Saturday, January 13, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/12/2024

DC Repackaging Old Comics As YA Graphic Novels, Starting With Prez

With 2024 as an election year in both the US and the UK, DC Comics is repackaging Prez, by Mark Russell and Ben Caldwell, for a YA audience.

 11 Jan 2024  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-repackaging-old-comics-as-ya-graphic-novels-starting-with-prez/

 

ThunderCats #1 100,000 Pre-Orders Already, Even Before Rob Liefeld

Rich Johnston

  11 Jan 2024 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/thundercats-1-100000-pre-orders-already-even-before-rob-liefeld/

 

Top Graded Amazing Spider-Man #1 CGC 9.8 Goes for Record $1,380,000

The highest graded copy of Amazing Spider-Man #1 CGC 9.8, the debut of an iconic Marvel series, has just gone for a record $1,380,000.

by Mark Seifert

 11 Jan 2024 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/top-graded-amazing-spider-man-1-cgc-9-8-goes-for-record-1380000/

 

First Barry Allen as Flash in Showcase #4 Goes for Record $900,000

 11 Jan 2024 

by Mark Seifert

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/first-barry-allen-as-flash-in-showcase-4-goes-for-record-900000/

 

Brave and the Bold #28, First Justice League, Goes for Record $810,000

11 Jan 2024  

by Mark Seifert

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/brave-and-the-bold-28-first-justice-league-goes-for-record-810000/

 

THE EISNER AWARDS NEED A DEDICATED JOURNALISM CATEGORY MORE THAN EVER… SO WHY GET RID OF IT NOW?

Rob Salkowitz on January 12, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/55998/the-eisner-awards-need-dedicated-journalism-category-more-than-ever-so-why-get-rid-it-now

 

DYNAMITE'S 'THUNDERCATS' HAS OVER 100K ORDERS With More Warner Bros. on the Way

Brigid Alverson on January 11, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55992/dynamites-thundercats-has-over-100k-orders

 

Captain Midnight! Ep 6 of The Vault Cast [ BINARY SEA]

Daniel Crary

Vault Comics Jan 8, 2024

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

 

Politics of Extractivism, Grassroot justice and crude

Sathyaraj Venkatesan &  Maureen  Burdock

2024, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

 online at https://www.academia.edu/113394090/_Comics_studies_Politics_of_Extractivism_Grassroot_justice_and_Crude

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2302450

 

CULTURE, THEORY, AND GRAPHIC FICTION [PhD Dissertation]

Jeff Williams

 Texas Tech University 1999

online at https://www.academia.edu/4826318/CULTURE_THEORY_AND_GRAPHIC_FICTION

 

5 Children's Movies to Stream Now

This month's picks include a bevy of animated critters and a science-fiction fantasy.

By Dina Gachman

Jan. 12, 2024, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/12/movies/kids-movies-streaming.html

 

'Nimona' Leads Annie Awards Animated Feature Competition With Nine Noms; Snubs Include 'Wish,' Which Was Shut Out

'The Boy and the Heron,' 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' and 'Suzume' collected seven noms apiece.

Carolyn Giardina

January 11, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nimona-2024-annie-awards-animated-feature-nominations-1235785110/

 

"I Really Love Going to Fantastical Places": Seth Rogen, Kemp Powers and the THR Animation Roundtable

Karen Ryan, Benjamin Renner, Peter Sohn and Fawn Veerasunthorn also unpack AI fears, false Hollywood tropes and theatrical's challenges.

Carolyn Giardina

January 12, 2024

This story first appeared in a January standalone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/seth-rogen-kemp-powers-animation-roundtable-1235784556/

 

Pixar Bracing for Possible Layoffs This Year

The news comes as the studio begins to roll out theatrical releases of pandemic era Disney+ titles such as 'Soul' and preps for the June opening of 'Inside Out 2.'

