Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/26/2025

Liza Donnelly and Michael Davies. 2025.

Live with Liza Donnelly!

Seeing Things  Sep 25, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/live-with-liza-donnelly-734

 

TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY Streaming on The EXP

Milton Griepp on September 26, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60637/twenty-four-hours-local-comic-shop-day

 

Artists claim anti-Trump display at Chicago library was censored [Tim Chapman, political cartoon]

By Alice Yin

Chicago Tribune September 25 2025: https://digitaledition.chicagotribune.com/shortcode/CHI785/edition/9330444d-2e1d-488f-b21d-61c97e164e88?page=0befc3be-83b3-4b79-9a8c-1654ce896b3a&

 

Chicago Public Library Censors Art Exhibit [political cartoons]

Locust Review September 24, 2025

https://www.locustreview.com/online/chicago-public-library-censors-art-exhibit

 

Daniel Best - Author  Sep 25,  2025

The Jerry Siegel Project: Part One: 1926 - 1929

https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/the-jerry-siegel-project

 

The Beat Digest 09/26/25: PHANTOM 2040 rebooted in new strip

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 09/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-092625/

 

Kibbles 'n' Bits 9/26/25: While the world burns, I can linkblog again

Heidi MacDonald on 09/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/kibbles-n-bits-9-26-25-while-the-world-burns-i-can-linkblog-again/

 

Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: WHITE ASH, KAMTHOLOGY, STORM RAIL RIDERZ, and two more projects you'll want to check out!

Diego Higuera on 09/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-white-ash-kamthology-storm-rail-riderz-juan-gimenez-sugar-bomb/

 

Alliance Entertainment (AENT) Launch Their Own Previews Catalog Thingy

  25 Sep 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/collectibles/alliance-entertainment-aent-launch-previews-catalog/

 

Dynamite Gets Minor Victory Over Its $500,000 Claim Against Diamond

  25 Sep 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-gets-minor-victory-over-its-500000-claim-against-diamond/

 

Demo-Graphics: Comic Fandom Sees More Growth in September

Posted on September 25, 2025   by Brett

https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/09/25/demo-graphics-comic-fandom-on-facebook-september-2025/

 

Publisher-to-Publisher Conversation with Glacier Bay Books

Zachary Clemente

Bulgilhan Press Aug 23 2025

https://www.bulgilhanpress.com/blog/pub2pub-gbb

 

The Doo Dads by Arch Dale

Archibald Dale

The Country Guide

1975 (1920)

https://archive.org/details/the-doo-dads/mode/2up

 

PCX 2024 photo gallery

Chris Anthony Diaz | September 26, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/pcx-2024-photo-gallery/

 

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

Scoop September 25, 2025  https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-147/

 

DreamWorks Animation Workers Achieve Union Milestones

Mercedes Milligan

September 25, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/dreamworks-animation-workers-achieve-union-milestones/

 

Superfan Podcast Ep. 02: Marc Guggenheim on Billy Joel

Christian Gossett, Kris Simon, and David Hyde

Superfan Podcast Sep 26, 2025 

https://spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/superfan-podcast-ep-02

 

Episode 219 - Kaamran Hafeez Returns

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast 219

September 24, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius • Season 5 • Episode 219

https://cartooncaptioncontestpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/17901388-episode-219-kaamran-hafeez-returns

 

09-25-2025

Exclusive: How Crunchyroll's manga app will turn a new page for anime fans

The anime streaming giant is launching the standalone Crunchyroll Manga app next month. Here's a first look at how it works.

BY David Salazar

https://www.fastcompany.com/91410256/crunchyroll-manga-preview-anime

 

CBR newsletter  Sep 26, 2025

 Brian Cronin Shows How the Fantastic Four Once Helped Promote an Unsung 1980s Marvel Comic Book Series [Power Pack]

 

CBR newsletter Sep 26, 2025

Brian Cronin Reveals How the Fantastic Four Secretly Saved the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

 

Morton, Drew. 2017.  Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era. University Press of Mississippi   

 

Drew Anthony Morton. 2012.

