Saturday, March 22, 2025

Meeting Trouble Half Way: Crispin Green's graphic novel tells the story of volunteers who gave up their lives to fight Fascism in Spain, and is inspired by his grandparents who were there

1st January 2025 By Dan Carrier

https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/meeting-trouble-half-way

COVER STORY: 9 steps to creating your comic book or graphic narrative

Sandy Jimenez

Campus News New York December 30, 2024

https://cccnews.info/2024/12/30/cover-story-9-steps-to-creating-your-comic-book-or-graphic-narrative/

BANKRUPTCY TRUSTEE OBJECTS TO DIAMOND EMPLOYEE BONUSES

And Request to Redact Info from Public Documents

Milton Griepp on March 21, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59132/bankruptcy-trustee-objects-diamond-employee-bonuses

Diamond Accused Of Funnelling Bankruptcy Funds To Key Employees

Diamond Comic Distributors has been accused of attempting to funnel bankruptcy funds to key employees, according to court paperwork filed by the US Trustee.

Rich Johnston

20 Mar 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-accused-of-funnelling-bankruptcy-funds-to-key-employees/

Titan Comics Joins Lunar Distribution For June 2025 Solicits

Titan Comics joins Lunar Distribution for June 2025 solicits wwith Heat Seaker Exposed and a Return To Skull Island for King Kong

20 Mar 2025 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/titan-comics-joins-lunar-distrubution-for-june-2025-solicits/

TITAN ADDS LUNAR To Diamond

Milton Griepp on March 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59127/titan-adds-lunar

Award-winning comic creator Edward Taylor seeks support for his latest book [UK]

John Freeman on March 20, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/award-winning-comic-creator-edward-taylor-seeks-support-for-his-latest-book/

Marc Deering Tells Tripwire All About Flipside Comics [UK]

Paul Neal

March 7, 2025 https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/marc-deering-tells-tripwire-all-about-flipside-comics/

Graphic Novel "We Are Not Strangers" the Subject of Jewish Book Council Author Talk by Josh Tuininga

Pamela Rothstein,

Jan16 2025

https://patch.com/massachusetts/falmouth/calendar/event/20250116/41f98bf8-3661-4363-8270-b37c1a9fe241/graphic-novel-we-are-not-strangers-the-subject-of-jewish-book-council-author-talk-by-josh-tuininga

'Snow White' Review: A Princess's Progress

The new live-action version of Disney's 1937 animated fairy tale has drawn (maddening) criticism for its casting and an updated story. But liberation only goes so far.

By Manohla Dargis

A version of this article appears in print on March 21, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, Ho-Hum. It's Girl Power..

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/movies/snow-white-review-rachel-zegler.html

Snow White and the Seven Kajillion Controversies

The dwarfs. The casting. The politics of the lead actress. And that wig! Is Disney's live-action remake of the classic film doomed by culture war skirmishes?

Brooks Barnes

March 20, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/business/snow-white-movie-controversies.html

'American Dad!' Closing in on Deal to Return to Fox

The series from Seth MacFarlane has aired on TBS for more than a decade.

Rick Porter

March 21, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/american-dad-returning-to-fox-1236170115/

From Brotherman to Batman Exhibit at Phillips Collection in DC [black cartoonists]

Scoop March 21 2025

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=280729

Game of Death: A Communist rendition of Seduction of the Innocent

Hank Kennedy | March 21, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/game-of-death-a-communist-rendition-of-seduction-of-the-innocent/

Owner of Van Nuys comic book store dies after he was trapped under SUV at Westfield Topanga mall

By Andrea Klick

January 2, 2025

https://www.whittierdailynews.com/2024/12/30/owner-of-van-nuys-comic-book-store-dies-after-he-was-trapped-under-suv-at-westfield-topanga-mall/

Spider-Woman In The Front Seat – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | March 21, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/spider-woman-in-the-front-seat-this-weeks-links/

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 664: Comics Retailing Feature

Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons

on 03/14/2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1359

Off Panel #491: Sideways with Daniel Warren Johnson

March 17 2025

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-491-sideways-with-daniel-warren-johnson

Bodily Autonomy and Health Education In An Easy To Swallow Package (Abortion Pill Zine) [Isabella Rotman, Sage Coffey, and Marnie Galloway]

2025/03/09 The Final Straw Radio

https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/09/bodily-autonomy-and-health-education-in-an-easy-to-swallow-package-abortion-pill-zine/ and https://traffic.libsyn.com/forcedn/thefinalstrawradio/tfsr-podcast-20250209-AbortionPillZine.mp3 and https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/03/09/bodily-autonomy-and-health-education-in-an-easy-to-swallow-package-abortion-pill-zine/#AbortionPillZine

INTERVIEW: How Peow2 Licensed Stop!! Hibari-kun! [Sweden; manga]

wendeego

March 18, 2025

https://yattatachi.com/interview-peow2-stop-hibari-kun

Interview: Deb Aoki and the American Manga Awards

wendeego

September 25, 2024

https://yattatachi.com/interview-deb-aoki-american-manga-awards

An Interview With Evan Minto at Azuki

wendeego

October 3, 2024

https://yattatachi.com/evan-minto-azuki-interview

An Interview With Emuh Ruh at Glacier Bay Books

wendeego

October 29, 2024

https://yattatachi.com/glacier-bay-interview

B. Mure and Kit Anderson in Conversation – The Avery Hill Artists on Creating Visual Fantastical Worlds, 'Second Shift' and the 'Ismyre' Series

B. Mure and Kit Anderson

March 17, 2025 https://www.brokenfrontier.com/b-mure-and-kit-anderson-in-conversation/

New comic shop opens in Savage, local owner aims to offer 'something for everyone'

The new shop sells a range of comic books, graphic novels, games, action figures and other collectibles.

Christine Schuster

Bring Me The News Mar 13, 2025

https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/new-comic-shop-opens-in-savage-local-owner-aims-to-offer-something-for-everyone

Local comic-book store slinging rare Spider-Man pegged at $30K

'These don't come around every day,' says Big B Comics owner

Kevin Lamb

Mar 18, 2025

https://www.orilliamatters.com/local-news/barrie-comic-store-slinging-rare-spider-man-pegged-at-30k-10320774

Local, legit and lethal: Montreal indie comic book shop doing business a new way [Canada].

By Daniel J. Rowe

March 09, 2025 https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/local-legit-and-lethal-montreal-indie-comic-book-shop-doing-business-a-new-way/

'You can express feelings and sensations in black and white': Graphic novelist Zeina Abirached

An interview with the author of 'A Game for Swallows', who drew from her childhood memories to write about the civil war of Lebanon in the 1980s.

Diya Isha

Mar 15, 2025 https://scroll.in/article/1080217/you-can-express-feelings-and-sensations-in-black-and-white-graphic-novelist-zeina-abirached

A classic for the ages | Review of Perumal Murugan and Appupen's graphic novel adaptation of C.S. Chellappa's Vaadivaasal

Murugan's minimalistic text and Appupen's striking sketches bring to life the 1949 jallikattu novel, a meditation on masculinity and caste hierarchies [India]

Menaka Raman

March 21, 2025

https://www.thehindu.com/books/book-review-vaadivaasal-jallikattu-graphic-novel-cs-chellappa-author-perumal-murugan-sketches-appupen/article69339906.ece

Frank Marcucci III [comic book store worker]

Yellow Springs News March 20, 2025

https://ysnews.com/news/2025/03/frank-marcucci-iii

Jay Stephens on merging sword-and-sorcery with sci-fi chaos in 'Red Sonja Attacks Mars'

Stephens shares how he brought Red Sonja into the chaotic world of Mars Attacks!.

