Thursday, January 18, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/17/2024

The A to Z of British Newspaper Strips

Paul Hudson

Book Palace Books

https://bookpalace.com/acatalog/info_AZBRITNEWSSTRIPS.html#SID=132

A Comics Display for the British Library

Posted by: Joanna Colclough

Headlines & Heroes Blog from the Library of Congress January 17, 2024

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/01/a-comics-display-for-the-british-library/

Tenderness and brutality: True stories from an ICU

Written by Ernesto Barbieri Illustrated by Jess Ruliffson

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2023/05/tenderness-brutality-icu-nurse/

When Accidents Happen: True stories from an ICU

Written by Ernesto Barbieri Illustrated by Jess Ruliffson

https://apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion/graphics/2023/12/when-accidents-happen-icu-nurse/

Comic Book Writer Jimmy Palmiotti Offers Decades of Work for Charity

The scribe is selling digital copies of his comics to support the World Wildlife Fund, including one title that late filmmaker John Singleton hoped to adapt.

Aaron Couch

January 17, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/comic-book-writer-jimmy-palmiotti-1235790361/

Gil Roth

Sammy Harkham

Virtual Memories Show 572: January 16, 2024

https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-572-sammy-harkham

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_572_-_Sammy_Harkham.mp3

George Lucas biography THE LUCAS WARS wins 2024 Fnac-France Inter comics prize

The book explores the behind the scenes chaos that occurred in the making of the first Star Wars movie

Dean Simons

01/17/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/george-lucas-biography-the-lucas-wars-wins-2024-fnac-france-inter-comics-prize/

Netflix's Daredevil Show MCU Canon & Timeline Question Finally Addressed By Marvel Producer

By Andy Behbakht

Published Jan 3, 2024

https://screenrant.com/netflix-daredevil-mcu-canon-timeline-marvel-producer/

'Echo' Star Vincent D'Onofrio Talks Kingpin's Next Move and 'Daredevil: Born Again' Reboot

The actor says he thanked Marvel boss Kevin Feige for sticking by him and co-star Charlie Cox amid getting a new creative team to overcome some speed bumps on the 'Daredevil' show.

Brian Davids

January 16, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/echo-vincent-donofrio-kingpins-daredevil-born-again-1235790353/

Pikachu Just Wants to Help You Relax These Days

On Netflix's "Pokémon Concierge," the hyperactivity of the original gives way to soothing sights and tones that can help grown-up fans calm down.

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 17, 2024, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Comfort TV for Anxious Grown-Ups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/arts/television/pokemon-concierge-netflix.html

'A strip about RI done by a RI local': Projo is proud to bring back 'Wallace the Brave'

Lynne Sullivan

Providence Journal

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/lifestyle/columns/2024/01/16/providence-journal-brings-back-wallace-the-brave-comic-strip-set-in-ri/72243564007/

Beckett announces controversial new grading service for manga

Does the manga market need a certification, grading and preservation service?

Joel Savill

01/17/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/beckett-announces-controversial-new-grading-service-for-manga/

Hansen, Bert. 2019.

"Medical History's Graphic Power in American True-Adventure Comic Books of the 1940s," in Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine: Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact ed. Arno Görgen, German Alfonso Nunez Canabal, and Heiner Fangerau (Springer International, 2019), pp. 179-194.

"Overlooked Images of Medicine" in America's New Mass Media of the Late 19th Century

Bert Hansen

Perspectives on Sci Tech Med

Apr 28, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5m9qmwdcLo

Defining Graphic Medicine: Opening Panel for the NLM Traveling Exhibit "Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn!"

Matthew Noe, Cathy Leamy, A. David Lewis, and Joel Christian Gill

Harvard University's Countway Library January 10 2024.

Online at https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/play/K7anE6PmnDPZMhptTnbhF7i4NWKS9trbY-ZGFDyjCTY8pvF04y4-lSbzVWnXJrP4KF-9OTqzCY9iZhSx.hdzADlOiPYVifz8V?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fharvard.zoom.us%2Frec%2Fshare%2FpFJNuUFAUwaVUXx2OBtK-DdBsxtSndkcAuCD5d1WIk_ZlPC-RQ_VuQjEl-6XLE1u.o2mWUGFk8Qxc666J

Visualizing Scholarly Communication

Iris Jahng and Scott Lapinski

Harvard University's Countway Library January 10 2024.

