Friday, April 04, 2025
June 8: Jim Calafiore at Comic Logic
WaPo graphic novel reviews
4 new graphic novels to fill your spring days with color and mystery
Prepare to rethink ancient myths, explore the depths of the human mind and do more in these new books by Anders Nilsen, María Medem, Jason Novak and Rachel Ang.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/3/2025
CSotD: A Sad Sack of Different Things [Trump tariffs editorial cartoons]
Mike Peterson
April 3, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/04/03/csotd-a-sad-sack-of-different-things/
Cartoonist Joins Haddam Killingworth News [Robert Summers; "Shiver Me Timbers"]
By Joanne Nesti
Haddam Killingworth News April 2, 2025
https://hk-now.com/2025/04/02/cartoonist-joins-haddam-killingworth-news/
DARK HORSE TO SHUT DOWN TFAW SITE In One of Several 'Tough Decisions'
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59231/dark-horse-shut-down-tfaw-site
TFAW.Com To Close, Next Week's Subs Will Be Their Last
TFAW.Com to close, next week's subscriptions will be their last, site will close at the end of the month, stores will continue
02 Apr 2025 Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tfaw-com-to-close-next-weeks-subs-will-be-their-last/
MY FATHER - SerioComics 60 + Q&A with Author Shannon Wheeler
Dave Cowen and David Cowen
SerioComics Mar 21, 2025 https://seriocomics.substack.com/p/my-father-seriocomics-60-q-and-a
Interview: Writer Tim Sheridan on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS #7
By Avery Kaplan on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-writer-tim-sheridan-on-star-trek-lower-decks-7/
UDON SWITCHES BOOK DISTRIBUTOR, BAD IDEA ADDS CANADA:Comic, Graphic Novel Distribution Changes Round-Up
Milton Griepp on April 3, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59233/udon-switches-book-distributor-bad-idea-adds-canada
Clive Revill, Original Voice of Emperor Palpatine in 'Star Wars,' Dies at 94
His voice can be heard for only a minute in "The Empire Strikes Back," but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
Sopan Deb
A version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2025, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Clive Revill, 94, Icy Voice Of Emperor in 'Star Wars'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/movies/clive-revill-star-wars-dead.html
Montgomery County art teacher publishes 8th children's book on space adventures [Jonathan Roth]
April 2, 2025
INTERVIEW: Alex Segura and Sara Century talk new comic, THE FORGOTTEN FIVE
Zack Quaintance on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-alex-segura-and-sara-century-talk-new-comic-the-forgotten-five/
Barrie, Ont. collector sells rare $30K Spider-Man comic from 1962 [Amazing Fantasy No. 15]
By Julianna Balsamo
March 28, 2025
https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/barrie-ont-collector-sells-rare-30k-spiderman-comic-from-1962/
Montreal indie comic shop part of changing game in the industry
CTV News
Mar 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rv6BScugmk
Reviews: Welcome to Casa Baba
Hagai Palevsky | April 3, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/welcome-to-casa-baba/
Win or Lose: Pixar Animator Posts Kai's Original Trans Storyline Look
Pixar animator Danny Barnhart shared a look at the care given to Kai's original Win or Lose transgender storyline before Disney pulled it.
01 Apr 2025 20:07:07 -0500 by Ray Flook
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/win-or-lose-pixar-animator-posts-kais-original-trans-storyline-look/
Welcome to Casa Baba
Jurijs Tatarkins, Jindrich Janiček, and Giulia Cellino
kuš!
