Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/11/2025

Humberto Lazaro Miranda Ramirez (LAZ) – RIP

Alan Gardner

August 10, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/10/humberto-lazaro-miranda-ramirez-laz-rip/

 

Interview: WORST BOT EVER team introduces the newest Transformers sensation

Taimur Dar on 08/11/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-worst-bot-ever-creative-team-introduces-the-newest-sensation-to-the-transformers-franchise/

 

Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: TOKYO GHOST, LIMITED PALLETE DUO, THE SCORPION AND THE QUEEN, and two more projects you'll love!

Diego Higuera on 08/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-crowdfunding-round-up-tokyo-ghost-limited-pallete-duo-the-scorpion-and-the-queen-and-two-more-projects-youll-love/

 

Gil Thorp's Rachel Merrill and Henry Barajas talk politics, comic strips and the zoot suit riots

William Schwartz | August 11, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/gil-thorps-rachel-merrill-and-henry-barajas-talk-politics-comic-strips-and-zoot-suit-riots/

 

Interview: Will Menaker on YEAR ZERO, a Chapo Trap House anthology

Javier Perez on 08/11/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-will-menaker-on-year-zero-a-chapo-trap-house-anthology/

 

Gentle Studio Ghibli Spot Directed by Takeshi Honda Pitches Marushin Towels Worldwide

Ramin Zahed

August 9, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/gentle-studio-ghibli-spot-directed-by-takeshi-honda-pitches-marushin-towels-worldwide/

 

Animation Director Howard E. Baker Introduces Us to 'The Beauties' and His Glam New Star, Lotta Rhinoceros

Ramin Zahed

August 8, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/animation-director-howard-e-baker-introduces-us-to-the-beauties-and-his-glam-new-star-lotta-rhinoceros/

 

NFB Tech Maestro Eloi Champagne on the Making of 'Inkwo'

Ramin Zahed

August 8, 2025   https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/nfb-tech-maestro-eloi-champagne-on-the-making-of-inkwo/

 

Five Animated Days in Shanghai: A Festival Diary [China]

Rita Street

August 8, 2025   https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/five-animated-days-in-shanghai-a-festival-diary/

 

Liza Donnelly

The Cartoons Of Amy Hwang

Seeing Things  Aug 11, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-cartoons-of-amy-hwang

 

These anime fans turned downtown D.C. into a costume party [Otakon; in print as Looking the Part]

Afia Barrie

Washington Post August 10, 2025: B17-18  https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/09/otakon-cosplay-anime-convention/

Statement: international free expression orgs call for Ashraf Omar's release, one year on from his arrest [Egypt]
Jul 22, 2025
https://cartoonistsrights.org/ashraf-omar-one-year-on/

Gurkan Ozturan, Emre Ilkan Saklica, Terry Anderson and Zehra Ömeroğlu
 Satire on Trial: The Case of Leman and the Shrinking Space for Media in Turkey
 Media Freedom Rapid Response  Jul 29, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqMcVuNW8XA

BATMAN: THE BIG DRAW! Starring Dan Panosian, Junko Mizuno, Sean Phillips and Michael Lark!
Forbidden Planet TV
 Aug 11, 2025 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTYGzsCCwJk

Words, Images, & Worlds: Martin Powell Knows Storytelling!
Jason DeHart
 Aug 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1aV19nVHuI

Josel Nicolas on Writing Personal Comics with Windmills
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
 Aug 11, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gmURrOYR88

Off Panel #506: Trench Warfare with Heather Antos (Video Edition)
SKTCHD
 Aug 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzZVK4CLzpI

Off Panel #511: The Grapevine with Mariko Tamaki
SKTCHD
Aug 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkbFmD1H-As

Rites of Passage Comics with Tom Hart - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop
 Aug 8, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsWnNdbffk

Robert Kirkman Drops Energon Bombs on the Comics Universe
Heidi MacDonald
Comics Beat
 Aug 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc96VZJf8RM

Meet the Creators Behind Iron Man and His Awesome Friends!
Richard Nebens
Agents of Fandom
 Aug 8, 2025   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azxdgjbXrG0

