Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/15/2025

On the Record about Off the Record, DC's cartoon bar

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog July 14, 2025

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/07/on-record-about-off-record-dcs-cartoon.html

 

IS SUPERMAN FINALLY THE COMIC BOOK MOVIE THAT SELLS COMICS?

Rob Salkowitz on July 14, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/60035/is-superman-finally-comic-book-movie-that-sells-comics

 

DYNAMITE GOES WITH SIMON & SCHUSTER For Book Channel

Milton Griepp on July 15, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60037/dynamite-goes-simon-schuster

 

With $217 Million in Ticket Sales, 'Superman' Helps Save Warner Bros., Too

Brooks Barnes

A version of this article appears in print on July 14, 2025, Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: 'Superman' Helps Save Warner Bros. as Sales Fly In at $217 Million.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/media/superman-warner-bros-box-office.html

 

That Mark Millar Scene From The New Superman Movie (SPOILERS)

That Mark Millar and Frank Quitely scene from The Authority seemed to pop up in the new Superman movie. (Big Spoilers)

14 Jul 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/movies/that-mark-millar-scene-from-the-new-superman-movie-spoilers/

by Rich Johnston

 

Diamond Comics Was Already Looking For A New Owner Back In 2023

According to unsealed court reports, Diamond Comic Distributors was already looking for a buyer back in 2023

14 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-was-already-looking-for-a-new-buyer-back-in-2023/

by Rich Johnston

 

Image Supports Diamond Moving Liquidation Date To SDCC Thursday/Friday

Image Comics supports Diamond Comic Distributors' plan to move the liquidation court date to the Thursday and Friday of San Diego Comic-Con

, 14 Jul 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-supports-diamond-moving-liquidation-date-to-sdcc-thursday-friday/

by Rich Johnston

 

Avatar Press Joins Anti-Diamond Liquidation Publisher Coalition

Avatar Press joins anti-Diamond Liquidation comic book publisher coalition, alongside Dynamite, Fantagraphics and Drawn And Quarterly

14 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/avatar-press-joins-anti-diamond-liquidation-publisher-coalition/

by Rich Johnston

 

Now Mad Cave Studios Makes Staff Layoffs

Staff layoffs now coming from Mad Cave Studios including Keith Davidsen

  14 Jul 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/now-mad-cave-studios-makes-staff-layoffs/

 

Kevin Maguire Posts His Justice League 3000 Art Before He Was Fired

14 Jul 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/kevin-maguire-posts-his-justice-league-3000-art-before-he-was-fired/

 

Masters of wit caught in a storm of change

In the digital age, cartoonists face shrinking pages, faster news cycles and, now, AI. [Singapore]

Shefali Rekhi

Straits Times Jul 15, 2025  https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/masters-of-wit-caught-in-a-storm-of-change

 

India's Top Court Unconvinced in Hemant Malviya Free Speech Case

Alan Gardner 

July 14, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/14/indias-top-court-unconvinced-in-hemant-malviya-free-speech-case/

 

PM, RSS cartoons: SC says right to free speech being 'abused' [Hemant Malviya]

Source: PTI          -  Edited By: Utkarsh Mishra

July 14, 2025  https://www.rediff.com/news/report/pm-rss-cartoons-sc-says-right-to-free-speech-being-abused/20250714.htm

 

SC to hear anticipatory bail plea of cartoonist accused of objectionable posts on July 14 [Hemant Malviya]

Suchitra Kalyan Mohanty

11 Jul 2025 https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2025/Jul/11/sc-to-hear-anticipatory-bail-plea-of-cartoonist-accused-of-objectionable-posts-on-july-14

 

'Inflammatory, immature': Cartoonist deletes caricature of PM Modi and RSS after Supreme Court's rebuke

Advocate Vrinda Grover, appearing for Malviya, said the cartoonist will delete the post and make a statement that he was not endorsing the objectionable comments.

Written by FE Online

July 14, 2025 https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/inflammatory-immature-cartoonist-deletes-caricature-of-pm-modi-and-rss-after-supreme-courts-rebuke/3913867/

 

Cartoonist Hemant Malviya moves Supreme Court after MP High Court denies relief for caricature on PM, RSS

Earlier, the Madhya Pradesh High Court had denied anticipatory bail to Malviya.

