Gib Crockett's original art, ties of friendship, and the ephemeralness of editorial cartooning

by Mike Rhode

 I was looking up information on Gib Crockett after buying the FDR drawing previously posted here. It led me down a rabbit hole, as cartooning history often does. My previous posts on him* are barely worth linking to.

This drawing** popped up in my search: Gib Crockett Washington Star Cartoonist Signed Humorous Sketch Surgeon & Nurse - it was very reasonably priced and hit two of my interests - DC cartoonists and medicine. The description read in part, 

 This humorous sketch, drawn in pencil by Gib Crockett (1912-2000), political cartoonist for the Washington Star, was a gift to my grandfather (the "Walter" mentioned in the caption). Gib Crockett and my grandfather were friends and played squash together. My grandfather was a member of the University Club in Washington, DC. and passed away in 1987. I do not know when this was given to my grandfather. 

I reached out to the seller, who told me it was dedicated to his grandfather, Walter M. Macomber, and wrote, " I'm so glad that this has gone to a good home where it will be appreciated. My grandfather lived on Arlington Ridge Road up until the 1960s, so it's going home."

I asked if he had any more information, but "All I know for sure is that my grandfather played competitive squash at the University Club, up until he was in his 80’s. He used to play Gib Crockett, even though Gib was younger. How much of a friendship outside of the University Club existed, I am not sure."

image from eBay

 Crockett was one of the major political cartoonists in DC, working at the Washington Star alongside Clifford Berryman, and his son Jim Berryman as a sports cartoonist. He moved to editorial cartooning in 1948, and when he retired he was replaced by Pat Oliphant.  

Crockett is largely unremembered today, and he doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.  A nice essay by Marjorie Wedderburn, "Gib Crockett: DC Editorial Cartoonist"  talks about her family connection through her great aunt and uncle, similar to this eBay seller, although they appear to have had a much deeper friendship.

Syracuse University Library has a small Gib Crockett Cartoons Collection. The Library of Congress has original art, but you need to visit to see anything more than a thumbnail.

His WaPo obituary is at "Editorial Cartoonist Gibson Crockett; Drew for Washington Evening Star," Washington Post February 20, 2000, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/02/20/editorial-cartoonist-gibson-crockett/2eef05a5-0218-4882-9fc1-324f8c7b97ba/  For the collector like me, it noted, "In addition to his editorial cartoons, Mr. Crockett illustrated the covers of the program for the Army-Navy football game for 41 years until 1984." I'm going to try to avoid pursuing them... space is too tight and live is too short.

Mr. Macomber seems to have been an interesting man as well. An architect and architectural historian, he worked on Mount Vernon archeology, the renovation of the Old Fairfax Courthouse, and the State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms. He served on the Commission of Fine Arts, and his papers are at Colonial Williamsburg. ... well except for this cartoon that I'll be glad to own until I pass it on to the next owner.

*I don't seem to have followed up writing about Gib Crockett tumblers, and 18 years later, I have no idea what I was thinking about. 

**Hi-res scans in color and b&w are now available.

Just Another Day in Paradise... by Daniel Boris

The Insurrection Expert by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/7-8/2025

Ackerman, Blanche and David Suter (ill.). 1977. Peanuts to President [Jimmy Carter biography]. Silver Spring, MD: Adam Publishing Co.

Adams, Neal and Bob McLeod. 1976. Jimmy's Coloring Book [aka The peanut farmer's own coloring book; Jimmy Carter]. New York: Manor Books

Scott, Lloyd. 1973. Fisherman's Laugh Book [gag cartoons and jokes; author credit based on cover art signature]. Amarillo, TX: Baxter Lane Co.  

