Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/14/2025

Local Comic Shop Day® set for September 27 with a full revamp

Heidi MacDonald on 05/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/local-comic-shop-day-set-for-september-27-with-a-full-revamp/

 

COMICSPRO UNVEILS REVAMPED LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY

'Shop Nerdy. Shop Local: Local Comic Shop Day 2025'

  Milton Griepp on May 14, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59546/comicspro-unveils-revamped-local-comic-shop-day

 

APRIL 2025 CIRCANA BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 AUTHOR, MANGA, SUPERHERO GRAPHIC NOVELS

Premier Editions, Manga by '#DRCL Midnight Children' Creator, New BL Manhwa Liven Up the Charts

  Brigid Alverson on May 13, 2025  https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/59542/april-2025-circana-bookscan-top-20-author-manga-superhero-graphic-novels

 

Krysten Ritter returning as Jessica Jones in DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/jessica-jones-born-again/

 

Two Ladies and a Chap [Ann Telnaes, Liza Donnelly, Patrick Chappatte]

D. D. Degg

May 14, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/14/two-ladies-and-a-chap/

 

The "Genève reconnaissante" Medal Awarded to Patrick Chappatte, president of Freedom Cartoonists.

Press Release from the City of Geneva, March 6, 2025

March 11, 2025

https://freedomcartoonists.com/geneve-reconnaissante-medal-patrick-chappatte/

 

Book Review: Tell Me a Story Where The Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund by Caitlin McGurk.

Alex Dueben

International Journal of Comic Art blog May 14, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/05/book-review-tell-me-story-where-bad.html

 

Interview with Holler Author, and Climate Justice Activist, Denali Sai Nalamalapu

by Cassy Lee

International Journal of Comic Art blog May 14, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/05/interview-with-holler-author-Denali-Sai-Nalamalapu.html

 

Denali Sai Nalamalapu . Holler: A Graphic Memoir of Rural Resistance, Timber Press, 2025. ISBN: 9781643265230, $21.99. https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/denali-sai-nalamalapu/holler/9781643265230/?lens=timber-press

 

We Stand On Guard Sales Jump Amidst US/Canada Tariff Tensions; We Stand On Guard is a best seller on Amazon Canada.

Nicole Drum

February 8, 2025

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/we-stand-on-guard-sales-jump-amidst-us-canada-tariff-tensions/

 

Collingwood woman's graphic novel aims to Shrink obesity stigma; Working for a suicide hotline helped Rachel M. Thomas find a path to psychology and well-being, her arts upbringing helped her combine art and health for a graphic novel [UK]

Marg. Bruineman Feb 8, 2025

https://www.collingwoodtoday.ca/arts-culture/collingwood-womans-graphic-novel-aims-to-shrink-obesity-stigma-10199967

 

More than a fandom: How comics and anime impact young Pakistanis' identity and mental well-being

They call Geek Con a judgment-free space where they can freely express themselves, connect with like-minded fans, and cosplay characters who resonate with them.

Sarah B Haider

10 Feb, 2025

https://images.dawn.com/news/1193224/more-than-a-fandom-how-comics-and-anime-impact-young-pakistanis-identity-and-mental-well-being

 

Opinion: Why Comics Criticism Still Matters

Tiffany Babb

The Beat 05/14/2025 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/opinion-why-comics-criticism-still-matters/

 

Wednesday Spill: Otto Soglow's New Yorker Manhole Drawings

Inkspill May 14, 2025michael Maslin

https://michaelmaslin.com/wednesday-spill-otto-soglows-new-yorker-manhole-drawings/

 

REPORT: BICS 2025 by the numbers

Heidi MacDonald on 05/14/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-bics-2025-by-the-numbers/

 

Time-Lapse Pioneer: Journalist Robert Ito profiles graphic novelist Guy Delisle, whose latest, Muybridge, departs from his usual material to tackle the biography of photographer Eadweard Muybridge.