David Brooke

March 17, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/17/jay-stephens-red-sonja-attacks-mars/

X-Men Monday #289 – Alex Paknadel and Tim Seeley Talk 'Astonishing X-Men'

Chris Hassan

March 17, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/17/x-men-monday-alex-paknadel-tim-seeley-2/

The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues: exploring comics and their narrative space

Shefali & Preeti Puri

Visual Studies 11 Mar 2025

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2474572#d1e643

https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2474572

Greliche, Nicolas. 2025. Some Intriguing Works That Read Like Comics. Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics 62 (1): pp. 53–65. online at https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.473 and https://estetikajournal.org/articles/10.33134/eeja.473

Exploring the Artistic and Cultural Conditions of the Republican Era through Comics: A Case Study of "Self-Conceited" in "The Illustrated History of the Yuan Government" [Chiina]

Ruihao Li. Proceedings of the 2024 4th International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2024) (17 March 2025): https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/icela-24/126009102

Evan Dorkin
, Mar 21, 2025 Short Interview: Three Questions About Eltingville
https://www.patreon.com/posts/short-interview-124890362

Wolverine's Bizarre First Time Meeting Hercules
Brian Cronin
Feb 5, 2018
https://www.cbr.com/wolverine-hercules-marvel-first-meeting/

Wolverine's First Solo Comic Book Story is Almost Impossible to Find
Brian Cronin
Oct 29, 2024 https://www.cbr.com/wolverines-first-solo-comic-book-story-almost-impossible-find/

Meet the Author: NY Best Selling Author "Jeffrey Brown"
NBM Graphic Novels March 21 2025
https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=433054443204346&rdid=Iyr9BZCYzxBBuD2u

The Jewish Experience in Comics: Characters and Creators Lecture with Mark Zaid
Lillian and Albert Small Capital Jewish Museum
Mar 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71PqaK23mlk

Comic Culture with Alisa Kwitney
terence dollard
Mar 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjUu2c4nlBQ

Friday, March 21, 2025

Find Your Fandom 3/22 & 3/23 at MoComCon 2025!

MoComCon 2025 Special Edition

MCPL NOW is the official digital newsletter for Montgomery County Public Libraries.

MoComCon 2025 Montgomery County Public Libraries

MoComCon is BACK for a two-day event, Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23, 2025, at the Black Rock Center for the Arts and the Germantown Library. Join us to celebrate all things comics, cosplay, games, graphic novels, and fandoms!

All Things MoComCon!

Ms. Amy reading a book called Superhero Gran to a group of children and their families during storytime at MoComCon 2023

Saturday, March 22

Who: Teens 13+ and Adults

When: 1-5 pm

Where: BlackRock Center for the Arts,

12901 Town Commons Dr., Germantown, MD 20874

Sunday, March 23,

Who: Families with children of all ages

When: 10 am- 2 pm

Where: Germantown Library, 19840 Century Blvd., Germantown, MD 20874

Check the full MoComCon 2025 Schedule and plan your day!

Corey Samuels Lego Master poses with his Lego Masters trophy made of LEGO

Build Your Own Mascot with LEGO Master Corey Samuels!

Sunday, March 23, 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

Livestreamed on-site or register here to join from home!

Cosplayer Maki Roll and MCPL staff members pose at MoComCon 2024

Enter the MoComCon Cosplay Contest!

The Cosplay contest on Saturday, 3/22 at 3:30pm is open to two age groups (13-17 and adults 18+), with registration on the day of MoComCon.

Get your look ready, and bring your entry forms to

Black Rock Center for the Arts (adjacent to Germantown Library)

starting at 1:30pm on 3/22. No electronic submissions. Lineup is at 3:15pm.

Limited to the first 20 entries in each age group.

Parent/guardian signature required for ages 17 and under.

Children ages 0–12 may participate in a cosplay parade on Sunday, March 23, 2025. Line up begins at 1:30pm for the first 30 kids to sign up, and the parade begins promptly at 1:45pm.

Cosplay Contest Entry Form

Graphic Novel Reading Lists!