Comics to Film (and Back Again): A Study in Stylistic Remediation from 1978-2009 [Ph.D. thesis]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles

Online at https://escholarship.org/content/qt1jp6q352/qt1jp6q352_noSplash_b880f717e5c9480b8148cd12d6fc3f1c.pdf

 

Science and comics: Communicating connections

Arsev Umur Aydinoglu and Suzie Allard, Ph.D.   2010

https://www.academia.edu/59015442/Connecting_the_public_with_science_comic_books_and_libraries

 

Salisbury, Derek. 2013. Growing up with Vertigo: British Writers, DC, and the Maturation of American Comic Books [master's thesis]. University of Vermont. Online at https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/209

 

Zacharias, Sabrina, 'Indigenizing Gothic Comics: Unsettling the Colonial Specter', in Naomi Simone Borwein (ed.), Global Indigenous Horror (Jackson, MS, 2025; online edn, Mississippi Scholarship Online, 18 Sept. 2025), https://doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496856173.003.0009,https://academic.oup.com/mississippi-scholarship-online/book/61363/chapter-abstract/532870107

 

'Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie' Review: Less Than Pawesome

By Natalia Winkelman

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 26, 2025, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/movies/gabbys-dollhouse-the-movie-review.html

 

Knights of Guinevere's Pilot Is a Beautifully Animated Hate Letter to Disney

By Autumn Wright  |  September 25, 2025

https://www.endlessmode.com/anime/knights-of-guinevere/knights-of-guinevere-pilot-impressions

 

Autumn Equinox — This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | September 26, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/autumn-equinox-this-weeks-links/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews the Creative Team of the Horror Comics Anthology, 'Forge of Monsters,' on Their Upcoming Zoop Crowdfunding Campaign Launch

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

     September 22, 2025

     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57486-fanbase-press-interviews-the-creative-team-of-the-horror-comics-anthology-forge-of-monsters-on-their-upcoming-zoop-crowdfunding-campaign-launch/

 

Fanbase Press Interviews David Hedgecock and Chase Marotz on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for the Sci-Fi Comedy Comic Book, Sugar Bomb: Portal Potty,' with Fun Time Go!

Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

September 23, 2025       

 https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57499-fanbase-press-interviews-david-hedgecock-and-chase-marotz-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-sci-fi-comedy-comic-book-sugar-bomb-portal-potty-with-fun-time-go/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews Jessica Maison on Her Return to Kickstarter for the Middle Grade Comic Book Series, 'Mary Shelley's School for Monsters: Origins'

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

    September 22, 2025

    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57489-fanbase-press-interviews-the-jessica-maison-on-her-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-middle-grade-comic-book-series-mary-shelleys-school-for-monsters-origins/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews Danny Baram on the Release of the Sequel Comic Book Series, 'Halloween Team: Shadows,' Through Comicker

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

    September 24, 2025

    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57506-fanbase-press-interviews-danny-baram-on-the-release-of-the-sequel-comic-book-series-halloween-team-shadows-through-comicker/

 

    Fanbase Press Interviews Donya Todd on the Upcoming Release of the Graphic Novel, 'The Witch's Egg,' Through Avery Hill Publishing

    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief

    September 24, 2025

     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57509-fanbase-press-interviews-donya-todd-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-graphic-novel-the-witchs-egg-through-avery-hill-publishing/

 

"I Really Love When Fiction Throws Me Into the Deep End" Adam Szym on Making "Little Visitor"

Vol. 1 Brooklyn September 22, 2025

by Kris Bertin

https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/09/22/i-really-love-when-fiction-throws-me-into-the-deep-end-adam-szym-on-making-little-visitor/

 

Anfield Road | Q&A with Chris Shepherd [England]

23 September 2025  https://www.skwigly.co.uk/chris-shepherd-anfield-road/

Laura-Beth Cowley

 

From Bringing the Spice to Fiddling with Pomegranates: Chatting All Things Food with Cartoonist Lee Lai

Thalia Stopa

Sep 23, 2025

https://scoutmagazine.ca/from-bringing-the-spice-to-fiddling-with-pomegranates-chatting-all-things-food-with-cartoonist-lee-lai/

 

Cannon by Lee Lai review – a meditative graphic novel laced with horror and humour

The author of Stone Fruit returns with the story of a young queer Chinese woman struggling to express her emotions and be heard

Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen

Thu 25 Sep 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/26/cannon-lee-lai-review-meditative-graphic-novel-horror-and-humour

 

'A symbol of liberation': how the One Piece manga flag became the symbol of Asia's gen Z protest movement

Carried by a band of pirates that stand up to corrupt and repressive rulers, the meaning of the One Piece flag has resonated across Asia

Rebecca Ratcliffe

Tue 23 Sep 2025

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/24/how-one-piece-manga-flag-became-symbol-asia-gen-z-protest-movement-liberation

 

Met's "Kavalier & Clay" mixes stunning production with largely lightweight music

Mon Sep 22, 2025 https://newyorkclassicalreview.com/2025/09/mets-kavalier-clay-mixes-stunning-production-with-largely-lightweight-music/

By George Grella

 

Metropolitan Opera 2025-26 Review: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

