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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/16-17/2024

David Small At Lost City Books

    David Small

    Washington, DC: Lost City Books 2024-03-15

https://archive.org/details/david-small-at-lost-city-bookstore-240315

 

Female artists are disappearing from print comics at chain newspapers

Creators are thriving in other mediums. Are print comic strips nearing the end? [in print as Female artists are being erased from chain newspapers]

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post March 16, 2024 : C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/03/16/gannett-comics-women-cartoonists/

 

WaPo de Subtracter [Michael de Adder letter].

James Hatfield,

Washington Post March 16 2024: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/sotu-gaza-protests-infertility-taliban-cricket/

 

A Chat with Glenn Fleishman, Author of How Comics Were Made

  Joseph Aleo

VIKINGS vs SAMURAI  Mar 13 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLqP9N1kLPw

 

Derf Backderf in conversation about his career and work with Glenn Fleishman

Glenn Fleishman

March 12 2024

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

 

Georgia Dunn: Breaking Cat News, live interview (How Comics Were Made)

Glenn Fleishman

March 5 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqJyyy54b8E

 

The Week In Doonesbury That Wasn't – May 7, 1973

Glenn Fleishman

March 16 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkiXxeF6aho

 

Dean Haspiel's Red Hook

word balloon March 11 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6WiK4PlxAY

 

PHENOMENA with BRAIN MICHAEL BENDIS and ANDRE LIMA ARAUJO

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworld March 15 2024

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

 

'Teen Titans' Live-Action Movie a Go at DC Studios (Exclusive)

'Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow' scribe Ana Nogueira will write the screenplay.

Borys Kit

March 15, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/teen-titans-live-action-movie-1235853170/

 

The Big Change Veve Made To Marvel Comics They Aren't Talking About

Also at the Marvel Comics SXSW panel was the digital collectible company Veve, known for their extensive licensed NFT offerings.

  15 Mar 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-big-change-veve-made-to-marvel-comics-they-arent-talking-about/

 

Cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel Interview Each Other

Forces of Geek March 16 2024

https://forcesofgeek.com/2024/03/cartoonists-nick-bertozzi-and-dean-haspiel-interview-each-other.html

 

Paul Dano Says Superhero Fatigue Is a 'Welcome Moment' That Will Hopefully 'Breathe New Life' Into Comic Book Movies: 'Quantity Over Quality' Is a 'Big Misstep'

Zack Sharf

    Mar 4, 2024

    https://variety.com/2024/film/news/paul-dano-superhero-fatigue-welcome-fix-genre-1235929148/

 

Is 'Kung Fu Panda 4' a worthy entry in the fun and thoughtful franchise?

Stephen Thompson, Regina G. Barber, and Candice Lim

Pop Culture Happy Hour March 13, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1197962941/is-kung-fu-panda-4-a-worthy-entry-in-the-fun-and-thoughtful-franchise

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR7834288371.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197962941

 

Fandom Is: On the Broken, Inescapable Nature of Fandom

By David Harper

January 7, 2020

https://sktchd.com/longform/fandom-is-on-the-broken-inescapable-nature-of-fandom/

 

Post Hype Machine: The Past, Present, and Future of Marvel Comics is on Display in the Current Fantastic Four Run

By David Harper

March 13, 2024

https://sktchd.com/review/post-hype-machine-fantastic-four/

 

Bonus Episode – Dean Haspiel

Virtual Memories Show

 March 17, 2024 by Gil Roth

https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/bonus-episode-dean-haspiel

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Bonus_Episode_-_Dean_Haspiel.mp3

 

In Memoriam: Doctor Who Comic Writer, Editor and Musician Roger Noel Cook

By John Freeman on March 14, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-doctor-who-comic-writer-editor-and-musician-roger-noel-cook/

 

Lee Loughridge welcomes us into the 'MidState'

The new ComiXology Original series is out today!

Chris Coplan

March 12, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/12/midstate-series-qa/

 

Erik Burnham on action, destiny, and family in 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'

The writer is a vital voice in the modern Turtles/TMNT line at IDW.

