Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/25/2024

Accusations Over DC Comics Artists Using Artificial Intelligence Mount

Lots of people are against the use of AI in comic book creation. Here are three recent examples from DC Comics highlighted on social media.

by Rich Johnston

 23 Mar 2024 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/accusations-over-dc-comics-artists-using-artificial-intelligence-mount-ai/

 

DENIS KITCHEN ART COLLECTION GOES ON THE BLOCK At Heritage

 Milton Griepp on March 25, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56555/denis-kitchen-art-collection-goes-block

 

China Box Office: 'Kung Fu Panda 4' Opens to $25.9M During Quiet Weekend

'Dune: Part 2' climbed to $44.6 million, surpassing the China total of the first film in the franchise.

Patrick Brzeski

March 25, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/china-box-office-kung-fu-panda-4-opening-weekend-1235859397/

 

SAG-AFTRA Performers Ratify TV Animation Contracts

Katie Kilkenny

The new deal includes several gains secured in the union's 2023 TV/theatrical contracts following its 118-day strike, such as guardrails on AI and wage increases.

March 22, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sag-aftra-tv-animation-contracts-ratified-1235858863/

 

Manga industry faces hard questions as Eiichiro Oda takes break

As Eiichiro Oda goes on a break after the death of Akira Toriyama, should this signal better self care for manga artists?

D. Morris

03/25/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/manga-industry-faces-hard-questions-as-eiichiro-oda-takes-break/

 

"It's a Silent Fire": Decaying Digital Movie and TV Show Files Are a Hollywood Crisis

Industry pros sweat the possibility that many digital files will eventually become unusable — an archival tragedy reminiscent of the celluloid era.

By Gary Baum, Carolyn Giardina

March 15, 2024 

This story first appeared in the March 14 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/digital-preservation-film-tv-shows-archives-1235851957/

 

MoCCA 2024: On FLY CHILD with artist Caitlin Du

A spotlight on MoCCA artist and SVA comics graduate in the making Caitlin Du about her latest work: Fly Child.

Christian Angeles

03/25/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/mocca-2024-on-fly-child-with-artist-caitlin-du/

 

Multiple women accuse cartoonist Ed Piskor of grooming and misconduct

Multiple women have accused cartoonist Ed Piskor of misconduct and grooming.

Beat Staff

03/25/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/multiple-women-accuse-cartoonist-ed-piskor-of-grooming-and-misconduct/

 

Interview: TONY FLEECS is having a moment

The creator shared what is coming up and his take on the state of comics today

Deanna Destito

03/25/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-tony-fleecs-is-having-a-moment/

 

Interview: 'The Many Deaths of Barnaby James' [writers Neil Gibson and Brian Nathanson ]

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Mar 19, 2024

https://previewsworld.com/Article/271263-Interview-The-Many-Deaths-of-Barnaby-James

 

A Chat with Nick Davis, a DC-adjacent cartoonist

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog March 25, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/03/a-chat-with-nick-davis-dc-adjacent.html

Tintin au-delà des idées reçues

22 contre-vérités sur Hergé et son œuvre

https://lesimpressionsnouvelles.com/catalogue/tintin-au-dela-des-idees-recues/

Patrice Guérin

Les Impressions Nouvelles 2024

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode eighty | Kieron Gillen, part two

March 25 2024

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/look

 

WIA Ireland Marks 10th Anniversary with Animation Dingle Announcements

By Mercedes Milligan

March 23, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/wia-ireland-marks-10th-anniversary-with-animation-dingle-announcements/

 

BOOM! SPLAT! Comics and Violence

Edited by Jim Coby & Joanna Davis-McElligatt

University Press of Mississippi, 2024

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/BOOM!-SPLAT

 

Introduction: Here is Violence Galore

 

Jim Coby and Joanna Davis-McElligatt

 

Section I. Bang! Histories of Violence

1. Hawk, Dove, Ditko, and Kant: Self-Defense for Superheroes

Sam Cowling

 

2. Black and White Death: Graphics of Violence from the Great War

Christina M. Knopf

 

3. A Tale of Two Cuban Cartoonists

Diana Álvarez Amell

 