Shawn Kirkham on Streaming, Selling, and Shaping the Future of Online Retail
  Atom! Freeman
Prana: Direct Market Solutions' Comic Industry Insiders  Aug 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtOx9FDNpLA

Hair Dryers, Pen Nibs, and the 610th Cartoon: New Yorker Cartoonist Tom Toro Spills the Ink [aka DMA#22: From Rejection Slips to Shareholder Apocalypse: The Tom Toro Experience]
Jason Chatfield
New York Cartoons
  Aug 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQnGMWwHAmw

Adventure Sketching, Pickleball, & Bus Rides with Samantha Dion Baker
 Jason Chatfield
New York Cartoons
  Jul 2, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf15CnkR0H4

"Drawing is for feeling, writing is for thinking." A discussion about AI, Blackwing Pencils, & Human Consciousness with Amy Kurzweil
DMA #20: Blackwing pencil x Waking Up Surprise with special guest Amy Kurzweil- How Two Cartoonists Solved the Mysteries of Consciousness Using Only Pencils and a Kneaded Eraser Phone Stand
Jason Chatfield and Amy Kurzweil
New York Cartoons
 Jul 15, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkD1Q0dHipA

Adventures in Self-Publishing, Deathbed Comedy, & Why Walking is Running with Brendan Leonard
DMA#21: With Special Guest Brendan Leonard of Semi-Rad.com
Jason Chatfield and  Brendan Leonard
Jul 17, 2025
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q0MBNyBUuo

Episode 1104: A Conversation with Judd Winick - Creator Commentary on Green Arrow
Comic Shenanigans
  Aug 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsaXRN6RQPU
https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-rhik8-192bc4a

 Nominees Announced for Sophie Castille Awards for Comics in Translation – English
Javier Perez on 08/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nominees-announced-for-sophie-castille-awards-for-comics-in-translation-english/

WaPo on Otakon

These anime fans turned downtown D.C. into a costume party [Otakon; in print as Looking the Part]

Otakon, a three-day anime convention, drew thousands of fans to Washington, D.C., for a celebration of Asian pop culture and cosplay.

By Afia Barrie

Washington Post August 10, 2025: B17-18  https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/09/otakon-cosplay-anime-convention/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/9-10/2025

Robin is Finally Getting Some Cinematic Love Again
By Justin Carter
io9 August 9, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/robin-is-finally-getting-some-cinematic-love-again-2000640822

What to Stream: Cartoon Comeback Cavalcade
Upon the return of King of the Hill, here are more Fox animated series that deserve another shot.
   by Bill Frost
Washington City Paper August 8th, 2025
https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/769007/what-to-stream-cartoon-comeback-cavalcade/

'Boys Go to Jupiter' Review: A Florida Project [animation; online as Boys Go to Jupiter].
By Natalia Winkelman
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 8, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/movies/boys-go-to-jupiter-review.html

'South Park' Finds New Relevance Skewering the Trump Era
Derrick Bryson Taylor
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 9, 2025, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 'South Park' Strikes, And Trump Allies Try To Roll With Punches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/arts/television/south-park-episode-two-ice.html

Oh god, the Hazbin Hotel creators just announced a Homestuck animated pilot
Look: There are going to be a lot of Very Online nouns in this one, but we'll try to walk you through it.
By William Hughes  |  August 9, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/homestuck-pilot-teaser-hazbin-hotel-vivziepop

Forbidden Planet Liverpool Redesign To Better Match Its Listed Status
by Rich Johnston
 08 Aug 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/forbidden-planet-liverpool-redesign-to-better-match-its-listed-status/

Warren Ellis
12 Rules For Writing
 Orbital Operations  Aug 10, 2025
https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/p/12-rules-for-writing-800abf0b0d6cbd9d

Comic Book Publishers Vs Diamond… And What's Up With Steve Geppi?
 08 Aug 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-publishers-vs-diamond-and-whats-up-with-steve-geppi/

