How Marvel Is Quietly Retooling Amid Superhero Fatigue
The studio's golden box office aura has been dented, but chief architect Kevin Feige isn't scrapping his years-long cinematic universe plan, just refining it: "They're not going to give up," says an insider.
By Borys Kit, Aaron Couch
February 21, 2024
Feb. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marvel-fantastic-four-avengers-movies-1235830951/
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Sundays In The Funnies With Bud [Bud Blake, Tiger comic strip]
Rob Stoltzer
Inkslingers blog February 21, 2024
https://inkslingers.ink/2024/02/21/sundays-in-the-funnies-with-bud/
Sneak Peek: French Producer Marc du Pontavice Gives Us the Scoop on His New Movie 'Lucy Lost'
By Ramin Zahed
February 20, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/sneak-peek-french-producer-marc-du-pontavice-gives-us-the-scoop-on-his-new-movie-lucy-lost/
Top 50 Comics - Full Year 2023, Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data
ICv2 February 20, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56290/top-50-comics-full-year-2023
Top 20 Graphic Novels - Full Year 2023, Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data
ICv2 February 21, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56298/top-20-graphic-novels-full-year-2023
Comic Publishers Killing Momentum, Quality Complaints, The Missing Young Adult Market
ICv2 Talks to Comic Retailers about the Numbers
Milton Griepp on February 21, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56300/comic-publishers-killing-momentum-quality-complaints-missing-young-adult-market
Pro: In-Depth: Comic Publishers Killing Momentum, Quality Complaints, The Missing Young Adult Market; ICv2 Talks to Comic Retailers about Sales Trends
Milton Griepp on February 21, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/icv2-pro/view/56299/in-depth-comic-publishers-killing-momentum-quality-complaints-missing-young-adult-market
Comics And Graphic Novel Sales In Comic Stores Down 8% In 2023; Graphic Novels Down More than Periodicals
Milton Griepp on February 21, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/56301/comics-graphic-novel-sales-comic-stores-down-8-2023
Andrews McMeel Leadership Changes
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/21/andrews-mcmeel-leadership-changes/
Andrews McMeel Universal Names Kirsty Melville Chief Executive Officer
https://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/andrews-mcmeel-universal-names-kirsty-melville-chief-executive-officer/
Kathy Hilliard
Andrews McMeel Universal
Brent Bartram Named Andrews McMeel Syndication President
https://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/brent-bartram-named-andrews-mcmeel-syndication-president/
Kathy Hilliard
Andrews McMeel Universal
Comics take action for Palestine: Silver Sprocket, Fantagraphics, and the Cartoonist Cooperative stand with the people.
Arpad Okay
02/21/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/comics-take-action-for-palestine/
The Aesthetics of Brutes [Fabrice Neaud]
Andrew White | February 21, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/the-aesthetics-of-brutes/
Drawing (in) the Feminine: Bande Dessinée and Women
Edited by Margaret C. Flinn
EXPECTED Pub Date: February, 2024
https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215142.html
Introduction
Margaret C. Flinn
Part 1 Industry, Audience, and Platforms
Chapter 1 Women Cartoonists: A New Avenue for Understanding a Little-Known Profession?