Debayan Roy

11 Jul 2025, https://www.barandbench.com/news/litigation/cartoonist-hemant-malviya-moves-supreme-court-after-mp-high-court-denies-relief-for-caricature-on-pm-rss

 

CSotD: Media Literacy and Political Cartoons

Mike Peterson

July 15, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/15/csotd-media-literacy-and-political-cartoons/

 

The right-wing outrage machine gears up, and a cartoonist gets death threats

The scary aftermath of an editorial cartoon about Texas [Adam Zyglis]

Margaret Sullivan

American Crisis Jul 14, 2025 https://margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/the-right-wing-outrage-machine-strikes

 

Here Are the 596 Books Being Banned by Defense Department Schools

Military.com | By Rebecca Kheel

July 14, 2025 https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/07/14/here-are-596-books-being-banned-defense-department-schools.html

Gustines, George Gene. 2025. Superman's Other Secret Weakness? Journalism Ethics [in print as An Ethics Issue at The Daily Planet]. New York Times (July 14): C6. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/arts/superman-lois-lane-clark-kent-journalism.html

Zuckerman, Esther. 2025. What Superman's Pet Owes to a Badly Behaved Rescue Dog [in print as Bad Dog, but a Good Model for Superman's Pet]. New York Times (July 14): C1. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/movies/superman-krypto-dog-james-gunn.html

Iggy Pop on Closing Out 'Superman' Soundtrack: Hero is "the Best Friend You Could Have"
Seth Abramovitch.
July 15, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/iggy-pop-superman-soundtrack-punkrocker-james-gunn-1236315320/

Unassuming Barber Shop: SUPERMAN is a political protest
  Brad Ricca on 07/15/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/unassuming-barber-shop-superman-is-a-political-protest/

Krypto's 'Superman' Spotlight Is Inspiring People to Adopt Their Own Superdog
The DC Studios mascot has sparked a new wave of interest in rescue pets.
By Sabina Graves
io9 July 15, 2025  https://gizmodo.com/kryptos-superman-spotlight-is-inspiring-people-to-adopt-their-own-superdog-2000629753

We Can't Get Enough of Jimmy Olsen in 'Superman'
Skyler Gisondo plays the Daily Planet reporter in a way we've never seen him before.
By Germain Lussier
io9 July 15, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/we-cant-get-enough-of-jimmy-olsen-in-superman-2000629490

James Gunn's Superman launches a universe, not a character
A massive supporting cast helps separate the tone from the DCEU, but the hero at the core is as shallow as ever.
By Caroline Siede  |  July 15, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/superman-launches-a-universe-not-a-character


Zuckerman, Esther. 2025. A Tiny Chef Inspires an Outsize Outpouring [in print as No, Chef! Cancellation Rallies Fans]. New York Times (July 12): C4. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/arts/television/tiny-chef-show-nickelodeon.html

Video Game Actors End Contract Dispute Over A.I.
Reggie Ugwu
A version of this article appears in print on July 12, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Video Game Actors End Contract Dispute Over A.I..
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/arts/video-game-actors-contract-ai.html

Taylor, Derrick Bryson. 2025. 'Ne Zha 2,' Blockbuster Chinese Animated Film, Will Get English Version [in print as 'Ne Zha 2,' a Chinese Blockbuster, Will Get an English Version]. New York Times (July 12): C3. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/movies/ne-zha-2-english-us-theaters.html

James Carter Cathcart, a Voice of 'Pokémon' Characters, Dies at 71
Mark Walker
July 10, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/arts/television/james-carter-cathcart-dead-voice-actor-pokemon.html

GlobalComix goes print!
Matias De la Piedra on 07/15/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/globalcomix-goes-print/

Trey Parker and Matt Stone reportedly hire Justin Baldoni's lawyer for Paramount dispute
The fight over South Park's future keeps getting messier.
By Emma Keates  |  July 15, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/trey-parker-matt-stone-bryan-freedman-paramount

Reviews: Tsunami [ Ned Wenlock]
Kevin Brown | July 8, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/tsunami/

'I became much happier and healthier when I started telling stories': A talk with Jeff Lemire
Jason Bergman | July 15, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/i-became-much-happier-and-healthier-when-i-started-telling-stories-a-talk-with-jeff-lemire/

Reviews: Holy Lacrimony [Michael DeForge]
Tegan O'Neil | July 15, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/holy-lacrimony/

Reviews: Last Summer at Camp Righteous [Ollie Hicks]
Tom Shapira | July 10, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/last-summer-at-camp-righteous/

The Beat Digest 07/15/25: Catching up with Ignition Press
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 07/15/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-071525/