Carolyn Giardina

January 12, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pixar-bracing-for-possible-layoffs-1235786562/ 

 

'Significant' Layoffs To Hit Pixar In 2024 – Report

By Amid Amidi | 01/11/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/significant-layoffs-to-hit-pixar-in-2024-report-236683.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Directors Lucija Mrzljak And Morten Tšinakov Share Their Favorite Shot From 'Eeva' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/11/2024 

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-lucija-mrzljak-morten-tsinakov-eeva-236615.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Bret Parker Shares Her Favorite Shot From 'Pete' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/09/2024 

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-bret-parker-pete-236495.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Yegane Moghaddam Shares Her Favorite Shot From 'Our Uniform' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/09/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/oscar-shortlist-interviews-yegane-moghaddam-our-uniform-exclusive-236501.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Directors Karni Arieli And Saul Freed Share Their Favorite Shot From 'Wild Summon' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/09/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/shorts/oscar-shortlist-interviews-karni-arieli-saul-freed-wild-summon-236502.html


Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Rita Basulto Shares Her Favorite Shot From 'Humo' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/10/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-director-rita-basulto-shares-her-favorite-shot-from-humo-exclusive-236547.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Directors Jared And Jerusha Hess Shares Their Favorite Shot From 'Ninety-Five Senses' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/10/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-jared-jerusha-hess-ninety-five-senses-236551.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Stephen Vuillemin Shares His Favorite Shot From 'A Kind Of Testament' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/10/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-director-stephen-vuillemin-shares-his-favorite-shot-from-a-kind-of-testament-exclusive-236562.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Directors Gabriel Augerai, Romain Augier, And Yannick Jacquin Share Their Favorite Shot From 'Boom' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/11/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-gabriel-augerai-romain-augier-yannick-jacquin-boom-236603.html

 

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Priit Tender Shares His Favorite Shot From 'Dog Apartment' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/11/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-director-priit-tender-shares-his-favorite-shot-from-dog-apartment-exclusive-236610.html

 

SAG-AFTRA And Replica Studios Ink Agreement On AI Voice Use In Video Games

By Jamie Lang | 01/11/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/sag-aftra-and-replica-studios-ink-agreement-on-ai-voice-use-in-video-games-236625.html

 

Disney Fails To Score Annie Awards Feature Nomination For The First Time Ever; Netflix Has Most-Nominated Film And Series

By Jamie Lang | 01/11/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/disney-fails-to-score-annie-awards-feature-nomination-for-the-first-time-ever-236646.html

 

Soaring Penguin Press Inks Exclusive Distribution Deal with Diamond
Scoop Jan 12 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=272406

 

Crowdfunders: Submit Your Comics to the Guide
Scoop Jan 12 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=272368

 

Episode 139 - Avi Steinberg

Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

January 10, 2024 Season 3 Episode 139

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/14287579-episode-139-avi-steinberg

 

'When I Grow Up': New Yorker cartoonist revives lost stories of Jewish teenagers [ Ken Krimstein]

By France24

12 January 2024 

https://tv.guardian.ng/entertainment/entertainment-news/when-i-grow-up-new-yorker-cartoonist-revives-lost-stories-of-jewish-teenagers/

 

The Marvels Deleted Scenes: 1 Doesn't Add Much And 1 Adds Too Much

 11 Jan 2024  

by Kaitlyn Booth

 https://bleedingcool.com/movies/the-marvels-deleted-scenes-1-doesnt-add-much-and-1-adds-too-much/

 

Angoulême '24: Clowes, Meurisse and Simmonds in the running for the Grand Prix

2024 appears to be a tight race for one of the highest of honours in international comics

Dean Simons

01/12/2024 
https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-24-clowes-meurisse-and-simmonds-in-the-running-for-the-grand-prix/


Comic Books: When Life is More Absurd than Art

Ariel Kahn and Rutu Modan

26 March 2023

https://jewishliteraryfoundation.co.uk/jlf-player/video/zmeqyEA

 

Hamo [Pierre-Yves Berhin]. 2023.

Top Draw [aka Bandes Dessinees (ToC title), aka A short history of comic books a la francaise (cover title)]

Monocle 169 (December / January): 93-104

 

Adam Sandler and the Filmmakers of LEO | In Conversation

Jenelle Riley.

https://film.netflixawards.com/videos/adam-sandler-and-the-filmmakers-of-leo-in-conversation

 

Best books for military tweens with author Victoria Jamieson

Josie Beets

Ready for Reading by United Through Reading

S02 E05

08/12/2022

https://rss.com/podcasts/readyforreading/734993/

 

How ordinary people change the world, with Brad Meltzer

Tim Farrell

Ready for Reading by United Through Reading

S02

30/03/2023

https://rss.com/podcasts/readyforreading/886512/

 

Brad Meltzer + Chris Eliopoulos Celebrate The Ordinary People Change The World 10th Anniversary With Lynda Carter (I AM WONDER WOMAN)

by Brad Meltzer; Chris Eliopoulos; Lynda Carter

McLean, VA : Barnes and Noble, Tysons Corner Mall

https://archive.org/details/brad-meltzer-chris-eliopoulos-celebrate-the-ordinary-people-change-the-world-10t

 

A Hazy Shade of Winter – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | January 12, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/a-hazy-shade-of-winter-this-weeks-links/

 

Mike Allred's World looks more fun than ours

wordballoon  Jan 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ezlqCNN9Z4

 

The Most Influential Comics Anthology! Garo!

