The Peace Place by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/10/2025

INTERVIEW: Gerry Duggan on the Oversized Art Book Edition FALLING IN LOVE ON THE PATH TO HELL ART BOOK EDITION!
Diego Higuera on 10/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-gerry-duggan-on-the-oversized-art-book-edition-falling-in-love-on-the-path-to-hell-art-book-edition/

The Watercolour Control Problem with Jessie Kanelos Weiner
A free replay of Jessie Kanelos Weiner's live video about painting, art and colour.
Jason Chatfield and Jessie Kanelos Weiner
Oct 10, 2025
https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/the-watercolour-control-problem-with

Daniel Best - Author Oct 10, 2025
1954 The Horwitz Code Of Publishing Ethics: How Australia Regulated Comic Books In The 1950s and Beyond
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/1954-the-horwitz-code-of-publishing

NYCC '25: Presenting the 2025 Harvey Awards winners
 Samantha Puc
 10/10/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-presenting-the-2025-harvey-awards-winners/

Desmond Reed | Cola Pop Creemees and Beyond! | THE HORRORS OF BEING A HUMAN
Henry Chamberlain
 Comics Grinder Jul 14, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq1aOVnCjCQ

Jason Chatfield
  Let's Go Birds! The Process of Creating Today's Official Philadelphia Eagles Game Day Poster
New York Cartoons Oct 9, 2025  
https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/lets-go-birds-the-process-of-creating

Unknown. 1923. Lillums goes to Hollywood -- and so does Harold! [Harold Teen]. Editor and Publisher 55 (48; April 28): 1. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1923-04-28_55_48/mode/2up

Matt Kindt on John le Carré!
Christian Gossett, Kris Simon, and Davd Hyde
  Superfan Podcast Ep. 04 Oct 10, 2025
https://spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/superfan-podcast-ep-04

NYCC '25: MUTTS creator Patrick McDonnell inducted into Harvey Awards Hall of Fame
Samantha Puc on 10/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-mutts-creator-patrick-mcdonnell-inducted-into-harvey-awards-hall-of-fame/

The Hidden Reason Digital Comics Never Took Off
Kenny Meyers
Prana: Direct Market Solutions
 Oct 2, 2025 Comic Industry Insiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7CyIwatqWM

The Hidden World of the Comic Book Industry
Atom! Freeman
 Prana: Direct Market Solutions  Oct 9, 2025 Comic Industry Insiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4MYCRKt5hQ

 From Script to Shelf Panelists: Jame S. Rich, Ignition Press Michael Fragassi, GMA Taylor Crowell Merkler, Lunar Distribution Roger Prows, The Nerd Store Holly Atchison, Mad Cave Studios

'Basket Case' Meets 'Who's the Boss?' in Adult Animated Series 'Beefy Frank' [Exclusive Clip]
Alex DiVincenzo
October 9, 2025
https://bloody-disgusting.com/exclusives/3908365/basket-case-meets-whos-the-boss-in-adult-animated-series-beefy-frank-exclusive-clip/

Clay Jones Partially Paralyzed by Stroke
Alan Gardner  
 October 10, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/10/clay-jones-partially-paralyzed-by-stroke/

Heartracing anime 100 Meters finds it all in a few glorious seconds
A standard sports story sprints through rotoscoped humanity and transcendent abstraction.
By Jacob Oller  |  October 9, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/100-meters-review

James Gunn Explains How the 'Peacemaker' Finale Changes the DCU Forever, Why Deadpool Almost Made a Cameo and Not Having Plans for Season 3
Adam B. Vary
Oct 10, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/peacemaker-finale-james-gunn-salvation-checkmate-deadpool-cameo-1236545270/

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
Scoop October 9, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-149/

In Praise of… John Farrelly [Ireland]
 Peter Duncan
downthetubes October 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/in-praise-of-john-farrelly/

Peter Arno Inducted Into The Society of Illustrators Hall Of Fame
Michael Maslin
Inkspill Oct 10 2025
https://michaelmaslin.com/friday-spill-peter-arno-inducted-into-the-society-of-illustrators-hall-of-fame-whos-at-this-weekends-nyc-comic-con-donnelly-galindo-arroyo-receive-awards-at-st-just-festival-of-internationa/

Italian Comics in the New Millennium. Vol. 1. Continuity and Innovation
Alessio Aletta (Ed.)
https://vernonpress.com/book/2376

Preface. From the Newsstand to the Bookstore: A Note on Contemporary Comics by a Seasoned Reader
Luca Somigli
University of Toronto
Introduction. Italian Comics, Zero Slash One
Alessio Aletta
University of Toronto