Robert Ito

Apr 29, 2025

https://www.altaonline.com/california-book-club/a64265334/guy-delisle-muybridge-biography-photographer-eadweard-muybridge/

 

Fear and prescience from the Third Reich

Mickle Maher's adaptation of Jason Lutes's Berlin gets a stunning world premiere at Court Theatre.

by Rob Silverman Ascher

April 30, 2025

https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/theater/theater-review/berlin-court-theatre/

 

Review: Court Theatre Stages a Masterful Adaptation of Jason Lutes' Berlin

June Sawyers

April 30, 2025

https://thirdcoastreview.com/2025/04/30/stages-review-court-theatre-berlin

 

The Future Is Now: A Review of "Berlin" at Court Theatre

by Mary Wisniewski | May 1, 2025  https://www.newcitystage.com/2025/05/01/the-future-is-now-a-review-of-berlin-at-court-theatre/

 

May 13, 2025 by Gil Roth

Peter Kuper

Virtual Memories Show 638:

https://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-638-peter-kuper

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_638_-_Peter_Kuper.mp3

 

Director Lino DiSalvo & Producer Emmanuel Jacomet Offer a Sneak Peek at Mediawan's Cannes Title, 'Twisted'

Ramin Zahed

May 13, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/director-lino-disalvo-producer-emmanuel-jacomet-offer-a-sneak-peek-at-cannes-animated-title-twisted/

 

'Wild Thornberrys' Creator Steve Pepoon Dies Age 68

Animation Magazine

May 13, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/wild-thornberrys-creator-steve-pepoon-dies-age-68/

 

In Memory Of Stephen Robert Pepoon 1956-2025

Dengel and Son Mortuary May 2025

https://www.dengelmortuary.com/obituaries/stephen-pepoon

 

"Tripwire Comics Presents" expands Its line with "Into White: The Art Of George Pratt", first In a series of Art Of books

John Freeman on May 13, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/tripwire-comics-presents-expands-its-line-with-into-white-the-art-of-george-pratt-first-in-a-series-of-art-of-books/

 

Lakes International Comic Art Festival partners on Qusasat Comics & Digital Production Training Camp in Bethlehem

John Freeman on May 13, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/lakes-international-comic-art-festival-partners-on-qusasat-comics-digital-production-training-camp-in-bethlehem/

 

A Bethlehem Training Camp For Palestinian And British Comics Creators

13 May 2025   Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/a-bethlehem-training-camp-for-palestinian-and-british-comics-creators/

 

Diamond Seeks Bankruptcy Process 120 Day Extension To September 11th

13 May 2025  Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-seeks-bankruptcy-process-120-day-extension-to-september-11th/

 

The Daily Heller: Making Graphic Wit While D.C. Burns [Steve Brodner]

Steven Heller

May 14 2025 https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-making-graphic-wit-while-washington-d-c-burns/

 

39 of the Latest and Greatest Graphic Novel Fiction Series

by Adam Fisher, Lane Libraries, Butler Co, OH

May 13, 2025 https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/latest-and-greatest-graphic-novel-fiction-series

 

8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels

by Sara Smith, District Librarian

May 13, 2025 https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/emotion-drama-and-all-the-feelings-manga-fiction-series

 

Calista Brill and Nilah Magruder Tell All About 'Creaky Acres,' Their New Middle Grade Graphic Novel

by Brigid Alverson

May 05, 2025 https://www.slj.com/story/newsfeatures/Calista-Brill-and-Nilah-Magruder-on-Their-Middle-Grade-Graphic-Novel-Creaky-Acres

 

Reviews: Donald Duck: Vacation Parade

Tom Shapira | May 14, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/reviews/donald-duck-vacation-parade/

 

Talking Nude 5-12-2025

ONTV-Local Voice  https://soundcloud.com/user-539915961/75033a2

On today's episode Jason and Kathy welcome in Mad Magazines very own Tom Richmond. We talked about Stephen King, The Shining and Batman favorites.