Chris Coplan

March 14, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/14/erik-burnham-on-turtles-at-40/

 

A perfect Sunday with...Will Sliney

Battling Nutella, avoiding Trolls and hitting the water

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter  Mar 17, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-will-sliney/?ref=the-cavletter-newsletter

 

Interview : Larzac, Pierre-Marie Terral pour une histoire et une victoire sans violence de paysans résistants

Jean-Laurent Truc

17 mars 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/interview-larzac-pierre-marie-terral-289177.html

PCHH on Kung Fu Panda 4

Is 'Kung Fu Panda 4' a worthy entry in the fun and thoughtful franchise?

Stephen Thompson, Regina G. Barber, and Candice Lim

Pop Culture Happy Hour March 13, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/13/1197962941/is-kung-fu-panda-4-a-worthy-entry-in-the-fun-and-thoughtful-franchise

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR7834288371.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197962941

My photo of Nick Bertozzi in DC illustrates an interview with/by him

I'm living the dream, as they say. I'm coming after YOU, Bruce Guthrie.

 Also, I've backed both Kickstarters.

Cartoonists Nick Bertozzi and Dean Haspiel Interview Each Other

Forces of Geek March 16 2024

https://forcesofgeek.com/2024/03/cartoonists-nick-bertozzi-and-dean-haspiel-interview-each-other.html

PHENOMENA with BRAIN MICHAEL BENDIS and ANDRE LIMA ARAUJO

PHENOMENA with BRAIN MICHAEL BENDIS and ANDRE LIMA ARAUJO

by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworld March 15 2024

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

In PHENOMENA vol. 1, Brian Michael Bendis and Andre Lima Araújo delivered a universe chock-full of unforgettable characters, full-tilt action, stunning imagination, and world-building. Now, with vol. 2 arriving in April, the creative duo plan to do it all over again. https://www.previewsworld.com/Article... Hosted by Troy-Jeffrey Allen Directed by Johnny Rose Produced by Josh Geppi & Troy-Jeffrey Allen

March 19: New Dog Man at Hooray for Books in Alexandria

Get ready to see red with THE SCARLET SHEDDER

On Tuesday, March 19, we'll have Dog Man's 12th hilarious adventure, The Scarlet Shedder, hot off the presses! When you buy the new Dog Man, you'll get a free copy of Dav Pilkey's exclusive Power Up! magazine with how to draw tutorials, joke comics, and more. If you'd like us to set a copy of both the book and the magazine aside for you in advance, please call us at (703) 548-4092 to place an order.

WaPo mocks former editorial cartoonist's name but didn't answer why he's gone

WaPo de Subtracter [Michael de Adder letter].

James Hatfield, Encinitas, Calif.

Washington Post March 16 2024: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/15/sotu-gaza-protests-infertility-taliban-cricket/

I was very disappointed to learn that you will no longer be printing cartoons by Michael de Adder. I found his cartoons to be very insightful and right-on every time.

WaPo on female artists, aka cartoonists, losing jobs

Cavna has an excellent article here, building on DD Degg's building on reporting about a meme (iirc). Also WaPo editors seem to be allergic to the word cartoonist (at least its headline writers), leading to an inaccurate impression - there's actually a lot of good illustration artwork appearing in the paper, much of it by women.  

For the record, I counted 4 female cartoonists in today's Saturday paper - Donna Lewis w/ Reply All Lite, Hilary Price w/ Rhymes with Orange, Heart of the City by Steenz, and Mark Trail by Jules Rivera. That's 4 out of 41 strips / panels, or 10%. There are 3 Black creators - Ray Billingsly w/ Curtis, Steenz, and Darrin Bell's Candorville. There are 3 Hispanic creators with Hector Cantu and Carlos Castellanos' Baldo, and possibly Jules Rivera.There are 2 Danes creating WuMo. The Post's comics page editor, Hannah Good is a woman. 

Female artists are disappearing from print comics at chain newspapers. Creators are thriving in other mediums. Are print comic strips nearing the end? [in print as Female artists are being erased from chain newspapers]

By Michael Cavna

Washington Post March 16, 2024 : C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2024/03/16/gannett-comics-women-cartoonists/

David Small At Lost City Books audio and photos

David Small At Lost City Books

David Small

Washington, DC: Lost City Books 2024-03-15

https://archive.org/details/david-small-at-lost-city-bookstore-240315

From a venerated master of the graphic novel genre - a visual presentation followed by a Q&A and book signing.

