Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/2-3/2025

'King of the Hill' Enters Its Golden Years
By Dave Itzkoff
Aug. 2, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/arts/television/king-of-the-hill-returns.html

King Of The Hill comes back a little meaner (but at least that boy's alright)
Bobby Hill has grown up into a pretty phenomenal TV protagonist.
By William Hughes  |  July 29, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/king-of-the-hill-season-14-review-hulu-tv

Watching the "King of the Hill" Revival from Texas
In the age of MAGA, the show's small-town values are both a relief and slightly outdated. In the end, will we and the animated characters all live like city people?
By Rachel Monroe
August 2, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/watching-the-king-of-the-hill-revival-from-texas  

South Park is finally ending its very lawsuit-prone stay on HBO Max
After five years, lots of accusations of shady dealings, and one still-pending $200 million lawsuit, HBO Max is finally saying goodbye to South Park.
By William Hughes  |  August 1, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/south-park-leaving-hbo-max

'South Park' Skewers a New Kind of Sanctimony
Michelle Goldberg
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 2, 2025, Section A, Page 22 of the New York edition with the headline: 'South Park' Skewers a New Kind of Sanctimony.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/opinion/south-park-trump-conservatives.html

Kenny, Glenn. 2025. 'The Bad Guys 2' Review: A Wolf, a Shark, a Snake and a Sequel [in print as The Bad Guys 2]. New York Times (August 1): C5. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/movies/the-bad-guys-2-review.html

O'Sullivan, Michael. 2025. 'The Bad Guys 2' is an antic crime caper with a side of moral complexity [in print as An animated crime caper with a side of moral complexity]. Washington Post (August 1): Weekend 16. online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/31/bad-guys-2-review/

'KPop Demon Hunters' Review: Netflix's Surprise Smash Is a Dazzlingly Animated, Infectiously Soundtracked Treat
Frank Scheck
August 2, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/kpop-demon-hunters-review-netflix-1236335757/

Superman's Earthly Birthplace? It's Cleveland, and It's Embracing Its Hero.
A monument featuring Superman and finally honoring his creators and the model for Lois Lane will go on display this weekend.
George Gene Gustines
Aug. 1, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/arts/design/cleveland-superman-statues.html

Daniel Best - Author   Aug 3, 2025
Diamond Comic Distributors - The Latest Amounts Owed
 https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/diamond-comic-distributors-the-latest

Limit Break Comics announces bumper commentary on "Irish Conflict in Comics"
John Freeman on August 2, 2025  https://downthetubes.net/limit-break-comics-announces-bumper-commentary-on-irish-conflict-in-comics/

James Bacon. 2025.
Irish Conflict in Comics in the 20th Century, Rebellion, Nazi Spies and The Troubles.
Ireland: Limit Break Comics

Birmingham's The Navigation pub tribute to Reg Bunn, co-creator of "The Spider"
John Freeman on August 2, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/birminghams-the-navigation-pub-tribute-to-reg-bunn-co-creator-of-the-spider/

Brian Bolland 2000AD cover art sells for over $50,000
John Freeman on August 1, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/brian-bolland-2000ad-cover-art-sells-for-over-50000/

Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman & Emil Ferris All Support Angoulême Boycott
Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Julie Doucet, Dan Clowes, Posy Simmonds, Lewis Trondheim and Emil Ferris all support Angoulême 2026 boycott
 02 Aug 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/chris-ware-art-spiegelman-emil-ferris-all-support-angouleme-boycott/

Besties: Set Sail Graphic Novel Gets A Hundred Thousand Print Run
Besties: Set Sail Graphic Novel by by Kayla Miller, Jeffrey Canino, and Kristina Luu, gets a hundred thousand print run from Carion Books
 01 Aug 2025  
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/besties-set-sail-graphic-novel-gets-a-hundred-thousand-print-run/

Allen Francis
Jul 31, 2025
6 Large Tablets for Reading Digital Comics
https://www.inkl.com/news/6-large-tablets-for-reading-digital-comics

    SDCC 2025: Artist Don Aguillo on Working with Todd McFarlane, 'DC Pride,' the 'Buffy' Reboot & More
    Bryant Dillon, Fanbase Press President
    July 30, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57162-sdcc-2025-artist-don-aguillo-on-working-with-todd-mcfarlane-dc-pride-the-buffy-reboot-more/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbArRR6FNvg

    SDCC 2025: Writer Stephanie Williams on Bringing the 'Street Sharks' Brotherhood to Comics
    Bryant Dillon, Fanbase Press President
    July 30, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57159-sdcc-2025-writer-stephanie-williams-on-bringing-the-street-sharks-brotherhood-to-comics/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09f--4y_LBo

In Search Of Robert Durant Feild [Disney historian]
John Canemaker on John Canemaker's Animated Eye August 2, 2025
http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/in-search-of-robert-durant-feild/

The Comics That Made Them with Ram V
David Harper
July 31, 2025
https://sktchd.com/interview/the-comics-that-made-them-with-ram-v/