OF MICE AND MEN: NAVIGATING CHANGE IN ITALIAN SERIAL COMICS
Chapter One
Italian Disney Comics in the New Millennium: Publishing Strategies and New Challenges
Andrea Tosti
Lancaster University
Chapter Two
Dante between Tradition and Innovation: Paper Dante
Marialaura Pancini
Università per Stranieri di Siena
Chapter Three
New Serial Strategies in Sergio Bonelli Editore
Francisco Sáez de Adana
Universidad de Alcalá
Chapter Four
Larger than Life: Punk and Intertextuality in Luca Enoch's Gea (1999–2007)
Manuela Di Franco
Universiteit Gent
Chapter Five
Reinventing Seriality, Redefining the (Graphic) Novel: Leo Ortolani's Rat-Man
Antonio Mirizzi
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

OLD AND NEW MASTERS: BRIDGING GENERATIONS FROM PAZIENZA TO ZEROCALCARE
Chapter Six
The "Pazienza-function." Andrea Pazienza's Legacy from the Graphic Novel to the Social Network
Carlotta Vacchelli
American University of Rome
Chapter Seven
From Stigmate to Christian: An Italian way to a Supranatural (Inter-transmedia) Comics
Mario Tirino
University of Salerno
Chapter Eight
An Unreadable (Hi)Story: Gipi's La terra dei figli Considered As a Monitory Tale
Umberto Rossi
Sapienza University
Chapter Nine
From Zero? A Retrospective on Zerocalcare's Early Comic Books
Alessio Aletta


Italian Comics in the New Millennium. Vol. 2. New Scenarios, New Forms, New Themes

Alessio Aletta (Ed.)
https://vernonpress.com/book/2377

IN PERSON OR ONLINE? PRESENT (AND FUTURE) OF THE ITALIAN COMICS INDUSTRY
Chapter One
"Una fitta rete di contatti umani": the Contemporary Italian Self-publishing Comics
Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato
WOW Spazio Fumetto
Chapter Two
Digitalian Comics: Italian Digital Comics' Path from National Tradition to Platform Society
Giorgio Busi Rizzi
Ghent University
Lorenzo Di Paola
ULB-Université Libre de Bruxelles
Chapter Three
Impacts of the Digital Transformation on the Italian Comics Field: An Exploration of the Comics Creators' Changing Work Dynamics
Yesim Tonga
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Francesca Leonardi
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Francesca Fino
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Nicole Crescenzi
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca
Maria Luisa Catoni
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

STORIES AND HISTORY: TRENDS AND CASE STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY ITALIAN COMICS
Chapter Four
A Critical Overview of Italian Comics Journalism (2002-2022)
Dario Boemia
IULM University
Chapter Five
Immigration in Italian Comics: Tracing a Genealogy of Migrant Narratives in the Fumetto di realtà
Silvia Vari
University of Warwick
Chapter Six
The New Wave of Italian Comics and the Representation of the Italian Province
Rodolfo Dal Canto
University of L'Aquila
Chapter Seven
A Queer Trend in Italian Graphic Novels? Analyzing Forms in the Years of the Cirinnà Law and Ddl Zan
Alice Parrinello
St Cross College, University of Oxford
Chapter Eight
Beyond Facts and Fiction. Investigating Female Genealogies in Italian Graphic Memoirs
Claudia Cerulo
University of Naples Federico II
Chapter Nine
History and Storytelling: Isa Conquers All
Lorenzo Bonoldi

'Tangled' Live-Action Movie Back in Development With Scarlett Johansson Eyed to Star
Ryan Gajewski
October 9, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tangled-live-action-movie-scarlett-johansson-disney-1236397034/

Cynthia Erivo to Star in Animated Musical 'Bad Fairies' for Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, Locksmith Animation
Borys Kit
October 9, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/cynthia-erivo-to-star-in-animated-musical-bad-fairies-1236397117/

Charles Criner – RIP
D. D. Degg  
October 10, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/10/charles-criner-rip/

It's a Comix Thing, you wouldn't understand: a photo gallery from Comix Thing 2025
Isaac Odai | October 10, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/its-a-comix-thing-you-wouldnt-understand-a-photo-gallery-from-comix-thing-2025/

Here's Hoping You're Swell — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | October 10, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/heres-hoping-youre-swell-this-weeks-links/

Paul Buhle & Abigail Susik, on Franklin Rosemont: Comics, Cartoons and Popular Culture. Oct 7, 2025
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
430 Oct 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caLdLrltQjQ

The Center for Cartoon Studies marks two decades of artistic innovation
This story by Marion Umpleby was first published in the Valley News on Oct. 1, 2025.
 https://vtdigger.org/2025/10/06/the-center-for-cartoon-studies-marks-two-decades-of-artistic-innovation/

Faced With A Million Paths: Lara Boyle Interviews PAUL KARASIK
Lara Boyle
October 6, 2025
https://solrad.co/faced-with-a-million-paths-lara-boyle-interviews-paul-karasik

Q & A with Trung Le Nguyen
By Amanda Ramirez              
Oct 02, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/98747-q-a-with-trung-le-nguyen.html