By David Salazar Sep 22, 2025

https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-2025-26-review-the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-and-clay/

 

'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' opens New York's Metropolitan Opera season

Jeff Lunden

Weekend Edition Saturday September 20, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5532601/the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-clay-opens-new-yorks-metropolitan-opera-season

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2025/09/20250920_wesat_the_amazing_adventures_of_kavalier_clay_opens_new_york_s_metropolitan_opera_season.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5532601

 

Kagurabachi Manga Creator Takeru Hokazono Shares His Inspirations

by Jairus Taylor, Sep 19th 2025

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-09-19/kagurabachi-manga-creator-takeru-hokazono-shares-his-inspirations/.228369

 

Something Has To Change --- And By "Something," I Mean "Everything" [Elijah Brubaker]

Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse  Sept 25 2025

https://www.patreon.com/posts/something-has-to-139673836

 

'All gifts, one Battleworld': Christos Gage on smashing timelines, centering Hank Pym, and unleashing surprises

David Brooke

September 23, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/09/23/battleworld-christos-gage-interview/

 

Zoot suits, murder mysteries, and Chicano lineage: Henry Barajas talks 'Death to Pachuco'

The gripping "Chicano noir" explores Mexican-American history with gusto and intent.

Chris Coplan

September 25, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/09/25/death-to-pachuco-qa/

 

X-Men Monday #313 – Justina Ireland Talks 'Cloak or Dagger'

Chris Hassan

September 22, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/09/22/x-men-monday-313-justina-ireland-cloak/

 

Interview: Jesse Lonergan on MISS TRUESDALE AND THE RISE OF MAN

Jed W. Keith

Sep 25, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-jesse-lonergan-on-miss-truesdale-and-the-rise-of-man/

 

Interview: Kieron Gillen on Grounded Fable & Learning Trust in WE CALLED THEM GIANTS

Jed W. Keith

Sep 23, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-kieron-gillen-on-grounded-fable-learning-trust-in-we-called-them-giants/

 

Interview: Zack Kaplan on Family Fret & Frenzy in KILL ALL IMMORTALS II

Jed W. Keith

Sep 23, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-zack-kaplan-on-family-fret-frenzy-in-kill-all-immortals-ii/

 

Interview: Declan Shalvey on Human Survival in THE TERMINATOR: METAL

Jed W. Keith

Sep 25, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-declan-shalvey-on-human-survival-in-the-terminator-metal/

 

Interview: Vincent Kings on Time-Traveling Canines in TIME DOG AND THE DARK FUTURE

Jed W. Keith

Sep 25, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-vincent-kings-on-time-traveling-canines-in-time-dog-and-the-dark-future/

 

Whoosh! visual depictions of direction, speed, and temporality: a corpus analysis of motion events in global comics

    Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bruno Cardoso, and Neil Cohn.

September 19, 2025 Multimodal Communication

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mc-2025-0006/html

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/mc-2025-0006/pdf

Genndy Tartakovsky posts animation test to "change studio's mind" about his medieval mech suit movie
Apparently hoping to overwhelm Sony with a "groundswell" of excitement, Tartakovsky released the Black Knight footage to his Instagram.
By William Hughes  |  September 26, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/genndy-tartakovsky-black-knight-animation-test

'Haunted Hotel' is so funny it's spooky
Glen Weldon, Walter Chaw, Jeff Yang
NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour September 22, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5544365/haunted-hotel-is-so-funny-its-spooky
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5742700837.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5544365

James Gunn Explains Lex Luthor's 'Peacemaker' Cameo, That Big Nazi Twist and Why David Corenswet 'Was Really Upset' That Superman Won't Be on the Show
Adam B. Vary
Variety Sep 26, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/peacemaker-lex-luthor-cameo-nazi-twist-no-superman-1236530679/

LEGO® Batman™: Legacy of the Dark Knight - Official Behind the Scenes - Building the Legacy
James Gunn, Jim Lee, and Jonathan Smith
Warner Bros. Games   Sep 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB9SqHGitFs

The Phantom Reimagined: Phantom 2040 with Alex Segura
 Comics Kingdom
 Sep 26, 2025 Inside The Kingdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1lCV_eTGtk

LIVE: LICAF 2025 | Opening Night
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival September 26 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvExRtt1xzY

SAW Friday Night Comics with Amy Noseworthy
Sequential Artists Workshop September 26 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFmfOOIAC4

'Shrekking'? Intelligence Gaps? When Did We Get So Cruel to Our Lovers?
Social media users have coined new, even meaner terms for "dating down."
Gina Cherelus
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 25, 2025, Section D, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: 'Shrekking' Is Not Meant as a Compliment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/style/dating-relationships-intelligence-gap-shrekking.html

Oct 25: Jerrod Allison at Beyond Comics

Beyond Comics

12-4 pm

 https://www.facebook.com/events/813455924594806

Did you love Moon Wolf? Then it's time to take aim... for creator Jerrod Allison's new book - Last Shot: Part 1. Come meet Allison and pick up your copy of the new book. There may be some surprises as well!

