Monday, July 14, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/11-13/2025

Eulogies for a Missing Friend – Steve Benson has Left Our World
D. D. Degg  
July 11, 2025  
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/11/eulogies-for-a-missing-friend-steve-benson-has-left-our-world/

Steve Benson's greatest gift wasn't his art — it was his heart
Jul 10, 2025
By Jim Small
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/steve-bensons-greatest-gift-wasnt-his-art-it-was-his-heart

My otherworldly kinship with Steve Benson, a brother from another planet | Opinion
He was a baby-faced, buttoned-up, necktie-wearing Mormon from Utah, and I was a blue jeans, shaggy-haired steelworker's kid from Pittsburgh.
 EJ Montini
Arizona Republic
July 10, 2025,
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2025/07/10/steve-benson-died-political-cartoon-liberal/84531485007/

Buffalo Museum Cancels Event After Backlash Against Texas Flood Cartoon
Award-winning cartoonist Adam Zyglis received death threats for his criticism of the government's reaction to the disaster.
  Maya Pontone July 11, 2025
https://hyperallergic.com/1027347/buffalo-museum-cancels-event-after-backlash-against-texas-flood-cartoon/

Cartoonists' & Free Speech Demand Release of LeMan Magazine Cartoonist, Staff
Alan Gardner  
July 11, 2025   https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/11/cartoonists-free-speech-demand-release-of-leman-magazine-cartoonist-staff/

He's Happy Down there, Leave him be: The Bubbles Con 2025 scene report
FCB | July 10, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/hes-happy-down-there-leave-him-be-the-bubbles-con-2025-scene-report/

2024 Hot off the Press Book Fair: photo gallery
Chris Anthony Diaz | July 11, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/2024-hot-off-the-press-book-fair-photo-gallery/

The Recycled Marvel Swimsuit Special Of 2025?
Bleeding Cool 10 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-recycled-marvel-swimsuit-special-of-2025/

Graphitti Designs & Magma Comix File Legal Paperwork Against Diamond
11 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/graphitti-designs-magma-comix-file-legal-paperwork-against-diamond/

Dynamite, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly Team Up Against Diamond
Dynamite, Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly team up and pool resources against Diamond Comics and invite others to do the same
 11 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-fantagraphics-drawn-quarterly-team-up-against-diamond/

The Comic Creators Who Get Special Thanks In The New Superman Movie
11 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-comic-creators-who-get-special-thanks-in-the-new-superman-movie/

David Corenswet Wants to Be a Superman You Can Count On
The actor has a man-out-of-time quality that makes him surprisingly like his character. But he is hyperaware of the present expectations riding on his performance.
 Kyle Buchanan
July 12, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/movies/david-corenswet-superman.html

Can 'Superman' Fly Above Today's Polarized Politics?
Matt Stevens
A version of this article appears in print on July 12, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's a … Polarizing Political Metaphor?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/movies/superman-politics-backlash.html

Yes, Superman Has Always Been an Immigration Story
Accusations that James Gunn has "politicized" Superman come laughably late, as the world's most famous superhero has always been political, write narrative strategist Andrew Slack and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas.
By Andrew Slack, Jose Antonio Vargas
July 12, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/james-gunn-politicize-superman-1236312336/

'He was a violent socialist': How Superman started out as a radical rebel
By Nicholas Barber
4th July 2025  https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20250703-how-superman-started-out-as-a-radical-rebel

Stop, Already, With Superhero Movies Ending With Big, Dumb CG Smash Battles
James Gunn's 'Superman' is great until it climaxes with the same numbing effects-overkill as most other Marvel/DC efforts. It's time to find another way to end these movies.
James Hibberd
July 11, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-superhero-movies-marvel-dc-cg-ending-battles-1236311140/

Saving a Studio? This Looks Like a Job for Superman!
The man of steel is back in a new $225 million reboot. It's the last, best hope for DC Comics to match the success of the Marvel industrial complex.
Ben Fritz
July 10, 2025
Appeared in the July 12, 2025, print edition as 'Saving a Studio? This Looks Like A Job for Superman!'.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/superman-james-gunn-peter-safran-dc-studios-6148aced