Holy Art Show, Batman! Comic-Inspired Works by Fountain House Artists Land in Hell's Kitchen
by Dashiell Allen
January 9, 2025
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
by Sam Langsdale
University of Texas Press September 17, 2024
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329788/
Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics
Edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick Lawrence
University of Texas Press
2025
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
Foreword. Your Obscene Is Not Mine: A Defense of the Art of Comics (Frederick Luis Aldama)
Introduction. "A Cultural Slaughter of the Innocents" (Patrick S. Lawrence and Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
Timeline of Significant Events
Part One. Out of the Gutters: Comics' History of Obscenity
1. Why Sex? (Hillary Chute)
2. "Wise Up, Old Hags! Th' Weak One Is a Valuable Possession to Us": R. Crumb's Bible of Filth and Obscenity as Artificial Scarcity (Patrick S. Lawrence)
3. Howard Cruse's War on the War on Obscenity (Andrew J. Kunka)
4. Obscene Histories: Indexing the Racial Phantasms of Blazing Combat (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
Part Two. Obscenity in the Gutters and at the Margins
5. Graphic Storytelling, Book Challengers, and Obscenity (Richard S. Price)
6. Big-Boned Sapphic Smut: The Reading Pleasure of Comics by and about Black Women (Cathy Thomas)
7. Robert Kirkman's Gays in the Gutter: Anti-Queer Censorship, Obscenity, and The Walking Dead (Jarred Wiehe)
Part Three. Theorizing the Obscene, Seeing Obscenity
8. Planet Xeno: Obscenity as Erotic Alienation in Charles Burns (Jordan Carroll)
9. Seen, Unseen, and Obscene: Historical Violence in Comic Books (Jennifer Caplan)
10. Obscene Empathy: Kink and the Comics Code Authority in X-Men's "Dark Phoenix Saga" (Anthony D'Agostino)
11. Boobs + Monsters: Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Horror Comics, and the Fate of Disciplinary Normalization in the Twenty-First Century (Lee Konstantinou)
Afterword. A Conversation about Community with MariNaomi (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
Regan Chambers-Kleiner
Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print 04/03/2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/ahha-discovering-black-hispanic-and-indigenous-comic-book-creators/
'A Really Off-Base Comment': Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Originally Written Off as Not 'Charming' Enough by Official Publisher
By Nic Guastella
March 31 2025
https://www.cbr.com/frieren-not-charming-publisher/
'Stories About Overthrowing the Government Are No Longer Allowed': Anime Censorship Overseas Adding to Broadcast Woes [China]
By Renee Senzatimore
April 1 2025 https://www.cbr.com/anime-censorship-broadcast-difficult/
#32 Book birthdays
Books & babies arrive early sometimes
Cara Gormally
Soft Things: Comics about science, research, & being human! Apr 03, 2025
https://caragormally.substack.com/p/32-book-birthdays
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Jason Chatfield
DMA#1: Draw Me Anything!
Process Junkie! Apr 3, 2025
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything
Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."
April 03, 2025
Cul de Sac blog https://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html
ComicsDC blog
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html
Disney's 'Tangled' Live-Action Movie Hits the Pause Button (Exclusive)
Borys Kit, Mia Galuppo
April 3, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tangled-live-action-remake-pause-disney-1236180940/
Fanbase Press Interviews Kwento Comics' Waverley and Cecilia Lim on Their Return to Kickstarter for 'The Mask of Haliya Volume 2: Echoes of the Forgotten Past' in Collaboration with Clover Press
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
March 28, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56527-fanbase-press-interviews-kwento-comics-waverley-and-cecilia-lim-on-their-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-mask-of-haliya-volume-2-echoes-of-the-forgotten-past-in-collaboration/
Fanbase Press Interviews Jorge Jiménez on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for 'The DC Art of Jorge Jiménez' with Clover Press
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
April 1, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56540-fanbase-press-interviews-jorge-jimenez-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-dc-art-of-jorge-jimenez-with-clover-press/
CinemaCon: Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Teases Slate of Updated Classics and New Originals
Animation Magazine
April 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/cinemacon-warner-bros-pictures-animation-teases-slate-of-updated-classics-and-new-originals/
Fantastic Planet: A Surreal, Unsettling Allegory of Oppression Systemic dehumanization, cutout animation, and avant-garde jazz [France].
Kali Wallace
Reactor April 2, 2025
https://reactormag.com/fantastic-planet-a-surreal-unsettling-allegory-of-oppression/
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything
Cara Gormally's Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder comes out next week
#32 Book birthdays
Books & babies arrive early sometimes
Description
One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault
One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara's watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to "friend" them.
Cara always had a long to-do list; always had many projects; always was busy. But as their rapist continued to send friend requests and tried to reconnect with them, they began to lose their grip on their work, projects, and relationships. But then Cara connects with a therapist who guides them through a long but powerful process of healing. And Cara works to desensitize, reprocess, excavate and relive the old wounds in order to move past them and heal.
AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/2/2025
TFAW.com to close down April 30
Heidi MacDonald on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/tfaw-com-closing-down-april-30/
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: NEW CEO AT VIZ, NEW PUBLISHER AT ABRAMS COMICARTS
Co-Founder Leaves Massive, Industry Vet to SDCC
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59223/people-move-new-ceo-viz-new-publisher-abrams-comicarts
YEN ADDS NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM From NTT Solmare Corp. [MangaPlaza]
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59221/yen-adds-new-digital-platform
Sol Brager ferments inter-generational anxiety with their memoir, Heavyweight
Tina Horn | April 2, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/sol-brager-ferments-inter-generational-anxiety-with-their-memoir-heavyweight/
Reviews: Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution
Kristian Williams | April 2, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/give-me-liberty-a-revised-history-of-the-american-revolution/
Fox Gives Huge Four-Season Pickups to 'The Simpsons,' 'Family Guy' and 'Bob's Burgers'
'American Dad' will also officially return to the network in 2025-26.
Rick Porter
April 2, 2025
'Devil May Cry' Creator Adi Shankar Introduces Netflix's New Demon Hunter
Jeff Spry
April 1, 2025
This article was written for the
April '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 349).
Interview: Nick Winn on how Pendleton Ward's boy band inspired ADVENTURE TIME #1
Ollie Kaplan on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nick-winn-on-how-pendleton-wards-boy-band-inspired-adventure-time-1/
'Superman' Stars Unveil Krypto-Heavy New Footage and Recall "Witnessing the Magic of Cinema"
James Gunn and his cast brought DC Studios' first movie to Las Vegas.
By Ryan Gajewski, Aaron Couch
April 1, 2025
Dav Pilkey Topped Canada's Bestseller Lists in 2024
By Jim Milliot
Apr 02, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/97460-dav-pilkey-topped-canada-s-bestseller-lists-in-2024.html
Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025: Going Graphic
By Ed Nawotka
Apr 02, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97470-bologna-children-s-book-fair-2025-going-graphic.html
Somebody shoots first in the Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld trailer
The animated anthology series returns to Disney+ on Star Wars Day (May 4).
By Mary Kate Carr | April 2, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/star-wars-tales-of-the-underworld-trailer
Common Side Effects skewers big pharma with deadpan humor and expressive animation
Adult Swim's surreal new series centers on a cure-all drug that the government wants to keep under wraps.
By Kambole Campbell | January 27, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/common-side-effects-review-tv-adult-swim
Proxima doesn't speak in Endgame because Marvel reportedly didn't want to pay Carrie Coon more
The actor would have made a bigger deal about it, but didn't want to watch the movie.
By Drew Gillis | April 2, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/carrie-coon-avengers-endgame-pay
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
By Kyle Chayka
April 2, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-limits-of-ai-generated-miyazaki
The "Snow White" Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister
Placing the failure of the live-action remake largely at Rachel Zegler's feet is almost perversely flattering to her.
By Jessica Winter
April 1, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-snow-white-controversy-like-our-zeitgeist-is-both-stupid-and-sinister
SOUTH PARK Season 27 teases new war with Canada and the return of Starvin' Marvin
Taimur Dar on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/south-park-season-27-announced/
Awesome Con Celebrates the Geek in All of Us
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly March 31, 2025
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/03/awesome-con-celebrates-the-geek-in-all-of-us/
Komicxs Dialectic [Uncivilized Books; Tom Kaczynski]
Drawing With Gabrielle Bell
Mar 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzQXoqRrUAY
#217: Anthony Cleveland and Alex Cormack - Buried Long, Long Ago
Justin Soderberg Apr 2, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn5Hh_hOXKQ
Ithacon Preview With Don Simpson
word balloon April 2 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJMFMDFgWk8
Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation (with Sean T. Collins and Julia Gfrörer)
Jesse Hawken
Junk Filter 208: April 1 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/jesse-hawken/episodes/208-Francis-Ford-Coppola-The-Conversation-with-Sean-T--Collins-and-Julia-Gfrrer-e30vlue
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Metro Weekly recommends Awesome Con
Awesome Con Celebrates the Geek in All of Us
"Awesome Con is a happy place for a lot of people," says Heather Barnes of the annual event landing in D.C. April 4 to 6.
