Envision Entertainment soft launches new digital comics app, "Fable", at MCM London this weekend
By John Freeman on May 23, 2024
Interview: Trevor Mueller and his new project, LOS OJOS OF THE DEAD!
Diego Higuera
05/24/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-trevor-mueller-and-his-new-project-los-ojos-of-the-dead/
James Hill
'Baldo' in bad taste [letters]
Stars and Stripes • October 30, 2009
https://www.stripes.com/opinion/baldo-in-bad-taste-1.96093?=/&subcategory=460%7CHolidays
We asked artificial intelligence to analyze a graphic novel – and found both limits and new insights
December 5, 2018
Leonie Hintze and Arend Hintze
How The Beano survived war and the web to reach its 80th birthday
July 26, 2018
David Anderson
https://theconversation.com/how-the-beano-survived-war-and-the-web-to-reach-its-80th-birthday-98022
Inside the pages of the oldest comic in the world [Glasgow Looking Glass]
March 15, 2016
Laurence Grove
https://theconversation.com/inside-the-pages-of-the-oldest-comic-in-the-world-56225
How the graphic novel got its misleading moniker
January 25, 2017 9
Joel Priddy
https://theconversation.com/how-the-graphic-novel-got-its-misleading-moniker-71263
Graphic novels help teens learn about racism, climate change and social justice – here's a reading list
March 10, 2020
Karen W. Gavigan and Kasey Garrison
Move over Batgirl, our superheroine is just a normal human being [My So-Called Secret Identity]
April 5, 2017
Will Brooker
https://theconversation.com/move-over-batgirl-our-superheroine-is-just-a-normal-human-being-74942
Jewish creators are a fundamental part of comic book history, from Superman to Maus – expert explains
August 30, 2023
Alex Fitch
Representing Gaza: Artists are using social media-based comics as resources and resistance
May 12, 2024
Amy Mazowita
Who owns Superman? The Man of Steel fights trademark law
May 24, 2013
Matthew Rimmer
https://theconversation.com/who-owns-superman-the-man-of-steel-fights-trademark-law-14625
Todd McFarlane is finally making collectibles based on his Marvel work
Some of Marvel's classic images are going 3D
Heidi MacDonald
05/24/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/todd-mcfarlane-is-finally-making-collectibles-based-on-his-marvel-work/
How Pixar's Inside Out 2 Deals With Riley's New 'Gen Z Emotions'
Director Kelsey Mann and producer Mark Nielsen map out the expanding emotional landscape of Inside Out 2.
By Don Kaye | May 24, 2024
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/how-pixars-inside-out-2-deals-with-rileys-new-gen-z-emotions/
'IF' is a flight of fancy that doesn't take off [in print as Imagine if this fantasy were both nice and good]
Review by Ty Burr
Washington Post May 17, 2024 : Weekend 21.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/05/15/if-krasinski-movie-review/
'The Garfield Movie': Chris Pratt is no grumpy cat [in print as What happened to the lazy, contemptuous cat we know and love?]
Review by Amy Nicholson
Washington Post May 24, 2024 : Weekend 22-23
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/05/24/garfield-movie-chris-pratt-review/
'The Garfield Movie' Review: This Feels Like Too Much Effort [in print as Well, at Least the Cartoon Cat Is Still Orange]
By Brandon Yu
New York Times May 24, 2024 : C6.
online at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/23/movies/the-garfield-movie-review.html
Does 'IF' capture the magic of its Pixar inspiration?
Stephen Thompson, Bedatri Choudhury, Cristina Escobar
May 22, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/22/1197964746/does-if-capture-the-magic-of-its-pixar-inspiration
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1197964746
Comics to Read This AAPI Heritage Month [Asian-American, exhibit]
Malea Walker
Library of Congress Headlines & Heroes blog May 24, 2024
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2024/05/comics-to-read-this-aapi-heritage-month/
Fat Jack's Comicrypt has been evicted from its Center City location. The iconic comic shop will close after 48 years.
by Mike Newall
May 23, 2024,
Companies, Cosplay, and More from Friday, May 17, 2024
ICv2 May 23, 2024
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56973/anime-central-2024-photos
Toho Acquires Science Saru Animation Studio
By AMID AMIDI | 05/23/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/business/toho-acquires-science-saru-animation-studio-241272.html
Animation Producer Anton Capital Secures $100M+ Financing Via Blackrock To Expand Production Output
By AMID AMIDI | 05/23/2024
Interview: Christina De Witte and Mallika Kauppinen dish on NOODLES, RICE, AND EVERYTHING SPICE
The fun and accessible Thai comic cook book is available now.
05/24/2024
'How About Never?' Bob Mankoff '66 Captures the Essence of Life in Cartoons
[Syracuse University News]
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, By Dan Bernardi
https://news.syr.edu/blog/2024/05/22/how-about-never-capturing-the-essence-of-life-in-cartoons/
The human race watched 62,000 years of One Piece on Netflix last year
Netflix's new What We Watched report is a fun reminder that time is meaningless, and the human race is really just a machine that makes and watches Suits
AV Club May 23 2024
https://www.avclub.com/the-human-race-watched-62-000-years-of-one-piece-on-net-1851498171
Future Comics' Disney Dictator from Saturn, Up for Auction
The obscure character Rebo from "Saturn Against Earth" published in the U.S. in Future Comics was eventually used in Donald Duck adventures.
