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Friday, November 01, 2024
Nov 4: Tony Fleecs and Tone Rodriguez World Tour hits Beyond Comics
Astro Boy returns to stage in Silver Spring
Astro Boy Is Still a Damn Marvel
Flying V's revival of this hybrid of bio-play and spectacle, running through Nov. 3, is a superpowered delight.
Chris KlimekOctober 31st, 2024 https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/752779/astro-boy-is-still-a-damn-marvel/
Mark Trail goes to DC
WaPo on 'Here' and ‘Memoir of a Snail’ movies
In 'Here,' Robert Zemeckis homes in on the room where it happens [in print as Robert Zemeckis works the room in fixed-perspective drama]
'Memoir of a Snail': A slow beauty in stop-motion [in print as Grubby stop-motion charmer crawls its way into your psyche; Australia]
NPR on Farrell's comics auction and "Big Jim and the White Boy"
A historic collection of comics goes to auction [Christine Farrell; DC Comics]
Decade-old Fantom Comics photo used to illustrate 2024 comics sales article
Comic Sales Slipped In 2023. Are They Due For A Rebound?
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/31/2024
Venomverse's Box Office Silver Lining: It's Big Abroad
But Sony has an uphill battle to build its non-Spider-Man Marvel franchises.
By Pamela McClintock, Aaron Couch
October 29, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-venom-marvel-sony-1236047979/
'Emily the Strange' Animated Movie in the Works From Warner Bros., Bad Robot
Pamela Ribon is penning the script based on the illustrated character who was created 30 years ago by Rob Reger.
Ryan Gajewski
October 30, 2024
'The Fellini's 8½ of Comics': PW Talks with Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, and Ben Bishop [ Drawing Blood]
By Andrew Farago
Oct 30, 2024
Is This an Al Jaffee Art Auction?
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/30/is-this-an-al-jaffee-art-auction/
NJ Star-Ledger to End Print Editions
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/31/nj-star-ledger-to-end-print-editions/
Ren̩ Uilenbroek РRIP
Alan Gardner
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/10/30/rene-uilenbroek-rip/
René Uilenbroek (63) overleden
29 oktober 2024 https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/rene-uilenbroek-63-overleden
Massimiliano Frezzato (57) overleden
21 oktober 2024
https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/massimiliano-frezzato-57-overleden
Peter van Leersum (77) overleden [Dutch editor and StripNieuws author]
18 oktober 2024
https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/peter-van-leersum-77-overleden
Pierre Christin (86) overleden
3 oktober 2024
https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/pierre-christin-86-overleden
André Jobin alias Job (96) overleden
9 oktober 2024
https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/andre-jobin-alias-job-96-overleden
Inkleurster Dina Kathelyn (90) overladen [Belgian colorist]
4 oktober 2024 https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/stripnieuws/inkleurster-dina-kathelyn-90-overleden
Thomas Du Caju en Ronald Grossey [De Rode Ridder; Netherlands]
Martin Hofman
30 oktober 2024
https://www.stripspeciaalzaak.be/interviews-reportages/thomas-du-caju-en-ronald-grossey
How James Tynion IV Launched the Biggest Horror Comic Title In the Business
The author talks about the next chapter of his Boom! Studios series 'Something Is Killing the Children,' which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide and is getting a Netflix series adaptation.
Borys Kit
October 31, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/james-tynion-iv-horror-comic-book-title-1236050115/
The Literati and Painters Depicted in Great People Manga
Shimizu Isao | October 31, 2024 https://www.tcj.com/the-literati-and-painters-depicted-in-great-people-manga/
ProJo, Newport paper retain 'Wallace' comic
BY RYAN GIBBS
January 25, 2024
https://www.jamestownpress.com/articles/projo-newport-paper-retain-wallace-comic/
Kory Grow
Def Leppard's Phil Collen on 'Hysteria' Graphic Novel, 'Dangerous' Guitars, and His 'Darkside'
October 9, 2024
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/phil-collen-hysteria-graphic-novel-1235113595/
Oldsmobiles with Laser Guns, a locally produced comic book
Classic cars, friends and laser guns in space are all part of the world Mike Moman has created in his comic book Oldsmobiles with Laser Guns.
