Thursday, February 08, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/7/2024

 

IDW SHOWS QUARTERLY PROFIT But Loses $4.9 Million for the Fiscal Year

 Milton Griepp on February 7, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56178/idw-shows-quarterly-profit

 

Data and Doctor Doom: An Empirical Approach To Transmedia Characters

Mark Hibbett

Palgrave McMillan 2024

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-45173-7

 

Interview: Mohammad Sabaaneh on POWER BORN OF DREAMS: MY STORY IS PALESTINE

The Beat learned all about the nonfiction graphic novel over email.

Avery Kaplan

02/07/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-mohammad-sabaaneh-on-power-born-of-dreams-my-story-is-palestine/

 

Deadpool Creator Rob Liefeld Says Goodbye to Marvel: "I'm a Little Sad" but Retiring on My Own Terms

The artist tells THR why he's walking away sooner than he once expected and shares his excitement for all the "crazy s***" that's set to hit the big screen with this summer's 'Deadpool 3.'

Ryan Gajewski

February 6, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-creator-rob-liefeld-marvel-retirement-interview-1235817617/

 

 

One Hand & Six Fingers, A New Shared Universe From Image Comics

Ram V & Laurence Campbell's The One Hand and Dan Watters & Sumit Kumar's The Six Fingers, a New Shared Universe from Image Comics

 06 Feb 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/one-hand-six-fingers-a-new-shared-universe-from-image-comics/

 

Unified Comics Page Sweepstakes Winners and how to help those left out in the cold

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/06/unified-comics-page-sweepstakes-winners-and-how-to-help-those-left-out-in-the-cold/

 

Kirsty Melville Named CEO at Andrews McMeel Universal

By Andrew Albanese

Feb 07, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/people/article/94274-kirsty-melville-named-ceo-at-andrews-mcmeel-universal.html

 

Michael de Adder no longer under contract with The Washington Post?

Mike Rhode

 ComicsDC February 07, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/michael-de-adder-no-longer-under.html

 

An Interview with Tessa Hulls: "I had to unlearn how I worked as a painter (extremely, extremely detailed), and how I worked as an essayist, to find my way to the fluidity I wanted in how I draw comics."
Amaris Ketcham
Autobiographix Feb 7, 2024
https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-tessa-hulls


Exclusive: Dave Baker's MARY TYLER MOOREHAWK is a 'homage' to John Carpenter's THE THING

Rebecca Oliver Kaplan

02/07/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-dave-bakers-mary-tyler-moorehawk-is-a-homage-to-john-carpenters-the-thing/

 

Legion M & Stranger Comics partner for DEFIANT graphic novel

Samantha Puc

02/07/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/legion-m-stranger-comics-defiant-graphic-novel/

 

Chris Jordan

Rob Edwards' graphic novel details a little-known story in America's Black history (Extended) [ Robert Smalls, "Defiant"]

One Detroit Dec 7, 2023

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

 

Planning a Cartoonists' Retreat w/ M.S. Harkness and E. Joy Mehr

CXC Festival

 Feb 5, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csl7aVn5zIA

 

Allee Errico, February 6th, 2024 [aka Allee Errico on "froggie.world #1": Comics + Catharsis]

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 381,  Feb 7, 2024

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

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Phillip Russertt

Jason DeHart

Jan 31, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BizdpkxY4HU

 

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Erik Burnham

Jason DeHart

 Feb 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMtfDID4A1w

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with John J. Pearson

Jason DeHart

Feb 1, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQqhoma8V-U

 

Natsume Sōseki and Manga

Shimizu Isao | February 7, 2024 |

https://www.tcj.com/natsume-soseki-and-manga/

 

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live - Episode 028: With Special Guests Tony Fleecs and Thom Zahler

Bob Harrison and Mike Gold

Pop Culture Squad Feb 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcuIdROz7IM

 

de Adder and WaPo Part Ways?

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/07/de-adder-and-wapo-part-ways/

 

 

Wednesday, February 07, 2024

Calvin and Hobbes part of Abe Books' "Most expensive sales in 2023"

Most expensive sales in 2023

Literary masterpieces, fantasy, poetry, a comic strip, and more.