Report: Comics sales were up in 2024, periodicals hit 15 year high
Heidi MacDonald on 07/15/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-comics-sales-were-up-in-2024-periodicals-hit-15-year-high/

Dynamite joins Simon & Schuster for bookstore distribution
Heidi MacDonald on 07/15/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dynamite-joins-simon-schuster-for-bookstore-distribution/

Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: FIRST ENCOUNTER, FLYBOY, YOUR WINGS AND MINE, and two more projects you'll love!
Diego Higuera on 07/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-crowdfunding-round-up-first-encounter-flyboy-your-wings-and-mine-and-two-more-projects-youll-love/

Interview: Al Ewing and Dan Cornwell take Judge Dredd on holiday in the 2000AD SCI-FI SPECIAL 2025
Zack Quaintance on 07/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-al-ewing-and-dan-cornwell-take-judge-dredd-on-holiday-in-the-2000ad-sci-fi-special-2025/

Whisper Of The Heart left a lo-fi legacy unique to Studio Ghibli
Yoshifumi Kondō's mundane, romantic 1995 cult classic remains a prescient rejoinder to technological advances.
By Autumn Wright  |  July 15, 2025   https://www.avclub.com/whisper-of-the-heart-lo-fi-girl-studio-ghibli-legacy

Jim Keefe
The Cartoon Inn [Ireland]
Jul 15, 2025  https://www.patreon.com/posts/cartoon-inn-134149723/

Martyn Turner: An Irishman's Diary about reviving the Rathdrum cartoon festival
'The weekend is a tribute to Terry Willers and the festival he created. He would have loved it'
Martyn Turner
Tue Jul 25 2017
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/martyn-turner-an-irishman-s-diary-about-reviving-the-rathdrum-cartoon-festival-1.3165549

Andi Watson
Jul 15, 2025
L'autre Tournée cover [design process]
https://www.patreon.com/posts/lautre-tournee-133952206/

Paul Cornell's Friday Newsletter Jul 15, 2025 a
So I Started a Comics Company! [Cosmic Lighthouse]
 https://pauls-newsletter-2914ab.beehiiv.com/p/so-i-started-a-comics-company-01f6

Episode 2019 (July 14, 2025)
Talking 10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir with Jeff Lemire
https://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodeDetails.html?episodeId=2940
https://media.libsyn.com/media/comicgeekspeak/ComicGeekSpeak2019.mp3

Through comics, 'Essex County' creator shows us the struggles, triumphs of his career
Tahneer Oksman
July 14, 2025
 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5461152/10000-ink-stains-memoir-review-jeff-lemire

Beyond the Book: Jesse Byrd's 'Dream Warriors' [sponsored interview]
Regina Brooks
Jul 14, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/14/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/98161-pw-studio-beyond-the-book-jesse-byrd-s-dream-warriors.html

Beyond the Book: Jesse Byrd's 'Dream Warriors' [sponsored interview]
Regina Brooks
publisherswkly
  Jul 12, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo7QRErdElE

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: Episode #100 With Special Guest Mike Norton
Pop Culture Squad
 Jul 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JpBpJ6o4c

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Jordan Clark
Pop Culture Squad July 15 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goWQP4uMJg4

Dan Jurgens Superman History Lessons
wordballoon
Jul 14, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdmuSnYFxZ0

NPR reviews Jeff Lemire's new autobio

Through comics, 'Essex County' creator shows us the struggles, triumphs of his career

Tahneer Oksman

July 14, 2025 

 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/14/nx-s1-5461152/10000-ink-stains-memoir-review-jeff-lemire 

Rain Rain Go Away! by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/14/2025

DIAMOND CONSIGNMENT SUPPLIERS UNITING TO FIGHT INVENTORY SEIZURE

Filing this Week to Block Move

  Milton Griepp on July 14, 2025   https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60022/diamond-consignment-suppliers-uniting-fight-inventory-seizure

 

The week in Diamond: Publishers band together to get their inventory back…and a precedent found?

Heidi MacDonald on 07/14/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-week-in-diamond-publishers-band-together-to-get-their-inventory-back-and-a-precedent-found/

 

The Diamond Bankruptcy: At Last, It All Starts to Make Sense

Brigid Alverson | July 14, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-diamond-bankruptcy-at-last-it-all-starts-to-make-sense/

 

The Love We Leave Behind [Jules Feiffer]

Roger Rosenblatt

July 13, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/opinion/immortality-death-love.html

 

Why the World Needs Superman

Is James Gunn's new feature the best Man of Steel movie ever? Maybe not. But it's the Superman we could all really use right now. Plus, THR ranks the rest.

