Saturday, August 26, 2023

Cavna on new Nancy's Bushmiller graphic bio

A loving tribute to Ernie Bushmiller, cartoonist of 'Nancy'

In his graphic biography 'Three Rocks,' Bill Griffith traces the rise (and explores the genius) of the man who created one of the most beloved comic strip characters of all time

Fairfax Comic Con is this weekend

Fairfax Comic Con is today and tomorrow and Dulles Expo Center if you are looking for something to do. Carolyn Belefski is attending.

Here's the Kids Love Comics schedule: https://www.fairfaxcomiccon.com/kidslovecomics




Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/25/2023

THIRD ANNUAL TOM SPURGEON AWARD GOES TO CALVIN REID

Publishers Weekly Senior Editor Honored for Raising Awareness of Comics and Graphic Novels

  Brigid Alverson on August 24, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54944/third-annual-tom-spurgeon-award-goes-calvin-reid

 

FAN EXPO CHICAGO 2023 PHOTOS - PARTs 1-3.

Dennis Viau on August 24-25, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54935/fan-expo-chicago-2023-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54948/fan-expo-chicago-2023-photos-part-2

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54947/fan-expo-chicago-2023-photos-part-3

 

Comics Stolen at Fan Expo Chicago
Scoop August 25 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=270073

 

In Memoriam: Dan Green
Scoop August 25 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=270066

 

Reader Beware! An Interview with Goosebumps Cover Artist Tim Jacobus
Amanda.

Scoop August 25 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=270008

 

The Lamont Larson Collection
Scoop August 25 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270051

 

Spider-Man Would Like to Remind You All That The Punisher is a Villain

23 Aug 2023  

by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/spider-man-would-like-to-remind-you-all-that-the-punisher-is-a-villain/

 

Comic Store In Your Future – Foiled Again By Marvel Charging The Most

Foils are being used by multiple comic publishers. Why does one only give 16% off while the others give a better discount to stores?

  24 Aug 2023  

by Rod Lamberti

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-foiled-again-by-marvel-charging-the-most/

 

Tom King & Peter Gross Recreate Animal Farm for Today's America

Tom King and Peter Gross, take advantage of Animal Farm by George Orwell moving into public domain, with a new series, Animal Pound.

 24 Aug 2023  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-king-peter-gross-recreate-animal-farm-for-todays-america/

 

Dynamite To Publish Books Based On The US Post Office's Mr. Zip

Mr. ZIP was a cartoon character used by the United States Postal Service, to encourage the public to include the ZIP Code.

  24 Aug 2023  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-to-publish-books-masd-on-the-us-post-offices-mr-zip/

 

Walter Simonson, Marc Silvestri & Adam Kubert Remember Dan Green, RIP

Longstanding comic book inker Dan Green has passed away at the age of 70. Comic book creators remember the man and his work.

by Rich Johnston

 24 Aug 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/walter-simonson-marc-silvestri-adam-kubert-remember-dan-green-rip/

 

Dan Green, Longtime "Uncanny X-Men" Inker, Dead at 70

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | August 22nd, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/dan-green-obit/

 

Natural's Not In It – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | August 25, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/naturals-not-in-it-this-weeks-links/

 

Michael Schwartz talks humor, heart, and hauntings in 'Armored'

The Kickstarter campaign for the poignant horror tale is already live.

Chris Coplan

August 24, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/08/24/michael-schwartz-armored-qa/

 

Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt Unveil "The Midnite Show"

By Mark Tweedale | August 22nd, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/bunn-hurtt-midnite-show/

 

Ghosts of Comics Past: 1963

By Drew Bradley | July 17th, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-1963/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: 1970

By Drew Bradley | May 18th, 2020
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-1970/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: 1971

By Drew Bradley | July 12th, 2021

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-1971/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: 1972

By Drew Bradley | September 5th, 2022
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-1972/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: 1973

By Drew Bradley | August 21st, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-1973/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: July in Comic History – the First Con, Impact, and Contracts

By Drew Bradley | July 3rd, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-july-2023/

 

Ghosts of Comics' Past: August in Comic History

By Drew Bradley | August 7th, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news-columns/ghosts-of-comics-past-august-23/

 

"All These Stories Wanting to Come Out": An Interview with Ivana Filipovich

Today on SOLRAD, we present a career spanning interview with IVANA FILIPOVICH by Hagai Palevsky.