David Small is the author of the internationally acclaimed graphic memoir, Stitches. Almost fifteen years later comes his new book, The Werewolf at Dusk. These are three stunning stories linked by, as Small puts it, "the dread of things internal."

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/15/2024

Anjali Singh Launching Own Literary Agency With Graphic Novelists

Literary agent Anjali Singh launches her own agency, Anjali Singh Literary, bringing over her list of clients, including graphic novelists.

 14 Mar 2024   

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/anjali-singh-launching-own-literary-agency-with-graphic-novelists/

 

Spiffy Pictures Promotes Caroline Bandolik to VP Production

By Mercedes Milligan

March 14, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/spiffy-pictures-promotes-caroline-bandolik-to-vp-production/

 

Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-Winning 'The Boy and the Heron' Makes Triumphant Return to Theaters

By Mercedes Milligan

March 14, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/hayao-miyazakis-oscar-winning-the-boy-and-the-heron-makes-triumphant-return-to-theaters/

 

VeVe Comics offer digital Marvel Comics and NFTs [distribution]

Heidi MacDonald

03/15/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/veve-comics-offer-digital-marvel-comics-and-nfts/

 

In Memoriam: Bill Wahl  [Comix Connection comic book stores co-owner]
Scoop March 15 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273446

 

Interview: Maria Scrivan on ALL IS NAT LOST, Philadelphia and Procrastidoodling

Avery Kaplan

03/15/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-maria-scrivan-on-all-is-nat-lost/

 

'Snowpiercer' Lands at AMC for Fourth and Final Season

The drama series was canceled at TNT last year despite having completed production.

Rick Porter

March 14, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/snowpiercer-final-season-amc-1235852718/

 

Damian Wassel: Ep 9 of The Vault Cast!

Feb 20 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77IcmtqMYcI

 

Phil Noto's Website

https://philnoto.com/

 

Pia Guerra/WaPo Kate Cartoon Goes Viral

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/14/pia-guerra-wapo-kate-cartoon-goes-viral/

 

ZOOP LAUNCHES EQUITY CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN Seeking to Raise $1.24 Million from Investors

 Milton Griepp on March 15, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56489/zoop-launches-equity-crowdfunding-campaign

 

GAMA EXPO NEWS 2024: 'AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER - AANG'S DESTINY' REVEALED

New Deck-building Game by The Op

 Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez on March 15, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56493/gama-expo-news-2024-avatar-the-last-airbender-aangs-destiny-revealed

 

Convention Recap: Awesome Con
Scoop March 15 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=273405

 

Awesome Con in Photos

Scoop March 15 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=273406

 

'X-Men '97' and 'The Animated Series' Creators — Then and Now — Talk Revival, Playing With 'Disney Money' and Morph's Nonbinary Backlash (EXCLUSIVE)

Jordan Moreau

Mar 14, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/tv/features/x-men-97-beau-demayo-firing-morph-nonbinary-backlash-1235941067/

 

Newspaper Cartoonists Rely on Digital Tools, but Not as You'd Expect

Glenn Fleishman 14 March 2024
https://tidbits.com/2024/03/14/newspaper-cartoonists-rely-on-digital-tools-but-not-as-youd-expect/

 

STORE OWNERS NAB COMICS THIEVES; TRAVELING COMIC SHOP; CAR PLOWS INTO STORE, INJURING EMPLOYEE; NEW BOARD GAME CAFES OPEN; KOCH WAREHOUSE, NEW ENGLAND COMICS BRANCH TO CLOSE

Brigid Alverson on March 14, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56483/store-owners-nab-comics-thieves-traveling-comic-shop-car-plows-into-store-injuring-employee-new-board-game-cafes-open-koch-warehouse-new-england-comics-branch-close

 

Horror writer Brian Keene helps open Vortex Books & Comics in Columbia

CHAD UMBLE

Feb 19, 2024

https://lancasteronline.com/business/whats_in_store/horror-writer-brian-keene-helps-open-vortex-books-comics-opens-in-columbia/article_6f1e8a78-cc12-11ee-847c-4363f86c0a28.html

