Monday, April 01, 2024

A Matter of Risk; The direct market has a quiet problem limiting its potential, but it might be a solvable one if everyone can just agree on a few things along the way

By David Harper

September 24, 2019

https://sktchd.com/longform/a-matter-of-risk/

"We Want to Have This Conversation with More Than Just Us": An Exploration of the Connection Between Comics and Podcasts

By David Harper

March 28, 2024

https://sktchd.com/longform/comics-podcasting-feature/

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 268: Creator Spotlight: Ram V 'Knowing everything is overrated'

David Brooke

AIPT Comics podcast March 31, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/31/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-268-creator-spotlight-ram-v/

Mark Russell sheds some light on 'Batman: Dark Age'

Chris Coplan

March 26, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/26/batman-dark-age-qa/

A perfect Sunday with...Erik Burnham

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter Mar 31, 2024

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

Green Humour

Rohan Chakravarty

https://greenhumour.substack.com/

Marvel Now Crediting Roy Thomas As Co-Creator Of Wolverine

Wolverine was created for Incredible Hulk #180 by writer Len Wein, designed by John Romita Sr, and drawn by Herb Trimpe back in 1974...

Rich Johnston

30 Mar 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-now-crediting-roy-thomas-as-co-creator-of-wolverine/

Resurgence Of The Valiant Universe, The 2024 Event By Cloonan & Conrad

The Resurgence Of The Valiant Universe is the name of the big Valiant Universe event for 2024, by Becky Cloonan and Michael Conrad.

29 Mar 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/resurgence-of-the-valiant-universe-the-2024-event-by-cloonan-conrad/

The Wedding Of Comic Book Editors Rob Levin And Andrea Shea

One of the comic book social events of the year happened last weekend in Los Angeles, the wedding of Rob Levin and Andrea Shea.

29 Mar 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/wedding-comic-book-editors-rob-levin-andrea-shea/

Scott Adams' Reality

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/30/scott-adams-reality/

Rich Williams Retires, Leo Michael Steps Up

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/29/rich-williams-retires-leo-michael-steps-up/

PN cartoonist Rich Williams retires after 35 years

Don Loepp

Plastic News March 28, 2024

https://www.plasticsnews.com/plastics-blog/pn-cartoonist-rich-williams-retires-after-35-years

Pintopia Launch ft. Peter Chiykowski's D&D Pins + David Malki's Wondermark Pins!

Peter Chiykowski and David Malki

Rock, Paper, Cynic

Mar 28, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2v8y7W5BQM

Prevention Of The Great Derangement: The Impact And Ecocritical Value Of Rohan Chakravarty's 'Pugmarks And Carbon Footprints' [India]

Pallavi Singh

Research Journal of English Language and Literature (RJELAL)Vol.11.Issue 3. 2023 (July-Sept.) http://www.rjelal.com/11.3.23/267-277%20PALLAVI%20SINGH.pdf

Invincible quietly recast Ezra Miller, on account of the Ezra Miller of it all

Miller appeared as a mad scientist in the first season of Amazon's Invincible, but the character has been recast for the ongoing season 2

William Hughes

AV Club March 30 2024

https://www.avclub.com/invincible-quietly-recast-ezra-miller-on-account-of-th-1851376879

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Germantown teen self-pubs Holocaust GN in 2013

Did he find a career in comics? ComicsDC wants to know.

14-Year-Old Author Tells Story of Holocaust in Graphic Novel [Christopher Huh, "Keeping My Hope," a self-published graphic novel]

By Laura Moser May 9, 2013 https://forward.com/culture/176210/14-year-old-author-tells-story-of-holocaust-in-gra/

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/29/2024

Stolen: Insight Studios Art in Vast Quantities Taken
Scoop March 29 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273735

In Memoriam: Robert Beerbohm
Scoop March 29 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273733

Bob Beerbohm, R.I.P.

