Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/27/22

Justin Green – RIP

D. D. Degg

April 26, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/04/26/justin-green-rip/

 

RIP, Justin Green (1945-2022)

A truly great American comics artist, and a dear friend

 

By Marc Weidenbaum

This Week in Sound April 26, 2022

https://disquiet.com/2022/04/26/rip-justin-green-1945-2022/

 

Charles Hatfield

April 27 2022

https://www.facebook.com/charles.hatfield.106/posts/10159719854082086

RIP Justin Green, and deepest condolences to his loved ones. His work changed comics. And my life.

 

THE BIRTH OF G.I. JOE: New collection reveals how an iconic character was created [David Breger]

Margaret McAleer and Sara W. Duke

Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 10 No. 6: Nov.-Dec. 2021

online at https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2021_1112.pdf

 

CONFESSIONS OF A COMIC BOOK GUY -- TODAY'S COMICS FOR KIDS

Column by Steve Bennett

 April 27, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/51037/confessions-comic-book-guy-today-comics-for-kids

 

ICV2 INTERVIEW: SKYBOUND COMET SENIOR EDITOR ALEX ANTONE

On Creating Skybound Content for Younger Readers

  by Brigid Alverson on April 26, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51029/icv2-interview-skybound-comet-senior-editor-alex-antone

 

Different lessons from the Simpsons

Sterling Marchand,

April 23, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/23/different-lessons-simpsons/

 

All rise for Justice-designate Jackson [Ratt editorial cartoon letter]

Isabelle Schoenfeld, Bethesda

Washington Post April 23 2022 p A15

online https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/readers-critique-post-art-an-appropriate-headline/

 

The winner of the first-ever 'Toony' [Frazz letter]

Chris McNeil, Alexandria

Washington Post April 23 2022 p A15

online https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/readers-critique-post-art-an-appropriate-headline/

 

'Walking Dead' Star Melissa McBride Exits Spinoff Series

Lesley Goldberg

April 27, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/walking-dead-star-melissa-mcbride-exits-spinoff-series-1235136585/

 

Disney's Special District Says Florida Can't Eliminate It Without Paying Off Billion-Plus In Debts

Winston Cho

April 27, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-says-florida-cant-eliminate-special-district-without-paying-off-billion-plus-in-debts-1235136860/

 

RSC to stage adaptation of animated fantasy film My Neighbour Totoro

Harriet Sherwood

27 Apr 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/apr/27/rsc-to-stage-adaptation-of-animated-fantasy-film-my-neighbour-totoro

 

'The Batman' Sequel Set With Robert Pattinson and Director Matt Reeves

Ryan Parker, Pamela McClintock           

April 26, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-batman-sequel-announced-cinemacon-1235135891/

 

INTERVIEW: NAOMI Star Kaci Walfall on what lies ahead for the end of Season 1 [aka Did Kaci Walfall influence The CW's NAOMI?]

Kay-B

04/26/2022 

Comics Beat

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px43V5s54gk&t

https://www.comicsbeat.com/naomi-kaci-walfall-season-1-interview/

 

Chris Ware and the Unassuming Power of the Graphic Novel Form

Andrew Field | April 27, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/chris-ware-and-the-unassuming-power-of-the-graphic-novel-form/

 

UNBELIEVABLE UNTEENS PROCESS POST WITH SPECIAL GUEST TYLER CROOK!

Jeff Lemire

Tales from the Farm newsletterApril 27 2022

https://jefflemire.substack.com/p/unbelievable-unteens-process-post

 

Ep. 59: Ping Pong by Taiyo Matsumoto

Christopher Woodrow-Butcher and Deb Aoki, David Brothers, Chip Zdarsky

April 27, 2022

https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-59-ping-pong-by-taiyo-matsumoto/

 

2022 Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductees announced

Include comic industry pioneers Max Gaines and Mark Gruenwald

Taimur Dar

04/26/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2022-will-eisner-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/

 

Happy Birthday, Mister Machine

By Graeme McMillan

Comics, FYI Issue #33  April 26 2022

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/ComicsFYI/issues/happy-birthday-mister-machine-1147786

A brief fanboyish note on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of Machine Man's debut.