4. Archiving the Past, Drawing the Present, and Preserving Displaced Histories of Violence in Nonfictional Graphic Novels

Natalja Chestopalova

 

Section II. Zzap! Forms of Violence

5. Calvin and Hobbes: A Case Study of the Cartoon Fight Cloud

Jacob Murel

 

6. White Black Men and Black White Men: Reading Race as Violence in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece's Incognegro: A Graphic Mystery

Joanna Davis-McElligatt

 

7. Violence Trying Patience: Daniel Clowes, Gender, Semiotics, and the Duo-Parallel-Critical Alternative to McCloud's World-Image Typology in Comics

Steven S. Vrooman

 

Section III. Aarrgh! Interpersonal and Collective Violence

8. Gender-Bending Aggression: A Comparative Study of Superheroine Aggression in Hulk (2016), Captain Marvel (2017), and The New Wolverine (2017)

Kiera M. Gaswint

 

9. Male Authority against Female Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Violence in Comics

Elisabetta Di Minico

 

10. "It's Football, Sir. It's Worth the Blood": Football and "The Violence That Finds Us" in Aaron and Latour's Southern Bastards

Jim Coby

 

11. Complex Comics, Complex Trauma: Registration of Traumatized Childhood in the "Autographics" of Phoebe Gloeckner

Partha Bhattacharjee and Priyanka Tripathi

 

Section IV. Thunk! Political and Social Violence

12. #BlackLivesMatter and Cartooning Racial Violence

Vincent Haddad

 

13. Radical Empathy in March

Leah Milne

 

14. "Peace Be with You": The Sheriff of Babylon and Violence in the "War on Terror"

Lawrence Abrams and Kaleb Knoblauch

 

15. Violence for the Cause: Social Justice and the Need for Representations of Violence

Rita Costello

 

Eli Noyes, Pioneer in Clay and Sand Stop Animation, Dies at 81

An Oscar nominee for 'Clay or the Origin of Species,' he later helped shape the look and spirit of Nickelodeon and MTV.

Mike Barnes

March 25, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/eli-noyes-dead-pioneering-stop-motion-animator-1235859948/

 

X-Men: From the Ashes Wants to Make Cyclops the Leading Man He Was Always Meant to Be

Exclusive: X-Men writers Gail Simone and Jed MacKay and editor Tom Brevoort talk about the future of Marvel's Merry Mutants in the From the Ashes relaunch.

By Joe George, Sam Stone | March 25, 2024

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/x-men-from-the-ashes-cyclops-new-mission/

 

"It's A Cliché, But I Write What I Know": An Interview with Gareth A. Hopkins, Abstract Cartoonist

Hagai Palevsky | March 25, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/its-a-cliche-but-i-write-what-i-know-an-interview-with-gareth-a-hopkins-abstract-cartoonist/

 

A Game Designer's Lifelong Pursuit of Action Nirvana

Hideaki Itsuno helped shape the fighting genre in the 1990s with Street Fighter. Now he's applying similar ideas to the open-world adventure Dragon's Dogma 2.

By Lewis Gordon

A version of this article appears in print on March 25, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Still Shaping The Genre Of Fighting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/arts/dragons-dogma-2-hideaki-itsuno-capcom.html

 

'X-Men' Is Back, but a Key Member Is Missing

By Calum Marsh

March 25, 2024,

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/25/arts/television/x-men-97-beau-demayo.html

 

Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98 [Nelvana]

By Penelope Green

A version of this article appears in print on March 25, 2024, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Laurent de Brunhoff, Artist Who Made Babar Famous, Dies at 98.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/books/laurent-de-brunhoff-dead.html

 

The Art of Babar

For more than seven decades, Laurent de Brunhoff painted the adventures of the world's most beloved elephant.

— Penelope Green

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/arts/laurent-de-brunhoff-babar-books.html

 

Finding Happiness Through Many Mediums

At this Lower East Side cafe, patrons order up charcoals instead of cappuccinos and find the joy of getting their hands dirty.