Mark Evanier

News from ME March 28, 2024

https://www.newsfromme.com/2024/03/28/bob-beerbohm-r-i-p/

TMNT, The Shadow, Phantom Lady, and Golden Age Team-Up Added to Overstreet #54
Scoop March 29 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273688

GREG PAK website

https://gregpak.com/

DC Comics Turned Down A New Bryan Hitch Authority Series Last Year

Bryan Hitch revealed that last year DC Comics turned down his offer to write and draw a new The Authority series, so he did Redcoat instead.

28 Mar 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-turned-down-a-new-bryan-hitch-authority-series-last-year/

Webtoon Launch Super Likes Monetization For English-Language Creators

The biggest comic book publisher in the world, Webtoon, is introducing "Super Like", a new monetization program for their creators.

Published Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:07 -0500

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/webtoon-launch-super-likes-monetization-for-english-language-creators/

DC Comics Giving Away Detective Comics #27 In New York For Free

Limited copies of a Batman 85th anniversary printing of Detective Comics #27 will be given away at SoHo News International in New York.

28 Mar 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-giving-away-detective-comics-27-in-new-york-for-free/

Small Altars [fiction using comic books]

Justin Gardiner

Distributed for Tupelo Press 2024

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/S/bo221357365.html

Universal Offers First Look At Its 'How To Train Your Dragon' Theme Park, Coming To Orlando In 2025

By Jamie Lang | 03/28/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/theme-parks/universal-offers-first-look-at-its-how-to-train-your-dragon-theme-park-coming-to-orlando-in-2025-239359.html

CSotD: The Straight Poop [British editorial cartoons on sewage]

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/29/csotd-the-straight-poop/

Lewd cartoon depicting Jewish federation CEO as pro-Israel dominatrix reveals tensions in Rochester, New York [Jason Yungbluth]

By Andrew Lapin
JTA March 22, 2024 6:45 pm

https://www.jta.org/2024/03/22/united-states/lewd-cartoon-depicting-jewish-federation-ceo-as-pro-israel-dominatrix-reveals-tensions-in-rochester-new-york

Enemy of the County!

Jason Yungbluth

What is Deep Fried blog March 21, 2024

https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/2024/03/21/enemy-of-the-county/

Jason Yungbluth

What is Deep Fried blog

https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/

Cartoonists cut up at New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University

BY DOUG MACCASH | Staff writer

Mar 21, 2024

https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/books/cartoonists-cut-up-at-new-orleans-book-festival-at-tulane-u/article_1f6feb40-e637-11ee-b855-9f8d5a67b84a.html

Louisiana: The Cartoonist's Paradise | Kyle Bravo, Walt Handelsman and Kate Lacour | Moderated by: Michael Tisserand

Tulane University March 15, 2024

https://bookfest.tulane.edu/recorded-sessions/louisiana-cartoonists-paradise-kyle-bravo-walt-handelsman-and-kate-lacour

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

Live Art Sale and Chat with Comic Artist Bryan Hitch

Bill Cox

Comic Art LIVE March 23 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Nt63w9e4k

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns

Bigger and Better than Ever

https://www.ralphsteadman.com/and-another-thing/

John Byrne Gives Us A Tour Of His Studio | SYFY WIRE

2019 Jan 29

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KACTtF5K5A

John Byrne: In Depth On Fantastic Four, She-Hulk & Superman | SYFY WIRE

2019 Mar 20

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0weL1062M

John Byrne Reacts To Dark Phoenix | SYFY WIRE

2019 Apr 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqpsrOfZ2Ow

Inside the studio of legendary comic book artist Alex Ross

Anthony Mason

CBS This Morning: Saturday 2018 Dec 22

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

Avila, Mike. 2017.

