Wednesday, May 14, 2025

I'll be in conversation with Sacha Mardou, author of Past Tense, a graphic memoir about unpacking family secrets with IFS therapy. MK Czerwiec, author of Taking Turns, a graphic memoir about being a nurse during the AIDS crisis, will moderate.

NYC: I'll be in conversation with Emi Nietfeld on May 20 @7pm at The Nonbinarian Bookstore in Brooklyn. We'll be drawing, too, yay! Please RSVP here.

DC: I'm reading at Little District Books on June 5 @7pm.

Philly: I'm reading at Partners & Son on June 28 @6pm. And I'll be at ALA that weekend on a panel about LGBTQ+ literature. Come say hello!

Virginia: I'm at Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church on October 26 at 2pm.

If you'd like to check out my graphic memoir, Everything is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder, before the event, it's at your local bookshop or indie books.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/10-11/2025

Peter Sanderson
A Road Not Taken [ "What If…Captain America Were Revived Today?"]
Sanderson on Comics May 11, 2025
https://substack.com/inbox/post/163349602

BL Anime Studio Grizzly Dissolves
2025-05-05 Anita Tai
Studio animated Twittering Birds Never Fly film, Yarichin Bitch-bu OAV
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-05-05/bl-anime-studio-grizzly-dissolves/.224083

Finding the Human Heart in a Cyberpunk World: An Interview with YOUR FORMA Director Takaharu Ozaki
by Richard Eisenbeis, May 5th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2025-05-05/finding-the-human-heart-in-a-cyberpunk-world-an-interview-with-your-forma-director-takaharu-ozaki/.222086

Answerman: How Will President Trump's Proposed Foreign Film Tariff Affect Anime?
by Jerome Mazandarani, May 9th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/answerman/2025-05-09/.224282

Exhibit walk-thru with editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in Switzerland!
A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video
Liza Donnelly
Seeing Things May 10, 2025
https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/exhibit-walk-thru-with-editorial

Right Decision by Left Cartoonist [Telnaes]
D. D. Degg
May 9, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/09/right-decision-by-left-cartoonist/

Creator Interview: Cavan Scott [Gwenpool]
Evan
The Comics Collective May 9 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/creator-interview-cavan-scott/id1493143752?i=1000706966527

This shall not stand [Mark Trail letter]
Shirin Ikram,
Washington Post May 10 2025: A15.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/invasive-bamboo-verklempt-dyngus-vance-alijah-arenas/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred thirty-six | Mark Waid, part one
May 10, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/old-data

DC High Volume: Batman | Interviews with Batman Actor Jason Spisak & DC's Mike Pallotta | DC
Coy Jandreau
DC
Apr 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKF6MvobiOU

Vladimir Popov | Star Wars Week [colorist]
Justin Soderberg
May 9, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast #224
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv51M8p35yA

Words, Images, & Worlds: Student Government Edition, AKA How to YA [Joe Eisma, Dave Justus, and Lilah Sturges]
Jason DeHart
May 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF9-4WNmdjQ

Off Panel #498: Committed to Beef with Jonathan Hickman
May 5 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-498-committed-to-beef-with-jonathan-hickman

Jonathan Hickman Confirms Ultimate Universe Was Meant For Donny Cates
08 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jonathan-hickman-confirms-ultimate-universe-was-meant-for-donny-cates/

Jonathan Hickman's X-Men, His "Most Disappointing Creative Experience"
09 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jonathan-hickman-x-men-his-most-disappointing-creative-experience/

Jack Katz, Pioneer of the Graphic Novel, Is Dead at 97
Hailed as a visionary (if a difficult one), he drew inspiration for his multivolume work "The First Kingdom" from no less a model than Homer.
By Alex Williams
May 9, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/arts/jack-katz-dead.html

Liam McGuire
Interview: Justin Gradin Talks Pageant from Fantagraphics
Comic Frontier May 9, 2025
https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/interview-justin-gradin-talks-pageant-from-fantagraphics

Darryl Cunningham's "Elon Musk – American Oligarch" gets English edition
John Freeman on May 9, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/darryl-cunninghams-elon-musk-american-oligarch-gets-english-edition/

