Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/10/2025

Sparkle Pop files complaint against Alliance Entertainment for stealing trade secrets [Diamond bankruptcy].

Heidi MacDonald on 06/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/sparkle-pop-files-complaint-against-alliance-entertainment-for-stealing-trade-secrets/

Sparkle Pop enters a complaint against Alliance Entertainment for Disregarding a Non-Disclosure and Non-Solicitation Obligation and theft of Trade Secrets

June 9, 2025 by Brett

https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/06/09/sparkle-pop-enters-a-complaint-against-alliance-entertainment-for-disregarding-a-non-disclosure-and-non-solicitation-obligation-and-theft-of-trade-secrets/

NEW LITIGATION AROUND DIAMOND BANKRUPTCY As New Diamond Comic, Diamond Select Owner Asks for TRO on Alliance Entertainment

Milton Griepp on June 10, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59751/new-litigation-around-diamond-bankruptcy

The Beat Digest 06/10/25: Doug Wright Award winners announced

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 06/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-061025/

Unknown. 1941.

Two Editorships, Art Work for This College Senior [Roberta MacDonald].

Stockton Daily Evening Record (January 4)

It's Beetle Bailey's 75th Too

D. D. Degg

June 9, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/09/its-beetle-baileys-75th-too/

2000 AD digital subscription prices to go up

Dean Simons on 06/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/2000-ad-digital-subscription-prices-to-go-up/

Announcing the Winners

June 8 2025 by Brad Mackay

https://dougwrightawards.com/announcing-the-winners/

'The Simpsons,' Matt Groening Honored as "Icon of Animation" at Annecy

Scott Roxborough

June 10, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-simpsons-matt-groening-annecy-icon-of-animation-1236261106/

'The Lunar Chronicles' Animated Movie Lands 2028 Release From Warner Bros.

Director Noëlle Raffaele is adapting Marissa Meyer's best-selling book series for the film that hails from Locksmith Animation.

Ryan Gajewski

June 9, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-lunar-chronicles-animated-movie-release-1236260174/

'Incredibles 3' Finds Its Director (Exclusive)

Who is it? Why, it's 'Elemental,' with filmmaker Peter Sohn taking the reins from franchise creator Brad Bird.

Beatrice Verhoeven

June 10, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/incredibles-3-director-peter-sohn-1236260365/

Celebrating Superman's Jewishness

By Mark Judge

June 9, 2025 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3433827/superman-jewish-comic-books-religion-antisemitism/

DC Comics Has New Owners At Warners, With A "Ten Year Plan For DC"

DC has new owners, Warner Bros. Streaming & Studios? It's looking that way. And they have a ten year plan...

Rich Johnston 09 Jun 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-has-new-owners-at-warners-with-a-ten-year-plan-for-dc/

Printer Refuses To Print Gehanna: Naked Aggression Maria Llovet Cover

Printer refuses to print the Maria Llovet cover to Gehanna: Naked Aggression, which should have been published from Image Comics this week.

09 Jun 2025 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/printer-refuses-to-print-gehanna-naked-aggression-maria-llovet-cover/

Japanese Cancel Holidays Over "Nostradamus" "Baba Manga" Predictions

Japanese cancel holiday and travel plans over "Nostradamus" and "Baba Manga" predictions in Ryo Tatsuki's The Future I Saw

Rich Johnston 09 Jun 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/japanese-cancel-holidays-over-nostradamus-baba-manga-predictions/

'The Girl Who Cried Pearls' Directors Discuss Crafting a Modern Fable in Miniature [stop-motion]

Jennifer Wolfe

June 9, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/the-girl-who-cried-pearls-directors-discuss-crafting-a-modern-fable-in-miniature/

This article was written for the

May-June '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 350).