Welcome to our most expensive sales of 2023. The list features a remarkable collection from Thomas Pynchon, author of 'One of the Longest, Most Difficult, Most Ambitious Novels in Years,' iconic works from the minds of Walt Whitman and Adam Smith, and a signed color proof from the well-loved comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes.


#10  Calvin and Hobbes: The Last Sunday, "Let's Go Exploring" by Bill Watterson - $35,000

Calvin and Hobbes - Let's Go Exploring
Signed color proof, 250 x 350 mm (approx. 10 x 13.5"); image size approximately 225 x 323 mm; printed in black and half-tone colors, light handling creases to margins

A rarity, this large color proof of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip is signed by Bill Watterson.

Calvin and Hobbes was a daily comic strip that ran between 1985 and 1995. It became hugely successful and was featured in thousands of newspapers around the globe.

This signed color proof was one of a small number produced and sent as a thank-you gift from Watterson to select newspapers who carried the strip.

Sold by Manhattan Rare Book Company

If you are of a certain age (like I am), you may remember opening the newspaper on December 31, 1995 with a little bit of excitement and more than a little bit of sadness, to see what Bill Watterson created for the last strip of his beloved Calvin and Hobbes. After 10 years and 3100 strips, it was all coming to an end. And Watterson didn't disappoint. Here is that last strip, and it's a perfect, joyous, and hopeful ending. Against a backdrop of fresh white snow serving as a template for possibilities, Calvin and Hobbes remind us that it is, after all, a magical world - let's go exploring.
Michael DiRuggiero
Michael DiRuggiero (Manhattan Rare Book Company)

Michael de Adder no longer under contract with The Washington Post?

Michael de Adder appears to no longer be under contract with The Washington Post. He's not listed as one of their three cartoonists on their Editorial Cartoon page, although Ann Telnaes, Edith Pritchett, and Michael Ramirez are. de Adder's contributor page now reads "Michael de Adder was a political cartoonist for The Washington Post." [emphasis added] and his last cartoon was January 16th. I reached out to Mr. de Adder, whom I know slightly, but have not received a reply from him. A WaPo source confirmed that he is no longer with the paper, but did not know the reason for it.

The Post still does not have a full-time editorial cartoonist, continuing to disdain the legacy of Herblock and Toles.




Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/6/2024

More Comic Book Creators Leaving Cadence Comic Art, And Why

A number of additional creators have announced their departure from Cadence, while the former business manager secured art for return to several artists.

by Rich Johnston

 05 Feb 2024 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/more-comic-book-creators-leave-cadence-comics-art-and-why/

 

Comics JobWatch: Random House Graphic & IDW Promotions & Appointments

Here's a Bleeding Cool JobWatch look at recent hirings and promotions at a number of publishers, including DC, IDW and Random House Graphic.

Published Mon, 05 Feb 2024  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comics-jobwatch-random-house-graphic-idw-promotions-appointments/

 

CGC FILES SUIT AGAINST TWO FORMER EMPLOYEES ALLEGING THEFT, LABEL-SWAPPING In the Wake of Recent Holder Tampering Incident

  Milton Griepp on February 6, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56168/cgc-files-suit-against-two-former-employees-alleging-theft-label-swapping

 

Jose Delbo – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/05/jose-delbo-rip/

 

CSotD is XIV

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/06/csotd-is-xiv/

 

Anime Giant Toei Teams With 'Sonic the Hedgehog' Designer, 'Shrek 2' Writer on 'Hypergalactic'

Adam Devine, Elsie Fisher, J.K. Simmons and Sam Richardson are among the voice cast attached to the English-language animation feature from the Japanese studio behind 'One Piece Film: Red' and 'The First Slam Dunk.'

Scott Roxborough

February 6, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/toei-sonic-the-hedgehog-designer-shrek-2-writer-hypergalactic-1235817114/ 

 

 

Off Panel #435: Woo! with Chip Zdarsky

By David Harper

February 5, 2024

https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-435-woo-with-chip-zdarsky/

 

INTERVIEW: Talking heart and fart jokes with the cast & crew of Nickelodeon's ROCK PAPER SCISSORS cartoon

We chat with creators and executive producers Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman as well as voice actors Ron Funches, Thomas Lennon, Carlos Alazraqui, and Melissa Villaseñor!