 

Local comic bookstore to move into old Mexican Village

By Alix Larsen

Valley News Live Mar. 6, 2024

https://www.valleynewslive.com/2024/03/06/local-comic-bookstore-move-into-old-mexican-village/

 

New England Comics, a Coolidge Corner fixture, is closing this month

by Sam Mintz

  Brookline news  March 8, 2024

https://brookline.news/new-england-comics-a-coolidge-corner-fixture-is-closing-this-month/

 

Inside look into San Antonio's newest Heroes & Fantasies location

The new place is huge but that just means more comics.

By Steven Santana
March 9, 2024

https://www.mysanantonio.com/lifestyle/article/heroes-and-fantasies-san-antonio-18705565.php

 

'Like a bomb went off': Southside comic bookstore back open after car slams into building, hurts employee

Aaron Farrar

WJXT News4JAX https://www.news4jax.com/news/local/2024/03/10/like-a-bomb-went-off-southside-comic-bookstore-back-open-after-car-slams-into-building-hurts-employee/

 

Thieves hit Las Vegas comic book business twice in three weeks

Workers at Maximum Comics in the Northwest Valley have been cleaning up after a break-in overnight on Saturday.

By Mike Allen

KVVU Feb. 27, 2024

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2024/02/27/thieves-hit-las-vegas-comic-book-business-twice-three-weeks/

 

'Superjail!' Creator Christy Karacas On Making The "Guzzle Blood" Music Video For Fellow RISD Alumni Les Savy Fav

By Jamie Lang | 03/14/2024 
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/christy-karacas-guzzle-blood-music-video-les-savy-fav-239037.html

 

Beware the Ides of March – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | March 15, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/beware-the-ides-of-march-this-weeks-links/

 

More to Come 609: Four Women in a Hotel Room at ComicsPro

Heidi MacDonald, Brigid Alverson, Siena Fallon, and Sarahti Gassmalla,

PW Comics World: More To Come 03/11/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1301

 

'We wanted to invade media': the hippies, nerds and Hollywood pros who brought The Simpsons to life

The Simpsons' roots run deep. And as Matt Groening's early collaborators explain, it owes its global success to a perfect storm of punk zine attitude and TV professionalism

Larry Ryan

 11 Mar 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/11/the-simpsons-matt-groening-gary-panter-zines-comics-harvard-lampoon-alt-weekly-newpapers

 

Shut In Theater: Weekend Reading 200

The only* weekend reading column personally cursed by Alan Moore!

AVERY KAPLAN:

03/09/2024 
https://www.comicsbeat.com/shut-in-theater-weekend-reading-200/

 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ron Cacace of Archie Comics

  Lisa Fernandes March 8, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/03/exclusive-interview-ron-cacace-of-archie-comics/

 

In This Satire Of Social Media, Survival Depends On 'Likes' And 'Dislikes' [Death Ratio'd]

Leslie Katz

Mar 9, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2024/03/09/in-this-dark-satire-of-social-media-likes-and-dislikes-mean-life-or-death/

 

Book Reviews: Comic Books, Special Collections, and the Academic Library.

College and Research Libraries Vol 85, No 2 (2024)

—Dan Forrest, Western Kentucky University 

https://crl.acrl.org/index.php/crl/article/view/26232/34160

 

Off Panel #440: Always Be Scanning with Scott Dunbier [IDW]

Mar 11, 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel440-always-be-scanning-with-scott-dunbier

 

Sarah Rees Brennan on the empathy and controversy of Scarlet Witch

Sarah Rees Brennan unpacks her 'Women of Marvel' story and shares her love of Scarlet Witch.