'You Would Not Survive if There Wasn't Humor': The Kate Beaton Interview — The Comics Journal #311 Preview

Sarah Glidden | June 10, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/you-would-not-survive-if-there-wasnt-humor-the-kate-beaton-interview-the-comics-journal-311-preview/

Reviews: Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection

Hagai Palevsky | June 10, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/rebellion-presents-the-jose-munoz-collection/

Rebellion Presents The José Muñoz Collection

José Muñoz with Chris Lowder, Frank S. Pepper and Eric Bradbury

Rebellion/2000 AD

PATTON OSWALT AND JORDAN BLUM ARE LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY AMBASSADORS, First Ever

Posted by Milton Griepp on June 10, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59749/patton-oswalt-jordan-blum-are-local-comic-shop-day-ambassadors

Federal Court sanctions Jesse David Spurlock after forged licensing claim
Javier Perez on 06/10/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/federal-court-sanctions-jesse-david-spurlock-after-forged-licensing-claim/

CONVOCATION ADDRESS [at minute 36]
Bob Mankoff
Syracuse University's College of Arts and Sciences Convocation and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Convocation (May 19 2025): https://commencement.syr.edu/commencement-weekend/ceremony-events/convocation-arts-sciences-maxwell.html

J Alex Morrissey
Shawn Crystal
Tradecraft Jun 10, 2025 Episode 242
https://jalexmorrissey.substack.com/p/episode-242-shawn-crystal

Kickstarter Scammers Impersonating Me
Steve Conley
Blog https://steveconley.com/2025/06/05/kickstarter-scammers-impersonating-me/

Children's Institute 2025: Graphix Celebrates Two Decades of Kids' Comics
By Nathalie op de Beeck |
May 23, 2025 A version of this article appeared in the 05/26/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Words, Pictures, Revolution https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97817-children-s-institute-2025-graphix-celebrates-two-decades-of-kids-comics.html

A Meta New Yorker Cartoon By Warren Miller
Michael Maslin
Inkspill June 10, 2025 https://michaelmaslin.com/tuesday-spill-a-meta-new-yorker-cartoon-by-warren-miller/

Showrunner Matt Selman wonders if Fox News would exist without The Simpsons
In a panel, Selman questioned whether The Simpsons "sort of destroyed" the world.
By Emma Keates | June 10, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/simpsons-showrunner-fox-news

Superman lights the way: How Hollywood's new Man of Steel shepherds the DC universe of tomorrow (exclusive)

Ten of DC's "Super" stars — including director James Gunn, stars Rachel Brosnahan and Nicholas Hoult, and Clark Kent himself, David Corenswet — take EW inside the first feature film of the newly revamped franchise.
By
Nick Romano
Published on June 10, 2025 https://ew.com/superman-new-man-of-steel-leads-dcu-of-tomorrow-cover-story-11751060

'Invincible' Is Finally Getting Its Own Fighting Game
Stand ready for the arrival of 'Invincible VS,' a bloody tag-team 3v3 fighter coming to PC and consoles in 2026.
By Justin Carter io9 June 8, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/invincible-is-finally-getting-its-own-fighting-game-2000613009

George Takei believes our democracy will be OK — once the 'Klingon president' is out of office
By Tracy Brown
June 10, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-06-10/george-takei-it-rhymes-with-takei-memoir-coming-out-incarceration-camps

It Rhymes With Takei
By George Takei, Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger and Harmony Becker (illustrator)
Top Shelf Productions

George Takei talks new graphic memoir, 'It Rhymes with Takei'
The actor opens up about his new graphic memoir, out June 10, which shares his most personal story yet told in full for the first time.
George Stephanopoulos
Good Morning America June 10, 2025
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/video/george-takei-talks-new-graphic-rhymes-takei-122688792

George Takei gets candid about coming out, feud with Trump: 'Biggest Klingon around'
Clare Mulroy
USA TODAY June 10 2025
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2025/06/10/george-takei-memoir-trump-interview/84056460007/

Akron's Justin Eisinger is co-author of George Takei's memoir 'It Rhymes with Takei'
Akron native is co-author of 'Star Trek' actor George Takei's new graphic novel 'It Rhymes with Takei.'
June 10 2025 https://www.beaconjournal.com/videos/news/2025/06/10/justin-eisinger-is-co-author-of-george-takeis-memoir/84070800007/

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Despicable Me by Daniel Boris

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Resistencia California"

"Resistencia California"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4127

In solidarity with our freedom fighters in the Battle Of Los Angeles.
Time to support OUR troops.

