Announcing Debut Books at SPX 2025

 

Check out the books debuting at SPX 2025

For Immediate Release Contact: Warren Bernard Email: exhibitor-inquiries@smallpressexpo.com   Debut Books at Small Press Expo 2025   Bethesda, Maryland - August 27, 2025   Media Release - Small Press Expo is thrilled to announce that over 120 books and comics that will debut at SPX 2025. The festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday, September 13-14, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center with over 500 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 50 publishers, 22 programming panels and 18 hands-on workshops to introduce attendees to the amazing world of independent and small press comics. A complete list of of the over 140 books debuting at the show, including cover images and publishing information, can be found on the SPX web site.   SPX 2025 is proud to list a highlighted selection of books debuting this year: New York Trilogy Pantheon Graphic Library From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction. Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself. Find The New York Trilogy and Paul Karasik at table W86! Flip First Second Chi-Chi Ekeh keeps having crushes on rich white boys who have no idea she exists. Enter Flip Henderson, the most popular boy at school, who receives Chi-Chi's private video proposal to go to senior prom. When Flip rejects Chi-Chi in front of their entire class, what happens next is completely unexpected: Chi-Chi—shy nerd and scholarship student—switches bodies with Flip. Suddenly Chi-Chi is 6'1" and cool, while Flip gets a crash course on Chi-Chi's life. With graduation looming and their body swaps lasting longer and longer, Chi-Chi and Flip must form the most unlikely friendship their school has ever seen.  From bestselling author of Check, Please!, Ngozi Ukazu, comes Flip, a tale about self-acceptance, black girlhood, and how walking a mile in someone else's shoes can teach you how to finally see yourself. Find Ngozi at table W86. Brownfield Action Family #1 Revival House Press Johnny Mansfield is struggling. No work, no motivation and within arm's reach of rock bottom. But when he inherits his family's abandoned martial arts studio, his problems may be solved. The only catch is, it's in a mysterious and decaying neighborhood known as the Brownfield. And his dysfunctional family is the last thing he wants to deal with. But then, can you ever really escape your family? Brownfield Action Family is a brand new 8-issue indie comics series written and drawn by Eisner-nominated author Ted May (Injury Comics, Men's Feelings) and published by Revival House Press. Find Ted May at table C6B!     With My Life Self-published With My Life is an intimate collection of diary comics about falling in love. Sometimes funny, sometimes painful, and always sweet, Natalie Norris captures the small moments – illustrating that the healing power of love is found in the everyday ways two people care for one another. Find Natalie at table G6B!   Valley Valley Frog Farm Valley Dale and Idella Anselm are cartoonist cousins who reside in the Southern coastal town of Star Valley. Resentment contends with guilt as the two navigate stilted social interactions, zine fairs, relationship woes, and comics awards shows in this special double digest. Double Digest! Two full comics in one big book! Find Valley Valley from Audra Stang at table table L7!     Planet of 1000 Moons Automation Press Planet Of 1000 Moons follows Athena, a spacefaring, food trucking, cyborg chef, as she travels throughout the 864 moons of the dead planet Biosse, looking for exotic creatures, evading the Biosse GovCorp authorities, and traveling from moon to moon, sharing their food with hungry customers throughout the orbit. Get Planet of 1000 Moons from Michael S. Bracco at table J9! Who Killed Nessie? Avery Hill Publishing It's Lyndsay Grockle's first day as the manager of the Lakeview Hotel. Her boss has handed her the keys and departed for vacation. And then the convention attendees start showing up, each more peculiar than the last. Lyndsay's a confirmed skeptic―so she's surprised to be woken up in the middle of the night by her convention attendees, telling her that there's been a murder . . . of the Loch Ness Monster. The guests at the hotel are all cryptids from around the world, and now one of them is dead. Which means that one of them must be the murderer. And it's up to Lyndsay to solve the case! Get Who Killed Nessie from table J1!   Visit the SPX 2025 Website for More Info About This Years Show Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 500 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests. The Ignatz Awards are held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 www.smallpressexpo.com Email: press@smallpressexpo.com STAY CONNECTED

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704 | Bethesda, MD 20824 US

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/26/2025

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 693: AnimeNYC 2025 Interviews [Denpa Books, webtoon 'King's Maker']

Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons

  08/25/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1388

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 692: George Takei interview

Meg Lemke

on 08/22/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1387

 

Parisi, Mark. 2025.

Reubens Boston 2025 acceptance speech.