By Nancy Coleman

Illustrations by Vidhya Nagarajan

A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2024, Section AR, Page 2 of the New York edition.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/23/arts/design/nyc-art-cafe.html

 

Dean Haspiel's What If? With The Red Hook X Dean Haspiel

by Rich Johnston 24 Mar 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dean-haspiel-what-if-with-the-red-hood-x-dean-haspiel/

 

Life Studied 8: Illustrators VS artists?

 

Mike Hawthorne

February 15 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCuydeIKNC8

 

Meet the Team - Holly Craven [archivist]

Ralph Steadman Art Collection March 25 2024

https://mailchi.mp/f1f4edccf924/meet-the-team-holly-craven

 

 

Ralph Steadman exhibit coming to American University in fall

" a brand new exhibition, And Another Thing opening in September 2024 at the American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington DC. The exhibition will go on to tour venues across the USA until 2028."

from

Meet the Team - Holly Craven [archivist]
Ralph Steadman Art Collection March 25 2024
https://mailchi.mp/f1f4edccf924/meet-the-team-holly-craven

Troy-Jeffrey Allen interviews 'The Many Deaths of Barnaby James' writers Neil Gibson and Brian Nathanson

Interview: 'The Many Deaths of Barnaby James' [writers Neil Gibson and Brian Nathanson ]

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Mar 19, 2024

https://previewsworld.com/Article/271263-Interview-The-Many-Deaths-of-Barnaby-James

A Chat with Nick Davis, a DC-adjacent cartoonist

Awesome Con photo by Rhode

by Mike Rhode

I was walking around Awesome Con with another local comics fan who wanted to check out the children's section. Since I know that some of the best cartoonists are making comics for children, and local cartoonists John Gallagher, Kata Kane, and Carolyn Belefski set up there, I was glad to follow along. With a British accent, Nick Davis introduced himself as DC-adjacent which was enough to get him a ComicsDC interview offer right there (we also do visiting cartoonists, so heck, anyone can appear here). Nick sent a very thoughtful set of answers to our standard questions.

What type of comic work or cartooning do you do?

I write and self-publish fantasy adventure stories, featuring the Night Guardians, cuddly toys and kids who protect you from the monsters under the bed, and their master the Boogeyman. The stories are fantasy adventures, much in the same vein as the Amulet, or Wings of Fire and I consider them to be all ages adventures, written to appeal to kids and adults alike.

And if you are a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, especially their first appearance, I publish a series of books called Let’s Hunt Montas! Which is more cartoony violent, a lot like Rick and Morty, set in the same fantasy world as the Night Guardians.

How do you do it? Traditional pen and ink, computer or a combination?

Veronica Smith, the artist I work with on the Night Guardian adventures, works the layouts in pencil and then the final art in Manga Studio. The Let's Hunt Monstas! comic, that I exclusively write and draw, is drawn completely in Procreate.

There is a movement that digital art isn’t real art in the comic book community, but you don’t get to draw on these tablet programs without putting in the hours using traditional pen and ink methods. The skills transfer. You can’t cheat your way to good storytelling art, you have to put the hours in.

When (within a decade is fine) and where were you born?

I’m generation X, the largely forgotten generation, the one that has to get things done, because we were left to it. I was born in the early 70’s in a small English market town called Melton Mowbray.

Why are you comics-adjacent to Washington now?  What  area do you live in?

I work in DC for a health care non-profit that overseers medical accreditation, when I am not in DC (which is a lot). I live in PA, right in the middle of Amish country.

What is your training and/or education in cartooning?

None.

I am trained graphic designer, so I have art courses that are attached to that, you know form, life drawing, color theory, but I received no formal training in comic book storytelling. While schools like that do exist, you can only learn from reading comics and doing it yourself.

Who are your influences?

The biggest is the King himself, Jack Kirby, I used to dislike it, then I started telling comic book stories and the sheer storytelling power of his work, the mastery of his panel storytelling is the pinnacle. 

I grew up in the UK reading the Beano, 2000AD, Warlord, Battle, so I have a very heavy black and white influence. The book that really blew my mind was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it was unlike anything I ever saw before, and those turtle boys captured lightning in a bottle. 

So, I guess you can add Eastman and Laird to my influences too.

If you could, what in your career would you do-over or change? Or rather, how are you hoping your career will develop?

