Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/23/2024

5 Questions with Dan Santat

by SLJ Staff
Jan 19, 2024

https://www.slj.com/story/5-Questions-with-Dan-Santat

 

Interview: How the Jack Kirby Museum is bringing SKY MASTERS to a new generation of fans

Diego Higuera

01/23/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-how-the-jack-kirby-museum-is-bringing-sky-masters-to-a-new-generation-of-fans/

 

Interview: Living fast and eating trash with THE RACC PACK creators

We caught up with STEPHANIE COOKE and WHITNEY GARDNER to learn more about their new graphic novel, available beginning today!

Avery Kaplan

01/23/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-living-fast-and-eating-trash-with-the-racc-pack-creators/

 

"This Is Not Only What I Want To Do, But What I Need To Do To Be Happy": An Interview with Philadelphia Cartoonist Steven Arnold

Zach Rabiroff | January 22, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/this-is-not-only-what-i-want-to-do-but-what-i-need-to-do-to-be-happy-an-interview-with-philadelphia-cartoonist-steven-arnold/

 

'Hazbin Hotel' Is a Childhood Dream Streamed Out to the World

Vivienne Medrano's animated musical series went from middle-school sketches to YouTube to a series streaming on Amazon.

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Childhood Dream Makes It to TV Screens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/arts/television/hazbin-hotel-amazon.html

 

Penguin Random House to Distribute Wattpad Webtoon

By John Maher 

Jan 23, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/94152-penguin-random-house-to-distribute-wattpad-webtoon.html

 

MARVEL THINKS MORE GORE MIGHT HELP

Announces 'Red Band' Editions of 'Blood Hunt'

Posted by Milton Griepp on January 23, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56065/marvel-thinks-more-gore-might-help

Stolen Election: Voting for Ukraine in New Hampshire

William L Brown

Jan 23 2024

https://nativecpeaker.substack.com/p/stolen-election

 

Sandra Bell Lundy

["Well, it's happened again. My comic has been canceled in a number of newspapers."]

Sandra Bell Lundy January 22 2024

https://www.facebook.com/755617563/posts/10163044524942564/?mibextid=I6gGtw

 

Celebrate Will Eisner Week with the GNCRT!

Carol Tilley, Katherine Mowery, and Matthew Noe,

American Library Association's Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table Jun 7, 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80WIXymQ3-k

 

Chatting With Jimmy Palmiotti

wordballoon January 23 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oyrHNGFNeY

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Ivan Cohen [Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries]

Jason DeHart

Jan 23, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIGnZM312XQ

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Bob Rozakis

Jason DeHart

Jan 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqz51F3vH_I

 

A Talk With Editorial Cartoonists Nick Anderson and Angelo Lopez

Angelo Lopez

 Jan 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLE-3GDsojY

 

The First Pages: Getting back into craft-based posts with a look at the opening scenes of Ultimate Spider-Man and Cobra Commander #1 [writing comic books]

Scott Snyder

Our Best Jackett Newsletter #172; Jan 23, 2024

https://bestjackettpress.substack.com/p/newsletter-172-the-first-pages

 

After Launch of 'Echo', Marvel Restarts Production on 'Daredevil: Born Again'

The studio hopes to keep the momentum going as it seeks to keep the focus on its street-fighting heroes

Borys Kit

January 19, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-born-again-resumes-filming-echo-1235793539/

 

Echo's portrayal of disability marks a big step forward for Marvel

Here's hoping the superhero miniseries' handling of ASL inspires other shows to follow suit

Meredith Hobbs Coons

AV Club January 23 2024

https://www.avclub.com/echo-portrayal-disability-asl-dhh-essay-marvel-1851179594

 

Jim Zub Displaced by Ed Brisson as Oshawa's Most Famous Comic Creator [Canada]

  22 Jan 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-zub-displaced-by-ed-brisson-as-oshawas-most-famous-comic-creator/

 

GoFundMe Updates For Comic Book Creators Peter David and Brett Lewis

  22 Jan 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/gofundme-updates-for-comic-book-creators-peter-david-and-brett-lewis/

 

Review: Erin Williams's WHAT'S WRONG? deftly examines the hellish landscape of chronic pain

Samantha Puc

01/23/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/erin-williams-whats-wrong-review/