Cartoonist Kayfabe

 Jan 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPS3Pv9mLKw

 

The Coolest, Most Stylish, Manga Artist! Geof Darrow cohosts the Celebration! [Matsumoto]

Ed Piskor, Japan Book Hunter, Geoff Darrow, and Bryan Moss

Cartoonist Kayfabe

 Jan 10, 2024

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

 

Off Panel #431: Duck Sized Horses with Patrick Brower [store]

David Harper

Jan 8, 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel431-duck-sized-horses-with-patrick-brower

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Patrick_Brower_2024.mp3

 

Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the war on ISIS
By Janet Biehl
PM Press, 2022

 

A graphic journey into Rojava's revolution and resilience [Their Blood Got Mixed: Revolutionary Rojava and the war on ISIS By Janet Biehl]

Andrew Chuter

January 8, 2024

https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/graphic-journey-rojavas-revolution-and-resilience

 

The Thing You Think Is Shit Is Your Magic: PW Talks with Emily Hampshire

By Deirdre Coyle 

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/94052-the-thing-you-think-is-shit-is-your-magic-pw-talks-with-emily-hampshire.html

 

'It's about being able to say goodbye': Spanish graphic novel explores early Franco-era reprisals

The Abyss of Forgetting chronicles a woman's struggle to find remains of her father who was murdered after civil war

by Sam Jones in Madrid

Mon 8 Jan 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/08/spanish-graphic-novel-explores-early-franco-ero-mass-burials-abyss-of-forgetting

 

Letters, Queer and Women's Comix, and Making Community

Nicholas Sammond

Feminist Media Histories (2024) 10 (1): 57–83.

https://doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2024.10.1.57

https://online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article-abstract/10/1/57/198683/Letters-Queer-and-Women-s-Comix-and-Making

 

Art, Aesthetics, and Transition in Indian Comics

COMIN 20 (December 2020): 95-112

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/377001647_Art_Aesthetics_and_Transition_in_Indian_Comics

Ritam Sarkar and Somdatta Bhattacharya

 

Mediascapes journal Vol. 22 No. 2 (2023): Comics and the Invisibile

https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/issue/view/1670

https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/issue/view/1670/200

View Vol. 22 No. 2 (2023): Comics and the Invisibile

 

    Comics and the Invisible Introduction to the Special Issue

    Francesco Piraino, Matteo Stefanelli

    I-IV

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18594

 

    Immersive marginality Comics and the cultural power of (its) invisibility

    Matteo Stefanelli

    3-13

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18595

 

    The Color of Paper Seeing Race in the Comics Medium

    Chris Gavaler

    14-28

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18596

 

    Playing with the Invisible Novel, Movies, Comics

    Daniele Barbieri

    29-34

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18598

 

    Tracing the Invisible Lynda Barry's Comics

    Maaheen Ahmed

    35-51

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18635

 

    Spirituality and Comics in Hugo Pratt, Alan Moore, and David B. Esotericism as "Unsettled Knowledge"

    Francesco Piraino

    52-77

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18600

 

    Making visible the invisible Representing religious content in manga

    Carolina Ivanescu

    78-93

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18601

 

    Giving Up the Artistic Aspect The invisibility of comics made in extreme conditions of confinement: Charlotte Salomon, Karel Frans Drenthe and Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro

    Erwin Dejasse

    94-105

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18602

 

    How to Make the Invisible Visible? Some Innovative Approaches in 21st-Century Comic Art

    Francesca Pietropaolo

    106-131

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18639

 

    Lived and abandoned spaces Invisibilities in comparison [Italy]

    Rodolfo Dal Canto

    132-145

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18604

 

    Dancing with the (un)seen Problematizing the viewer's gaze through Mediterraneo's visual aesthetics [Italy]