You learn more from your mistakes, than you do from your successes. I try not to look back at things I do, as that isn’t the direction I am going in. Learn what works, apply it to future work and keep moving forward.

My career in cartooning? I would love it to develop to the point where I don’t have to work a day job and can live making comics. It’s an independent dream, few of us actually achieve it. Personally I would love to have the success the turtle boys had, but that was very much a time and place thing.

At the moment my goal is to keep telling good stories and having readers come back wanting more. So far, I’ve been mostly successful in that area.

What work are you best-known for?

The Night Guardians - Awakenings graphic novel was a work of a couple of years to get done and told one of my longest stories about four cuddly toys who have to journey into the realm of the Boogeyman to save their child. It hit all the themes I wanted it to, about courage, friendship and hope, and told a fun fantasy adventure in the dark fantasy voice (with a touch of whimsy) that I wanted it too. 

It was also my first real dive into the world of comic book storytelling and I am immensely proud how it came out.

What would you like to do or work on in the future?

I am working on two separate books at the moment, with my artist I am working on Dream Warriors, the tale of two children and their teddy bear spirit guide, who find themselves becoming the defender of dreams. And my Let’s Hunt Montas! Book, that allows me to play fast and loose with my Night Guardians world and inject some Tom & Jerry style humor into things. I guess LHM is very much my safety valve and allows me to release more of my 2000AD ID.

What do you do when you're in a rut or have writer's block?

There is no secret to writing, except to write.

Accept whatever your first write is a pile of poop, once you do that, let the words flow until whatever story inside you is out. Then go back and turn it into something that actually makes sense. Remember it is your world, you control everything, and do not have to kowtow to realism. Let yourself go wild.

The biggest issue I have found with folk who want to write is they are scared of what they want to write, that it is silly, that is nonsense. Tell your story, embrace the absurd.

What's the story about the FCBD issue pictured here?

Every year the comic book store that hosts me for Free Comic Book Day, gets a complimentary FCBD book from me that is exclusive to their story. The book, in this case Adventures Ahead, is a compilation of extracts from the opening pages of Let's Hunt Monstas! Dream Warriors and TeamD, It's a fun little comic book that gives the reader an idea about my stories and gives the comic book store, an extra air of exclusivity.

The book will also eventually be available as a digital download via my Comix Well Spring online box store at https://cwsbookstore.com/store/nick/

What do you think will be the future of your field?

That is tough, comics as an industry is largely stagnant, not shrinking, not really growing. You would think after all the superhero movies we would have a new readership. But the simple fact is can you find a comic book that easily?

Manga for example is everywhere, American style comic books are relegated to niche stories, that are mostly uninviting, and the books within tell stories for adults, into the wonder of superheroes and worlds beyond our own that we read as kids.

I fear that my generation is the last one that grew up reading all types of comic books, we simply had no choice because we read what we could get. Now, you can choose what you want to read, and the funny kind of freedom directs you into niches, or silos, and you inherit a fear of trying something new.

Comics are not doomed, they will survive. I think the Manga style is going to dominate in another ten years or so. I hope my stories can keep up and continue to grow.

I like to think the future is bright, but it's hard work if folk don’t recognize your work and the kids they are with want Deadpool.

What local cons do you attend? The Small Press Expo, Awesome Con, or others? Any comments about attending them? I know you were at Awesome Con - how was the show for you?

I just finished Awesome Con, which turned out good for me. I was a little worried at first, but folk came, brought my books and it was worth my time going too.

I would like to attend the Small Press Expo, which is dependent on their lottery system and my next big show is Four State Comic Con in Hagerstown, MD. You can view all my ‘tour’ dates on my website.

What comic books or strips or webcomics do you read regularly or recommend? Do you have a local store?

My local store is Comic World, it's a great comic book store, before that I used to pick up books at Collectors Corner, sadly they are no longer local to me. As for reading, I read all kinds of books. As you can imagine I am a huge turtles fan, and the Last Ronin stuff is a return to form. 

What's your favorite thing about DC?

DC is an interesting city, I love how walkable it is and you can always find something interesting to do, and it is surprisingly free.

Least favorite?

Traffic, really easy to get into the city, really hard to get out of it.

What monument or museum do you like to go to?

