Saturday, April 15, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/14/2023

 

CLOVER PRESS TO REISSUE VOLS. 1-6 OF LOAC 'DICK TRACY' COLLECTIONS With Larger Trim Size, Rescanned Sunday Pages

  by Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53858/clover-press-reissue-vols-1-6-loac-dick-tracy-collections 

 

FORMER COMIXOLOGY EXECS TO MIX DIGITAL AND PRINT WITH NEW PUBLISHER, DSTLRY; Collectible Print Issues, Limited Digital, and Equity Stake For Creators 

Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53854/former-comixology-execs-mix-digital-print-new-publisher-dstlry

 

New Comic Book Publisher Sees Creators as Partners, and Stockholders

By George Gene Gustines

A version of this article appears in print on April 14, 2023, Section B, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: New Comic Book Publisher Sees Artists as Partners, Offering a Bigger Slice of the Financial Pie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/business/comic-books-creators-dstlry.html

 

Ex-Amazon Execs Announce New Comics And Collectibles Venture DSTLRY

Rob Salkowitz

Apr 13, 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2023/04/13/ex-amazon-execs-announce-new-comics-and-collectibles-venture-dstlry/

 

ComiXology Veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher Launch Comic Book Publishing Company

By Emell Adolphus

Apr 14, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91985-comixology-veterans-david-steinberger-and-chip-mosher-launch-comic-book-publishing-company.html

 

Rachel Pollack, Transgender Activist and Authority on Tarot, Dies at 77

By George Gene Gustines

April 13, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/arts/rachel-pollack-dead.html

 

Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77

Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma

David Barnett

8 Apr 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/08/rachel-pollack-trans-activist-and-comic-book-writer-dies-aged-77

 

Al Jaffee, iconoclastic cartooning legend of Mad Magazine fame, dies at 102

By Jessica Gelt

April 10, 2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-04-10/al-jaffee-mad-magazine-cartooning-legend-dies-at-102

 

Al Jaffee, legendary Mad magazine cartoonist, dies aged 102

The artist behind the magazine's famous "fold-in" drawing, Jaffee was Mad's longest-tenured contributor and only retired when he was 99

Sian Cain

10 Apr 2023  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/11/al-jaffee-legendary-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-aged-102

 

MAD's Al Jaffee

Mark Frauenfelder and  Ruben Bolling

Gweek 20 (2011)

https://soundcloud.com/boing-boing/020-mads-al-jaffee

 

DC Comics Giving Away Green Lantern Rings Again With New #1

The new Green Lantern #1 for May will come with free rings. For every 50 copies of #1 ordered, retailers will qualify to order one free bag.

13 Apr 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-giving-away-green-lantern-rings-again-with-new-1/

 

Wild River Comics Publisher Closing Down, Staff Laid Off [England]

Bleeding Cool has been informed that the editorial, marketing and publication staff have all been laid off and the company is expected to close.

 13 Apr 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/wild-river-comics-publisher-closing-down-staff-laid-off/

 

Trust The Fungus – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | April 14, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/trust-the-fungus-this-weeks-links/

 

'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein

Pop art founder made millions, but the comic book artists he copied struggled financially

Dalya Alberge

Sun 9 Apr 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/apr/09/new-allegations-of-plagiarism-against-roy-lichtenstein

 

Jeremy Holt and Axel Alonso on "Gatsby"

By Chris Cole | April 10th, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/jeremy-holt-axel-alonso-gatsby/

 

A Florida school banned an adaptation of Anne Frank's diary because Moms for Liberty deemed it 'sexually explicit'

Isobel van Hagen

Apr 9, 2023,

https://www.businessinsider.com/moms-for-liberty-get-florida-school-to-ban-anne-franks-diary-adaption-2023-4?r=US&IR=T

 

Version of 'Anne Frank' removed from Vero Beach High School library after complaint

 Colleen Wixon

Treasure Coast Newspapers April 4 2023

https://www.tcpalm.com/story/news/education/indian-river-county-schools/2023/04/04/illustrated-anne-frank-book-pulled-from-shelves-after-complaint/70076573007/

 

ImageText 13.3

https://imagetextjournal.com/category/volume-13-issue-3/

 