Mark Parisi (August 19): https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1A4N1xsw4p/

 

National Cartoonists Society names Gloucester's Mark Parisi Outstanding Cartoonist of theYear

Joann Mackenzie 

Gloucester Daily Times August 25 205

https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/national-cartoonists-society-names-gloucesters-mark-parisi-outstanding-cartoonist-of-theyear/article_2bc98c10-9bea-4d24-9b09-288a324e7128.html

 

75 years of Snoopy: How Hallmark preserves iconic character's legacy in KC

By Joseph Hernandez

Kansas City Star August 25, 2025

https://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article311555384.html

 

UK "Cartoonists For Gaza" Project

D. D. Degg 

August 26, 2025  https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/25/uk-cartoonists-for-gaza-project/

 

Cartoonists for Gaza Part 1 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work by Bryan Talbot, Annassi Mehdi, Martin Rowson, The Rickard Sisters and Darryl Cunningham

Andy Oliver

    August 23, 2025

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-for-gaza-part-1/

 

Cartoonists for Gaza Part 2 – Solidarity in Ink with Palestine from the Comics Community, Including Work from Krent Able, Charlie Adlard, Danny Noble, Fumio Obata and Corinne Pearlman

Andy Oliver

    August 26, 2025

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/cartoonists-for-gaza-part-2/

 

The artist's 'touch' and drawing tools: A history of changes in manga expression

Takekuma Kentaro | August 26, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-artists-touch-and-drawing-tools-a-history-of-changes-in-manga-expression/

 

Interview: Frank J. Barbiere & Morgan Beem go meta in THE AUTHOR IMMORTAL

Deanna Destito on 08/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-frank-j-barbiere-morgan-beem-go-meta-in-the-author-immortal/

 

The Beat Digest 08/26/25: Anime Expo getting its own awards

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 08/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-082625/

 

Interview: Lewis LaRosa talks new art book, CARBON BASED

Zack Quaintance on 08/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-lewis-larosa-talks-new-art-book-carbon-based/

 

We're All 10 Years Old at Heart: Book Club Recap With Chip Kidd

By PRINT Editorial Team

August 20 2025

https://www.printmag.com/book-club/were-all-10-years-old-at-heart-book-club-recap-with-chip-kidd/

 

Diamond's Biggest Retailer Sale Ever With 12,000 Different Print Items

Diamond Comic Distributors' Biggest Retailer Sale Ever with 12,000 different print items, comics, magazine and books at up to 75% off retail

Rich Johnston 25 Aug 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-biggest-retailer-sale-ever-12000-different-print-items/

 

Image Comics' Accounting E-mails Hacked, Don't Click On That Link

25 Aug 2025  Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-accounting-e-mails-hacked-dont-click-on-that-link/

 

Disney Kicks Off 'World Princess Week' with New LEGO Special

Mercedes Milligan

August 25, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/disney-kicks-off-world-princess-week-with-new-lego-special/

 

Auditing the Ghosts in the Machine: GenAI's IP Risk for Manga and Anime

Jeff Smith

August 25, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/auditing-the-ghosts-in-the-machine-genais-ip-risk-for-manga-and-anime/

 

How to Clean and Maintain Your Cosplay

Cece Olson On March 3, 2025 https://twincitiesgeek.com/2025/03/how-to-clean-and-maintain-your-cosplay/

 

Debbie Millman and Stephen Heller
We're All 10 Years Old at Heart: Book Club Recap With Chip Kidd
PRINT Book Club August 20 2025
https://www.printmag.com/book-club/were-all-10-years-old-at-heart-book-club-recap-with-chip-kidd/


My Danish Doppelgänger: Two former Richmonders compare notes on the River City, Denmark and the idea of home [store]
Rich Griset
March 3, 2025
https://www.styleweekly.com/my-danish-doppelganger/

'KPop Demon Hunters' Becomes Netflix's Most Watched Movie Ever
Rick Porter
August 26, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-netflix-no-1-movie-all-time-1236353877/

K-Pop Fans Sing the Demons Away
Kids and their parents celebrated their fandom at a singalong showing of "KPop Demon Hunters."
Alex Vadukul
Visuals by Ye Fan
    Aug. 25, 2025
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/style/kpop-demon-hunters-singalong-paris-theater-nyc.html

'KPop Demon Hunters' Sequel Moving Ahead As Sony and Netflix Engage In Deal Talks
Pamela McClintock
August 26, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-sony-netflix-sequel-talks-1236353972/

