Sunday, June 02, 2024

Exploring Your Comfort Zone with Dana Jeri Maier - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pdecs1qL0k

Saturday, June 01, 2024

Cavna returns to WaPo with Trump political cartoons article

What political cartoonists thought of Trump's guilty verdict

Cartoonists across the political spectrum made light of a historic conviction.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/31/2024

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

Friday, May 31, 2024

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Live From Rafah"

"Live From Rafah"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3878


Except for the occasional break to smear and low-key threaten the 
anti-genocide movements, MSNBC has been almost wall-to-wall with 
coverage of the trial of former El Presidente Donald Trump for paying 
off a porn actress to keep quiet about an affair.

Yep, that's it — not anything he was responsible for in Bolivia, or 
Syria, or Yemen, or Venezuela, or for militarizing the southern 
border, or for the piss-poor Covid response, or the instigation of 
fascist violence, or basically for any actual serious crimes that the 
Democrats happily funded, helped him out with and cheered him on as he 
did it — just the hush money for the porn actress.

And, as one could predict by now, MSNBC's punditocracy — and the US 
media at large — has been creaming its panties in front of god and 
everybody nearly non-stop since last night.


__________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

New York Crime Boss Convicted by Daniel Boris




Thursday, May 30, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/30/2024

How the Kremlin uses comics to glorify its war in Ukraine

Sandro Gvindadze,

BBC Monitoring,May 29 2024  https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn00vnzv617o

 

Comics across the Pond: Exploring a century of US-UK cartoonist collaboration

Published 29 May 2024 By Ian Mansfield London exhibitions

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/comics-across-the-pond-exploring-a-century-of-us-uk-cartoonist-collaboration-72608/

 

TokyoPop Joins Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse At Penguin Random House

Manga publisher TokyoPop has announced that it has joined Marvel, IDW, and Dark Horse at Penguin Random House Publishing Services.


 Wed, 29 May 2024
by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tokyopop-joins-marvel-idw-dark-horse-at-penguin-random-house/

 

Meet a Long-Unsung Cartoonist Who Paved the Way for Disney

A new show at Florida's NSU Art Museum celebrates the influential illustrator Louis M. Glackens.

by Tim Brinkhof

May 20, 2024

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louis-glackens-pure-imagination-nsu-art-museum-florida-2466199

 

Coca-Cola Create Marvel "Covers" With Guardians, Cable & Deadpool

On Monday, Bleeding Cool broke the news that Marvel comic book titles will include a promotion from Coca-Cola, and they have done.

Rich Johnston 

29 May 2024   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/coca-cola-create-marvel-covers-with-guardians-cable-deadpool/

 

Bringing the 'Mary Worth' world to life; Alumna Karen Moy pens the stories for long-running soap opera comic strip

By Eric Coker

BingUNews MAY 29, 2024

HTTPS://WWW.BINGHAMTON.EDU/NEWS/STORY/4977/BRINGING-THE-MARY-WORTH-WORLD-TO-LIFE

 

A History Of Comic Strip Animated Adaptations

By VINCENT ALEXANDER | 05/29/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/cartoon-study/a-history-of-comic-strip-animated-adaptations-241315.html

 

Book review: Robert Williams: Conversations, ed. by Joseph R. Givens and Darius A. Spieth

reviewed by John A. Lent

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG May 30 2024  https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/05/book-review-robert-williams.html

 

Joseph R. Givens and Darius A. Spieth, eds. Robert Williams:  Conversations. Jackson, MS:  University Press of Mississippi, 2023. 183 pp. US $25.00 (Paperback). ISBN:  978-1-4968-4403-3. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/R/Robert-Williams

 

Pixar, struggling for a new strategy, predictably turns to reboots, sequels, and "mass appeal"

Pixar has had a tough few years, so now its looking to mine its IP for easy success

Mary Kate Carr

AV Club May 30 2024

https://www.avclub.com/pixar-strategy-sequels-reboots-mass-appeal-1851509377

 

Disney Is Banking On Sequels to Help Get Pixar Back on Track

After duds and missteps, the famed animation studio sees Inside Out 2 as key to restoring the magic.