 

Creator Signings - Local Comic Shop Day 2025
Marco Davanzo
Comics Pro  May 12, 2025
https://vimeo.com/1083717043

Bugging Out! Peter Kuper and friends celebrate INterSECTS | LIVE from NYPL
Peter Kuper,  Jessica L. Ware,  Elena Tartaglia,  Joseph Yoon,
The New York Public Library  May 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmbVvKaevM
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/05/25/bugging-out-peter-kuper-and-friends-celebrate-intersects

Berger, Karen, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee. 2024.
Carmilla with Karen Berger, Amy Chu, and Soo Lee.
New York Public Library (August 22): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qyTENTl6cs

Chu, Amy, Arielle Jovellanos, Soo Lee, and Amy Reeder. 2024.
Breaking the Panel: Women Reshaping the Comic Universe.
New York Public Library (June 24): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffz3w19JWmQ

Harrison, Bob and Mike Gold. 2025.
Live: With Special Guest Robert Venditti.
Pop Culture SquadCast (May 13): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVCpEQx896Y

Dollard, Terence. 2025.
Comic Culture at HeroesCon 2024, part 4 [Chris Sparks and Team Cul De Sac; Allison Sone; Jeff Messer; Francesco Crivelli].
Comic Culture (May 14): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxNqIT97uE

Another Lackluster Quarter for Webtoon
By Jim Milliot
May 14, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/financial-reporting/article/97769-another-lackluster-quarter-for-webtoon.html

Constant, Paul. 2024.
Artist tells her family's complex story in comic book-style memoir [Tessa Hulls].
Seattle Times (March 1): https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/artist-tells-her-familys-complex-story-in-comic-book-style-memoir/

Macdonald, Moira. 2025.
Seattle's Tessa Hulls says Pulitzer-winning book will be her only one.
Seattle Times (May 13): https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/books/seattle-author-tessa-hulls-pulitzer-winner-says-shes-one-and-done/

KAY O'NEILL for A SONG FOR YOU & I
Comix Experience
May 14, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FULmLNnoT5o

Gavin Guidry Covers it all
word balloon
May 13, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjHGiRAqMFs

Shell Shocked: Celebrating 40 Years of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Ben Bishop, Sarah Myer, and Mateus Santolouco
New York Public Library Jan 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeebqapLcG4


20 Bestselling Comics and Graphic Novels | The Most Sought-After Titles by Public Libraries
by LJ Reviews
May 14, 2025
https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/20-Bestselling-Comics-and-Graphic-Novels-The-Most-Sought-After-Titles-by-Public-Libraries

Krysten Ritter Joins 'Daredevil: Born Again' Season 2, Reprising Jessica Jones
Borys Kit
May 13, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-born-again-season-2-krysten-ritter-jessica-jones-1236215530/

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
All Things Considered May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5137011/ginseng-roots-craig-thompson-blankets
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/05/20250514_atc_where_does_the_ginseng_in_your_tea_come_from_a_new_graphic_memoir_explains_the_trade.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5137011

José Andrés Picked a Bad Time to Give His Daughter 'Charlotte's Web' [Mafalda]
A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2025, Page 5 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: José Andrés.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/books/review/jose-andres-change-the-recipe.html

José Andrés recommends Mafalda as under-appreciated

José Andrés Picked a Bad Time to Give His Daughter 'Charlotte's Web'

A version of this article appears in print on May 11, 2025, Page 5 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: José Andrés.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/books/review/jose-andres-change-the-recipe.html

for non-Times subscribers:

What's your favorite book no one else has heard of?

"Mafalda," by Quino. A lot of people have heard of it in the Spanish-speaking world, but it's still underappreciated globally. Mafalda is this little girl with big thoughts: funny, rebellious, deeply human. Through her, Quino taught generations how to question authority, care about the world and laugh at life's absurdities. That little comic strip shaped the way I see justice, politics, and yes, even food.

