It's the great Daniel Boris editorial cartoon catch-up!
Red Sea Puppet Master 1/15/24
You Are What You Eat 1/14/24
SEAL Team Say What Now? 1/11/24
Philip C. Meyer, Ashburn
Washington Post January 27 2024: A13.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/26/ultra-processed-food-biden-iowa-axolotl/
"Classic Peanuts" cartoons are typically as fresh today as when they were originally published years ago, but younger readers might have been perplexed about the punch line in the Jan. 12 strip featuring Snoopy skating blind because of a stocking cap covering his head. When he fell down on the ice, Snoopy said, "For a moment there, I had Mr. Frick worried." No, not Ford Frick, the commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1951 to 1965. Snoopy was referring to Frick and Frack, the highly skilled duo who delighted Ice Follies audiences with their comedy skating routines decades ago. Remember, "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz, a native Minnesotan, was a big advocate of ice skating and hockey.
Stan Pearson, Newport News, Va.
Washington Post January 27 2024: A13.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/26/ultra-processed-food-biden-iowa-axolotl/
Little did I know that I would be benefiting from a mini-education just by perusing the funny papers, of all sections, in the Dec. 31 Post. I refer to that day's "Mark Trail" strip.
In it, I learned of the astonishing toll that artificial intelligence is (already) wreaking on our environment — the very same environment we've been overloading with carbon dioxide and pollutants and is therefore always primed for catastrophe: floods, droughts, rising sea levels, enormous wildfires, monster hurricanes, heat domes, extinctions and other dystopian phenomena.
Mark Trail implies that we haven't seen anything yet. For example, "AI technology demands an enormous amount of energy" (almost all of which is produced now by burning fossil fuels). "One data center can consume as much energy as 50,000 homes." AI is also very demanding of our precious water supply, he adds.
The direst of his news is that "just one AI model can create more than 626,000 pounds of carbon dioxide. More than five cars' life output!" So, climate change will likely be made much worse by using AI.
Oh, we've all heard of the best-known downsides of AI: potential competition for jobs (with AI itself), students' suspicious term papers, dangerous misinformation, unemployment and others. But for most of us, nothing quite on par with this.
A Google check confirmed to me the truth of all of Mark Trail's claims. Though I did, just possibly, find something that seemed like a silver lining: AI might actually help reduce emissions by 5 to 10 percent by 2030. (Yet if it can both increase and decrease emissions, will the net change be positive or negative?)
Mark Trail signed off with the (only somewhat hyperbolic) statement "And all this for unusable science articles and stolen artwork."
Elizabeth Kaehler, Washington
Washington Post January 27 2024: A13.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/26/ultra-processed-food-biden-iowa-axolotl/
One of my favorite sections of the Sunday paper is the Comics. I often get my 9-year-old son to read them because they are an easy-to-read part of the paper and kid-friendly. I was horrified to read the Jan. 14 "Doonesbury" on the front page of the section. I was surprised and disgusted that The Post would allow a comic discussing rape and sexual assault to be on the front page or any page of the Comics.
Those topics are not funny and are definitely not kid-friendly. It makes me sad to know that now I need to preview the comics before giving them to my child to read. Please reconsider running such comics in the future. Humor is definitely subjective, but rape and sexual assault are not funny.
JIM LEE'S COVID-ERA FUND-RAISER SKETCHES COMING AS VARIANT COVERS
Batman, Nightwing, Bizarro
Brigid Alverson on January 25, 2024
Tekkonkinkreet by Taiyo Matsumoto
Tekkonkinkreet, now 30 years old, is this story of aging, growing old, and trying to preserve the innocence of youth.
From Cover to Cover Jan 25, 2024
https://www.fromcovertocover.com/tekkonkinkreet-by-taiyo-matsumoto-review/
Everyone Comics of Long Island City Broken Into, Starts GoFundMe
Two nights ago, the comic book store Everyone Comics x Collectibles in Long Island City, in Queens, New York, was broken into, at 3am.
25 Jan 2024 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/everyone-comics-of-long-island-city-broken-into-starts-gofundme/
Graphic novelist Posy Simmonds wins prestigious French comics award
Award marks first time a British artist and author has won Grand Prix at International Comics festival in Angoulême
Angelique Chrisafis in Paris
Wed 24 Jan 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/graphic-novelist-posy-simmonds-wins-prestigious-french-comics-award
Todd McFarlane To Sign A Copy Of Spawn #350 For All Comic Stores
Todd McFarlane has announced a Special Retailer Appreciation Signed Variant Cover for Spawn #350, which he will be signing.