Alison Bechdel, cartoonist: 'We've gotten so polarized in the United States that we're unable to see each other's humanity'
Iker Seisdedos
New Haven (Connecticut) - OCT 04, 2025
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-10-04/alison-bechdel-cartoonist-weve-gotten-so-polarized-in-the-united-states-that-were-unable-to-see-each-others-humanity.html

INTERVIEW: Hirschfeld Foundation pays tribute to Sondheim with new book
October 6, 2025 John Soltes
https://www.hollywoodsoapbox.com/interview-hirschfeld-foundation-pays-tribute-to-sondheim-with-new-book/

'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' to Get Third Volume as IDW Mints a Hit Franchise (Exclusive)
Currently in the middle of its second volume, the cuddly serial killer title has sold more than 300,000 copies of the comic and collected editions.
Borys Kit
October 3, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-third-volume-1236392624/

Interview: Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones on Giving the Count His Due in DRACULA: BOOK III
Jed W. Keith
Oct 3, 2025
https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-matt-wagner-kelley-jones-on-giving-the-count-his-due-in-dracula-book-iii/

Pass The Monster Meat Milady is Cooking Up a Delicious Anime Confection
by Jeremy Tauber, Oct 3rd 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-10-03/pass-the-monster-meat-milady-is-cooking-up-a-delicious-anime-confection/.228612

Overcoming Insecurities with Plus-Sized Misadventures in Love Manga Creator mamakari
by Jeremy Tauber, Oct 8th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-10-08/overcoming-insecurities-with-plus-sized-misadventures-in-love-manga-creator-mamakari/.229439

    Fanbase Press Interviews Nihaarika Negi on the Upcoming Release of the Graphic Novel, 'Hunger,' with The Lab Press
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 9, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57618-fanbase-press-interviews-nihaarika-negi-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-graphic-novel-hunger-with-the-lab-press/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Ryan Claytor on His Return to Kickstarter for the 'Elephant Eater Comics Annual Dispatch'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 3, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57577-fanbase-press-interviews-ryan-claytor-on-his-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-elephant-eater-comics-annual-dispatch/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Melissa F. Olson on the Upcoming Release of the 'Archaic' Trade Paperback with AHOY Comics
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 3, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57581-fanbase-press-interviews-melissa-f-olson-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-archaic-trade-paperback-with-ahoy-comics/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Patrick Coyle on His Return to Kickstarter for the Third Chapter of 'Bixby Grant, Private Eye: Fangs & Brimstone'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 6, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57594-fanbase-press-interviews-patrick-coyle-on-his-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-third-chapter-of-bixby-grant-private-eye-fangs-brimstone/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Andy Nordvall on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for the Comic Book Anthology, 'Bad Future'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 7, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57602-fanbase-press-interviews-andy-nordvall-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-comic-book-anthology-bad-future/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Louis Southard on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for the Comic Book, 'Laugh Riot #1'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 8, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57606-fanbase-press-interviews-louis-southard-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-comic-book-laugh-riot-1/

X-Men Monday #315 – Jason Loo Talks 'X-Vengers'
Chris Hassan
October 6, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/10/06/x-men-monday-315-jason-loo-x-vengers/

A Sweet new deal: Developers behind 'Software for Comic Folk' talk products, commerce, and collaboration
The buzzy little tech company has big plans for comics from here on out.
Chris Coplan
October 9, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/10/09/sweet-comics-software-feature/

Brooke, David. 2025. Mark Evanier on curating 75 years of story magic for 'The Essential Peanuts'. AIPT (October 7): https://aiptcomics.com/2025/10/07/mark-evanier-the-essential-peanuts/

Brooke, David. 2025. Interview: Jeff DiBartolomeo on Comixology Originals, 'Salvation's Child,' and what's next. AIPT (October 7): https://aiptcomics.com/2025/10/07/interview-jeff-dibartolomeo-comixology/

Brooke, David. 2025. Chris Ryall on bringing Francis Ford Coppola's 'Megalopolis' to the comics. AIPT (October 7): https://aiptcomics.com/2025/10/07/chris-ryall-megalopolis-qa/

Mary Shyne Interview: YOU AND ME ON REPEAT
Henry Chamberlain
Comics GrinderOctober 5, 2025
https://comicsgrinder.com/2025/10/05/mary-shyne-interview-you-and-me-on-repeat/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEX2ouYIP7g

In This Graphic History, an Unflinching Look at Black Activism

"Black Arms to Hold You Up," the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact.
Sam Thielman
 Oct. 7, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/books/review/black-arms-to-hold-you-up-ben-passmore.html

'God of manga' Osamu Tezuka's unknown storyboards discovered
Oct 6, 2025
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/06/japan/manga-artist-osamu-tezuka-works-discovered/

GUS GORDON for INTO THE BEWILDERNESS
Comix Experience   Oct 3, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtmgXPbudPU

More to Come 699: Stargazing plus Carla Speed McNeil
 Calvin Reid, Meg Lemke and Heidi MacDonald
PW Comics World: More To Come 10/03/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1395