Jesse Boily,
Oct. 10, 2024
Tintin: The Immersive Adventure at Fabrique des Lumières
Exhibition
Published on 10/10/2024
https://www.tintin.com/en/news/6122/tintin-the-immersive-adventure-at-fabrique-des-lumieres#
How neuroscience comics add KA-POW! to the field: Q&A with Kanaka Rajan
The artistic approach can help explain complex ideas frame by frame without diluting the science, Rajan says.
By Olivia Gieger
9 October 2024
https://www.thetransmitter.org/craft-and-careers/how-neuroscience-comics-add-ka-pow-to-the-field-qa-with-kanaka-rajan/ or https://doi.org/10.53053/SIFL8959
SLJ Reviews the Mo Willems Workshop YouTube Channel
by Rachel G. Payne
Oct 30, 2024
https://www.slj.com/story/slj-reviews-the-mo-willems-workshop-youTube-channel-database-review
Manga Monsters | Mondo Manga
by Brigid Alverson
Oct 31, 2024 https://www.slj.com/story/manga-monsters-mondo-manga
Interview: STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS' Gabrielle Ruiz on portraying T'Lyn, the Cerritos "straight man"
By Avery Kaplan on 10/31/2024
24 Hours of Halloween: A Scary Godmother collection just dropped with two new stories
Heidi MacDonald on 10/31/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/24-hours-of-halloween-a-scary-godmother-collection-just-dropped-with-two-new-stories/
Interview with cartoonist Chris Schweizer - A Dream of Swords
Thomas Riley
Medieval Review
Oct 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF_ZrbW56wg
Animation Guild Continues AMPTP Negotiations, More Bargaining Dates Scheduled
Animation Magazine
October 30, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/10/animation-guild-continues-amptp-negotiations-more-bargaining-dates-scheduled/
The Practical Magic of 'Spellbound': How Director Vicky Jenson and Her Team Crafted a Modern Fairy Tale for Skydance & Netflix
By Ramin Zahed
October 30, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/10/the-practical-magic-of-spellbound-shrek-director-vicky-jenson-crafts-a-new-modern-fairy-tale-for-skydance-netflix/
This article was written for the
December '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 345).
Venom: The Last Dance Better Not Be the Last Ride for Our Lethal Protector
Emmet Asher-Perrin
October 28, 2024
https://reactormag.com/movie-review-venom-the-last-dance/
The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century
We surveyed some of our favorite writers and asked them to share their choices for the most iconic books of the 21st century (so far).
