Skybound's G.I. JOE COMPENDIUM funds in 6 minutes, hits over 1,000,000 dollars in 2 days
Christian Angeles
05/31/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/skybounds-g-i-joe-compendium-funds-in-6-minutes-hits-over-1000000-dollars-in-2-days/
MADAME WEB remains #2 on Netflix despite all the bad reviews
Christian Angeles
05/31/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/madame-web-remains-2-on-netflix-despite-all-the-bad-reviews/
There Will Only Ever Be One Printing Of DC/Marvel Crossover Omnibuses
28 May 2024
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/one-printing-dc-marvel-crossover-omnibuses/
Fat Jack's Comicrypt Comic Shop Evicted In Philadelphia After 48 Years
Fat Jack's Comicrypt of Philadelphia has been evicted by their landlord after 48 years of operating on Sansom Street, in Center City.
30 May 2024
Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fat-jacks-comicrypt-comic-shop-evicted-in-philadelphia-after-48-years/
Flying Colors Comics Finds A New Location In Concord, California
Joe Field has found a new location in Concord for his 37-year-old shop, Flying Colors Comics after it was forced out by bagels.
30 May 2024 by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/flying-colors-comics-finds-new-location-concord-california/
Blackstone Agrees to Buy Japanese Manga Firm for $1.7 Billion
Blackstone will acquire Teijin's controlling stake in Infocom
Investment firm plans to eventually buy all of Infocom shares
By Takako Taniguchi and Manuel Baigorri
May 31, 2024 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-31/blackstone-is-said-to-buy-japanese-manga-firm-for-1-7-billion
Japanese digital manga distributor Infocom bought by Blackstone Inc. in billion dollar move
US investor group group beat out bids from Sony, and other private equity groups
Humberto Saabedra
05/31/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/japanese-digital-manga-distributor-infocom-bought-by-blackstone-inc-in-billion-dollar-move/
SERENADE OF WATER – THIS WEEK'S LINKS
Clark Burscough | May 31, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/serenade-of-water-this-weeks-links/
Noir, A.I. and scars: the Armitage & DeMarco creators speak – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
May 27, 2024 The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZhmd2Yzj6Y
Tom Taylor Talks Nightwing Titans and More
wordballoon
May 28, 2024https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STpvOmcXI34
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 620: Eisner Awards Nominations
Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons
05/27/2024
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1313
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris review – fantastic beasts
An eagerly awaited sequel to the author's debut is a wildly inventive fantasy noir of lush and surprising child-like wonder
James Smart
Thu 30 May 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/30/my-favorite-thing-is-monsters-book-two-by-emil-ferris-review-fantastic-beasts
Book Review: Emil Ferris tackles big issues through a small child with a monster obsession
By DONNA EDWARDS
Associated Press May 28, 2024
https://apnews.com/article/favorite-thing-monsters-emil-ferris-book-review-da988824e229f2c6edb51e5281599fc6
Chip Zdarsky Inks Four Series Deal With DSTLRY, Starting With Sci-Fi Thriller 'Time Waits'
Rob Salkowitz
May 29, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2024/05/29/chip-zdarsky-inks-four-series-deal-with-dstlry-starting-with-sci-fi-thriller-time-waits/
'Nosebleed': Heads Explode In Derick Jones' 'Chronicle'-esque Comic About Superpowers & Revenge
Josh Weiss
May 24, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2024/05/24/nosebleed-heads-explode-in-derick-jones-chronicle-esque-comic-about-superpowers--revenge/
Charles Spano delves into the madcap punk-comics marriage of 'The Cryos'
The time traveling punk rock comic 'The Cryos' is currently crowdfunding via Kickstarter.
