Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/5/22

 

Is America ready for a really hulky She-Hulk?

By Karen Attiah

Washington Post June 4, 2022 p A17

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/03/she-hulk-disney-strong-women/

 

'The Boys' returns, slightly dinged, with its very American dystopia [in print as Season 3 is an awkward age for 'Boys']

Amazon Prime's ultra-cynical superhero hit sets its sights on American imperialism and toxic masculinity.

 Inkoo Kang

Washington Post June 4, 2022 p C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/tv/2022/06/03/the-boys-season-3-review/

 

'Deadpool 3' Writers Give Update on Working With Disney for New Film: "Deadpool Is Gonna Be Deadpool"

Ryan Gajewski

June 3, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-3-writers-update-disney-1235159114/

 

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

By Graeme McMillan • Issue #43 •June 6 2022

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/ComicsFYI/issues/whatever-happened-to-the-likely-lads-1205490

The end of an era at Marvel, the start of something new that promises to Be Good, and two promotions for great comics during Pride month.

 

Creating the future of Star Wars with Charles Soule

May 30, 2022

Elsa Charretier

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qm9A1YDkps

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More To Come 519: TCAF and Pink Cat

Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons

on 06/13/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1201

 

Washington's 'burbs are weird and relatable. His cartoons capture that.After getting rejected repeatedly by The New Yorker, Mike Mount started cartooning for an Arlington publication. [in print as D.C.'s comical 'burbs are apt muse for cartoonist].

Perspective by Theresa Vargas

Washington Post June 5, 2022 C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/04/cartoons-washington-suburb-life/

 

A young comics fan makes her debut as 'Ms. Marvel' on Disney+

George Dickey

Washington Post TV Week (June 5, 2022): 2

 

Peter Milligan Interview: Online 'Absolution' For Views

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Jun 02, 2022

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/259367-Peter-Milligan-Interview-Online-Absolution-For-Views

 

"Bob's Burgers" Hits the Big Screen

The animator Loren Bouchard talks about his beleaguered family restaurant—on television and in theatres. Plus, Masha Gessen on the quiet in Kyiv, and Eric Cervini on "The Book of Queer."

With David Remnick

The New Yorker Radio Hour June 3, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/bobs-burgers-hits-the-big-screen

 

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews Peter Milligan

Peter Milligan Interview: Online 'Absolution' For Views

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Jun 02, 2022

https://www.previewsworld.com/Article/259367-Peter-Milligan-Interview-Online-Absolution-For-Views

The Post interviews Arlington's Mike Mount and features 'Ms. Marvel'

Washington's 'burbs are weird and relatable. His cartoons capture that. After getting rejected repeatedly by The New Yorker, Mike Mount started cartooning for an Arlington publication. [in print as D.C.'s comical 'burbs are apt muse for cartoonist].

Perspective by Theresa Vargas

Washington Post June 5, 2022 C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/04/cartoons-washington-suburb-life/

A young comics fan makes her debut as 'Ms. Marvel' on Disney+

George Dickey

Washington Post TV Week (June 5, 2022): 2

June 26: Tillie Walden at East City Bookstore

Tillie Walden Clementine, volume 1 with Jeremy Holt Fri 6/26, 6:30 pm in store only I'm going.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/3/22

 

DC's CAPTAIN ACTION Comic: A History, by MARK WAID

May 30, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/dcs-captain-action-comic-a-history-by-mark-waid/

 

13 THINGS to Love About CAPTAIN ACTION #1

MARK WAID 

May 30, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/13-things-to-love-about-captain-action-1/

 

13 THINGS to Love About CAPTAIN ACTION #2

PAUL KUPPERBERG

13th Dimension May 31, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/13-things-to-love-about-captain-action-2/

 

13 THINGS to Love About CAPTAIN ACTION #3

JIM BEARD  Jun 1, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/13-things-to-love-about-captain-action-3/

 

13 THINGS to Love About CAPTAIN ACTION #4

ED CATTO  Jun 2, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/13-things-to-love-about-captain-action-4/

 

12 THINGS to Love (and 1 THING to Hate) About CAPTAIN ACTION #5

Michael Eury

Jun 3, 2022

https://13thdimension.com/12-things-to-love-and-1-thing-to-hate-about-captain-action-5/