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade [ Craig Thompson's graphic memoir, Ginseng Roots]
Andrew Limbong
May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5137011/ginseng-roots-craig-thompson-blankets

The Brooding Elric
P. Craig Russell
Behind the Drawing Board May 11 2025
https://www.waynealanharold.com/watch/v/the-brooding-elric

Diamond Comics Releases Addresses For Every Single Comic Book Store
Rich Johnston
10 May 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-releases-addresses-for-every-single-comic-book-store/

Cooking with Comics
Zach Welhouse, (Moderator), Shauntee Burns-Simpson, Deb Aoki, Heidi Knuth, Vivian Truong.
BooklistOnline and GNCRT
May 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIeApyAhwDU

The Thursday Island Reading Series Hosts Its First Ever Children's Event with Acclaimed Cartoonist Lincoln Peirce, Author of Big Nate, on Thursday, May 29 at 6pm at Twice Sold Tales
May 3, 2025
https://dailybulldog.com/arts/the-thursday-island-reading-series-hosts-its-first-ever-childrens-event-with-acclaimed-cartoonist-lincoln-peirce-author-of-big-nate-on-thursday-may-29-at-6pm-at-twice-sold-tales/

Sandy Murphy: Bringing Lake Champlain to Life Through Graphic Novels ["Our Scrumptious Lake PHYTOTASTIC!"; environmental]
Barney Smith
StoryComic May 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv7gK8_7_fM

News from Wayno
https://waynocartoons.substack.com/

Book of the Month June 2005: Glasgow/Northern Looking Glass
Julie Gardham
Glasgow University Library's Special Collections Department June 2005
https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/library/files/special/exhibns/month/june2005.html

A short history of Mexican political satire
Sheryl Losser
May 4, 2025
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/a-history-of-mexican-political-cartoons/

Villagers thought Spanish cartoonist was a WW2 spy [Mario Armengol; UK]
Simon Ward
BBC News, East Midlands May 7 2025
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql6glgd3ezo

Rare Giles cartoons fetch £8,500
ORIGINAL drawings by Daily Express cartoonist Carl Giles have made £8,500 at auction.
Mar 4, 2013
https://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/381621/Rare-Giles-cartoons-fetch-8-500

The nation's favourite cartoonist: A tribute to Ronald 'Carl' Giles
IN ITS 116-year history many famous names have written for the Daily Express.
By Neil Clark
Sep 24, 2016
https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/714007/nation-favourite-cartoonist-tribute-ronald-carl-giles

Daily Express cartoonist who mocked Hitler so successfully he was put on a Nazi death list
The 'Cockney Disney' Carl Giles ridiculed the Nazis as a bunch of clowns... no wonder they wanted to murder him
By Tim Benson – Cartoon Expert
Apr 26, 2025
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2046755/Carl-Giles-Expres-Cartoonist-Tim-Benson

The Daily Express cartoonist who mocked the Kaiser with mud in WW1 trenches
Not content with ridiculing the Kaiser in the pages of the Daily Express, Sidney Strube joined up, serving with distinction in the trenches of the First World War before returning to Fleet Street as the highest paid journalist of the 1930s
By Tim Benson Cartoon Expert
Apr 22, 2025
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2045147/daily-express-cartoonist-sidney-strube-kaiser-ww1

Countdown to Lawless 2025: An Interview with Hunt Emerson
Richard Sheaf on May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/countdown-to-lawless-2025-an-interview-with-hunt-emerson/

CREATOR PROFILE: HUNT EMERSON
http://paulgravett.com/profiles/creator/hunt_emerson

You are Maggie Thatcher: a dole-playing game
Titan Books 1987
by Pat Mills (Author), Hunt Emerson (Illustrator)

Largecow
Hunt Emerson
https://largecow.com/

Colossive Press Announces a Birthday Bash at Gosh! [UK]
John Freeman on May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/colossive-press-announces-a-birthday-bash-at-gosh/

Creating Commando Comics: "For You the War is Over" – a Writer's Commentary
Andrew Knighton May 10, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/creating-commando-comics-for-you-the-war-is-over-a-writers-commentary/