Last Shot: Part 1 throws readers into a bold new world - Proxima B, humanity's second chance after Earth was destroyed by war. As survivors struggle to build a peaceful society alongside Metahumans, Atlanteans, and alien beings, tensions rise. The newly elected president fights to heal old wounds and unite this fragile world, but where there's hope, there's also those who seek chaos.

Familiar faces return, including everyone's favorite wolf with new tricks and the cosmic twins, Nova & Cosmo. Joining them are powerful new players: a fierce lioness with political ties, the enigmatic King of the Golden Sand, a deadly group of ladies known as The Damsels, and a mysterious assassin called Sniper - whose eerie power ensures that once they mark a target, nothing will stop the fatal shot.

Peace is fragile. War is inevitable. Who will Sniper mark first?

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour reviews ‘Haunted Hotel’

'Haunted Hotel' is so funny it's spooky

Glen Weldon, Walter Chaw, Jeff Yang

NPR Pop Culture Happy Hour September 22, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5544365/haunted-hotel-is-so-funny-its-spooky

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5742700837.mp3 

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5544365

Beyond Comics Local Comic Shop Day - Saturday, September 27th

Limited Edition Comics and Graphic Novel Discounts!

Saturday, September 27th Celebrate all things Comics at Beyond Comics!   Graphic Novel Sale! 20% Off Graphic Novels Limited Edition Comics! while supplies last! We take great pride in carrying the most amazing selection of statues, action figures, toys, and random comic merchandise to be found anywhere. Visit our Website

Beyond Comics | 18749 B North Frederick Avenue 5632 Buckeystown Pike Frederick, MD | Gaithersburg, MD 20879 US

Oct 11: Manga Workshop with Misako Rocks! at Fall for the Book

Location to be determined - see https://fallforthebook.org/ and https://fallforthebook.org/oct11schedule/

12 p.m.

Manga Workshop with Misako Rocks!

Learn to draw your very own manga with Japanese manga comic artist Misako Rocks! Misako's most recent book is Sew Totally Nala, Bounce Back Volume 3. Elementary and middle school kids will enjoy this highly interactive and engaging workshop where they'll create their own characters. In Sew Totally Nala, Nala goes to a fashion summer camp in the city. When she begins to question if she has what it takes as a designer of kawaii fashion, Timothy the squirrel arrives to help her in this inspiring story about self-esteem and confidence. Sponsored by the Fairfax Library Foundation.

Misako Rocks is a Japanese manga comic artist who's published several manga books all over the world, including manga graphic novels, Bounce Back and No Such Thing as Perfect with Feiwel & Friends at Macmillan. Bounce Back was selected to be on the list of 2021 Best Graphic Novels for Children by the American Library Association. She has also recently released a new activity book series, How To Draw Kawaii Manga with Misako Rocks to show bubbly and kawaii manga character making. Her new book, Sew Totally Nala (Bounce Back Vol.3) is set to be released on Oct 7th 2025!

Department of Payback by Daniel Boris

 

NPR on 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' opera

'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' opens New York's Metropolitan Opera season

Jeff Lunden 
Weekend Edition Saturday September 20, 2025 

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5532601/the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-clay-opens-new-yorks-metropolitan-opera-season

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2025/09/20250920_wesat_the_amazing_adventures_of_kavalier_clay_opens_new_york_s_metropolitan_opera_season.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5532601

Dulles comics cons impacted by conversion of Dulles Expo Center to Ikea?

I don't know, but here's the story of half the building being converted.

Report: Large portion of Dulles Expo Center to become an Ikea
INSIDENOVA STAFF Sept 26 2025

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/report-large-portion-of-dulles-expo-center-to-become-an-ikea/article_8b550e69-c32c-4600-a6cf-ebbafddd30b2.html

Oct 26: Cara Gormally: Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder

Cara Gormally: Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder
Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
@ mary Riley Styles Public Library, 120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church

Join us at Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church for a discussion with Cara Gormally, author of the graphic memoir Everything is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder, a story of living with the aftermath of trauma and learning how to heal afterwards. The author will discuss how they became a cartoonist, describe their artistic process, and share an excerpt from the book. This event is cosponsored by the Falls Church City Schools Pride Alliance.

