSON
http://paulgravett.com/profiles/creator/hunt_emerson

You are Maggie Thatcher: a dole-playing game
Titan Books 1987
by Pat Mills (Author), Hunt Emerson (Illustrator)

Largecow
Hunt Emerson
https://largecow.com/

Colossive Press Announces a Birthday Bash at Gosh! [UK]
John Freeman on May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/colossive-press-announces-a-birthday-bash-at-gosh/

Creating Commando Comics: "For You the War is Over" – a Writer's Commentary
Andrew Knighton  May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/creating-commando-comics-for-you-the-war-is-over-a-writers-commentary/

WWI cartoonist's satirical look at war [Archie Gilkison; Scotland]
7 October 2014
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-29521787

Are these Walt Disney's earliest drawings?: WW1 scrapbook hints at Mickey Mouse origins
A ONE-of-a-kind scrapbook containing legendary cartoonist Walt Disney's earliest drawings that hint at the origins of Mickey Mouse has emerged for sale for a staggering £130,000.
Nov 11, 2015
https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/618650/WW1-scrapbook-hints-at-origins-of-Mickey-Mouse

Remembering 'Dry Bones' cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY May 8, 2025
https://www.jta.org/2025/05/08/obituaries/remembering-dry-bones-cartoonist-yaakov-kirschen-who-sketched-israeli-feats-and-foibles-for-50-years

Meet the man who wants to draw 'all the restaurants' in Philly
John Donohue, a former New Yorker editor, started off sketching his dish rack. He has moved on to restaurant facades.
Bedatri D. Choudhury
May 5, 2025,
https://www.inquirer.com/food/john-dohnohue-all-the-restaurants-drawings-philadelphia-gleaners-20250505.html

Pick Up This Book and Be Spirited Away
"The Village Beyond the Mist" may or may not have inspired the Studio Ghibli masterpiece, but it's transporting nonetheless.
By Gregory Maguire
A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Spirited Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/books/review/sachiko-kashiwaba-the-village-beyond-the-mist.html

Whitesboro Artist Named Finalist for National Cartoonists Society Awards [Phil Miller; comic book]
    By: Zach Lewis
    May 9, 2025
    https://www.wktv.com/news/entertainment/whitesboro-artist-named-finalist-for-national-cartoonists-society-awards/article_487131a8-3107-4265-847f-de7a40da4f8c.html

"They Deserve to Get More Support": The Comics Courier's Tiffany Babb on Building a New Space for Comics Criticism
David Harper
May 7, 2025
https://sktchd.com/interview/tiffany-babb-comics-courier-interview/

Avengers: Age of Ultron Anniversary Vid Reminds You It Exists Marvel didn't really give Age of Ultron any flowers for its 10th anniversary, probably because it's both unncessary and strangely vital to the MCU. By Justin Carter
May 10, 2025 https://gizmodo.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-anniversary-vid-reminds-you-it-exists-2000600544

X-Men was "the most disappointing creative experience" Jonathan Hickman has ever had, the Marvel writer reveals
 Graeme McMillan, Editor
  May 10 2025 Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-xmen-jonathan-hickman-krakoa-marvel-disappointing

A new Marvel comic book unearths horror stories first published over 50 years ago [Tower of Shadows]
Ayesha Rascoe
NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday May 11, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5382390/a-new-marvel-comic-book-unearths-horror-stories-first-published-over-50-years-ago
 https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/05/20250511_wesun_a_new_marvel_comic_book_unearths_horror_stories_first_published_over_50_years_ago.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5382390

NPR on Tower of Shadows reprint

A new Marvel comic book unearths horror stories first published over 50 years ago [Tower of Shadows]

Ayesha Rascoe

Weekend Edition Sunday May 11, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5382390/a-new-marvel-comic-book-unearths-horror-stories-first-published-over-50-years-ago

 https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/05/20250511_wesun_a_new_marvel_comic_book_unearths_horror_stories_first_published_over_50_years_ago.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5382390

May 31: Angela Hsieh at Fantom Comics

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJMGF6hxZeC/?img_index=1

NPR on Craig Thompson's graphic memoir, Ginseng Roots

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade ]

Andrew Limbong

May 9, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5137011/ginseng-roots-craig-thompson-blankets

That darn Mark Trail

This shall not stand [Mark Trail letter]

Shirin Ikram, Potomac

Washington Post May 10 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/invasive-bamboo-verklempt-dyngus-vance-alijah-arenas/

The April 20 "Mark Trail" made a pitch for replanting native trees in New York.