 

Off Panel #355: The Destination with Brian K. Vaughan

David Harper

May 30, 2022

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-355-the-destination-with-brian-k-vaughan

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Brian_K._Vaughan_2022.mp3

 

Kristen Haas Curtis

Dan Berry

Make It Then Tell Everybody 31 May 2022

https://mitte.libsyn.com/kristen-haas-curtis

http://traffic.libsyn.com/mitte/239_Kristen_Haas_Curtis.mp3

 

DANIEL McCLOSKEY for CLOUD TOWN — May 2022 Kids' Club Selection

 May 22, 2022

Comix Experience

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

 

Interview : Nicolas Juncker et son Dragon Dragon sonnent une charge irrésistible

Jean-Laurent TRUC

3 juin 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/nicolas-juncker-dragon-dragon-262941.html

 

Interview : Régric, pour les 70 ans de Lefranc, fait décoller l'Arès

Jean-Laurent TRUC.

1 juin 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/regric-263094.html

 

ICV2 INTERVIEW: MARK DOYLE ON THE IDW ORIGINALS LINE

On Developing and Supporting a New Line of Original Comics

 by Brigid Alverson on June 2, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51324/icv2-interview-mark-doyle-idw-originals-line

 

The 1974 Neal Adams interview

MARTIN PASKO

June 3, 2022

Neal Adams interview from Word Balloons #1 (Fantagraphics March 1974)

https://www.tcj.com/the-1974-neal-adams-interview/

 

Putting Out The Fire With Gasoline – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | June 3, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/putting-out-the-fire-with-gasoline-this-weeks-links/

 

Skybound continues the return of French fighting fantasy series LASTMAN in March 2023

Added colour pages, bonus backmatter and a new translation to make the new editions a worthy pickup for fans

Dean Simons

06/03/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/skybound-continues-the-return-of-french-fighting-fantasy-series-lastman-in-march-2023/

 

The trouble with Free Comic Book Day

Perhaps a question that can lead future FCBD title selections.

Ricardo Serrano Denis

06/03/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/free-comic-book-day-audience/

 

Image Hires Matt Parkinson as Head of Sales, Promotes Others

Scoop June 3 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=259382

 

Dark Horse Promotes O'Neil to Sr. Dr. of Marketing

Scoop June 3 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=259357

 

Steve Dillon Exhibit at The Culture Trust Luton

Scoop June 3 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=259383

 

Underground Comix Pioneer Denis Kitchen Rediscovers His Passion For Art At Age 75

Rob Salkowitz

May 27, 2022

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2022/05/27/underground-comix-pioneer-denis-kitchen-rediscovers-his-passion-for-art-at-age-75/

 

"From An Internet That Still Exists": Tony Wei Ling interviews SUPERPOSE'S Joe and Anka [webcomic]

Tony Wei Ling

June 1, 2022

https://solrad.co/from-an-internet-that-still-exists-tony-wei-ling-interviews-superposes-joe-and-anka

 

Kevin Feige, C.B. Cebulski, and Dan Buckley comment on Joe Quesada's departure from Marvel

David Brooke

May 31, 2022

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/05/31/marvel-comics-joe-quesada-kevin-feige-cebulski-buckley/

 

Joshua Williamson killed the Justice League to make a point about how many times the Justice League has been killed

DC Comics' Dark Crisis is an event comic about event comics

By Susana Polo@NerdGerhl Jun 1, 2022,

https://www.polygon.com/23068687/justice-league-death-dc-comics-dark-crisis

 

Decoded Pride #3 Interview and Cover Reveal

  Wendy Browne May 27, 2022

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2022/05/decoded-pride-3-interview-and-cover-reveal/

 

You Can Call Me Al's Baby: The Bundle of Joy in a Throwaway Title [UK]

Chloe Maveal

NeoText Review May 2022

https://neotextreview.com/culture/you-can-call-me-als-baby-the-bundle-of-joy-in-a-throwaway-title/

 

COVER REVEAL + INTERVIEW: LambCat on CURSED PRINCESS CLUB [webcomic]

Avery Kaplan

06/03/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/cover-reveal-interview-lambcat-on-cursed-princess-club/

 

'Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko' Review: Lovely Food, Bad Taste