Neal Adams on Creating Batman's Iconic Look, Deadman and More (Behind the Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2017 Dec 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z03Np_fBAI

Watchmen Artist Dave Gibbons on Alan Moore & Character Origins ( ) | SYFY WIRE

2017 Nov 30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcWh4UojvaM

Why I Killed Lockjaw: Donny Cates On Inhumans, Marvel Knights & More (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2018 Dec 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcENw27c-pU

The Making Of Marvel Knights: Daredevil (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2019 May 8

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

Preacher, Punisher And Chicken F*ckers: Garth Ennis Speaks (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2019 Feb 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkZ2oPmxkdo

Neal Adams on Creating Batman's Iconic Look, Deadman and More (Behind the Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2017 Dec 18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z03Np_fBAI

Marc Silvestri On Founding Image Comics, Cyberforce and Legacies (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2017 Dec 27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO8G5iUllSA

Spider-Man's Dan Slott: The Stories He Regrets & More (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2019 Jan 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4_T-gnqY4

Jim Starlin on Creating Thanos, Killing Robin and Split with Marvel (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2018 Feb 27

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

Chris Claremont On Favorite X-Men Stories & Everything You Never Knew (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2018 Mar 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9UwNWhgN70

The Birth Of Vertigo Comics: Karen Berger Explains How It Began (Behind The Panel) | SYFY WIRE

2018 Jan 30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3HzdbLiff8

Here Comes Charlie Brown, in 3D

Charles Hatfield

KinderComics 3/28/2024

https://www.kindercomics.org/blog/herecomescharliebrown

Todd McFarlane's BANNED Covers Revealed! McFarlane HQ Tour! - That Collectibles Show

Chris Killian

Comicbook.com

Feb 2 12024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRjW7dftroE

Marc Silvestri & Matt Hawkins Interview - Cyberforce, Witchblade, Batman and More! [Top Cow]

Near Mint Condition

August 22 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NFDjMSGhyM

Joe Madureira Documentary - From Comics to Games | Gameumentary

2018 Feb 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5UgrZbOFRw

The Long Good Friday – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | March 29, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/the-long-good-friday-this-weeks-links/

Ed Piskor exhibition postponed over sexual misconduct allegations

By Matt Petras

Pittsburgh City Paper March 25, 2024

https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment/ed-piskor-exhibition-postponed-over-sexual-misconduct-allegations-25664597

Ed Piskor gallery showing 'indefinitely postponed' after misconduct allegations

Multiple women have accused the creator of 'Hip Hop Family Tree' of inappropriate behavior, including grooming an underage artist.

JK Parkin

March 26, 2024

https://smashpages.net/2024/03/26/ed-piskor-gallery-showing-indefinitely-postponed-after-misconduct-allegations/

Samantha Edwards Tells "A Tale as Tall as Jacob"

By Chris Cole | March 26th, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/samantha-edwards-tale-as-tall-as-jacob/

The Russian Detective by Carol Adlam review – exquisitely illustrated celebration of early crime fiction

This richly evocative tale – part of a project drawing on the work of long-forgotten contemporaries of Dostoevsky – bears repeated readings

Rachel Cooke

Mon 25 Mar 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/25/the-russian-detective-by-carol-adlam-review-exquisitely-illustrated-celebration-of-early-fiction

Mark Russell sheds some light on 'Batman: Dark Age'

The compelling new Black Label book debuts this week from DC.

Chris Coplan

March 26, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/26/batman-dark-age-qa/

Gary Panter Conversation

Noah Van Sciver

March 28 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11irGpxMoBs

Off Panel #442: Something Special with Katie Cook

David Harper of SKTCHD March 25 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel442-something-special-with-katie-cook

Alex Beringer: Lost Literacies: Experiments in the 19th Century US Comic Strip., March 26, 2024

The 388th meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium held on Tuesday, March 26, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TlVi1TsHek

The Daily Heller: The Antics of Mark Lerer's Three Baby Generals

By Steven Heller

The Daily Heller April 26 2024
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-attention-for-baby-generals/

Des Taylor on writing and drawing 'Scarlett Couture: The Munich File'

The latest story, 'Scarlett Couture: The Munich File,' is out on April 2.