Vintage Chicago Tribune: 'Little Orphan Annie,' from poem to paper, and to stage and screen
By Kori Rumore and Marianne Mather
Chicago Tribune August 7, 2025   https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/little-orphan-annie-poem-stage-screen/

3 Questions with "Pacheco Prairie Dog's Southwest Almanac" creator Ryan T. Cook
Alex De Vore
August 6, 2025
 https://sfreporter.com/columns/3-questions/3-questions-with-Ryan-T-Cook/

An interview with Brooke McEldowney, creator of the comic strips "9 Chickweed Lane" and "Pibgorn"
Hard-hitting journalism in which I interview my dad.
Nicola Rose
Apr 07, 2025
https://nicolarosedirects.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-brooke-mceldowney


Angoulême: Boycott Still On, says Artists Union
Dean Simons on 08/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-boycott-still-on-says-artists-union/

Exposition, livre objet, en BD aussi c'est à Bruxelles
Jean-Laurent Truc
8 août 2025
https://www.ligneclaire.info/exposition-livre-objet-en-bd-aussi-cest-a-bruxelles-698189.html

Épopées graphiques : Bandes dessinées, comics et mangas à Grenoble du 22 novembre 2025 au 19 avril 2026.
Jean-Laurent Truc
6 août 2025
https://www.ligneclaire.info/epopees-graphiques-697737.html

Interview : Olivier Roman d'Harry Dickson au Marin céleste
Jean-Laurent Truc
3 août 2025
https://www.ligneclaire.info/olivier-roman-697606.html

Jason Mott Doesn't Get the Love for Cormac McCarthy's Last Books [Alan Moore, Barry Windsor-Smith].
SCOTT HELLER
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 10, 2025, Page 5 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Jason Mott.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/books/review/jason-mott-people-like-us.html

Off Panel #510: Not Funny with Kyle Starks
David Harper
August 4, 2025
https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-510-not-funny-with-kyle-starks/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Kyle_Starks_2025.mp3

Comic Sales Charts are Gone, But is That Such a Bad Thing?
David Harper
August 6, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/comic-sales-charts-2025/

Cartoon Conflicts: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Precedents

Editors:

        Richard Scully,
        Paulo Jorge Fernandes,
        Ritu Gairola Khanduri
        Palgrave Macmillan  2025
        https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3

    The Political Cartoon: History and Historiography
        Richard Scully
    Pages 17-86
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_2
    Striking Weapons: Cartoons During the American Civil War, 1861–1865
        Alentieva Tatiana Victorovna
    Pages 87-122
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_3
    Culture Wars Within a "United" Kingdom: Irish Cartoons in a British Empire, 1870–1872
        Chris Williams
    Pages 123-154
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_4
    Caricature and Identity Crisis: On the Satirical War Between Punch and Pontos nos ii (1889–1890)
        Maria Virgílio Cambraia Lopes
    Pages 155-215
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_5
    "Why should public men be held up to ridicule?": The George Reid Caricature Controversy of 1904—Echoes, Continuities and Discontinuities in Australia in 2012
        Paul Kiem
    Pages 217-249
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_6
    The Conspiracy of Cartoons in India
        Ritu Gairola Khanduri
    Pages 251-280
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_7
    Brazilian Disputed Imaginaries: Graphic Humour in the Black and Indigenous Press in the 1970s–1980s
        Mélanie Toulhoat, Carlos Benítez Trinidad
    Pages 281-317
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_8
    The Contested Ethics of Charlie Hebdo's Editorial Cartooning: 10 Years on from #jesuischarlie
        Jane Weston Vauclair
    Pages 319-354
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_9
    Mark Knight Versus Serena Williams: Game, Set, and Match for Political Correctness?
        Richard Scully
    Pages 355-390
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_10
    A Blind Man and a Dog Walk into a Cartoon: The Limits of Humour, Antisemitism and Racism and Informal Censorship in the Contemporary Liberal Press
        Paulo Jorge Fernandes
    Pages 391-423
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_11
    Zapiro as Zorro: Political Cartooning During the South African HIV/AIDS Crisis
        Paul Sendziuk
    Pages 425-448
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-69762-3_12