A stack of graphic novels at the Germantown Library

Enjoy graphic novel reading lists selected by MCPL librarians!

Kids, Teens, Adults

More Manga, Anime & Graphic Novel Resources for Everyone!

Montgomery County Public Libraries

21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850

African-American cartoonist exhibit covered in Scoop

Here in DC and curated by Shawn Martinbrough

From Brotherman to Batman Exhibit at Phillips Collection in DC

Scoop March 21 2025

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=280729

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/20/2025

John Peck (The Mad Peck) – RIP

D. D. Degg

March 19, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/19/john-peck-rip/

Agent of the underground [John Peck (The Mad Peck)].

Ben Berke

Providence Journal

https://www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/2016/10/21/providences-mad-peck-receives-little-recognition-and-wants-even-less/24724936007/

'Mad Peck,' artist known for his Providence poster, dies at 83

Jacqui Gomersall

WPRI Mar 18, 2025 https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/mad-peck-artist-known-for-his-providence-poster-dies-at-83/

From Cartoonist to Record Collector to Television Critic [John Peck (The Mad Peck)].

Terry Gross

August 18, 1987

https://freshairarchive.org/segments/cartoonist-record-collector-television-critic

Phoebe and Her Unicorn Ending?!! Update: Strip Goes Sunday Only

D. D. Degg

March 20, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/20/phoebe-and-her-unicorn-ending/

de Adder, Drolet, and LaMontagne Named 2024 NNA Finalists

D. D. Degg

March 19, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/19/de-adder-drolet-and-lamontagne-named-2024-nna-finalists/

Behind the wildest Diamond Bankruptcy rumors: Pokémon and Todd McFarlane [Canada]

Heidi MacDonald on 03/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/behind-the-wildest-diamond-bankruptcy-rumors-todd-mcfarlane-pokemon/

The GODZILLA VS AMERICA: LOS ANGELES one-shot is raising money for comic shops effected by the LA fires

Jared Bird on 03/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-godzilla-vs-america-los-angeles-one-shot-proceeds-will-go-to-help-comic-shops-effected-by-the-la-fires/

Jason Aaron Interview | Uncovering Absolute Superman & The Soul of Krypton

Dom of X

Mar 19, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i7o-Oo1Qd0

(EXCLUSIVE) Breaking Down 'Absolute Superman' And His Villains With Writer Jason Aaron.

Tasmin Humphries March 10, 2025 https://theaspiringkryptonian.com/2025/03/10/breaking-down-absolute-superman-with-jason-aaron/

PVP Media's Francois Trudel Introduces Us to the Colorful Gnomes of 'Woolly Woolly' [Canada]

Ramin Zahed

March 19, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/pvp-medias-francois-trudel-introduces-us-to-the-colorful-gnomes-of-woolly-woolly/

'Super Duper Bunny League' EP Jonny Belt Gives Us an Insider Look at Nickelodeon's Earristable New Show

Karen Idelson

March 19, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/super-duper-bunny-league-ep-jonny-belt-gives-us-an-insider-look-at-nickelodeons-earristable-new-show/

This article was written for the

April '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 349).

The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection

Sean McCarthy | March 20, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-way-i-see-it-selections-from-the-kaws-collection/

Gift of John Peck, Class of 1964. Brown University Library. https://library.brown.edu/bookplates/honoree.php?id=1639

Unknown. 1980.
Tops of the Pops - John Peck '64.
Brown Alumni Magazine (?): 43-44.
Scans online at https://www.tumblr.com/seanhowe/658882086128713728/a-profile-of-john-peck-aka-the-mad-peck-from

Yeremian, Rob. 2025.
["To the friends and fans of the Mad Peck, it is with a heavy heart that I have to inform you he passed away Saturday night."]
Mad Peck (March 17): https://www.facebook.com/mad.peck.5/posts/pfbid0nbwkdChkwSgXYkN3GgvSxv8JhUjDRiGYMwmFLb8mR4MGYgTMEokhNrgR8jg2jwEDl