    The Joke Work of Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Olszewski

    https://imagetextjournal.com/the-joke-work-of-batman-the-killing-joke/

 

    Journey to the West goes Queer by Christopher Younie

https://imagetextjournal.com/journey-to-the-west-goes-queer/

 

    Searching for Legitimacy: Spawn, McFarlane, and the Homage Cover by Jake Zawlacki

https://imagetextjournal.com/searching-for-legitimacy-spawn-mcfarlane-and-the-homage-cover/

 

Book Reviews

 

    Review of Drawing on Religion by Matthew Brake

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-drawing-on-religion/

 

    Review of Who Understands Comics? Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension by Jason DeHart

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-who-understands-comics-questioning-the-universality-of-visual-language-comprehension/

 

    Review of R. Crumb: Literature, Autobiography, and the Quest for Self by Jesse Matlock

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-r-crumb-literature-autobiography-and-the-quest-for-self/

 

    Review of Vigilante Feminists and Agents of Destiny by Chandler Mordecai

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-vigilante-feminists-and-agents-of-destiny/

 

    Review of The Comics of Alison Bechdel: From the Outside In by Noah Mullens

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-the-comics-of-alison-bechdel-from-the-outside-in/

 

    Review of Understanding China Through Comics by Sophia Pan

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-understanding-china-through-comics/

 

    Review of Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal by Victoria Rahbar

https://imagetextjournal.com/review-of-ms-marvels-america-no-normal/

 

From the Classroom

 

    Amity Teen: New Mobile Game Ad by Estefania Alfonso

https://imagetextjournal.com/amity-teen-new-mobile-game-ad/

 

    When You Hear Hoofbeats by Kaitlyn Mi

https://imagetextjournal.com/when-you-hear-hoofbeats/

 

    From the Classroom: Critical-Making with Comics and Graphic Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Justin Wigard, Zaria Cannon, and Claudia Kramer

https://imagetextjournal.com/from-the-classroom-critical-making-with-comics-and-graphic-medicine-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/

 

Breaking down '007: For King and Country' with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson

The latest comics series features heaps of globe-trotting and character development galore.

Chris Coplan

April 11, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/11/007-for-king-and-country-qa/

 

The Art and Comics of Austin English @ Davidson College, 3/23/2023

Austin English

Apr 12, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMhPDxcIVS4

 

Marry, F---, or Kill with Alternative Manga Artist Shiu Yoshijima

by Reuben Baron, Apr 9th 2023

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2023-04-09/marry-f-or-kill-with-alternative-manga-artist-shiu-yoshijima/.196921

 

'Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman' Review: This Giant Frog Needs Your Help

By Claire Shaffer

April 13, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/movies/blind-willow-sleeping-woman-review.html

 

'Suzume' Review: Gods, Spells and Instagram Posts

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on April 14, 2023, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Girl on a Mythical Mission.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/13/movies/suzume-review-makoto-shinkai.html

 

Bob Iger Addresses Ike Perlmutter Firing, Says He'd Be "Glad" to Meet With Ron DeSantis

Alex Weprin

April 13, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bob-iger-ike-perlmutter-ron-desantis-1235373351/

 

The 2023 CARTOONIST STUDIO PRIZE winners revealed!

The Award is presented by The Center for Cartoon Studies and The Beat.

Avery Kaplan

04/14/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2023-cartoonist-studio-prize-winners/

 

Garth Ennis on The Ribbon Queen from AWA Studios

AWA Studios

Apr 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eufYMZgiw

 

County Noir With Stephan Franck

wordballoon

April 13 2023

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

 

How to make a comic book studio

Steve Lieber

Helioscope PDX

Apr 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUgavcF1gHM

 

Storycomic Presents (Episode 257): Andre Owens, Comic Creator

Barney Smith

Storycomic Presents! Apr 11, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U5Pl-cgk_E

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 561: Chris Robinson interview [black comics]

Calvin Reid

on 04/10/2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1252

 

Off Panel #396: The Thing with Joe Sparrow

David Harper

Apr 10, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-397-the-thing-with-joe-sparrow

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

 

Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality [Pan Cooke]

Jonathan Franklin

April 10, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/10/1153842458/cartoon-illustrations-police-brutality-pan-cooke