David Brooke

March 12, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/12/sarah-rees-brennan-women-of-marvel-scarlet-witch/

 

X-Men Monday #242 – Steve Foxe, Steve Orlando, and Phillip Sevy Talk 'X-Men Unlimited'

Chris Hassan

March 11, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/11/x-men-monday-242-steve-x-men-unlimited/

 

My Claremont Year- The End

Chris Claremont's X-Men were rarely about the costumes or their super-heroics

Scott Cederlund

From Cover to Cover Mar 11, 2024

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/my-claremont-year-the-end/

 

'Welcome Home, Franklin' tells the backstory of the first Black 'Peanuts' character

By Amy Amatangelo

Feb. 15, 2024 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2024-02-15/snoopy-presents-welcome-home-franklin-robb-armstrong

 

LA Times Today: 'Welcome Home, Franklin' tells the backstory of the first Black 'Peanuts' character [video]

Amy Amatangelo and Lisa McRee

March 13, 2024

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/0000018e-38cb-dfc2-a5df-f8dff91c0000-123

 

5 writers on how Charlie Brown and the 'Peanuts' gang changed their lives

By Patrick J. Kiger

Nov. 27, 2019 

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2019-11-27/the-peanuts-papers-charles-schulz-andrew-blauner

 

Peter Blegvad on his book, 'Milk: Through a Glass Darkly'. March 12, 2024

The 386th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium held on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 5 pm EST. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2tl-A2-Zb0

 

Refiguring comic book imagery in a post-digital moment: conspicuousness, hybridity and ontological strangeness

Daniel Brodén

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics : 20 Feb 2024

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2309867

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2024.2309867

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/21504857.2024.2309867

 

Maurice Vellekoop photographs by Bruce Guthrie

Politics & Prose -- Maurice Vellekoop ("I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together") w/Chip Kidd:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2024_03_14B_Vellekoop

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• Description of Pictures: Maurice Vellekoop -- I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together - with Chip Kidd — at Union Market
  Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970s in a blue-collar suburb of Toronto. Despite their working-class milieu, the Vellekoops are devoted to art, music, and film, and they instill a deep reverence for the arts in young Maurice--except for literature. He'd much rather watch Cher and Carol Burnett on TV than read a book. He also loves playing with his girlfriends' Barbie dolls and helping his Mum in her hair salon, which she runs out of the basement of their house. In short, he is really, really gay. Which is a huge problem, because the family is part of the Christian Reformed Church, a strict Calvinist sect. They go to church twice on Sunday, and they send their kids to a private Christian school, catechism classes, and the Calvinist Cadet Corps. Needless to say, the church is intolerant of homosexuality. Though she loves her son deeply, Maurice's mother, Ann, cannot accept him, setting the course for a long estrangement.
  Vellekoop struggles through all of this until he graduates from high school and is accepted into the Ontario College of Art in the early 1980s. Here he finds a welcoming community of bohemians, including a brilliant, flamboyantly gay professor who encourages him to come out. But just as he's dipping his toes into the waters of gay sex and love, a series of romantic disasters, followed by a violent attack, sets him back severely. And then the shadow of the AIDS era descends. Maurice reacts by retreating to the safety of childhood obsessions, and seeks to satisfy his emotional needs with film- and theatre-going, music, boozy self-medication, and prolific art-making. When these tactics inevitably fail, Vellekoop at last embarks on a journey towards his heart's true desire. In psychotherapy, the spiderweb of family, faith, guilt, sexuality, mental health, the intergenerational fallout of World War ...More...
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More to Come 609: Four Women in a Hotel Room at ComicsPro inc. Fantom Comic's Sarahti

More to Come 609: Four Women in a Hotel Room at ComicsPro

Heidi MacDonald, Brigid Alverson, Siena Fallon, and Sarahti Gassmalla,

PW Comics World: More To Come 03/11/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1301

This week on More to Come, in a special crossover episode, Heidi MacDonald and Brigid Alverson talk to comics retailers Siena Fallon, COO/managing partner of Ultimate Comics, and Sarahti Gassmalla, manager at Fantom Comics to talk about the recent annual meeting of ComicsPro, the comics retailers association, what's hot in shops, and why Wednesday is new comics day at direct market comics shops.

Awesome Con coverage at Scoop

Convention Recap: Awesome Con

Scoop March 15 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=273405

Awesome Con in Photos

Scoop March 15 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=273406

WaPo cartoon by Pia Guerra bothers some

Pia Guerra/WaPo Kate Cartoon Goes Viral

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/14/pia-guerra-wapo-kate-cartoon-goes-viral/