APRIL WAS A TOUGH MONTH FOR DIAMOND; Total Decline Since January Now Over $10 Million
Milton Griepp on June 6, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59728/april-was-tough-month-diamond
RETAILERS FEAR LOSS OF DIAMOND DATA FLOW
World According to Griepp
Milton Griepp on June 6, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59730/retailers-fear-loss-diamond-data-flow
Marty Two Bulls' Herblock Prize Soirée in Bruce Guthrie Photos
D. D. Degg
June 6, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/06/marty-two-bulls-herblock-prize-sioree-in-bruce-guthrie-photos/
Mark Millar Finding New Ways To Sell Psychic Sam With John Romita Jr [trading cards, Kickstarter]
05 Jun 2025 Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-millar-finding-new-ways-to-sell-psychic-sam-with-john-romita-jr/
Uncivilized Books Finds A Comics Distribution Home For Living The Line
Uncivilized Books finds a comics distribution home for Living The Line, courtesy of Lunar Distribution and more
05 Jun 2025 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/uncivilized-books-finds-a-comics-distribution-home-for-living-the-line/
Problems With Ad Populum's First Payments To Comics Publishers
The first payments due to comic book stores from Diamond Comics purchaser Ad Populum seem not to have been made. What's going on?
Rich Johnston 05 Jun 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/problems-with-ad-populums-first-payments-to-comics-publishers/
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 205 - Lindsey Budde
2025-06-04 https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-g5tsn-25cc2afe
The Cartoon Pad w/ John Cuneo
Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw
The Cartoon Pad June 5 2025 https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vp1bfO6jlAOCDwrBQNtpT
A2CAF '24 Photo Report [small press convention]
Chris Anthony Diaz | June 6, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/a2caf-24-photo-report/
Spanish Comics focus of Durham University event [Quan Zhou Wu]
By John Freeman on June 5, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/spanish-comics-focus-of-durham-university-event/
Morningstar, Ashley. 2025. Action and fighting girls: the ethnographic interplay of Naoko Takeuchi's feminism. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 26): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2509626 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2509626
Sarkar, Ritam & Somdatta Bhattacharya. 2025. Against the Grid: Urbanity and Infrastructure in Indian Sequential Narratives. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 20): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2506575 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2506575
T, Mufeeda & Sajid A Latheef. 2025. From text to image: a comparative study of Haruki Murakami's 'Birthday Girl' and its graphic adaptation. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 4): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2498565 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2498565
Daniel, Ritika. 2025. The refugee narrative in Thi Bui's graphic memoir: a multimodal approach. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 4): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2497296 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2497296
Pride 2025 Interview: Jeremy Whitley talks the ACES & AROS anthology
E.B. Hutchins on 06/06/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/pride-2025-interview-talking-with-jeremy-whitley-about-rhe-aces-aros-anthology/
TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
June 5, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-131/
Predator: Killer Of Killers is a gruesome animated battle for the ages
The animated anthology film stabs directly into the heart of what makes the series tick.
By Toussaint Egan | June 5, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/predator-killer-of-killers-review
'Predator: Killer of Killers' Just Rules
Third Floor and 20th Century Animation continue the Predator's recent hot streak with the excellent 'Killer of Killers.'
By Justin Carter
io9 June 5, 2025 https://gizmodo.com/predator-killer-of-killers-just-rules-2000608265
With 'Thunderbolts*,' Has Wyatt Russell Finally Broken Through?
Seth Abramovitch
June 6, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/wyatt-russell-thunderbolts-avengers-doomsday-1236257821/
Cantes de Confesión — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | June 6, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/cantes-de-confesion-this-weeks-links/
Off Panel #502: Discovery with Gabriel Bá
June 2 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-502-discovery-with-gabriel-b
Chris Weston interviewed – 2000 AD: The Creator Tapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGA4lrXUTZ0 May 24, 2025 The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 675: Tiffany Babb
Heidi MacDonald
on 05/30/2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1370
On Alaska Robotics Mini-Con, the Biggest Little Comics Convention Around, and the "Comics Adventure" That Comes With It
David Harper
June 4, 2025 https://sktchd.com/longform/alaska-robotics-mini-con-feature/
Peter Kuper's Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us
Insectopolis explores the often-unseen—and rapidly disappearing—world we share.