Box Office: 'Superman' Saves the Day for DC Studios With $122M Domestic Opening, $217M Globally
James Gunn's tentpole appears to be succeeding in rebooting the Warner Bros.-owned DC and its most prized superhero franchise. Elsewhere, 'Jurassic World Rebirth' bites off a huge $500 million globally.
Pamela McClintock
July 13, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-box-office-opening-1236312672/

Graphic Memoir Review: 10,000 INK STAINS is Jeff Lemire's strikingly intimate memoir
Jared Bird on 07/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-memoir-review-10000-ink-stains-is-jeff-lemires-strikingly-intimate-memoir/

Evan Dorkin
On Depression
Jul 13, 2025
https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-depression-134061633

But of Course, How Could They?: Hagai Palevsky reviews CRUMB: A CARTOONIST'S LIFE by Dan Nadel
Hagai Palevsky
Jun 30, 2025
https://solrad.co/but-of-course-how-could-they-hagai-palevsky-reviews-crumb-a-cartoonists-life-by-dan-nadel

It's A Luxury To Take Time In This World: Julian Bata Interviews ADAM DE SOUZA [Canada]
Julian Bata
Jul 7, 2025
https://solrad.co/its-a-luxury-to-take-time-in-this-world-julian-bata-interviews-adam-de-souza

South Park removed from Paramount Plus internationally
Oh my god, Paramount allowed the international streaming rights to South Park to expire amid ongoing negotiations.
By Matt Schimkowitz  |  July 13, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/south-park-paramount-plus-removed-internationally

How Netflix's 'Leviathan' United Japanese Animation and Western Imagination
For 'Beastars' studio Orange and 'Star Wars: Visions' producer Qubic Pictures, 'Leviathan' was a unique and rewarding anime dream project.
By Isaiah Colbert
io9 July 10, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/how-netflixs-leviathan-united-japanese-animation-and-western-imagination-2000627546

How Qubic Pictures Used the Force to Bring Star Wars and Anime Together
Ahead of Star Wars: Visions' return, Qubic CEO Justin Leach explains how it helped facilitate the union of anime and lightsabers to shape volume three.
By Isaiah Colbert
io9 May 15, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/how-qubic-pictures-used-the-force-to-bring-star-wars-and-anime-together-2000602109

The French Half Of Humanoids Has Been Placed Into Liquidation
The French half of comics publisher, Humanoids has been placed into liquidation and staff say layoffs are coming
 12 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-french-half-of-humanoids-has-been-placed-into-liquidation/

Sunshine Superman — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | July 11, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/sunshine-superman-this-weeks-links/

MARY SHYNE for YOU AND ME ON REPEAT
Comix Experience
Jul 9, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMX_RISaFBg

Does America Need a Hero?
Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei, Lawrence Wu, Julie Caine, Casey Miner, Devin Katayama, Cristina Kim,  Anya Steinberg, and Irene Noguchi.
Throughline July 3, 2025  https://www.npr.org/2025/07/03/1255164467/does-america-need-a-hero
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510333/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR6235324772.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1255164467

More to Come 680: 2025 ALA Annual Conference Pt 1
Heidi MacDonald,  Brigid Alverson, and  Amy Chu
PW Comics World: More To Come
06/30/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1375

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 681: 2025 ALA Annual Conference Pt 2 [Jeff Trexler,  Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF)]
Heidi MacDonald  
on 07/01/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1376

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 682: ALA, George Takei and Silver Sprocket
Heidi MacDonald, Kate Fitzsimons and Meg Lemke
on 07/04/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1377

    Fanbase Press Interviews Humberto Avila on the Release of the Comic Book Series, 'The Reckoning,' Through Dach Comics
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    July 10, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57095-fanbase-press-interviews-humberto-avila-on-the-release-of-the-comic-book-series-the-reckoning-through-dach-comics/

Off Panel #506: Trench Warfare with Heather Antos [IDW, Star Trek]
 June 30 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-506-trench-warfare-with-heather-antos

Off Panel #507: Micro Celebrity with Chip Zdarsky
July 7 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-507-micro-celebrity-with-chip-zdarsky