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on June 3, 2022, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/02/movies/fortune-favors-lady-nikuko-review.html

 

Library, author, bookseller groups condemn legal action attempting to censor books in Virginia [Gender Queer]

American Library Association Wed, 06/01/2022

https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/06/ALA-condemns-VA-legal-action-censorshi

Shawnda Hines

 

Chambliss, Julian C., Nicole Huff, Kate Topham, and Justin Wigard. 2022. "Days of Future Past: Why Race Matters in Metadata [MSU Comic Art Collection]

Genealogy 6, no. 2: 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy6020047

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/2/47/htm

https://www.mdpi.com/2313-5778/6/2/47/pdf?version=1653646830

 

Margaret Galvan (2017) Archiving Wimmen: Collectives, Networks, and Comix,

Australian Feminist Studies, 32:91-92, 22-40, DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2017.1357007

To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08164649.2017.1357007

 

2022 Inkwell Awards Celebrates Gunslinger Spawn's Corona, 4th time winner Rapmund and more… #ink-magic

B.A.D.'s Comic Book PR  June 3 2022

https://preview.mailerlite.com/p1p3l4k1d2/1964782638724023691/a1h8/

 

BAT CHAT w/ Scott Snyder & Chip Zdarsky

 Jun 1, 2022

Best Jackett Press

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kl-vBB7eoI

 

D+Q Live: Rumi Hara & Rina Ayuyang

May 26, 2022

Drawn & Quarterly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-IFgD28LVI

 

Vault Comics proudly announces UNBANNED for Pride month

The initiative will give away free queer books to everyone, everywhere

Deanna Destito

06/03/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/vault-comics-announces-unbanned-pride-month/

 

Battle Action with Garth Ennis, Keith Burns & Patrick Goddard

2000 AD Thrillcast May 31 2022

https://soundcloud.com/2000-ad/battle-action-with-garth-ennis-keith-burns-patrick-goddard

 

Health Capsules 1961 – 2022

 D. D. Degg

June 2, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/06/02/health-capsules-1961-2022/

 

New Sand Springs Museum exhibit examines power and purpose of editorial cartoons

    Sharon Bishop-Baldwin

    Sand Springs Leader May 25, 2022

https://tulsaworld.com/community/sandsprings/news/new-sand-springs-museum-exhibit-examines-power-and-purpose-of-editorial-cartoons/article_cde7f5ca-daac-11ec-b195-e7824595a4dc.html

 

The Political Cartoonist Who Helped Lead to 'Boss' Tweed's Downfall

Thomas Nast gleefully—and bravely—mocked the Tammany Hall boss in multiple cartoons, prompting newspapers and authorities to investigate.

    Dave Roos

    May 31, 2022

    https://www.history.com/news/thomas-nast-boss-tweed-cartoons

 

Popeye is getting a makeover at age 93

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post June 3, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/03/popeye-strip-randy-milholland/

 

Will you relish 'The Bob's Burgers Movie'?

Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Candice Lim

Pop Culture Happy Hour June 1, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101535456/will-you-relish-the-bobs-burgers-movie

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/06/20220601_pchh_pchh_220601_bobs_burgers_final.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1101535456

 

Freedom to Read Advocates Sound Alarm as Obscenity Lawsuit Advances in Virginia [Gender Queer]

By Andrew Albanese

Jun 03, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/89504-freedom-to-read-advocates-sound-alarm-as-obscenity-lawsuit-advances-in-virginia.html

Cavna reports on new Popeye cartoonist

Popeye is getting a makeover at age 93

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post June 3, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/03/popeye-strip-randy-milholland/

NPR's Planet Money's Micro-face Comic sells for $10K

They succeeded in artificially creating a collectible -

PCHH reviews Bob's Burgers

Will you relish 'The Bob's Burgers Movie'?