I would support implementing this idea in the D.C. area, which had a large number of native trees and plants when I first came here 40 years ago. They have since been increasingly replaced by bamboo.

Though the National Zoo might be interested in this abundance of bamboo for its panda guests, neither the birds nor the bees native to this area see any added benefit.

It is unfortunate that bamboo cannot be forbidden by executive orders!

Telnaes and Donnelly talk in their exhibit in Switzerland

Exhibit walk-thru with editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in Switzerland!

A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things May 10, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/exhibit-walk-thru-with-editorial

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/9/2025

In Memoriam: Jim Smith [animator]

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 6, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/in-memoriam-jim-smith/

 

Jack Kirby Exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center in LA

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 7, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/jack-kirby-exhibit-at-skirball-cultural-center-in-la/

 

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 8, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-127/

 

Butch Guice: A Commemoration of His Comic Covers

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 8, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/butch-guice-a-commemoration-of-his-comic-covers/

 

The week in Diamond Bankruptcy: filings and fees and questions

Heidi MacDonald on 05/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-week-in-diamond-bankruptcy-filings-and-fees-and-questions/

 

The Beat Digest 05/09/25: Schreier to reboot X-MEN?

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-050925/

 

NYC Paper Getting Comics Page

D. D. Degg

May 9, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/09/nyc-paper-getting-comics-page/

 

"Comics Village", new newspaper strips page, lands at New York's Village Revue next month

John Freeman on May 9, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/comics-village-new-newspaper-strips-page-lands-at-new-yorks-village-revue-next-month/

 

From London to the New Yorker: Gabrielle Drolet [Canada]

    Eshal Naqvi,  

    May 5, 2025

    https://westerngazette.ca/culture/from-london-to-the-i-new-yorker-i-gabrielle-drolet/article_581debc8-f516-43ee-a9e1-5f593269d7de.html

 

Maison du Dessin de Presse

Geneva, Switzerland

https://mddp.ch/

 

Ann Telnaes & Liza Donnelly | Chronique d'une Amérique au féminin  Exhibition guide [Exhibition guide Ann Telnaes & Liza Donnelly]

Geneva, Switzerland: Maison du Dessin de Presse 2025

https://mddp.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/guide-trad-version-anglais.pdf

 

BCW Comic Book Bags And Boards Being Hit By 150% Tariffs

08 May 2025  Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bcw-comic-book-bags-and-boards-being-hit-by-150-tariffs/

 

France To Create Its Own Wonder Woman/Harley Quinn Graphic Novel

France to create its own Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn graphic novel by Sylvain Runberg, and Miki Montlo from Urban Comics

07 May 2025  Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/france-to-create-its-own-wonder-woman-harley-quinn-graphic-novel/

 

Did a TV Show Hurt Your Feelings? 'Fix-Its' Offer Justice

By Connie Chang

Illustrations by Chris Retsina

A version of this article appears in print on May 8, 2025, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Fan Fiction 'Fixes' the Plot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/arts/television/did-a-tv-show-hurt-you-fix-its-offer-justice.html

 

'Ted' Animated Series From Seth MacFarlane a Go at Peacock

Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried will voice their characters from the film franchise in the show, which will sit alongside a live-action prequel series.

Rick Porter

May 9, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ted-animated-series-peacock-seth-macfarlane-1236212073/

 

Tout est tranquille – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | May 9, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/tout-est-tranquille-this-weeks-links/

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 671: Latinx Comix As Alternative Histories [exhibit interviews]

Calvin Reid

on 05/02/2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1366

 

INTERVIEW: The Story Behind Manga Mavericks Books

By wendeego

May 6, 2025

https://yattatachi.com/manga-mavericks-books-interview

 

Smash Pages Q&A | Taki Soma on 'Alienated'

The creator of 'Sleeping While Standing' and more discusses her newest miniseries from Comixology Originals.

JK Parkin

May 6, 2025

https://smashpages.net/2025/05/06/smash-pages-qa-taki-soma-on-alienated/

 

"A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives" – Chris King Talks 'Cold Chips', Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media Practice

Andy Oliver

    May 7, 2025

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/chris-king-interview/

 

Eadweard Muybridge and the Making of the Motion Picture [Guy Delisle]

A new comic book is as much a social history of photography and its relationship to culture during the 19th century as it is one man's life story.