There are some amazing, breathtaking monuments in this town. I enjoy the American Art museum and the National Air and Space Museum, because I am a huge plane nerd.

How about a favorite local restaurant?

Gosh… There are so many good restaurants here.  One of my favorites is Sol Mexican, it's very much a hole-in-the- wall place on H street, but has the best Mexican food ever.

Do you have a website or blog?

Certainly do, you can find all my work and learn more about me at altworldstudios.com

How has the COVID-19 outbreak affected you, personally and professionally?

The lockdown hit just as I finished the Night Guardians Awakenings book, I lost an entire year to market and sell the book and I’ve only just started recovering from that. You would think being locked in place would be a boon to a cartoonist, it really wasn’t because I couldn’t tour my work and lost a lot of momentum.

Thank you for this opportunity, cartooning is hard work, it's fun, get good folk around you, to play with and work with and it becomes more than just cranking out a page. Especially when folk start reading your work, everything takes up a life of its own.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/23-24/2024

 

Cliff, Tony. 2024.

[This month I've been preparing the pages of Chapter Four for colour, or "flatting."]

delilahdirkcomic (March 21):https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4x5osHLF31/

 

Interview: JYOCHO's Daijiro Nakagawa Talks About Composing Songs for Junji Ito and Banished From the Hero's Party

by Richard Eisenbeis, Mar 20th 2024

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2024-03-20/jyocho-daijiro-nakagawa-talks-about-composing-songs-for-junji-ito-and-banished-from-the-hero-party/.208392 

 

Episode 57 - David Harper [comic book journalist]

Kylar Merrell

Comics Unscripted  February 12 2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-57-david-harper/id1570508393?i=1000645046763

 

"The Way You Read Them Evolves": Creators on How Making Comics Changes the Experience of Reading Comics

By David Harper

March 20, 2024

https://sktchd.com/longform/making-comics-reading-comics/

 

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/

 

The "I" Has It: Talking the Present and Future of Image and Comics with Eric Stephenson

By David Harper

February 15, 2016

https://sktchd.com/interview/the-i-has-it-talking-the-present-and-future-of-image-and-comics-with-eric-stephenson/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 265: New X-Men era, DC in June, and Max Wood details self-publishing

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

March 17, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/17/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-265-new-x-men/

 

DC Creates New Batman Logo For 85th Anniversary – But Is It Too Late?

22 Mar 2024   by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-creates-new-batman-logo-for-85th-anniversary-but-is-it-too-late/

 

Simpsons prophecy comes true again, as Cypress Hill teams up with London Symphony Orchestra

A 30-year-old Simpsons joke is finally taking over reality, as Cypress Hill prepares to make good on a "Homerpalooza" dream

William Hughes

AV Club March 22 2024

https://www.avclub.com/simpsons-prophecy-cypress-hill-london-symphony-orchestr-1851360458

 

Joker 2 is apparently a $200 million jukebox musical

New reports indicate Joker: Folie à Deux will work at least 15 "reinterpretations" of well-known songs into its comic book chaos

By

William Hughes

AV Club March 22 2024

https://www.avclub.com/joker-2-is-apparently-a-200-million-jukebox-musical-1851360372

 

'Joker 2' Musical Details Revealed: At Least 15 Cover Songs, Original Tracks May Be Added (EXCLUSIVE)

Clayton Davis

Variety Mar 22, 2024 

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/joker-2-musical-cover-songs-original-tracks-1235949284/

 

Hollywood Actors Are Leaping Into Video Games

By Just Lunning

A version of this article appears in print on March 24, 2024, Section AR, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Hollywood Actors Go Gaming.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/movies/video-games-actors-comer-harbour.html

 

Your Caption Here (or: All You Need To Know To Win* The New Yorker Cartoon Contest)

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/23/your-caption-here-or-all-you-need-to-know-to-win-the-new-yorker-cartoon-contest/

 

The Association of Canadian Cartoonists defends Serge Chapleau

Bado's Blog March 22, 2024

http://bado-badosblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-association-of-canadian-cartoonists.html

 

Substacks about comics! Part 1: A round-up of indie comics substacks, to the best of our knowledge