Benjamin Svetkey

July 14, 2025   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/superman-james-gunn-movies-ranked/superman-1978/

 

I saw the new liberal 'Superman' movie and it gave me the woke mind virus | Opinion

The last thing I want to do is go to the movie theater and hear something that doesn't precisely conform to my worldview.

Rex Huppke

USA TODAYJuly 11 2025

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/07/11/superman-2025-woke-immigrants-james-gunn/84535442007/

 

The Fantastic Four Were Too OP For the Infinity Saga

Sounds like Thanos caught a lucky break the Fantastic Four weren't there to wreck his shop come 'Avengers: Endgame.'

By Justin Carter

io9 July 13, 2025  https://gizmodo.com/the-fantastic-four-were-too-op-for-the-infinity-saga-2000628605

 

Felix the Cat heirs claim they were cut out of $100M in business from popular cartoon feline

Kathianne Boniello       

  July 12, 2025,  https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/us-news/felix-the-cat-heirs-claim-they-were-cut-out-of-100-million-lawsuit/

 

LA cartoonist 'Summer of ICE' painting goes viral with powerful message

Alcaraz said the painting asks the question: If a mild-mannered ice cream vendor can be snapped up off the street, what about everybody else in the U.S.?

By Gordon Tokumatsu

July 9, 2025       •  https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-cartoonist-painting-viral-immigration/3741730/

 

Interview: Brandon Rogers on HELLUVA BOSS and HAZBIN HOTEL

By Avery Kaplan on 07/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-brandon-rogers-on-helluva-boss-and-hazbin-hotel/

 

Universal Distribution's Angelo Exarhakos speaks: "We hope to bring in new readers to the comic book marketplace."

By Heidi MacDonald on 07/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/universal-distributions-angelo-exarhakos-speaks-we-hope-to-bring-in-new-readers-to-the-comic-book-marketplace/

Superman gets a big, blue reboot that supercharges a beleaguered genre
James Gunn's film is a much-needed course correction for DC's Man Of Steel.
By Jarrod Jones  |  July 8, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/superman-review

'Superman': The original superhero is back, with a brisk new attitude
Review by Ann Hornaday
Washington Post July 9 2025: B1, 3
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/08/superman-corenswet-gunn-review/

Superman's father taught me how to write
It wasn't Bradley Cooper, who is in the new movie, nor Marlon Brando. I'll always have my own favorite.
By Jennifer Finney Boylan
July 13, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/13/superman-fd-christopher-reeve-father-jor-el/

Fear of a 'woke' Superman
Conservatives are upset with a very un-MAGA Superman movie. But the character has always engaged with the politics of his time.
Larry Tye
July 12, 2025  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/12/superman-woke-controversy-immigration-trump/

Dean Cain offers inexplicable take on Superman and Somalia
Cain agrees Superman is an immigrant, but also thinks the "immigrant thing" will hurt the movie's "numbers."
By Mary Kate Carr  |  July 10, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/superman-dean-cain-woke-politics

David Zaslav reportedly "dismissed" a Black Superman movie for being "too woke"
Ta-Nehisi Coates' script for a movie focused on a Black Superman made headlines in 2021—and then disappeared shortly after Zaslav took over Warner Bros. Discovery.
By William Hughes  |  July 10, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/david-zaslav-ta-nahesi-coates-black-superman-movie-too-woke

Episode 10: Supernerds [Superman]
Joe MacLeod and Sam Thielman
 Flaming Hydra Round Table 13 Jun 2025 · 31 minutes
https://pod.link/1734067425/episode/9e0b7450be608914ed51cbab40df0ebe

Episode 11: The Ultimate Truth of Superman
Joe MacLeod., Josephine Riesman, S.I. Rosenbaum, Sam Thielman, and Zach Rabiroff.
Flaming Hydra Round Table 14 Jul 2025 · 46 minutes
https://pod.link/1734067425/episode/8346f69dd8ef9d6319aae20ff0bd7d07

Superman Is as Good as We Can Stand Him Being
by Zach Rabiroff
Flaming Hydra 14 Jul 2025
https://flaminghydra.com/issue-359/#superman-is-as-good-as-we-can-stand-him-being