Metro Weekly March 31, 2025
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/03/awesome-con-celebrates-the-geek-in-all-of-us/
PR: SPX Announces Funny Pages at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/1/2025
Retailer op-ed: Trump vs. the American comics industry
by Jacob Shapiro
04/01/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/retailer-op-ed-trump-vs-the-american-comics-industry/
GoComics, What to Expect April 1
D. D. Degg
March 31, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/31/gocomics-what-to-expect-april-1st/
The Miyazaki Maelstrom: OpenAI's Ghibli Craze Signals a Troubling Future for Hollywood
Steven Zeitchik
April 1, 2025
VITO x DINO: Episode 13 - x Rob Guillory
Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel
Mar 31, 2025 VITO X DINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9RUokriws
Comics And Podcasts Part 2 With Dean Haspiel and Vito Delsante
wordballoon
March 31 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/_CuE6pIqbRM
DSTLRY INKS DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH PRH
First Publisher to Sign with PRH Since Diamond Bankruptcy
Posted by Brigid Alverson on March 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59208/dstlry-inks-distribution-deal-prh
WHAT KILLED COMICS JOURNALISM?
Rob Salkowitz on March 31, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59211/what-killed-comics-journalism
DreamWorks Animator Adrien Liv Shares 11 Important Tips for Success in the Business
Adrien Liv
March 31, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/dreamworks-animator-adrien-liv-shares-11-important-tips-for-success-in-the-business/
Animation Guild Members Envision Kids with Serious Illnesses as Superheroes in Second Exhibit
Mercedes Milligan
VIZ Media Shifts Leadership with Sasaki as Chairman, Woods as CEO
Mercedes Milligan
March 31, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/viz-media-shifts-leadership-with-sasaki-as-chairman-woods-as-ceo/
Chris Ware, artist of the unfulfilled, on how comics map the mind
As his strange, brilliant work goes on show in Barcelona, the graphic novelist explains why human life is never boring
Edwin Heathcote
Financial Times March 27 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/a968ab7f-fed8-490f-a475-7fda749dec07
Comics Sans Frontières. My remarks.
Pedro Moura
Yellow Fast & Crumble Apr 1, 2025
https://yellowfastcrumble.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/comics-sans-frontieres-my-remarks/
America!: Wake Up, This Decade Has Just Been an Elaborate April Fools'!
By Ali Fitzgerald
April 1, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/america-wake-up-this-decade-has-just-been-an-elaborate-april-fools
Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Tyler Chin-Tanner from A Wave Blue World
Pop Culture Squad April 1 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is38eJq5jZc
Words, Images, & Worlds with Jonathan Cowen
Jason DeHart
Mar 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpmp5P8-vDk
Tom King Talks DC Comics TV And Film
word balloon April 1 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29z2wTqUbVY
Comics and Podcasts With Mike Gold
wordballoon
Mar 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m7zAOELNDA
My BroadcastInking ULTRAMEGA commission
Declan Shalvey
Mar 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgoiKDprQ5Q
Inking HELLBOY commission
Declan Shalvey
Mar 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOsOMXr9JJs
Medical assistance for Marvel DC artist Thomas Tenney
Christina Durbin is organizing this fundraiser.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-help-for-marvel-dc-artist-thomas-tenney-and-family
Why "The Virtual Memories Show" is Essential Listening for Comics
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 24 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/why-the-virtual-memories-show-is-essential-listening-for-comics
Graphic Novelist Interview - Elettra Stamboulis on Ai Weiwei [Zodiac]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 21 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/graphic-novelist-interview---elettra-stamboulis
WW2 Graphic Novelist: Danny Jalil [Singapore; Lieutenant Adnan and the Last Regiment]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 19 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/ww2-graphic-novelist-danny-jalil
Lieutenant Adnan and the Last Regiment [Singapore; writer Danny Jalil and illustrator Zaki Ragman]
Melanie Oliveiro
Daily Cuts 05 Feb 2024
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/daily-cuts/lietenant-adnan-and-last-regiment-4100331
WW2 Graphic Novel Creator: Victoria Stebleva [The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a Survivor of Bergen-Belsen]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 27 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/ww2-graphic-novel-creator-victoria-stebleva
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Our Chief Executive Karen Pollock CBE was on BBC Breakfast this morning to discuss how Holocaust survivor Peter Lantos BEM's new graphic novel is making his testimony accessible to young people today. [The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a Survivor of Bergen-Belsen]
Holocaust Educational Trust (UK) Jan 7 2025
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1295205364860956
Listen: Two Women in a Hotel Room go to WonderCon 2025
Heidi MacDonald and writer Amy Chu 04/01/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/listen-two-women-in-a-hotel-room-go-to-wondercon-2025/
https://soundcloud.com/heidi-macdonald-3/four-women-in-a-hotel-room-wondercon-2025