"I've Made the Right Deals with the Right Demons": Artist Evan Cagle on Bringing The New Gods to Life
David Harper
July 30, 2025
https://sktchd.com/art-feature/evan-cagle-new-gods-interview/


Eldon Dedini, The New Yorker and Playboy cartoonist  [2005 interview]
Ken Kearney
 Santa Cruz, CA:  Ken Kearney Studios
online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0o33Wbuc0g

A New Supernatural Human Drama: An Interview with This Monster Wants to Eat Me Director Yusuke Suzuki
by Lynzee Loveridge, Jul 30th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-07-30/a-new-supernatural-human-drama-an-with-this-monster-wants-to-eat-me-director-yusuke-suzuki/.226780

Paul Levitz Announces His Next Book, Titled "Marvel Explodes"
Paul Levitz announced his next book, titled "Marvel Explodes", with all the news and gossip from Marvel Comics fifty years ago
by Rich Johnston
, 02 Aug 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/paul-levitz-announces-his-next-book-titled-marvel-explodes/

A New Supernatural Human Drama: An Interview with This Monster Wants to Eat Me Director Yusuke Suzuki
by Lynzee Loveridge, Jul 30th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-07-30/a-new-supernatural-human-drama-an-with-this-monster-wants-to-eat-me-director-yusuke-suzuki/.226780

Chris Browne: Medal of Honor cartoonist
Perry Groten
KELOLAND News  Aug 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5XvRhxMlE

QUICK QUIZ: AMY CHU
Matthew Rosenberg
Aug 03, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/its-all-right

A Conversation With Paul Karasik on The Graphic Truth: Writing, Pitching, and Publishing Graphic Novels (Killer Writers)
Clay Stafford
 Aug 2, 2025  
https://www.writersdigest.com/a-conversation-with-paul-karasik-on-the-graphic-truth-writing-pitching-and-publishing-graphic-novels-killer-writers

Island Cartoonist Wins Inkpot Award [Paul Karasik]
July 28, 2025 - https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/07/28/island-cartoonist-wins-inkpot-award

Channeling the Words and Spirit of Paul Auster [Paul Karasik]
    Addison Antonoff
    Thursday, April 10, 2025 - https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/04/10/channeling-words-and-spirit-paul-auster

A Cartoonist, Interrupted, Stumbles on Surprises at the Frick [in print as At the Frick Museum]
 Paul Karasik
New York Times (July 27 2025): AR2
online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/arts/a-cartoonist-interrupted-stumbles-on-surprises-at-the-frick.html

The Changing Politics of Masks [superhero fashion]
By Vanessa Friedman
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 3, 2025, Section ST, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: The Changing Politics of Face Masks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/style/masks-ice-meaning.html

More Library Cartoon Network Series Come Off HBO Max, Part Of Streamer's Move Away From Kids Fare
Nellie Andreeva
Aug 1 2025
https://deadline.com/2025/08/cartoon-network-series-removed-hbo-max-courage-cowardly-dog-1236476838/

Marvel Comics Creatives Visit the Set of The Fantastic Four: First Steps | Marvel Featurette
Marvel Entertainment
Aug 2, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdiGz6VhEyU

No spoof: Florida's top agriculture regulator wants to define 'cartoon'
By: Christine Sexton - July 30, 2025 https://floridaphoenix.com/briefs/no-spoof-floridas-top-agriculture-regulator-wants-to-define-cartoon/

The new 'Shinobi' embraces the 'pure craft' of hand-drawn 2D gaming [in print as 'Shinobi' embraces 'pure craft' of hand-drawn 2D gaming; videogame animation]
Gene Park
Washington Post August 3 2025: E5
Online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2025/07/29/shinobi-art-of-vengeance-sega-lizardcube/

Maria Askerfjord Sundeby
Stinky tas bort från Muminutställning – uppfattas som rasistisk [Moomin exhibit character removed]
 1 augusti 2025
 https://www.svt.se/kultur/stinky-tas-bort-fran-muminutstallning-uppfattas-som-rasistisk

WaPo video game columnist likes Shinobi animation

The new 'Shinobi' embraces the 'pure craft' of hand-drawn 2D gaming [in print as 'Shinobi' embraces 'pure craft' of hand-drawn 2D gaming; videogame animation]

Inspired by Japanese black-ink paintings, "Shinobi: Art of Vengeance" returns to the Sega classic's 2D roots with stylish art and aggressive gameplay.