Forceville, Charles. 2025. The JOURNEY metaphor in Marc-Antoine Mathieu's graphic novel → (Sens). Language and Literature, (October 1, 2025 ). https://doi.org/10.1177/09639470251381545
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09639470251381545
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/09639470251381545

Special Issue: Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling
Special Issue Editors: Erin Kathleen Bahl and Andy Kolovos
Journal of American Folklore
Volume 138, Number 550, Fall 2025
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55668

Folklore, Comics, and Graphic Storytelling: Introduction
Erin Kathleen Bahl, Andy Kolovos
pp. 393-404
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970590

Finding the Lost Light: The Performance of Myth in Transformers Comic Books
Daniel Peretti
pp. 405-419
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970591

They Who Build Monstresses: Tracing Folkloric and Literary Monster Motifs in E. M. Carroll's When I Arrived at the Castle
Ayanni C. H. Cooper
pp. 420-432
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970592  

What to Wear When Saving Ukraine: Folkloric References and National Symbolism in Ukrainian Superhero Comics
Jennifer A. Dickinson
pp. 433-443
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970593  

No, You Can't Just Draw Cats: Drawing and Thinking About Gender-Diverse Human Bodies in Comics-Based Research
Sally Pirie
pp. 444-457
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970594
   
"How Did We Meet?": Experiments with Ethnographic Comics in Nepal
Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway, Promina Shrestha
pp. 458-467
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970595
 
Perplexities of Settler Colonial Folklore: Stripping for the Holidays ["Indian humor" via comic strips]
Bernard C. Perley
pp. 468-479
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970596
 

Balancing Creativity and Coping: How Comic Art Reveals Challenges for the Survivor-Folklorist
Nic Hartmann
pp. 480-490
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970597

Fairy Tales, #FolktaleWeek, and Vernacular Narrative Sequential Art Online
Erin Kathleen Bahl
pp. 491-499
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970598

Continuing The Most Costly Journey: Two Case Studies
Andy Kolovos
pp. 500-502
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970599

rending and mending heARTs: Joy, Aesthetic Expression, Creative Pedagogy, and Collaborative Representation
Sandra Mizumoto Posey, Cricket Malament
pp. 503-516
 https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970600

Changing the Narrative: Stories of Student Homelessness and Housing Instability
Kacy McKinney
pp. 517-528
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/25/article/970601

 

More to Come 699: Stargazing plus Carla Speed McNeil

 Calvin Reid, Meg Lemke and Heidi MacDonald

PW Comics World: More To Come 10/03/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1395

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This Stargazing episode, Meg and Calvin discuss 'The Weight,' Melissa Mendes' depression-era family saga, and Mimi Pond's 'Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me,' a graphic biography of the entertaining and wildly dysfunctional Mitford family. Plus, 'Absolute Wonder Woman' by Kelly Thompson and Hayden Sherman, and 'Grommets' by Rick Remender and Brian Posehn. Also, Heidi interviews Carla Speed McNeil, Eisner winning creator of 'Finder', about their new book 'Settlers of the Storm Worlds'.

Fredericksburg cartoonist Clay Jones has a stroke

Clay put this notice out today on Facebook and his email list:

Dear friends, lovers, and co-conspirators,

Unfortunately, this week I had a stroke and my right side is partially paralyzed. This means the streak is over and I have to relearn how to use my hand and my voice.

Please bear with me until I figure this out. I appreciate everyone's love and concern. I will see you when I see you.

This post was made with great difficulty using voice messaging. Please do not call or message me.

I love you all,

Clay Jones

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/9/2025

NYCC '25: DC Comics announces 10 new titles for Vertigo revival
And all of them are by creative teams that have previously worked together
Zack Quaintance
10/09/2025  
https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-dc-comics-announces-10-new-titles-for-vertigo-revival/

NYCC '25: DC Comics to complete Rick Veitch's scuttled run with SWAMP THING 1989
Complete with the original ads and trade dress
Zack Quaintance
 10/09/2025   https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-dc-comics-to-complete-rick-veitchs-scuttled-run-with-swamp-thing-1989/

NYCC '25: Retailers get a ComicKnowledge drop
Could this be the change retailers need?
 Jon Gorga
10/09/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-retailers-get-a-comicknowledge-drop/

Charles Criner, 1945 – 2025 [U.S. Army cartoonist]
by Nicholas Frank October 2, 2025
https://glasstire.com/2025/10/02/charles-criner-1945-2025/

NYCC '25 DAY 1: Retailer Day report
Heidi MacDonald on 10/09/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-day-1-retailer-day-report/

The Beat Digest 10/09/25: Jae Lee's HELLSHOCK returns
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 10/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-100925/

NYCC'25 – What happened on Day Zero of NYCC??
Billy Henehan on 10/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc25-what-happened-on-day-zero-of-nycc/