Zaugg, Isabelle. 2003. Oral History of John Peck. Underground Rhode Island. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:147043/
and https://repository.library.brown.edu/storage/bdr:147043/HTML/ and https://repository.library.brown.edu/storage/bdr:147043/MP3/

Dana Simpson
["Big announcement time!" ("Phoebe and Her Unicorn")]
March 19 2025
https://www.facebook.com/1425996813/posts/10228477452387771/?rdid=kZLTNxrkkYUhZx05

When the Pandemic Struck, Comics Creators Offered Young Readers Refuge | 5 Years On
by Brigid Alverson
Mar 19, 2025
https://www.slj.com/story/When-Pandemic-Struck-Comics-Creators-Offered-Young-Readers-Refuge

Square Enix Teams with PRH on Manga Initiative
Mar 20, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5279

TRUMP LOVES PUTIN! 80 Funny Cartoons about the Bromance of the Two Lovesick Dictators
Caglecast 64 Mar 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khPGzdfmowo

Comic Culture with Maria Scrivan
terence dollard
Mar 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNDLwbieJq8

Allison Baker Tales Of The Movies TV and Comics
wordballoon March 19 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp1z3fWqcps

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Lauren Hitzhusen [Mad Cave Studios].
Pop Culture Squad March 20 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F65y6FHbp0Y

Maria Medem's book launch for "Land Of Mirrors" at Lost City Books [Spain; audio and photos]
Warren Bernard and Maria Medem;
Washington, DC: Lost City Books (March 19 2025):
https://archive.org/details/maria-medem-book-launch-for-land-of-mirrors-lost-city-books-250319

Marvel heroes 'unite against hate and violence' in MARVEL UNITED: A PRIDE SPECIAL
By Rebecca Oliver Kaplan on 03/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-heroes-unite-against-hate-and-violence-in-marvel-united-a-pride-special/

SQUARE ENIX MANGA TO ROLL OUT RETAILER SUPPORT PROGRAM IN APRIL 2025
'Comic Partner' Offers Advance Galleys and More
Brigid Alverson on March 19, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59112/square-enix-manga-roll-out-retailer-support-program-april-2025

COURT APPROVES INCREASE IN DIAMOND CREDIT LIMIT
As First Diamond, Alliance Bidding Deadline Passes
Milton Griepp on March 20, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59117/court-approves-increase-diamond-credit-limit

More On The Todd McFarlane Buying Diamond Comics Distributors Rumour
What happens if Todd McFarlane does buy Diamond Comic Distributors? Bleeding Cool digs down deep on the hottest rumour right now.
19 Mar 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/more-on-the-todd-mcfarlane-buying-diamond-comics-distributors-rumour/

Titan Comics joins Lunar Distribution
Heidi MacDonald on 03/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/titan-comics-joins-lunar-distribution/

Shreveport Disney-Hyperion author/illustrator Kirk Reedstrom earns place on U.S.A. Today bestseller list
By Brittney Hazelton
Dec. 28, 2024 https://www.ksla.com/2024/12/28/shreveport-disney-hyperion-authorillustrator-kirk-reedstrom-earns-place-usa-today-bestseller-list/

Fanbase Press Interviews Omar Morales on the Upcoming Launch of the Sci-Fi Adventure Graphic Novel, 'Major Thomás,' with ComiXology Originals
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
March 18, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56481-fanbase-press-interviews-omar-morales-on-the-upcoming-launch-of-the-sci-fi-adventure-graphic-novel-major-thomas-with-comixology-originals/

Man to Man: An Overdue Conversation About Male Fandom - A Fanbase Press Virtual Panel
Bryant Dillon, Hannibal Tabu, Art Ebuen, Rylend Grant, David Nett, and Ben Crane
Fanbase Press Mar 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzKPPg4ns_s

New Hugo Pratt exhibition at Galerie Du 9ÈME Art in Paris
John Freeman on March 19, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/new-hugo-pratt-exhibition-at-galerie-du-9eme-art-in-paris/

