Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Extremely non-senile Congressman asks why these Netflix cartoons can't be more like Andy Griffith; Tennessee elected official yells at streaming cloud [Dead End].

By William Hughes | October 4, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/tim-burchett-netflix-dead-end-andy-griffith

PEN DOCUMENTS SCHOOL BOOK BANS; RED SCARE ORGANIZATION REVIVED; MUSK TARGETS GRAPHIC NOVEL-BASED NETFLIX SERIES

First Amendment Round-Up

Milton Griepp on October 6, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60703/pen-documents-school-book-bans-red-scare-organization-revived-musk-targets-graphic-novel-based-netflix-series

'The character is always the most important part': An interview with Melissa Mendes

Alex Dueben | October 6, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-character-is-always-the-most-important-part-an-interview-with-melissa-mendes/

Reviews: The Weight

Richard Pound | October 6, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-weight/

WHY CREATOR BRANDING MATTERS TO THE COMICS INDUSTRY

Rob Salkowitz on October 6, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/60716/why-creator-branding-matters-comics-industry

DIAMOND CONSIGNORS FILE TO PREPARE FOR POSSIBLE DIAMOND INSOLVENCY

Ask Court to Withhold Fee Payment to Attorneys

Milton Griepp on October 5, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60699/diamond-consignors-file-prepare-possible-diamond-insolvency

Blindbagonomics: Retailers Told Not To Sell Early, Some Don't Care

Blindbagonomics: Comics retailers told not to sell/reveal early, but some don't care, with DC's K.O. & Mark Spears' Monsters

by Rich Johnston

05 Oct 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/blindbagonomics-retailers-told-not-to-sell-early-some-dont-care/

Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults

New York Public Library (October): https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/comics-2025/adults

WTF with Mark Maron Episode 1684 October 6, 2025

Matt Groening

https://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1684-matt-groening

https://open.acast.com/public/streams/62a222737c02140013aa4c03/episodes/68e35ef78ade82e20e496568.mp3

Comics at Lost City Books in Adams Morgan

Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog Oct 6 2025

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/10/comics-at-lost-city-books-in-adams.html

Monday, October 06, 2025

Comics at Lost City Books in Adams Morgan

Lost City Books is an excellent bookstore run by Politics and Prose graphic novel programmer alumni Adam Waterreus and a really pleasant staff. I was there this weekend dropping off a large part of my Dad's paperback collection (mysteries, suspense, Mickey Spillane, and signed Dick Francis hardcovers) to see if they're interested in it. While my wife browsed the books, I checked out the comics offerings which are pictured below.

A Kim Deitch collection at $100. Is it rare?

In Adam's picks we can see David Small's recent graphic novel. Adam brought him to the store to speak.

Mattie Lubachansky's Boys Weekend is a staff pick (pro tip - Fantom might have signed copies still)

The Bubbles fanzine out of Richmond - a surprise to find.

An engaged customer

Bumper stickers!

Burn's Big Baby, Caza's Arkadi for $100, Chaykin's Black Kiss collection.

Society is Nix old strip reprints from Pete Maresca.

A Ghibli book I didn't know about

Windsor-Smith's Weapon X and Clowes' Monica were shelved up high

X of Swords in a display case. I don't know why it was.

P. Craig Russell in a display case I understand.

14 volumes of gay comic Meatmen for $500

Not comics, but she writes them as Ursula Vernon.

The rest of the photos are of the actual graphic novel section

The entire graphic novel section in one photo.

And there's a lot of interesting-looking restaurants in the same block.

Playing the Terror Card by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/4-5/2025

Unknown. 1925. London Editor Fined for "Red" Cartoon [England, censorship]. Editor and Publisher October 31). online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-10-31_58_23/page/40/mode/2up

Unknown. 1925. "Bud" Fisher to Marry Countess. Editor and Publisher October 24). online at
https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-10-24_58_22/page/18/mode/2up

ImageText Volume 15, Issue 3 (October 2025)
https://imagetextjournal.com/category/volume-15-issue-3/

Chris Ware's New Yorker Covers and American School Shootings
By Ryan Banfi
https://imagetextjournal.com/banfi-ware/

Hitler's Dogs: Non-Human Animals in Soviet Political Cartoons of the "Great Patriotic War," 1941–1945
By Reeta Kangas
https://imagetextjournal.com/kangas-dogs/

Visualizing Prejudice: Australian Cartoon Focused on Attacking Chinese Men and White Women's Relationship, c.1870–1888
By Harry Jiandang Tan (谈建党)
https://imagetextjournal.com/tan-prejudice/

Mainstream "Comix": Examining Political Limitations in Comics at the Intersection of Underground and Mainstream
By Eli Lerner
https://imagetextjournal.com/lerner-comix/
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Book Reviews

Review of Robin Ha's The Fox Maidens
By Hyunjung Kim
https://imagetextjournal.com/kim-ha/

Review of Jordan Holt's Theseus Volumes 1 and 2
By Patrick Callahan
https://imagetextjournal.com/callahan-holt/