Merrihue, Jeff and Bill Hedburg. 197? Dreams I [fanzine. fantasy illustrations by CC Beck (1974), Al Williamson, Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkle, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, R. Crandall, Jeff Jones, Al Bradford and Martin Grimes, Berni Wrightson, and Vaughn Bode]. [no location: no publisher]

Eden, Martin (ed). 2017. Justice League The Official Collector's Edition [movie]. Titan

Great chat w/ @christopherweyant about cartoons and kids books!
Tom Toro
TBToro (June 4 2025): https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKfLyVCvUil/

Into the Score #21 - Chad Bilyeu
Avishai Darash
Into the Score  Jun 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqGFO-8xcsA

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred forty | Rick Remender, part one
June 8 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/help-me-obi-wan-kenobi-youre-my-only-2ba

Mrs. Simon, Girl Missing in Carmel [ Roberta MacDonald]
(Salinas) Californian  Volume 77, Number 212, 4 September 1948: 1
online at
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CASAL19480904.1.1

Editorial Cartoonist Gibson Crockett; Drew for Washington Evening Star [obituary]
Washington Post February 20, 2000
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/02/20/editorial-cartoonist-gibson-crockett/2eef05a5-0218-4882-9fc1-324f8c7b97ba/

Matt Hollingsworth Calls For A Boycott Of Mark Millar's Chrononauts
Matt Hollingsworth has called for a boycott of the new Mark Millar's Chrononauts Library Edition from Dark Horse Comics
  06 Jun 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/matt-hollingsworth-boycott-mark-millar-chrononauts/

The 588 Comic Shops That Ordered The Future Is ****** From Rekcah
by Rich Johnston
  06 Jun 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-588-comic-shops-that-ordered-the-future-is-from-rekcah/

Rithmetic [ Michael Ramirez letters]
Bob Dardano and  Colleen Fenlon-White
Washington Post (June 7 2025): A13.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/labubu-dyslexia-spelling-bee-trump-parade/

Words, Images, & Worlds with Jimmy Palmiotti & Dave Johnson [Pop Kill]
Jason DeHart
 Jun 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaXYzz07DAg

Words, Images, & Worlds with Todd Webb
Jason DeHart
Jun 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFRRSrV1dd0

Words, Images, & Worlds: Jason Walz Returns!
Jason DeHart
 Jun 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezQTUIfqW4

Talk & Teach: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? [2024]
Jeff Smith
CXC Festival
Jun 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmQTnkUrrUs

Art Spiegelman & Francoise Mouly in Discussion with Jeff Smith [2024]
CXC Festival
 Jun 6, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXND7Q3kyAU

Translating Pros: In Dialogue with Manga Localizers [2024]
Ryan Holmberg, Fred Schodt, and Zach Davisson
CXC Festival   Jun 6, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeyVL3tLwd0

Talk & Teach: Deconstructing the Frame: Post-modern Comics and the Self [2024]
CXC Festival
L. Pidge
Jun 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7iDF4el6HU

A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month [in print as These new books capture the range and diversity of LGBTQ life; The Gaysians by Mike Curato]
By Charles Arrowsmith
Washington Post June 8, 2025: B7.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/05/lgbtq-books-pride-hewitt-ostlund/

Comic Stripper Guests at the 2025 San Diego Comic Con
D. D. Degg
 June 7, 2025  
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/06/comic-strippers-at-the-2025-san-diego-comic-con/

WaPo reviews The Gaysians by Mike Curato

...in a paragraph...

A treasure trove of new books to read during Pride Month [in print as These new books capture the range and diversity of LGBTQ life; The Gaysians by Mike Curato]

By Charles Arrowsmith

Washington Post June 8, 2025: B7.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/06/05/lgbtq-books-pride-hewitt-ostlund/

SNIP

"Gaysians," which is "Flamer" author Mike Curato's first graphic novel for adults, doesn't shy away from violence, racism and transphobia, outside the community or within it. The colors of the trans flag give the book its dominant palette, working especially well for its many nightclub scenes. The story, about a group of young Asian Americans living in Seattle in 2003, is most powerful when Curato unleashes his more expressionistic side to capture different characters' traumatic flashbacks and glimpses of historical tragedy. But this darkness is offset by the story's cozy, reassuring focus on friendship and found family. Some may find Curato leaning too heavily on sentimentality — his "gaysians" give themselves the cutesy name "The Boy Luck Club," riffing on Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club," and speak mostly in catty clichés, as if auditioning for "Drag Race." For me, this mawkish tendency stunted the book's emotional range.