Taimur Dar

02/06/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nickelodeon-rock-paper-scissors-cartoon-cast-crew/

 

Manouach, Ilan, and Barbara Postema. "A Faint Narrative." Critical Humanities 2, 2 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/2836-3140.1054 and https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol2/iss2/12/ 

 

Postema, Barbara, and Ilan Manouach. ""The Hard Work of Programming Germinates Soft Pleasures": Creating Synthetic Comics with AI Collaboration." Critical Humanities 2, 2 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.33470/2836-3140.1053 and https://mds.marshall.edu/criticalhumanities/vol2/iss2/10/


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

Politics and Prose

Feb 6, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fx0KwZ-IJQE

 

'Rock Paper Scissors' Creators Kyle Stegina & Josh Lehrman Discuss Their Competition-Fueled Nickelodeon Comedy

By Ramin Zahed

February 5, 2024

March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/rock-paper-scissors-creators-kyle-stegina-josh-lehrman-discuss-their-competition-fueled-nickelodeon-comedy/

 

'El Americano' Producer Gerry Cardoso Talks About His New Indie Movie 'The Language of Birds' [Mexico]

By Ramin Zahed

February 5, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/el-americano-producer-gerry-cardoso-talks-his-new-indie-movie-the-language-of-birds/

 

Frank Hanson Renlie April 17, 1936 – September 10, 2023

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/seattle-wa/frank-renlie-11447385

 

ICv2 launches ICv2 Direct ordering platform

Heidi MacDonald

02/06/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/icv2-launches-icv2-direct-ordering-platform/

 

'Hazbin Hotel' Creator Vivienne Medrano On Why Now Is The Golden Age Of Indie Animation

By Cole Delaney | 02/05/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/hazbin-hotel-creator-vivienne-medrano-encourages-fellow-indie-artists-were-in-the-golden-age-of-indie-animation-237692.html

 

HAZBIN HOTEL Creator Vivienne Medrano On Why Now Is The Golden Age Of Indie Animation

Inbtwn Animation Fest  Feb 5, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p83SzpN42Qs

 

Designing An Annie-Nominated Series: This Year's TV/Media Production Design Nominees Share The Tricks Of Their Trade

By Jamie Lang | 02/05/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/awards/designing-an-annie-nominated-series-this-years-tv-media-production-design-nominees-share-the-tricks-of-their-trade-237652.html

 

Mark Gustafson, Stop-Motion Veteran Who Co-Directed Oscar-Winning 'Pinocchio,' Dies At 64

By Jamie Lang | 02/02/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/rip/mark-gustafson-stop-motion-veteran-who-co-directed-oscar-winning-pinocchio-dies-at-64-237586.html

 

Unique UNT: Comic book studies, Willis Library's collection and going 'Into the Archieverse'

Emmi Tinajero

    Jan 23, 2024

    https://dentonrc.com/denton_u/unique-unt-comic-book-studies-willis-librarys-collection-and-going-into-the-archieverse/article_29823ed3-3a95-530f-9377-afb65faa619c.html

 

When he died, his family discovered 50 years of cartooning output: the secret comics of Frank Johnson are published

Ruben Bolling

Feb 6, 2024

https://boingboing.net/2024/02/06/when-he-died-his-family-discovered-50-years-of-cartooning-output-the-secret-comics-of-frank-johnson-are-published.html

 

The Intersection of Education and Entertainment: Comic Book Influence in College Lectures

by Steven Miller

Jan 24, 2024

https://thegww.com/the-intersection-of-education-and-entertainment-comic-book-influence-in-college-lectures/

 

Redditors step in to help "heartbroken" comic book fan trying to sell his collection

Christopher Baggett

 Jan 24, 2024

https://www.dexerto.com/comics/redditors-step-in-to-help-heartbroken-comic-book-fan-trying-to-sell-his-collection-2496526/

 

Accused comic book crook busted by store owner

Shay Arthur     

WREG Jan 29, 2024

https://wreg.com/news/local/comic-book-crook-busted-by-store-owner/

 