 

2000 AD Covers Uncovered: Alex Ronald welcomes an Alien Invasion of Enemy Earth!

17th January 2024

https://2000ad.com/news/2000-ad-covers-uncovered-alien-invasion-for-enemy-earth-with-alex-ronald/

 

'Chicken for Linda!' Wins Lumière Award for French Animation

Animation Magazine

January 22, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/01/chicken-for-linda-wins-lumiere-award-for-french-animation/

 

'Rick and Morty' Season 8 Coming in 2025, Anime Series Reveals New Footage

James Hibberd

January 22, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rick-morty-season-8-date-anime-footage-1235803545/

 

Hayao Miyazaki Earns Oscar Nom for 'The Boy and the Heron'

 

The animation icon is now tied for the most best animated feature nominations, with four. He previously won a competitive Oscar for 'Spirited Away' and received an Academy Honorary Award.

Carolyn Giardina

January 23, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/2024-oscars-hayao-miyazaki-the-boy-and-the-heron-animated-feature-1235804418/

 

Nouns Fest To Distribute $1 Million In Animated Short Project Financing

By Jamie Lang | 01/22/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/events/nouns-fest-to-distribute-1-million-in-animated-short-project-financing-237082.html

 

Audiences Reject Recycled Releases As 'Soul,' 'Spider-Verse' Post Dismal Weekend Box Office Numbers

By Jamie Lang | 01/22/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/soul-spider-verse-re-releases-dismal-weekend-box-office-numbers-237150.html

 

French Cinema Has Its Best Year Abroad Since Before The Pandemic Thanks To Animated Features Like 'Miraculous,' 'Epic Tales'

By Jamie Lang | 01/22/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/french-cinema-exports-2023-miraculous-epic-tales-237136.html

 

Disney Legend Mark Henn Says He May Have Not Retired "If The Work Had Been More Meaningful"

By Jamie Lang | 01/21/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/studios/retired-disney-legend-mark-henn-work-had-been-more-meaningful-236985.html

 

Mark Henn [Disney animator]

Tom and Tony Bancroft

The Bancroft Brothers Animation Podcast 12 January 2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-henn/id911802874?i=1000641496547

 

Animator Spotlight: Kelly Armstrong

By Vincent Alexander | 01/19/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animator-spotlight/animator-spotlight-kelly-armstrong-237044.html

 

Christopher Reeve doc 'Super/Man' leaves Sundance audience sobbing

The film delves into his deep friendship with Robin Williams and features home videos and interviews with Reeve's three children

By Jada Yuan

Washington Post January 22, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/01/22/christopher-reeve-super-man-documentary-sundance/

 

'Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story' Review: An Emotional Tribute to a Big-Screen Hero Who Became a Real-Life Inspiration

David Rooney

January 21, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story-review-1235802955/

 

Caren Pilgrim

CollectPeanuts.com

https://collectpeanuts.com/

WaPo on Christopher Reeve documentary

Christopher Reeve doc 'Super/Man' leaves Sundance audience sobbing

The film delves into his deep friendship with Robin Williams and features home videos and interviews with Reeve's three children

By Jada Yuan

Washington Post January 22, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/01/22/christopher-reeve-super-man-documentary-sundance/

William Brown's latest cartoons and writings on Ukraine

Stolen Election

Voting for Ukraine in New Hampshire

William L Brown Jan 23 2024 https://nativecpeaker.substack.com/p/stolen-election

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/22/2024

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode seventy-one | Charles Soule, part one

Jan 22 2024 https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/take-these-two-over-the-the-garage

 

Sketches from Cartoonist Daniel Clowes's Hit Graphic Novel 'Monica' Go On View in Paris

Galerie Martel will showcase the various materials the graphic novelist created for his latest book.

Min Chen, January 17, 2024

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/daniel-clowes-monica-galerie-martel-2420007

 

Please consider helping writer Brett Lewis

Heidi MacDonald

01/22/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/please-consider-helping-writer-brett-lewis/

 

International cartoonists stand with Handala in support of Palestine

Several hundred professional artists in Italy and Japan paid homage to Naji al-Ali's personification of the struggle.