 

Mostly through images, a daughter grieves her mother in 'Ephemera'

Tahneer Oksman

April 9, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/09/1168334853/briana-loewinsohn-graphic-novel-ephemera-a-love-letter-to-her-mother

 

As a female gamer, here's how I tune out the trolls

I've been called every gross name under the sun

Perspective by Tenzing Lhamo Dorjee

April 9, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/04/09/female-gamer-heres-how-i-tune-out-trolls/

 

Towards Manga as Cultural Potpourri: Dramaturgy of Ethnicity and Diversity in Selected Malaysian Manga                               

Rachel Suet Kay Chan

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Ethnic and Diversity Studies (JOEDS)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4207-023X

https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/7

https://joeds.com.my/index.php/home/article/view/7/2

 

Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the Sea has sold 378,000 copies in two weeks

It was the third week in a row a graphic novel was #1

Heidi MacDonald

04/14/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dog-man-sales-378262-copies-in-two-weeks/

 

Ardipa, I. P. M. C., Utami, N. M. V., & Jayantini, I. G. A. S. R. (2023). An Analysis Types of Onomatopoeia Words in Justice League Comic. Journal of Language and Applied Linguistics, 4(1), 66-72. https://doi.org/10.22334/traverse.v4i1.221

https://traverse.asia/index.php/traverse/article/view/221

https://traverse.asia/index.php/traverse/article/view/221/96

 

A friend's mysterious death becomes a writer's inspiration [in print as A relative larger than life, and his sudden death; William Nealy]

In 'This Isn't Going to End Well,' Daniel Wallace explores the mysterious life of a man he thought of as a brother

Review by Joan Frank

Washington Post April 14, 2023 : C1, 3

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/13/daniel-wallace-memoir-this-isnt/

 

This Isn't Going to End Well: The True Story of a Man I Thought I Knew

By Daniel Wallace. Illustrations by William Nealy

Algonquin. 258 pp. $28

Friday, April 14, 2023

William Nealy recalled, in Post book review

A friend's mysterious death becomes a writer's inspiration [in print as A relative larger than life, and his sudden death; William Nealy]

In 'This Isn't Going to End Well,' Daniel Wallace explores the mysterious life of a man he thought of as a brother

NPR on comics

Why a portrait artist from Ireland started making comics about U.S. police brutality [Pan Cooke]

Latest Lily webcomic on gaming

As a female gamer, here's how I tune out the trolls

I've been called every gross name under the sun

AIPT talks to PKJ about 007

Breaking down '007: For King and Country' with writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson

The latest comics series features heaps of globe-trotting and character development galore.

Thursday, April 13, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/13/2023



Maurice C Horn June 28, 1931  -  December 30, 2022

https://www.kleinbergfunerals.com/obituaries/Maurice-C-Horn?obId=26903201

 

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book [in print as Teachers conference boots climate deniers for pro-carbon comic book].

By Maxine Joselow

April 13, 2023: A7

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

 

MARCH 2023 CIRCANA BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 KIDS GRAPHIC NOVELS

A First - DC Gets a Title in the Top 20

Brigid Alverson on April 13, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/53848/march-2023-circana-bookscan-top-20-kids-graphic-novels

 

WORLD ACCORDING TO GRIEPP: PHIL SEULING AND BUD PLANT DESERVE TO BE IN THE EISNER HALL OF FAME

This Year, for the 50th Anniversary of the Direct Market

  by Milton Griepp on April 13, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/53849/world-according-griepp-phil-seuling-bud-plant-deserve-to-be-eisner-hall-fame

 

DSTLRY launches from David Steinberger and Chip Mosher

Heidi MacDonald

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dstlry-launches-from-david-steinberger-and-chip-mosher/

 

Desegregating Comics

Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

Edited by Qiana Whitted
 Rutgers University Press, 2023

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/desegregating-comics/9781978825017

 

Introduction: "An Apt Cartoon" 
QIANA WHITTED

Part I Iconographies of Race and Racism

1 Rose O'Neill and Visual Tropes of Blackness 
IAN GORDON
2 The Passing Fancies of Krazy Kat 
NICHOLAS SAMMOND
3 "How Else Could I Have Created a Black Boy in That Era?": Racial Caricature and Will Eisner's Legacy 61
ANDREW J. KUNKA