Richard Thompson remembered Comic Culture at HeroesCon 2024, part 4 [Team Cul-De-Sac]

Comic Culture at HeroesCon 2024, part 4 [Team Cul-De-Sac]

terence dollard

May 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxNqIT97uE

Part four of Comic Culture's annual pilgrimage to the largest comic-only convention, HeroesCon. Discover the charitable side of the convention, Team Cul-De-Sac, and more interviews from the show floor. Comic Culture is directed and crewed by students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I'm posting the video as producer/host and not as an official University publication.

For Jamal by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/13/2025

The Beat Digest 05/13/25: Cunningham's MUSK lands publisher

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/13/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-051325/

 

SEVEN STORIES PRESS TO PUBLISH DARRYL CUNNINGHAM'S 'ELON MUSK'

Cunningham Cited Fear of Legal Action for Delay in Finding a Publisher

  Brigid Alverson on May 12, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59524/seven-stories-press-publish-darryl-cunninghams-elon-musk

 

ICV2 DIRECT ADDS BOARD AND CARD GAME SELLER, EISNER-NOMINATED COMIC PUBLISHER

Key Vendors on ICv2 Direct

  ICv2  May 13, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59534/icv2-direct-adds-board-card-game-seller-eisner-nominated-comic-publisher

 

DIAMOND NET WORTH DECLINES AS BANKRUPTCY GOES ON

Over $2 Million Decline in Two Months

Milton Griepp on May 13, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59535/diamond-net-worth-declines-bankruptcy-goes-on

 

Diamond Comics Lawyers Claimed $17,000 To Go To New York Toy Fair

12 May 2025   Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-lawyers-claimed-17000-to-go-to-new-york-toy-fair/

 

AI Re-Imagines Cartoonists' IP [editorial cartooning theft; creators rights]

D. D. Degg 

May 12, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/12/ai-re-imagines-cartoonists-ip/

 

Leo Chronicles Succeeds Francis

D. D. Degg

May 12, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/12/leo-chronicles-succeeds-francis/

 

"The New York Trilogy" adapted by Paul Karasik

Brenda L. Horrigan

Martha's Vinyard Times May 12, 2025

https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/12/new-york-trilogy-adapted-paul-karasik-2/

 

RIP Mark Zingarelli, 1952-2025

John Kelly | May 12, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/rip-mark-zingarelli-1952-2025/

 

Reviews: Monkey Meat [Juni Ba; Senegal]

Tiffany Babb | May 13, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/reviews/monkey-meat/

 

THE ETERNAUT adaptation sparks renewed search for the missing grandchildren of creator

Dean Simons on 05/13/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-eternaut-adaptation-sparks-renewed-search-for-the-missing-grandchildren-of-creator/      

 

Netflix series reignites search for family of creator disappeared by Argentina dictatorship

 

El Eternauta writer and his daughters were disappeared by military in 70s, but his grandchildren could still be alive

Harriet Barber

 11 May 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/11/el-eternauta-netflix-series-hector-german-oesterheld

 

Steve Pepoon, Writer on 'The Simpsons,' 'The Wild Thornberrys' and 'ALF,' Dies at 68

Mike Barnes

May 13, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/steve-pepoon-dead-simpsons-wild-thornberrys-alf-1236215257/

 

Disney to open its next global theme park in Abu Dhabi [in print as Disney to open its next global theme park in United Arab Emirates]

Hannah Sampson

Washington Post May 11 2025: F6.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/07/disney-theme-park-abu-dhabi/

8 Literary 'Classics' to Enjoy With Your Spring Allergies [in print as 8 Literary Classics to Enjoy This Spring]

Pepita Sandwich

New York Times (May 11, 2025 ): AR4.

online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/arts/books-spring-allergies-illustrated.html

 

Liam Sharp Talks About Creating A Special Double Page Spread For Savage Sword Of Conan

May 10, 2025

https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/liam-sharp-talks-about-creating-a-special-double-page-spread-for-savage-sword-of-conan/ 

 

Liam Sharp Talks Writing And Drawing Conan

November 29, 2024

https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/liam-sharp-talks-writing-and-drawing-conan/

 

The Future of Editorial Cartoons, with Ann Telnaes and Patrick Chappatte.