This is a story about how therapy to heal from sexual assault trauma led down an unexpected path to reckon with even older wounds of familial homophobia. This book interweaves research and memoir to illustrate the story of how we find our way back to ourselves.

About EVERYTHING IS FINE, I'LL JUST WORK HARDER: One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault. One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara's watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to "friend" them.

Cara always had a long to-do list; always had many projects; always was busy. But as their rapist continued to send friend requests and tried to reconnect with them, they began to lose their grip on their work, projects, and relationships. But then Cara connects with a therapist who guides them through a long but powerful process of healing. And Cara works to desensitize, reprocess, excavate and relive the old wounds in order to move past them and heal.

About the author: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist, researcher, and professor. Their comics have appeared in The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, Spiralbound, among others. Cara is the recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They earned a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and they are currently a professor at Gallaudet University. Cara lives in the DC metro area with their partner Andrea and their child.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/25/2025

SALES DECLINE AT IDW DUE TO DIAMOND, DISAPPOINTING TITLES But Profits Grow

  Milton Griepp on September 25, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60627/sales-decline-idw-due-diamond-disappointing-titles

 

IMAGE TO EXTEND EXCLUSIVITY WINDOW FOR DIRECT MARKET

Comics Retailers to Get Collected Editions and OGNs 27 Days Ahead of Digital and Book Channels

Brigid Alverson on September 24, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60623/image-extend-exclusivity-window-direct-market

 

Report: Manga market to grow to $63 billion by 2033

Heidi MacDonald on 09/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-manga-market-to-grow-to-63-billion-by-2033/

 

Crunchyroll enters the digital comics space with CRUNCHYROLL MANGA

Ollie Kaplan on 09/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/crunchyroll-enters-the-digital-comics-space-with-crunchyroll-manga/

 

Milestone As Part Of DC Universe New History But No Sign Of Wildstorm

  24 Sep 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/milestone-as-part-of-dc-universe-new-history-but-no-sign-of-wildstorm/

 

Florida Law Firm Drags Disney To Court Over 'Steamboat Willie' Use

Jamie Lang | 09/19/2025 

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/disney-steamboat-willie-public-domain-lawsuit-254686.html

 

Pictures of Reuben [National Cartoonists Society]

D. D. Degg 

September 24, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/24/pictures-of-reuben/

 

Pokémon Company Pushes Back Against ICE Raid Video's Use of Iconic Anime Theme Song

A viral U.S. Department of Homeland Security post featuring ICE raids set to the original Pokémon theme sparked swift backlash — and a rare public rebuke from the Japanese entertainment giant.

Patrick Brzeski

September 25, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/pokemon-company-ice-raid-video-anime-theme-song-pushback-1236385454/

 

French Filmmaker Orgs Pen Open Letter Protesting OpenAI Animation

Animation Magazine

September 24, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/french-filmmaker-orgs-pen-open-letter-protesting-openai-animation/

 

Joe Casey Writes  , Sep 25, 2025

I'VE BEEN AROUND 004 My Image Comics life (so far)

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/ive-been-around-004

 

Graphic Novel Review: Godzilla: Skate or Die!

reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-Okinawa

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-godzilla-skate-or.html

 

Exhibition Review: The 15th National Comic Art Exhibition of China

reviewed by Xu Ying, assistant editor, International Journal of Comic Art

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/exhibition-review-15th-national-comic.html

 

Graphic Novel Review: Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood

reviewed by Matthew Teutsch, Associate Professor, Piedmont University

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-erased-actor-of.html

 

Pizzino, Christopher. 2025. A change of luck: the comics scholarship of Hillary Chute, Visual Studies (August 15): https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2529083

Cronin, Brian. 2025. Brian Cronin Spotlights How Steve Englehart Used His Final Fantastic Four Storyline to Complain About His Departure. CBR newsletter (September 25)

Cronin, Brian. 2025. Brian Cronin Shows How an Early Fantastic Four Plot Was Resolved Decades Later in the Pages of...Dazzler?! CBR newsletter (September 25)

Crunchyroll Manga to Launch in October
Sep 25, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5576

Disney Sued After Enforcing Rights to Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain
The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short.
Winston Cho
September 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-sued-enforcing-rights-mickey-mouse-public-domain-1236378997/

The Anime Business - Kurt Hassler - Building the Manga Business [Yen Press]
AnimEigo  Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm0wESp53o

The Anime Business - Stu Levy - The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of TOKYOPOP
AnimEigo Aug 26, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQNkvQiClw

The Anime Business - Ep2 - Robert Napton
AnimEigo Mar 28, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0v4viMmIj8