David Brooke

March 28, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/28/scarlett-couture-munich-file-qa/

Rosie Reads x CON DIARY: Black Zine Fest Blazes a Trail For a More Inclusive Con Experience

Rosie Knight March 26, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/03/rosie-reads-x-con-diary-black-zine-fest-blazes-a-trail-for-a-more-inclusive-con-experience/

Exhibition Review: "Domesticated Pulp – Archie Publications and the Comics Code" at Washington University's John M. Olin Library

Charlie Hoppe

ARLIS/NA Exhibitions Special Interest Group February 28, 2024

Library Exhibitions Review, Issue 2, March 2024

https://exhibitions.arlisna.hcommons.org/library-exhibitions-review-2024/domesticated-pulp/

Comic artist Debbie Jenkinson: 'I like the idea that you're looking over Dublin and could pick out anyone's story'

What's Next For?: The author of Ghosting and Midlands on the appeal, and value, of Irish comics, graphic novels and zines

Una Mullally

Irish Times Mar 25 2024

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024/03/23/comic-artist-debbie-jenkinson-i-like-the-idea-that-youre-looking-over-dublin-and-could-pick-out-anyones-story/

Shockwave: Fans mourn loss of manga artist Toriyama Akira

NHK World Japan March 26, 2024

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/3157/

Lost Reflections on a Photograph in Paco Roca's Return to Eden

In Paco Roca's new book, each generation just wants to see their mothers smile.

Scott Cederlund

From Cover to Cover Mar 28, 2024

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/return-to-eden-by-paco-roca-review/

Leela Corman: On Comics and VICTORY PARADE

Henry Chamberlain

Comics Grinder March 25, 2024

https://comicsgrinder.com/2024/03/25/leela-corman-on-comics-and-victory-parade/

Leela Corman | VICTORY PARADE

Henry Chamberlain

March 25 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty-_lhvM7sg

Book Review - Beyond the Icon: Asian American Graphic Narratives

Francis Paolo Quina

Journal of Asian Studies March 26 2024

https://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asian-studies/article-abstract/doi/10.1215/00219118-11015723/386459/Beyond-the-Icon-Asian-American-Graphic-Narratives

https://doi.org/10.1215/00219118-11015723

Jurassic Jokesters: 'Bad Dinosaurs' Creatives Take Us Behind the Scenes of Netflix's New Family Show

By Ramin Zahed

March 28, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/jurassic-jokesters-bad-dinosaurs-creatives-take-us-behind-the-scenes-of-netflixs-new-family-show/

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

5 Questions With: Hassan Godwin – cover artist on The Sire: Lost In Time #5

Michael Dolce

Secrets of the Sire Mar 29, 2024

https://sirestudios.substack.com/p/read-the-sire-lost-in-time-5-an-exclusive

Obituary: Mike Thaler

By Shannon Maughan

Mar 28, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/94695-obituary-mike-thaler.html

'Heartstopper' Heartbreaker: Olivia Colman Won't Return for Season 3

Scheduling challenges prevented the Emmy winner from coming back to the British coming-out comedy.

Leslie Goldberg

March 28, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/heartstopper-season-3-olivia-colman-not-returning-1235862247/

Justin Simien, Christopher Yost Team for Sci-Fi Caper 'Heist: Or, How to Steal a Planet' (Exclusive)

Tommy Oliver's Confluential Films is backing the development of the adaptation of the Vault Comics title.

Borys Kit

March 28, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/heist-or-how-to-steal-a-planet-movie-1235862058/

How the Disney vs. DeSantis Battle Ended in a Stalemate

What started as a public statement condemning Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law devolved into a years-long, bitter feud in which neither side wanted to give the appearance of surrendering.

Winston Cho

March 28, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-desantis-settlement-florida-1235862516/

Interview With The Dracula Ep. 11 - Chip Zdarsky

Actual Dracula March 29 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqn45sCIr4

Comic Culture Retro Interviews [Tim Seeley, Gail Simone, Dan Jurgens, Kevin Maguire, Dan Parent, Matt Fraction, and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez]

terence dollard

Mar 27 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1HTmSuDp_Y

Comic Shop Tour - House Of Secrets

POPXP! Network!

Mar 28 2024

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

Byrd Theatre Ghibli Spectacular! Richmond Welcomes Studio Ghibli Fest

by RVA Staff | Mar 27, 2024

https://rvamag.com/photo/film/byrd-theatre-ghibli-spectacular-richmond-welcomes-studio-ghibli-fest.html

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]

Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright

Washington Post March 30 2024.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Nami Oshiro: Art and Comics website

https://www.namioshiro.com/

Friday, March 29, 2024

WaPo letters: Dead White men on dead white trees? Or, do readers actually read the paper?