Glen Weldon, Aisha Harris, Candice Lim

 

Pop Culture Happy Hour June 1, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/26/1101535456/will-you-relish-the-bobs-burgers-movie

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/06/20220601_pchh_pchh_220601_bobs_burgers_final.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1101535456

PW on VA Beach lawsuit censoring Gender Queer

Freedom to Read Advocates Sound Alarm as Obscenity Lawsuit Advances in Virginia [Gender Queer]

By Andrew Albanese 

Jun 03, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/89504-freedom-to-read-advocates-sound-alarm-as-obscenity-lawsuit-advances-in-virginia.html

Virginia Legal Action Threatens the Freedom to Read

Virginia Legal Action Threatens the Freedom to Read

https://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2022/06/ALA-condemns-VA-legal-action-censorship

On May 18, 2022, in a legal action that threatens the free speech rights of all Virginians, a Virginia congressional candidate, represented by a Virginia delegate, sought and obtained an order finding probable cause, based on limited, one-sided evidence, that two well-received, well-reviewed books, Gender Queer and A Court of Mist and Fury, might be "obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors." Initiated under an obscure state law that allows any Virginia citizen to file a complaint against any book sold in the state, the order obtained by the Virginia delegate asks the authors and publishers of the books to present evidence that the books are not obscene so that the judge can make a final decision regarding whether the books may be legally sold in Virginia. 

This legal action could profoundly limit the availability of books in the Commonwealth of Virginia. No book has been banned for obscenity in the United States in more than 50 years. Prohibiting the sale of books is a form of censorship that cannot be tolerated under the First Amendment.

The Supreme Court has established a narrow test for obscenity that requires that the text as a whole, even if it references sex or nudity, lack serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value. Neither of the books challenged in these cases comes remotely close to meeting the Supreme Court's long-established criterion for a finding of obscenity. 

Gender Queer is a multi-award winning coming of age story that clearly has serious literary value.  School review committees across the country composed of teachers, parents, students and librarians have upheld its value for adolescent readers, and it is available in many school and public libraries. Many of those committees have explicitly found that the book's few sexual references are not erotic, but instead are meant to inform the reader about the main character's struggles with eir identity and coming of age, struggles which are obviously of great interest and value to adolescents. In fact, school districts ranging from Maryland's Howard County to Kentucky's Jefferson County have put Gender Queer on "recommended" or "great" lists for high school students. It won the 2021 Iowa High School Battle of the Books. The School Library Journal called it "a great resource for those who identify as nonbinary or asexual as well as for those who know someone who identifies that way and wish to better understand." Contrary to well-settled United States Supreme Court precedent and Virginia law, suggestions that a few depictions of sexual experience render the entire, 240-page book obscene are, quite simply, false.

A Court of Mist and Fury is also a widely praised work with serious literary and artistic value. Booklist, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and USA Today gave it strongly positive reviews, calling it a worthy addition to its popular fantasy genre and praising it for its portrayals of mental health struggles, female empowerment, and the dynamics of romantic relationships. A bestselling novel that has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list 15 times, A Court of Mist and Fury was also chosen as a Goodreads Choice winner. Readers on Goodreads.com overwhelmingly rate it highly; out of more than 700,000 reviews, more than 90 per cent of the reviewers give it four or more stars. 

Those who care about individual liberties and the freedom to read should understand precisely what the law requires, should the petitioners succeed: the law in question will make it illegal for any bookstore to sell these books in Virginia. This petition aims to prevent readers from making a personal choice to read these books at all. The petitioners' subsequent statements to the press make it clear that they intend to use this action as a means to criminally prosecute librarians, booksellers, and publishers. 

Over the years, many people have tried to ban books by claiming that they are obscene. If persons like the petitioners obtain similar orders every time they have objections to a book, it will chill the freedom to read and stifle the voices of authors and publishers.  Librarians, educators, authors, publishers, and booksellers will be targeted for making available books that everyone has the right to choose to read. 

The undersigned organizations strongly urge Virginians–and all Americans–to stand against any attempt to use government action to dictate what we can read and how to think about what we read. Prohibiting the sale and distribution of books is an affront to our democratic values and threatens each person's and each family's individual liberties. It is contrary to our principles of democracy to allow anyone, regardless of their beliefs or political position, to determine what other Americans can read. 

Signed by:

ACLU 

ACLU of Virginia

American Booksellers for Free Expression

American Library Association

Association of American Publishers

Authors Guild

Barnes & Noble Booksellers

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Freedom to Read Foundation

National Coalition Against Censorship

National Council of Teachers of English

PEN America

Virginia Association of School Librarians

Virginia Library Association