25 Jan 2024 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/todd-mcfarlane-to-sign-a-copy-of-spawn-350-for-all-comic-stores/
Business news round-up: Gungnir Books, Magma Comix, PRH-Wattpad, Diamond cancels summit, more
01/26/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/gungnir-books-magma-comix-diamond-cancels-summit-more/
Inside the Guide: Top Golden Age Books in 1990
Scoop January 26 2024
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1013?ArticleID=272552
ProJo, Newport paper retain 'Wallace' comic
BY RYAN GIBBS
January 25, 2024
https://www.jamestownpress.com/articles/projo-newport-paper-retain-wallace-comic/
Sarah's Scribbles creator Sarah Andersen reflects on over a decade of webcomics success
Interview by Sam Stone
Dec. 18, 2023
https://www.thepopverse.com/sarahs-scribbles-sarah-andersen-interview-webcomics
Gilbert Shelton, « papy de l'Underground » : une exposition et un livre
Par Didier Pasamonik (L'Agence BD) le 19 janvier 2024
https://www.actuabd.com/Gilbert-Shelton-papy-de-l-Underground-une-exposition-et-un-livre
Gilbert Shelton and the Underground Comix : EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW (Sous-titres français)
by Léo Jacquet, Didier Pasamonik, Thomas Figueres and Manon Dias Santos.
ActuaBD Dec 14, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXaHUMESoM
Zippy Cartoonist, East Haddam Resident, Bill Griffith Turns 80
— Clare Byrne, 1.25.2024
https://ctexaminer.com/2024/01/25/zippy-cartoonist-east-haddam-resident-bill-griffith-turns-80/
Graphic Novel Reviews: In ARE YOU WILLING TO DIE FOR THE CAUSE?, 'everything's under control'
Review by François Vigneault
01/26/2024
Over The Land Freckled With Snow – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | January 26, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/over-the-land-freckled-with-snow-this-weeks-links/
Mike Perkins Retro Batman
Jan 11, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdxSrq-u-4
Dan Jurgens The Bat-Man First Knight
Jan 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Ci0gUlZNM
Steve Orlando Scarlet Witch Iceman and more
Jan 18, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHLdOk7l7zw
tom king penguin Wonder Woman and new creator owned stuff
Jan 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mqCzbgXvio
REVIEW: Love is a Battlefield in Love Everlasting Vol. 1
Kayleigh Hearn January 25, 2024
https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/01/review-love-is-a-battlefield-in-love-everlasting-vol-1/
Australian Comics Database
Daniel Best (editor), Gary Chaloner (editor/administrator).
Comic Arts Awards of Australia
https://australiancomicsdb.com.au/
Ai Weiwei Talks 'Zodiac,' AI and His Beating Heart
Rosemary Feitelberg / WMD
Wed, 24 January 2024
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/ai-weiwei-talks-zodiac-ai-223722654.html
"Art Can Serve as a Form of Resistance Long After Its Creators Have Perished" – Dave Maass on Taking the Concentration Camp-Written Opera 'Death Strikes: The Emperor of Atlantis' to the Comics Page
by Andy Oliver
January 19, 2024
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/death-strikes-emperor-atlantis/
X-Men Monday #236 – Peach Momoko Talks 'Ultimate X-Men'
January 22, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/01/22/x-men-monday-peach-momoko-ultimate-x-men-2/
Take a ride on down to 'Golgotha Motor Mountain'
Co-creators Matthew Erman and Lonnie Nadler discuss this totes weird, utterly transcendent series ahead of its March 6 debut.
January 23, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/01/23/take-a-ride-on-down-to-golgotha-motor-mountain/
Redrawing the lesbian: The memory of lesbian feminism in Kate Charlesworth's Sensible Footwear: A Girl's Guide
Vasiliki Belia
Memory Studies (January 17, 2024): 1 –23
https://doi.org/10.1177/17506980231219592
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17506980231219592
Fantagraphics Publishers Denounce Genocide, Call for Gaza Ceasefire
Gary Groth and Eric Reynolds
Fantagraphics Blog January 25, 2024
https://blog.fantagraphics.com/fantagraphics-publishers-denounce-genocide-call-for-gaza-ceasefire/
Life is a long exorcism: horror as mixed race resistance in Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda's Monstress
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics Published online: 19 Jan 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2024.2304088
https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2304088
McMahon, Audrey, Priscilla Greene Hilder and Louise Rehm. 1933.