A graphic novel cookbook telling the stories behind some uniquely named Chinese dishes
A new graphic cookbook — complete with recipes and comic book-style illustrations — tells the backstories of the names behind some Chinese dishes. Author Ying Chang Compestine discusses the book with The World's Host Carolyn Beeler.
PRI's The World March 24, 2025
https://theworld.org/stories/2025/03/24/a-graphic-novel-cookbook-telling-the-stories-behind-some-uniquely-named-chinese-dishes

Coloring Newspaper Comic Pages Needs Many Hands And Brains
https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-10-03_58_19/page/6/mode/2up

Pen and Brush Talent of the Sunday Press [photos of cartoonists]
Editor and Publisher 58 (19; October 3 1925): III-V
https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-10-03_58_19/page/n87/mode/2up

Happy ShortBox Comics Fair Day! Let's talk with SBCF's Zainab Akhtar and Make Some Picks from the Fair
By David Harper
October 1, 2025 https://sktchd.com/longform/shortbox-comics-fair-2025-feature/

Off Panel #519: Doubles Tennis with David Brothers and Nick Dragotta [Good Devils: Don't Play Fair with Evil]
SKTCHD Sep 29, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s22mZlsAkk
https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/David_Brothers_and_Nick_Dragotta.mp3

Artist Phillip Sevy Takes us Inside the Creation of Their Lady Stilt-Man Piece for STILT-ZINE (and Gets Interviewed in the Process)
David Harper
October 2, 2025
https://sktchd.com/interview/phillip-sevy-stilt-zine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-dcf-a21rM

10 Desert Island Comics (Ft. David Harper)
"BIFF! BAM! POW!" A Comic Book Podcast! Sept 28 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/10-desert-island-comics-ft-david-harper/id1723705483?i=1000728764510
By Gianni Palumbo

David Harper talks all things comics
TLDR Comic Book Club
BackCrackah and FryGuy
Sept 29 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/david-harper-talks-all-things-comics/id1542312503?i=1000728974358

Neil Gaiman Sexual Assault Lawsuit Dismissed On Jurisdictional Grounds
The US courts dismiss sexual assault lawsuit made against Neil Gaiman on jurisdictional grounds, that it should have been made in New Zealand
by Rich Johnston
04 Oct 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/neil-gaiman-sexual-assault-lawsuit-dismissed-on-jurisdictional-grounds/

TwoMorrows Believes They'll Never Get Paid By Diamond, Launches Appeal
04 Oct 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/twomorrows-believes-theyll-never-get-paid-by-diamond-launches-appeal/

Creating Comics: An Interview with "Dan Dare" comic artist Alberto Foche
John Freeman on October 3, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/creating-comics-an-interview-with-dan-dare-comic-artist-alberto-foche/

Angoulême to host "Censorship & Freedom in Creating Comics" conference [at CBNDI museum]
John Freeman on October 4, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/angouleme-to-host-censorship-freedom-in-creating-comics-conference/

Mechanical Comics makes limited edition debut from comics advocate Ernesto Priego
John Freeman on October 4, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/mechanical-comics-makes-limited-edition-debut-from-comics-advocate-ernesto-priego/

Bruce McCall: Visions of the Retrofuture opens soon in New York
John Freeman on October 4, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/bruce-mccall-visions-of-the-retrofuture-opens-soon-in-new-york/

Bruce McCall: Nostalgia for a future that never happened
TED Mar 20, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOk6HQaNpdE

The Duck Man Remastered
Tom Andrae and Don Ault
John Garvin Sep 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCz1i2UJ2uA

Netflix's Scott Pilgrim Takes Off gets rare physical release
The anime series will arrive on Blu-Ray on December 2.
By Drew Gillis | October 5, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/scott-pilgrim-takes-off-blu-ray-release

The Comics Artist Who Sees Monsters in Museums, and in the Mirror [Emil Ferris]
By Sam Thielman and Gabriel Gianordoli
Oct. 3, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/03/books/emil-ferris-monsters-horror-comics.html

I Am Into This Sort Of Thing: Tom Shapira on Glenn Fleishman's HOW COMICS ARE MADE: A VISUAL HISTORY FROM THE DRAWING BOARD TO THE PRINTED PAGE
Tom Shapira
September 15, 2025
https://solrad.co/i-am-into-this-sort-of-thing-tom-shapira-on-glenn-fleishmans-how-comics-are-made-a-visual-history-from-the-drawing-board-to-the-printed-page

Speaking of 20 Year Anniversaries … [Center for Cartoon Studies]
Mike Peterson
October 5, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/05/speaking-of-20-year-anniversaries/

Walking the (Antisemitic) Dog [political cartoon]
D. D. Degg
October 4, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/04/walking-the-antisemitic-dog/

Live-Action Film Director Yoshiyuki Okuyama on Adapting Makoto Shinkai's Classic 5 Centimeters Per Second Anime
by Blake Simons, Oct 1st 2025 https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-10-01/live-action-film-director-yoshiyuki-okuyama-on-adapting-makoto-shinkai-classic-5-centimeters-per-/.229434