NYCC '25: Cebulski says "we don't condone AI in the Marvel Comics division"
Samantha Puc on 10/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-cebulski-says-we-dont-condone-ai-in-the-marvel-comics-division/

Jim Lee at the New York Comic Con 2025 Retailer Day for DC Comics
Rich Johnston
Bleeding Cool Oct 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oTWrFJ5NtY

"DC Comics Will Not Support AI Generated Storytelling Or Art"- Jim Lee
08 Oct 2025
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-will-not-support-ai-generated-storytelling-or-art-jim-lee/

2025 Silha Lecture with Ann Telnaes and Roslyn Mazer
Silha Center Oct 9, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dOC2Ac4mtg

Joe Casey Writes Oct 9, 2025  
 MARVEL VS. DC - PART ONE  [John Byrne]
https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/marvel-vs-dc-part-one

Remembering The Mad Peck, eccentric artist behind iconic Providence poster
"His work was brilliant and I think, like so many artists, that was the most comfortable way he knew how to interface with the world."
by Luis Hernandez and Ben Berke March 31, 2025 https://thepublicsradio.org/arts-and-culture/remembering-the-mad-peck-eccentric-artist-behind-iconic-providence-poster/

Unknown. 1923. Comics Appear in Savannah [colored comic strips]. Editor and Publisher 55 (42; March 17): 14. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1923-03-17_55_42/page/14/mode/2up

Daniel Best - Author Oct 6, 2025
The Jerry Siegel Project: Part Three: 1935 - 1937
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/the-jerry-siegel-project-66f

Creating a 'Hullabaloo' for Middle Grade Readers
By Shannon Maughan                
Oct 09, 2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/98812-creating-a-hullabaloo-for-middle-grade-readers.html

J Alex Morrissey from TRADECRAFT Oct 7, 2025
EPISODE 247 CHRIS SCHWEIZER: Graphic Novelist and Lettering Obsessive
 https://jalexmorrissey.substack.com/p/episode-247-chris-schweizer

Four Questions for Jennifer L. Holm
By Sally Lodge              
Oct 09, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/98819-four-questions-for-jennifer-l-holm.html

Jeff Kinney Knows What It's Like to Be a Party Pooper
SCOTT HELLER
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 12, 2025, Page 4 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Jeff Kinney.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/books/review/jeff-kinney-wimpy-kid-partypooper.html

Reviews: Cornelius: The Merry Life of a Wretched Dog
Nicholas Burman | October 9, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/cornelius-the-merry-life-of-a-wretched-dog/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones on Their Return to Kickstarter for 'Dracula: Book III – The Count' with Orlok Press
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 3, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57573-fanbase-press-interviews-matt-wagner-and-kelley-jones-on-their-return-to-kickstarter-for-dracula-book-iii-the-count-with-orlok-press/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Chris Ryall on the Release of 'Megalopolis: An Original Graphic Novel' with Abrams ComicArts
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    October 9, 2025
    https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57613-fanbase-press-interviews-chris-ryall-on-the-release-of-megalopolis-an-original-graphic-novel-with-abrams-comicarts/

New Awards to Honor Jack Kirby's Legacy
Oct 09, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5595

IDW DARK ANNOUNCES NEW HORROR TITLES
First Half 2026 Brings Four New Series
 Johanna Draper Carlson on October 8, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60738/idw-dark-announces-new-horror-titles

FREE COMIC BOOK DAY ACQUIRED By Distributor
Milton Griepp on October 8, 2025  
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60740/free-comic-book-day-acquired

Universal Distribution Buys Free Comic Book Day
Rich Johnston
  08 Oct 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/universal-distribution-buys-free-comic-book-day/

Tales From Erotech Is Too Hot For Bookstores, Will Be Comic Shops Only
 08 Oct 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tales-from-erotech-is-too-hot-for-bookstores-will-be-comic-shops-only/

Frank Miller Tells You How He Tells Stories In "Push The Wall"
  08 Oct 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/frank-miller-tells-you-how-he-tells-stories-in-push-the-wall/

Watch: How 'Transferable' Directors Crafted a Compelling Question of Sacrifice in Agora's First Animated Short
  Mercedes Milligan
October 7, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/10/watch-how-transferable-directors-crafted-a-compelling-question-of-sacrifice-in-agoras-first-animated-short/

 October 7, 2025 by Gil Roth
Episode 657 – Tom Tomorrow
Virtual Memories Show 657:
Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Dan Perkins)
https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-657-tom-tomorrow
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_657_-_Tom_Tomorrow.mp3

SNAPSHOTS: TEACHING LOS BROS HERNANDEZ
 edited by William Nericcio & Frederick Aldama
 Amatl Comix, a San Diego State University Press Imprint
 date: ‎ September 16, 2025 https://amatlcomix.sdsu.edu/
 