Chris Coplan
May 28, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/05/28/the-cryos-comic-qa/
X-Men Monday #253 – Ashley Allen, Preeti Chhibber, Steve Foxe, and Stephanie Phillips Talk 'X-Men: Blood Hunt' One-Shots
Chris Hassan
May 27, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/05/27/x-men-monday-253-x-men-blood-hunt/
Comics take over the Centre Pompidou in Paris
Ingrid Luquet-Gad
May 28, 2024
https://www.artbasel.com/stories/comics-bande-dessinee-centre-pompidou-paris
Mary Pope Osborne on Free Play, Reading, and Joy in "Magic Tree House"
By Elias Rosner | May 27th, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/mary-pope-osborne-mth/
Robot Dreams' director founded an animation studio just to adapt a graphic novel he loved
Pablo Berger says he'd never made an animated movie, but when he read Sara Varon's comic, he knew he had to
By Petrana Radulovic May 28, 2024, https://www.polygon.com/24163570/robot-dreams-oscar-best-animated-feature-interview-director
Japan seeks international coordination to thwart online manga, anime piracy
May 28, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240528/p2g/00m/0et/043000c
After 'Manga-Mura' suit victory, publishers face piracy problem beyond Japan's borders
(Japanese original by Misaki Morokuma, Cultural News Department)
May 1, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240430/p2a/00m/0et/026000c
Ex-Mangamura operator ordered to pay 1.7 billion yen to publishers
By YUTO YONEDA/ Staff Writer
April 18, 2024
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15233684
News Navigator: Why should we not read manga on free piracy sites?
(Answers by Misaki Morokuma, Cultural News Department)
September 18, 2022 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220916/p2a/00m/0op/007000c
Cultural agency works to save original manga drawings
(This article was written by Takuji Hiraga and Kenro Kuroda.)
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 25, 2024
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15244122
Culture agency studying ways to preserve original manga drawings
By TAKUJI HIRAGA/ Staff Writer
February 3, 2024
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15127925
Manga legends create artwork on 'washi' paper for experiment
By KENJI ODA/ Staff Writer
May 24, 2023
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14905425
Cartoonists mark up Kyoto coffee shop walls for genre fans
By MAKOTO UKAI/ Staff Writer
April 15, 2023
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14879570
Anime, manga in 2023 helped us question history and how we live
By ATSUSHI OHARA/ Staff Writer
December 31, 2023 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15087031
Final whistle to blow for 'Captain Tsubasa' manga series in April
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
January 5, 2024
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15103045
'Boys Over Flowers' named top-selling girls' manga in world
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
May 8, 2023 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14894502
New volume of 'Little Maruko' to hit stores 4 years after author died
By KENRO KURODA/ Staff Writer
October 14, 2022 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14732271
Museum displays fan's collection of 1,000 comics by Osamu Tezuka
By FUMIKO TAKAKI/ Staff Writer
Asahi Shimbun
September 12, 2022
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14708458
ANIME NEWS: First Saudi Anime Expo held, in pivot toward entertainment
Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime Japan Ltd.
December 29, 2019 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13056035
ANIME NEWS: Tezuka shop in Asakusa offers mix of tradition and technology
Translated by The Asahi Shimbun from the website of Anime Anime Japan Ltd.
July 28, 2019
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13060955
2024
Review of "Four Colour Combat: Canadian Forces in War Comics" by Cord A. Scott
Matthew Barrett
Canadian Military HistoryCanadian Military History Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 8
https://scholars.wlu.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2174&context=cmh
Adam Elkhadem's Legacy
Finding beauty in the mundane
By Michelle Casas Groogan, Staff writer | April 27, 2024
https://thebuzzmagazines.com/articles/2024/04/adam-elkhadems-legacy
Sic Semper Artificibus: The Adam J. Elkhadem Story
Written by Isaac Roller
May 2024
https://cartoonist.coop/journal/sic-semper-artificibus-the-adam-j-elkhadem-story/
GRAY, Joel (2024). A cultural history through the comics of Donald duck and friends.
The Journal of American Culture.
online at http://shura.shu.ac.uk/33744 and https://shura.shu.ac.uk/33744/1/jacc.13556.pdf
Oliveira, João Pedro. 2024. What a wonderful (post-apocalyptic) world: representations of India and the West in Ramayan 3392 AD. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics ( 22 May 2024 ), 1–19. online at https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2355935 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2024.2355935?src=exp-oa
Jayaputri, Herlandri Eka. 2024. The Representation of Women in Various Genres of Japanese Comics: a Semiotic Study. Applied Linguistics: Innovative Approaches and Emerging Trends, 1(1), 72-93. https://doi.org/10.58989/appling.v1i1.5 and https://ejournal.nurulimanmgm.or.id/index.php/appling/article/view/5
It was Very Wrong : A Comparative Examination of Moralization of Residential School Histories at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and in Canadian Comic Books. [masters thesis]
Abarbanel, Kate. 2016.