A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things May 13

2025 https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-future-of-editorial-cartoons

Announcing the 2025 GLYPH Comics Awards winners!
Javier Perez on 05/13/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/announcing-the-2025-glyph-comics-awards-winners/

Youth comic books promote Americanism
American Legion February 07, 2025
https://www.legion.org/information-center/news/youth-programs/2025/february/youth-comic-books-promote-americanism

Terrific Thessaloniki! A Special Report by James Bacon [Greece comic con]
James Bacon on May 12, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/terrific-thessaloniki-a-special-report-by-james-bacon/

Vertical Eye Lie Popeye Debuts with Popeye Horizontal
D. D. Degg
: May 13, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/13/vertical-eye-lie-popeye-debuts-with-popeye-horizontal/

Hayley Atwell: Peggy Carter Is Still an 'Underserved Character'
Exclusive: Hayley Atwell explains why she'd love to get another crack at Captain Carter's shield in the new Avengers multiverse films.
  By David Crow | May 12, 2025
https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/hayley-atwell-peggy-carter-still-underserved-character/

There Are Over 27,000 Marvel Comics and Only One Man Has Read Them All - Seriously
Ambrose Tardive
Feb 7, 2025
https://screenrant.com/how-many-marvel-comics-to-read-publication-history-factoid/

The Future of Editorial Cartoons, with Ann Telnaes and Patrick Chappatte.

A recording from Liza Donnelly's live video

Liza Donnelly Seeing Things May 13 2025 https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/the-future-of-editorial-cartoons

WaPo on Disney UAE

Disney to open its next global theme park in Abu Dhabi [in print as Disney to open its next global theme park in United Arab Emirates]

Hannah Sampson

Washington Post May 11 2025: F6.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/07/disney-theme-park-abu-dhabi/

Bad Precedent by Daniel Boris

 

That Habeas Corpus Vibe by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/12/2025

 

Explaining forensic science in court with comics

February 5, 2025 by International School of Advanced Studies (SISSA) https://phys.org/news/2025-02-forensic-science-court-comics.html

 

Peru's Red Animation Studio Opens Canary Islands Outpost

Animation Magazine

May 9, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/perus-red-animation-studio-opens-canary-islands-outpost/

 

8th Ibero-American Animation Quirino Awards Reveal Winners

Mercedes Milligan

May 11, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/8th-ibero-american-animation-quirino-awards-reveal-winners/

 

Emerald City Comic Con, Noah Van Sciver reading and Fantagraphics Office Field Trip

Chris Anthony Diaz | May 10, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/emerald-city-comic-con-noah-van-sciver-reading-and-fantagraphics-office-field-trip/

 

Author turns Hanford's nuclear past into graphic novels with horror, humor [Tim Mulligan, "Snitchland"]

Cindy Hval

February 5, 2025 https://favs.news/author-turns-hanfords-nuclear-graphic-novels-horror-humor/

 

Joe Casey Writes  May 12, 2025

 STILL AT THE END OF THE LINE?  Where we find ourselves (Part Two of Two) [superhero comics]

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/still-at-the-end-of-the-line

 

A Mystical, Obsessive Encounter With the Ginseng Root

Craig Thompson's rhizomatic new graphic novel about the root's farming industry exposes the paradoxes of Trump's America.

   Noah Fischer

Hyperallergic May 11 2025

https://hyperallergic.com/1011467/a-mystical-obsessive-encounter-with-the-ginseng-root/             

 

Countdown to Lawless 2025: An Interview with Aly Fell [UK]

Richard Sheaf on May 11, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/countdown-to-lawless-2025-an-interview-with-aly-fell/

Aubrey, Dan. 2013.
Schlegel Draws the Line on Political Misbehavior.
Princeton Info (August 20):    https://www.communitynews.org/princetoninfo/artsandentertainment/schlegel-draws-the-line-on-political-misbehavior/article_54e0d0ba-c0e0-5c6c-b4c1-c6f410eda7ae.html
 