Column by Gene Park

Washington Post August 3 2025: E5

Online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2025/07/29/shinobi-art-of-vengeance-sega-lizardcube/

Brute Social by Daniel Boris

John Canemaker uses Smithsonian to research 1st Disney historian Robert Durant Feild

In Search Of Robert Durant Feild [Disney historian]

John Canemaker on John Canemaker's Animated Eye August 2, 2025

http://animatedeye.johncanemaker.com/blog/in-search-of-robert-durant-feild/

I have often wondered who Robert Durant Feild was, his background and creative processes in teaching about the art of animation, and particularly his research, writing and publishing of The Art of Walt Disney.  The answer to many of my questions was greatly aided by the Robert Durant Feild papers housed at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

@arlingtonaf at Columbia Pike Farmer's Market

 

Wilson R. set up today at Columbia Pike Farmer's Market. Arlnow just ran a good profile of him at https://www.arlnow.com/2025/07/31/local-artist-launches-satirical-zine-and-street-studio-pop-up-in-clarendon/ so read that for background. I'd note that his take on Trump and the Virginia flag is classic political cartooning. Local cartoonist Christiann MacAuley contributed a Sticky Comics strip to the zine he's doing. He's selling zines, prints, and stickers. Note his mobile art studio is a bicycle.

Note the sticker version of the Virginia flag cartoon, which was originally a poster.

WaPo reviews Bad Guys 2 cartoon

'The Bad Guys 2' is an antic crime caper with a side of moral complexity [in print as An animated crime caper with a side of moral complexity]

Review by Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post (August 1 2025): Weekend 16.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/31/bad-guys-2-review/

(3 stars)

Golden Colossus by Daniel Boris

 

Hannah Good illo in 7.31.25 WaPo

Another illustration for the Local Living section.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/1/2025

MATT KINDT AND IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA CREATE ORIGINAL STORY SET IN THE WORLD OF JOHN LE CARRé'S NOVELS Coming from Dark Horse in November

Brigid Alverson on July 31, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60186/matt-kindt-ibrahim-moustafa-create-original-story-set-world-john-le-carrs-novels

 

The Bad Guys 2 Gets Louder, But Duller

By Jesse Hassenger  |  July 31, 2025

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/dreamworks/the-bad-guys-2-review-dreamworks-animation-sam-rockwell

 

Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons 

Abigail Bowers

Library of Congress' Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business blog August 1, 2025

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/

 

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Episode 212 - Ken Levine Returns

July 31, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius,  Larry Wood  • Season 5 • Episode 212

https://cartooncaptioncontestpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/17593559-episode-212-ken-levine-returns

 

Box Office Milestone: 'Superman' Becomes First DC Pic in Years to Soar Past $300M Domestically

In a second heroic feat, the film has also passed up Zack Snyder's solo Superman pic 'Man of Steel' and will soon overtake 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.'

Pamela McClintock

July 31, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/superman-box-office-milestone-1236333843/

 

Joe Sacco's The Once and Future Riot Gets A 75,000 Printing… Finally

Joe Sacco's The Once And Future Riot gets a 75,000 printing even though Chinese printers refused to print it.

  01 Aug 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/joe-saccos-the-once-and-future-riot-gets-a-75000-printing-finally/

 

The Empty Spaces Of Diamond And Dsltry At San Diego Comic-Con

31 Jul 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-empty-spaces-of-diamond-and-dsltry-at-san-diego-comic-con/

 

Alliance Claims Diamond Bankruptcy Auction "Rigged From The Beginning"

Rich Johnston

31 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/alliance-claims-diamond-bankruptcy-auction-rigged-from-the-beginning/

 

Philbo Distribution Addresses Comic Shop Concerns

31 Jul 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/philbo-distribution-addresses-comic-shop-concerns/

 

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

July 31, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-139/

 

Capital Comics' Move to First Comics

Bob Harrison with additional reporting by J.C. Vaughn

This article originally appeared in The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide to Lost Universes #2.

Scoop July 31, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/capital-comics-move-to-first-comics/

 

That Valiant San Diego Comic-Con SDCC 2025 Preview Ashcan In Full

01 Aug 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/that-valiant-san-diego-comic-con-sdcc-2025-preview-ashcan-in-full/

 

'Trash' Student Directors Discuss the Making of Their SIGGRAPH Prize-Winning Short

Ramin Zahed

July 31, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/trash-student-directors-discuss-the-making-of-their-siggraph-prize-winning-short/

This article was written for the

July-August '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 351).

 

  Liza Donnelly from Seeing Things   Aug 1, 2025 

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-cartoons-of-mary-petty

The Cartoons Of Mary Petty

 

'South Park' to Exit HBO Max Next Week as Show Consolidates Library on Paramount+

Paramount and Park County had inked a temporary extension with HBO Max while they negotiated a new streaming and overall deal.

Alex Weprin

August 1, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/south-park-leaving-hbo-max-aug-5-for-paramount-plus-1236335824/

 

'King of the Hill' Review: Hank, Peggy and Bobby Move to Hulu for Season 14 Without Skipping a Beat

Mike Judge and Greg Daniels' classic Fox animated series gets revived for 10 new episodes under new showrunner Saladin Patterson ('The Wonder Years').