Montréal, Québec : Concordia University, 2016.
online at https://dam-oclc.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/c848588b-8084-4d59-891f-1f0b0225de37
What's wrong with comic books
Alberta. Advisory Board on Objectionable Publications.
[1955?]
[Edmonton] : [Govt. of Alberta], [1955?]
Online at https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/previously-whats-wrong-with-comic
SpringCon 2024
Jim Keefe
May 31 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/springcon-2024-105072445
Gaiman and Buckingham write the new gospel of Miracleman in The Silver Age
You've got to wonder what Miracleman: The Silver Age would have read like if it had come out in the 1990s instead of the 2020s.
Scott Cederlund
From Cover to Cover May 30, 2024
https://www.fromcovertocover.com/gaiman-and-bucking-ham/
Paul Stock, co-owner of Montreal's Librairie Astro (Astro Books) has died
Von Allan
May 31 2024
https://www.vonallan.com/2024/05/Paul%20Stock%20of%20Montreal%20Comic%20Store%20Librarie%20Astro%20Has%20Died.html
Paul Stock Obituary
May 25, 2024
HTTPS://MONTREALGAZETTE.REMEMBERING.CA/OBITUARY/PAUL-STOCK-1089822324
Conlon, Derek. 2006.
Comic Books [Davis Crippen comic book collection; (online as Paul Stock from Montreal Comic Store Librarie Astro aka Astro Books (May 30, 2024).
CTV News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrTgBnz0wQY
Charlie Hunnam to Star in Ed Brubaker's 'Criminal' for Amazon
The 'Sons of Anarchy' grad joins a cast that also includes Richard Jenkins, Adria Arjona and Kadeem Hardison.
By Lesley Goldberg, Borys Kit
May 31, 2024 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/charlie-hunnam-ed-brubaker-criminal-series-amazon-1235912761/
INTERVIEW: Mac McClintock and Patrick McEvoy on their new project about an old kaiju, GORGO LEGACY!
Project pays tribute to Gorgo Film
Diego Higuera
05/31/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-mac-mcclintock-and-patrick-mcevoy-on-their-new-project-about-an-old-kaiju-gorgo-legacy/
'Deadpool & Wolverine' Reveals Naughty Popcorn Bucket to Rival 'Dune 2'
As Kevin Feige promised, the Marvel movie unveiled a popcorn bucket that rivals the infamous 'Dune: Part Two' sandworm bucket in its suggestiveness.
James Hibberd
May 30, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/deadpool-wolverine-popcorn-bucket-1235911869/
'Robot Dreams' Review: A Friendship That Is Far From Mechanical [in print as Friendship That Is Far From Mechanical]
By Amy Nicholson
New York Times May 31, 2024: C5.
online at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/movies/robot-dreams-review.html
'Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle' Review: Drama on the Court [in print as Leaping at the Chance to Spike the Competition]
This film extends the story told in an anime series about high school volleyball teams.
By Maya Phillips
New York Times May 31, 2024: C7
online at https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/movies/haikyu-the-dumpster-battle-review.html
A Mixed Picture: Media Transfer and Media Competition in Illustrated Periodicals, 1840s-1960s
Christian A. Bachmann and Nora Ramtke (Eds.)
Hanover, Germany: Wehrhahn Verlag
Online at https://www.academia.edu/119135742/A_Mixed_Picture_Media_Transfer_and_Media_Competition_in_Illustrated_Periodicals_1840s_1960s
Shromona Das
The Humour of Anxiety: Caste, Emasculation and Female Deviancy in Colonial Bangla Caricatures, 1870s-1930s
53-74
Christian A. Bachmann
From the Newspaper to the Book: Little Orphan Annie's Media Entanglement and Transformation
75-93
Mara Logaldo
When Peanuts Became linus: Re-Contextualisation through Translation
133-150
DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE's Popcorn Bucket Is Every Bit as Suggestive as You'd Imagine
by Rotem Rusak
May 30 2024
https://nerdist.com/article/deadpool-wolverine-popcorn-bucket-is-rated-r/
John Cuneo's "A Man of Conviction"
The former President is found guilty on all thirty-four counts.
By Françoise Mouly
May 30, 2024
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2024-06-10
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