INTERVIEW: Paul Pope (7/7/25) | The Oblivion Bar
The Oblivion Bar: A Comic Book Podcast
 Jul 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjteZzQCh1M

Interview: Brandon Rogers on Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel
Avery Kaplan
Comics Beat July 14 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSuW0kOi32A

The Numbers Game: On the surge of comics and covers, what that really looks like, and how retailers are feeling about it.
By David Harper
July 10, 2025
sktchd.com/longform/too-many-comics-2025/

As Everything in the Direct Market Changes, Comic Shops are Thriving
 David Harper
July 9, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/retailer-feature-july-2025/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred forty-four | Greg Rucka, part one
Jul 14, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/is-there-any-more-of-this-recording

Greg Rucka Front Towards Enemy newsletter. 2025-
https://front-towards-enemy.ghost.io/

Jaffe, Alex. 2025. Greg Rucka Maintains Integrity As A Freelance Comics Writer So Alex Jaffe Thinks You Can Too. Attach Your Resume (July 10): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2C7MXshEhSorDxjg2aCqeQ

Sifu Mimi Chan interviews Greg Rucka & Nicola Scott on Cheetah & Cheshire Rob the Justice League. [aka Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott on creating Cheetah and Cheshire Rob the Justice League]
Wah Lum Films
420; May 13, 2025 The Sifu Mimi Chan Show Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XbOCZyEsn4
https://www.sifumimichan.com/greg-rucka-nicola-scott/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/culturechatpodcast/420_mixdown.mp3

Wattpad Webtoon Studios Rebrands, Names David Madden President
Jul 14, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5448

Alex Jaffe Should Be the DC Comics Historian, And You Should Have Your Dream Job Too!
Eric Silver and Amanda McLoughlin,
Attach Your Résumé
February 6, 2025
https://multitude.productions/attach-your-rsum-episodes/alex-jaffe

Inside the $3 Billion 'South Park' Fight That May Blow Up Its Future
Winston Cho, Gary Baum, Alex Weprin
July 14, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-skydance-paramount-fight-1236314541/

Seth Green says anyone who would have greenlit a full season of Robot Chicken "got fired"
With a Robot Chicken special arriving this weekend, Green says he took a page out of the South Park playbook.
By Drew Gillis  |  July 14, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/seth-green-robot-chicken-20th-anniversary

Spider-Man: Brand New Day to leave the soundstage and enter the real world
Tom Holland's fourth film as Spidey will reportedly lean into "old school filmmaking" after COVD-19 relegated No Way Home to soundstages.
By Emma Keates  |  July 14, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/spider-man-brand-new-day-leaving-soundstage-real-locations

Krysten Ritter spent the last two years lying about Jessica Jones
William Hughes  |  July 11, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/krysten-ritter-lying-for-two-years-jessica-jones

10 years and 15 superhero movies weren't enough to fight the DCEU out of second place
Marvel's rival universe was messier and stranger than its more streamlined competitors—which made it feel closer to comics.
By Jesse Hassenger  |  July 10, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/dceu-run-the-series

Local Artist Creates Painting to Protest Deportations [ Lalo Alcaraz]
Gordon Tokumatsu
NBC4 News July 9, 2025
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/los-angeles-cartoonist-painting-viral-immigration/3741730/

Kevin KAL Kallaugher
Freelance Follies #1: Cartoon Coasters for The Famous Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington DC
Kal Draws The Line Jul 14, 2025  
https://kaltoons.substack.com/p/freelance-follies-1

On the Record about Off the Record, DC's cartoon bar

by Mike Rhode

7/15: updates to the original post marked with *  - 4 pieces from KAL, and one sheet of photos so far.

 KAL's newsletter post about his coaster artwork inspired me to finally finish this. 

Supreme Court justices for the circular corner booth, courtesy of Ann Telnaes

A few months ago, Matt Wuerker created this guide to who was who in the 1990s caricatures by Edmund Valtman and Ron Coddington on the wall (note 1) in the bar in the Hay-Adams Hotel. He was able to identify everybody but one. To learn more about them, you can read “On The Record With Off The Record's Cartoonists,” White House History (48; Winter 2018): 60-71 at https://issuu.com/whhapubl/docs/whha_journal_48 

  

the unknown caricature

There are other cartoons and caricatures on the walls, but Matt was concerned with identifying these.  

Now, an attempt to list all of the coasters they've produced. 