The Anime Business - Ep3 - How I Started The 2nd Biggest Anime Convention - Peter Tatara
AnimEigo Apr 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwmUgoaZ1M

More to Come 693: AnimeNYC 2025 Interviews [ Denpa Books,  Haga and Kang Jiyoun, creators of BL webtoon 'King's Maker']
Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons
on 08/25/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?podcast=1388

TMNT x Naruto: PW Talks with Caleb Goellner and Hendry Prasetya
By Andrew Farago              
Sep 24, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98640-tmnt-x-naruto-pw-talks-with-caleb-goellner-and-hendry-prasetya.html

Transforming Comics: PW Talks with Robert Kirkman
by Susana Polo |
Sep 19, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 09/22/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Robert Kirkman
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98625-transforming-comics-pw-talks-with-robert-kirkman.html

New York Comic Con 2025 Gets the Business
New York Comic Con is rolling out the red carpet for the industry With an upgraded pro area and more
By Heidi Macdonald                
Sep 19, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 09/22/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Down to Business
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98624-new-york-comic-con-2025-gets-the-business.html

Cartoon Crossroads Presents Annual Awards
Sep 24, 2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5574

Embrace your wimpy side: Why I still read Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Josh Siatkowski
Baylor Lariat September 23, 2025
https://baylorlariat.com/2025/09/23/embrace-your-wimpy-side-why-i-still-read-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Mark Russell on the Upcoming Release of the Horror-Comedy One-Shot, 'Thanksgiving,' with AHOY Comics
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    September 19, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57466-fanbase-press-interviews-mark-russell-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-horror-comedy-one-shot-thanksgiving-with-ahoy-comics/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Frank Cho on Launching an Exhibition of His Work at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    September 23, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57495-fanbase-press-interviews-frank-cho-on-launching-an-exhibition-of-his-work-at-the-philippe-labaune-gallery-in-new-york-city/

Live Long and Repair: Caring for the Library of Congress' Comic Book Collection
Lily Tyndall,
 Library of Congress Blog Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection
July 21, 2022
https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/07/live-long-and-repair/

Book Review: Horror and Comics
Elizabeth Brown and Cody Parish
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-horror-and-comics.html

Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. 2025. Horror and Comics. Cardiff:  University of Wales Press, 2025.

What Makes Hellstones Different From Any Other Fantasy Comic? [W. Frank Walk]
Barney Smith
Storycomic Presents Sep 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVxZyq4bwI

JAMES ROBINSON for WELCOME TO THE MAYNARD
Comix Experience Sep 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADc_ysP6Wk

Mark Russell Talks Traveling to Mars: "It's the Best Thing I've Ever Written"
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano  Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swmdP2rE7M

Bryan Lee O'Malley Returns
Jamar Nicholas, Steve Conley and Mike Manley
Pencil to Pencil Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_HBal4SxE

Comic Culture with Paul Pope
terence dollard
  Comic Culture Sep 24, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWXUbkgvktk

Jeff Parker on Making Comics After Work
Steve Lieber, Colleen Coover, and Jeff Parker
Helioscope PDX Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmOR8rEwB8

#244: Utkarsh Ambudkar - The Guy in the Chair Writer
Justin Soderberg  Sep 24, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fio5HeFQUrE

Shopping for Culture and Community: Wes Eastin on the Magic of Movies & Comic Shops
Atom! Freeman
Prana: Direct Market Solutions
Sep 25, 2025 Comic Industry Insiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0PAUr_Bhc

Laurence Grove, Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Invention of Comics? Sept 23, 2025
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
428, Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmfOSqy9DgM

2022 Library of Congress Blog on comics preservation

Live Long and Repair: Caring for the Library of Congress' Comic Book Collection

Lily Tyndall,

 Library of Congress Blog Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection
July 21, 2022

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/07/live-long-and-repair/

Frank Cho interview at Fanbase Press

• Fanbase Press Interviews Frank Cho on Launching an Exhibition of His Work at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City

  Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
• September 23, 2025
•  https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57495-fanbase-press-interviews-frank-cho-on-launching-an-exhibition-of-his-work-at-the-philippe-labaune-gallery-in-new-york-city/

Acetaminuhh-what? by Daniel Boris

Tik Tok Flip Flop by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/24/2025

Graphic Novel Review: Second Shift by Kit Anderson

Maite Urcaregui,

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025  https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-second-shift-by.html

 

 

Kit Anderson. Second Shift. London:  Avery Hill Publishing, 2025.