SNIP

Into the Score #21 - Chad Bilyeu

Avishai Darash

Into the Score  Jun 7, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqGFO-8xcsA

Chad Bilyeu is a 49-year-old Black American writer, historian, and photographer who has been living in Amsterdam for 15 years. In 2018, he began writing and self-publishing an award-winning comic book based on his life as a foreigner, aptly titled CHAD IN AMSTERDAM. Currently, Chad is working on another autobiographical graphic novel, THE RE-UP. THE RE-UP is both written and designed by Chad. Book one of THE RE-UP is illustrated by renowned Dutch children's book illustrator Juliette de Wit; book two of THE RE-UP is illustrated by acclaimed Serbian designer and illustrator Iva Spasojević. THE RE-UP details Chad's halcyon days working and studying at Georgetown University, where he, unbeknownst to most, also sold copious amounts of drugs (mostly weed, back when it was illegal and exciting). https://chadbily.eu/ http://store.chadbily.eu/ 

Avishai Darash - Is an avid reader Joao MB Costa - Groo is his favorite comic book character Joshua Oostindiën - Has lethal hands

That darn Michael Ramirez

Rithmetic [ Michael Ramirez letters]

Bob Dardano and  Colleen Fenlon-White

Washington Post (June 7 2025): A13.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/06/labubu-dyslexia-spelling-bee-trump-parade/

Michael Ramirez's May 27 editorial cartoon, "Solving the debt crisis," illustrated the right-wing canard that the nation's debt is caused by too much spending. It is not. Neither, though, is it caused by too little taxation.

The annual deficit and the national debt are caused by an imbalance between taxation and spending. Tax more than you spend, and you get a surplus. Spend more than you tax, and you get a deficit. That's just arithmetic. The way to pay off our $36 trillion national debt is to cut spending and/or raise taxes. Instead of telling the two political parties only to cut spending, the child depicted in the cartoon should be telling them to go back to second-grade math class.

Bob Dardano, Washington

Michael Ramirez is right to be concerned about the $36 trillion national debt. It was ironic, however, that his cartoon used a small child to deliver a message to both parties to cut spending.

In 2023, Medicaid provided health coverage for 39 percent of children in the United States and 80 percent of children living in poverty, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Medicaid is the largest source of health coverage in the United States and insures 72 million, or 1 in 5, Americans. In addition, about 41 million Americans receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The One Big Beautiful Bill would cut health care and food assistance to tens of millions of American children. These cuts would have a negligible impact on the national debt. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that, in general, resources would decrease for the lowest-income households but increase for the highest-income households.

It would have been more appropriate for Ramirez to have Ebenezer Scrooge tell the lawmakers to cut spending. The child, whose health and well-being might depend on Medicaid and SNAP benefits, would have correctly told the lawmakers to increase revenue.

Colleen Fenlon-White, Gaithersburg

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds (need some artist ID help)

This weekend's Civitan flea market comics and cartoon finds. Most were under 2 dollars. The comics and fanzines will go to the Library of Congress as will most of the ephemera. If anyone can help ID the World War II cartoonist, I'd appreciate it. And the golf blotter cartoonist.  

Signed first issue of Sex Criminals by Chip Zdarsky and

 Amanda Connor variant cover of Star Wars Princess Leia

Golf cartoon blotters from Minnesota Mining and Mfg Co by unknown cartoonist. 

Being donated to Library of Congress after hi-res scanning

Signed Herblock biography; these are still fairly easy to find around DC.

Dreams I fanzine cover. The Hobbit by CC Beck.

There's one copy at Bowling Green University library. Copies will be going to LoC and OSU soon.