Online at https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/play/Le8RibGV44vqlUQMnn2OOtzdTlaghghC_bONWsPg8tO_drg34pE8MttmpBchqIQ5dOoqHE9h_Lvq669m.NH8CMUIN3s2b7Fe8?canPlayFromShare=true&from=share_recording_detail&continueMode=true&componentName=rec-play&originRequestUrl=https://harvard.zoom.us/rec/share/qR96xGLqEefVfBdHGAoNDdbDB5vHZSC1J1om-QvdK5wye3xBdWGHoLjQPRPzggZ2.1YesUC88gaTCYOul

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Jan 25: Medicine in American Popular Graphics from Political Cartoons of the 1860s to Children’s Comic Books in the 1940s Online

Medicine in American Popular Graphics from Political Cartoons of the 1860s to Children's Comic Books in the 1940s Online

In this illustrated talk, Professor Bert Hansen sketches out a century-long sequence of American comic and cartoon art that sets the stage for the "graphic medicine" movement flourishing today.

Starting with Civil-War era political cartoons by the famous Thomas Nast, the talk explores humorous caricatures in Puck and Judge from the Gilded Age, and then glances at photojournalism and the story-telling style of LIFE magazine. The narrative ends with the explosive growth of the familiar action/adventure comics in the 1940s, many of which featured heroes like Walter Reed, Louis Pasteur, Edward Jenner, and Joseph Goldberger. This history illustrates how medicine and public health stories were being imagined by innovative graphic artists over a hundred years of changing media.

Please note that this event will not be recorded.

About the Speaker:

Bert Hansen is Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College of CUNY. He is the author of Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America. His recent publications include "The Kids are Alright" on juvenile biographies of scientists; "Pasteur in the Classroom: Rediscovering a 1940s Film," an invited blog for the National Library of Medicine"; Does Louis Pasteur Still Matter? Or will the scientist's 200th birthday be his last soirée?" Distillations (November 2022); and "Pasteur's Lifelong Engagement with the Fine Arts," Annals of Science (2021). His other articles on Pasteur's involvement with artists are now freely available through his website and also at these links: "Edelfelt Collaboration" at Project Muse, "Claudet and Dubois" at SAGE journals, and "Three Compatriots" at SAGE journals.

Learn more about the NLM traveling exhibit Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well-Drawn and other related events at countway.info/graphicmed.

Date:: Thursday, January 25, 2024
Time:: 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Time Zone:: Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Online:: This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Categories:: Events History of Medicine

New YouNeek book from Dark Horse

THE OLORIS VOLUME 1

Join the heroes from across YouNeek Studios' YouNeek YouNiverse as they unite for the first time in this epic graphic novel crossover event!

When an unknown anarchist unleashes an army of extraterrestrial androids on the continent of Africa, Malika--legendary warrior queen of the 15th-century West African Empire, Azzaz--must put together a team of "unlike-minded" heroes to respond before it's too late. Featuring appearances from other YouNeek YouNiverse heroes like E.X.O., Fury, and WindMaker, several YouNeek storylines finally converge.

Dark Horse and YouNeek Studios continue stories in a shared universe of African fantasy and superhero stories—the YouNeek YouNiverse!

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A Comics Display for the British Library

Headlines & Heroes Blog from the Library of Congress.

A Comics Display for the British Library

01/17/2024 01:23 PM EST

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the British Library, the Serial and Government Publications Division displayed some related comic book content on Captain Britain, Miracleman, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Winston Churchill.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/16/2024

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jason Aaron To Write Relaunched Series for IDW Publishing (Exclusive)

Jamie Lovett - January 16, 2024

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tmnt-jason-aaron-idw/

Laughing apart: Study looks at how jokes hit differently for men and women [British gag cartoons]

Mitchell Consky

CTVNews.ca Writer

Jan. 14, 2024

https://www.ctvnews.ca/lifestyle/laughing-apart-study-looks-at-how-jokes-hit-differently-for-men-and-women-1.6725772

"Bar Baby" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

January 15, 2024 by Lawrence Wood

https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/bar-baby-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