ORDER CLARIFIES NEXT STEPS ON DIAMOND CONSIGNMENT INVENTORY And Hearing Scheduled on 'Assume or Reject' Motions
 Milton Griepp on August 26, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60388/order-clarifies-next-steps-diamond-consignment-inventory

Once upon a time, Apple TV Plus shared The Sisters Grimm first look
The new animated series based on Michael Buckley's bestselling books premieres October 3.
By Mary Kate Carr  |  August 26, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/the-sisters-grimm-first-look-apple-tv-plus

DMA#25: With special guest New Yorker Cartoonist Liza Donnelly
A recording from Liza Donnelly and Jason Chatfield's live video
Liza Donnelly and Jason Chatfield
Aug 26, 2025
https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/dma25-with-special-guest-new-yorker

SPX 2025 Announces Programming Slate and Advance Tickets

Come to SPX 2025 to see great programming and get your tickets now!

For Immediate Release Contact: Rob Clough Email: rob.clough@smallpressexpo.com Bethesda, Maryland – Small Press Expo (SPX) announces its a full slate of in-person programming for the 2025 show and advance ticket sales. To avoid registration lines to SPX 2025, pick up your advanced tickets at Eventbrite. The programming slate at SPX 2025 has a variety of panels, featuring solo spotlights on the world premiere of Ngozi Ukazu's new book Flip and Paul Karasik's ambitious New York Trilogy. There are twenty-two panels in all that will be held on Saturday, September 13th and Sunday, September 14th. The full programming schedule with descriptions can be seen on the SPX website. This programming is in addition to the previously announced 18 hands-on workshops, which you can sign up for here.  Here are a few highlights from this year's programming slate: Queer Soap Opera: Redefining and Subverting Romance, with Caroline Cash, Al Varela, & Katie Fricas Psychological Horror, with Julia Gfrörer, Beth Hetland, & Ashley Robin Franklin Reverberations Of History And Myth, with Anders Nilsen, Mimi Pond, Ben Wickey, & Frances Cordelia Beaver Any questions on the workshops or programming, please send them to rob.clough@smallpressexpo.com Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 500 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of workshops, panel discussions and interviews with this year's special guests. The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704 | Bethesda, MD 20824 US

Say What?? by Daniel Boris

D&Q debuts Fall books at SPX (from their newsletter)

SPX: EXCLUSIVE DEBUTS D&Q debuts Fall books at SPX

Visit the Drawn & Quarterly booth (Tables W1-5) to catch Eagle Valiant Brosi, Katie Fricas, Tom Gauld, Kevin Huizenga, Lee Lai, Melissa Mendes, Mimi Pond, Brian Ralph, R. Sikoryak and Marc Torices when we return to Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda, MD from Saturday, September 13 to Sunday, September 14. Click through below to see what we're packing to debut ahead of their pub dates!

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King Con by Daniel Boris

 

(updated from 2023)

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/25/2025

 Animation's all-time box office king is now in English. It may still confuse you. [in print as Chinese animated smash dazzles as its plot baffles; "Ne Zha II"].

Washington Post August 23, 2025: B1, 3.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/08/21/ne-zha-animated-michelle-yeoh-review/

 

2025 AMERICAN MANGA AWARDS ANNOUNCED

At Anime NYC

Milton Griepp on August 22, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60374/2025-american-manga-awards-announced

 

Interview + Preview: Liniers on THE GHOST OF WRECKERS COVE

Avery Kaplan on 08/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-preview-liniers-on-the-ghost-of-wreckers-cove/

 

Interview: Adam Rose on creating HUGE DETECTIVE and its possible film adaptation

Ollie Kaplan on 08/25/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-adam-rose-on-creating-huge-detective-and-its-possible-film-adaptation/

 

'Trans people being generous with their voices and stories is the reason that I'm here today': Sam Szabo's path to enlightenment

Tate McFadden | August 25, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/trans-people-being-generous-with-their-voices-and-stories-is-the-reason-that-im-here-today-sam-szabos-path-to-enlightenment/

 

French critics association ACBD announces Prix Comics 2025 shortlist

Dean Simons on 08/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/french-critics-association-acbd-announces-prix-comics-2025-shortlist/

Fire & Ice's Joanne Starer talks JLI/Welcome to Smallville - Creator Owned Art
Liam McGuire
Comic Frontier Aug 25, 2025
https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/fire-ice-s-joanne-starer-talks-jli-welcome-to-smallville-creator-owned-art-ebd3