A collection of fantasy illustrations by Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkle, Robert Crumb, Harvey Kurtzman, Neal Adams, Jim Starlin, R. Crandall, Jeff Jones, Al Bradford and Martin Grimes, Berni Wrightson, and Vaughn Bode

Dreams I fanzine back cover. Flash Gordon by Al Williamson.

                                                                  Dreams I fanzine title page.

Adventures of Big Boy 288

Adventures of Big Boy 263, in New York City

Adventures of Big Boy 266, with Superman

Adventures of Big Boy 257

ERBdom 27 fanzine from 1969.

Draw! 16 with Howard Chaykin

Draw! 18 with R.M. Guera.

The Acid Test political cartoons by William Sanderson. 

 

 

Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #1.

Copies of these are going to LoC and OSU (if they want it)

Avengers Assemble featuring Captain Citrus #2.

"Tony's Sports Comics" Kellogg's cereal giveaway.  Published by DC Comics in conjunction with Sports Illustrated. Cover titled "Nolan Ryan in The Winning Pitch." Art by Angelo Torres, according to Rodrigo Baeza.

 

Jimmy's Coloring Book cover by Neal Adams.

Jimmy's Coloring Book inside page by Bob MacLeod?

Peanuts to President by Blanche Ackerman with cartoons by David Suter. Silver Spring, MD: Adam Publishing Co., 1977.  Only held in 4 libraries.

Fisherman's laugh book. [Baxter Lane Co.], [Amarillo, Tex.], [©1973] 

1 copy in 1 library. 

 

 

 

 

Unidentified WWII cartoonist photocopy

 

Does anyone know who this is drawn by? There's a symbol in the lower right. When I used Google image search this is the slop it gave me:

 

 

Gib Crockett original cartoon of Franklin Roosevelt saying "My Country First" into a microphone

 

German cartoon print on fashion in women's hats, probably removed from a magazine. Translated title as Fantasy of Fall Styles, 1882.

Justice League movie mook.

WaPo runs same Summer Art section two weeks in a row

I'm noting this because of the illustrations by Chalzea Xu, which are lovely, although she's not a cartoonist. 

 You can see that the stories changed slightly but the illustrations didn't.

Also Hannah Good, who is, illustrated a Pride story.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/6/2025

APRIL WAS A TOUGH MONTH FOR DIAMOND; Total Decline Since January Now Over $10 Million

Milton Griepp on June 6, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59728/april-was-tough-month-diamond

 

RETAILERS FEAR LOSS OF DIAMOND DATA FLOW

World According to Griepp

Milton Griepp on June 6, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59730/retailers-fear-loss-diamond-data-flow

 

Marty Two Bulls' Herblock Prize Soirée in Bruce Guthrie Photos

D. D. Degg

June 6, 2025  https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/06/marty-two-bulls-herblock-prize-sioree-in-bruce-guthrie-photos/

 

Mark Millar Finding New Ways To Sell Psychic Sam With John Romita Jr [trading cards, Kickstarter]

  05 Jun 2025  Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-millar-finding-new-ways-to-sell-psychic-sam-with-john-romita-jr/

 

Uncivilized Books Finds A Comics Distribution Home For Living The Line

Uncivilized Books finds a comics distribution home for Living The Line, courtesy of Lunar Distribution and more

  05 Jun 2025   Rich Johnston   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/uncivilized-books-finds-a-comics-distribution-home-for-living-the-line/

 

Problems With Ad Populum's First Payments To Comics Publishers

The first payments due to comic book stores from Diamond Comics purchaser Ad Populum seem not to have been made. What's going on?