Christina Orlando
October 30, 2024
https://reactormag.com/the-most-iconic-speculative-fiction-books-of-the-21st-century/
Meet Chest Face - Hunted by Those Who Mutated Him Against His Will Who Just Wants To Tell Jokes! [Dean Haspiel]
Jace -The Comic Source
Oct 25, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6duowWHYLkE
Words, Images, & Worlds with Dean Haspiel
Jason DeHart
Oct 31, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRwkbIKZJU
Dean Haspiel Bridging Comics, Television, and Theater
Drew Mollo and Kari Sanders
Splash Pages Comic Book Club
Oct 29, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjiWnWkhBsk
Denys Cowan : My Experience with Vinnie Coletta
wordballoon
Oct 31, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpNKNsNDEqQ
Edilene Afonso-Willis: Creating a World Where Autism is Celebrated
Barney Smith
Storycomic Presents, Episode 398 October 31 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTQpqqIbb2A
A simplistic microcosm of domestic America, Here is caged by clichés
Shot from a single camera angle in a single house over the eras, Here is ambitious yet undercooked.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky | October 31, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/here-review
Baskin-Robbins Celebrates 50 Years of Hello Kitty With Sweet Ice Cream Lineup This November
By Timothy Blake Donohoo
Oct 26 2024
https://www.cbr.com/baskin-robbins-sanrio-hello-kitty-anniversary-ice-cream/
Hunter x Hunter & McDonald's Unite for Collectible Cards and More
By Leo Reyna
Oct 25 2024
https://www.cbr.com/mcdonalds-hunter-x-hunter-collectible-card-release/
"Must Have Been Insane": Berserk Supervisor on the Difficulties of Continuing the Manga After Creator's Death
By Renee Senzatimore
CBR Oct 26 2021
https://www.cbr.com/berserk-manga-supervisor-difficult-continuing/
Thursday, October 31, 2024
Fluggenock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Cheap Groceries"
"Cheap Groceries"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4015
On top of this CNN Town Hall shartage, my regular "Random 15" from
MSNBC included Kay-Kay speaking at a rally where she makes the big
buildup to the working class, only to cap it with a declaration that
she will ban price gouging on groceries... all in that classic
delivery of hers, that sounds as if she studied public speaking under
Hillary Clinton, like a foreign actress who had to learn her lines
phonetically. Dear GOD, just listen to that scolding junior-high
principal voice, so full of passion and conviction when she talks
about goddamn CHEAP GROCERIES. ...and the crowd's going wild for that
shit; just listen to 'em, as if cued by an electric sign, like a
game-show audience.
This, apparently, is going to be her signature achievement if she wins
the "election", if her hands aren't too full with the goddamn
GENOCIDE. Yeah... not a Great Society, or voting rights, or going to
the Moon... nahh, just cheap groceries.
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"In CNN town hall, Harris refuses to place conditions on Israeli
military support, pledges to work with Republicans on border wall",
Jacob Crosse at the World Socialists Site, 10.24.2024
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/10/25/vcsn-o25.html
_________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2
Halloween comics giveaway was a success again
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| The Deadpool / Wolverine noise makers were surprisingly popular. |
Final count is about 160 kids, some of whom took candy or comics bookmarks from the ALA instead, and some whose parents who took comics. Most kids took only one or two in spite of encouragement to take more. I packed up twice and then unpacked for very grateful latecomers. This might have been the busiest year ever.
There were only about 6 comics for Trick or Read this year... 1 from Dark Horse - Where Monsters Lie and 4 new from Marvel - Fantastic Four, Venom, Star Wars Kylo Ren, and Spider-boy (whomever that is). These are all 13+ rated because you wouldn't want to put out any comics actually for kids... Although Marvel reprinted the Spidey and Friends from a couple of years ago yet again... and the kids remembered having gotten it already. Still, at least Marvel did it, which is more than one can say about DC.
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| The 2024 new comics, for the record |
Anyway with leftovers from previous years and some FCBD issues, I gave away about 2 1/2 Diamond boxes and have slightly over a box left.
My thanks to Fantom Comics for ordering the Halloween bundles for me. Did they miss anything though?
Nov 3: BOOK CLUB w/ PATRICK HORVATH joining virtually at Fantom Comics
>> SUNDAY, November 3rd @ 4pm
We're hosting a book club for the cult hit of the season, BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES! Richard Scarry's Busytown meets Dexter in this small-town serial killer story 🔪 Writer/artist PATRICK HORVATH joins our in-person book club via zoom, so come thru with your best questions!
Don't. Murder. The locals.This is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong's cardinal rule. After all, there's a sea of perfectly ripe potential victims in the big city just beyond the forest, and when you've worked as hard as Sam to build a cozy life and a thriving business in a community surrounded by friendly fellow animal folk, warm decor, and the aroma of cedar trees and freshly baked apple pie…the last thing you want is to disturb the peace.So you can imagine her indignation when one of Woodbrook's own meets a grisly, mysterious demise—and you wouldn't blame her for doing anything it takes to hunt down her rival before the town self-destructs and Sheriff Patterson starts (literally) barking up the wrong tree. Cute critters aren't immune to crime in this original graphic novel debut by writer-artist Patrick Horvath.