Part II Formal Innovation and Aesthetic Range

4 Desegregating Black Art Genealogies: An Invitation 
REBECCA WANZO
5 Misdirections in Matt Baker's Phantom Lady 
CHRIS GAVALER AND MONALESIA EARLE
6 The Art of Alvin Hollingsworth 
BLAIR DAVIS
7 "Hello Public!": Jackie Ormes in the Print Culture of the Pittsburgh Courier 
ELI BOONIN-VAIL

Part III Comics Readership and Respectability Politics

8 "Never Any Dirty Ones": Comics Readership among African American Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century 
CAROL L. TILLEY
9 All-Negro Comics and Counterhistories of Race in the Golden Age 
QIANA WHITTED
10 "This Business of White and Black": Captain Marvel's Steamboat, the Youthbuilders, and Fawcett's Roy Campanella, Baseball Hero 
BRIAN CREMINS
11 Al Hollingsworth's Kandy: Race, Colorism, and Romance in African American Newspaper Comics 
MORA J. BEAUCHAMP-BYRD

Part IV Disrupting Genre, Character, and Convention

12 Diabolical Master of Black Magic: Examining Agency through Villainy in "The Voodoo Man" 
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
13 Love in Color: Fawcett's Revolutionary Negro Romance 
JACQUE NODELL
14 An Afrofuturist Legacy: Neil Knight and Black Speculative Capital 
JULIAN C. CHAMBLISS
15 "For They Were There!": Dell Comics' Lobo and the Black Cowboy in American Comic Books 
MIKE LEMON

 

Disney's Live-Action 'Lilo & Stitch' Finds Its Nani, Lilo's Sister (Exclusive)

Newcomer Maia Kealoha is playing Lilo, while Zach Galifianakis also joined the cast in February.

Beatrice Verhoeven

April 13, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/disney-lilo-stitch-live-action-nani-lilos-sister-1235373828/

 

Episode 574: Paul Rainey

Brian Heater

RiYL April 07, 2023

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-574-paul-rainey

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/6430be0def5a97001196ff83/media.mp3

 

Episode 570: Charles R. Johnson

Brian Heater

RiYL March 09, 2023

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-570-charles-r-johnson

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/640a46a6c84e2f001164bcd4/media.mp3

 

Legendary Mad cartoonist Al Jaffee passes away at 102

By Will Salmon

Newsarama April 12 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/legendary-mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-passes-away-at-102/

 

The Bestselling Comic in North America, CAT KID COMIC CLUB, Returns… In Musical Form! TheaterWorkUSA's CAT KID COMIC CLUB: THE MUSICAL will debut this summer. Avery Kaplan 04/13/2023 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-bestselling-comic-in-north-america-cat-kid-comic-club-returns-in-musical-form/

 

David Steinberger and Chip Mosher explain DSTLRY, their new comics company

Heidi MacDonald

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/david-steinberger-chip-mosher-explain-dstlry-new-comics-company/

 

Ty Whitton

    COMIC BOOK YETI Jan 17 2023

 

Come Discover the Secret Origin of Santa Claus - An Interview with VALYA DUDYCZ LUPESCU

https://www.comicbookyeti.com/post/come-discover-the-secret-origin-of-santa-claus-an-interview-with-valya-dudycz-lupescu

 

Raina Telgemeier exhibition coming to Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum next month

The new exhibition will spotlight YA comics superstar Raina Telgemeier's own work, as well as the work of those who influenced her.

Dean Simons

04/13/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/raina-telgemeier-exhibition-billy-ireland-cartoon-museum/

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/11/2023

Tony Rose has been searching the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for me, in addition to helping me format citations, so you'll see a spate of old citations from the ADG at the bottom of this list and in tomorrow's. - Mike


Chip Zdarsky Interview | Spider-Man by Chip Zdarsky Omnibus | Daredevil | Devil's Reign | Batman

Omar and Melanie
Near Mint Condition  April 10 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKYxN2kkCU

 

R.I.P. AL JAFFEE

Creator of the 'MAD Magazine' Fold-In

 by Brigid Alverson on April 10, 2023 
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53821/r-i-p-al-jaffee

 

R.I.P. Al Jaffee

One of the most innovative, prolific cartoonists that ever lived, died today. At 102.