WWI cartoonist's satirical look at war [Archie Gilkison; Scotland]
7 October 2014
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-scotland-29521787

Are these Walt Disney's earliest drawings?: WW1 scrapbook hints at Mickey Mouse origins
A ONE-of-a-kind scrapbook containing legendary cartoonist Walt Disney's earliest drawings that hint at the origins of Mickey Mouse has emerged for sale for a staggering £130,000.
Nov 11, 2015
https://www.express.co.uk/news/history/618650/WW1-scrapbook-hints-at-origins-of-Mickey-Mouse

Remembering 'Dry Bones' cartoonist Yaakov Kirschen, who sketched Israeli feats and foibles for 50 years
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
JEWISH TELEGRAPHIC AGENCY May 8, 2025
https://www.jta.org/2025/05/08/obituaries/remembering-dry-bones-cartoonist-yaakov-kirschen-who-sketched-israeli-feats-and-foibles-for-50-years

Meet the man who wants to draw 'all the restaurants' in Philly
John Donohue, a former New Yorker editor, started off sketching his dish rack. He has moved on to restaurant facades.
Bedatri D. Choudhury
May 5, 2025,
https://www.inquirer.com/food/john-dohnohue-all-the-restaurants-drawings-philadelphia-gleaners-20250505.html

Pick Up This Book and Be Spirited Away
"The Village Beyond the Mist" may or may not have inspired the Studio Ghibli masterpiece, but it's transporting nonetheless.
By Gregory Maguire
A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2025, Page 22 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Spirited Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/books/review/sachiko-kashiwaba-the-village-beyond-the-mist.html

Whitesboro Artist Named Finalist for National Cartoonists Society Awards [Phil Miller; comic book]
By: Zach Lewis
May 9, 2025
https://www.wktv.com/news/entertainment/whitesboro-artist-named-finalist-for-national-cartoonists-society-awards/article_487131a8-3107-4265-847f-de7a40da4f8c.html

"They Deserve to Get More Support": The Comics Courier's Tiffany Babb on Building a New Space for Comics Criticism
David Harper
May 7, 2025
https://sktchd.com/interview/tiffany-babb-comics-courier-interview/

Avengers: Age of Ultron Anniversary Vid Reminds You It Exists Marvel didn't really give Age of Ultron any flowers for its 10th anniversary, probably because it's both unncessary and strangely vital to the MCU. By Justin Carter
May 10, 2025 https://gizmodo.com/avengers-age-of-ultron-anniversary-vid-reminds-you-it-exists-2000600544

X-Men was "the most disappointing creative experience" Jonathan Hickman has ever had, the Marvel writer reveals
Graeme McMillan, Editor
May 10 2025 Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-xmen-jonathan-hickman-krakoa-marvel-disappointing

A new Marvel comic book unearths horror stories first published over 50 years ago [Tower of Shadows]
Ayesha Rascoe
NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday May 11, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5382390/a-new-marvel-comic-book-unearths-horror-stories-first-published-over-50-years-ago
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/05/20250511_wesun_a_new_marvel_comic_book_unearths_horror_stories_first_published_over_50_years_ago.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5382390

Sunday, May 11, 2025

NPR on Tower of Shadows reprint

A new Marvel comic book unearths horror stories first published over 50 years ago [Tower of Shadows]

Ayesha Rascoe

Weekend Edition Sunday May 11, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/11/nx-s1-5382390/a-new-marvel-comic-book-unearths-horror-stories-first-published-over-50-years-ago

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/05/20250511_wesun_a_new_marvel_comic_book_unearths_horror_stories_first_published_over_50_years_ago.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5382390

May 31: Angela Hsieh at Fantom Comics

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJMGF6hxZeC/?img_index=1

Saturday, May 10, 2025

NPR on Craig Thompson's graphic memoir, Ginseng Roots

Where does the ginseng in your tea come from? A new graphic memoir explains the trade ]

Andrew Limbong

May 9, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5137011/ginseng-roots-craig-thompson-blankets

That darn Mark Trail

This shall not stand [Mark Trail letter]

Shirin Ikram, Potomac

Washington Post May 10 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/09/invasive-bamboo-verklempt-dyngus-vance-alijah-arenas/

The April 20 "Mark Trail" made a pitch for replanting native trees in New York.