Kim Jong-un by Matt and Angela Merkel by Kal

 Here's an almost certainly incomplete list of caricatures, with who drew them, and the year when known. I had a short list of ones I didn't own, but I think I've lost that. There were more foreigner leaders iirc, and perhaps a Pope.

Mitch McConnell by KAL and Putin by Matt

*Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC)	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2025
Angela Merkel	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2017
Ben Carson	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
Boris Johnson	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2022
Carly Fiorina	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
Donald Trump	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
*Elizabeth Warren	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
Gavin Newsom	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2023
George W. Bush with Barack Obama	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'
Joe Biden	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'
*John Kerry	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
*Kristi Noem	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2025
Mike Pence	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
Mitch McConnell	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2014
Paul Ryan	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2015
*Pete Buttigieg	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2025
Robert Mueller	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'	2018
Ted Cruz with Canadian Club whiskey	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'
Ted Cruz with tea	Kallaugher, Kevin 'KAL'
Chris Christie	Telnaes, Ann	2015
Hillary Clinton	Telnaes, Ann	2015
J.D. Vance	Telnaes, Ann	2024
Kamala Harris	Telnaes, Ann	2021
Lindsay Graham	Telnaes, Ann	2022
Melania Trump and the Trump children	Telnaes, Ann	2016
Ruth Bader Ginsberg	Telnaes, Ann	2017
Anthony Fauci	Wuerker, Matt	2021
Bernie Sanders	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Bernie Sanders with FDR on the wall	Wuerker, Matt	2019
Biden vs. Trump	Wuerker, Matt	2024?
Charles Schumer and Nancy Pelosi	Wuerker, Matt	2016
Chris Christie and Michellee Obama	Wuerker, Matt
Donald and Melania Trump decorating the White House	Wuerker, Matt	2025
Elizabeth Warren with Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O'Rourke	Wuerker, Matt	2019
George HW, Barbara, George W and Jeb Bush	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Hakeem Jeffries	Wuerker, Matt	2024?
Hillary Clinton with Bill Clinton	Wuerker, Matt
Jeb Bush	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Joe and Jill Biden	Wuerker, Matt
John Boehner	Wuerker, Matt
John Boswell	Wuerker, Matt
Kamala Harris with Joe Biden	Wuerker, Matt	2019
Kevin McCarthy, Speaker of the House, Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, George Santos. Republican representatives.	Wuerker, Matt	2023
Kim Jong-un	Wuerker, Matt	2017
Marco Rubio	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Mike Johnson	Wuerker, Matt	2024?
Omarosa Manigault Newman	Wuerker, Matt	2018
Rand Paul	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Ron DeSantis	Wuerker, Matt	2023
Sarah Huckabee Sanders	Wuerker, Matt	2018
Scott Walker	Wuerker, Matt	2015
Tim Kaine with Hillary Clinton	Wuerker, Matt
Tim Waltz	Wuerker, Matt	2024
Vladimir Putin	Wuerker, Matt	2017

my collection mounted in a portfolio *updated - missed this page originally

Ruth Ginsberg by Ann

John Boehner by Matt

Melania and Trump by Matt

(1) These are part of the Library of Congress' Art Wood collection, but were hung in the bar before the Library acquired it from Wood.

KAL on the Off the Record coaster art

Kevin KAL Kallaugher 

Freelance Follies #1: Cartoon Coasters for The Famous Hay-Adams Hotel in Washington DC

Kal Draws The Line Jul 14, 2025  

https://kaltoons.substack.com/p/freelance-follies-1

KAL got me to finally get my post listing the cartoonists and their subjects from the coasters, as well as posting Matt Wuerker's key to the Valtman and Coddington caricatures on the wall.

WaPo on Superman

'Superman': The original superhero is back, with a brisk new attitude

Review by Ann Hornaday

Washington Post July 9 2025: B1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/08/superman-corenswet-gunn-review/

Superman's father taught me how to write

It wasn't Bradley Cooper, who is in the new movie, nor Marlon Brando. I'll always have my own favorite.

By Jennifer Finney Boylan

July 13, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/13/superman-fd-christopher-reeve-father-jor-el/

Fear of a 'woke' Superman

Conservatives are upset with a very un-MAGA Superman movie. But the character has always engaged with the politics of his time.

By Larry Tye

July 12, 2025  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/12/superman-woke-controversy-immigration-trump/

 

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 Dessinées 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

NPR on superheroes

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

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?

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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.

Lost in Translation by Daniel Boris