By Thomas Buckley

May 30, 2024 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-30/disney-s-inside-out-2-could-hold-key-to-pixar-restoring-movie-magic


Robot Dreams animates New York City hustle without saying a word
Pablo Berger's Oscar-nominated animated daydream is an episodic tale of friendship deferred
Matt Schimkowitz
AV Club May 30 2024
https://www.avclub.com/robot-dreams-animates-new-york-city-hustle-without-sayi-1851462075


Q with Tom Power

Geoff McFetridge, Aminder Dhaliwal

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/16070622-geoff-mcfetridge-aminder-dhaliwal

 

Phil Yeh, godfather of graphic novels, to make stops in Santa Cruz

By Nick Sestanovich | nsestanovich@santacruzsentinel.com

May 20, 2024

https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/20/phil-yeh-godfather-of-graphic-novels-to-make-stops-in-santa-cruz/

 

D&Q to debut English edition of Sanpei Shirato's THE LEGEND OF KAMUI in January 2025

Check out a 13-page preview of this iconic manga series, coming in English in January 2025 from Drawn & Quarterly

By D. Morris -05/07/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dq-to-debut-english-edition-of-sanpei-shiratos-the-legend-of-kamui-in-january-2025/

 

The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration has just found its perfect home

With the help of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration is set to move into London's historic New River Head buildings. And the artist himself couldn't be happier.

Dom Carter

16 May 2024

https://www.creativeboom.com/news/quentin-blake-centre-for-illustration/

 

'Rick and Morty' Team Lands Adult Animated Series at Netflix; 'The Undervale,' created by Matt Roller, counts Dan Harmon among its executive producers.

BY RICK PORTER

MAY 30, 2024  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/rick-and-morty-team-netflix-series-undervale-1235911758/

 

New 'Dog Man' Book and Film Announced

By Emma Kantor

May 30, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/95149-new-dog-man-book-and-film-announced.html

 

Comics Are Ready to Get Retro

Comics publishers capitalize on nostalgia with titles that tie into decades-old media properties

By Shaenon K. Garrity

May 24, 2024

A version of this article appeared in the 05/27/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Retro Graphics

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/95130-comics-get-retro.html

 

6 Comics That Rock Out

A playlist of graphic novel tie-ins to musical acts and albums

By Shaenon K. Garrity

A version of this article appeared in the 05/27/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Music to the Eyes

May 24, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/95133-comics-that-rock-out.html

 

MrBallen Makes a Strange, Dark, and Mysterious Graphic Novel

PW talks with John B. Allen—aka YouTuber and podcast host MrBallen—about the graphic novel adapted from his viral stories

By Shaenon K. Garrity

May 24, 2024

A version of this article appeared in the 05/27/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Gather Around the Campfire

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/95131-mrballen-makes-a-strange-dark-and-mysterious-graphic-novel.html

 

7 Comics That Call for Extra Popcorn

As film and streaming studios scout comics of all genres for development, graphic novels also take inspiration from cinema—well beyond capes and tights.

By Shaenon K. Garrity

A version of this article appeared in the 05/27/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Comics Blockbusters

May 24, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/95132-seven-comics-that-call-for-extra-popcorn.html


Animation Indie Studio Unagi Opens in Montreal
By Mercedes Milligan
May 29, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/05/animation-indie-studio-unagi-opens-in-montreal/

Can A Terminally Ill Man Landing On Mars Save The Human Race? [Traveling To Mars Kickstarter Spotlight with Mark Russell]
Jace -The Comic Source
May 28, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZaNFf0zwQU

Graphic artist Miriam Libicki has been banned by Vancouver Comics Arts Festival due to her past service in the IDF
https://thecjn.ca/news/miriam-libicki/
Canadian Jewish News May 29, 2024
By Sam Margolis

NANCY cartoonist Olivia Jaimes announces hiatus with a cavalcade of guests holding down the fort
First guest artist at bat will be the award-winning cartoonist Caroline Cash
Dean Simons
05/29/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/nancy-cartoonist-olivia-jaimes-announces-hiatus-with-a-cavalcade-of-guests-holding-down-the-fort/

Warner Bros. Japan announces Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League anime film
Sequel to 2018 Batman Ninja film features returning staff, cast
Humberto Saabedra
05/30/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/warner-bros-japan-announces-batman-ninja-vs-yakuza-league-anime-film/

Amazon Orders Animated Comedy From Aubrey Plaza
'Kevin' is written by the 'Parks and Recreation' grad and 'Big Mouth' alum Joe Wengert, with the latter set as showrunner.
Lesley Goldberg
May 30, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/animated-cat-comedy-aubrey-plaza-amazon-1235911881/

Brilliance—A Comic Memoir
Words By Juaquin Mobley, Art By Amalas Rosa
https://frictionlit.org/brilliance4bk/

Drawn to Beauty: Vince Colletta - Life and Art
Franklin Colletta
The Black Spring Press Group, 2024

June 7: Zinemaking at Temperance Alley Garden


Join DC Zinefest at Temperance Alley Garden for an evening of zinemaking! This event is FREE and open to the public. No experience is needed and materials are provided.