I would support implementing this idea in the D.C. area, which had a large number of native trees and plants when I first came here 40 years ago. They have since been increasingly replaced by bamboo.

Though the National Zoo might be interested in this abundance of bamboo for its panda guests, neither the birds nor the bees native to this area see any added benefit.

It is unfortunate that bamboo cannot be forbidden by executive orders!

Telnaes and Donnelly talk in their exhibit in Switzerland

Exhibit walk-thru with editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes in Switzerland!

A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things May 10, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/exhibit-walk-thru-with-editorial

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/9/2025

In Memoriam: Jim Smith [animator]

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 6, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/in-memoriam-jim-smith/

Jack Kirby Exhibit at Skirball Cultural Center in LA

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 7, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/jack-kirby-exhibit-at-skirball-cultural-center-in-la/

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 8, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-127/

Butch Guice: A Commemoration of His Comic Covers

Amanda Sheriff

Overstreet Access News & Scoop May 8, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/butch-guice-a-commemoration-of-his-comic-covers/

The week in Diamond Bankruptcy: filings and fees and questions

Heidi MacDonald on 05/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-week-in-diamond-bankruptcy-filings-and-fees-and-questions/

The Beat Digest 05/09/25: Schreier to reboot X-MEN?

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-050925/

NYC Paper Getting Comics Page

D. D. Degg

May 9, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/09/nyc-paper-getting-comics-page/

"Comics Village", new newspaper strips page, lands at New York's Village Revue next month

John Freeman on May 9, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/comics-village-new-newspaper-strips-page-lands-at-new-yorks-village-revue-next-month/

From London to the New Yorker: Gabrielle Drolet [Canada]

Eshal Naqvi,

May 5, 2025

https://westerngazette.ca/culture/from-london-to-the-i-new-yorker-i-gabrielle-drolet/article_581debc8-f516-43ee-a9e1-5f593269d7de.html

Maison du Dessin de Presse

Geneva, Switzerland

https://mddp.ch/

Ann Telnaes & Liza Donnelly | Chronique d'une Amérique au féminin Exhibition guide [Exhibition guide Ann Telnaes & Liza Donnelly]

Geneva, Switzerland: Maison du Dessin de Presse 2025

https://mddp.ch/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/guide-trad-version-anglais.pdf

BCW Comic Book Bags And Boards Being Hit By 150% Tariffs

08 May 2025 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bcw-comic-book-bags-and-boards-being-hit-by-150-tariffs/

France To Create Its Own Wonder Woman/Harley Quinn Graphic Novel

France to create its own Wonder Woman and Harley Quinn graphic novel by Sylvain Runberg, and Miki Montlo from Urban Comics

07 May 2025 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/france-to-create-its-own-wonder-woman-harley-quinn-graphic-novel/

Did a TV Show Hurt Your Feelings? 'Fix-Its' Offer Justice

By Connie Chang

Illustrations by Chris Retsina

A version of this article appears in print on May 8, 2025, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Fan Fiction 'Fixes' the Plot.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/arts/television/did-a-tv-show-hurt-you-fix-its-offer-justice.html

'Ted' Animated Series From Seth MacFarlane a Go at Peacock

Mark Wahlberg and Amanda Seyfried will voice their characters from the film franchise in the show, which will sit alongside a live-action prequel series.

Rick Porter

May 9, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ted-animated-series-peacock-seth-macfarlane-1236212073/

Tout est tranquille – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | May 9, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/tout-est-tranquille-this-weeks-links/

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 671: Latinx Comix As Alternative Histories [exhibit interviews]

Calvin Reid

on 05/02/2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1366

INTERVIEW: The Story Behind Manga Mavericks Books

By wendeego

May 6, 2025

https://yattatachi.com/manga-mavericks-books-interview

Smash Pages Q&A | Taki Soma on 'Alienated'

The creator of 'Sleeping While Standing' and more discusses her newest miniseries from Comixology Originals.