 

North Korean Comics Data Base 

Jacco Zwetsloot

http://tinyurl.com/NKcomicsDB

 

'Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie' Review: Strictly for the Kids

The popular Netflix show hits the big screen in a film featuring Laila Lockhart Kraner in the titular role and Kristen Wiig and Gloria Estefan in key supporting parts.

Frank Scheck

September 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/gabbys-dollhouse-the-movie-review-kristen-wiig-1236377966/

 

'Gabby's Dollhouse' Star Encourages Movie Fans of All Ages: "Bring Your Cat Ears"

Laila Lockhart Kraner and director Ryan Credo tease the interactive big-screen adaptation of Netflix's hit preschool series.

Jackie Strause

September 24, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gabbys-dollhouse-the-movie-interactive-dance-cat-ears-1236378965/

 

More Weight: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians.

Glen Downey. 2025.

Top Shelf

https://www.topshelfcomix.com/guides/more-weight-ben-wickey-teachers-guide.pdf

 

Jake Tapper Jokes He May Have to Go Back to Cartooning (A History)

D. D. Degg

September 23, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/23/jake-tapper-jokes-he-may-have-to-go-back-to-cartooning/

 

Elijah Brubaker, 1975-2025

Austin English | September 24, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/elijah-brubaker-1975-2025/

 

Comic Shops Will Now Get Image Graphic Novels A Month Before Amazon

Rich Johnston  23 Sep 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-shops-will-now-get-image-graphic-novels-a-month-before-amazon/

 

Marvel Zombies has plenty of gore but no guts

Fresh-faced Avengers assemble before the meat grinder in this Disney+ miniseries.

By Jarrod Jones  |  September 24, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/marvel-zombies-review-tv-disney-plus

 

Big estate agency 'totters by' with cartoon marketing push

Jackson-Stops has partnered with Annie Tempest for a second warm-hearted animated advertising collaboration.

Simon Cairnes

15th Sep 2025

https://thenegotiator.co.uk/news/agencies-people-news/big-estate-agency-launches-ad-campaign-by-famous-cartoonist/

 

Interview with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

I think my comics are a lot like the way I speak. Erratic, silly, very personal.

Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey

Autobiographix Sep 24 2025

https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/interview-with-hilary-campbell

 

Graphic Novel Review: Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832

reviewed by John Craig

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-surrounded.html

 

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded:  America's First School for Black Girls, 1832. New York:  NBM Publishing, 2025. 144 pp. US $24.99 (Hardcover). ISBN:  978-1-6811-2348-6. https://nbmpub.com/products/surrounded

 

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded:  America's First School for Black Girls, 1832. New York:  NBM Publishing, 2025. 144 pp. US $24.99 (Hardcover). ISBN:  978-1-6811-2348-6. https://nbmpub.com/products/surrounded

November 1, 2005 by Richard Starkings
Lettering Roundtable: Thinking About Thought Balloons, and Other Abandoned Storytelling Techniques
https://balloontales.com/lettering-roundtable-thinking-about-thought-balloons/

WEBTOON partners with BOOM! Studios to bring award-winning comics to vertical scroll format
Hayame Kawachi on 09/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/webtoon-partners-with-boom-studios-to-bring-award-winning-comics-to-vertical-scroll-format/

Let's Talk Comics Episode 25: Jordie Bellaire Talks Redlands, Exquisite Corpses & the Art of Color
Jim Viscardi
Let's Talk Comics (25; September 17, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-25-jordie-bellaire-talks-redlands-exquisite-corpses-the-art-of-color

Kieron Gillen Talks Collaboration, DIE, The Power Fantasy, and Creator-Owned Freedom
Jim Viscardi
Let's Talk Comics (24; Sept 12 2025): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kieron-gillen-talks-collaboration-die-the-power/id1788239566?i=1000726520381
https://open.spotify.com/show/1KZgpaYJV3rFmKSo8jrzh1
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-24-kieron-gillen-talks-collaboration-die-the-power-fantasy-and-creator-owned-freedom

Let's Talk Comics Episode 23: Frank Barbiere Talks His Image Comics Return With The Author Immortal
September 8, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-23-frank-barbiere-talks-his-image-comics-return-with-the-author-immortal

Let's Talk Comics Episode 22: Jason Fabok Talks Building the World of Rook: Exodus With Geoff Johns & Ghost Machine
September 2, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-22-jason-fabok-talks-building-the-world-of-rook-exodus-with-geoff-johns-ghost-machine

Finch Talks the Making of Skinbreaker with Robert Kirkman
Let's Talk Comics Episode 21 August 15, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-21-david-finch-talks-the-making-of-skinbreaker-with-robert-kirkman