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"Protests continue in Los Angeles in response to fascist immigration
raids" Jacob Cross and contributors at World Socialist Site 07.06.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/07/tebb-j07.html#903286324

"Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military
deployment in Los Angeles", Jacob Crosse at World Socialist Site
07.10.2025
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/10/fxqc-j10.html

____________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 6/9/2025

Interview: Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin discuss the genesis of FAMILY FORCE V

Avery and Ollie Kaplan

The Beat 06/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-matt-braly-ainsworth-lin-family-force-v/

Indies and Icons, Tentpoles and Oscar Contenders: Annecy at 40 Sets the Animation Agenda

From the biggest studio titles to cutting-edge independents, every frame of the global animation industry runs through Annecy.

Scott Roxborough

June 8, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/annecy-at-40-sets-the-animation-agenda-1236257533/

Stephen Curry, Nicola Coughlan, Patton Oswalt Lead All-Star Voice Cast of Sony's 'GOAT'

Caleb McLaughlin, Gabrielle Union, Nick Kroll, David Harbour, and Jenifer Lewis also join the NBA superstar in the basketball-themed feature, which screened first footage at Annecy on Monday.

Scott Roxborough

June 9, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/stephen-curry-nicola-coughlan-lead-voice-cast-animated-goat-1236259565/

How To Train Your Dragon remake trades animated magic for money-hungry mediocrity

A live-action remake that ironically feels more fake than the animated original glides by on goodwill alone.

By James Grebey | June 9, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/how-to-train-your-dragon-review

'How to Train Your Dragon' Review: DreamWorks Live-Action Remake Retains Charm but Plays It Safe

Original 'How to Train Your Dragon' screenwriter Dean DeBlois solo-directs this take on the popular franchise, which follows the adventures of a young Viking and the creature he befriends.

Lovia Gyarkye

June 8, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/how-to-train-your-dragon-review-dreamworks-remake-1236258510/

'PREVIEWS' EDITOR IS LOOKING With Ad Populum's Plans Still Opaque

Milton Griepp on June 9, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59738/previews-editor-is-looking

"Canada's Greatest Cartoonist" Lou Skuce Enters Hall of Fame

D. D. Degg

June 8, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/07/canadas-greatest-cartoonist-lou-skuce-enters-hall-of-fame/

Unknown. 1942.

Revue Cartoonist Helped Blacksmith [Lou Skuce].

The Morning Call (September 26).

online at https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/07/canadas-greatest-cartoonist-lou-skuce-enters-hall-of-fame/

Canada's Greatest Cartoonist: Lou Skuce's charmed and versatile career.

By Conan Tobias

Taddle Creek Summer, 2016 / No. 37

https://www.taddlecreekmag.com/canadas-greatest-cartoonist

How Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump came to life

Kaoru Kumi | June 9, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/how-akira-toriyamas-dr-slump-came-to-life/

Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson

Tom Sito

University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Is Marvel Cancelling The Marvel Masterworks Line? Goes On Hiatus…

07 Jun 2025 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-cancelling-marvel-masterworks-line-hiatus/

How to Make a Killing in the (James) Bond Market

Long before Sean Connery ordered his first martini, a British tabloid's comic strip helped define 007. Now, those rare original drawings are up for sale.

Benjamin Svetkey

June 7, 2025

This story appeared in the June 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/original-007-comic-art-sale-1236236374/

WonderCon 2025 Interview: Artist Randal "R.K." Milholland

June 7, 2025 Angie Fiedler Sutton

https://thegeekiary.com/wondercon-2025-interview-artist-randal-r-k-milholland/132664

WonderCon 2025 Interview: Andy Nordvall, Kaj Kunstmann, and Bad Future Vol. 1 [Kickstarter]

May 26, 2025 Angie Fiedler Sutton

https://thegeekiary.com/wondercon-2025-interview-andy-nordvall-kaj-kunstmann-and-bad-future-vol-1/132475

The Great GoComics Restoration [of drop panels]