 

#FF0083. Apr 25 2022

https://medium.com/ff0083/why-did-i-have-a-dream-last-night-i-was-married-to-uncle-larry-37910a92820f

"Why did I have a dream last night I was married to Uncle Larry?": Matthew Thurber's comics tickle his subconscious.

 

A graphic memoir delves into a painful past to bear witness to child sexual abuse

Emily Carrington's "Our Little Secret" handles her dark experience with frankness, yet her book leaves the reader with hope that healing is possible / BY Elizabeth Mitchell /

Zed Book Club

April 21st, 2022

https://www.everythingzoomer.com/zed-book-club/2022/04/21/a-graphic-memoir-delves-into-a-painful-past-to-bear-witness-to-child-sexual-abuse/

 

q with Tom Power

Jessica Campbell's new graphic novel is an 'autobifictionalography' inspired by her crisis of faith

Aired: April 25, 2022

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/15908481-jessica-campbells-graphic-novel-autobifictionalography-inspired-crisis-faith

Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award editorial cartoon list updated

 A list of Robert F. Kennedy cartoon journalism awards

Incomplete list harvested from Wikipedia, Guide to the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Foundation Records, and other places - 

 1983

·  First Prize cartoons: Don Wright, Miami News

·  Citation, cartoon: Sam C. Rawls, The Atlanta Constitution

*1985

Paul Conrad

1986

·  Citation, cartoon: Mike Peters, Dayton Daily News

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: H. Clay Bennett, St. Petersburg Times

1987

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Bill Day, Detroit Free Press, "The Color Black 'n' Blue".

1990

Paul Conrad?

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Mike Peters, The Dayton Daily News.

*1992

·  Paul Conrad, Los Angeles Times (per NY Times)

*1993

Paul Conrad?

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Don Wright, The Palm Beach Post, "Perot for President".

*1994

Mike Luckovich for cartoons that reflect positively on the disadvantaged.

Jack Higgins, finalist

1995

·  Honorable mention, cartoon: Mike Luckovich, The Atlanta Constitution.

1997

·  Cartoon: Doug Marlette, Newsday.

1998 - format changes to have winners in each category

1998

Dan Perkins (Tom Tomorrow)

1999

·  Domestic cartoon: Joel Pett, The Lexington Herald Leader.

2000

Domestic cartoon: Ted Rall
Universal Press Syndicate

2001

Domestic cartoon: Matt Davies
The Journal News

2002

Cartoon Prize: Signe Wilkinson
Philadelphia Daily News

2003

Cartoon: Dan Perkins ("Tom Tomorrow")  "This Modern World"          

2004

Cartoon: John Sherffius                        

2005

 Cartoon: Mark Fiore
 

2006

Cartoon: John Backderf
"The City"

2007

Clay Bennett

2008

Cartoon: Signe Wilkinson
Philadelphia Daily News

2009

Cartoon: Jack Ohman
The Oregonian

2010

Cartoon: Bill Day
Series of cartoons,
United Feature Syndicate

2011

Cartoon: Gary Varvel
"The Path to Hope"
The Indianapolis Star

2012

Cartoon: Stephanie McMillan
"The Beginning of the American Fall and Code Green"
South Florida Sun-Sentinel

2013

Cartoon: Jen Sorensen
 
2014

Cartoon: David Horsey
“Portfolio by David Horsey,”
Los Angeles Times

2015

Cartoon: Darrin Bell
"Darrin Bell 2014 Editorial Cartoons,"
The Washington Post Writers Group

2016

Cartoon: Angelo Lopez, “Editorial Cartoons,”
Philippines Today
 
2017

Cartoon: Mike Thompson, “The Flint Water Scandal,”
Detroit Free Press

2018

Cartoon: Ruben Bolling, Andrews McMeel Syndication, Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and GoComics
“Tom the Dancing Bug”
Syndicated by Andrews McMeel Syndication

 2019

Mark Fiore's “Family Separation in Cartoons”
KQED News and online news outlets

 2020

JD Crowe of the Alabama Media Group  

2021

"Invulnerable" from Thi Bui and The Nib

 2022 

Clay Jones

2023

Joel Pett

(updated 3/18/2024, marked with *)

That darn Simpsons, Frazz and Ratt

Different lessons from the Simpsons

Sterling Marchand, Alexandria

April 23, 2022 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/23/different-lessons-simpsons/