City Paper recommends old Fox cartoons

What to Stream: Cartoon Comeback Cavalcade

Upon the return of King of the Hill, here are more Fox animated series that deserve another shot.

   by Bill Frost 

Washington City Paper August 8th, 2025

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/769007/what-to-stream-cartoon-comeback-cavalcade/ 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/8/2025

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

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2025/08/07/pulitizer-cartoonist-ann-telnaes-learned-art-womens-rights-in-reno/85533265007/

 

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

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/70761/the-most-important-british-character-in-us-comics-john-constantine-hellblazer-alan-moore

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

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/the-hives-amit-gicelter-takes-us-inside-his-buzzy-animation-studio/

 

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

https://www.htsmartcast.com/society-culture-podcasts//books-and-authors/books-authors-podcast-with-simon-lamouret-author-the-alcazar/

 

A Celebration of 25 Years: An Interview with Manga Creators PEACH-PIT

by Kalai Chik, Aug 4th 2025

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-08-04/a-celebration-of-25-years-an-with-manga-creators-peach-pit/.226633

 

Dinosaur Sanctuary Manga Creator Itaru Kinoshita Wants to Show a Different Side of the Prehistoric

by Kalai Chik, Aug 6th 2025

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-08-06/dinosaur-sanctuary-manga-creator-itaru-kinoshita-wants-to-show-a-different-side-of-the-prehistoric/.226726

 

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://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57205-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://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57208-sdcc-2025-writer-corinna-bechko-on-ec-comics-blood-type-dark-horses-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://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57225-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/

The Epstein Ultimatum by Daniel Boris

PR: Breathtaker Book Release & Creator Signing - Saturday, September 6th

 

Meat Creators Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel!

Breathtaker Release Party! The Acclaimed Graphic Novel By Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel Saturday, September 6th 10:00am to 4:00pm Meet the creators Mark Wheatley * Marc Hempel and purchase one of 25 Limited Edition Copies with a tipped in Signed/Numbered plate (only available from Beyond Comics). Saturday, September 6th 10:00am to 4:00pm Pre-purchase Available! Signed and Numbered With Tipped-in-plate Hardcover Edition Purchase Here! Beyond Comics www.beyondcomics.com Gaithersburg - Frederick We take great pride in carrying the most amazing selection of statues, action figures, toys, and random comic merchandise to be found anywhere. CONTACT US

Beyond Comics | 5632 Buckeystown Pike: Frederick, MD - - 18749 B N. Frederick Rd | Gaithersburg, MD 20879 US

Rotten Apple by Daniel Boris

 

Ann Telnaes' time in Reno

Pulitizer-winning cartoonist Ann Telnaes learned art, women's rights in Reno

 Mark Robison

Reno Gazette Journal  August 7 2025

https://www.rgj.com/story/news/2025/08/07/pulitizer-cartoonist-ann-telnaes-learned-art-womens-rights-in-reno/85533265007/

Otakon started yesterday and runs thru weekend

https://www.otakon.com/

Founded in 1994, Otakon is an annual convention held in the summer months to celebrate Asian pop culture (anime, manga, music, movies, video games, etc) and its fandom. The event runs from Friday to Sunday and is packed with a schedule that has tons to do.

Otakon is held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in our nation's capital of Washington, DC.

https://galleries.otakon.com/ has photos

https://conventions.leapevent.tech/schedules/frontend/Otakon_2025 is the schedule.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/7/2025

Interview: Dan Slott reveals the toy line that inspired Superman's new gold form

Taimur Dar on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-interview-dan-slott-superman-unlimited/

 

Unbound successor Boundless hits the wall

Dean Simons on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/unbound-successor-boundless-hits-the-wall/

 

Angoulême Festival showrunners face turmoil and author boycott

 Dean Simons on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-festivals-rolling-crisis-franck-bondoux/

 

Exclusive: Dark Horse to release LAVENDER JACK in print [Dan Schkade]

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/lavender-jack-dh/

 