Salon Of American Humorists: A Political And Social Pageant From The Revolution To The Present Day [exhibit catalogue].
College Art Association.
Online at https://archive.org/details/salon-of-american-humorists-1933
This Cartoon Collector Really Collects
by George T. Maxwell
Hobbies (September 1942): 8 -9.
Harry Stone Collection
by George T. Maxwell
Hobbies (September 1938): 18-21.
Online at https://archive.org/details/hobbies-193809-harry-stone-collection-by-george-t.-maxwell
Author of Articles on Cartoon Collecting Pursues the Same Hobby [George T. Maxwell]
by L.A. "Tempus" Fugitt
Hobbies (September 1938): p10-11, 31.
George T. Maxwell Collection
https://library.ohio-state.edu/search~S7?/XGeorge+T+Maxwell&SORT=D&searchscope=7/XGeorge+T+Maxwell&SORT=D&searchscope=7&SUBKEY=George+T+Maxwell/1%2C175%2C175%2CB/frameset&FF=XGeorge+T+Maxwell&SORT=D&searchscope=7&1%2C1%2C and http://osucartoons.pastperfectonline.com/Search?search_criteria=%22George+T.+Maxwell+Collection%22&onlyimages=false
George T. Maxwell collection of original cartoons.
Maxwell, George T., 1830-1923.
Place of publication not identified, 1910
George T. Maxwell cartoon collection
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010632239/
George Cruikshank : a revaluation
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1992
Contributors
Foreword to the 1992 edition / by Robert L. Patten
Foreword / by Robert L. Patten
Introduction: Remembering Cruikshank / by John Fowles
The George Cruikshank collection at Princeton / by E.D.H. Johnson
The tradition of comic illustration from Hogarth to Cruikshank / by Ronald Paulson
Cruikshank and Dickens / by Richard A. Vogler
Cruikshank as an illustrator of fiction / by Anthony Burton
George Cruikshank, a master of the poetic use of line / by John Harvey
An artist in time / by Louis James
Mr. Lambkin / by David Kunzle
George Cruikshank and the grotesque / by Michael Steig
Dickens, Cruikshank, and fairy tales / by Harry Stone
"At it again" / by William Feaver
Dupuis and Kadokawa form joint venture for manga and more in French
01/26/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dupuis-and-kadokawa-form-joint-venture-for-manga-and-more-in-french/
DSTLRY and Kodansha announce new partnership!
01/26/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dstlry-and-kodansha-announce-new-partnership/
Angoulême '24 Day 1: From indestructible samurai to heavy metal Hell
01/26/2024
by Alistair Dabbs
https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-24-day-1-from-indestructible-samurai-to-heavy-metal-hell/
Prix des Libraires Canal BD 2024, Je suis silence de Jordi Lafebre récompensé
Jean-Laurent Truc
26 janvier 2024
https://www.ligneclaire.info/je-suis-silence-lafebre-287500.html
PREVIEW: WOMEN OF MARVEL (2024) #1 spotlights some spectacular talents
On February 28th, the one-shot that spotlights women creators and heroes in Marvel returns!
01/26/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/preview-women-of-marvel-2024-1-spotlights-some-spectacular-talents/
Words, Images, & Worlds with Ray-Anthony Height
Jason DeHart
Jan 26, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPrIVSjmN5k
Words, Images, & Worlds with Evan Pozios
Jason DeHart
Jan 26, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUvjkgNZv_8
Nate Garcia, The Cartoon Life, January 23, 2024
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 379
Jan 25, 2024
tom king penguin Wonder Woman and new creator owned stuff
Jan 17, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mqCzbgXvio
New Sci-Fi/Fantasy Publisher Gungnir Hopes to Hit Its Target
By Brigid Alverson
Jan 25, 2024
'In the Know' Review: Peacock's Droll Stop-Motion NPR Send-Up From Mike Judge and Zach Woods
The comedy co-created by Brandon Gardner follows the stop-motion-animated staff of an NPR show as they interview live-action guests.
Angie Han
January 24, 2024
'In the Know' Review: This American Narcissist
Mike Judge's latest comedy, an animated sendup of a public radio talk show, offers artisanal awfulness.