  Rich Johnston  05 Jun 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/problems-with-ad-populums-first-payments-to-comics-publishers/

 

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

Episode 205 - Lindsey Budde

2025-06-04   https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-g5tsn-25cc2afe

 

The Cartoon Pad w/ John Cuneo

Bob Eckstein & Michael Shaw

The Cartoon Pad June 5 2025  https://open.spotify.com/episode/6vp1bfO6jlAOCDwrBQNtpT

 

A2CAF '24 Photo Report [small press convention]

Chris Anthony Diaz | June 6, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/a2caf-24-photo-report/

 

Spanish Comics focus of Durham University event [Quan Zhou Wu]

By John Freeman on June 5, 2025  https://downthetubes.net/spanish-comics-focus-of-durham-university-event/

 

Morningstar, Ashley. 2025. Action and fighting girls: the ethnographic interplay of Naoko Takeuchi's feminism. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 26): 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2509626 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2509626

 

Sarkar, Ritam & Somdatta Bhattacharya. 2025. Against the Grid: Urbanity and Infrastructure in Indian Sequential Narratives. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 20): 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2506575 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2506575

 

T, Mufeeda & Sajid A Latheef. 2025. From text to image: a comparative study of Haruki Murakami's 'Birthday Girl' and its graphic adaptation. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 4): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2498565 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2498565

 

Daniel, Ritika. 2025. The refugee narrative in Thi Bui's graphic memoir: a multimodal approach. Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (May 4): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2025.2497296 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2025.2497296

 

Pride 2025 Interview: Jeremy Whitley talks the ACES & AROS anthology

E.B. Hutchins on 06/06/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/pride-2025-interview-talking-with-jeremy-whitley-about-rhe-aces-aros-anthology/

 

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson

June 5, 2025

https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-131/

 

Predator: Killer Of Killers is a gruesome animated battle for the ages

The animated anthology film stabs directly into the heart of what makes the series tick.

By Toussaint Egan  |  June 5, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/predator-killer-of-killers-review

 

'Predator: Killer of Killers' Just Rules

Third Floor and 20th Century Animation continue the Predator's recent hot streak with the excellent 'Killer of Killers.'

By Justin Carter

io9 June 5, 2025  https://gizmodo.com/predator-killer-of-killers-just-rules-2000608265

 

With 'Thunderbolts*,' Has Wyatt Russell Finally Broken Through?

Seth Abramovitch

June 6, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/wyatt-russell-thunderbolts-avengers-doomsday-1236257821/

 

Cantes de Confesión — This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | June 6, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/cantes-de-confesion-this-weeks-links/

 

Off Panel #502: Discovery with Gabriel Bá

June 2 2025

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-502-discovery-with-gabriel-b

 

Chris Weston interviewed – 2000 AD: The Creator Tapes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGA4lrXUTZ0 May 24, 2025  The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 675: Tiffany Babb

Heidi MacDonald

on 05/30/2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1370

 

On Alaska Robotics Mini-Con, the Biggest Little Comics Convention Around, and the "Comics Adventure" That Comes With It

David Harper

June 4, 2025 https://sktchd.com/longform/alaska-robotics-mini-con-feature/

 

Peter Kuper's Graphic Novel, Where the Insects Draw Us

Insectopolis explores the often-unseen—and rapidly disappearing—world we share.

Steve Brodner

May 29, 2025

https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/ecosystem-environment-biosphere-nature/

 

Rising Bubbles: A curated celebration of comics, Bubbles Con returns with guest artist, Charles Burns, among other exciting artists.

Don Harrison

June 4, 2025

https://www.styleweekly.com/double-doodles/

 

Webcomic phenom Let's Play is getting an anime — a dream come true for American creator Mongie

She's the first American woman to have her original comic adapted into a Crunchyroll anime

by Matt Patches

Polygon June 3, 2025, https://www.polygon.com/manga/603118/lets-play-anime-trailer-crunchyroll

 

Tessa Hulls On The Weight Of History, The Power Of Comics, And Winning A Pulitzer Prize

Rob Salkowitz,

May 31, 2025, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/05/31/tessa-hulls-on-the-weight-of-history-the-power-of-comics-and-winning-a-pulitzer-prize/

 

Partners and Son – Gina Dawson and Tom Marquet talk about comics, art and the future [Philadelphia store]

By Oli Knowles June 1, 2025

https://www.theartblog.org/2025/06/partners-and-son-gina-dawson-and-tom-marquet-talk-about-comics-art-and-the-future/

 

Rockin' Out With Sumiko Arai, The Guy She Was Interested In Wasn't a Guy at All Manga Creator

by Lynzee Loveridge, Jun 4th 2025

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-06-04/rockin-out-with-sumiko-arai-the-guy-she-was-interested-in-wasnt-a-guy-at-all-manga-creator/.223419

 

Alison Bechdel and the Search for the Beginner's Mind

With the cartoonist's new graphic novel, she appears once again to be trying for the "light, fun" book she's longed to write.