Graphic Novel Review: THE AVENGERS IN THE VERACITY TRAP! captures Marvel at it's finest

 D. Morris on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-avengers-in-the-veracity-trap-review

 

GlobalComix upgrades PanelFlow™ focusing on ethical AI

 Matias De la Piedra on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/globalcomix-unveils-major-panelflow-upgrade-focusing-on-ethical-ai/

 

Interview: How voice actor Adam McArthur fosters a community experience with anime fans

Taimur Dar on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-25-interview-adam-mcarthur/

 

A visit to Rome's 2025 Crack! Festival: 'Fascists will not stop us from drawing'

Marc Tessier | August 7, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/a-visit-to-romes-2025-crack-festival-fascists-will-not-stop-us-from-drawing/

 

Reviews: Face Meat

Tate McFadden | August 7, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/reviews/face-meat/

 

Face Meat

Bonten Tarō translated by Ryan Holmberg

Living the Line

 

American Comic Strips: The First Manga

Written By Julian Jefko

Edited By Cy Catwell

August 2, 2025  https://www.animeherald.com/2025/08/02/american-comic-strips-the-first-manga/

Epstein Files and Trump! 113 Great Political Cartoons!
Daryl Cagle
Caglecast 70;  Aug 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n6ilCNs8A

Off Panel #507: Micro Celebrity with Chip Zdarsky (Video Edition)
SKTCHD
 Aug 7, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQyOe9UYJE

Off Panel #508: Playing the Hits with Si Spurrier (Video Edition)
SKTCHD
 Aug 6, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYHMxMGXYQ0

Off Panel #510: Not Funny with Kyle Starks
SKTCHD
 Aug 4, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmADXzXZIhk

A hero for the sludge era: Matt Bors details expansion of 'Toxic Avenger' comics
Chris Coplan
August 7, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/08/07/toxic-avenger-matt-bors-feature/

How a cartoon skull became a symbol of defiance in Indonesia [One Piece]
Kelly Ng
BBC News, Singapore August 6 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ezvj4d111o

'The Batman 2' to Shoot in Spring, James Gunn Writing Next Movie in "Super" Family
August 7, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-batman-2-next-spring-james-gunn-super-movie-dc-studios-1236339305/

Interview: Alex Paknadel is bringing major-league butt-kicking back in town with new CASEY JONES miniseries
Taimur Dar on 08/07/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-alex-paknadel-tmnt-casey-jones/

The Ten Rarest Superior Comics (Maybe)
By Barry Sandoval, Heritage Auctions
Comics News August 7, 2025
https://view.emails.ha.com/?qs=82dd10e29fef49b3fc52ba5a8dc64e894ac7a5555e44246004e9224348e22ba8472a1a27f03852a0d5d9582ef0d78c21d2f272dd2ce3563c84c5a69fc25edea4ddf3c0ec0da12f34b5a2d34dff61f687c4eb5d4831437ce4

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2025 IN PHOTOS, PART 4
A Good Time Was Had by All
Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 7, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60238/san-diego-comic-con-2025-photos-part-4

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON 2025 IN PHOTOS, PART 5
Inside and Outside the Con
Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 7, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60247/san-diego-comic-con-2025-photos-part-5

'The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder' Show Creators Hit New Heights in Their Third Season
 Ramin Zahed
August 6, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/the-proud-family-louder-and-prouder-show-creators-hit-new-heights-in-their-third-season/

The Fantastic Four: First Steps Revels in Its Vintage Comic and Sitcom Influences

By Rui Zhong
 August 4, 2025
https://reactormag.com/fantastic-four-first-steps-revels-in-vintage-comic-and-sitcom-influences/

Superman Fights for a Better Tomorrow — Even for His Enemies
Rachel Kessler
 August 5, 2025
https://reactormag.com/superman-fights-for-a-better-tomorrow-even-for-his-enemies/

Liza Donnelly
The Cartoons Of Barbara Shermund
Seeing Things Aug 7, 2025 https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-cartoons-of-barbara-shermund