Hagai Palevsky

August 21, 2023

https://solrad.co/all-these-stories-wanting-to-come-out-an-interview-with-ivana-filipovich

 

'It's a small number of people who are very loud': Local libraries grapple with book challenges, bans

Quincey Reese

Aug. 22, 2023  

 https://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/its-a-small-number-of-people-who-are-very-loud-local-libraries-grapple-with-book-challenges-bans/

 

Alex Norris in conversation about their book on love, feelings and relationships

"Love is confusing and messy and embracing that is more than helpful. There's no right way of doing things."

Aug 18, 2023

https://www.thebookseller.com/author-interviews/alex-norris-in-conversation-about-their-book-on-love-feelings-and-relationships

by Charlotte Eyre

 

Off Panel #413: The Superhero State of the Union 2023 with Oliver Sava

David Harper

Aug 21, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel413-the-superhero-state-of-the-union-2023-with-oliver-sava

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Oliver_Sava_2023.mp3

 

Bill Griffith Interview: Talking About Nancy and THREE ROCKS [aka Bill Griffith on the Art of THREE ROCKS]

Henry Chamberlain
August 22, 2023  

https://comicsgrinder.com/2023/08/22/bill-griffith-interview-talking-about-nancy-and-three-rocks/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g40gQg-cUWE

 

Kyle Starks Talks DC Marvel His books and More

wordballoon

  Aug 23, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCCoNuGjdA8

 

An Artist on Two Wheels: How Oakland cartoonist Fred Noland sketched out his life.

By Molly Colin

Aug 17, 2023
https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a44841275/an-artist-on-two-wheels/

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 581: Image Moves Book Distribution to S&S

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

on 08/21/2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1272

 

Busi Rizzi, G. (2023). Do AIs dream of electric comics? Generative AI models, digital memory, and creativity. La Memoria Digitale. Forme Del Testo e Organizzazione Della Conoscenza. Atti Del XII Convegno Annuale AIUCD.

https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/01H89X6FR6HNJ1HHH6BHFAS6EM

 

The Art of Dismantling Taboos in Zainab Fasiki's Artistic Activism

Nevine El Nossery

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies   Volume 19, Number 2, July 2023

pp. 249-257

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/904778

 

DC's swimsuit special artists on making superheroes recognizable but sexy

Get a sneak peek at one of three random centerfolds of G'nort's Swimsuit Edition issue

By Susana Polo@NerdGerhl Aug 24, 2023,

https://www.polygon.com/23841865/dc-comics-swimsuit-issue-centerfold-poison-ivy

 

Eight unflinching cartoons on Trump's historic fourth indictment

By Michael Cavna

August 19, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/08/19/trump-cartoons-georgia-indictment/

 

BIG Announcement... TALKING SMALL PRESS COMICS on  Patreon!

Larned Justin and Steve Keet

theloathlydaddy Jun 2, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH5txqGa3sw

 

Steve Keeter Interviews Allen Freeman Part One-Two

TheClassicComicsMan

Jun 1, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj_ADBJNNs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db9XWYVzbUE


Where Have All the DC Fans Gone?

After a string of bombs and with a reboot on the horizon, Warner Bros. has to do more than make fans believe a man can fly. It has to make them believe that this time, there's a willingness to see that flight to its destination.

Richard Newby

August 25, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/dc-movies-why-fans-zack-snyder-1235573895/


Lackadaisy MEGASTREAM: Season One Fundraiser Final Hours

Lackadaisy

Aug 24, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aAiCzcFqCM

 

A Panel-by-Panel Life of the Man Who Created Charlie Brown

By Jeff Smith

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 27, 2023, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: The Man Who Created Charlie Brown

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/books/review/funny-things-a-comic-strip-biography-of-charles-m-schulz-luca-debus-francesco-matteuzzi.html

 

FUNNY THINGS: A Comic Strip Biography of Charles M. Schulz | By Luca Debus and Francesco Matteuzzi | Illustrated by Luca Debus | 440 pp. | Top Shelf Productions

 

Liza's Studio: In which I show you stuff

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things Aug 25, 2023

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/lizas-studio

 

'Blue Beetle' offers a 3-step cure for superhero fatigue

Glen Weldon

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 24, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195027611/blue-beetle-offers-a-3-step-cure-for-superhero-fatigue

 

'Blue Beetle' is a true-blue surprise

Glen Weldon, Cyrena Touros, Monica Castillo, Ronald Young Jr.