Jason Chatfield

New York Cartoons (26) Apr 10, 2023

https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/26-rip-al-jaffee

 

Al Jaffee, 1921-2023

Michael Dean | April 11, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/al-jaffee-1921-2023/

 

Al Jaffee – RIP

D. D. Degg

Daily Cartoonist April 10 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/10/al-jaffee-rip/

 

Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102

By Neil Genzlinger

A version of this article appears in print on April 11, 2023, Section B, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Al Jaffee, Whose Wit Added Wrinkles to Mad's Back Page, Dies at 102.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dead at 102

By HILLEL ITALIE
AP April 10 2023

https://apnews.com/article/al-jafee-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-f676fbeb190b44c8aa4abcb0daa5d571

 

Al Jaffee of MAD Magazine Dies, Aged 102

Al Jaffee has passed away at age of 102. Best known for Mad Magazine, his fold-in pages were published every month from 1964 til 2019.

  10 Apr 2023  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/al-jaffee-of-mad-magazine-dies-aged-102/

 

[MAD Magazine mourns the loss of the incomparable Al Jaffee, creator of the MAD Fold-In, "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," and many other MAD features through the decades].

MAD Magazine April 10 2023

https://www.facebook.com/MADMagazine/posts/pfbid02DyhT1JsJkxwQFQ7PVRFkCoNM5RUT1BjjWHZKcXmGAU366AtajHV3pL3rqUQti12fl

 

AL JAFFEE TRIBUTE

By The Editors Monday, April 10th, 2023

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2023/04/10/al-jaffee-tribute

 

MAD Celebrates Al Jaffee's 95th Birthday

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/31/mad-celebrates-al-jaffees-95th-birthday

 

R.I.P. RACHEL POLLACK

Creator of Early Transgender Character, Coagula, in 'Doom Patrol'

Brigid Alverson on April 10, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53813/r-i-p-rachel-pollack

 

C2E2 2023 PHOTOS – PART 3-4

Saturday

Posted by Dennis Viau on April 11, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53820/c2e2-2023-photos-part-3

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53819/c2e2-2023-photos-part-4

 

Bad Idea Comics Now Exchanging Pins For Plastic Eggs

Bad Idea Comics' latest Bad Idea in an attempt to get some free press and hype up the collectors market has once again worked.

by Rich Johnston

 10 Apr 2023 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bad-idea-comics-now-exchanging-pins-for-plastic-eggs/

 

RiYL April 09, 2023

Brian Heater

Episode: 575: (Bonus) Chip Zdarsky

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-575-bonus-chip-zdarsky

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/64332aa1cc2bdf0011214c0d/media.mp3

 

Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth introduce the National Cartoonists Society Foundation Jay Kennedy Award

Jason Chatfield

Feb 21, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqnn9AcKSiE

 

Getting the same tax breaks as the heterosexuals- a look at Rob Kirby's Marry Me a Little

"You have to come out every single day, everywhere you go and good luck with that because that's never fun…"

Scott Cederlund

Apr 11, 2023

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/marry-me-a-little-rob-kirby-review/

 

Alan Menken talks adaptations of 'Aladdin' and 'The Little Mermaid'

By Thomas Floyd

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/10/alan-menken-aladdin-little-mermaid/

 

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book

At a meeting of science teachers, the CO2 Coalition handed out comic books depicting carbon as good for planet. They got kicked out.

By Maxine Joselow

April 11, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

 

'Astrobots' Interview: Simon Furman Plays With Some New Toys

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Mar 28, 2023

https://previewsworld.com/Article/267524-Astrobots-Interview-Simon-Furman-Plays-With-Some-New-Toys

 

Origins of Boom Studios With Ross Richie [2006 interview]

Word balloon Apr 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psXe5fxmc_s

 

'The Marvels' Trailer Sees Brie Larson Team With Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani on a Mission That "Changes Everyone"

Aaron Couch

April 11, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-marvels-trailer-first-look-brie-larson-1235214127/ 

 