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Thanks for the March 16 Style article "Female artists are being erased from chain newspapers" on the continuing challenge of shrinking platforms for print cartoonists, especially women.

"Breaking Cat News" creator Georgia Dunn is spot on in her observation that "there are more dead men than living women in the funny pages." The Post is itself guilty of stagnating, perpetually rerunning deceased men's cartoons. Why not stop printing "Peanuts"? I understand it is an iconic comic, but all its strips are archived and easily available elsewhere. There are so many new and talented cartoonists, both women and men. It's obviously not possible to print them all, but let's make room for the new.

The newspaper is not radio or TV with indefinite time to fill and dedicated oldies channels. You've still got two pages that can easily be filled with funny and/or insightful comic strips.

Dalal Musa, Falls Church

I really miss some of the comics discussed in the Style article on the lack of female cartoonists represented in news publications and how they continue to suffer from widespread downsizing. "Rhymes With Orange" was a truly witty comic, and to remove it and continue to print something like "Reply All Lite" is just an insult if it is supposed to be about representing female authors. When "Reply All" was a full strip, it was at times amusing. The "Lite" version is a waste of valuable space. Without comics, I'd likely unsubscribe to the print edition, even though I love having a daily paper at the table to leaf through at breakfast. I know there is a full array of comics in the online version, but the format is clunky and time-consuming. Please bring back "Rhymes With Orange" if nothing else.

Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring

Comments:

Janet Moore:

Today's Republicans are not by any stretch of the imagination "conservatives." They are radicals, albeit of varying degrees.

Nailed it!

As for the Comics section, the first thing I look at every morning is the Comics. That makes what is left almost palatable.

A good comic strip is a reflection of life and brings a touch of humor, whimsy, or simply a smile of recognition or Ah Ha. The best are not always politically motivated. Some of the older strips being rerun often provide a glimpse that sometimes today's POV is not much different than when the strip was first run.

Yes, I can go to outside sources to find my comics, but if I am going to pay for a subscription to a newspaper, I expect to find a comics section included.

MRhode:

I'm not really sure why you published the letter from Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring because Rhymes with Orange is still in the paper, appearing as recently as today, something your fact checkers should have caught. I do agree that Peanuts should go, and daily Doonesbury too since they are both repeats. I really like the new Flash Gordon, but it's printed too small to read. I think the comics would benefit from being printed about an inch larger, but I realize that's too much to hope for. Some of us subscribers remember 3 full daily pages (maybe even 4?) and 2 Sunday funnies sections though.

Crackerjack Funnies #37 in FSA photos at Library of Congress

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

Multiple sizes of this public domain photograph can be downloaded here https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8c32835/

April 6-7: 2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

https://artbookfair.eastcityart.com/

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 11am-6pm
Sunday, April, 7, 2024 from 10am-4pm

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Free and open to the public

Experience over 100 artists, independent presses and designers from across the DMV, the US, Asia and Europe.

2024 Exhibitors are listed HERE

Declan Shalvey visits Wash DC, but didn't let us know in advance

From his newsletter at https://declanshalvey.substack.com/p/144tri-state-dec

On Tuesday I got an early train up to Washington DC where I did more writing and met an old friend for some drinks. On Wednesday I had a little time before my first signing at Third Eye Comics, so I went to visit the International Spy Museum. I've actually listened to many of their YouTube videos over the years due to my obvious interest in espionage stories so it was great to go to the actual building. I had a great time, I was expecting a pretty dry experience but was VERY impressed with how fun and engaging it all was. I was given a cover [Alex Brown, from Sydney Australia] but unfortunately wasn't given an opportunity to bust out my Aussie accent.

I also went to visit the George Washington Monument and the World War II memorial. You yanks sure know how to build monuments, I'll give ye that.

That evening was the signing at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis and OH BOY, did it go well. Line out the door, I was told, and was forced to believe after seeing the below pic.