Film review - A Savage Art: The life and cartoons of Pat Oliphant.
 reviewed by Peter Kuper
International Journal of Comic Art blog August 25, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/08/film-review-savage-art-life-and.html

Fredrikstad Animation Festival Unveils 2025 Short Film Competition
Mercedes Milligan
August 22, 2025
 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/fredrikstad-animation-festival-unveils-2025-short-film-competition/

A Star Is Shorn! Aardman & TikTok Launch Fan Contest to Appear in 'Shaun the Sheep' Movie
  Mercedes Milligan
August 22, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/a-star-is-shorn-aardman-tiktok-launch-fan-contest-to-appear-in-shaun-the-sheep-movie/

'Tim Rex in Space' Introduces a Curious Dino Family to Nickelodeon's Preschool Lineup
Kambole Campbell
August 22, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/tim-rex-in-space-introduces-a-curious-dino-family-to-nickelodeons-preschool-lineup/
This article was written for the
September-October '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 352).

Small Press Expo Announces Signups for Workshops at SPX 2025

Signup for the great workshops at this year's show!

SPX Announces the Workshops Track of Programming. In addition to the 22 program panels, there will be 18 workshops over the two days of SPX 2025, to be held September 13 & 14 at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center. These workshops are free and open to any participants. They're aimed at a wide variety of ages and skill sets, from kids just starting out to experienced cartoonists looking to sharpen their skills with a master class. In response to last year's enthusiastic response, we will continue to have two figure drawing workshops featuring model Babs New(d). (18+ only, please.) Graduates and representatives of the Center For Cartoon Studies (CCS), the Sequential Artists Workshop (SAW), and the School of Visual Arts (SVA) will be on hand to lead many of these workshops. Here are a few highlights of this year's workshops:  Connecting With Your Audience Through Cover Design, with Briana Loewinsohn & Thien Pham Mastering Pictorial Composition: Rewire Your Brain, with Celine Loup Drawing The Shapes Of Feelings, with Mara Ramirez Choose Your Own Path - Making Interactive Comics with Multiple Endings, with Bread Tarleton Sign up for any of the 18 workshops at this year's show here on the SPX web site. Any questions on the workshops, please send them to rob.clough@smallpressexpo.com Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 500 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of workshops, panel discussions and interviews with this year's special guests. The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show. For more information on the Small Press Expo, please visit http://www.smallpressexpo.com. Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704 | Bethesda, MD 20824 US

Peter Kuper reviews the new documentary on Pat Oliphant

Film review - A Savage Art: The life and cartoons of Pat Oliphant.

 reviewed by Peter Kuper

International Journal of Comic Art blog August 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/08/film-review-savage-art-life-and.html

WaPo reviews China's “Ne Zha II”

Animation's all-time box office king is now in English. It may still confuse you. [in print as Chinese animated smash dazzles as its plot baffles]

"Ne Zha II" adapts a complex Chinese legend, helped by stunning visuals and a cast that includes Michelle Yeoh.

Review by Chris Klimek

Washington Post August 23, 2025: B1, 3.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/08/21/ne-zha-animated-michelle-yeoh-review/

(2.5 stars)

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/23-24/2025

Diamond Is Holding A Million Dollars Worth Of Fantagraphics' Comics
Diamond is holding a million dollars worth of Fantagraphics' Comics... and so they are running a "We've Been Robbed" 30% off sale
  23 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-is-holding-a-million-dollars-worth-of-fantagraphics-comics/

Marvel Comics' Memorial Pages For Jim Shooter, This Week
23 Aug 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-comics-memorial-pages-for-jim-shooter-this-week/

Cartoonists For Gaza Unite To Confront Atrocities #cartoonistsforg4za
UK cartoonists launch "Cartoonists For Gaza" to respond to the humanitarian crisis, including Martin Rowson, Roger Langridge and Bryan Talbot
 23 Aug 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cartoonists-for-gaza-unite-to-confront-atrocities-cartoonistsforg4za/

Exclusive Interview: Svengoolie Artist Collection designer Joe Staton on the horror and comics that shaped his legendary career
A little bit scary, a little bit funny. Who could be a more perfect fit?
Yikesgeist August 22, 2025, 11:06AM By MeTV Staff
https://metv.com/stories/exclusive-interview-comics-legend-joe-staton-dishes-on-the-superman-red-carpet-and-his-svengoolie-artist-collection-design