Finding Our Pedagogical Way into the Everything-Everywhere Storyverse of
Los Bros Hernandez
Frederick Luis Aldama 11
Professor Latinx & the Everything-Everywhere Storyverse of Los Bros Hernandez
Frederick Luis Aldama with Miguel Angel Hernandez 18
An Origin Story in Ivy League Spandex: My Life Teaching Los Bros Hernandez's Love & Rockets
William ''Memo'' Nericcio 27
The Women of Los Bros
Ellen M. Gil-Gomez 31
Teaching Generous, Precise, & Intersectional Reading with "Vida Loca 2: The Death of Speedy Ortiz"
Kathryn Frank 40
Los Bros Chicanx Geographies
Ellen M. Gil-Gomez 52
Teaching Quotidian Temporalities of Queer Worldmaking in Jaime Hernandez's
"Locas 8:01 A.M."
Maite Urcaregui 64
Wordless Pages and Unspoken Intimacies in The Love Bunglers
William Orchard 72
A Letter to Penny Century: The Foundational Latinx Superheroine
Enrique Garcia 81
Sleuthing the Grammatext of Love and Rockets X
Joanna Davis-McElligatt 88
Earthly Legacies of Coloniality of Power in Gilbert Hernandez's "An American in Palomar"
Patrick L. Hamilton and Allan W. Austin 103
Re-schematizing Narrative Temporalities in Gilbert Hernandez's Julio's Day
Ralph Villanueva 112
Mexican American Deployments of Central American Spaces in Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories
Regina Marie Mills 118
Not So Lost in Translation: Teaching Luba and Her Family in Belgium
Jan Baetens 132
Aqui Tenemos Todo: Hemispheric Aesthetics in Gilbert Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup
Jose Alaniz 138
Creating Child-Adult Audiences in Marble Sea
Christopher Gonzalez 147
Teaching Los Bros: A Reflection in Four Parts
Charles Hatfield 158
Reframing Immigrant Narrativesin "Mojado Power" and "The KKK Comes to Hoppers"
Fernanda Dfaz-Basteris 171
"La Blanca" as Borderland Mythos
Samantha Ceballos 177
Sequential Meaning Making in "Bob Richardson
Chad A. Barbour 186
Marble Season as Pop Cultural Anchor in the Humanities Classroom
Jessica Rutherford 189
Fandoms and Superheroes in Marble Season
Anthony R. Ramirez 201
Learning Latinx Culture with Bumper Head
Hector Garza 204
Ghost in the Mirror: Gilbert Hernandez's "Errata Stigmata" Revisited
William ''Memo'' Nericcio 207
Making Comics While Dreaming Lemons and Goatmen in SLOTH
Theresa Rojas 212
Poison River's Pedro Pacotilla as Decolonial Character
Marc Sobel  217
Woman on the Verge or A Verge Within the Woman? Jaime Hernandez and the Bordered Psycho/cultural Terrain of a Latina Writer
William ''Memo'' Nericcio 221
Garden of the Flesh and its Counter Cultural Legacies
Nhora Lucia Serrano
Jaime's Odyssey by Interview
Frederick Luis Aldama and llan Stavans
An Anatomy of Jaime's Tonta
Frederick Luis Aldama and Jaime Hernandez
Beto's Odyssey by Interview
Frederick Luis Aldama and Gilbert Hernandez 248
Drawing Power: A Conversation with Jaime Hernandez & Lalo Alcaraz
Jaime Hernandez, Lalo Alcaraz & Frederick Luis Aldama 257

2025 Silha Lecture with Ann Telnaes and Roslyn Mazer

Silha Center Oct 9, 2025 MINNEAPOLIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dOC2Ac4mtg

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Voter Enthusiasm"

"Voter Enthusiasm"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4191

I happily confess that nearly my entire contact with Legacy Media™ these
days comes from the five minutes or so I spend scoping out the front
pages of the Washington Post, Washington Times, Wall Street Journal, New
York Times – and the New York Post, if I think I can stand it – in
search of inspiration at the newsstands of my local bodegas while out on
my morning walk.

Isn't it adorable how all the DNC can think about is getting their
goddamn vote out while our neighbors are being snatched and disappeared
by gangs of masked thugs, the regime is spitting in our faces on live TV
and trying to provoke a civil war, and pretty much every goddamn
American institution we were taught to venerate in school has turned out
to be total garbage? But yeah, sure, Donkeycrats; let's get that
mid-term vote out.

And what's with the "voter enthusiasm" thing? Goddamn Democrats can't
shut the hell up with that crap. What, are they bugged that the voters
are so goddamn beat down, desperate and indoctrinated that they're just
kind of reflexively dragging their glum, dejected asses out to punch a
chad, tap a screen, pull a lever, then back home for "The Price Is
Right" instead of eagerly, happily, proudly – dare I say "joyfully" –
skipping and singing on their way to the polls?