'The Summer Hikaru Died' Is Easily the Best Horror Anime in Ages
In a genre crowded with hollow aesthetic mimicry, 'The Summer Hikaru Died' is a rare triumph.
By Isaiah Colbert
io9 October 3, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/the-summer-hikaru-died-is-easily-the-best-horror-anime-in-ages-2000667306

'The Great North' Canceled By Fox After Five Seasons
Nellie Andreeva
October 3, 2025 https://deadline.com/2025/10/the-great-north-canceled-fox-1236570101/

Degand, Darnel. 2022. An arts-based inquiry-inspired rubric for assessing college students' comic essays. Multimodality & Society, 2 (4), 386-409. https://doi.org/10.1177/2634979522112481 ;
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26349795221124811 ; https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/reader/10.1177/26349795221124811

Sunday, October 05, 2025

Fixed It! by Daniel Boris

State News Network by Daniel Boris

Saturday, October 04, 2025

Jordan Clark and Julian Lytle at Fantom Comics

photo by Randy Tischler

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/3/2025

Interview: Rylend Grant brings EVEL KNIEVEL's motorcycle madness to comics

Ricardo Serrano Denis on 10/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-rylend-grant-brings-evel-knievels-motorcycle-madness-to-comics/

Kibbles 'n' Bits 10/3/25: The war between hope and slop

Heidi MacDonald on 10/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/kibbles-n-bits-10-3-25-the-war-between-hope-and-slop/

Plewds and hites: A fake (or fake-ish) nomenclature of comics in The Lexicon of Comicana

Ruben Bolling

Oct 2, 2025

https://boingboing.net/2025/10/02/plewds-and-hites-a-fake-or-fake-ish-nomenclature-of-comics-in-the-lexicon-of-comicana.html

Who Are the Most Active TDC Commentators?

Alan Gardner

October 3, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/03/the-daily-cartoonist-by-the-numbers-in-20-years/

The Beat Digest 10/03/25: INANNA rises at Vault

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 10/03/2025

https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-100325/

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

October 2, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-148/

ComicConnect to Display Al Plastino's Drawing Table at NYCC

Amanda Sheriff

October 1, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/comicconnect-to-display-al-plastinos-drawing-table-at-nycc/

Archie President & EiC Mike Pellerito to Give Ringo Awards Keynote Speech

Amanda Sheriff

September 30, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/archie-president-eic-mike-pellerito-to-give-ringo-awards-keynote-speech/

'Dead End: Paranormal Park' Creator Receives "Homophobic and Antisemitic" Messages as Musk Calls for Netflix Boycott Over Trans Character

Animation Magazine

October 2, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/dead-end-paranormal-park-creator-receives-homophobic-and-antisemitic-messages-as-musk-calls-for-netflix-boycott-over-trans-character/

Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell's "The Joy of Snacking" Reflects on the Hidden Depth of the Food We Eat

by Emma Davey

September 30, 2025

https://greenpointers.com/2025/09/30/hilary-fitzgerald-campbells-the-joy-of-snacking-reflects-on-the-hidden-depth-of-the-food-we-eat/

September 30, 2025

US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump's First Year

Hank Kennedy

https://fair.org/home/us-cartooning-tradition-in-peril-in-trumps-first-year/

Carbondale cartoonist showing at Basalt's Art Base [Larry Day]

Oct 3, 2025

Jennika Ingram

https://www.aspentimes.com/news/carbondale-cartoonist-showing-at-basalts-art-base/

'If it's a success, then you've won': Yaakov Kirschen on a career of cartooning

A 90-minute chat—a last interview of sorts—with the 87-year-old creator of "Dry Bones."

Carin M. Smilk

(Sept. 30, 2025 / JNS)

https://www.jns.org/if-its-a-success-then-youve-won-yaakov-kirschen-on-a-career-of-cartooning/

Grey October – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | October 3, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/grey-october-this-weeks-links/

As Peanuts turns 75, Charles Schulz's comic is more poignant than ever

Charles Schulz's widow, Jeannie, invited USA TODAY into her world, still defined by the Peanuts characters, offering a rare glimpse at her husband's genius.

Anna Kaufman

USA TODAY

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2025/10/01/peanuts-snoopy-75-anniversary-charles-schulz/77403380007/

How Charlie Brown captured the American psyche

Charles Schulz's beloved Peanuts series was more than just a comic strip – it was America's conscience

Catharine Hughes

October 1 2025

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2025/10/how-charlie-brown-captured-the-american-psyche

Comic Strip Peanuts Notes 75th Anniversary

Chris LaGrow

Oct 2, 2025 https://www.post-journal.com/news/local-news/2025/10/comic-strip-peanuts-notes-75th-anniversary/

Interview: Jake Smith on the Nostalgia-Filled Bombast That Is ROBOWOLF

Jed W. Keith

Sep 26, 2025

https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-jake-smith-on-the-nostalgia-filled-bombast-that-is-robowolf/

Fanbase Press Interviews Adam Lawson on the Upcoming Kickstarter Campaign Launch for the Graphic Novel, 'Mad Dog Morgan,' with The Lab Press