    Silvia Vari

    146 - 163

    https://rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa03/mediascapes/article/view/18605

 

 

Friday, January 12, 2024

audio recording: Brad Meltzer + Chris Eliopoulos Celebrate The Ordinary People Change The World 10th Anniversary With Lynda Carter (I AM WONDER WOMAN)

Brad Meltzer + Chris Eliopoulos Celebrate The Ordinary People Change The World 10th Anniversary With Lynda Carter (I AM WONDER WOMAN)
by Brad Meltzer; Chris Eliopoulos; Lynda Carter
McLean, VA : Barnes and Noble, Tysons Corner Mall

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/11/2024

ERIC POWELL AND HAROLD SCHECHTER TEAM UP AGAIN FOR BOOK ON FREDERIC WERTHAM

Creators of 'Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?' Look at Wertham's Relationship with a Murderer

Brigid Alverson on January 10, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55987/eric-powell-harold-schechter-team-up-again-book-frederic-wertham

 

BECKETT TO OFFER GRADING, SLABBING FOR MANGA

Plus Verification of Signatures

 Brigid Alverson on January 10, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55986/beckett-offer-grading-slabbing-manga

 

Animation First Festival Unveils Limited Edition Peter de Sève Poster

Mercedes Milligan

January 10, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/animation-first-festival-unveils-limited-edition-peter-de-seve-poster/

 

SHOP TALK: COMMUNITY RALLIES AROUND MISSION COMICS

Plus: Game Night at the Car Wash, Customer Opens New Comic Shop

 Brigid Alverson on January 10, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55983/shop-talk-community-rallies-around-mission-comics

 

West Seattle comic book shop burglarized for third time in three months

By KIRO 7 News StaffJanuary 02, 2024

https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/west-seattle-comic-book-shop-burglarized-third-time-three-months/UXAO4FRWXJH3TB73XBJS2ZCT2Q/

 

Community joins forces to save Mission Comics and Art

  by Junyao Yang December 19, 2023

https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/a-community-comes-together-to-save-mission-comics-and-art/

 

Longtime Fresno comic store open under new name

by: Rhett Rodriguez

KSEE/KGPE  Jan 3, 2024

https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-news/longtime-fresno-comic-store-open-under-new-name/

 

Comic book shop celebrates 30+ years open

by: Sydney Kostus

  WBRE/WYOU Jan 4, 2024

https://www.pahomepage.com/news/local-news/comic-book-shop-celebrates-30-years-open/

 

Comic book store relocates to downtown Conway

By Casey Jones casey.jones@myhorrynews.com

Dec 21, 2023

https://www.myhorrynews.com/news/comic-book-store-relocates-to-downtown-conway/article_0972c6a2-9e9b-11ee-a0bd-b3c5c545376c.html

 

Animated Features Score Big: The Talented Composers Behind Some of the Year's Hits Discuss Their Craft

By Michael Mallory

January 10, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/animated-features-score-big-the-talented-composers-behind-some-of-the-years-hits-discuss-their-craft/

This article was written for the February '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 337).

 

Arizona Editoonist Steve Benson Retires

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/01/10/arizona-editoonist-steve-benson-retires/

 

After more than 40 years, we say a loving goodbye to Steve Benson

Jim Small

Arizona Mirror January 10, 2024

https://www.azmirror.com/2024/01/10/after-more-than-40-years-we-say-a-loving-goodbye-to-steve-benson/

 

Reviews: Salmonella Smorgasbord [Mark Stafford; UK]

Tegan O'Neil | January 11, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/salmonella-smorgasbord/

 

Dynamite launches Kickstarter for Disney's GARGOYLES Classics

The reprints are available for the first time for the 30th Anniversary of the franchise

Deanna Destito

01/11/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dynamite-launches-kickstarter-for-disneys-gargoyles-classics/

 

Interview with Jason Aaron (writer of Thor, Scalped and Batman: Off-World)

Bearded Comic Bro

Dec 11, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOJ5DYIIrUk

 

Mike Allred Shoot Interview!