Comic creator RE Burke freed from US detention, back in the UK
John Freeman on March 19, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/comic-creator-re-burke-freed-from-us-detention-back-in-the-uk/

2000AD and Look-In artist John M. Burns announces his retirement, biography in the works
John Freeman on October 3, 2023
https://downthetubes.net/2000ad-and-look-in-artist-john-m-burns-announces-his-retirement-biography-in-the-works/

In Memoriam: Comic Artist John M. Burns
John Freeman on January 1, 2024
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-john-m-burns/

International comic community pays tribute to 2000AD and Look-In artist John M. Burns
John Freeman on January 2, 2024
https://downthetubes.net/international-comic-community-pays-tribute-to-2000ad-and-look-in-artist-john-m-burns/

Martin Lodewijk and John M. Burns "Zetari" heads to English language publication
By John Freeman on March 19, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/martin-lodewijk-and-john-m-burns-zetari-heads-to-english-language-publication/

Can you help in a hunt for original artwork by John M. Burns?
Paul Duncan
downthetubes August 6, 2021
https://downthetubes.net/can-you-help-in-a-hunt-for-original-artwork-by-john-m-burns/

'No more robots, no more trains' – 2000 AD wishes a very happy retirement to the legendary John M. Burns
9th October 2023
https://2000ad.com/news/no-more-robots-no-more-trains-2000-ad-wishes-a-very-happy-retirement-to-the-legendary-john-m-burns/

Coco to ask "Remember Me?" with sequel
Bob Iger revealed at a shareholder's meeting today that Pixar is gearing up for a 2029 sequel.
By Drew Gillis | March 20, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/coco-pixar-sequel-news

'Coco 2' Set For 2029 Release In Theaters
The Pixar sequel will reunite 'Coco' director Lee Unkrichn and co-director Adrian Molina.
Caitlin Houston
March 20, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coco-2-2029-release-pixar-theaters-1236169129/

Licensing Hotline: March 2025 [Avatar the Last Airbender; Hasbro and Skybound]
By Karen Raugust |
Mar 20, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97375-licensing-hotline-march-2025.html

Turning the Tide on Middle Grade Books: Movers and shakers behind five newish imprints aim to turn the tide on sales in the middle grade category
A version of this article appeared in the 03/10/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Meet Me in the Middle
By Pooja Makhijani
Mar 07, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/childrens-announcements/article/97288-turning-the-tide-on-middle-grade-books.html

Jonathan Majors says he sent Kevin Feige a letter after Marvel firing [MCU]
William Hughes | March 19, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/jonathan-majors-marvel-firing-kevin-feige-letter

Shonen's Biggest New Breakout Hit Is Inspired by Attack on Titan [Galaxias, Ao Hatesaka]
By Renee Senzatimore
March 17 2025
https://www.cbr.com/attack-on-titan-galaxias-inspiration/

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Maria Medem's book launch for "Land Of Mirrors" at Lost City Books [audio and photos]

Maria Medem's book launch for "Land Of Mirrors" at Lost City Books [Spain; audio and photos]

Warren Bernard and Maria Medem;

Washington, DC: Lost City Books (March 19 2025):

https://archive.org/details/maria-medem-book-launch-for-land-of-mirrors-lost-city-books-250319

March 23: JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE SIGNING w/ DJ BEN HA MEEN at Fantom Comics

JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE SIGNING w/ DJ BEN HA MEEN
>> SUNDAY, March 23rd @ 3pm
Are you experienced?? We're pleased to host JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE writer and forallnerds podcast host DJ Ben Ha Meen for a signing & author talk in conversation with cartoonist/critic Julian Lytle. The new graphic novel from @titancomics is a psychedelic sci-fi adventure available at Fantom now.