   Dan Schindel May 4, 2025

https://hyperallergic.com/1008892/eadweard-muybridge-and-the-making-of-the-motion-picture/ 

 

Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson review – a genre-defying graphic novel about class, religion and globalisation

Adam Rutherford

8 May 2025  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/08/ginseng-roots-by-craig-thompson-review-a-genre-defying-graphic-novel-about-class-religion-and-globalisation

 

Beth Hetland's 'Tender' wins 2025 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize

May 6, 2025

https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/beth-hetlands-tender-wins-2025-lynd-ward-graphic-novel-prize

 

Quimby's New Owners Pledge To Keep Wicker Park Bookstore Going For Years To Come

Peter Miles Bergman and Cody Kasselman have bought the beloved bookstore, which has sold self-published zines, comics and graphic novels for three decades.

   by Quinn Myers

Block Club Chicago,  May 1, 2025

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/01/quimbys-new-owners-pledge-to-keep-wicker-park-bookstore-going-for-years-to-come/

 

X-Men Monday #296 – Fabian Nicieza Talks 'Godzilla vs. X-Men'

Chris Hassan

May 5, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/05/x-men-monday-296-fabian-nicieza-godzilla/

 

Robert Kirkman, Benito Cereno, and E.J. Su discuss how friendship, art influenced 'Blood & Thunder'

Collier Jennings

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/blood-thunder-creator-qa/

 

Paul Jenkins on Sentry in 'Thunderbolts*', mental health, and the power behind the pain

David Brooke

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/paul-jenkins-sentrys-thunderbolts-qa/

 

Jonny Quest meets Space Ghost in Joe Casey's sci-fi adventure 'Space Quest'

David Brooke

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/space-quest-joey-casey-feature/

 

Rintaro wins top prize at Tezuka Osamu manga awards

ASAHI SHIMBUN May 4, 2025   https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15726244

 

Facility sought to create national manga and anime archive

By TOMOKI TAJIMA

ASAHI SHIMBUN August 30, 2024

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15408117

 

Jackson "Butch" Guice

June 27, 1961 — May 1, 2025

Hodapp Funeral Home (May 5 2025):

https://www.hodappfuneralhome.com/obituaries/jackson-guice

 

"This Mystical Experience That is Actually Very Unpleasant": Sommer Browning Interviews KAYLA E.

Today on SOLRAD, Sommer Browning interviews Kayla E about PRECIOUS RUBBISH

Sommer Browning

SOLRAD May 5, 2025

https://solrad.co/this-mystical-experience-that-is-actually-very-unpleasant-sommer-browning-interviews-kayla-e

 

Graphic novel shares Syrian survivor's story of imprisonment [ Al-Fazia افلظ یع – the Horror: Surviving Assad's Prisons; Canada; Tobi Dahmen]

By Katy DeCoste

May 7, 2025

UVic News https://news.uvic.ca/2025/graphic-novel-shares-syrian-survivors-story-of-imprisonment/

 

Chasing Dreams and Finding Passion: An Interview with Jonathan L. Bowen on 'The Comic Shop'

Jonathan L. Bowen discusses his upcoming film, 'The Comic Shop,' starring Jesse Metcalfe, Tristin Mays, Micah Giovanni and many others talents.

Jay Lang

05/02/2025

https://v13.net/2025/05/jonathan-l-bowen-interview-the-comic-shop/

 

From Readymade to Boilerplate: Robert Sikoryak's Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel

Apr 30, 2025 By: Lisa Siraganian

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/readymade-boilerplate-robert-sikoryak%E2%80%99s-terms-and-conditions-graphic-novel

 

Vintage Seth: Comics against Nostalgia

Apr 30, 2025 By: Matthew Levay

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/vintage-seth-comics-against-nostalgia

 

Revise/Reboot: Retcons and the Modernist Restructuring of History in Superhero Comics

Apr 30, 2025 By: Marie Sartain

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/revisereboot-retcons-and-modernist-restructuring-history-superhero-comics

 

Harlem Composition: Adapting Chester Himes into French Comics

Apr 30, 2025 By: Kinohi Nishikawa

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/harlem-composition-adapting-chester-himes-french-comics

 

Tove Jansson's Moomin Modernism

Apr 30, 2025 By: Mike Classon Frangos

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/tove-jansson%E2%80%99s-moomin-modernism

 

Repulsive Women: Djuna Barnes and Others in the American Periodical Press, 1900–1915

Apr 30, 2025 By: Jean Lee Cole

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/repulsive-women-djuna-barnes-and-others-american-periodical-press-1900%E2%80%931915

 

Re-viewing the Earliest Krazy Kat Dailies: Reception, Distribution, Remediation

Apr 29, 2025 By: Paul Peppis

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/re-viewing-earliest-krazy-kat-dailies-reception-distribution-remediation