Arpad Okay

01/22/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/international-cartoonists-stand-with-handala-palestine/

 

Interview: Cullen Bunn and Heath Amodio talk 'action-packed' graphic novel COPYCAT!

Diego Higuera

01/22/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-cullen-bunn-and-heath-amodio-talk-action-packed-graphic-novel-copycat/

 

Interview: The filmmakers of JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS tease revisiting familiar animated universes

Taimur Dar

01/22/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-justice-league-crisis-on-infinite-earths-part-one-filmmakers/

 

ALA honors many graphic novels, including Big, Mexikid, Worm, Family Style

Heidi MacDonald

01/22/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/ala-honors-awards-mexikid/

 

Interview: Garth Ennis Writes James Bond...For the First Time!

Interview by Nicki Faust

Jan 16, 2024

https://previewsworld.com/Article/272519-Interview-Garth-Ennis-Writes-James-BondFor-the-First-Time

 

Dakota Johnson doesn't know if Madame Web will be any good, but she hopes she did okay

Johnson also apparently has a secret knack for stunt driving, which is cool

Sam Barsanti

AV Club January 21 2024

https://www.avclub.com/dakota-johnson-madame-web-any-good-1851183751

 

'Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story' Review: An Emotional Tribute to a Big-Screen Hero Who Became a Real-Life Inspiration

David Rooney

January 21, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story-review-1235802955/

 

Christopher Reeve's children haven't watched that posthumous CG The Flash cameo

Reeve's children also say he would be most proud of Remains Of The Day, not Superman

Sam Barsanti

AV Club January 21 2024

https://www.avclub.com/true-detective-night-country-ai-posters-issa-lopez-hbo-1851185628

 

State of Digital Art

Victoria Douglas, Mars Heyward and Blue Delliquanti

CXC Festival  Jan 22, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KK-ziE8UgO4

 

Roz Chast's "Bird Bath"

The artist depicts her favorite antidote for dreary winter weather: a nice, hot bath.

By Françoise Mouly

 January 22, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-01-29

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/20-21/2024

Michael Dolce. 2024-

Secrets of the Sire newsletter

https://sirestudios.substack.com/

 

The first Peanuts ads?

Nat Gertler

AAUGH Blog January 20, 2024

https://aaugh.com/wordpress/2024/01/the-first-peanuts-ads/

 

Snoopy's popularity is soaring. So is attendance at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa

Dan Taylor

Santa Rosa Press Democrat

January 18, 2024,

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/north-bay/schulz-museum-in-santa-rosa-scores-record-attendance-as-snoopys-popularity/

 

The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art

Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.

  AX Mina January 18, 2024

https://hyperallergic.com/866603/the-simpsons-make-their-mark-in-inuit-art-pitsiulaq-qimirpik/

 

He didn't start the fire [Michael Ramirez letters]

Jack Aubert and Suzanne Richardson

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

 

More than words is all you have to do [Ann Telnaes letter]

Elizabeth Tebow

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

 

People are people [Steve Brodner letter]

Tom Horrigan

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

 

Sarah Burgess for Skip!

Comix Experience January 21 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C269_HAVmeg

 

Words, Images, & Worlds: The Human Fly Edition with Tony Babinski

Jason DeHart

 Jan 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJCImQU5RPM

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Greg Cravens

Jason DeHart

 Jan 21, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-2ZO2B4EGk

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Tim Seeley

Jason DeHart

 Jan 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85qYTJ__Avc

 