Rep. Webster Barnaby rebuked for attacks on transgender people [as X-Men, mutants]

Noah Hertz

West Volusa Beacon April 11, 2023

https://beacononlinenews.com/2023/04/11/rep-webster-barnaby-rebuked-for-attacks-on-transgender-people/

 

Jeremy Holt and Axel Alonso on "Gatsby"

By Chris Cole | April 10th, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/jeremy-holt-axel-alonso-gatsby/

 

Mickey Bars, Turkey Legs and the Obsession With Disney Food

Tejal Rao

    April 10, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/dining/disneyland-disney-world-restaurants-food.html

 

Draw a Pigeon Using Only His First Name | The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Apr 4, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRc3Dc9GCA

 

X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years

 Mike Queen

Library of Congress' Headlines and Heroes Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print blog

April 11, 2023

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/04/x-men-60-uncanny-years/

 

HOME MOVIES [The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec]

KAREN MARTIN

 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, September 06, 2013

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2013%2F09%2F06&id=Ar03304&sk=EAAC41A6&viewMode=text

 

LITTLE ROCK ARTIST DRAWING ON COMIC-BOOK TALENT; CHRIS RAYMOND PUBLISHES THE FIRST IN WHAT HE HOPES WILL BE A SIX-ISSUE STORY LINE

SUSAN PIERCE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, June 17, 1994

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1994%2F06%2F17&id=Ar09900&sk=6AAB8126&viewMode=text

 

Captain America, Agent Carter team up tonight

MICHAEL STOREY

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 2D

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2016%2F01%2F19&id=Ar02200&sk=38B7CBED&viewMode=text

 

Mysteries solved: The truth about seamonkeys, X-ray glasses and other comic temptations

RON WOLFE

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE December 06, 2011, 27

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2011%2F12%2F06&id=Ar02704&sk=6D58B83F&viewMode=text

 

Books, graphic novels cover common ground [writers]

BY VAN JENSEN

 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, February 15, 2007, 37

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2007%2F02%2F15&id=Ar03701&sk=922EECE3&viewMode=text

 

COMIC ADVENTURES: Post-Modern Anxst, Stray Bullets, Strangers in Paradise, The X-Flies and Zero Zero represent the wide variety of subjects available in independent comics.

SUSAN PIERCE 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette August 16, 1996

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1996%2F08%2F16&id=Ar13900&sk=70BA27DD&viewMode=text

 

Old comic books could be gold mine

Robbie Moreland

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, January 26, 1992, 44

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1992%2F01%2F26&id=Ar04400&sk=AFA223D3&viewMode=image

 

Arkansas News in Brief [comic book sales mail fraud]

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, October 31, 1986,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1986%2F10%2F31&id=Ar06300&sk=3726F555&viewMode=text

 

Classy comics Classics Illustrated wasn't the average superhero comic book filled with 'characters zipping around in long underwear,' according to Bill Jones, a Little Rock author who has written a book about the series -- they were his 'gateway to the world of literature.'

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, November 29, 2001,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2001%2F11%2F29&id=Ar08800&sk=CD577F43&viewMode=text

 

Comics with class: Graphic novels and comic books are increasingly being used as teaching and journalistic tools

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette September 24, 2014, 4E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F09%2F24&id=Ar03704&sk=6D36570C&viewMode=text

 

Holy diploma, Batman — a college degree?

Comic books take giant leap from fandom to course study at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia [Randy Duncan]

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 28

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F04%2F22&id=Ar02800&sk=390EDEC4&viewMode=text

 

DC Comics returns to the good stuff [animation]

CURTIS LANNING

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, April 26, 2019, 3E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2019%2F04%2F26&id=Ar05102&sk=FCD25E8F&viewMode=text

 

Surrogate makes a name for comics newcomer Venditti

BY VAN JENSEN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 1

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2006%2F09%2F26&id=Ar02901&sk=15565DA1&viewMode=text

Tuesday, April 11, 2023

Ben Hatke's new book previewed at the Beat

PREVIEW: In REYNARD'S TALE, Ben Hatke pays tribute to the trickster fox

The illustrated prose book is due out from First Second Books next week.