--------------

"Under Pressure From The Left, Democrats Rejoin The Fight; Divided party
hopes shutdown will help reignite voter enthusiasm", Wall Street
Journal, Page A1 10.03.2025
https://www.sinkers.org/posters/enthusiasm/WSJ_A1_Oct0325-01voterenthusiasm.jpg
  
___________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

What He Really Whispered by Daniel Boris

 

Oct 12: Fantom Comics INTERFAITH BOOK CLUB: CAN’T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT

INTERFAITH BOOK CLUB: CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT
>>SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12th @ 6:30pm

The October in-person meeting of our interfaith book club will be discussing New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's memoir CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT?

It's a funny book but it's also about death! This book club will be hosted by Jacob's mom, Robin.

Available at Fantom now! If you can't afford your own copy, we may have some free copies for those who may need it. Please check in if we have them in-stock, first come first serve.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/8/2025

Gaylord Texan Resort in Grapevine debuts immersive DC comic attraction

By Teresa Gubbins

Mar 26, 2025 https://fortworth.culturemap.com/news/entertainment/gaylord-texan-dc-comics-lanterns/

 

Siuslaw School District Removes Graphic Novel Flamer From the High School Library

National Coalition Against Censorship March 25, 2025

https://ncac.org/news/siuslaw-school-district-removes-graphic-novel-flamer-from-the-high-school-library

 

Ghibli effect: How ChatGPT's AI tool sparked a new viral comic strip trend

Ghibli movies have a unique look—soft watercolor-like backgrounds, expressive characters, and a dreamy, magical feel. Now, thanks to AI, people can recreate this style with their own photos.

Ankita Chakravarti

March 27, 2025

https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/why-does-x-feed-look-like-a-comic-strip-blame-it-on-chatgpt-s-ghibli-effect-article-12977407.html

 

French duo making graphic novel about Choctaw Code Talker

Austin Hedgcoth

Mar. 26, 2025

https://www.kxii.com/2025/03/27/french-duo-making-graphic-novel-about-choctaw-code-talker/

 

Cubicle Pirates Stranded on a Desert Island without a Punchline in Sight

Ilan Manouach | October 8, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/cubicle-pirates-stranded-on-a-desert-island-without-a-punchline-in-sight/

 

Boom! Crash! ASU club strikes down concerns about the future of comic books

The Comic Book Club at ASU Poly meets up weekly to discuss the ever-growing comic book universe

Kate Gore | March 26, 2025

https://www.statepress.com/article/2025/03/comic-book-club-profile

 

NYCC '25: BOOM! snaps up JEM AND THE HOLOGRAMS rights

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/boom-jem-holograms/

 

NYCC '25: Kindt moving his Flux House to Oni Press

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/kindt-oni-press/

 

Comic creation: My semester teaching elementary students

Zoey Belk,

Mar 31, 2025 https://lanthorn.com/123363/ae/comic-creation-my-semester-teaching-elementary-students/

 

Barnaby's Futura Fantasy

In Crockett Johnson's iconic comic strip, the type speaks for itself.

Nicole Rudick

03.19.25

https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/barnaby-crockett-johnson-nicole-rudick

 

NYCC '25: Jim Lee's Retailer Day speech – "DC Comics will not support AI-generated storytelling or artwork."

Heidi MacDonald on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-jim-lee-retailer-day-speech-ai/

 

 The Power Cut

https://www.tumblr.com/thepowercut

 

The Power Cut Issue #1: "The Balancing Act" [fanzine about The Power Fantasy].

February 14, 2025

https://thepowercut.itch.io/the-power-cut-1

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11nsRrEVUmw98U6BuXADSYsY9dEOL7BEF?usp=drive_link

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/laorcr6g14uhccts56x5m/AH9B7Fx-m8ar7VvoYdW3ot0?rlkey=nj94wtukq0e4bnbmj0admjfjv&e=1&st=qg965pfa&dl=0

 

The Power Cut #2: Time and Time Again [fanzine about The Power Fantasy].

October 5 2025

https://thepowercut.itch.io/the-power-cut-2

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mu4vUFo2VAac9xtYGWhAhe8smkQXH0oO?usp=sharing

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/s5lysumnzd67ntr0646xx/AIKb3_IFffuzRdLFcQUoCs8?rlkey=jfz0pl184ggpo7ul1ijfdr782&st=oh52qgix&dl=0

 

Unknown, 1923. Reform for Omaha Speeders: World-Herald Artist Pointed to Jail, But Speedometer Man Knew Better [editorial cartoon]. Editor and Publisher 55 (43; March 24):17. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1923-03-24_55_43/page/16/mode/2up

 

Françoise Mouly & Genevieve Bormes

Li'l Kayla Endures It All: A young Texas girl who loves solitude and honey buns navigates a cruel and indifferent world [Precious Rubbish]

March 31, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/lil-kayla-endures-it-all

 

Interview: Mark Evanier on the joy of creating THE ESSENTIAL PEANUTS collection

Ollie Kaplan on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-mark-evanier-on-the-joy-of-creating-the-essential-peanuts-collection/

 

NYCC '25: You can buy 1,360 different exclusives at the show

  Heidi MacDonald on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-you-can-buy-1360-different-exclusives-at-the-show/