Cara Gormally, Nora Hickey, and Amaris Ketcham

Autobiographix Mar 21, 2024

https://autobiographix.substack.com/cp/142832266

 

A perfect Sunday with...Laura Helsby

Spicy tofu, must-read horror and breaking Padme's heart [2000AD artist]

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter Mar 24, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-laura-helsby/

Comics Research Bibliography 2023, print edition is now available

Two volumes, 1200 pages in total, are available at the following links:

https://www.lulu.com/shop/tony-r-rose-and-john-a-lent-and-michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2023-print-edition-vol-1/paperback/product-dynrrj4.html?page=1&pageSize=4

https://www.lulu.com/shop/tony-r-rose-and-john-a-lent-and-michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2023-print-edition-vol-2/paperback/product-p6kddq2.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Deandra "Nika" Tan and Jacob Shapiro at Fantom Comics

Nika is talking about book 2 of her Tapas' webcomic Signals, which is just out now from Dark Horse. The interview is running live on Fantom Comics' Instagram feed at https://www.instagram.com/reel/C43qye7xHQu/. The recording is also at https://archive.org/details/deandra-tan-aka-nika-at-fantom-comics-240323

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/22/2024

Ka-POW! DIA's New Comic Book Wows

Defense Intelligence Agency Public Affairs Office

Nov. 30, 2021

https://www.dia.mil/News-Features/Articles/Article-View/Article/2856408/ka-pow-dias-new-comic-book-wows/

 

Amu Chu

Website - http://www.iwritecomics.com/

Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/AmyChu

 

GoFundMe for Former Diamond Employee Dave Gomien
Scoop March 22 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273559

 

Montreal bookstore La Petite Drawn & Quarterly is closing its Mile End chapter

Sofia Misenheimer

Associate Editor

MTL Blog Mar 21, 2024, https://www.mtlblog.com/montreal-bookstore-closing-mile-end

 

Jerry Ordway on DC Comics Publishing Superman Triangle Era in Omnibus

Jerry Ordway talks about DC Comics' decision to publish the Superman Triangle Era in Omnibus form, and his role in the new version.

 21 Mar 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jerry-ordway-on-dc-comics-publishing-superman-triangle-era-in-omnibus/

 

Todd McFarlane's Spawn Cover Contest Was Won By AI User Robot9000

At the beginning of the year, Todd McFarlane's "Spawnuary", challenged artists to submit spec cover artwork for his line of Spawn comics.

by Rich Johnston

  21 Mar 2024 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/todd-mcfarlanes-spawn-cover-contest-was-won-by-ai-user-robo9000/

 

The Lab Press launches with ESSENTIALS from Luke Arnold and all-star artists

Heidi MacDonald

03/22/2024 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-lab-press-launches-with-essentials-from-luke-arnold-and-all-star-artists/

 

DARK HORSE MILLARWORLD TITLES KICK OFF WITH NEMESIS

New Series Picks Up After 'Big Game'

  Milton Griepp on March 22, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56544/dark-horse-millarworld-titles-kick-off-nemesis

 

EXCLUSIVE: DSTLRY SIGNS FOREIGN RIGHTS DEAL For All Countries Other than France

 Milton Griepp on March 22, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56543/exclusive-dstlry-signs-foreign-rights-deal

 

Comics: The Answer to The UK's Literacy Crisis?

Author: Peter Kessler

This article is featured in Bfk 265 March 2024  https://booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/comics-the-answer-to-the-uks-literacy-crisis/

 

Brainstorm's Neurodiverse Artists Craft an Animated Anthology Inspired by Dreams

By Ramin Zahed

March 21, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/brainstorms-neurodiverse-artists-craft-an-animated-anthology-inspired-by-dreams/

April '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 339).

 

'The Boy and the Heron' to Stream on Netflix Worldwide

Outside the U.S. and Japan, Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-winning anime classic will find a home.

