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Friday, February 16, 2024
TOMORROW! Scarlet Witch & Quicksilver #1 Launch Signing w/ writer Steve Orlando
Annie in Alexandria, reviewed in Falls Church News-Press
Little Orphan "Annie" Brightens Little Theatre of Alexandria.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/15/2024
Paul Neary, British Comics Legend, Dies At 74. RIP
Comic book publisher, editor, art director, writer, penciller and inker, Paul Neary, has passed away at the age of 74. RIP.
14 Feb 2024
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/paul-neary-british-comics-legend-dies-at-74-rip/
R.I.P. PAUL NEARY, British Comic Artist, Writer, Editor
Milton Griepp on February 15, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56242/r-i-p-paul-neary
BOARD GAME SALES DOWN FOR ASMODEE IN EMBRACER Q3; Dark Horse Performance
Milton Griepp on February 15, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56241/board-game-sales-down-asmodee-embracer-q3
ICV2 INTERVIEW: TOKYOPOP COO & PUBLISHER MARC VISNICK
On Hot Titles, Kids' Manga and New Spanish-Language Program
Brigid Alverson on February 14, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56240/icv2-interview-tokyopop-coo-publisher-marc-visnick
ICV2 INTERVIEW: BEN APPLEGATE OF KODANSHA
On the Manga Market, Fall Releases, Top Titles for Comic Shops
Brigid Alverson on February 14, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56238/icv2-interview-ben-applegate-kodansha
Brian McConnachie, Humor Writer 'From Another Planet,' Dies at 81
A contributor to National Lampoon, "Saturday Night Live" and "SCTV," he had a patrician presence that belied a whimsical and sometimes anarchic wit.
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 14, 2024, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Brian McConnachie, 81, Is Dead; Shaped Humor of 1970s and '80s.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/11/arts/television/brian-mcconnachie-dead.html
Mickey and Gang Visit Disneyland's Toontown in New Hybrid Animated Spot
Animation Magazine February 14, 2024
How Madame Web (potentially) fits into Sony's Spider-Verse
Untangling the complicated web of Marvel characters and stories that stand apart from the MCU
AV Club February 13 2024
https://www.avclub.com/how-madame-web-potentially-fits-into-sonys-spider-ver-1851244807
Who Built the Mouse in the House the Mouse Built? [Mickey Mouse]
Steven Brower | February 15, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/who-built-the-mouse-in-the-house-the-mouse-built/
Interview: Vault's WIFWULF weaves a new werewolf lore
Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Dailen Ogden chat about the new book
02/15/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-vaults-wifwulf-weaves-a-new-werewolf-lore/
Madame Web Completely Wastes Its Biggest Spider-Man Universe Cameo
While Madame Web doesn't have a post-credits scene, it does have one hell of a cameo that's meant to tease a future that will never come.
By Tom Chapman | February 15, 2024
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/madame-web-cameo-mary-parker/
Kids' Streamer Noggin Shutting Down Amid Paramount Layoffs
The subscription video on-demand service's staff was let go, and the app will shutter later in the year.
Rick Porter
February 15, 2024
Paul Neary, legendary artist, inker, and Marvel UK editor, has died at 74
By Will Salmon
Newsarama February 15 2024
https://www.gamesradar.com/paul-neary-legendary-artist-inker-and-marvel-uk-editor-has-died-at-74/
Abrams Announces New Kids' Graphic Novel Imprint
By Brigid Alverson
Feb 15, 2024
Maile Flanagan Discusses Voicing Naruto at MegaCon Orlando
By C. M. Ramsburg
CBR February 14 2024
https://www.cbr.com/interview-maile-flanagan-naruto-voice-megacon-orlando/
Serious Author Health Concerns Delay My Hero Academia Chapter 414
By Leo Reyna
CBR February 11 2024
https://www.cbr.com/mha-chapter-414-delay-creator-kohei-horikoshi-illness/
EC Lives 1972 EC Fan Addict Convention Program
Ron Barlow
1972
https://archive.org/details/ec-lives-1972-ec-fan-addict-covention-program
EC Fan Addict 1
Roger Hill
Publication date
2004-07
https://archive.org/details/ec-fan-addict-1-2004
EC Fan Addict 3
Tom Veilleux
Publication date
1968
https://archive.org/details/ec-fan-addict-3/
Lat - Still a Simple Man from Malaysia, Feb 13, 2024
Lat and Lim Cheng Tju
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 382 February 15 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYLvOikdoik
Steve...and Cimino Says BOOM! Show Issue #75 - Rick Hoberg
POPXP! Network!
Feb 13, 2024 Steve...and Cimino Says BOOM! Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elbVP5GUd8M
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/14/2024
Mad Cave's Papercutz partners with Disney for children's graphic novels
Heidi MacDonald
02/13/2024
MAD CAVE'S PAPERCUTZ IMPRINT GETS DISNEY LICENSE
Plans Six New Releases through August
Milton Griepp on February 14, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56232/mad-caves-papercutz-imprint-gets-disney-license
Interview: Sam Sattin and Steenz on SIDE QUEST: A VISUAL HISTORY OF TABLETOP ROLEPLAYING GAMES
02/14/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-side-quest/
An unOrdinary amount of Legal Trouble [Webtoon – Rocketship webcomic print rights lawsuit; Uru-chan; Snailords]
Webcomics Hubcast S3 Ep. 12 Jul 29, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAr_ZNTSuIo
Jack Higgins – RIP
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/14/jack-higgins-rip/
Jack Higgins, Pulitzer Prize-winning Sun-Times editorial cartoonist, dies at 69
He skewered local and national politicians alike, satirized scandals and offered poignant and absurd takes on city life and ills.