Written by Mellow Brown, the critically acclaimed writer of Blade Runner: Origins, and DJ BenHa Meen. Drawn by award-winning artist, Tom Mandrake! In a galaxy where a tyrannical force has silenced music and enslaved all life, Hendrix must embark on a perilous quest to find a magical talisman powerful enough to unlock the incredible latent power of his trademark sound.

https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/jimi-hendrix-purple-haze-dm-edition-hardcover-mature-

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/19/2025

Mellby, Julie L. 2009.

Ralph Barton.

Princeton University's Library's Graphic Arts blog (January 29): https://www.princeton.edu/~graphicarts/2009/01/ralph_barton.html

Shaw, Charles G. 1927.

Through The Magnifying Glass: Ralph Barton.

New Yorker (November 5): 21-22

Unknown. 1931.

Ralph Barton [obituary].

New Yorker (May 30): 28

Diamond Comics is up for auction but who is bidding?

Heidi MacDonald on 03/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-comics-auction-bidders/

BIG NUMBERS AND BAD IDEAS: A POST-IDES OF MARCH GRAB BAG

Rob Salkowitz on March 19, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59108/big-numbers-bad-ideas-a-post-ides-march-grab-bag

A Century of New Yorker's Transportation Cartoons

Alan Gardner

March 18, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/18/a-century-of-new-yorkers-transportation-cartoons/

Torunn Gronbekk liked her new BATTLE ACTION story so much that she painted a cover for the issue

Zack Quaintance on 03/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/torunn-gronbekk-liked-her-new-battle-action-story-so-much-that-she-painted-a-cover-for-the-issue/

Square Enix launches "Comic Partner" to boost manga sales in comic shops

Hayame Kawachi on 03/19/2025

https://www.comicsbeat.com/square-enix-comic-partner-boost-manga-sales-comic-shops/

Fresh Risks To Foreign Comic Creators Doing Comic Cons In The USA & Canada Emerge

by Richard Bruton

https://comicon.com/2025/03/18/fresh-risks-to-foreign-comic-creators-doing-comic-cons-in-the-usa-canada-emerge/

'The Simpsons' 24-7 Stream of All 35 Seasons Launches on Disney+

On Tuesday, the streaming platform started a constant chronological stream of all completed seasons of the iconic animated favorite.

Kevin Dolak

March 18, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-simpsons-24-7-stream-disney-1236166582/

Inside 'Bluey's World': How a Cute Aussie Puppy Became an Estimated $2B Juggernaut

Leena Tailor

March 18, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/blueys-world-success-puppy-juggernaut-1236164905/

Detained Comics Artist Returns Home to Britain [Welsh comics artist R.E. Burke]

Mar 19, 2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5278

On the Record: Bill of Rights; 5-cent commemorative issued July 1, 1966 at Miami Beach, Fla. [aka Herblock Designs a Stamp].

Belmont Faries

S.P.A. Journal 30 (3; November 1967); cover, 163-170

scans online at https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/03/designing-herblocks-bill-of-rights-stamp.html and https://cartoonphilately.blogspot.com/2025/03/designing-herblocks-bill-of-rights-stamp.html

Happy 40th Luann-iversary!

by GoComics Team

March 17, 2025

https://www.gocomics.com/blog/5068/happy-40th-luann-iversary

Diamond Comics Auction Deadline Is Tomorrow… Did Todd McFarlane Bid?

The Diamond Comics Auction bid registration deadline is tomorrow... did Todd McFarlane make a bid to buy Diamond? 18 Mar 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-auction-deadline-is-tomorrow-did-todd-mcfarlane-bid/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred thirty-one | Aubrey Sitterson, part one

Mar 19, 2025 https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/were-you-on-a-star-cruiser-or

Spring Blooms with Animated Premieres on PBS KIDS

Mercedes Milligan

Animation Magazine March 18, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/spring-blooms-with-animated-premieres-on-pbs-kids/

'Courage the Cowardly Dog' Head Writer David Steven Cohen Has Died, Age 66

Animation Magazine March 18, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/courage-the-cowardly-dog-head-writer-david-steven-cohen-has-died-age-66/