Etan Vlessing

March 21, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-boy-and-the-heron-netflix-1235857254/

 

Netflix Scores 'The Boy And The Heron' Streaming Rights Outside The U.S. And Japan After Extending Studio Ghibli Catalog Deal

By Jamie Lang | 03/21/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/anime/netflix-scores-the-boy-and-the-heron-streaming-rights-outside-the-u-s-and-japan-after-extending-studio-ghibli-catalog-deal-239236.html

 

Saudi Arabia Is Getting A 125-Acre 'Dragon Ball' Theme Park

By Jamie Lang | 03/22/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/theme-parks/saudi-arabia-is-getting-a-125-acre-dragon-ball-theme-park-239246.html

 

Sony Studios Team with Kevin Love Fund to Launch 'The Spider Within' Animated Short & Mental Health Initiative

By Mercedes Milligan

March 21, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/sony-studios-team-with-kevin-love-fund-to-launch-the-spider-within-animated-short-mental-health-initiative/

 

A Power Not Seen for Thousands of Years – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | March 22, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/a-power-not-seen-for-thousands-of-years-this-weeks-links/

 

Off Panel #441: A Lot of Begatting with Kieron Gillen

 March 18 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel441-a-lot-of-begatting-with-kieron-gillen

 

Comics Retail and Middle Grade Graphic Novels

Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald, Kate Fitzsimons and Brigid Alverson

PW Comics World: More To Come 610 03/18/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1302

 

Tom Scioli Essential Interview: Comics, Pulps, Stan Lee and Jack Kirby

Henry Chamberlain

March 17 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pmnjIur9F0

 

A Tribute to John M Burns – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

  2000 AD Thrill-Cast March 19 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Na2ySSou0

 

INTERVIEW: Rosie Reads with the Kickstarting Creators of Balikbayan, a Filipino Horror Comic

  Rosie Knight March 15, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/03/interview-rosie-reads-with-the-kickstarting-creators-of-balikbayan-a-filipino-horror-comic/

 

Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics. By Mark McKinney [book review]

Maheen Ahmed

French Studies, knae048, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/knae048

 16 March 2024

https://academic.oup.com/fs/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/fs/knae048/7630475

 

"Criminalization of Marginalized Identity is Something We've Seen Grow… in Recent Years" – buttercup on Their Magical Girl Comic 'UM' and Portraying the Realities of Queer Black Life

by Andy Oliver

March 18, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/buttercup-um-radiator-interview/

 

2024 Kesterton Lecture with Michael de Adder

Carleton School of Journalism and Communication March 20 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3p5wLzfC5Q

 

Alex Paknadel and Troy Little attempt to induct us into the 'Cult of the Lamb'

The video game adaptation is currently smashing records on Kickstarter.

Chris Coplan

March 19, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/19/cult-of-the-lamb-qa/

 

Tony Fleecs and Dave Wachter welcome us to the 'Uncanny Valley'

The new BOOM! Studios titles arrives in April to smash your meager walls of reality.

Chris Coplan

March 19, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/19/uncanny-valley-qa/

 

Chuck Austen on the ghosts, family drama, and human suffering in 'The Tormented'

Chris Coplan

March 21, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/21/the-tormented-qa/

 

Steve Morger talks villas, competitive edge for the Lake Como Comic Art Festival

The intimate comics celebration takes place in Lake Como in Italy.

Chris Coplan

March 21, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/21/qa-lake-como-comic-art-festival/

 

Renowned Anime And Game Artist Mutsumi Inomata Has Died

Ollie Barder

Mar 18, 2024

https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2024/03/18/renowned-anime-and-game-artist-mutsumi-inomata-has-died/

 

Manga Creator Yū Asai Dies, Manga Creator Husband Motoyuki Asai Hospitalized After Traffic Accident

posted on 2024-03-15   Crystalyn Hodgkins

Motoyuki Asai is in serious condition

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-03-15/manga-creator-yu-asai-dies-manga-creator-husband-motoyuki-asai-hospitalized-after-traffic-accident/.208788

 

Denny O'Neil Graphic Novel List! 