By Mike Hale
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 25, 2024, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: This American Narcissist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/arts/television/in-the-know-review.html
Warren Bernard's Willard Mullin collection (pre-Columbia U donation)
ComicsDC blog January 25, 2024
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/01/warren-bernards-willard-mullin.html
'STAR WARS: VISIONS' ANTHOLOGY COMING FROM VIZ
With Story by Creator of 'Spider-Man: Fake Red' [manga]
Posted by Brigid Alverson on January 24, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56079/star-wars-visions-anthology-coming-viz
ANGOULEME GRAND PRIX AWARDED To Posy Simmonds
Milton Griepp on January 25, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56084/angouleme-grand-prix-awarded
Death sentence for man who killed 36 people in Kyoto Animation fire
The Japanese government gives the perpetrator its harshest sentence of capital punishment: Death by hanging.
01/25/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/death-sentence-for-man-who-killed-36-people-in-kyoani-fire/
Kyoto Animation Arsonist Who Killed 36, Injured 32, Sentenced To Death In Japan
By Jamie Lang | 01/25/2024
Watch Andrew Chesworth's 'The Brave Locomotive,' "A Love Letter To The Andrews Sisters And 1940s Animation"
By Jamie Lang | 01/24/2024
Jellyfish Pictures Appoints 'Nimona' VFX Supervisor Archie Donato As Managing Director Of Animation
By Jamie Lang | 01/24/2024
Raising Felix: As an Adult
By Julia Wertz
January 25 2024
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/raising-felix-as-an-adult
An Obscure Syndicate: Madison Features Service [H.T. Elmo]
Allan Holtz
January 22, 2024
http://strippersguide.blogspot.com/2024/01/an-obscure-syndicate-madison-features.html
The Old Dark House (1963) - Title Sequence
Classic Movie Trailers May 25, 2022
Drawn by Charles Addams.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc5LGoksgac
Exclusive: 'Robot Dreams' Director Pablo Berger & Team Share Their Joyous Oscars Reaction
January 24, 2024
Exclusive: Pablo Berger Takes Us Behind the Scenes of His Acclaimed Movie, 'Robot Dreams'
By Ramin Zahed
October 20, 2023
This article was written for the
December '23 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 335)
Industry Veteran Rick Mischel Launches Artists Animation Studio in Canada
January 24, 2024
Webcomics Special: Chatting with KC Green
William Schwartz | January 25, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/webcomics-special-chatting-with-kc-green/
Just for Serious Fun: Revisiting Trenton Cartoonists [New Jersey political cartoonists]
Jan 17, 2024
Avoiding the Evil Eye
How to take a compliment without inviting misfortune.
January 22, 2024
Published in the print edition of the January 29, 2024, issue.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/29/avoiding-the-evil-eye
Robert Kirkman 'Invincible' Ownership Lawsuit Settles Just Ahead of Trial
The lawsuit revolved around accusations that famed comic writer duped William Crabtree into signing a contract that characterized his contributions as a "work-for-hire," leaving him with no ownership stake in the series.
Winston Cho
January 25, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/invincible-profits-showdown-series-ownership-ends-settlement-1235807371/
Blood Hunt writer Jed MacKay promises a "true horror show" for the "bloodiest event in Marvel Comics history"
By George Marston
Newsarama January 24 2024
Rick Remender's Napalm Lullaby #1 dives into a dystopia that hits close to home
By George Marston
Newsarama January 23 2024
Q & A with Ray Xu
By Amanda Ramirez
Jan 25, 2024
Netflix Picks Up Upcoming Animated Film Slate from Japan's Studio Ponoc
The first film out of the gate will be 'The Imaginary,' directed by Yoshiyuki Momose.
Borys Kit
January 25, 2024
Secret History of Comics - Ephemera Finds in TN
ComicsDC blog January 25, 2024
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/01/secret-history-of-comics-ephemera-finds-in-TN.html
Are Newspaper Comic Pictures "Low-Brow Stuff"?
Marjorie Wilson.
Oct 21, 1923 The-Sunday-Chronicle
Screen Mirroring / Sidecar for absolute dummies.
Danielle Corsetto
Jan 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-ejIGyX7nA
The History & Mysteries of Monster Island with Graham Nolan!
Nile Scala and Billy Tucci
POPXP! Network!
Jan 24, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpEkDh2fcn0
Daredevil: Born Again Finally Can Do Right by Daredevil's Best Villain
With Wilson Bethel joining the cast of Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel fans might finally get to see Bullseye done right on screen.
By Joe George | January 25, 2024
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/daredevil-born-again-bullseye-wilson-bethel/