Event Details:
  • When: Friday, June 7, 6–8pm
  • Where: Temperance Alley Garden (1909 13th St NW, Washington, DC 20009)
  • COVID: Masks strongly encouraged
  • Accessibility: Uneven terrain, limited seating provided
Hope to see you there!

- Eve & DC Zinefest

Nothing To See Here! by Daniel Boris




Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/29/2024


R.I.P. RETAILER PAUL STOCK Of Librairie Astro

Posted by Milton Griepp on May 29, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56994/r-i-p-retailer-paul-stock

 

R.I.P. TOM LUTH, Longtime 'Groo' Colorist

 Brigid Alverson on May 28, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56990/r-i-p-tom-luth

 

Writing Insights from the Drawing Board--An Interview with Artist and Author Bob Eckstein

Tiffany Yates Martin
May 23, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1-UOWrdC2s

 

The Way of an Author and Illustrator: Finding Inspiration in Art Featuring Bob Eckstein

  Freelance Writing Direct with Estelle Erasmus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux2TOILpfhs

  May 16, 2024 

 

10 of the Weirdest, Wildest Museum Stories You'll Ever Read

Illustrator Bob Eckstein shares his favorite strange stories from some of the world's most famous museums.

by Bob Eckstein May 22, 2024

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/strange-museum-stories-bob-eckstein

 

HOUSTON MATTERS

Chip Zdarsky weighs in on the pros and cons of comic book adaptations

We talk with the comic book artist and writer who has penned issues of Batman, Spider-Man, and Daredevil (and Howard the Duck) for both DC and Marvel.

Garrett Bohlmann

May 23, 2024, Https://Www.Houstonpublicmedia.Org/Articles/Shows/Houston-Matters/2024/05/23/488421/Chip-Zdarsky-Weighs-In-On-The-Pros-And-Cons-Of-Comic-Book-Adaptations/ 

 

Exclusive: Singapore's Difference Engine publishing makes its international debut in June

Benjamin Chee and Wayne Rée's 'Work-Life Balance' leads the publisher's slate of releases for June 25

By Christian Angeles -05/29/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-singapores-difference-engine-publishing-makes-its-international-debut-in-june/

 

INTERVIEW: Series editor Owen Johnson reflects on the journey and legacy of BEST OF 2000 AD

"It's always about raising awareness of 2000 AD as a British institution that is relevant and has real cultural value globally"

By Dean Simons -05/29/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-series-editor-owen-johnson-reflects-on-the-journey-and-legacy-of-best-of-2000-ad/

 

Comic Store In Your Future – Comic Book Shopping Etiquette

"Even after over thirteen years of owning Rodman Comics and thinking I have seen it all, I am still proved wrong."


  28 May 2024  

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-comic-book-shopping-etiquette/

 

'I DON'T KNOW IF MANY PEOPLE DO A GRAPHIC NOVEL THE WAY I DID THIS ONE': TALKING WITH RICK ALTERGOTT ABOUT BLESSED BE

John Kelly | May 29, 2024 

https://www.tcj.com/i-dont-know-if-many-people-do-a-graphic-novel-the-way-i-did-this-one-talking-with-rick-altergott-about-blessed-be/

 

REVIEWS:  BLESSED BE

Tegan O'Neil | May 29, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/blessed-be/


Veteran director, comic strip creator Carlo J. Caparas passes away
By HERMES JOY TUNAC, GMA Integrated News
Published May 26, 2024
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/showbiz/chikaminute/908009/veteran-director-comic-strip-creator-carlo-j-caparas-passes-away/story/

Book review: Comics and Modernism: History, Form, and Culture ed, by Jonathan Najarian
reviewed by John A. Lent
International Journal of Comic Art blog  May 29, 2024
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2024/05/book-review-comics-and-modernism.html

Jonathan Najarian, ed. Comics and Modernism:  History, Form, and Culture. Jackson, MS:  University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

Fischbach, Sarah. 2024. Academic integrity graphic novel mini-cases [single panel cartoons taking the place of graphs]. International Journal for Educational Integrity 20, 5. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40979-024-00152-9 and https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s40979-024-00152-9

Seaver College Professor Sarah Fischbach Publishes Graphic Novel to Engage Students on the Topic of Academic Integrity
May 17, 2024
David Holden https://seaver.pepperdine.edu/newsroom/articles/5-17-24-graphic-novel-fischbach.htm

In its 23rd year, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention continues to amplify Black creators, stories
On Saturday, attendees of all ages enjoyed panel discussions, workshops and a comic book marketplace at Temple University's Student and Faculty Center.
    Emily Neil
    May 18, 2024
https://whyy.org/articles/ecbacc-23rd-annual-convention-black-creators/