Missouri Association of School Librarians.

https://sites.google.com/view/dographicnovellist/welcome

 

'The little girl in Persepolis has grown up': Marjane Satrapi on life after her hit graphic novel – and her radical new work

Angelique Chrisafis

Sat 16 Mar 2024https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/marjane-satrapi-interview-persepolis-woman-life-freedom

 

Woman, Life, Freedom [Satrapi book review]

Reviewed by: 

Marissa Moss

New York Journal of Books March 2024

https://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/book-review/woman-life-freedom

 

'Replay' spotlights resilience, loss, and intergenerational connectedness

Tahneer Oksman

March 21, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/21/1239773300/jordan-mechner-replay-graphic-memoir-book-review

 

Kaare Andrews on Spider-Man: Reign | Secrets of the Sire

Michael Dolce and Victor Dandridge

Sire Studios March 22 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOG0bKxWvdI

 

Raden Yusuf Sidiq Budiawan, Rawinda Fitrotul Mualafina, Siti Ulfiyani, Mukhlis Mukhlis, (2024), "Implicature in Online Comics of "Komik Grontol" Instagram: A Pragmatics Study" in 6th International Conference on Education and Social Science Research, KnE Social Sciences, pages 159–172. DOI 10.18502/kss.v9i6.15264

https://knepublishing.com/index.php/KnE-Social/article/view/15264

 

The Clown Suit of Middle Age

By Emily Flake

New Yorker March 22 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/the-clown-suit-of-middle-age

 

I'll take a potato chip... And cause a heart attack! [Death Note]

Naomi Lester

Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics March 11 2024

https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/jist/article/view/4584/3874

Akira Toriyama 1955-2024

André Lima Araújo

Castrum Lusitania Mar 09, 2024

https://andrelimaaraujo.substack.com/p/akira-toriyama

 

Michael de Adder on his Washington Post tenure

ComicsDC blog March 22, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/03/michael-de-adder-on-his-washington-post.html

New Team Cul de Sac site launches

Team Cul de Sac

Cartooning Against Parkinson's Disease

https://teamculdesac.com/

Michael de Adder on his Washington Post tenure

In the 2024 Kesterton Lecture with Michael de Adder, at the Carleton School of Journalism and Communications, he discusses his time with the Post. This is the first time I've heard a reason for him leaving the WaPo, and he chalks it up to the editorial page editor's death.

[Starting at 1:01]

 When I was hired by The Washington Post, I was hired to take over Tom tole's job. Now the most celebrated cartoonist in one of the most celebrated cartoonists in the world used to work for the Washington Post, a guy named Herblock. He changed cartooning. He was one of the people who modernized cartooning and made cartooning what it is today. The funny thing is  this was the era of Ben Bradley and Watergate and when they were going to replace Block, they announced that they were going to give Tom Toles the job. Tom Toles is an excellent cartoonist. He's nothing like Herblock but that's a good thing. I was there on the day that it was announced he was taking over and Ben Bradley said this to him in front of a whole room of cartoonists, "You have big shoes to fill." What a terrible [thing to say]. It is true he had big shoes to fill, but don't say that in a room full of cartoonists.

He did great though. I thought he was one of the best, but a year later they hired Ann Telnaes to also work online and I thought they produced some of the best cartoons in America. Not the best in Canada -- we're really good cartoonists here.

So when Tom Toles decided to retire, and he retired the day after Trump lost which I thought was a classy thing to do, I told my manager that I wanted to show interest in getting that job. I didn't expect to get it, and I got it, and it was great at first. I think I started off a little slow.

Fred Hiatt, the guy that hired me, in 2022 at Thanksgiving he had a heart attack and died. It was a massive heart attack and I think he died something like within two weeks.I always felt like I only had one person on my side at the [Post]. I probably had 10 people on my side at the Washington Post but I really only felt like I had one person. Now it happened to be the main person so he's the person you want to have on your side, but when he died, I knew that it's possible that my career with them was going to end. The new guy came in and I do believe that he had a mission to make things a little more conservative and and I don't know if that came from the boss or if it came from or where it came from -- all I know is that the first conversation I had with him, all he talked about was all the cartoonists he liked and he didn't mention me. That doesn't bode well, but anyways you know these things happen. The paper wanted to go further right and I'm clearly not on the right.

At 1:12 when being questioned about being fired four times, he returns to the point, saying it wasn't about the money:

[At] The Washington Post, it was purely point of view. In fact they were paying
me twice what they should have for one cartoon, just to keep me there so that they could quietly let me out the door.

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