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 24, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/15/1193991172/blue-beetle-is-a-true-blue-surprise

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2023/08/20230824_pchh_fad066d5-47ef-4b97-aa6d-11c595556606.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1193991172

 

Filmmakers behind Latinx superhero movies like 'Blue Beetle' hope to inspire change

Mandalit del Barco

  All Things Considered August 18, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194745324/filmmakers-behind-latinx-superhero-movies-like-blue-beetle-hope-to-inspire-chang

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/08/20230818_atc_encore_latinos_in_hollywood_-_superheroes.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1194745324

Friday, August 25, 2023

NPR on Blue Beetle

'Blue Beetle' offers a 3-step cure for superhero fatigue

New Wheatley Kickstarter goals

NEW STRETCH GOALS

A new signed print and larger, more amazing prints! These new goals are directly based on some great feedback I got yesterday (a number of backers contacted me via messages, eMail and responding to my last update.) This makes me happy. I like to give you what you want! And, since these larger prints will be shipped separately from the NUCLEUS box, they will be shipped rolled to keep them flat and safe. Also, I am now planning on adding a few more possible "add-ons" to the campaign. I'm going to offer 12" x 18" signed prints of several of my popular paintings. I'll post those as soon as I have the chance to design the graphics for the campaign page. Stay Tooned!

And never forget that the most important thing you can do is:

SHARE THE NUCLEUS X LINK! http://kck.st/45fkUR5

Cavna on Trump editorial cartoons

Eight unflinching cartoons on Trump's historic fourth indictment

Tom King's new book

Tom King & Peter Gross Recreate Animal Farm for Today's America

Tom King and Peter Gross, take advantage of Animal Farm by George Orwell moving into public domain, with a new series, Animal Pound.


Oct 28: Meet Scott Braden and Marty Grosser at Beyond Comics

OCTOBER 28, 2023 AT 11 AM – 4 PM

Double Creator Signing - Meet Scott Braden and Marty Grosser

Beyond Comics
It's double trouble time! Come meet local creators Scott Braden (Kent Menace) and Marty Grosser (The Gunhand)!

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/24/2023


Clifford Berryman Cartoon Collection

DC Public Library

https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3Aberryman

 

Clifford Berryman collection in the DC Public Library

August 24, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/08/clifford-berryman-collection-in-dc.html

 

Clifford K. Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

National Archives' The Center for Legislative Archives

https://www.archives.gov/legislative/research/special-collections/berryman

 

A Visual History, 1940-1963: Political Cartoons by Clifford Berryman and Jim Berryman [draft]

National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/ebooks/a-visual-history-1940-1963.pdf

 

America and the World: Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons, 1898-1940. Featuring Drawings by Clifford K. Berryman

National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/education/america-and-the-world/ebook.pdf

 

Representing Congress: Clifford K. Berryman's Political Cartoons

National Archives

https://www.archives.gov/files/legislative/resources/education/congress-represented/ebook.pdf

 

Clifford Kennedy Berryman Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division,

Richard B. Bickel

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress 2010

https://findingaids.loc.gov/exist_collections/ead3pdf/mss/2010/ms010291.pdf

 

Longtime Voice of Nintendo's Mario to Step Away From Role

Charles Martinet gave Mario his popular catchphrases, including "It's a-me, Mario" and that signature "woo-hoo!" It's unclear who will voice the Nintendo character next.

By Claire Moses

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 24, 2023, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Longtime Voice of Nintendo's Mario to Step Away.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/22/arts/mario-voice-charles-martinet-nintendo.html

 

A Fan Made a Spider-Man Film. The Fallout Has Been Unexpected.

By Christopher Kuo

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 24, 2023, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Nothing's Ever Easy For Spidey

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/movies/spider-man-lotus-fan-film.html

Menaker, Drusie / Associated Press. 1981.

Paper seeks rights to 'Muppets' comic strip.

Arizona Republic (July 31).

online at https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/08/23/just-another-wayback-whensday/

 

The Muppets Take the Funny Papers: The Never-Before-Told Tale of the 'Muppets' Daily Comic.