Steve Brodner
May 29, 2025
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ecosystem-environment-biosphere-nature/
Rising Bubbles: A curated celebration of comics, Bubbles Con returns with guest artist, Charles Burns, among other exciting artists.
Don Harrison
June 4, 2025
https://www.styleweekly.com/double-doodles/
Webcomic phenom Let's Play is getting an anime — a dream come true for American creator Mongie
She's the first American woman to have her original comic adapted into a Crunchyroll anime
by Matt Patches
Polygon June 3, 2025, https://www.polygon.com/manga/603118/lets-play-anime-trailer-crunchyroll
Tessa Hulls On The Weight Of History, The Power Of Comics, And Winning A Pulitzer Prize
Rob Salkowitz,
May 31, 2025, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/05/31/tessa-hulls-on-the-weight-of-history-the-power-of-comics-and-winning-a-pulitzer-prize/
Partners and Son – Gina Dawson and Tom Marquet talk about comics, art and the future [Philadelphia store]
By Oli Knowles June 1, 2025
https://www.theartblog.org/2025/06/partners-and-son-gina-dawson-and-tom-marquet-talk-about-comics-art-and-the-future/
Rockin' Out With Sumiko Arai, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Manga Creator
by Lynzee Loveridge, Jun 4th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-06-04/rockin-out-with-sumiko-arai-the-guy-she-was-interested-in-wasnt-a-guy-at-all-manga-creator/.223419
Alison Bechdel and the Search for the Beginner's Mind
With the cartoonist's new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the "light, fun" book she's longed to write.
By Charlie Tyson
June 4, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/alison-bechdel-and-the-search-for-the-beginners-mind
Eedy, Sean. 2025. Book Review - Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland: By Ewa Stańczyk, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2024, X+271 Pp., US$30.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-4968-5150-5." Canadian Slavonic Papers, May, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2025.2506223 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2025.2506223
Sparring with Michael Schwartz about the all-new 'Armored' hardcover release
The book's Kickstarter kicks off this week (June 3).
Chris Coplan
June 3, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/03/armored-hardcover-qa/
Gail Simone interviews David Marquez on 'Uncanny X-Men' and 'The Unchosen'
'Just David being David': Inside the Marquez-Simone X-Men Era and the upcoming series 'The Unchosen' at Image Comics.
David Brooke
June 2, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/02/gail-simone-david-marquez-uncanny-x-men-unchosen/
"Eighteen wheels of Holy Hell": Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden talk 'Big Rig'
The Post Malone-led 'Big Rig' #1 arrives July 9 from Vault Comics.
David Brooke
June 3, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/03/vault-big-rig-qa/
Demons, diesel, and Post Malone: Inside vault's wild ride 'Big Rig'
Vault Comics' Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden join the AIPT Comics Podcast to break down 'Big Rig' and we recap the week in comics.
David Brooke and Chris Coplan
June 1, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/01/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-331-post-malone-big-rig/
'Create something additive with long legs': Joseph Illidge talks 'Bloodletter' Spawn spin-off
Chris Coplan
June 5, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/05/bloodletter-feature-interview/
Patrick Horvath talks revenge, character growth in 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring'
Chris Coplan
June 2, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/02/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-rite-of-spring-qa/
'Some m***erf**kers, yeah, they're gonna have to die': Greg Rucka and Michael Lark detail 'Lazarus: Fallen'
The grand 'Lazarus' finale begins on June 25.
Chris Coplan
May 30, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/30/lazarus-fallen-qa/
HOLLY J. FRAZETTA, HEIDI L. FRAZETTA, and FRAZETTA PROPERTIES, LLC, Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 8:22-cv-581-WFJ-AEP VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS, LLC, andJESSE DAVID SPURLOCK
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, TAMPA DIVISION
https://ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2022-00581-279-8-cv
'People were repressed into silence': the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism's horrors
A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of Franco
Sam Jones in Madrid
Thu 5 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition
Richard Appignanesi obituary; Graphic novelist whose pioneering educational books took a wry look at subjects including Shakespeare, Freud and Marx
Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton
Thu 5 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/05/richard-appignanesi-obituary
Richter, David F. 2025. Spanish Graphic Narratives and Women Writers: Intersections of Memory, Politics, and Gender in Ilu Ros's Cosas nuestras . Impossibilia. Revista Internacional De Estudios Literarios, (29; May 30): https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.292024.32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279/29173