I just started reading comics on the iPad Pro OLED — and it's a game changer
By Tony Polanco
  May 19, 2024 https://www.tomsguide.com/tablets/ipads/ill-only-read-comics-on-an-ipad-pro-oled-from-now-on-heres-why

7 Queer, Eisner-Nominated Comic Books and Graphic Novels You Should Read
These acclaimed LGBTQ+ books that are just begging to be on your bookshelf.
By Samantha Riedel
May 17, 2024 https://www.them.us/story/lgbt-queer-graphic-novels-comics-eisner-nominations-2024

A charming, funny graphic novel [Ghost Book; Remy Lai]
By Christine Yunn-Yu Sun
18/05/2024 https://rangestrader.mailcommunity.com.au/opinion/2024-05-18/a-charming-funny-graphic-novel/

Don Perlin Talks Charlton Comics
A Previously Unpublished 2007 Interview
Daniel Best
Daniel Best - Author (May 28, 2024):
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/don-perlin-talks-charlton-comics

#8 Monday Morning Musings: Brian Postman 1958-2024 [Marvel Comics artist obituary].
Daniel Best
Daniel Best - Author (May 13, 2024):https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/monday-morning-musings-1a1

April 1966: An Evening With Batman & Robin
The Australian Premiere Came Complete With Batman and Robin
Daniel Best
Daniel Best - Author (May 30, 2024):
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/april-1966-an-evening-with-batman

Guelph's Seth to be featured on new Canada Post stamp [audio]
Craig Norris, host of CBC Kitchener-Waterloo's The Morning Edition,
 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547

Guelph cartoonist Seth 'flabbergasted' to be included in new stamp series
'I did not expect that at any point I'd end up on a stamp,' Seth says
Craig Norris,
CBC News · May 19, 2024 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/seth-guelph-cartoonist-canada-post-stamp-1.7206547

Madame Web's Netflix Success Sends a Clear Message About the Future of Superhero Movies
By Timothy Blake Donohoo
CBR May 26 2024
https://www.cbr.com/madame-web-netflix-success-challenge-superhero-fatigue/

Brad Guigar: My life in comics
Does anyone remember the Print vs. Web wars?
Brad Guigar and Daisy
May 29, 2024
https://evilinc.substack.com/p/brad-guigar-my-life-in-comics

He-Man and me
40 years ago, "Masters of the Universe" dominated boys' lives with a cartoon show and a bevy of toys that featured a jacked-up hero who was much more than he seemed.
Perspective by Michael Andor Brodeur
Classical music critic
Washington Post May 29, 2024 : C1-3
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/of-interest/2024/05/29/he-man-toy-swole-brodeur/

What He-Man teaches we, men.
By Shane O'Neill
Washington Post Style Memo May 29 2024
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596c1be2ade4e24119c3d7be&s=6657895260c25107aa89f110

Shueisha launches JUMP TOON vertical scrolling comics platform
Shueisha "jumps" into vertical comics against Piccoma and WEBTOON
Humberto Saabedra
05/29/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/shueisha-launches-jump-toon-vertical-scrolling-comics-platform/

INTERVIEW AVEC CAVAN SCOTT & GEORGE MANN - La Tribune de Coruscant [Star Wars]
La Tribune de Coruscant
 May 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wapsC31huO4

Dallas and Anne
Creator Interview: Jason Aaron
The Comics Collective
May 27 2024
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2s5i0AtXw7wqtvuJRMOyCu

An Interview with Jason Aaron about TMNT, writing, and working at Marvel
Badr Milligan and Cesar
The Short Box Podcast: A Comic Book Talk Show
 May 22, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB64vGtUdCM
https://theshortboxentertainment.com/turtle-power-an-interview-with-jason-aaron-about-tmnt-and-creative-freedom/

The Future of Digital Comics: An Interview with Omnibus CEO: Travis Schmeisser
Badr Milligan
The Short Box Podcast: A Comic Book Talk Show 429, May 29, 2024
https://theshortboxentertainment.com/the-future-of-digital-comics-an-interview-with-omnibus-ceo-travis-schmeisser/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQGcD58tVUc



 

 

 

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

WaPo's music critic's complicated love for He-Man

He-Man and me

40 years ago, "Masters of the Universe" dominated boys' lives with a cartoon show and a bevy of toys that featured a jacked-up hero who was much more than he seemed.


Perspective by
Classical music critic
Washington Post May 29, 2024 : C1-3

What He-Man teaches we, men.
By Shane O'Neill
Washington Post Style Memo May 29 2024
https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596c1be2ade4e24119c3d7be&s=6657895260c25107aa89f110