Comic Book Grading Company Hits Ex-Employees With Trademark Suit

Peter Hayes

Bloomberg Law   Feb. 1, 2024,

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/comic-book-grading-company-hits-ex-employees-with-trademark-suit

 

UCD exhibit explores racism through cartoons [Brumsic Brandon Jr. and Barbara Brandon-Croft, "STILL: Racism in America, A Retrospective in Cartoons"]

    By Michael G. French

    Davis Enterprise Jan 19, 2024

    https://www.davisenterprise.com/arts_and_entertainment/ucd-exhibit-explores-racism-through-cartoons/article_e0d4dcb2-b713-11ee-86d9-474e84ace9f5.html

Tuesday, February 06, 2024

Gene Luen Yang & LeUyen Pham - Lunar New Year Love Story - with Ellen Oh Video

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/5/2024

IDW HIRES FOR MARKETING To Book Trade, and for Social

 Milton Griepp on February 5, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56157/idw-hires-marketing

 

ONI GETS WEBTOON TITLE WITH THREE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS For Print Release in September [SubZero]

Milton Griepp on February 5, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56158/oni-gets-webtoon-title-three-million-subscribers

 

See what's on the page [Phantom history, legacy, and racism]

by Tony DePaul

The Nickels of the Man   February 1, 2024

https://www.tonydepaul.net/see-whats-on-the-page/

 

New 'Peanuts' special will finally let Franklin sit by White friends [in print as 'Peanuts' special will feature origin story of Franklin, the first black character]

Upcoming Apple TV Plus program will focus on the origin story of the first Black 'Peanuts' character and attempt to rectify a controversial scene from 50 years ago

By Samantha Chery

Washington Post February 5, 2024  : B2.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2024/02/03/franklin-apple-tv-peanuts-charlie-brown-special/

 

Two 'foreigners' arrested for leaking Shonen Jump manga online before release dates

Arrests spark a wave of closures, changes at scanlation sites for One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen and more

Matias De la Piedra

02/04/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/foreigners-arrested-for-shonen-jump-manga-leaks/

 

"Girls Like Us": Karina Shor & Natalie Norris in Conversation about the Perils and Triumphs of Making Graphic Memoirs About Trauma

 

Jameson criticizes 'reprehensible' political cartoons amid antisemitism claims against Penn lecturer [Mr. Fish]

By Jessica Wu

Daily Pennsylvanian February 5 2024

https://www.thedp.com/article/2024/02/penn-antisemitism-cartoons-jameson-statement

 

Darick Robertson Saw The Future In Transmetropolitan

Darick Robertson is the co-creator of both The Boys with Garth Ennis, Happy with Grant Morrison and Transmetropolitan with Warren Ellis.

 04 Feb 2024 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/darick-robertson-saw-the-future-in-transmetropolitan/

 

 

Comic Book Creators Leaving Cadence Comic Art

Over the last few days, a number of comic book creators have been announcing that they will no longer be represented by Cadence Comic Art.

 04 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creators-leaving-cadence-comic-art/

 

What is happening at Cadence Comic Art?

Heidi MacDonald



https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-is-happening-at-cadence-comic-art/

 

 

'Lyla in the Loop' Creator and Head Writer Introduce Us to PBS Kids' New Problem-Solver Star

By Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/lyla-in-the-loop-creator-and-head-writer-introduce-us-to-pbs-kids-new-problem-solver-star/

March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

 

'Our Uniform' Director Yegane Moghaddam Discusses the Inventive Fabric of Her Oscar-Nominated Short [Iran]

By Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/our-uniform-director-yegane-moghaddam-discusses-the-inventive-fabric-of-her-oscar-nominated-short/

 

Yegane Moghddam, "Our Uniform" I Women in Short [Iran, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 14, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cq5yorTmwqs

 

Flóra Anna Buda, "27" I Women in Short [Hungary, France, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

 Jun 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMAf4x00HA


27 by Flora Anna Buda - Making Of [Hungary, France, animation]

MIYU

 Jan 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyCBK2slMtU

 

Making Of - Letter to a Pig by Tal Kantor [Israel, animation]

MIYU

Jan 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnhJZRlcp7c

 