 

Modernist Funnies

Apr 29, 2025 By: Lee Konstantinou

Modernism/modernity Print Plus Volume 9, Cycle 3

https://www.modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts/modernist-funnies

 

I have agoraphobia. Here's what I do when I'm afraid to go outdoors. [in print as Agoraphobic Adventure: Working Through My Fears One Journey at a Time]

Haruka Aoki

Washington Post May 6 2025: E5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2025/05/02/agoraphobia-anxiety-comic/

Pompous Objector by Daniel Boris

Jerry Craft and his Newberry medal

Photo by Randy Tischler 

Jerry Craft at Scrawl Books

Photos by Randy Tischler.

Ann Telnaes and Liza Donnelly on exhibit in Geneval

Ann Telnaes & Liza Donnelly | Chronique d'une Amérique au féminin

Maison du Dessin de Presse 08 mars au 1er juin 2025https://mddp.ch/2025/02/12/ann-telnaes-liza-donnelly/

and here's the exhibit guide in English.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/8/2025

Former IDW exec David Ozer sentenced in embezzlement case

Heidi MacDonald on 05/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/former-idw-exec-david-ozer-sentenced-in-embezzlement-case/ 

 

FORMER PRESIDENT OF IDW ENTERTAINMENT GETS 18 MONTHS For Fraud

Milton Griepp on May 8, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59501/former-president-idw-entertainment-gets-18-months     

 

DIAMOND BANKRUPTCY FEES MOUNT

Over $1.9 Million in Fees for March

Milton Griepp on May 8, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59503/diamond-bankruptcy-fees-mount

 

Pure Thought on Paper [Olivier Schrauwen's Sunday]

Chris Ware       

May 29, 2025 issue

https://archive.ph/UirHw

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/05/29/pure-thought-on-paper-sunday-olivier-schrauwen/

 

Disney to Build a Magic Kingdom Theme Park in the Middle East

Brooks Barnes

A version of this article appears in print on May 8, 2025, Section B, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Disney to Build a Magic Kingdom Theme Park in the Middle East

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/business/media/disney-theme-park-abu-dhabi.html

 

Tessa Hulls, The Other 2025 Pulitzer Winning Cartoonist

D. D. Degg

May 7, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/07/tessa-hulls-the-other-2025-pulitzer-winning-cartoonist/

 

Seattle author Tessa Hulls wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize

Gemma Wilson

Seattle Times May 5, 2025

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/seattle-author-tessa-hulls-wins-2025-pulitzer-prize/

 

Juneau author Tessa Hulls wins Pulitzer Prize for graphic memoir 'Feeding Ghosts'

Book entwines grandmother, mother and author on journey of politics and identity from China to points worldwide.

    by Mark Sabbatini

    May 5, 2025 https://www.juneauempire.com/news/juneau-author-tessa-hulls-wins-pulitzer-prize-for-graphic-novel-feeding-ghosts/

 

Seattle Author Wins Pulitzer Prize

Tessa Hulls wins for Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Rob Smith May 6, 2025 https://seattlemag.com/seattle-culture/seattle-author-wins-pulitzer-prize/

 

From Alaska Capitol's cafeteria, author and illustrator claims Pulitzer Prize

Tessa Hull's 'Feeding Ghosts' was awarded the prize for memoirs and biographies

By: James Brooks - May 5, 2025

https://alaskabeacon.com/2025/05/05/from-alaska-capitols-cafeteria-author-and-illustrator-claims-pulitzer-prize/

 

Joe Casey

END OF THE LINE?  Where we find ourselves (Part One of Two) [superhero comic books].

Joe Casey Writes   May 8, 2025

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/end-of-the-line

 

TV Review: Netflix's EL ETERNAUTA turns Argentina's classic sci-fi comic into a highly bingeable show

Ricardo Serrano Denis on 05/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/tv-review-el-eternauta/

 

inewsource named Pulitzer Prize finalist for fentanyl reporting [Steve Breen]

by Lorie Hearn

May 5, 2025

https://inewsource.org/2025/05/05/inewsource-pulitzer-prize-finalist-fentanyl-reporting/

 

Far from easy comfort: An examination of Jordan Crane's Goes Like This

Hagai Palevsky | May 8, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/far-from-easy-comfort-an-examination-of-jordan-cranes-goes-like-this/

 

Director Jamy Wheless Discusses the Compassionate Creativity Behind 'Andy: A Dog's Tale'