All rise for Justice-designate Jackson [Ratt editorial cartoon letter]

Isabelle Schoenfeld, Bethesda

Washington Post April 23 2022 p A15

online https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/readers-critique-post-art-an-appropriate-headline/

The winner of the first-ever 'Toony' [Frazz letter]

Chris McNeil, Alexandria

Washington Post April 23 2022 p A15

online https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/22/readers-critique-post-art-an-appropriate-headline/

David Breger's cartoons and papers donated to Library of Congress

THE BIRTH OF G.I. JOE: New collection reveals how an iconic character was created [David Breger]

Margaret McAleer and Sara W. Duke

Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 10 No. 6: Nov.-Dec. 2021

online at https://www.loc.gov/lcm/pdf/LCM_2021_1112.pdf

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/26/22

 

Saudi Arabia gets "banning Doctor Strange 2 for having a gay character" out of the way nice and early

The Gulf country reportedly banned the film over the presence of Xochitl Gomez's America Chavez

William Hughes

AV Club April 22 2022

https://www.avclub.com/saudi-arabia-doctor-strange-2-banned-multiverse-gay-1848832067

 

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz wants to expose our nation's inhumanity [in print as Cartoonist puts a pen to nation's inhumanity]

The first Latino winner of the Herblock Prize creates art about immigration, vaccine hesitancy and Jan. 6

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post April 26 2022 p c1, 10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/04/26/lalo-alcaraz-cartoons-herblock-prize/

 

[The Comic Book Shop Co-Owner Patrick Titus obituary]

Sarah Titus

thecomicbookshopde April 22 2022

https://www.instagram.com/p/CcqJ-MQusRe/

 

James Bama – RIP

 by D. D. Degg

April 24, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/04/24/james-bama-rip/

 

ICV2 INTERVIEW: RICHARD RIVERA, PUBLISHER OF SCOOT! COMICS

Kids Comics that Are Accessible to Everyone

 by Brigid Alverson on April 25, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51007/icv2-interview-richard-rivera-publisher-scoot-comics

 

One Hundred Years and Counting: Spotlight on Walter Foster

After a century of success and growth—and on PW's 150th anniversary—the imprint looks to the future by leveraging the latest technology and remaining true to its origin

Sponsored by The Quarto Group

A version of this article appeared in the 04/19/2022 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: One Hundred Years and Counting: Spotlight on Walter Foster

Apr 19, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/89084-one-hundred-years-and-counting-spotlight-on-walter-foster.html

 

How Charlie Brown Essentially Lost His Comic Strip to an Unlikely Character

By Brian Cronin

CBR April 243 2022

https://www.cbr.com/charlie-brown-lost-peanuts-rerun/

 

'The Bad Guys' Director Pierre Perifel On Shifting Away From CG Paradigms (Video Interview)

By Cole Delaney | 04/22/2022

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/bad-guys-pierre-perifel-video-interview-215441.html

 

THE BAD GUYS Director Pierre Perifel

Apr 22, 2022

Inbtwn Animation Fest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QXXPweXFT0

 

Bandai Namco Merges Its Production Subsidiaries, Including Sunrise, The Legendary 'Gundam' Studio

[Japan; animation]

By Jamie Lang | 04/25/2022

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/sunrise-bandai-namco-gundam-cowboy-bebop-215458.html

 

INTERVIEW: Geof Darrow talks Komodo dragons and Moebius influence in new SHAOLIN COWBOY

More gun-toting animals, martial arts, and American waste than you can shake a fist at.

Ricardo Serrano Denis

04/26/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-geof-darrow-shaolin-cowboy/

 

Essential California: Alex Perez, the Times cartoonist turned councilmember

By Gustavo Arellano

Essential California newsletter. April 22, 2022 

https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2022-04-22/essential-california-alex-perez-cartoonist-los-angeles-times-essential-california

 

"But You Get Up Again. And Then You Get Up Again. And Again.": The Liam Sharp Interview

Alex Dueben | April 25, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/but-you-get-up-again-and-then-you-get-up-again-and-again-the-liam-sharp-interview/

 

Spider-Man to go Across and Beyond The Spider-Verse in sequels that have hundreds of characters

New Spider-Verse movies have titles and nearly as many characters as Twitter

Matt Schimkowitz  and Todd Gilchrist

AV Club April 25 2022

https://www.avclub.com/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-titles-announced-acros-1848840887

 

This Man Married a Fictional Character. He'd Like You to Hear Him Out.