Cartoonist Kayfabe  Jan 7, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd6Ffxnjhvs


Best Joke Ever

Four Arms Full of the Funniest Jack Kirby Character

by Mark Peters

January 9, 2024

 https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/four-arms-full-of-the-funniest-jack-kirby-character

 

Jessica Chen Left DC Comics & Batman For DSS Games [editor]

10 Jan 2024   by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jessica-chen-left-dc-comics-batman-for-dss-games/

 

American Review of Canadian Studies, Volume 53, Issue 3 (2023)

Beyond the Two Solitudes: Cultural Transfer in the World of Comics and bandes dessinées; Guest Editors: Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Sylvain Rheault, and Jean Sébastien

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rarc20/53/3?nav=tocList

 

Introduction

Beyond the Two Solitudes: Cultural Transfer in the World of Comics and Bande Dessinée

Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Sylvain Rheault & Jean Sébastien

Pages: 297-305

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2254641

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/02722011.2023.2254641

 

Introduction au Numéro Spécial

Article

Au-delà des deux solitudes : les transferts culturels dans le monde de la bande dessinée et des comics

Chris Reyns-Chikuma, Sylvain Rheault & Jean Sébastien

Pages: 306-315

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2254642

 

Transferts culturels et résistances dans la traduction de bandes dessinées au Canada

Sylvain Rheault & Jean Sébastien

Pages: 316-328

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2269813

 

Album, comic books, romans graphiques : le fonctionnement en silos des modèles de diffusion au Canada

Jean Sébastien

Pages: 329-353

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2257028

 

Article

Canada in its Jammies: The Promotional Self-Mockery of Richard Comely's Captain Canuck

Jasmine Redford

Pages: 354-376

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2246789

 

Des histoires à raconter : d'Ani Kuni à Kiuna ; Une BD doctorale comme outil de préparation à la rencontre entre les populations autochtones et allochtones du Québec

Emanuelle Dufour

Pages: 377-405

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2248828

 

The Two Shamans Beyond the Two Solitudes: Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas' Haida Manga as a Tool for Indigenizing Comics

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins

Pages: 406-419

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2246788

 

Le transfert culturel en train de se faire (ou pas) : Réflexions sur la pratique des jeunes auteurs de bandes dessinées

Michel Hardy-Vallée

Pages: 420-433

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2248830

 

Exhibits Review

Review Article

Comic Sans and THIS IS SERIOUS: Canadian Comics Visibility and Recognition

Lucia Cedeira Serantes, Kitara Patry & Paige Roman

Pages: 434-438

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2273038

 

Review Essay

Essay

Julie Doucet : Retour vers le futur

Time Zone J, by Julie Doucet, Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 2022, 144 pp., CAN $29.95 (paper), ISBN: 978-1-7704-6498-8 Suicide total, by Julie Doucet, Paris, L'Association, 2022, 144 pp., €65,00 (paper), ISBN: 978-2-8441-4942-8

Jean-Dominic Leduc

Pages: 439-442

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2248831

 

Film Review

A Comic's Life in Documentary Film: Questioning Places and Non-Places

Betan, Yaron. 2016. Heroes Manufactured. Toronto: KingSky Productions and Key West Video. 1h 30 mins.Chamberland, Luc. 2014. Seth's Dominion. Toronto: National Film Board of Canada. 42 mins.

Daniel Marrone

Pages: 443-444

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2248829

 

Symposium Review

Beyond 80 Years: Une perspective francophone

Chris Reyns-Chikuma

Pages: 445-446

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2269812

 

Journal Review

Book Review

Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics, Canadian Literature no. 249

(2022), Guest edited by Candida Rifkind and Zachary J.A. Rondinelli, Vancouver, University of British Columbia, 194 pp., CAN $23.95 (paper).

Mathieu Li-Goyette

Pages: 447-449

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2252296

 

Book Review

Graphic Indigeneity: Comics in the Americas and Australasia

edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2020, 381 pp., $35.00 (paper), ISBN: 978-1-49682-802-6.

Jean Sébastien

Pages: 450-452

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2248827

 

Book Review

Alter Ego : Le genre superhéroïque dans la BD au Québec (1968-1995)

par Philippe Rioux, Montréal, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2022, 368 pp., CAN $34.95 (paper), ISBN: 978-2-7606-4630-8

Chris Reyns-Chikuma

Pages: 452-455

Published online: 09 Jan 2024

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2023.2246787

 

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

Ai Weiwei, with Elettra Stamboulis and Gianluca Costantini. Ten Speed Graphic, $28.99 (160p) ISBN 978-1-98486-299-0

https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781984862990

 

Jason Aaron compares his Action Comics story to his iconic run on Thor: "I needed to, in my mind, make a similar statement with Superman"