By Charlie Tyson

June 4, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/alison-bechdel-and-the-search-for-the-beginners-mind

 

Eedy, Sean. 2025. Book Review - Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland: By Ewa Stańczyk, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2024, X+271 Pp., US$30.00 (Paperback), ISBN 978-1-4968-5150-5." Canadian Slavonic Papers, May, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2025.2506223 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00085006.2025.2506223

 

Sparring with Michael Schwartz about the all-new 'Armored' hardcover release

The book's Kickstarter kicks off this week (June 3).

Chris Coplan

June 3, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/03/armored-hardcover-qa/

 

Gail Simone interviews David Marquez on 'Uncanny X-Men' and 'The Unchosen'

'Just David being David': Inside the Marquez-Simone X-Men Era and the upcoming series 'The Unchosen' at Image Comics.

David Brooke

June 2, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/02/gail-simone-david-marquez-uncanny-x-men-unchosen/

 

"Eighteen wheels of Holy Hell": Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden talk 'Big Rig'

The Post Malone-led 'Big Rig' #1 arrives July 9 from Vault Comics.

David Brooke

June 3, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/03/vault-big-rig-qa/

 

Demons, diesel, and Post Malone: Inside vault's wild ride 'Big Rig'

Vault Comics' Adrian Wassel and Nathan Gooden join the AIPT Comics Podcast to break down 'Big Rig' and we recap the week in comics.

David Brooke and Chris Coplan

June 1, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/01/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-331-post-malone-big-rig/

 

'Create something additive with long legs': Joseph Illidge talks 'Bloodletter' Spawn spin-off

Chris Coplan

June 5, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/05/bloodletter-feature-interview/

 

Patrick Horvath talks revenge, character growth in 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring'

Chris Coplan

June 2, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/02/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-rite-of-spring-qa/

 

'Some m***erf**kers, yeah, they're gonna have to die': Greg Rucka and Michael Lark detail 'Lazarus: Fallen'

The grand 'Lazarus' finale begins on June 25.

Chris Coplan

May 30, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/30/lazarus-fallen-qa/

 

HOLLY J. FRAZETTA, HEIDI L. FRAZETTA, and FRAZETTA PROPERTIES, LLC, Plaintiffs, v. Case No. 8:22-cv-581-WFJ-AEP VANGUARD PRODUCTIONS, LLC, andJESSE DAVID SPURLOCK

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. MIDDLE DISTRICT OF FLORIDA, TAMPA DIVISION

https://ecf.flmd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show_public_doc?2022-00581-279-8-cv

 

'People were repressed into silence': the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascism's horrors

A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of Franco

Sam Jones in Madrid

Thu 5 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition

 

Richard Appignanesi obituary; Graphic novelist whose pioneering educational books took a wry look at subjects including Shakespeare, Freud and Marx

Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton

Thu 5 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/05/richard-appignanesi-obituary

 

Richter, David F.  2025. Spanish Graphic Narratives and Women Writers: Intersections of Memory, Politics, and Gender in Ilu Ros's Cosas nuestras . Impossibilia. Revista Internacional De Estudios Literarios, (29; May 30): https://doi.org/10.30827/impossibilia.292024.32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279 and https://revistaseug.ugr.es/index.php/impossibilia/article/view/32279/29173

 

June 6-7: Bubbles Con in Richmond this weekend

https://www.bubblescon.com/

Rising Bubbles: A curated celebration of comics, Bubbles Con returns with guest artist, Charles Burns, among other exciting artists.

Don Harrison

June 4, 2025

https://www.styleweekly.com/double-doodles/