Jessica Kohn
Chapter 2 Women in Color: Comics Artists and the Ninth Art in France
Sylvain Lesage
Chapter 3 Between Ah! Nana and Okapi: Nicole Claveloux at the Crossroads
Benoît Crucifix
Chapter 4 Gender Equality? Hshouma! Women, Sexuality, and Comics Activism in Morocco
Jennifer Howell
Part 2 Geographies of Identity
Chapter 5 Graphic Entanglements: Images of Women, Nature, and Brittany in Contemporary Comics
Armelle Blin-Rolland
Chapter 6 The Feminine Plural in Africa and the Diaspora: Quartets of Women in Aya de Yopougon and La vie d'Ebène Duta
Michelle Bumatay
Chapter 7 Revolutionary Comics: Samandal's Feminist Topography of Resistance
Alexandra Gueydan-Turek
Chapter 8 Unveiling IVG: Representations of Women's Experiences of Abortion in the Bande Dessinée
Catriona MacLeod
Part 3 Representations and History (Herstories)
Chapter 9 The Face of Women in Early Bandes Dessinées: Töpffer, Cham, Musset, Gustave Doré
Jacques Dürrenmatt
Chapter 10 The Amazons of Dahomey in French and African Comics
Mark McKinney
Chapter 11 Catel: Portrait of the Twenty-First-Century Feminist Artist and Author of Drawn Biography
Isabelle Delorme
Chapter 12 The Women behind the Woman behind the Man: Women Drawing Plural Collective Voices onto the Page in Emilie Plateau's Noire
Véronique Bragard
INTERVIEW: Madame Web's Dakota Johnson on Transforming Into a Superhero
By Hannah Rose
CBR February 15 2024
https://www.cbr.com/madame-web-dakota-johnson-interview/
Mary McLeod Bethune: Newspapers and Comic Books
Joanna Colclough
Headlines & Heroes blog February 21, 2024
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/02/mary-mcleod-bethune/
Harvard condemns 'flagrantly antisemitic' cartoon posted by student groups
By Annabelle Timsit
February 21, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/02/21/harvard-antisemitic-cartoon-controversy/
Wheeler, John N. 1916. Mutt and Jeff Makes $5 a Minute. Evansville [IN] Courier (April 19): 4. Online at https://archive.org/details/mutt-and-jeff-makes-5-a-minute.-evansville-courier-and-press-1916-04-19-4
Unknown. 1916. Cartoons Maga'ine for May. Odgen Standard (April 20): 6. Online at https://archive.org/details/cartoons-magaine-for-may.-evening-standard-1916-04-20-7-1
Lewis, Reuben A. 1916. War Put Funny Notions in the Head of Jack King, but Success Followed [Mutt and Jeff animator, Eddie and the Younger Set comic strip]. Birmingham Age-Herald (December 10): A8. Online at https://archive.org/details/war-put-funny-notions-in-the-head-of-jack-king-but-success-followed.-birmingham-
Unknown. 1917. Sketch on Box Starts Art Career of Duff Originator. [W. R. Allman; Doings of the Duffs]. Muskegon [MI] Chronicle (September 8): 4. Online at https://archive.org/details/sketch-on-box-starts-art-career-of-duff-originator.-muskegon-chronicle-1917-09-08-4
Unknown. 1917. Jerry Still on the Job [Walter Hoban, World War I, Jerry on the Job]. [Washington, DC] Evening Star (October 8): 2. Online at https://archive.org/details/jerry-still-on-the-job.-evening-star-1917-10-08-3
Unknown. 1917. About Jiggs and Jeff: Albert T. Reid in Interesting Cartoon Talk at Current Topic Club. Topeka State Journal (November 20): 3. Online at https://archive.org/details/about-jiggs-and-jeff.-topeka-state-journal-1917-11-20-4
Unknown. 1917. Reid Explains All: Artist Tells of Cartooning and Illustrating Before Saturday Night Club [Albert T. Reid, collecting, George McManus]. Topeka State Journal (December 17): 6. Online at https://archive.org/details/reid-explains-all.-topeka-state-journal-1917-12-17-6
Unknown. 1917. Will Draw at Show [Wallace McDougal], World War I. San Antonio Light (December 16): 16. Online at https://archive.org/details/will-draw-at-show-wallace-mc-dougal-world-war-i.-san-antonio-light-1917-12-16-16
Unknown. 1917. ["The editor of a big city newspaper said two years ago, when considering the Fox cartoons..." (Fontaine Fox)]. Pueblo Chieftain (December 17): 4. Online at https://archive.org/details/the-editor-of-a-big-city-newspaper-said-two-years-ago.-fontaine-fox-pueblo-chief
Previews of just a few of this volume's illustration pages! 