Get a copy in store or on the website: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees_0
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 10/30/2024
The New GI Joe #1 Grabs 225,000 Orders From Comic Book Stores
28 Oct 2024 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-new-gi-joe-1-grabs-225000-orders-from-comic-book-stores/
Shall I project a world? The art, artists and artifice of Charles Burns
Hagai Palevsky | October 30, 2024 https://www.tcj.com/shall-i-project-a-world-the-art-artists-and-artifice-of-charles-burns/
Griepp, Milton. 2024.
NEW YORK COMIC CON 2024 PHOTOS – PART 1 Full Scale, Big Booths, TCGs; PART 2 Live Selling, a Funko Competitor, More Cosplay.
ICv2 (October 30): https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58141/new-york-comic-con-2024-photos-part-1 and https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58140/new-york-comic-con-2024-photos-part-2
In Memoriam: Comic Creator René Uilenbroek
John Freeman on October 29, 2024
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-creator-rene-uilenbroek/
Gallacher, Stevie. 2024.
Forgotten cartoon sketches [Dudley D. Watkins, Scotland; DC Thomson archives]
Sunday Post (September 15).
Online at https://www.pressreader.com/uk/the-sunday-post-inverness/20240915/281543706308566
["The cartoonist @suerynns submitted a cartoon to The New Yorker that our cartoon editor deemed perfect—for the Cartoon Caption Contest."]
newyorkermag and newyorkercartoons October 26 2024
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBkas-9PGZj/
Get Your Comics Published on Comics Kingdom
October 29, 2024
By Tea Fougner
https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2024/10/29/get-your-comics-published-on-comics-kingdom
Actor Jay Johnston of 'Bob's Burgers,' 'Arrested Development' Gets Year in Prison for Role in Jan. 6 Riot
Kevin Dolak
October 29, 2024
'Moana 2' Scores Record First-Day Advance Ticket Sales
The Disney animation hits theaters over Thanskgiving and has already been dubbed "Moanapocalypse" by box office pundits.
Pamela McClintock
October 29, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/moana-2-record-advance-ticket-sales-1236047981/
An Ode to the 'Venom' Trilogy, a Deranged Masterpiece of Superhero Cinema
Ahead of 'Venom: The Last Dance,' let us pay tribute to a radical work of performance art that has gone underappreciated in its time
By Miles Surrey Oct 24, 2024,
'Venom: The Last Dance' bricks at the box office [in print as 'Venom: The Last Dance' is toothless at box office]
By Herb Scribner
Washington Post October 29 2024: C2
October 29, 2024
Todd Nauck Delivers Instant Classic Images of Marvel Heroes in New Iconic Variant Covers
Todd Nauck's Iconic Covers, a new variant program running throughout 2025, kicks off in January.
by Marvel
https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/todd-nauck-new-iconic-variant-covers-marvel-heroes
All the Publisher's Mendacity
Jack Ohman
Jack Ohman's You Betcha! Oct 29, 2024
https://jackohman.substack.com/p/all-the-publishers-mendacity
Netflix and Universal Renew Animated Features Deal
Animation Magazine
October 29, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/10/netflix-and-universal-renew-animated-features-deal/
RIVA Studios Makes Bid for French Toon Producer TeamTO [Italy]
Mercedes Milligan
October 29, 2024 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/10/riva-studios-makes-bid-for-french-toon-producer-teamto/
Visual Empathy: 'The Colors Within' Director Naoko Yamada Illustrates the Aura of Her Acclaimed Movie
Charles Solomon
October 29, 2024
This article was written for the
December '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 345).