E105: Feeling Emotions: Mixed Feelings with Liana Finck

Stephanie Affinito

Feb 20, 2025 Kidlit Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpmb6paLib8

Curious Seeds 10: A Big Extra Unexpected Wonder; Liana Finck on parenting, patriarchy + brevity

Jess Mack

Birdseed Mar 05, 2025

https://birdseed.substack.com/p/curious-seeds-10-a-great-big-unexpected

'Snow White' Review: Rachel Zegler Shines and Gal Gadot Glowers in Disney's Mostly Captivating Live-Action Update

Marc Webb directs Erin Cressida Wilson's adaptation of the studio's landmark 1937 first animated feature, also starring Andrew Burnap.

David Rooney

March 19, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/snow-white-review-rachel-zegler-gal-gadot-disney-1236167607/

'Coyote vs. Acme' Could Find New Life with 'Day the Earth Blew Up' Distributor

The canceled movie would be the second Looney Tunes feature saved by Ketchup Entertainment.

Aaron Couch

March 19, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-could-find-new-life-1235649143/

"I became an architect by accident": Bjarke Ingels on Domus
A youthful, not-yet-abandoned fascination with science fiction animates Ingels to look beyond the constrictions of current reality. It also informs his design vision. [Denmark; comics influences]
Bjarke Ingels
25 December 2024
https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2024/12/19/bjarke-ingels-editorial-on-domus.html

Popeye, Tintin and more will enter the public domain in the new year
By Rachel Treisman
December 26, 2024
https://www.wusf.org/2024-12-26/popeye-tintin-and-more-will-enter-the-public-domain-in-the-new-year

Meet Marcus Kwame
December 26, 2024
https://boldjourney.com/meet-marcus-kwame/

Coyote Vs. Acme could reportedly see the light of day
The shelved Warner Bros. project may have its day in court after all.
By Emma Keates | March 19, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-looking-for-a-home-for-coyote-vs-acme

Romantasy Manga: Whirlwind Tales of Love and Adventure | Mondo Manga
by Brigid Alverson
Mar 13, 2025
https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/Romantasy-Manga-Whirlwind-Tales-of-Love-and-Adventure-Mondo-Manga

"Asian Comics" spans centuries, styles, and continents
Andrew Hamlin
NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY March 12, 2025 https://nwasianweekly.com/2025/03/asian-comics-spans-centuries-styles-and-continents/

Ali Hamedin
"War on Gaza": Joe Sacco's graphic journey through genocide
December 24, 2024 https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/507880/War-on-Gaza-Joe-Sacco-s-graphic-journey-through-genocide

Why Watchmen Creator Alan Moore Hates The 'Graphic Novel' Label
By Devin Meenan
Dec. 24, 2024 https://www.slashfilm.com/1738574/why-watchmen-creator-alan-moore-hates-graphic-novel-label/

'Very much a return to home': Monarch Comics rises again with new comic books, old friends during soft-reopening
Spirited discussions about 'Star Wars' and 'Nosferatu' mixed with stories from owner Ed Katschke as customers shopped at Monarch Comics for the first time in weeks.
Author: Diane Woodring (WTOL), Silver Barker
December 26, 2024
https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/monarch-comics-rises-new-comic-books-old-friends-during-soft-reopening-south-toledo/512-0e01c64a-ddd3-4266-adde-83634462f375

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/21/2025

Friday, March 21, 2025

Find Your Fandom 3/22 & 3/23 at MoComCon 2025!

African-American cartoonist exhibit covered in Scoop

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/20/2025

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Maria Medem's book launch for "Land Of Mirrors" at Lost City Books [audio and photos]

Maria Medem's book launch for "Land Of Mirrors" at Lost City Books [Spain; audio and photos]

March 23: JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE SIGNING w/ DJ BEN HA MEEN at Fantom Comics

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/19/2025

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Wasn't Me! by Daniel Boris

What's it all mean in the end?