Daniel Fienberg

  August 1, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/king-of-the-hill-review-season-14-hulu-1236335268/

 

The Beat Digest 08/01/25: SAGA BOOK FOUR incoming

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 08/01/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-080125/

 

Graphic Novel Review: Bob Fingerman's PRINTOPIA bounces today's issues off the '90s

Zack Quaintance on 08/01/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-bob-fingermans-printopia-bounces-todays-issues-off-the-90s/

 

The Daily Heller: An Epic Visual Story of the Mitford Sisters

The Daily Heller

By Steven Heller

July 30 2025  https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-an-epic-visual-story-of-the-remarkable-mitford-sisters/

 

San Diego Serenade — This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | August 1, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/san-diego-serenade-this-weeks-links/

 

INTERVIEW: Being a Pro Otaku With Victoria Esnard (Red String Translations)

wendeego

July 29 2025

https://yattatachi.com/interview-victoria-esnard-red-string-translations

 

The case for memes as a new form of comics

Both comics and memes rely on the same interplay of visual and verbal elements for their humor.

Jennifer Ouellette – Jul 29, 2025 

https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/07/the-case-for-memes-as-a-new-form-of-comics/

 

In Her New Graphic Novel, Simplicity, Mattie Lubchansky Explores the Dark Side of Communal Living (and So Much More)

By Emma Specter

July 30, 2025  https://www.vogue.com/article/mattie-lubchansky-simplicity-interview

 

The Father of the Modern Graphic Novel was an Artist With a Vision [Will Eisner]

    Ania Hull

    Jul 25, 2025  https://www.santafenewmexican.com/pasatiempo/the-father-of-the-modern-graphic-novel-was-an-artist-with-a-vision/article_a4d655b2-78c9-4b9e-994f-885f16af2e12.html

 

Off Panel #508: Playing the Hits with Si Spurrier

July 21 2025

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-508-playing-the-hits-with-si-spurrier

 

Off Panel #509: Land Mines with Robert Kirkman

July 28 2025

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-509-land-mines-with-robert-kirkman

 

Smash Pages Q&A | Craig Hurd-McKenney on 'Curse of Dark Shadows'

JK Parkin

July 25, 2025

https://smashpages.net/2025/07/25/smah-pages-qa-craig-hurd-mckenney-on/

 

Picture + Panel | Mattie Lubchansky + Denali Sai Nalamalapu on resistance and resilience

JK Parkin

July 28, 2025   https://smashpages.net/2025/07/28/picture-panel-mattie-lubchansky-denali-sai-nalamalapu/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews Jordan Alsaqa and Randy Stone on the Upcoming Release of the Sci-Fi Superhero Series, 'Bullet Adventuress,' Through Altruist Comics

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

    July 29, 2025  https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57152-fanbase-press-interviews-jordan-alsaqa-and-randy-stone-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-sci-fi-superhero-series-bullet-adventuress-through-altruist-comics/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews Michael Moreci on the Launch of a Zoop Crowdfunding Campaign for the First-Ever Collected Hardcover of 'Roche Limit'

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

    July 30, 2025

     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57157-fanbase-press-interviews-michael-moreci-on-the-launch-of-a-zoop-crowdfunding-campaign-for-the-first-ever-collected-hardcover-of-roche-limit/

 

MINDLESS COMMUNICATION – Al Ewing

July 26th, 2025

https://mindlessones.com/2025/07/26/mindless-communication-al-ewing/

 

X-Men Monday #303 – Steve Foxe Talks 'Imperial War: Exiles'

Chris Hassan

July 31, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/31/x-men-monday-steve-foxe-imperial-exiles-2/

 

Simon Bournel-Bosson heralds a wondrous new OGN with 'Trumpets of Death' [France]

Chris Coplan

July 31, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/31/trumpets-of-death-qa/

 

UFOs and adolescence: Taki Soma talks 'Alienated' at SDCC 2025

The 'Alienated' creator talks about inspirations, an extra issue, and much more.

Jennifer Chu

July 29, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/29/alienated-sdcc-2025-qa/

 

SDCC 25: Matt Fraction on his upcoming 'Batman' run and his love for the Dark Knight

Collier Jennings

July 29, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/29/sdcc-25-matt-fraction-batman-qa/

 

Bonnets, speech bubbles and 'cheeky easter eggs': a graphic biography of Jane Austen is subtly sophisticated [The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography – Janine Barchas, Isabel Greenberg]

Kerrie Davies

July 17, 2025 

https://theconversation.com/bonnets-speech-bubbles-and-cheeky-easter-eggs-a-graphic-biography-of-jane-austen-is-subtly-sophisticated-257558

 

Manouach, Ilan, and Anna Foka. 2025. "Comics as Heritage: Theorizing Digital Futures of Vernacular Expression" Heritage 8, no. 8: (July 24, 2025): 295. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage8080295 and https://www.mdpi.com/2571-9408/8/8/295

Library of Congress business blog on 1869 gold crisis cartoons

Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons  

Abigail Bowers 

Library of Congress'  Inside Adams: Science, Technology & Business blog August 1, 2025

https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/ 

Sept 12: Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD for Breathe

Maia Kobabe and Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD for Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding

September 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Free

https://peoplesbooktakoma.com/event/breathe/

A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling Gender Queer author MAIA KOBABE and University of Michigan professor SARAH PEITZMEIER.