By Mitch Dudek
Chicago Sun-Times Feb 13, 2024,
ICV2 INTERVIEW: YEN PRESS PUBLISHER KURT HASSLER On Top Sellers, Hot Genres, and Key Titles
Brigid Alverson on February 13, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56230/icv2-interview-yen-press-publisher-kurt-hassler
Wannabe by Luca Debus – New GoComic [Italy]
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/13/wannabe-by-luca-debus-new-gocomic/
New Comic "Wannabe" Explores the Adventures of Young Adulthood
by GoComics Team
February 13, 2024
https://www.gocomics.com/blog/5037/new-comic-wannabe-explores-the-adventures-of-young-adulthood
Isabela Merced Talks 'Madame Web,' Her 'Superman: Legacy' Test and 'Alien: Romulus'
The busy actor, who has an impressive lineup of credits coming up, teases a "disgusting" scene from an upcoming movie that prompted everyone but her to look away in horror.
Brian Davids
February 12, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/madame-web-star-isabela-merced-1235822831/
'Madame Web' Director SJ Clarkson Talks No Post-Credits Scene, That '90s Rumor and Joining the MCU After the Fact
The filmmaker throws cold water on a report that the film was initially set in the 1990s: "I was sent the script with 2003 in it."
Brian Davids
February 13, 2024
DreamWorks Animation, Flying Bark Productions Workers Take Steps Toward Unionizing
At Flying Bark Productions, The Animation Guild is seeking to represent the production workers behind the 'Stranger Things' animated film.
Caitlin Huston
February 13, 2024
Disneyland Character Workers Look to Unionize With Actors' Equity
Calling themselves "Magic United," the group also includes performers in parades and hosts, trainers and other support staff for the characters.
Caitlin Huston
February 13, 2024
Will Marvel and DC ever team up again?
02/14/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/will-marvel-and-dc-ever-corssover-again/
Access, Small Gods and Academia
Conversations about job precarity in higher ed often turn to leaving the academy for "industry." But what, Kay Sohini asks, is the industry for a lit grad? [comics scholars]
By Kay Sohini
February 14, 2024
The Bluey Method of Reducing Grown-ups to Tears
Vulture Feb. 13, 2024
https://www.vulture.com/article/bluey-weepy-episodes.html
Happy Valentinaversary Day: It's my 24th anniversary of cartooning
Evil Inc Feb 14, 2024
https://evilinc.substack.com/p/happy-valentinaversary-day
Meet the thought police of Rockingham County, Va. [censorship; Heartstopper]
Kate Cohen
February 13, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/13/book-ban-rockingham-county-va-school-board/
'The Fantastic Four' Cast Revealed for Marvel Movie
By Aaron Couch, Pamela McClintock
February 14, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fantastic-four-movie-cast-1235213252/
THE deEP STATE by Michael de Adder
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/14/the-deep-state-by-michael-de-adder/
THE deEP STATE : The political artwork of Michael de Adder
2022-
Catching up with Alan Jenkins for 1/6 issue #2
by Mike Rhode
February 14, 2024
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/catching-up-with-alan-jenkins-for-16.html
New SFF Publisher Gungnir Hopes to Hit Its Target
By Brigid Alverson
Jan 25, 2024
A version of this article appeared in the 01/29/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Gungnir Launches
The World's Most Successful Manga App Shows Who Can Be The Next Industry King
By Zakaria Ali
Feb 3, 2024
https://screenrant.com/piccoma-manga-app-beats-shueisha-kodansha-solo-leveling/
From the Stage to the Page: 10 Years In, Z2 Comics Rocks On
By Michael Seidlinger
Feb 13, 2024
Cowabunga, Dude! [Simpsons auction]
By Bill King
January 2024?
https://intelligentcollector.com/cowabunga-dude/
An Open Dialogue: Exploring Anxiety in Middle Grade Comics, with Angela Frederick
February 9, 2024 by Angela Frederick
REVIEW: Madame Web Spins a Coherent Web of a Story That Stands Alone
By Hannah Rose
CBR February 13 2024
https://www.cbr.com/madame-web-review/
Fantastic Four could be the perfect chance to welcome back lapsed Marvel fans like me
Retro, stylish, and hopefully disconnected, Fantastic Four offers the MCU a course correction
Matt Schimkowitz
AV Club February 14 2024
https://www.avclub.com/fantastic-four-marvel-prequel-superhero-fatire-1851257272
Marvel confirms the Fantastic Four casting everyone expected
Your new Fantastic Four is hitting theaters in July 2025
Mary Kate Carr
AV Club February 14 2024
https://www.avclub.com/marvel-fantastic-four-cast-pedro-pascal-vanessa-kirby-1851256402
28 years ago the Spider-Man animated series got really weird—thanks to Madame Web
S.J. Clarkson's live-action Madame Web doesn't look like every other superhero movie, but that's nothing new for this character
By
Sam Barsanti
AV Club February 12 2024
https://www.avclub.com/meghan-markle-new-podcast-archetypes-spotify-1851253580
Reading Comics: See You in the Funny Pages
Melissa Lindberg
Picture This blog February 14, 2024
https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2024/02/reading-comics-see-you-in-the-funny-pages/
Animating Emotion
https://film.netflixawards.com/videos/animating-emotion-in-nimona
Animation Director Ted Ty breaks down the innovative ways he and his team used the emotional arc of the characters in Nimona to create the look of the film's animation.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
The Library of Congress posts photos of people reading comics
Reading Comics: See You in the Funny Pages
Picture This blog February 14, 2024