Brian VanHooker

August 20, 2023

https://www.cracked.com/article_39149_the-muppets-take-the-funny-papers-the-never-before-told-tale-of-the-muppets-daily-comic.html

 

In the graphic novel 'Roaming,' a volatile trio of friends orbit and collide in New York City

Jillian and Mariko Tamaki's latest collaboration explores the treacherous transitions of young adulthood

By H Felix Chau Bradley • August 17, 2023

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/graphic-novel-roaming-nyc-mariko-jillian-tamaki-255845

 

Felix the Cat Comic Strip Centennial

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/08/24/felix-the-cat-comic-strip-centennial/

 

INTERVIEW: Steve Orlando chats about SAINTED LOVE

Deanna Destito

08/24/2023 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-steve-orlando-chats-about-sainted-love/

 

Peanuts First Animated Short Was For Michigan Based Ford Motor Company

Mark Frankhouse

 August 21, 2023

 https://wrkr.com/peanuts-ford-commercial/

 

Peanuts First Animation (Ford, 1959)

Giuseppe Menezes

Oct 7, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EHtX2FEVyA

 

1962 Ford Falcon Ads With Charlie Brown [B&W upgraded to HD]

Classic Car Channel

Aug 12, 2021

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

 

At Home with Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

August 23 2023

Translated by @janet_hong333 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwQQruLrT6I/

 

Cartoon denigrating  [Monte Wolverton letter].

Lynne Knudsen

 Daily Hampshire Gazette  8/22/2023 

https://www.gazettenet.com/Letter-to-the-editor-52038404

 

Clay Jones' Amazing Cartoons Return to The Yucatan Times!

August 23 2023

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2023/08/clay-jones-amazing-cartoons-return-to-the-yucatan-times/

 

Celebrating 28 years of cartooning for Islander News

By Peter Evans / Islander News Editorial Cartoonist

August 23 2023

https://www.islandernews.com/news/keybiscayne/celebrating-28-years-of-cartooning-for-islander-news/article_93e5c9ec-41cb-11ee-b106-33f1dec01c45.html

 

Interview : Yannick Corboz de l'affiche de BD Plage Sète 2023 à l'adaptation d'un roman de Richard Malka

Jean-Laurent Truc

24 août 2023

https://www.ligneclaire.info/yannick-corboz-2023-281006.html

 

Zahed, Ramin. 2018. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse -The Art of the Movie. Titan Books

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed. New York: Abrams, 2023.

 

Kang, Jay Caspian. 2023. "The Post-Racial Vision of 'Across the Spider-Verse.'" The New Yorker, June 16, 2023, https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-post-racial-vision-of-across-the-spider-verse.

 

Book Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed

Reviewed by Michael Kobre

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG  August 24, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/08/book-review-spider-man-across-spider.html

 

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: The Art of the Movie, by Ramin Zahed. New York: Abrams, 2023. 


ESSAY: From Yamato to The United States: Okinawa in Flux, by Shinako Oyakawa

Reprinting the essay that appears in the print edition of OKINAWA

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Aug 24, 2023

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/essay-from-yamato-to-the-united-states

 

Calvin Reid wins 2023 Tom Spurgeon Award

Heidi MacDonald

08/24/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/calvin-reid-wins-2023-tom-spurgeon-award/

 

Forsyth County principal apologizes after guest author said Batman co-creator was 'gay'

By FOX 5 Atlanta Digital Team

August 23 2023

https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/forsyth-county-principal-apology-guest-author-marc-tyler-nobleman-gay.amp

 

PODCAST - Ep. 99: Pluto vol. 1 by Naoki Urasawa

Christopher Butcher

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Aug 22, 2023

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/podcast-ep-99-pluto-vol-1-by-naoki

 

Doctor Strange: Fall Sunrise by Tradd Moore and Heather Moore

Tradd Moore has synthesized the vocabulary of Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko with Mike Mignola and Jim Woodring's sense of time, space, and movement..

Scott Cederlund

Aug 24, 2023

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/doctor-strange-fall-sunrise-by-tradd-moore-and-heather-moore/

 

Festival BD de Fabrègues samedi 2 et dimanche 3 septembre 2023 avec Juan à l'affiche

Jean-Laurent Truc

23 août 2023

https://www.ligneclaire.info/festival-bd-de-fabregues-2023-280825.html 

 

Green Lantern: War Journal will change the way you think about John Stewart

By Pierce Lydon

Newsarama August 23 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/green-lantern-war-journal-will-change-the-way-you-think-about-john-stewart/

Interview | Phillip Kennedy Johnson is digging deep into the inner life of a Lantern