Words, Images, & Worlds: Flash Gordon Edition with Jim Keefe

Jason DeHart

Jan 19, 2024

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

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Jan Scherpenhuizen

Jason DeHart

 Jan 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czZcP-rlTJ0

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Ben Ferrari

Jason DeHart

 Jan 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QutVai98hKg

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with John Lees

Jason DeHart

Jan 15, 2024

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

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Mark Chiarello

Jason DeHart

 Jan 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB3gAKSEnOg

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Roland Mann

Jason DeHart

 Jan 14, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEtKeAm4mnU

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with J.M. DeMatteis

Jason DeHart

Jan 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqnpXvSq2SM

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Vernon Smith

Jason DeHart

Jan 16, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVMiIXMV8SA

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Lucy Knisley

Jason DeHart

 Jan 15, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-l7OU8VBHw

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Tom Rogers

Jason DeHart

Jan 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Jp2-HiVw0

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Danny J Quick

Jason DeHart

Jan 15, 2024

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Ken Quattro

Jason DeHart

 Jan 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qX2WRj7Zdrk

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Joe R. Lansdale

Jason DeHart

 Jan 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41dwwwx6ufY

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Gary Cohn

Jason DeHart

Jan 20, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHvegNiC7w

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Chuck Austen

Jason DeHart

Jan 16, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCG4ewABK9I

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Darryl Banks

Jason DeHart

Jan 14, 2024

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

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Jennie Wood

Jason DeHart

 Jan 18, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4VkZW03ckI

 

Pop Culture Retro interview with legendary comics writer, Mark Evanier!

Ike Eisenmann, and  Jonathan Rosen,

Pop Culture Retro

Jan 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4uAbiB7Wtc

 

Patch Zircher on writing the icon Solomon Kane in 'The Savage Sword of Conan'

David Brooke

January 16, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/01/16/patch-zircher-the-savage-sword-of-conan/

 

'Lunar New Year Love Story' celebrates true love, honors immigrant struggles

Thúy Đinh

January 11, 2024

 https://www.npr.org/2024/01/11/1223512388/lbook-review-graphic-novel-romance-lunar-new-year-love-story

 

    Gannett Comic Consolidations This Weekend – Updated: Cheaper By the Dozens

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/01/21/gannett-comic-consolidations-this-weekend/

 

Neil Gaiman & Charles Vess Remaster Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream

by Rich Johnston

 20 Jan 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/neil-gaiman-charles-vess-remaster-sandman-a-midsummer-nights-dream/

 

Kevin Eastman's Drawing Blood Switches From Scout Comics To Image

Drawing Blood was a Kickstarter by Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, Ben Bishop and Troy Little about The Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls.

by Rich Johnston

 , 20 Jan 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/kevin-eastmans-drawing-blood-switches-from-scout-comics-to-image/

 

ThunderCats #1 Gets 170,000 Orders After Rob Liefeld Cover Drops

  19 Jan 2024

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/thundercats-1-gets-170000-orders-after-rob-liefeld-cover-drops/

 

Joe Bennett Finds A New Home WIth Chuck Dixon And Eric D July

Joe Bennett and Chuck Dixon have created a new superhero comic, Alphacore, for Eric D July's Rippaverse, getting boosts from culture wars.

 20 Jan 2024

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/joe-bennett-finds-a-new-home-with-chuck-dixon-and-eric-d-july/

 

One day, he was safe in a nursing home. The next, he was homeless [journalism comic]

By Christopher Rowland and Bianca Bagnarelli

Washington Post (January 21 2024): D5-6.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/21/elderly-homeless-comic-senior-homelessness/

 

No Plan, Only Instinct: Marco Checchetto on the Art of "Daredevil"

By David Harper

January 28, 2020

https://sktchd.com/art-feature/no-plan-only-instinct-marco-checchetto-on-the-art-of-daredevil/

 

"Completely Great, a Total Pain in the Ass, and Everything In-Between": Retailers Discuss a Year of Change in Comic Shops

By David Harper

January 16, 2024

 https://sktchd.com/longform/january-2024-retailer-feature/

 

Ultimate Spider-Man #1 is a Hit, and a Microcosm for Marvel's Current Position

By David Harper

January 18, 2024

https://sktchd.com/column/ultimate-spider-man-1-launch/

 

The Secret History of Self Publishing

Comics. Before the Internet.

Colleen Doran

Colleen Doran's Funny Business Jan 21, 2024

https://colleendoran.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-self-publishing

 

A perfect sunday with... Luke Horsman

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter Jan 21, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-luke-horsman/

 

Ep. 110: The Yakuza's Bias, by Teki Yatsuda

Back to the Yakuza Comedy Well, for a Manga About Korean Pop Music...?

Aoki, Deb. et al. 2024.