By George Marston

Newsarama January 8 2024

https://www.gamesradar.com/jason-aaron-compares-his-action-comics-story-to-his-iconic-run-on-thor-i-needed-to-in-my-mind-make-a-similar-statement-with-superman/

 

Mark Waid Burning Down The House ?

 wordballoon  Jan 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSWP0z1bUzo

 

CXC's Emerging Talent Award 2023

Caitlin McGurk, Lucy Shelton Caswell, and Evan Salazar

CXC Festival   Jan 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3ACnaZPs_o

 

Small Press/Indie Publishing

Avi Ehrlich, Brian Baynes, Andy Alexander, and Sean Knickerbocker

CXC Festival  Jan 8, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CdAeblvo14

 

    Inks Volume 7, Issue 3, Fall 2023

    https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/51946

 

    (In)visible Interstices: Double-Consciousness and the Gutter in Brazilian Jefferson Costa's Rosebush, Medal, Plantation and Other Stories

    Edmilson F. Miranda Jr., David Callahan

    pp. 213-237

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916791

 

https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916791

 

    Monstrous Beauty: The Alternative Aesthetic of Difference in Emil Ferris' My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

    John Petrus

    pp. 238-256

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916792

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916792

 

 

    Labor in the Margins: Filipino Comics Workers in the US Comic Book Industry

    Lara Saguisag

    pp. 257-276

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916793

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916793

 

    Making the Case for Comics Studies: Program Directors Roundtable

    Qiana Whitted, Randy Duncan, Pamela Jackson, Katherine Kelp-Stebbins, Susan Kirtley, Elizabeth Pollard, Nick Sousanis, Daniel Worden

    pp. 277-293

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916794

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916794

 

    Aquaman and the War against Oceans: Comics Activism and Allegory in the Anthropocene by Ryan Poll (review)

    Brianna Anderson

    pp. 294-298

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916795

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916795

 

    Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders ed. by Heike Bauer, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman (review)

    Rachel Kunert-Graf

    pp. 298-302

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916796

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916796

 

    A Concise Dictionary of Comics by Nancy Pedri (review)

    Elizabeth "Biz" Nijdam

    pp. 302-304

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/ink.2023.a916797

    https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/30/article/916797

 

Massive and Omnibus team for digital crowdfunding fulfillment on Zorro: Man of the Dead

Heidi MacDonald

01/10/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/massive-omnibuscrowdfunding-zorro/

 

Ben Abernathy Quit DC And Batman For Robert Kirkman's Skybound?

Rich Johnston

  10 Jan 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/ben-abernathy-quit-dc-batman-for-robert-kirkman-skybound/

 

Grant Morrison's Wonder Woman Movie Pitch Had Orgasm Guns

Grant Morrison writes a new Substack about Wonder Woman Earth One Volume Two which had used movie pitches for the opening.

  10 Jan 2024

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/grant-morrisons-wonder-woman-movie-pitch-had-orgasm-guns/

 

Pixar's pandemic films are heading to theaters. Other studios should follow suit

Disney is finally giving Soul, Turning Red, and Luca the big screens they deserve, at a time when we're all starving for more movies in the cineplex

Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club Jan 11 2024

https://www.avclub.com/disneys-pandemic-pixars-are-heading-to-theaters-others-1851157366

 

Harold Schechter and Eric Powell take on comics greatest nemesis in DR. WERTHLESS: THE MAN WHO STUDIED MURDER (AND NEARLY KILLED THE COMICS INDUSTRY) this summer

The award winning creative team explore the life and legacy of the man that almost ended comics in the 1950s: Dr. Fredric Wertham

Dean Simons 01/10/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/harold-schechter-and-eric-powell-take-on-comics-greatest-nemesis-in-dr-werthless-the-man-who-studied-murder-and-nearly-killed-the-comics-industry-this-summer/

 

News and notes: Morgan Perry, TMNT, Duke sells out, Soaring Penguin more

Heidi MacDonald

01/11/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/duke-sells-out-tmnt-soaring-penguin/

 

What If Marvel's What If…? Season 2 Gave Us Four Great Episodes, and Five OK Ones?