How Alex Segura and Rob Hart Made the Full-Time Writer's Life Work
By Michael Seidlinger | Oct 30, 2024
Chest Face Kickstarter Spotlight with Dean Haspiel: The Comic Source
October 25, 2024
Jace Milam
https://lrmonline.com/news/chest-face-kickstarter-spotlight-with-dean-haspiel-the-comic-source/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6duowWHYLkE
NYCC '24: Interview: The Earper-verse expands with WYNONNA EARP: TALES FROM PURGATORY Audible series
by Yael Tygiel
The Beat Oct 30, 2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc-24-interview-wynonna-earp-audible-series/
World Without End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain review – Doomsday in minute detail
A word-of-mouth sensation in France, this clever, exhaustive breakdown of our cost to the planet is free of dogma and all the better for it
Rachel Cooke
This French novel is the most graphic book I've ever read – and it's brilliant
A bleak tale of sex tourism and terrorism, Michel Houellebecq's 2001 Plateforme is depressing, unrelentingly nasty and well worth your time
Simon Heffer
07 October 2024
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/michel-houellebecq-annihilation-plateforme/
Fantastic Four: Full Circle gets an expanded edition
Christian Angeles The Beat , Oct 30, 2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/fantastic-four-full-circle-gets-an-expanded-edition/
The Animation Guild and Studios Schedule New Dates in Pivotal Negotiations
Katie Kilkenny
October 30, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/animation-guild-negotiations-new-bargaining-dates-scheduled-1236049595/
Jason Chatfield: New Yorker cartoonist on his creative process
Episode 115 of the Design Better Podcast
Aarron Walter, Eli Woolery, and Jason Chatfield
Oct 15, 2024
https://designbetterpodcast.com/p/jason-chatfield
Star Trek: Lower Decks Stars Reflect on Their Characters' Journeys Amid Final Season
Kevin Polowy
CBR Presents
Oct 30, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3F9HhskebQ
Grim Jim Zub reveals what's next for Conan the Barbarian and The Battle of the Black Stone!
Andrew Sumner
Forbidden Planet TV
Oct 30, 2024 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSSdvwh_T1A
Cartoonist Eric Drooker may live in Berkeley but he won't stop dreaming of Manhattan
by Joanne Furio Oct. 29, 2024,
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/10/29/eric-drooker-naked-city
New Yorker artist Eric Drooker: A small giant in our midst
by Eve Kushner Dec. 12, 2016,
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2016/12/12/new-yorker-artist-eric-drooker-a-small-giant-in-our-midst
Berkeley artist captures mood of Wall Street protesters [Eric Drooker]
by Frances Dinkelspiel Oct. 10, 2011,
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2011/10/10/berkeley-artist-captures-mood-of-wall-street-protestors
Interview- Cavan Scott Talks Unleashing a Town of Killers in Night of the Slashers
Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff
16. Oktober 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-cavan-114048955
Interview- Kieron Gillen Explores a Power Fantasy of Political and Actual Superpowers
Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff
July 17 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/interview-kieron-108174904
'Lanterns': Kelly Macdonald Joins HBO, DC Studios' Superhero Crime Drama
Kyle Chandler and Aaron Pierre are toplining as space police officers known as the Green Lanterns.
Borys Kit
October 30, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lanterns-kelly-macdonald-hbo-dc-studios-1236049061/
Horror is a mask Marvel should wear more often
For all its genre experiments, Marvel's history remains rooted in horror. It's also one that fits like a glove in superhero stories.
By Matt Schimkowitz | October 30, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/marvel-should-do-more-horror-mcu-comics
The Vatican Just Dropped an Anime Girl Mascot Named 'Luce'
The Catholic Church tapped tokidoki creator Simone Legno for its first-ever anime mascot, Luce, debuting at an Italian comic convention.
By Luis Prada
October 29, 2024
https://www.vice.com/en/article/luce-vatican-anime-mascot-jubilee-year-catholic-church/
Agatha All Along Just Made Its Pop Culture End Credits Even More Significant
By Katie Doll
CBR October 26 2024
https://www.cbr.com/agatha-all-along-disney-wizard-of-oz-significance/