Breathe arose from the need for a resource for folks considering chest binding as gender-affirming care. Dr. Peitzmeier interviewed twenty-five people of different ages and backgrounds about their journeys with binding, and then she and Kobabe combined excerpts from those interviews with evidence-based resources on binding into this extremely accessible guide.

Breathe is both a practical resource for trans and nonbinary folks and an engaging and perspective-broadening read for anyone interested in what it means to be on a journey of expressing one's gender in ways that are joyful, healthy, and affirming.

Maia Kobabe (e/em/eir) is a nonbinary queer cartoonist, a kpop fan, a voracious reader, and a daydreamer. You can learn an astonishing number of intimate details about em in GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR (America's most challenged book 2021-2023) and in eir short comics and writing published in The Nib, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, NPR, and Time Magazine. Maia's second book is BREATHE: JOURNEYS TO HEALTHY BINDING with Dr Sarah Peitzmeier (2024) and eir third book will be a middle grade coming of age comic written with Swati "Lucky" Srikumar, due out from Scholastic Graphix in 2026. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. In eir free time, Maia practices taekwondo, studies Spanish, and makes zines.

Sarah Peitzmeier, PhD (she/her) is an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Community Health at the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Sarah is interested in the radical potential of research as an act of community care. Her ongoing research includes studies to improve how we support trans survivors of intimate partner violence, how we prevent sexual assault on college campuses, and how we co-create a world where gender-based violence and health inequity are unthinkable. She is co-author (with Maia Kobabe) of the graphic novel Breathe, which is based on her research on chest binding in transmasculine individuals. When she is not doing research, she is crafting, reading fantasy novels, or suing the federal government for unconstitutionally terminating her NIH funding for trans health research. Sarah received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017.

If you'd like to purchase this title online and still support People's Book, follow the link below:

https://bookshop.org/a/88548/9780593855829

This is an in-person event. Seated capacity at People's Book is 50 patrons. Standing room is an option. All events are first-come, first-served seating. Accessible seating is always available.

History Rewritten by Daniel Boris

 

*My cartoon from April is relevant again. Unfortunately.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/31/2025

Exclusive! 'Eyes of Wakanda' Showrunner Todd Harris Discusses the Creative Heart of the New Marvel Animation Anthology

Ryan Gaur

July 30, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/eyes-of-wakanda-showrunner-todd-harris-discusses-the-creative-heart-of-the-new-marvel-animation-anthology/

This article was written for the Sept./Oct. '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 352), available soon.

 

Racist AI-generated cartoons targeting a GOP lawmaker spark outrage

A news website owned by a disgraced ex-legislator depicts an Asian-American lawmaker as a dog-eating threat

By: Jerod MacDonald-Evoy - July 30, 2025

https://azmirror.com/2025/07/30/racist-ai-generated-cartoons-targeting-quang-nguyen-spark-outrage/

 

'South Park' S27 Premiere Scores Biggest Viewer Share in 25+ Years

  Mercedes Milligan

July 30, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/south-park-s27-premiere-scores-biggest-viewer-share-in-25-years/

 

'My Running is Drawing': A Peter Kuper Interview

José Alaniz

International Journal of Comic Art blog  July 31, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-running-is-drawing-peter-kuper.html

 

Happy Birthday Aline Kominsky-Crumb

-Sally Madden

July 31, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/happy-birthday-aline-kominsky-crumb/

 

Reviews: Black Coal and Red Bandanas

Hank Kennedy | July 31, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/black-coal-and-red-bandanas/

 

Black Coal and Red Bandanas

Raymond Tyler and Summer McClinton

PM Press

 

Reviews: Saga de Xam [France]

Joe McCulloch | July 28, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/saga-de-xam/

 

Saga de Xam

Nicolas Devil, with Jean Rollin & others, translated by Anna Bialostosky

Anthology Editions

 

Interview: DEMON RUSH creative team on its past, present & future

 E.B. Hutchins on 07/31/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-demon-rush-creative-team-on-its-past-present-future/

 

'Long Story Short' From 'BoJack Horseman' Creator Lands Season 2 Renewal Ahead of Series Premiere

Tony Maglio

July 31, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/long-story-short-renewed-season-2-trailer-bojack-horseman-1236334808/

 

Cagle's Classroom Cartoons [syndicate]

D. D. Degg

 July 31, 2025   https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/31/cagles-classroom-cartoons/

Joe Casey Writes  Jul 31, 2025  
 ANOTHER LOST ART? [comics criticism]
https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/another-lost-art

Graphic Novel Review: BRAMBLE rediscovers the art of strategy guides
 Kathryn Hemmann on 07/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-bramble/