Degg, D. D. 2025.
Ralph Schlegel – RIP.
Daily Cartoonist (May 12): https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/12/ralph-schlegel-rip/

Purcell, Janet. 2013.
Cartoonist and illustrator Ralph Schlegel shows work at library.
Times of Trenton (August 23): https://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/2013/08/cartoonist_and_illustrator_ral.html

Unknown. 2025.
Ralph Alan Schlegel Obituary.
Murphy Funeral Home (May): https://www.murphyfh.com/obituaries/Ralph-Alan-Schlegel?obId=42381034

 

Interview: Steve Cuzor on THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE

Javier Perez on 05/12/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-steve-cuzor-on-the-red-badge-of-courage/

 

Graphic novel comes to life in a play within a play [Dog Man: The Musical]

Geoff Hanson, Aspen Daily News

Feb 6, 2025 https://www.aspendailynews.com/arts_and_entertainment/graphic-novel-comes-to-life-in-a-play-within-a-play/article_c68b704e-e441-11ef-8944-c75d6507102b.html

 

Local comic shops navigate distribution shortages [Diamond bankruptcy].

Ashley Cortez,  

Feb 5, 2025

https://fscollegian.com/2025/02/local-comic-shops-navigation-distribution-shortages/

 

The High Cost of Comic Books: Assemble a Collection Wisely

 Nerd Voices February 4, 2025

https://nerdbot.com/2025/02/04/the-high-cost-of-comic-books-assemble-a-collection-wisely/

Tasmin Humphries (ed.). 2017-.
The Aspiring Kryptonian [Superman blog].
https://theaspiringkryptonian.com/

Get A Head Start on the DCU With the Best Tom King Comics
TJ Pistilli
CBR May 10 2025
https://www.cbr.com/best-tom-king-comics-dcu-pre-req/

Springfield alum Brian Ahearn's unique comics spread awareness of wildlife conservation [Zoodraws].
Ty Sangesby
February 5, 2025 https://scstudentmedia.com/springfield-alum-brian-ahearns-unique-comics-spread-awareness-of-wildlife-conservation/

    Artists and fans flock to Taipei annual comics fair
        Staff writer, with CAN
Feb 07, 2025 page3
https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2025/02/07/2003831484

Daniel Best - Author May 12, 2025
Marvel Litigation: Gene Colan, Steve Ditko, Don Heck, Don Rico (estates of) & Larry Lieber. An Ongoing Series Looking At Who Claimed What.
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/marvel-litigation-gene-colan-steve

R. Crumb, King Of Underground Comics [2005 interview inc. Aline Kominsky Crumb]
Terry Gross
Fresh Air May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191991/r-crumb-king-of-underground-comics
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5167041886.mp3

[Film critic Justin Chang reviews the new Marvel film, Thunderbolts* (at 43:15)]
Fresh Air May 9, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/1250191991/r-crumb-king-of-underground-comics
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR5167041886.mp3

Rare WWII Posters by Bill Mauldin
Rob Stolzer
 Inkslingers May 12, 2025
https://inkslingers.ink/2025/05/12/rare-wwii-posters-by-bill-mauldin/

Making Comics Sales Data Work Harder, with Atom! Freeman
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
May 12, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGK1MJbGzFs

Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander Present J VS. K!
Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander
Little, Brown Young Readers
 Mar 19, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npfsQR2iOTg

John A. Walsh (ed.). 2025-.
Comic Book Paratexts.
Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University.
https://biblicon.org/cbp/

CBR's Tom King reading list ahead of the Superman movie

Get A Head Start on the DCU With the Best Tom King Comics

By  TJ Pistilli

CBR May 10 2025

https://www.cbr.com/best-tom-king-comics-dcu-pre-req/

Cara Gormally book tour starts tonight on Zoom

Book tour!

First up: zoom book launch May 12 @7pm EST–sign up here for the zoom link!

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

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

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