JK Parkin

May 6, 2025

https://smashpages.net/2025/05/06/smash-pages-qa-taki-soma-on-alienated/

"A Single Panel Can Depict a Multitude of Narratives" – Chris King Talks 'Cold Chips', Psychogeography in Comics, and Cross-Media Practice

Andy Oliver

May 7, 2025

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/chris-king-interview/

Eadweard Muybridge and the Making of the Motion Picture [Guy Delisle]

A new comic book is as much a social history of photography and its relationship to culture during the 19th century as it is one man's life story.

Dan Schindel May 4, 2025

https://hyperallergic.com/1008892/eadweard-muybridge-and-the-making-of-the-motion-picture/

Ginseng Roots by Craig Thompson review – a genre-defying graphic novel about class, religion and globalisation

Adam Rutherford

8 May 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/08/ginseng-roots-by-craig-thompson-review-a-genre-defying-graphic-novel-about-class-religion-and-globalisation

Beth Hetland's 'Tender' wins 2025 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize

May 6, 2025

https://www.psu.edu/news/university-libraries/story/beth-hetlands-tender-wins-2025-lynd-ward-graphic-novel-prize

Quimby's New Owners Pledge To Keep Wicker Park Bookstore Going For Years To Come

Peter Miles Bergman and Cody Kasselman have bought the beloved bookstore, which has sold self-published zines, comics and graphic novels for three decades.

by Quinn Myers

Block Club Chicago, May 1, 2025

https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/05/01/quimbys-new-owners-pledge-to-keep-wicker-park-bookstore-going-for-years-to-come/

X-Men Monday #296 – Fabian Nicieza Talks 'Godzilla vs. X-Men'

Chris Hassan

May 5, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/05/x-men-monday-296-fabian-nicieza-godzilla/

Robert Kirkman, Benito Cereno, and E.J. Su discuss how friendship, art influenced 'Blood & Thunder'

Collier Jennings

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/blood-thunder-creator-qa/

Paul Jenkins on Sentry in 'Thunderbolts*', mental health, and the power behind the pain

David Brooke

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/paul-jenkins-sentrys-thunderbolts-qa/

Jonny Quest meets Space Ghost in Joe Casey's sci-fi adventure 'Space Quest'

David Brooke

May 6, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/06/space-quest-joey-casey-feature/

Rintaro wins top prize at Tezuka Osamu manga awards

ASAHI SHIMBUN May 4, 2025 https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15726244

Facility sought to create national manga and anime archive

By TOMOKI TAJIMA

ASAHI SHIMBUN August 30, 2024

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15408117

Jackson "Butch" Guice

June 27, 1961 — May 1, 2025

Hodapp Funeral Home (May 5 2025):

https://www.hodappfuneralhome.com/obituaries/jackson-guice

"This Mystical Experience That is Actually Very Unpleasant": Sommer Browning Interviews KAYLA E.

Today on SOLRAD, Sommer Browning interviews Kayla E about PRECIOUS RUBBISH

Sommer Browning

SOLRAD May 5, 2025

https://solrad.co/this-mystical-experience-that-is-actually-very-unpleasant-sommer-browning-interviews-kayla-e

Graphic novel shares Syrian survivor's story of imprisonment [ Al-Fazia افلظ یع – the Horror: Surviving Assad's Prisons; Canada; Tobi Dahmen]

By Katy DeCoste

May 7, 2025

UVic News https://news.uvic.ca/2025/graphic-novel-shares-syrian-survivors-story-of-imprisonment/

Chasing Dreams and Finding Passion: An Interview with Jonathan L. Bowen on 'The Comic Shop'

Jonathan L. Bowen discusses his upcoming film, 'The Comic Shop,' starring Jesse Metcalfe, Tristin Mays, Micah Giovanni and many others talents.

Jay Lang

05/02/2025

https://v13.net/2025/05/jonathan-l-bowen-interview-the-comic-shop/

From Readymade to Boilerplate: Robert Sikoryak's Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel

Apr 30, 2025 By: Lisa Siraganian