"It Kind of Changed My Life": The Story of Bone's Time in Disney Adventures, From the People Who Made It Happen
David Harper
August 20, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/bone-disney-adventures-retrospective/

The Oblivion Bar August 22, 2025
INTERVIEW: David Harper
https://www.oblivionbarpodcast.com/interview-david-harper-1/

Joe Staton's post August 22 2025
Joe Staton
[" I learned yesterday that Carole Curtis, writer Mike Curtis' wife, died peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday night.";  Shanda Fantasy Arts]
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16qEYJ33HU/

Carole Anne Curtis [Shanda Fantasy Arts]
July 12, 1954 — August 19, 2025
https://www.wilcoxfamilyfuneralhomeandcrematory.com/obituaries/carole-curtis

["...now I'm seeing word that Guy H. Lillian III has passed."; The Amazing World of DC Comics staffer]
Paul Levitz's post (August 24 2025)
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1YLNWoDU7W/
Paul Levitz

["I've just heard the very sad news that Dave Taylor has passed away of prostate cancer."]
The Mighty World of British Comics  August 23 2025
Lew Stringer, Cartoonist
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ASTAFZgf8/

Kev McCready
Dave Taylor [interview]
Comic World, January 1993: 52
Online at https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1996759171059864&set=p.1996759171059864&type=3

'KPop Demon Hunters' Sing-Along Version Coming to Netflix
Nicole Fell
August 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kpop-demon-hunters-sing-along-netflix-1236352195/

'KPop Demon Hunters' Could Sing to Netflix's First Theatrical Hit
Even with a two-day theatrical run, the singalongs for 'KPop Demon Hunters' have kept the hype going strong.
By Justin Carter
August 24, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/kpop-demon-hunters-could-sing-to-netflixs-first-theatrical-hit-2000647379

Interview: Voice actors Kenji Nojima & Yusuke Kobayashi chat Dr. Stone: Science Future [anime]
By Kari Lane
The Beat   07/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-voice-actors-kenji-nojima-yusuke-kobayashi-chat-dr-stone-science-future/

AnimeNYC: Azuki makes YOUNG MAGAZINE ENGLISH SPECIAL EDITION available for free
Ollie Kaplan on 08/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/azuki-makes-young-magazine-english-special-edition-available-for-free/

Hayden Sherman talks 'Absolute Wonder Woman', Batman, and DC's Absolute Universe at FAN EXPO Boston 2025

'Absolute Wonder Woman' artist Hayden Sherman joined IDW editor Heather Antos to discuss their career.
David Brooke
August 9, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/08/09/fanexpo-boston-2025-hayden-sherman/

David W Fitzsimmons
These political graphic novels and comic books are not for kids
David Fitzsimmons: Arizona's Progressive Voice Aug 24, 2025
https://davidwfitzsimmons.substack.com/p/these-political-graphic-novels-and

The New Yorker in Dog Years: 100 years of covers from a private collection" Exhibit to Open At The AKC Museum of The Dog
Liz on Aug 22 2025
https://caninechronicle.com/current-articles/the-new-yorker-in-dog-years-100-years-of-covers-from-a-private-collection-exhibit-to-open-at-the-akc-museum-of-the-dog/

Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: THE BOOK OF JUSKO, SHIN ZERO, THERION, and four more projects you'll love!
Diego Higuera on 08/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-crowdfunding-round-up-the-book-of-jusko-shin-zero-therion-and-four-more-projects-youll-love/

Special Guests Greg and Karen Evans Celebrate 40 Years of Luann
Brad Guigar and Dave Kellett
August 21st, 2025 | 01:09:39 | E401
https://comiclab.simplecast.com/episodes/special-guests-greg-and-karen-evans-celebrate-40-years-of-luann
https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/1021f92e-2010-48c6-a30b-f4f9d36ede9b/episodes/f6c3f774-3e2f-425d-856a-25f8f48840fd/audio/16def679-7193-417d-834e-63801907de8c/default_tc.mp3

Jack Ohman
My column for the San Francisco Chronicle on Artificial Intelligence and editorial cartooning...
Jack Ohman's You Betcha! Aug 23, 2025
https://jackohman.substack.com/p/my-column-for-the-san-francisco-chronicle-6d0