How Director Priit Tender Unleashed His Imagination in the Oscar Short-listed 'Dog Apartment' [Estonia]

By Jeff Spry

January 15, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/how-director-priit-tender-unleashed-his-imagination-in-the-oscar-short-listed-dog-apartment/

This Years Oscar Shortlisted Filmmakers Discuss Their Visual Approach To Storytelling

By Jamie Lang | 01/12/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-filmmakers-discuss-their-visual-approach-to-storytelling-236728.html

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Director Stéphanie Clément Shares Her Favorite Shot From 'Pachyderme' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/12/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-director-stephanie-clement-shares-her-favorite-shot-from-pachyderme-exclusive-236699.html

Oscar Shortlist Interviews: Directors Dan Abraham And Trent Correy Share Their Favorite Shot From 'Once Upon A Studio' (Exclusive)

By Jamie Lang | 01/12/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/oscar-shortlist-interviews-directors-dan-abraham-and-trent-correy-share-their-favorite-shot-from-once-upon-a-studio-exclusive-236698.html

2024 Animation Industry Layoff Tracker

By Jamie Lang | 01/15/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/2024-animation-industry-layoff-tracker-236827.html

Pixar Suffers A 'Soul'-Crushing Defeat At Box Office

By Amid Amidi | 01/14/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/pixar-suffers-a-soul-crushing-defeat-at-box-office-236795.html

January 11, 2024

Pixar's Pete Docter on Why He's Excited for 'Soul,' 'Luca,' and 'Turning Red' to Hit Theaters

https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/pixar-soul-theaters-pete-docter/

FOX to Make Animated Mischief With 'Elfquest' Drama Series

Animation Magazine January 12, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/fox-tv-to-make-animated-mischief-with-elfquest-drama-series/

15 Rules to Keep Your Animated Show From Breaking

Chuck Austen

January 15, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/15-rules-to-keep-your-animated-show-from-breaking/

Looking At DC Comics' New Corner Boxes For 2024

We now have a better look, across the line at DC Comics' new corner boxes logos, that delineate between the different "groups" of titles.

15 Jan 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/looking-at-dc-comics-new-corner-boxes-for-2024/

5 Questions with Jerry Craft

by SLJ Staff

Jan 16, 2024

https://www.slj.com/story/5-Questions-with-Jerry-Craft

P. Ardhra & Sathyaraj Venkatesan: Climate grief, resilience and Brian Fies's A fire story

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, (16 Jan 2024)

online at https://www.academia.edu/113587599/_Comics_studies_Climate_Grief_Resilience_and_Brian_Fies_A_Fire_Story

Comics And Literacy: Final Report On The Eu Comic Art Europe Research Project 2020-23

Professor Andrew Miles

Comic Art Europe (CAE) November 2023

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B8qRjrnzrkS9KC5e7h8yX48Wuu5Qhyjf/view

Comic Art Europe 2021-2023, Retrospective

Comic Art Europe

Jan 11, 2024

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

Remembering David Kunzle

Charles Hatfield | January 16, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/remembering-david-kunzle/

David Kunzle, 1936-2024

Andrew Farago | January 16, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/david-kunzle-1936-2024/

Susanna Clarke and Alan Moore in conversation

Alison Flood,

British Library's Living Knowledge Network 11 January 2024

https://www.living-knowledge-network.co.uk/library/susanna-clarke-alan-moore

Tatiana Maslany says She-Hulk: Attorney At Law has likely been thrown out of court

The star of the 2022 Marvel series thinks the show is too big and too expensive to go on

Emma Keates

AV Club January 16 2024

https://www.avclub.com/tatiana-maslany-she-hulk-attorney-law-marvel-season-2-1851170137

Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Aayesha Ejaz

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog January 16, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/01/meet-local-cartoonist-chat-with-aayesha-ejaz.html

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

May 18: Gaithersburg Book Festival cartoonist appearances

https://www.gaithersburgbookfestival.org/

Derrick Barnes is a National Book Award Finalist for his 2022 graphic novel, "Victory. Stand!-Raising My Fist For Justice," which also won the 2023 YALSA Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction Award, and a Coretta Scott King Award Author Honor. He is also the author of the multi-award-winning picture book, "Crown: An Ode to the Fresh Cut," which received a Newbery Honor, a Coretta Scott King Author Honor, the Ezra Jack Keats New Writer Award and the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers. In 2020, he became the only author to win the Kirkus Prize twice for his twelfth release, The New York Times best-seller, "I Am Every Good Thing." Derrick is also the creator of The New York Times best-selling companion picture books, "The King of Kindergarten" and "The Queen of Kindergarten." Derrick will be presenting "Who Got Game?: Basketball: Amazing but True Stories!"