23 May 2024 Mark Seifert
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/future-comics-disney-dictator-from-saturn-up-for-auction/
DC Comics Brings Back Tiered Promotions And Prices For Absolute Power
DC Comics is launching a new incentive programme to encourage comic book stores to order increased copies of the upcoming Absolute Power crossover event from Mark Waid and Dan Mora
23 May 2024 by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-brings-back-tiered-promotions-prices-absolute-power/
Tom King Writes Archie's Decision, Choosing Between Betty & Veronica
Tom King is to write his first Archie Comics project drawn by leading Archie creator Dan Parent, for a new comic, Archie: The Decision.
22 May 2024
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-king-writes-archie-the-decision-dan-parent-draws/
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Episode 156 - Jason Patterson & Dan Abdo
MAY 23, 2024
VIN COCA, BETH LAWLER, PAUL NESJA, NICOLE CHROLAVICIUS
SEASON 4 EPISODE 156
HTTPS://WWW.BUZZSPROUT.COM/1719352/15121873-EPISODE-156-JASON-PATTERSON-DAN-ABDO
DON PERLIN, 1929-2024
Andrew Farago | May 24, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/don-perlin-1929-2024/
3RD EYE LANDSLIDE – THIS WEEK'S LINKS
Clark Burscough | May 24, 2024 https://www.tcj.com/3rd-eye-landslide-this-weeks-links/
From the Desk of WWAC's Interim Editor-in-Chief
Jenna Ledford May 20, 2024
https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/05/from-the-desk-of-wwacs-interim-editor-in-chief/
CXC Names Interim Executive Director
Cxc festival May 19, 2024 https://www.cartooncrossroadscolumbus.org/?p=7325
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle review – an irresistible celebration of female courage
A French cartoonist has doubts about her boyfriend in Mirion Malle's third book in English, a striking hymn to women and solidarity
Rachel Cooke
Mon 20 May 2024
Josie Campbell talks adaptations and Christmas fun in 'My Adventures with Superman' tie-in comic
Chris Coplan
May 23, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/05/23/my-adventures-with-superman-comic-qa/
'Monsters' Return In Long-Awaited Sequel To Hit Graphic Novel
Rob Salkowitz
May 17, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2024/05/17/monsters-return-in-long-awaited-sequel-to-hit-graphic-novel/
Emil Ferris: 'We can't enter a future without our humanity'
Neil McRobert
The My Favorite Thing Is Monsters author returns with Book Two, which warns against the 'monstrousness' of social conformity
Thu 23 May 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/23/emil-ferris-we-cant-enter-a-future-without-our-humanity
'A universe in your folder': Graphic novels and the art of never giving up [ Arthur Whelan; New Zealand]
Virginia Fallon
May 18, 2024
https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/350279424/universe-your-folder-graphic-novels-and-art-never-giving
The Daily Heller: You Can't Tell a Magazine By Its Title [dummy by John Kelly]
By Steven Heller
The Daily Heller May 21 2024
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-you-cant-tell-a-magazine-by-its-title/
Jeff McComsey Talks "Little Black Book"
By Chris Cole | May 23rd, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/jeff-mccomsey-little-black-book/
Razi, Sarouche, Anne Macduff, & Kristen Hoffman. 2024. Horror in the Halls of Law: Pluralising Legal Stories in Once Upon a Time in Australia. Australian Feminist Law Journal, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/13200968.2024.2339245 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13200968.2024.2339245
Off Panel #450: In the Lab with Steve Anderson [Third Eye Comics store].
David Harper
May 20 2024
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel450-in-the-lab-with-steve-anderson
Ocean Comics: About this Issue
Cord-Christian Casper und Susanne Schwertfeger
Closure 10 (2024)
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/about
INSPECTOR CETUS - SHELLYCOAT
Comic
Steven Statz
Closure 10 (2024)
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/comic1
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_chellycoat_comic_statz.pdf
"Einmal in diese Gegend vorgedrungen, wird die Schönheit der Welt ein Teil meines Seins." Japanische Kulturkonzeptionen des Meeres als fūdo in Catherine Meurisses La jeune femme et la mer1 [France]
David Höwelkröger
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/hoewelkroeger
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_hoewelkroeger.pdf
Varua Rapa Nui: Eine Meeresschildkröte und die Geschichte einer Insel im weiten Meer [Easter Island; Chile]
Mario Faust-Scalisi
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/faust-scalisi
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_faust-scalisi.pdf
Auf den Spuren von Homer und Ammôn Kasacz: Die geopoetische Meeresdarstellung in der Odyssee und der Graphic Novel Les Voyages d'Ulysse. [France]
Arnold Bärtschi
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/baertschi
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_baertschi.pdf
»I dij ek kadu!«: Das Unvermögen, vom Meer zu sprechen [Dave Shelton; England]
Elena Stirtz
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/stirtz
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_stirtz.pdf
Reading Race in the Comics Medium
Chris Gavaler
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/gavaler
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_gavaler.pdf
Towards an Ethos of ›Aqua Graphic‹: Representation of Marine Ecology in Select Visual Narratives
Ananya Saha
Closure 10
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/saha
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_saha.pdf
An Extremely Personal Take on the History of Manga Studies
Natsume Fusanosuke (Tokyo), translated by Jon Holt (Portland, Oregon) and Teppei Fukuda (Eugene, Oregon)
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/natsume
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_natsume.pdf
Comicrezeption: Eine Perspektive aus Sicht der Fan Studies
Sophie G. Einwächter (Marburg) und Vanessa Ossa (Köln)
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/einwaechter_ossa
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_einwaechter_ossa.pdf
THE LAST LIGHT
Comic
Steven Statz (Kiel)
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure10/comic2
https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure10/pdfs/closure10_last%20light_statz.pdf