 

Joe Brainard's iconic comic strip interpretations on display in New York [Nancy, fine art]

Art Daily March 30 2025

https://artdaily.com/news/180534/Joe-Brainard-s-iconic-comic-strip-interpretations-on-display-in-New-York

 

Peter Sanderson

The Fantastic Four's Supporting Cast [First Steps movie]

Sanderson on Comics Oct 7, 2025

https://substack.com/inbox/post/175579730

 

NYCC '25: Image unveils massive programming slate

Adam Barnhardt on 10/08/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-25-image-panels-schedule/

 

Dynamite Entertainment Buys Jae Lee's Hellshock

07 Oct 2025 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-entertainment-buys-jae-lees-hellshock/

 

Matt Kindt Brings Flux House Imprint From Dark Horse To Oni Press

 07 Oct 2025 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/matt-kindt-brings-flux-house-imprint-from-dark-horse-to-oni-press/

 

Matt Kindt, Oni Press Sign Publishing, Media Partnership for "Bigger, Bolder, Weirder" Comics (Exclusive); The deal comes with two new titles out of the gate: a relaunch of the creator's acclaimed 'Mind MGMT' series and action comic 'Fort Psycho.'

Borys Kit

October 7, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/matt-kindt-oni-press-sign-publishing-media-partnership-1236394389/

 

Oni Press Teams with Matt Kindt's Flux House

by Sophia Stewart               

Oct 08, 2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/98788-oni-press-teams-with-matt-kindt-s-flux-house-imprint.html

 

Matt Kindt Moves Flux House Imprint To Oni Press With Plans to Develop Existing Series and Launch New Ones

  Brigid Alverson on October 7, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60731/matt-kindt-moves-flux-house-imprint-oni-press

 

EXCLUSIVE: PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: IGNITION PRESS ANNOUNCES FOUR NEW HIRES In Sales, Marketing, More

Brigid Alverson on October 7, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60724/exclusive-people-move-ignition-press-announces-four-new-hires

 

You've seen his work in The New Yorker, now Portland cartoonist Tom Toro has a new book

kgw.com  October 7, 2025

https://www.kgw.com/video/features/hello-rose-city/youve-seen-his-work-in-the-new-yorker-now-portland-cartoonist-tom-toro-has-a-new-book/283-e7ab591e-cdfe-476e-b39a-2c408458d54c

 

TDC @ 20: Meeting Your Heroes [Richard Thompson, Matt Groening, Dick Locher]

 Alan Gardner 

October 8, 2025 

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/08/tdc-20-meeting-your-heroes/

 

Interviewed: Dick Locher talks about his cartooning career, future and Parkinson's

 Alan Gardner

June 24, 2010

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2010/06/24/interviewed-dick-locher-talks-about-his-cartooning-career-future-and-parkinsons/

 

'Sanda' Is a Weird, Wild, and Wonderfully Unhinged Holiday Horror-Comedy Anime

The premiere episode of Science Saru's 'Sanda,' from 'Beastars' creator Paru Itagaki, is a delightfully deranged Halloween-meets-Christmas gift that keeps on giving.

By Isaiah Colbert

io9 October 8, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/sanda-prime-video-science-saru-anime-paru-itagaki-beastars-premiere-review-2000669543

 

'Vinland Saga' Creator Makoto Yukimura Looks Back on Writing His Pacifist Viking Epic

The mangaka talks to io9 about the risks, inspirations, and aspirations behind his creation.

By Isaiah Colbert

io9 October 7, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/vinland-saga-creator-makoto-yukimura-looks-back-on-writing-his-pacifist-viking-epic-2000664303

 

Exclusive: See the Official 'NANA' Cover Featuring Vivienne Westwood For The Manga's 25th Anniversary

Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki are strutting down the runway in their own VW looks!

By Tamara Fuentes

 Oct 6, 2025 https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/books/a68404276/nana-vivienne-westwood-25th-anniversary-cover-reveal/

 

A Seriously Fun Conversation about Queer Food, with Dr. Alex Ketchum and Megan Joanna Elias [Queers at the Table]

 Thalia Stopa  

Oct 6, 2025

https://scoutmagazine.ca/a-seriously-fun-conversation-about-queer-food-with-dr-alex-ketchum-and-megan-joanna-elias/

Alan Gardner remembers meeting Richard Thompson (on what would have been his 68th birthday)

TDC @ 20: Meeting Your Heroes

 Alan Gardner  

October 8, 2025  

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/08/tdc-20-meeting-your-heroes/

New Ann Telnaes book out only in France

From her Substack

I'm very happy to announce my next book with the internationally acclaimed editorial cartoonist, Patrick Chappatte. It's scheduled for publication in Europe on October 23rd and although currently only available in French, we are looking for an English publisher.

(publisher, Les Arenes)

Stamp Design: Trump as Disney Villains by Daniel Boris