 Daniel Best - Author Aug 1, 2025  
 When Warren Publishing Was Sold : 4 January 1984
 https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/when-warren-publishing-was-sold

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2025 IN PHOTOS, PART 1
Thursday and Early Friday
 Milton Griepp on July 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60181/san-diego-comic-con-2025-photos-part-1

Alan Moore Helps Northampton Community Hubs To Reopen
 , 30 Jul 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/alan-moore-helps-northampton-community-hubs-to-reopen/

Diamond Comic Distributors More Than Doubles Its Shipping Prices
 30 Jul 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comic-distributors-more-than-doubles-its-shipping-prices/

Woman with colorectal cancer at 35 had these signs of a 'broken butt.' Doctors dismissed her
After being diagnosed with rectal cancer, Iona Woolmington learned she needed an ileostomy. Her experience led her to write and illustrate a comic about it.
March 25, 2025, TODAY
Meghan Holohan
https://www.today.com/health/disease/woman-rectal-cancer-35-details-signs-comic-rcna197951

Special Guest: Jarad Greene
Dave Kellett
Comic Lab June 19th, 2025 | 01:12:38 | E392
https://comiclab.simplecast.com/episodes/special-guest-jarad-greene

Inside the evolution of Tillie Walden from "sweet gay stories" to The Walking Dead: Clementine and beyond
 Jules Chin Greene,  
  Jul 11 2025
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-walking-dead-clementine-book-3-tillie-walden-interview

Marvel is mistreating Cable says co-creator Rob Liefeld, but he's given up on doing anything with the character ever again
Grant DeArmitt, Staff Writer
 on Sat Jul 26 2025 https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-rob-liefeld-cable-first-appearance-anniversary-san-diego-comic-con-sdcc-2025

SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood's Absence
By Heidi MacDonald              
Jul 30, 2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98309-sdcc-2025-comics-reclaim-the-spotlight-in-hollywood-s-absence.html

Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants Makes the Leap to Manga; Scholastic to Adapt Bestselling Chapter Books
Brigid Alverson
Jul 31, 2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/98311-dav-pilkey-s-captain-underpants-makes-the-leap-to-manga.html

Don't Look Under The Bed: Monster Comics
There's nothing more classic than monster comics. Titles lurching out of the shadows this fall both delight in the expected tropes and run them out of town.
by Meg Lemke              
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: We Heart Monsters
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98245-don-t-look-under-the-bed-monster-comics.html

9 New Comics for Arthouse Cinephiles
Blockbusters based on superheroes may be trending out, but these comics that take on film in unusual ways, adapt unexpected features, or bring a filmmaker's cinematic vision to the page promise to be worth the price of admission
by Meg Lemke              
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Comics Paradiso
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/98244-nine-new-comics-for-arthouse-cinephiles.html

Fantastic Four artists reveal the joys and challenges of drawing Marvel's first family
 Joel Meadows   15 July 2025
https://www.creativebloq.com/entertainment/movies-tv-shows/fantastic-four-artists-reveal-how-they-drawing-marvels-first-family

"I find Superman very hard to draw" – legendary artists reveal why the Man of Steel is so difficult to get right
  Joel Meadows   11 June 2025  https://www.creativebloq.com/art/superman-is-difficult-you-almost-have-to-go-to-a-cartoony-extreme

Alison Bechdel. The Essential (5.7.–26.10.2025)
Artist Alison Bechdel and curator Anette Gehrig
Cartoonmuseum Basel
 Jul 16, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ckNImopSCE

TV Ratings: 'South Park' Season 27 Premiere Lands Big Audience
The Trump-skewering season 27 opener draws nearly 6 million viewers on Comedy Central and Paramount+ over three days.
Rick Porter
July 30, 2025   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/south-park-season-27-premiere-ratings-1236334281/

Comedy Central sounds pretty happy about South Park riling so many people up
When you grab firm hold of the tiny, googly-eyed zeitgeist, it pays to hold on tight.
By William Hughes  |  July 30, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/south-park-rerun-highly-rated-social-media

Bruce Wayne no more: when Batman was Bruno Diaz for Mexican fans, as recounted by fan-turned Spider-Man superstar artist Humberto Ramos
Mexican comics changed secret identites of superheroes, so Batman was Bruno Diaz
Graeme McMillan,  
Jul 26 2025
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-batman-humberto-ramos-bruno-diaz-tom-brevoort-sdcc-2025-san-diego-comic-con

Surf's Up! by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/30/2025

Jackie Estrada's Closing Speech To Her Last Eisner Awards

  29 Jul 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jackie-estrada-closing-speech-last-eisner-awards/

 

Jackie Estrada's Retirement Speech

Pop Culture Maven

  Jul 28, 2025

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4CHgqex20

 

Giant Sized Man-Child Thing: Thinking through Richard Corben's Den saga

Tom Shapira | July 30, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/giant-sized-man-child-thing-thinking-through-the-den-saga/