Maria Lorenzo Hernández, "Fashion Victims 2.0" I Women in Short [Spain, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

Jun 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNynUk70Jg


Making of Electra # 1-3 | Daria Kashcheeva [Czech Republic, animation]

Maur film

 Jun 12, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CpcC6BAjWE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFJyQGdtN94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQujW3j0eU

 

Daria Kashcheeva, "Electra" I Women in Short  [Czech Republic, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent Jun 13, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afkDEky4y1k

 

Cynthia Madanat Sharaiha, "Saleem" I Women in Short [Jordan, animation]

LFA Les Femmes s'Animent

 Jun 17, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJ1CTSWdY4

 

'Peter Pan': THR's 1953 Review

On Feb. 5, 1953, Walt Disney unveiled its animated adaptation in theaters.

February 5, 2019

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/peter-pan-review-1953-movie-1177780/

 

Oscar-winning 'Pinocchio' Co-Director Mark Gustafson Dies of a Heart Attack at 64

Ramin Zahed

February 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/oscar-winning-pinocchio-co-director-mark-gustafson-dies-of-a-heart-attack-at-64/

 

Mark Gustafson "AM Northwest" (1996)

ClaymationKid

 Feb 3, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En4aa-xZSl0

 

'Grimsburg' Showrunner Chadd Gindin Clues Us in on FOX's Defective Detective

By Ramin Zahed

February 4, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/grimsburg-showrunner-chadd-gindin-clues-us-in-on-foxs-defective-detective/

This article was written for the March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode seventy-three | Alex Segura, part one

Feb 5, 2024

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/you-can-waste-time-with-your-friends

 

Enseñar con el cómic: investigación y aplicaciones  [teaching with comics]

Francesco Rodrigo, Jerónimo Méndez, Jerónimo , Dominika Fajkisová,  

Madrid, Spain: Dykinson, 2023

online at https://www.dykinson.com/libros/ensenar-con-el-comic-investigacion-y-aplicaciones/9788411708883/

 

Enseñar con el cómic: dinámicas transversales y específicas del aula [teaching with comics]

Álvaro M. Pons Moreno,  and Noelia Ibarra-Rius,  (eds.).

Madrid, Spain: Dykinson, 2023

https://www.dykinson.com/libros/ensenar-con-el-comic-dinamicas-transversales-y-especificas-del-aula/9788411708876/

 

The final installment of the 'Amulet' graphic novel series is about to be released

Isabella Gomez Sarmiento

Morning Edition February 5, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/05/1229114625/the-final-installment-of-the-amulet-graphic-novel-series-is-about-to-be-released

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2024/02/20240205_me_the_final_installment_of_the_amulet_graphic_novel_series_is_about_to_be_published.mp3


Jose Delbo 1933-2024

Jim Keefe

Jim Keefe Patreon February 5 2024

https://www.patreon.com/posts/jose-delbo-1933-97921663

 

Jack C. Harris

["I am absolutely crushed and saddened to learn of the passing of my friend and collaborator, artist Jose Delbo."]

Jack C. Harris Facebook page February 5 2024

https://www.facebook.com/1306880759/posts/10233390207239601/

 

Brad Guigar: Godfather of Webcomics & Transforming the Comic Landscape with Webcomics.com & Evil Inc

Kurt Sasso

Two Geeks Talking

Jan 12, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xot6cXVNEyE

 

Words, Images, & World with Raúl the Third

Jason DeHart

Feb 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAltsGPJs_4

 

Words, Images, & Worlds: Comics Pedagogy Edition with Jill Gerber [literacy]

Jason DeHart

Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U71GVaZdjCA

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Peter Clinton

Jason DeHart

 Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszrykzT6cI

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Kwanza Osajyefo

Jason DeHart

Feb 3, 2024

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

 

Jim Valentino "SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT!"

Nile Scala and Brian Blevins

POPXP! Network!

 Feb 3, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb67E0ECVvA

 

A Talk With Political Cartoonists Emanuele Del Rosso, Stellina Chen and Angelo Lopez  [Italy, the Netherlands and Taiwan]

Angelo Lopez

Feb 4, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXz7kqXCJg