Liza Donnelly and Jessica Yellin from
New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly: Women, Politics & Culture
Seeing Things  Aug 7, 2025 https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/new-yorker-cartoonist-liza-donnelly

CBR newsletter  Aug 7, 2025
Brian Cronin Reveals When Superman Revealed His Secret Identity to Lois Lane to Keep Her From Marrying Another Guy

Peter Sanderson.
Galactus and the Silver Surfer Onscreen ["The Fantastic Four: First Steps."]
Sanderson on Comics Aug 7, 2025
https://substack.com/inbox/post/170413647

Comic Store In Your Future: The Superman Movie Brings In Comic Readers
  06 Aug 2025
by Rod Lamberti
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-the-superman-movie-brings-in-comic-readers/

Overstreet Comics Price Guide Delayed Six Months by Diamond Bankruptcy
The 2025 Overstreet Comics Price Guide has been delayed by six months to November, as a result of Diamond Comic Distributors' bankruptcy...
by Rich Johnston
 06 Aug 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/overstreet-comics-price-guide-delayed-six-months-by-diamond-bankruptcy/

Creating Comics: An Interview with Blacksad artist Juanjo Guarnido
James Bacon on August 6, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/creating-comics-an-interview-with-blacksad-artist-juanjo-guarnido/

Comics Youth seeks the UK's First Young Comics Laureate to Champion Emerging Talent Aged 18 – 30
John Freeman on August 6, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/comics-youth-seeks-the-uks-first-young-comics-laureate-to-champion-emerging-talent-aged-18-30/

Forbidden Planet Liverpool relaunches this weekend with new look and exclusive signings
John Freeman on August 6, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/forbidden-planet-liverpool-relaunches-this-weekend-with-new-look-and-exclusive-signings/

Secret Artist Sale in aid of charity to offer work by top British Comic Artists for amazingly low prices
John Freeman on August 6, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/secret-artist-sale-in-aid-of-charity-to-offer-work-by-top-british-comic-artists-for-amazingly-low-prices/

How Goofus and Gallant shaped generations of kids
Michael Taube | Aug 6, 2025
https://theclarion.ca/viewpoint/how-goofus-and-gallant-shaped-generations-of-kids/

4 graphic novels available for download from Marine Corps University Press in Quantico, Virginia

See them here - https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/Graphic-Novels/

Due to the age of publications, certain works listed are no longer in print. Print-on-demand services are available for some titles upon request.

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Destination Unknown
Volume 1, Spring 2019

Destination Unknown is the first graphic novel used to explore the future of the Marine Corps written and illustrated by Marines. The stories in this graphic novel explore such topics as Marine-manned satellites, laser communication, and artificial intelligence (AI) selecting potential recruits and assisting Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) operations in real time.

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Destination Unknown
Volume 2, Fall 2020

Destination Unknown volume II is the second graphic novel exploring the future of the Marine Corps written and illustrated by Marines. The stories in this volume explore topics such as the response to an engineered virus, a microchip with a secret purpose found on board a Navy ship, the psychological issues that drone pilots face, and the use of supercomputers to speak to Commandants past.

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Destination Unknown
Volume 3, Spring 2022

Destination Unknown volume III is the third graphic novel exploring the future of the Marine Corps written and illustrated by Marines. The stories in this volume touch on the psychological impacts from human-machine teaming, artificial intelligence systems gone astray, the future of medicine and trauma management, gender integration in Marine Corps boot camp, life on an arctic military outpost, and even a story about a robotic infantry dog.

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Destination Unknown
Volume 4, Winter 2023/24

Destination Unknown, vol. 4, continues the series' tradition of using military writers and artists to generate new ideas on national security and military strategy through graphic representation. This is an educational project "by the warfighter for the warfighter" in every regard. Behind the scenes, the journey in making this graphic novel is as important as the unique military stories being told. The stories within this volume go right at the operational and strategic questions that the Marine Corps is wrestling with today, and they illustrate today's Marines and their partners in the U.S. Department of Defense and beyond preparing imaginative solutions to tomorrow's problems.