By Ben Dooley and Hisako Ueno

A version of this article appears in print on April 25, 2022, Section B, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: In Dolls and Cartoons, Devoted Fans in Japan See Marriage Material

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/business/akihiko-kondo-fictional-character-relationships.html

 

'The Bad Guys' and the Crossroads Its Author Faced [Aaron Blabey; Australia]

By Cat Woods

A version of this article appears in print on April 26, 2022, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Shady Characters Save a Late Bloomer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/movies/aaron-blabey-the-bad-guys.html

 

Liana Finck Reimagines the Story of Genesis

John Williams

The Book Review podcast April 22, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/books/review/podcast-liana-finck-let-there-be-light-jonathan-van-ness-love-that-story.html

 

R. O. Blechman: 'April Was Not Cruel to T.S. Eliot'

A graphic ode to a founding father of literary modernism.

By R. O. Blechman

NYT Book Review April 24, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/books/review/r-o-blechman-ts-eliot-april-is-the-cruelest-month.html

 

'His Effectiveness Did Not Go Unnoticed': On the Radical Politics of Walter Rodney

An illustrated take on Leo Zeilig's new biography of the 1960s-70s revolutionary.

By Nathan Gelgud

A version of this article appears in print on May 1, 2022, Page 23 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Radical Hope.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/books/review/a-revolutionary-for-our-time-the-walter-rodney-story-leo-zeilig.html

Cavna talks to Herblock Prize winner Lalo; ceremony livestreamed tonight

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz wants to expose our nation's inhumanity [in print as Cartoonist puts a pen to nation's inhumanity]

The first Latino winner of the Herblock Prize creates art about immigration, vaccine hesitancy and Jan. 6

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post April 26 2022 p c1, 10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/04/26/lalo-alcaraz-cartoons-herblock-prize/

The Herblock prize ceremony will be live-streamed at 7 p.m. Tuesday at herbblockfoundation.org. Lalo Alcaraz and NPR host Michel Martin will be the featured speakers.

**Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/24/22

 

Fieldmouse Press Interview

Ryan Claytor Patreon Podcast 7,  Apr 19, 2022

Ryan Claytor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdGr1fwdBB8

 

Comic Culture with Bill Sienkiewicz, part 2

Apr 21, 2022

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPCEn9PD3VI

terence dollard

 

Eike Exner, March 29, 2022 [Comics and the Origins of Modern Manga]

367; Apr 23, 2022

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnd-PVgRG9o

 

Drawing a graphic novel in a sketchbook??

Apr 19, 2022

Noah Van Sciver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kgC0DA458Q

 

Kieron Gillen unleashes the wild Arthurian horror of Once & Future!

Andrew Sumner

Apr 11, 2022

Forbidden Planet TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0RSzM2nS_0

 

Julien Blondel adapts Michael Moorcock's Stormbringer-wielding emperor in Elric: The Dreaming City!

Andrew Sumner

Forbidden Planet TV Mar 31, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWIw0n6g0g

 

A cartoonist and a gentleman

Steve Sack will be greatly missed.

By Scott Gillespie

April 23, 2022

https://www.startribune.com/a-cartoonist-and-a-gentleman/600167388/

 

From Steve Sack: Thank you, and farewell

It's been a wonderful 42 years at the Star Tribune.

By Steve Sack

April 23, 2022

https://www.startribune.com/from-steve-sack-thank-you-and-farewell/600167389/

 

 

Omaha cartoonist Jeff Koterba displays dozens of COVID comics at PACE exhibit in Council Bluffs

By: Danielle Meadows

KMTV Apr 22, 2022

https://www.3newsnow.com/news/local-news/omaha-cartoonist-jeff-koterba-displays-dozens-of-covid-comics-at-pace-exhibit-in-council-bluffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN4Fy7RMp9w

 

Remembering David Faught, Ozarks comic book and pinup artist, at celebration of life ceremony

 Greta Cross

Springfield News-Leader

https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/2022/04/24/ozarks-art-comic-pinup-community-invited-celebrate-life-artist-david-faught/7382683001/

 

Meet comics creators of color in person at Boston Comics in Color

The second installment of the festival focusing on stories by and about people of color is back in Roxbury April 23.