D. D. Degg

June 8, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/06/08/the-great-gocomics-restoration/

The man behind Denver's iconic sports cartoons [Drew Litton]

Peter Vo

Rocky Mountain PBS Jun 08, 2025

https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/arts-culture/drew-litton-cartoons

Gloucester's Mark Parisi up for Cartoonist of the Year

By Joann Mackenzie

Gloucester Times June 6 2025

https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/local_news/gloucesters-mark-parisi-up-for-cartoonist-of-the-year/article_115d73bc-ab7b-455b-914e-440b5c73444f.html

or https://archive.ph/4ymS4#selection-2269.0-2709.27

Acclaimed Hungarian Animation and Vfx Studios Shine in the Global Spotlight [paid content]

June 6, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/acclaimed-hungarian-animation-and-vfx-studios-shine-in-the-global-spotlight/

The Creative Team of Pixar's 'Elio' Explore the Depths of Their Animated Space Adventure

Karen Idelson

June 6, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/the-creative-team-of-pixars-elio-explore-the-depths-of-their-animated-space-adventure/

This article was written for the

May-June '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 350).

How 'Forevergreen' Directors Nathan Engelhardt & Jeremy Spears Planted the Seeds of Their Award-Winning Short (Exclusive)

Ramin Zahed

June 6, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/how-forevergreen-directors-nathan-engelhardt-jeremy-spears-planted-the-seeds-of-their-award-winning-short-exclusive/

Aussie Animation Studio Cosmic Dino Ramps Up Expansion for 'Bluey' Movie

Mercedes Milligan

June 6, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/aussie-animation-studio-cosmic-dino-ramps-up-expansion-for-bluey-movie/

Watch: 'Cardboard' Director J.P. Vine Takes Us Behind the Scenes of the New Locksmith Short (Exclusive)

Mercedes Milligan

June 6, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/06/watch-cardboard-director-j-p-vine-takes-us-behind-the-scenes-of-the-new-locksmith-short-exclusive/

The Making of Cardboard | The Origin Story with Director J.P. Vine

J.P. Vine

Jun 6, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYY9LiQBr8

Gib Crockett Cartoons: An inventory of his cartoons at Syracuse University. Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries: https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/c/crockett_g.htm

Rhode, Mike. 2025. Gib Crockett's original art, ties of friendship, and the ephemeralness of editorial cartooning. ComicsDC blog (June 9): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/06/gib-crocketts-original-art-ties-of.html

Wedderburn, Marjorie. 2023. Gib Crockett: DC Editorial Cartoonist. Marjorie Wedderburn Interiors (August): https://margerywedderburninteriors.com/2023/08/gib-crockett-washington-dc-editorial-cartoonist/

Award-winning colorist Matt Hollingsworth calls for fans to boycott CHRONONAUTS
Javier Perez on 06/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/award-winning-colorist-matt-hollingsworth-calls-for-fans-to-boycott-chrononauts/

Trump vs Musk! 115 Brilliant Political Cartoons!
Daryl Cagle, Dave Whamond, Monte Wolverton, Jeff Koterba, and Bob Englehart
Caglecast 69; Jun 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM-n1ULJoiM

Inklore to Publish Manhua Adaptation of Heaven Official's Blessing
Jun 09, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5396

The Moomins Changed Children's Literature Forever. Now They're Getting a Major U.S. Show
Hosted at the Brooklyn Public Library, the exhibition takes a deep dive into the Moomin universe and the work of creator Tove Jansson.
Annikka Olsen June 5, 2025 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-moomins-brooklyn-library-2647363

Ryan Reynolds Responds To Being Replaced In Deadpool VR
See how Ryan Reynolds responds to being replaced by Neil Patrick Harris as the voice of Deadpool in Marvel's Deadpool VR
Gavin Sheehan
07 Jun 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/games/ryan-reynolds-responds-to-being-replaced-in-deadpool-vr/

Ryan Over-Reacts to Marvel's Deadpool VR
Ryan Reynolds Jun 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WIhc9hjlTQ

Monday, June 09, 2025

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.

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Sunday, June 08, 2025

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.