Cece Bell is the creator of the graphic novel "El Deafo," which was a Newbery Honor Book and a Will Eisner Comic Industry Award winner; the Geisel Honor Book "Rabbit and Robot: The Sleepover;" and "Rabbit and Robot and Ribbit, I Yam a Donkey!," "Bee-Wigged," "Itty Bitty," the "Chick and Brain" books and the "Sock Monkey" series. She has also created books with her husband, Tom Angleberger, including "Crankee Doodle" and the "Inspector Flytrap" series. Cece will be presenting "Animal Albums from A to Z."

John Patrick Green is a human with the human job of making books about animals with human jobs, notably the smash-hit graphic novel series, "InvestiGators." John is definitely a multiple New York Times best-selling human author and not just a bunch of animals in a trench coat pretending to have a human job. With over a million copies of "InvestiGators" in print, John is a successful human being with only two hands and a normal amount of fur. He lives in a Brooklyn apartment that doesn't allow animals other than the ones living in his head. John will be presenting "InvestiGators: Agents of S.U.I.T."

Jonathan Roth writes and illustrates graphic novels ("Rover and Speck," named on ALA's 2023 Core Excellence in Children's Science Fiction Notable List) and chapter books ("Beep and Bob") aimed at young readers who like humorous, out-of-this-world adventures. His first picture book ("Almost Underwear") comes out this summer. When not creating books or teaching elementary art, Jonathan can be found cycling, hiking, canoeing or napping. Jonathan will be presenting "Rover and Speck: Splash Down!"

Carla Speed McNeil covers Seanan McGuire

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We're pleased to present The Proper Thing and Other Stories, a huge (24 stories spread across more than 500 page, including an over 100 page novella making its first print appearance) new collection by Seanan McGuire. Carla McNeil has provided a full-color dust jacket and a small pen and ink illustration for the head of each tale.

About the Book:

From the end of the world to the beginning, with a nice charcuterie plate to sustain us on the way, it's time for another journey through the eccentric, eclectic short fiction of Seanan McGuire. From dangerous holidays to the beauty of the library, from the power of cheese to the power of love, this volume will take you from the past to the future, sometimes on the same page.

Learn about the insecurities of the superheroic world, and how hard some people will work to survive the end of absolutely everything. Discover what everyone knows, and watch what happens when the cultural foundations are pulled from under your favorite cuisine. See what people will do when all else is lost, and watch what happens on the day the music dies.

And when all that is through, visit our magical cheese shop for something truly delicious, impossible and unique. We have a little something for everyone in our box of delights. Don't be afraid—just reach in, and choose a treat to improve and enhance your day.

We've been waiting for another trip to the store on the corner, where they sell Wensleydale and wishes side by side. Come along now, let's go.

Limited: 1250 signed numbered hardcover copies: $50

Rowlandson book for sale at Second Story Books in DC

An Academy for Grown Horsemen

By Geoffrey Gambado and illustrated by Thomas Rowlandson

London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809. Octavo, [4], 140 pages. In Near Fine condition. Bound in full red morocco by E. Riley and Son, with their stamp. Boards with French fillets within a dotted patters, elegant design in the corners. Board edges and turn-ins with a gilt roll, turn-ins with gilt design. Paneled spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Bookplate of Sir Percy Cox to the front pastedown. With 29 hand-colored plates.

Major-General Sir Percy Zachariah Cox (1864-1937) was a British Indian Army officer and Colonial Office administrator in the Middle East who served as one of the major figures in the creation of the current Middle East. [Wikipedia]

$900

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Meet a Local Cartoonist: A Chat with Aayesha Ejaz

by Mike Rhode

This year's DC Zinefest at the MLK Library had a handful of cartoonists tabling. One of them is Aayesha Ejaz, new to the DMV area. Her self-titled graphic autobiography is about growing up in India in an observant Muslim family, not fitting in, and succumbing to depression before overcoming it and moving to America. I recommend it highly, as well as her food-focused zines.