By Peter Chianca         

March 31, 2022

https://www.boston.com/things-to-do/entertainment/meet-comics-creators-of-color-in-person-at-boston-comics-in-color/

 

Listen: A Boston cartoonist on comics, color, and tackling local politics with funny animals

"Young artists of color ... have to see themselves represented, to know that their stories are valid," says Comics in Color co-founder Cagen Luse.

By Peter Chianca         

April 19, 2022

https://www.boston.com/culture/arts/2022/04/19/cagen-luse-comics-in-color-welcome-to-pawston/

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/stripsearch/Cagen_Pat_0422_final.mp3

 

Fun And Funky: Artist finds 'cattywampus' perspective [beer cartoonist Chad Maupin]

  Lara Jo Hightower | April 22, 2022

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2022/apr/22/fun-and-funky-artist-finds-cattywampus-perspective/

 

Netflix's Heartstopper is your next favorite wholesome, queer teen rom-com

This must-watch British coming-of-age series lives up to its title as well as its graphic-novel source material

Saloni Gajjar

AV Club April 23 2022

https://www.avclub.com/review-netflix-heartstopper-queer-teen-rom-com-1848817596

 

"Never again": Jeff Smith posts very weary comic after (yet another) Bone adaptation falls apart

Netflix's adaptation of Smith's beloved fantasy comic was recently declared dead at the streamer

William Hughes

AV Club April 23 2022

https://www.avclub.com/jeff-smith-bone-netflix-cancelled-comic-1848833910

 

How Florida's war with Disney could change the park experience

A change to Disney tax status could mean hiccups for new attractions and possibly higher prices for visitors, experts say

By Hannah Sampson

Washington Post April 22, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/22/florida-disney-reedy-creek-desantis/

 

I went to Disney World. Ignore Twitter: The Kingdom is still magic.

By Sonny Bunch

Washington Post April 21, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/04/21/disney-world-still-magic-kingdom-despite-groomer-desantis-controversies/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/23/22

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 514: Stargazing - Two Graphic Memoirs [ Sabba Kahn's 'What is Home, Mum?' and James Spooner's 'The High Desert: Black. Punk Nowhere.']

Calvin Reid and Meg Lemke

on 04/22/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1196

 

Off Panel #350: Time Traveling with Ed Brubaker

David Harper

Apr 18, 2022

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-350-time-traveling-with-ed-brubaker

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Ed_Brubaker_2022.mp3

 

In Memoriam: Cartoonist Peter Birkett

By John Freeman on April 19, 2022

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-cartoonist-peter-birkett/

 

Finally, our comic book

Kenny Malone and Robert Smith

Planet Money April 22, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094415867/finally-our-comic-book

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510289/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2022/04/20220422_pmoney_20220422_pmpod1558_.mp3

 

She unscrambled his Jumble puzzle proposal. Now, this NC couple will spell out 'I D-O.'

By Josh Shaffer

April 21, 2022

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article260582007.html

 

Phoebe and Her Unicorn turns 10!

April 2022

https://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn-turns-10/

 

Bob Moran is producing free political cartoons for The Democracy Fund

Political cartoonist Bob Moran joined Sheila to talk about his journey to working with The Democracy Fund and the near-complete conformity of the arts community in enforcing government COVID-19 narratives.

By Rebel News April 18, 2022

https://www.rebelnews.com/bob_moran_is_producing_free_political_cartoons_for_the_democracy_fund

 

Garth Ennis on Hawk the Slayer

2000 AD Thrill-Cast April 15 2022

https://soundcloud.com/2000-ad/garth-ennis-on-hawk-the-slayer

 

Comic Books Are Burning In Hell

2022.04.20

Catwoman: Lonely City (with Cliff Chiang)

Tucker Stone & Matt Seneca

https://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2022/04/catwoman-lonely-city-with-cliff-chiang.html#more

 

DC Comics Themed Wedding Bands Let You Pledge Your Love in Nerdy Style

by Eric Diaz

Apr 19 2022

https://nerdist.com/article/dc-comics-themed-wedding-rings-justice-league-manly-bands/