 

Lubbock's man of many hats: Caprock Chronicles part 1: 'Some people take football seriously' [sports cartoonist Dirk West]

By Chuck Lanehart, special for the Avalanche-Journal July 25 2025

https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/news/history/2025/07/25/caprock-chronicles-on-dirk-west-lubbocks-man-of-many-hats/85349936007/

 

William Hogarth: pioneer of comics and political cartoons

From 18th-century engravings to modern comics

9 July 2025,

Humberto Aguirre

https://www.meer.com/en/88819-william-hogarth-pioneer-of-comics-and-political-cartoons

 

Collington Index: Remembering Tulsa World editorial cartoonist Doug Marlette

    Jason Collington

    Tulsa World Executive Editor

    Jul 27, 2025  https://tulsaworld.com/opinion/column/article_9d653311-ee76-4fbe-b0e3-62899c9bace2.html

The Cartoons Of Helen Hokinson

One of the artists featured in my documentary, WOMEN LAUGHING

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things Jul 24, 2025  https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-cartoons-of-helen-hokinson

 

Can cartoons be counted as journalism? [Bangladesh]

Khalil Rahman

Prothom Alo 28 Jul 2025

https://en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-ed/z520b8yk3e

 

Rupert Murdoch's Daughter-In-Law, Kathryn Murdoch, Now Writing Comics

Rupert Murdoch's daughter-in-law, Kathryn Murdoch, is now writing comics, with Gaya being published in October from AWA

  29 Jul 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rupert-murdochs-daughter-in-law-kathryn-murdoch-now-writing-comics/

 

Yesterday's Papers July 17, 2025

The Life Of a Legendary Cartoonist : The Great Gluyas Williams On the Happy and Not So Happy Job of Cartooning

by Rick Marschall

https://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-life-of-cartoonist.html

 

"A Ridiculous Optimist" In a rare interview, Quentin Blake, the inimitable children's-book illustrator behind Roald Dahl's Matilda, explains why he's still drawing at 92

By Lucy Bannerman

July 26, 2025

https://airmail.news/issues/2025-7-26/a-ridiculous-optimist

 

Exhibit Review: Peter Kuper's Insectopolis

reviewed by José Alaniz

International Journal of Comic Art blog July 30, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/07/exhibit-review-peter-kupers-insectopolis.html

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 684: Comic-Con is Coming
Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons
on 07/18/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1379

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 685: SDCC 2025 Interviews Pt 1 [Anna Meyer, Tony Weaver, Jr.]
Meg Lemke
on 07/25/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1380

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 686: SDCC 2025 Interviews Pt 2 [Mimi Pond]
Meg Lemke
on 07/26/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1381

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 687: SDCC 2025 Interviews Pt 3 [Tim Fielder,  Alessandra Ferrari, Wattpad Studio, Ben Wickey].
Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald, Calvin Reid and  Meg Lemke
on 07/27/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1382

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 688: SDCC 2025 Pt 4: 3 Women in a Hotel Room
Heidi MacDonald, Brigid Alverson, Johanna Draper Carlson
on 07/28/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1383

PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 679: Sue Jeong Ka
Calvin Reid
on 06/27/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?podcast=1374

Paging 'Dr. Werthless': PW Talks with Harold Schechter and Eric Powell
By Brigid Alverson                
Jul 30, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98217-paging-dr-werthless-pw-talks-with-harold-schechter-and-eric-powell.html

Amanda Gnecco Named CFO at Alliance
Jul 23, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5462

Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
By Sam Spratford              
Jul 28, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/awards-and-prizes/article/98295-hulls-sacco-yang-take-home-2025-eisner-awards.html

Legendary Dragon Ball Editor Is Breaking Down What's Wrong With Modern Manga
By  Rodrigo Sandoval Lahut
CBR July 28 2025
https://screenrant.com/dragon-ball-editor-manga-kazuhiko-torishima-bad-manga-trends-industry/

SDCC '25: Winners and Losers of Comic-Con 2025
Heidi MacDonald, Dan Morris, Gabriel Neeb, Zack Quaintance, Diego Higuera, Javier Perez, Julian Lytle, Riccardo Serrano Denis, Beau Q, Taimur Dar and Ollie Kaplan.   07/30/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-winners-and-losers-of-comic-con-2025/

SDCC '25: Ignition Press revs up its creators
07/30/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-ignition-press-revs-up-its-creators/
By Shaun Manning

Evan Dorkin
Dollar Bin Bandits
Jul 30, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5pkJw5V2Ys

Russia bookstore fined for LGBTQA+ 'propaganda' by selling books [Fruit of Knowledge by Liv Strömquist]
Darina Boykova | U. Ottawa Faculty of Law, CA
July 20, 2025
https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/07/russia-bookstore-fined-for-lgbtqa-propaganda-by-selling-books/

Community support pours in after West Reading comic shop hit by flooding
    José Martínez
    WFMZ Jul 11, 2025
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/reading-area/community-support-pours-in-after-west-reading-comic-shop-hit-by-flooding/article_bebcb0fa-6cdc-4ae3-a5b9-f1d8982ca05d.html

Tim Blake Nelson used his Marvel experience and the larger superhero movie-making biz to inspire new novel (exclusive)
The actor sits down with EW to reveal the book cover for "Superhero" and share insights.
Nick Romano
July 23, 2025  https://ew.com/tim-blake-nelson-superhero-book-cover-marvel-experience-exclusive-11776789

The Fantastic Four: First Steps' boldest choice is a pregnant Sue Storm
Superhero motherhood has never looked like this on the big screen.
By Caroline Siede  |  July 30, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/the-fantastic-four-first-steps-pregnant-sue-storm

What the evolution of Captain America says about the country's national identity
 Devin Katayama
  All Things Considered  July 30, 2025
 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5477627/what-the-evolution-of-captain-america-says-about-the-countrys-national-identity
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/07/20250730_atc_what_the_evolution_of_captain_america_says_about_the_country_s_national_identity.mp3

What's the Deal With That Freaky Bald Creature in 'Superman'?
James Gunn explains what's up with Lex Luthor's bizarre henchman Mr. Handsome—and we only have more questions.
By Sabina Graves
July 30, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/whats-the-deal-with-that-freaky-bald-creature-in-superman-2000636766

The Bad Guys 2 is an even better gateway heist movie than the original
By Matt Donato  |  July 30, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/the-bad-guys-2-review

Radif Kashapov
If the comic strip 'Barsiki and Neko' will become an animated series [Tatarstan; Russia]
25.02.2025 https://realnoevremya.com/articles/8587-the-first-cartoon-collection-about-a-tatar-family-and-a-japanese-cat

South Park is taking a week off to recharge Trump material; In next week's episode, Mr. Mackey M'asks up and says "M'kay" to joining ICE.
By Matt Schimkowitz  |  July 29, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/south-park-week-off-trump-paramount

California's Animation Industry Is in Crisis — Here's How to Save It
By John Attanasio and Luisa Huang, Co-Founders of Toonstar —
By Toonstar Animation
July 29, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/californias-animation-industry-is-in-crisis-heres-how-to-save-it/

Milligan, Mercedes. 2025. 'KPop Demon Hunters' Is Officially Netflix's Most Popular Animated Movie of All Time. Animation Magazine (July 29): https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/kpop-demon-hunters-is-officially-netflixs-most-popular-animated-movie-ever/

Jen Sorensen
Comic-Con Wrap Up
Sorensen Subscribers Jul 30, 2025
https://mailchi.mp/fee30f584826/sorensen-subscribers-comic-con-wrap-up

The Sandman Showrunner Breaks Down Dream's Season 2 Journey and Bringing the Comic Saga's Epic End to Life
By Lacy Baugher Milas  |  July 29, 2025
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/netflix/the-sandman-season-2-showrunner-allan-heinberg-interview

How Eadweard Muybridge revolutionized photography and got away with murder
Muybridge took iconic photos of a horse in motion. It was far from the only eventful moment in his life
Philip Drost · CBC Radio  Day 6 Jul 23, 2025  https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/eadweard-muybridge-photography-1.7590960

Guy Delisle's latest comic book tells the story of pioneering photographer and killer Eadweard Muybridge
Brent Bambury.
CBC Radio  Day 6 Jul 23, 2025  https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/eadweard-muybridge-photography-1.7590960

Bookends Highlights: The language of comics with 5 masters of the craft [ Adrian Tomine, Alison Bechdel, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Sarah Leavitt and Chris Ware.]
Bookends with Mattea Roach  July 20, 2025
https://app.magellan.ai/listen_links/R12Hqy
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/bookends-highlights-the-language-of-comics-with/id250082529

It's up to the Peanuts gang to save camp in trailer for first musical in decades
Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical features original songs from Jeff Morrow, Ben Folds, Alan Zachary, and Michael Weiner.
By Emma Keates  |  July 30, 2025  https://www.avclub.com/snoopy-presents-a-summer-musical-trailer-peanuts

Eyes Of Wakanda is thought-provoking, entertaining, and strikingly animated
The Black Panther spin-off examines the costs of MCU isolationism.
By Dennis Perkins  |  July 30, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/eyes-of-wakanda-review-disney-plus-tv

NPR on Captain America as a symbol of the dream, not the government

What the evolution of Captain America says about the country's national identity

 Devin Katayama

  All Things Considered  July 30, 2025

 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5477627/what-the-evolution-of-captain-america-says-about-the-countrys-national-identity

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/07/20250730_atc_what_the_evolution_of_captain_america_says_about_the_country_s_national_identity.mp3 

Captain America became one of the most popular superheroes during World War II. But after the war, without an obvious enemy to fight, the hero's identity began to morph.