What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?

I mostly draw autobiographical comics to make things digestible and comforting for myself, and
the viewer. I share mundane things (for instance, how to make a makeshift pizza as a broke
college student!) in an endearing manner with humility and humor.

How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?

I work traditionally—I use a mechanical pencil for sketching, and then move to pens for inking. I generally use a Pentel Fude Touch Sign pen for outlines, Paper Mate Flair Felt Tip pen for lettering and a Pentel brush pen for filling in. I prefer to color digitally on Procreate. Then I move to Photoshop for editing and InDesign for layouting.

When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?

I was born in 1998 in New Delhi, India.

Why are you in Washington now? What neighborhood or area do you live in?

I recently moved for work from St. Louis to Fredericksburg—one small city to another!

What is your training and/or education in cartooning?

This is a long story! I did my undergrad from the Indian Institute of Art and Design in Communication Design—a mix of graphic design, UI/UX, animation, etc. The program allowed me to test my waters. Towards the end of my undergrad, I realized that the projects that I enjoyed the most involved illustration and storytelling.

During my final semester, my brother shared with me about a comic making workshop with Gabrielle Bell. The online workshop helped me learn the A-Z of comics—terms like “emanata” and “pacing” and allowed me to create characters even if they were just stick figures. I was amazed by how much one panel could encapsulate and how relatable everyone's personal narratives were.

I would often struggle with translating thumbnails onto a bigger page for a picture book, but with panels, things didn’t seem that intimidating. So after the workshop, I decided to enroll myself in grad school for illustration. I was admitted into the MFA Illustration and Visual Culture program at Washington University in St. Louis. The program focused on both writing and creating, whether it was comics, picture books, editorial illustrations or infographics.

Who are your influences?

I devoured the entire Captain Underpants series as a kid which validated my quirky sense of humor. I love Lucy Knisley, Malaka Gharib, and Liz Prince—I enjoy the humanized nature of their style and the infographics in their storytelling always makes things more interesting. I’m always in awe of Raina Telgemier’s books as well. Her work is the warm hug my younger self needed :)

What work are you best-known for?

My Makeshift Pizza comic/infographic! All thanks to Dan Zettwoch’s mentorship, and my grad school cohort for trying the recipe the weekend after the class critique.

What work are you most proud of?

The graphic memoir that I wrote and illustrated for my MFA thesis. Never thought I’d be able to share my thoughts and feelings with brevity (in a long-form comic book).

What would you like to do or work on in the future?

I definitely see myself illustrating more stories. I’d also like to explore surface design more—making prints, products and patterns with animals and faces to give my sketchbook doodles a home.

What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?

I keep trying—I keep writing, drawing or looking at similar stuff that already exists. I also share whatever I have with a friend or family member. Going for a walk and changing my environment also helps.

What local cons do you attend? The Small Press Expo, Awesome Con, or others? Any
comments about attending them?

Coming from Missouri, I’ve tabled at KC Zine Con, Cherokee Print Bazaar, SLICE and DC Zinefest. Tabling definitely gives one an idea about what sells, but the crowd has been different in all these places… I’m generally quite quiet at these events, but I’ve recently started interacting
with whoever stops by my table.

What comic books do you read regularly or recommend? Do you have a local store?

I used to get my comics from Betty's Books (The best comic bookstore I’ve been to in the US so far) or the St. Louis Public Library. The summer of 2023 was my comics summer. Here are some of my favorites: Blancaflor, The Hero with Secret Powers: A Folktale from Latin America by Nadja Spiegelman and Sergio García Sánchez; Swim Team by Johnnie Christmas; Snapdragon by Kat Leyh; In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee; Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed; Hey Kiddo by Jarrett J. Krosoczka; and Iranian Love Stories by Jane Deuxard.

What's your favorite thing about DC?

I’ve been here many times to visit my brother. I’ve always liked DC for its public transit, cleanliness and museums. And all the ice cream parlors, especially Pitango!