MSX: Mangasplaining Extra

Jan 21, 2024

https://mangasplaining.substack.com/p/ep-110-the-yakuzas-bias-by-teki-yatsuda

NPR reviews 'Lunar New Year Love Story'

'Lunar New Year Love Story' celebrates true love, honors immigrant struggles

Thúy Đinh

January 11, 2024 

 https://www.npr.org/2024/01/11/1223512388/lbook-review-graphic-novel-romance-lunar-new-year-love-story

That darn Steve Brodner

People are people [Steve Brodner letter]

Tom Horrigan

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

Steve Brodner's Jan. 7 illustrated Opinion essay, "These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.," presented an initial shock because the full-page graphic was disturbing, and the text didn't add much clarifying content.

From the Jan. 7 illustrated Opinion essay. (Steve Brodner/For The Washington Post)

The essay unfortunately borrowed from former president Donald Trump's mockery playbook by presenting the 147 identified Republican members of Congress as cartoonish images of their worst selves. It simply presented a nasty graphic with minimal explanatory text. The cartoon images were repeated in a black-and-white arrangement with highlights of the antics of 11 of the 147.

The essay did not present an opinion. Was that intentional to force readers to develop their own opinion? If so, mine was that this did no better than Trump by mocking, demonizing and dehumanizing people, as he did recently with President Biden's stutter. By the looks of the cartoon faces of the 147 members of Congress the essay seemed to cast them as evil, against Amanda Ripley's wise advice in her Opinion column two pages later, "Want to make a decision you'll regret? Split the world into good and evil." By text explanation, the essay offered only that the 147 "formally supported objection to counting Joe Biden's electoral votes." Specific objections by members were not provided, leaving the inference that each member is as bad as the worst among them.

I'm an independent voter who was aghast by the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and Republicans' continued efforts to deny it happened and minimize its adverse consequences for our democracy. For The Post, though, to devote two full pages of the Opinion section to cartoonishly vilify those 147 members of Congress was unprofessional, ugly and unacceptable. Each of the 147 members has official photos that could have been used instead to help readers recognize them. The teeth-bared, scowling, red-faced and loud graphics were dehumanizing. Is that The Post's opinion?

That darn Ann Telnaes

More than words is all you have to do [Ann Telnaes letter]

Elizabeth Tebow, Silver Spring

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

The Dec. 31 editorial cartoon, captioned "Autocracy is growing worldwide for 2024." (Ann Telnaes/The Washington Post)

Thanks for Ann Telnaes's Dec. 31 Opinion piece showing cartoons about the conflict in Gaza by an Israeli and a Palestinian, "Palestinian and Israeli cartoonists see the war differently (and the same)." They were powerful and their meanings clear, which is why I wondered why, other than the information on the artists, Telnaes felt it necessary to explain them.

Then I turned to her cartoon on the next page and realized that without the caption, I would not have understood it. The best cartoons, especially political ones, speak for themselves.

That darn Michael Ramirez

From the Jan. 2 editorial cartoon. (Michael Ramirez/Las Vegas Review-Journal for The Washington Post)

He didn't start the fire [Michael Ramirez]

Jack Aubert and Suzanne Richardson

Washington Post January 20 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/19/biden-economy-claudine-gay-senior-fitness/

Political cartoons express political opinions, but they should stick to facts. Michael Ramirez's Jan. 2 "Burned" editorial cartoon was not particularly clever and utterly divorced from reality.

The U.S. economy was battered by the pandemic that began in 2020. Employment fell by 25 million in weeks. The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a.k.a. "Bidenomics," which passed with zero Republican support, kept businesses afloat. The downside of maintaining purchasing power was that demand often exceeded supply, stretching supply chains and causing a burst of inflation. But three years later, the U.S. economy is setting records both in terms of international comparisons and our pre-covid baseline. Labor force participation is up. Inflation is close to the Federal Reserve's 2 percent target. Unemployment is near a 50-year low. Most workers' real wages have gone up. The stock market has recorded its strongest year since 2019. Most credit for this should go to Federal Reserve policies, but, on balance, Bidenomics helped.

Jack Aubert, Falls Church

I woke up the morning of Jan. 2 to the strangest cartoon by Michael Ramirez, directly in contradiction to all known facts about the state of our economy.

Inflation has fallen dramatically, gas prices are down, workers' wages are up, the stock market is soaring, and the economy is doing well. Why this cartoon? It packs a punch all right, but not where intended; instead it blows a hole in our trust of The Post.

Suzanne Richardson, Pikesville