Let's Talk Comics Episode 20: James Tynion IV on 5 Years of The Department of Truth
August 14, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-20-james-tynion-iv-on-5-years-of-the-department-of-truth

Let's Talk Comics Episode 19: Jacob Phillips Talks Zombies, Westerns & Everything Dead & Dying
August 8, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-19-jacob-phillips-talks-zombies-westerns-everything-dead-dying

Let's Talk Comics Episode 18: Si Spurrier Talks Sweaty Crimes, Strange Worlds, and The Voice Said Kill
June 27, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-18-si-spurrier-talks-sweaty-crimes-strange-worlds-and-the-voice-said-kill

Let's Talk Comics Episode 17: David Marquez Talks Coming To Image Comics, The UnChosen & the Writer/Artist Paradox
June 12, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-17-david-marquez-talks-coming-to-image-comics-the-unchosen-the-writer-artist-paradox

Let's Talk Comics Episode 16: Maytal Zchut Talks Ghost Machine, Devour, Sisterhood & Making The Jump From TV
June 6, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-16-maytal-zchut-talks-ghost-machine-devour-sisterhood-making-the-jump-from-tv

Let's Talk Comics Episode 15: Chris Condon Talks News From The Fallout, Texas Crime & Zombies in Media
May 23, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-15-chris-condon-talks-news-from-the-fallout-texas-crime-zombies-in-media

Kieron Gillen
the owl revolution comes [AMA excerpt from  Alex Segura's Discord]
Kieron Gillen's Wordmail.#343  Sep 24, 2025  
https://buttondown.com/KieronGillen/archive/343-the-owl-revolution-comes/

Exclusive: Abrams & Marvel announce Powell's THOR: BEHEMOTH OF THE BLACK MOON
Samantha Puc on 09/24/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-abrams-marvel-announce-powells-thor-behemoth-of-the-black-moon/

Book Review: Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined
 reviewed by Dominick Grace
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-comics-culture-and-religion.html

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Loo Hui Phang, Author of Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey through the Heyday of Hollywood
Foreword This Week August 15, 2024
https://mailchi.mp/forewordreviews/reviewer-peter-dabbene-interviews-loo-hui-phang-author-of-erasedforeword-this-week

'South Park' Bets on Mocking Social Gambling, the Israel-Gaza Conflict and Once Again, Kyle's Mom
Kevin Dolack
September 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/south-park-social-gambling-israel-gaza-conflict-kyles-mom-1236379269/

Meet the Woman Who Turned Gibran's Classic The Prophet Into a Graphic Novel [Zeina Abirached, Lebanon]
Roza Melkumyan
September 01, 2025
https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2025/so25/authors-corner-drawing-out-gibran-a-conversation-with-zeina-abirached

ElfQuest Creators Donate $500,000 for Comic Preservation [library]
Fall 2025
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/elfquest-creators-donate-500000-comic-preservation

A Century of The New Yorker's Transportation Cartoons
Jodi Shapiro, Roz Chast and Ellis Rosen
New York Transit Museum  Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb1niSaXIg

CSS RLC Forum: Cataloging the Uncataloged: North Korean Comics and Graphic Novels
Jacco Zwetsloot
Research Librarians Cohort (CSS) September 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX1U75cUgKI

Beth Wolfensberger Singer
www.bethwolfensbergersinger.com

Remote DreamWorks Staffers Attempt to Unionize With Animation Guild

Around 75 people who work on L.A.-based projects are endeavoring to join the IATSE Local in order to "regain the same health care, retirement plans, and protections my coworkers enjoy," says one staffer.

Katie Kilkenny
September 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/remote-dreamworks-staffers-unionize-animation-guild-1236379312/

Oct 8: Author Talk: Mike Curato

Author Talk: Mike Curato

https://arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/14808256

 

Celebrate the Freedom to Read with Banned Book Author Mike Curato

Join us for a presentation with Mike Curato and discuss topics such as banned books and censorship.

Mike Curato is an author and illustrator of picture books and graphic novels. His highly acclaimed and 2024 Top Ten Challenged Book debut young adult graphic novel, Flamer, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award. Born and raised outside of New York City, Mike has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. 

REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED: First-come, first-served seating. By registering, you will receive event updates. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of One More Page Books. 

For questions, please contact libraryprograms@arlingtonva.us

This program is part of the Library's recognition of Banned Books Week and National Coming Out Day.

 

Date:

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Time:

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Dorothy Hamm Middle School (4100 Vacation Lane, Arlington, VA, 22207)

Library:

*Off-Site

Audience:

Events for Adults

Categories:

Author Talk

Calendar:

Arlington Public Library

 

Go, Pac-Man! by Daniel Boris