Leah Schnelbach

Mon Jan 8, 2024

https://www.tor.com/2024/01/08/marvels-what-if-season-2-recap-and-review/

 

PODCAST - Ep. 109: River's Edge, by Kyoko Okzaki

Christopher Woodrow-Butcher et al

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Jan 11, 2024

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/ep-109-rivers-edge-by-kyoko-okzaki

 

Grand Prix d'Angoulême 2024, Catherine Meurisse for ever avec Simmonds et Clowes

Jean-Laurent Truc

11 janvier 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/meurisse-simmonds-clowes-286793.html

 

Gil Roth

Ed Subitzky

Virtual Memories Show 571, January 10, 2024

https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-571-ed-subitzky

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_571_-_Ed_Subitzky.mp3

 

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/10/2024

Echo review: A quietly lovely (and very bloody) entry in the superhero canon

Alaqua Cox's Hawkeye spinoff, on Disney Plus and Hulu, is a brutal and heartfelt Marvel miniseries

Sam Barsanti

AV Club January 9 2024

https://www.avclub.com/echo-review-tv-disney-plus-hulu-marvel-alaqua-cox-1851143923

 

Who is Marvel's Echo and how is she one of the universe's most powerful people in the comics?

Ahead of her solo spin-off, here's a primer on the MCU's newest hero and her wild history in the comics

By

Sam Barsanti

January 2, 2024

https://www.avclub.com/marvel-echo-disney-plus-phoenix-force-1851127088

 

Echo: The Cast and Crew Reconvene to Hype the Upcoming MCU Series

By Sam Stone

CBR January 3 2024

https://www.cbr.com/echo-press-conference/

 

My Breakup, Directed By . . .

By Ellis Rosen and Sofia Warren

September 13, 2018

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/my-breakup-directed-by

 

The Archie Comics of the Future

By John Maher

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/94053-the-archie-comics-of-the-future.html

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 600: A New Year in Comics Publishing

Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons, plus Meg Lemke

on 01/08/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?podcast=1291

 

Hope and Strange: PW Talks with J. Michael Straczynski

By Lenny Picker 

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/93997-hope-and-strange-pw-talks-with-j-michael-straczynski.html

 

Spit Happens: PW Talks with Liana Finck

By Pooja Makhijani

Jan 05, 2024

A version of this article appeared in the 01/08/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Spit Happens

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/94042-spit-happens-pw-talks-with-liana-finck.html

 

Scoop: Ben Abernathy, Batman Group Executive Editor, Quits DC Comics

Batman Group Editor and DC Executive Editor, Ben Abernathy, has quit DC Comics for pastures news. Or so I am informed.

9 Jan 2024  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scoop-ben-abernathy-batman-group-executive-editor-quits-dc-comics/

 

MASSIVE PARTNERS WITH OMNIBUS FOR 'ZORRO' KICKSTARTER DIGITAL FULFILLMENT

Retailer-Exclusive Covers Unlocked After Pledges Top $300K

 Brigid Alverson on January 9, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55973/massive-partners-omnibus-zorro-kickstarter-digital-fulfillment

 

Wonder Woman Earth One Annotations

Grant Morrison

Xanaduum Jan 10, 2024

https://grantmorrison.substack.com/p/101-wonder-woman-earth-one-annotations

 

CGC slabbing scandal rocks the collecting world

Heidi MacDonald

01/10/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/cgc-slabbing-scandal-rocks-collecting-world/

 

A 2024 guide to comicon etiquette

Gregory Paul Silber

01/10/2024 
https://www.comicsbeat.com/a-guide-to-comicon-etiquette/

 

Terry Bisson (1942-2024)

January 10, 2024

https://locusmag.com/2024/01/terry-bisson-1942-2024/

 

The "Hey AI... Get Off My Lawn" Issue!!

Tom Richmond

The Ink Stained Wretch #116 Jan 10, 2024

https://art4mad.substack.com/p/the-ink-stained-wretch-116-11024

 

How 'Gracie's Corner' Creator Javoris Hollingsworth Developed a Home-Grown, Diverse Edutainment Brand Animated in Nigeria

By Ramin Zahed

January 9, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/how-gracies-corner-creator-javoris-hollingsworth-developed-a-home-grown-diverse-edutainment-brand-animated-in-nigeria/


Biden BASHING - and TRUMP

Daryl Cagle, Michael Ramirez,  Rivers, and Gary McCoy

Caglecast 35; Jan 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPFAKSp8iHg

 

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh at Conn Ave

Politics and Prose Bookstore January 10, 2024

https://archive.org/details/gene-luen-yang-and-le-uyen-pham-with-ellen-oh