Go read the rest of his post at https://declanshalvey.substack.com/p/144tri-state-dec

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns to American University

We are thrilled to be back in the USA with a brand new Ralph Steadman exhibition. A casualty of COVID, the last exhibition, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective was returned to the UK before the tour could be completed. Now with an amazing sponsorship from United Therapeutics a brand new exhibition, Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing will be touring venues across the USA. The first venue sees us returning to the American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington DC from 7th September until 8th December 2024.

The exhibition explores the dynamic between real events and fiction and how, so frequently in Steadman's work, one influences the other. The viewer will witness his early observations and sketches as a student at the East Ham Technical College, and how they informed his first cartoons and submissions to publications like Punch and Private Eye. In his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland he created a modern classic, transferring characters that he witnessed in 1960's London to Lewis Carroll's bizarre, upside-down world. World events and artistic influences creep into his depiction of characters in his children's books and illustrations of Animal Farm.

On display will be pieces that demonstrate his emersion in literature and politics and his complete dedication and commitment to any subject that he tackles. Steadman has been doing his 'filthy scribbling' for nearly 70 years, collaborating across the decades with a diverse band of individuals including Hunter S Thompson, Will Self and Ceri Levy. Each collaboration pulled different elements from Steadman. His penmanship is visceral on projects with Hunter S Thompson such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his coverage of the Watergate trials for Rolling Stone Magazine. His illustrations of Will Self's weekly travel column in the Independent, Psychogeography are inventive and energetic. His treatment of extinct and endangered birds and animals with Ceri Levy in the Gonzovation Trilogy show sensitivity and sorrow for the loss of and threat to so many creatures.

Ralph Steadman is a true polymath much like his hero, Leonardo da Vinci, and has worked in multiple disciplines, creating set designs, film posters, sculptures, writing and performing his own songs, an eco opera and writing and illustrating his own books. He is one of a kind. Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing... showcases his amazing talent and imagination.

We could not bring you this amazing new exhibition without the help of our amazing sponsors, United Therapeutics. We are so grateful for you ongoing support.

We are proud to dedicate Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing… to Ralph's beloved wife, Anna. She always supported him in all of his artistic endeavours, and said that early on in their relationship she realised that there were three people in their marriage, herself, Ralph and his art. As soon as she accepted that she could always be there, in the background, making a home for him and their daughter Sadie, as well as being a loving Stepmother to his older children, Suzannah, Theo, Genevieve and Henry.

Anna was a creative force herself, creating expansive embroideries of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, painting scenes from their garden in Kent in media including watercolours, acrylic, pastels, oil pastels and collage, and building fanciful paper mache models and sculptures.

She was a dedicated diarist on all of their trips whether for pleasure or on worldwide trips for Obbbins exploring the wineries of the world and always surrounded by a plethora of close friends whom she adored to 'hang' with.

We are pleased that she made the trips out to New York, Washington DC and San Francisco for the exhibition Ralph Steadman: a Retrospective. She took great delight in seeing Ralph's work enjoyed by such broad and varied audiences and we know that she would have blessed this incarnation with all her heart.

Insight Studios art stolen and on the market

The article has information on what's out there and how to report it. This affects Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel.

Stolen: Insight Studios Art in Vast Quantities Taken

Scoop March 29 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273735

Monday, April 01, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/30-31/2024

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Germantown teen self-pubs Holocaust GN in 2013

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/29/2024

Friday, March 29, 2024

WaPo letters: Dead White men on dead white trees? Or, do readers actually read the paper?

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Crackerjack Funnies #37 in FSA photos at Library of Congress

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

April 6-7: 2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Declan Shalvey visits Wash DC, but didn't let us know in advance

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns to American University

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns

Bigger and Better than Ever

For Anna Steadman - 21st March 1944 - 2nd February 2022

Insight Studios art stolen and on the market

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Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists] Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-WrightWashington Post March 30 2024.online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Eastern Market's North Hall225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns

Bigger and Better than Ever

For Anna Steadman - 21st March 1944 - 2nd February 2022

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003