From India to Britain and back: The cartoonist who fought censors with a smile [Abu Abraham]
        Soutik Biswas
    7 July 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c784lz5lky8o.amp

"I Just Wanted it to Be Beautiful and Raw and Weird" – Donya Todd on Her New Experimental Graphic Novel 'The Witch's Egg' from Avery Hill Publishing
    by Andy Oliver
    July 8, 2025 https://www.brokenfrontier.com/donya-todd-witchs-egg-avery-hill/

Inside Look: The Keluarga Cable Ship Company – Mereida Fajardo Brings Her Boundary-Pushing Practice to Digital Presentation [UK webcomic]
    by Mereida Fajardo
    July 4, 2025  https://www.brokenfrontier.com/inside-look-the-keluarga-cable-ship-company/

Beyond paper: David Lloyd, Carlos Yacolca, and Alberto Rayo discuss 'Aces Weekly' webcomics [UK]
The creator, writer, and editor discuss how this initiative is a great way to tell and digest comics stories.
Marvel Maximus
July 3, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/03/aces-weekly-interview/

Friday 11 July 2025
The secret history of women's football: Anna Trench's winning graphic novel Florrie uncovers the story of her great-aunt's sporting adventures
Rachel Cooke
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-secret-history-of-womens-football-novel-review

On sustaining a life-long project: Comic artists advocate and indie comics publisher Zach Clemente discusses the past, current day-to-day, and hoped-for future of Bulgilhan Press.
Sam Kusek
July 10, 2025
https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/indie-comics-publisher-zach-clemente-on-sustaining-a-life-long-project/

Komiket's Paolo Herras on the power of storytelling, how PICOF was born and the evolving landscape of comics today
By Franz Sorilla IV
Jul 07, 2025
https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/picof-2025

Meet Stanley 'Artgerm' Lau, the face behind the many cover illustrations of Marvel and DC Comics
By Amanda Goh
Oct 09, 2024
https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/interview-stanley-artgerm-lau-marvel-dc-cover-illustrator

Earthquake swarms are fueling fear of the 'big one' in Japan [ Ryo Tatsuki's "The Future that I Saw."]
By Max Kim
July 8, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-08/japanese-islands-struck-by-over-1-000-earthquakes-in-two-weeks-feeding-megaquake-scare

Chunlin, Tian. 2025. Book Reivew: On Black Bandes DessinĂ©es and Transcolonial Power: By Michelle Bumatay, Ohio, The Ohio State University Press, 2025, 168 Pp., $36.95 (Ebook), ISBN: 978-0-8142-8404-9. Critical Arts (July 1):  https://doi.org/10.1080/02560046.2025.2523827
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02560046.2025.2523827

Santuso, Santuso & Sukarno, Sukarno. 2025. Criticism and Satire in the Comic Strip @komik.grontol on Instagram Related to Indonesian Government Policies (A Pragmatic Semiotic Study). The Eastasouth Journal of Social Science and Humanities, 2(03), 412 –424. https://doi.org/10.58812/esssh.v2i03.512
https://esj.eastasouth-institute.com/index.php/esssh/article/view/512

Sunday, July 13, 2025

NPR on superheroes

Does America Need a Hero?

Captain America shields on display during New York Comic Con 2023 - Day 1 at Javits Center on October 12, 2023 in New York City.
Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for ReedPop

Captain America: an all-American superhero. Clad in red, white, and blue, he carries only a shield. And he fights only when he must. When it's right.

But what happens when what's right isn't so clear? And how does a comic book hero designed to represent America's values survive in a changing world?


Guests:

Danny Fingeroth, author of A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee and Jack Ruby: The Many Faces of Oswald's Assassin

Michael Goodrum, author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate

Rick Verbanas, co-host of the Captain America Comic Book Fans podcast

Steve Englehart, comic book writer and novelist

This episode included audio from the Senator Joe McCarthy Audio Excerpts collection, Archival Collections, Raynor Library, Marquette University.


Saturday, July 12, 2025

Lost in Translation by Daniel Boris




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Friday, July 11, 2025

May The Farce Be With You by Daniel Boris

 

*Updated from a 2023 cartoon to fit today's headlines, with a nod to Dave Whamond.