DMA#24: with Special Guest New Yorker cartoonist Sofia Warren!
Jason Chatfield
New York Cartoons
Aug 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULbNpJMDHPA

aka

The Marvelous Mind of Sofia Warren (Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love Zombie Chic)
DMA#24: Quokka Soccer, the John Henry Complex & Why AI is or isn't going to be the death of all art.
Jason Chatfield  and Sofia Warren
Aug 23, 2025
https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/the-marvelous-mind-of-sofia-warren

Cut 'Diamond.' And tell these obtuse triangles to go fly a kite [Diamond Lil, Specktickles letter]
Ty Childress
August 23 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-confederate-memorial-civil-war/

Grandpa and Frank and Ernest don't seem to be trying very hard anymore [Pickle, Frank and Ernest letter]
William A. McCollam,
August 23 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-confederate-memorial-civil-war/

Coming to an America Near You? Editoonist Apologizes for Comic [India,  Hemant]
D. D. Degg  
 August 23, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/23/coming-to-an-america-near-you-editoonist-apologizes-for-comic/

Only Dream of Greatness: Tom Shapira on MOONSHADOW — THE DEFINITIVE EDITION — EXPANDED by J. M. DeMatteis and Jon J Muth
Tom Shapira
August 18, 2025
https://solrad.co/only-dream-of-greatness-tom-shapira-on-moonshadow-the-definitive-edition-expanded-by-j-m-dematteis-and-jon-j-muth

Doris Eileen Carr, August 18, 1929 — August 7, 2025 [ freelance writer for the Marmaduke comic strip]
https://www.halocremations.com/obituaries/doris-carr

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Really, Really, Really"

"Really, Really, Really"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4146

Oh, f'crissake, you goddamn fashy tools. You heard the sonofabitch
yelling all over the goddamn place about what he was going to do if he
got back into office, you heard all the big plans, right...? But you
still supported the bastard because THE PRICE OF EGGS...? ...like you
all were actually TOTALLY OK with all the other shit as long as the
price of your goddamn carton of eggs came down? C'mon; y'all didn't
actually think he was going to get that price of eggs thing done, did
you?

Like the Liberals suddenly running from the Gaza genocide as if it were
a house on fire, collaborationist motherfuckers like YOU aren't getting
away this easy. If you supported Trump, you support "this".

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"'I voted for Trump, but I didn't vote for this': Rep. Scholten shares
stories from her constituents", Alex Witt at MSNBC 04.06.2025
https://www.msnbc.com/weekends-with-alex-witt/watch/-i-voted-for-trump-but-i-didn-t-vote-for-this-rep-scholten-shares-stories-from-her-constituents-236665413566

"Not all Trump voters 'voted for this'" G. Elliott Morris at Substack
06.02.2025
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/many-trump-supporters-did-not-vote

Kevin Buist on Twitter, 06.2025, 'Yes, you did vote to deport moms.'
https://tinyurl.com/t8mfse42

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Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

That darn Diamond Lil, Specktickles, Pickles and Frank and Ernest

Neither "Diamond Lil" nor "Specktickles" are in the Post print edition. So that first letter writer is going to https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/comics/ which just has the strip names and is choosing to click on and read those strips.

(Brett Koth/Distributed by Creators)

Cut 'Diamond.' And tell these obtuse triangles to go fly a kite.

August 23 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-confederate-memorial-civil-war/

The Post has a great number of great cartoons. But the worst is definitely "Diamond Lil." The Aug. 3 strip was typically inane and insulting, both to women and to men. Day after day, the little quips and puns are just tiresome.

Second-worst — and first-weirdest — is "Specktickles," the one with all the triangular eyeglasses. Besides its ugly characters, the dialogue is contemptuous. Just look at the Aug. 2 strip.

(Bill Abbott/Distributed by Creators)

"Pickles," on the other hand, is the greatest.

Ty Childress, Mokelumne Hill, California

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(Brian Crane/Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication)

Grandpa and Frank and Ernest don't seem to be trying very hard anymore

The Aug. 5 print edition was the usual report from the Bad News Bears. But unusually, there was no offset in the Comics.

Any job that has to be performed routinely under a deadline is unenviable. So even the best cartoonists occasionally swing and miss under pressure. But this collection in aggregate was the lamest in memory. Even my two favorites, "Pickles" and "Frank and Ernest," were well short of the mark. I searched diligently but couldn't muster a smile, much less an LOL.

William A. McCollam, Fairfax

Highly Credible Interview by Daniel Boris

Fighting Crime in D.C. by Daniel Boris