Ramin Zahed

May 7, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/jamy-wheless-discusses-the-compassionate-creativity-behind-andy-a-dogs-tale/

 

NCS Divisional Award Nominees for 79th Annual Reubens

D. D. Degg   May 7, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/07/ncs-divisional-award-nominees-for-79th-annual-reubens/

Exclusive: Dark Horse and Yoe Books to celebrate the art of Roy G. Krenkel
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/art-of-roy-krenkel/

Marvel Litigation: Mark Evanier's (partial) Deposition
3 March 2023, Marvel Characters, Inc., et al., versus Lawrence Lieber, et al
Daniel Best
Daniel Best - Author May 08, 2025
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/marvel-litigation-mark-evaniers-partial

Licensing Hotline: May 2025
By Karen Raugust
May 08, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97725-licensing-hotline-may-2025.html

Dog Man Gets Caught Reading for Fall 2025 Children's Book Week
By Pamela Brill
May 08, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97721-dog-man-gets-caught-reading-for-fall-2025-children-s-book-week.html

    Fanbase Press Interviews Kevin Shinick on the Launch of the Kickstarter Campaign for the Time-Travel Adventure Graphic Novel, 'Host Mortem'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    May 7, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56722-fanbase-press-interviews-kevin-shinick-on-the-launch-of-the-kickstarter-campaign-for-the-time-travel-adventure-graphic-novel-host-mortem/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Ned Wenlock on the Upcoming Release of the Graphic Novel, 'Tsunami,' Through Pow Pow Press [New Zealand]
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    May 6, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56715-fanbase-press-interviews-ned-wenlock-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-graphic-novel-tsunami-through-pow-pow-press/

"James Thurber: Doodler Extraordinary" by Barbara Klaw,  American Heritage (February 1965).

    Why Heartstopper Creator Alice Oseman Is "So Excited" About the Upcoming Movie
    Kit Connor and Joe Locke will star in the YA romance's "memorable, sophisticated, and atmospheric" conclusion.
    By Ariana Romero
    April 28, 2025
    https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/heartstopper-movie-alice-oseman-plot-news

Kaare Andrews Marc Guggenheilm talk Marvel Star Wars and More
word balloon May 8 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n573pLZ8m4g

connor B. for BRING ME THE HEAD OF SUSAN LAMOND
Comix Experience
May 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFxKgESclo

The Cartoon Pad w/ guest Jason Chatfield
Michael Shaw and Bob Eckstein
May 6 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cartoon-pad-w-guest-jason-chatfield/id1561378159?i=1000706590639 or https://open.spotify.com/episode/7zDQ2spwpWZjdp7d20LFLc

The Cartoon Pad w/ guest Liza Donnelly
Michael Shaw and Bob Eckstein
July 23 2024
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cartoon-pad-w-guest-liza-donnelly/id1561378159?i=1000663154222

Is Ann Telnaes making far more money now than she did at WaPo?
by Mike Rhode
ComicsDC May 08, 2025
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/05/is-ann-telnaes-making-far-more-money.html

Is Ann Telnaes making far more money now than she did at WaPo?

by Mike Rhode

(Corrected 5/9 with the notice that she still has a free tier)

(Updated 11/4/25) 

I don't know, I haven't asked her.** But while the Post continues to claim her, insofar as the Pulitzers are concerned (with full page ads run at least for 2 days), she may be far better off without them. Here's her initial newsletter about quitting the paper over a squashed cartoon, and there's plenty more coverage spread throughout this blog.

In her Substack newsletter about winning the award, she wrote, "Due to you all, my Substack Open Windows has reached 100,000 subscribers!!" I don't believe she has a free tier anymore, just She still has a free tier, but if everyone paid for a subscription at $80/year or $8/month she would gross perhaps $8,000,000 to a maximum of $9,600,000.

Substack fees are described on their website.

From Substack: 10% of each transaction

From Stripe: Credit cards

A credit card fee (2.9% + $0.30 per transaction fee) and a Billing fee for recurring subscriptions (0.7% for recurring payments as of July 2024).

Their example shows the bite at about 20% on a $5 dollar payment.

If we use that back of the envelope, Ann might be netting $6,400,000 before taxes.* I find this stunningly hard to believe, but I hope it's true. A dish best served cold after all...

*I'm not an accountant or businessman so feel free to correct my thinking. 5/9: Thanks to Wim Lockefeer for pointing out she still has a free tier; my paid subscription version wouldn't show that to me.

 

**The answer is 'no' she told me at SPX this year. 

The Great Crisis Manager by Daniel Boris