LoC blogs on X-Men comic books

NPR's 'Mad Magazine' cartoonist Al Jaffee has died at 102

'Mad Magazine' cartoonist Al Jaffee has died at 102


Al Jaffee, the award-winning cartoonist, has died. He was 102. Jaffee developed some of Mad Magazine's most influential features, including the Fold-In and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."

Cavna on the great Al Jaffee

From Mad's Al Jaffee, a beautiful blend of intelligence and irreverence

Troy-Jeffrey Allen's 'Astrobots' Interview

'Astrobots' Interview: Simon Furman Plays With Some New Toys

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Climate deniers are stooping to propaganda comic books now

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book

At a meeting of science teachers, the CO2 Coalition handed out comic books depicting carbon as good for planet. They got kicked out.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

The Post talks to Alan Menken about updating Disney musicals

Alan Menken talks adaptations of 'Aladdin' and 'The Little Mermaid'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/10/alan-menken-aladdin-little-mermaid/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/10/2023

NEW ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS SET IN THE WORLD OF GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'WILD CARDS'

Two Tales of Mutants and Superheroes

 Brigid Alverson on April 7, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53803/new-original-graphic-novels-set-world-george-r-r-martins-wild-cards

 

C2E2 2023 PHOTOS – PART 1 - 2

Friday

 Dennis Viau on April 10, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53808/c2e2-2023-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53807/c2e2-2023-photos-part-2

 

MICHAEL TIERNEY OF THE COMIC BOOK STORE ON CENSORSHIP BOARD WAITING FOR GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE

'It is the Store Clerk and the Librarian Caught in the Crosshairs'

ICv2 April 10, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/talk-back/view/53804/michael-tierney-the-comic-book-store-censorship-board-waiting-governors-signature

 

Rachel Pollack, Of Doom Patrol & Vertigo Tarot, Dies At 76

08 Apr 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rachel-pollack-of-doom-patrol-vertigo-tarot-dies-at-76/

 

Commentary: Princess Peach started out as a boring damsel in distress. Times have changed

TRACY BROWN

APRIL 6, 2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-04-06/super-mario-bros-princess-peach-feminine-damsel-distress

 

Review: 'Wahoo!' isn't quite right for mildly amusing, hectic 'Super Mario Bros. Movie'

BY KATIE WALSH

APRIL 4, 2023 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-04-04/super-mario-bros-movie-review-chris-pratt-voice

 

BookScan 2022 Notes: what was the best selling superhero graphic novel and more

Heidi MacDonald

04/10/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/bookscan-2022-what-was-the-best-selling-superhero-graphic-novel/

 

The Most Controversial Comic Strip Moments In History

By S. Flannagan/April 9, 2023

https://www.grunge.com/1250528/controversial-comic-strip-moments-history/

 

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's cartoon maestro, dies at 102

He was Mad magazine's longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans

By Ali Bahrampour

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/10/mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-dead/

 

Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102

By Neil Genzlinger

April 10, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

Al Jaffee, Trailblazing 'Mad' Magazine Cartoonist, Dies at 102

Aaron Couch

April 10, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jaffe-dead-mad-magazine-1235370593/

 

Apr 10 2023

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode thirty | Declan Shalvey, part two

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/my-joints-are-almost-frozen

 

"It's Like Putting Together A Puzzle": An Interview With Daria Tessler

Jacob Grubman | April 10, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/the-reality-for-me-has-been-that-its-gotten-progressively-harder-an-interview-with-daria-tessler/

Monday, April 10, 2023

Al Jaffee photos from his 2011 DC book talk

I thought I had more since I've seen him several times. This is from Dec 15 2011, when he was signing his biography. I'll bet I recorded audio of this if anyone's interested in hearing it.

 

MAD magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman signing their book at the DCJCC:

101_2962 Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman

101_2963  Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman

101_2966  Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman

101_2965  Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman

101_2964  Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman


Jaffee bookplate 2
Al Jaffee's bookplate that he uses instead of signing due to a tremor.

Jaffee bookplate 1
Al Jaffee's bookplate that he uses instead of signing the biography Al Jaffee's Mad Life (by Mary-Lou Weisman).

The great Al Jaffee is gone

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's cartoon maestro, dies at 102

He was Mad magazine's longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans