Holy Eureka, Batman! How academics are using comic strips to share their research [Canada]
Maxime Bilodeau
August 06, 2025
https://universityaffairs.ca/news/holy-eureka-batman/
Jamie Michaels, and Jean-Frédéric Morin, 2025.
Assets and Ashes: Wildfire management and the politics of climate change [non-fiction comic]
Earth System Governance 25 (August): 100254,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100254 and https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811625000205 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589811625000205/pdfft?md5=981c922c2441203a914395c7d716e527&pid=1-s2.0-S2589811625000205-main.pdf
The Daily Heller: Robert Osborn on the Crime of War
By Steven Heller
The Daily Heller August 8 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-war-sucks/
Pulitizer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes learned art, women's rights in Reno
Mark Robison
Reno Gazette Journal August 7 2025
Comic Strip Criticism
By Gabriele Neri
Architectural Record August 7 2025
https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/17688-comic-strip-criticism
South Park Speaks Only for Itself
Nicholas Quah, Vulture Aug. 7, 2025
https://www.vulture.com/article/south-park-speaks-only-for-itself.html
The Beat Digest 08/08/25: Hellboy's MISS TRUESDALE returns
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-080825/
Interview: Voice actor Kaito Ishikawa and producer Ten Kimura are ready for fans to dive into RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO season 4
By Kari Lane
The Beat 07/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-voice-ishikawa-and-ten-kimura-rising-of-the-shield-hero-season-4/
Interview: KAIJU NO. 8 season 2 is back in action as we chat with Kafka Hibino voice actor Nazeeh Tarsha
Ollie Kaplan on 07/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-kaiju-no-8-season-2-nazeeh-tarsha-english-voice-actor-kafka-hibino/
Interview: Anna Meyer talks SAINT CATHERINE, trauma, and why religious stories are timely
Ollie Kaplan on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-interview-anna-meyer-saint-catherine-trauma-religious-stories/
Graphic Novel Review: Keiler Roberts' PREPARING TO BITE finds humor in the everyday moments of life
Zack Quaintance on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-keiler-roberts-preparing-to-bite-finds-humor-in-the-everyday-moments-of-life/
Interview: Mary Eastey descendant Ben Wickey on his Salem Witch Trials OGN, MORE WEIGHT
Ollie Kaplan on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-ben-wickey-more-weight/
Fantastic Four First Steps is Mid-Century but also mid
Heidi MacDonald on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/fantastic-four-first-steps-is-mid-century-but-also-mid/
Fantastic Four: First Steps Is a Hit. Is That a Good Thing?
The movie is bland and perfunctory—and if it had failed, the studio might have been forced to try harder next timFantastic Four: First Steps made a cool $218 million globally this weekend—a happy haul for a film that means a great deal to Marvel.
By Richard Lawson
July 28, 2025
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/fantastic-four-first-steps-marvel-future
In Review: Irish Conflict in Comics in the 20th Century
Review by David Ferguson
downthetubes August 7, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/in-review-irish-conflict-in-comics-in-the-20th-century/
The most important British character in US comics
Alfred Pennyworth? Captain Britain? No, it's a trench-coated, chain-smoking reprobate who this year celebrates his 40th birthday—John Constantine
By David Barnett
August 05, 2025
TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
August 7, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-140/
The Hive's Amit Gicelter Takes Us Inside His Buzzy Animation Studio
Ramin Zahed
August 7, 2025
Kristi Noem Slams 'South Park' Portrayal: "So Lazy to Make Fun of Women for How They Look"
James Hibberd
August 8, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/kristi-noem-slams-south-park-1236340265/
August, October, Mid-April, November, May – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | August 8, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/august-october-mid-april-november-may-this-weeks-links/
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI "Art" Part 1 – "Nothing it Offers Has Any Tangible Value or Originality"
Andy Oliver
July 28, 2025
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-against-the-machine-comics-and-generative-ai-art-part-1/
Raging Against the Machine: Comics and Generative AI "Art" Part 2 – "We May Be Led Down a Creative Bottleneck of Conformity"
by Andy Oliver
August 5, 2025
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/raging-against-the-machine-comics-and-generative-ai-art-part-2/
Cable Cars in Barcelona, Fezzes in Istanbul – An Interview with Italian Comics Artist Vittorio Giardino
by Zoran Djukanovic
August 7, 2025 https://www.brokenfrontier.com/cable-cars-in-barcelona-fezzes-in-istanbul-interview-with-vittorio-giardino/
Simon Lamouret: "I wish we had more narratives with an Eastern gaze on the West"
Chintan Girish Modi
Hindustan Times Aug 02, 2025 https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/simon-lamouret-i-wish-we-had-more-narratives-with-an-eastern-gaze-on-the-west-101754073783784.html
The French graphic novelist on playing with the interaction between text and image, his work on construction workers in Bengaluru, and developing a relationship with his subjects
Books & Authors podcast with Simon Lamouret, author, The Alcazar
Manjula Narayan
Hindustan Times Books & Authors podcast 1-7-2022
A Celebration of 25 Years: An Interview with Manga Creators PEACH-PIT
by Kalai Chik, Aug 4th 2025
Dinosaur Sanctuary Manga Creator Itaru Kinoshita Wants to Show a Different Side of the Prehistoric
by Kalai Chik, Aug 6th 2025
TOBIAS AESCHBACHER for IN THE END WE ALL DIE
Comix Experience
Aug 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmVzTON2R9Q
'I've got one speed': Cullen Bunn on writing, legacy, and 'Deluge'
The prolific writer also touches on other projects, like 'Jumpscare,' and his trick for terrifying tales.
Chris Coplan
August 5, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/08/05/cullen-bunn-career-feature/
Love, family, and undead cows: Tate Brombal and Jacob Phillips discuss 'Everything Dead & Dying'
Chris Coplan
August 7, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/08/07/everything-dead-dying-qa/
X-Men Monday #304 – Paul Allor Talks 'Marvel Rivals: Hellfire Gala' and 'Marvel Rivals: King in Black'
Chris Hassan
August 4, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/08/04/x-men-monday-paul-allor-marvel-rivals/
Print Is Not Dead Interview with Elijah Joseph
https://cartoonist.coop/journal/print-is-not-dead-interview-with-elijah-joseph/
Bechdel Beyond Bechdel
In Spent, the memoirist looks for the new queer zeitgeist but can't see past herself
By Hal Schrieve
Lux 14
https://lux-magazine.com/article/bechdel-spent/
Doing the Dirty Laundry
Sol Brager claims their Zionist, Nazi-fighting kin
Sophie Lewis
Lux 14
https://lux-magazine.com/article/brager-heavyweight/
Molly and the Bear creator interview with Bob & Vicki Scott
Henry Chamberlain
August 6, 2025 ·
https://comicsgrinder.com/2025/08/06/molly-and-the-bear-creator-interview-with-bob-vicki-scott/
Book Review: Latin American comics in the twenty-first century. Transgressing the frame
by James Scorer, Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 2024, 272 pp., US $45 (hardcover), ISBN 9781477329023
Paulo Drinot
Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 29 Jul 2025
https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2025.2530418
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08263663.2025.2530418
Scully, Richard. 2025. The Political Cartoon: History and Historiography. In: Scully, R., Fernandes, P.J., Gairola Khanduri, R. (eds) Cartoon Conflicts. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_2 and https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_2
Graphic history and style: Dada Khanyisa's drawings for The Widow of Marabastad [South Africa]
Adrie Haese and Deirdre Pretorius
Image & Text 39, June 26 2025
http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2025/n39a5
https://upjournals.up.ac.za/index.php/imageandtext/article/view/6223/4815
The Common Man Is Coming into His Own
Michael Kobre considers the Fantastic Four superhero "The Thing" and Jack Kirby's relationship to his own Judaism.
By Michael Kobre
August 4, 2025
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-common-man-is-coming-into-his-own/
Peek inside The Avengers' most mind-bending, metafictional adventure yet; Artist Michael Cho reflects on a few eye-popping pages from his new book with Chip Kidd
Matt Patches
August 5 2025 https://www.polygon.com/the-avengers-in-the-veracity-trap-preview-interview/
Bryant Dillon, Fanbase Press President
August 5, 2025
SDCC 2025: Writer David Avallone on 'Two-Fisted Fairy Tales,' 'Drawing Blood,'& More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho3O9nip3Fo
Bryant Dillon, Fanbase Press President
August 5, 2025
SDCC 2025: Writer Corinna Bechko on EC Comics' 'Blood Type,' Dark Horse's 'Sister Imperator,'& More
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDdyclAG55s
Bryant Dillon, Fanbase Press President
August 7, 2025
SDCC 2025: Writer/Artist Arthur N. Ebuen on 'California, Inc.' and the Future of Studio 12-7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNZO40JKi3M
Simplicity (with Mattie Lubchansky)
2025/08/03 The Final Straw Radio https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/03/simplicity-with-mattie-lubchansky/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/thefinalstrawradio/tfsr-podcast-20250803-Simplicity.mp3
Interview: Building super genius friendship with IRON MAN AND HIS AWESOME FRIENDS
Taimur Dar on 08/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-iron-man-and-his-awesome-friends/
