WaPo talks to Lois Lane and reviews graphic novels

4 new graphic novels to read and ponder this summer [in print as New graphic novels let you connect with dots -- and more].

By Kay Sohini

Washington Post July 6 2025: C8.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/07/05/new-graphic-novels-thompson-albon/

Want to know Rachel Brosnahan's secret? First share yours. [in print as Rachel Brosnahan asks (and answers); Superman movie]

By Thomas Floyd

Washington Post July 6, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/06/rachel-brosnahan-lois-lane-superman-interview/

Flea Market Finds, with some modern bootlegs

As regular readers of the blog know, I look for comics and cartoon oddities, especially at antique shops and flea markets. Here's this weekend's haul, with hi-res scans of some to come on Flickr later, and donation of the postcards to the Library of Congress later this summer.

  A flyer from the Dunes casino is Las Vegas - is this by Frank Frazetta?

 

 

A 1938 tearsheet by Jimmy Swinnerton of Canyon Kiddies. I don't usually buy tearsheets, but it was a dollar. I'm no purist though; I tearsheet the newspaper and New Yorker regularly.

A Disney World postcard, probably circa the 1970s

 

 

...and a few I didn't care about but bought to get a deal... 

but this one is interesting...

 

 

It's a stupid pun, and not a great drawing, but the reverse of the card says, "This is an original etching by W.M. Standing Noted Indian Artist." More research is needed, but not on a Sunday night.

 

 

 

 

This was the card that caught my interest.  It's signed H. Empie and credited to Empie Kartoon Kards in Arizona. Again, more research is needed.

 

Another dumb scatological cartoon, only of interest for the the reverse noting "Not for mailing. Suitable for framing." By who? I guess you could put this under doctor cartoons (aka graphic medicine) though.

 

 

A weird 19th-century trade card "Playing Bank President Dining with a Wall St Bull." selling crackers and cakes in Reading, PA

 

 

 

 

Another trade card, and I think this is a gag cartoon, "A Long Tramp." It's advertising H.F. Brammer  Manufacturing Co. of Davenport, IA which would sell you a washing machine, refrigerator, and step ladder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Percosi, a book, in Italian, which I don't read, about Giorgio Cavazzano. 

 

 

A truly lovely #37 issue of Marvel Fanfare by Charles Vess, which I bought new, but couldn't say no to a second time. Marvel should really reprint his work for them.

 

 

A reading copy of Sidekicks, a graphic novel by Dan Santat, of more interest after I saw him speak this year. 

 

I originally bought some of these Bob & Bobette British reprints of Willy Vandersteen's Suske and Wiske in the 1980s. They're lovely, stupidly fun comics. I couldn't remember which ones I had so picked three that seemed unfamiliar.

 

 

 

 

 

Another Herblock cover for Time magazine. this time of Khrushchev and Castro visiting New York in 1960.

 

 

A couple of little books of military gag cartoons that need more research. Prost by Niles (above), and You've Had It (below)

 

 

 Some American comic books...

 

 

 

The anti-Nixon cover of this has fascinated me for years. I think that's Murphy Anderson art. 

 

Abbie an' Slats by Raeburn ... a successful comic strip, now completely forgotten. 

 

 

 

 

Two issues of Titan's Undersea Agent, which I think was in the THUNDER Agents universe, back when starting a new comics universe was really rare. The art in one of them is by Frank Robbins, and definitely not Wally Wood.  

 

 

I almost certainly have this Weird Wonder Tales 19 already, but I'm a sucker for character introductions (or at least I was when they were rarer), and it's a Kirby cover.

 

Speaking of Kirby, Our Fighting Forces 161-162 featuring the Losers had Kirby interiors but Ernie Chan and Joe Kubert covers. 162 sees Kirby returning to his perennial comics interest in kid gangs. As you'd expect in the Silver Age, the covers misrepresented the stories. The story in 161 is a particularly demented story of a dream-haunted British soldier 

 

 

This is a seriously beat-up copy of second issue of the Marvel Treasury-sized reprint of the first Star Wars movie adaptation. Actually, it's a reprint of a reprint because it's Whitman's version which were usually sold in discount stores, aka Five and Dimes. Oddly enough, I think these really did become collector's items.

I bought these children's stamps when they came out years ago because an argument could be made that Seuss and Falconer were cartoonists. Again, it was a dollar. I'll find a stamp collector friend who needs it.

And I got some 3-D stuff too.

 

 

This Best Dad in the Universe mug shows how much Superman's iconography has penetrated the world. 

 

 

An Avengers Endgame metal popcorn bucket for when they could be re-used as trashcans and weren't the head of Deadpool or Galactus. 

 

 

A couple of the 1970s Sunday Funnies drinking glasses featuring Brenda Starr and  Terry and the Pirates. I think these were promos for the NY Daily News. 

Something not bought (it happens) - 2 posters signed by Joe Quesada. I really enjoyed The Ray, but who has the room. 

 

And finally the modern bootlegs. Green Kush marijuana is probably not a licensed Green Lantern product, and I'm also thinking that Kevin, while an excellent firework, isn't really part of the official Minion merchandise. I love a good counterfeit though.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/4/2025

David W Fitzsimmons. 2025.
Superman is as real as the 4th of July
David Fitzsimmons: Arizona's Progressive Voice  Jul 4, 2025
 https://davidwfitzsimmons.substack.com/p/superman-is-as-real-as-the-4th-of

Interview: Gord Hill on THE ANTIFA COMIC BOOK: REVISED & EXPANDED
Avery Kaplan on 07/04/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/gord-hill-antifa-comic-book-interview/

Liza Donnelly
Live with Liza and Michael! [Maslin]
Seeing Things Jul 4, 2025  
https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/live-with-liza-and-michael

The Daily Heller: A Porno Gag Mag With Attitude [Sex to Sexty]
 Steven Heller
The Daily Heller July 1 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-a-porno-gag-mag-with-attitude/

Talking with Mark Millar and Psychic Sam
Comics by Perch Jul 4, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TN2kib1yp8

Actually, it's 25%, not 20% premium [Heritage Auctions]
 Javier Perez on 07/04/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/actually-its-25-not-20-premium/

The Beat Digest 07/04/25: CAT IN THE HAT reboot trailer arrives
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 07/04/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-070425/

David Brothers and Chip Zdarsky Pick Their Favorite Comics: The Stacks Episode 1
Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast
Jul 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww3n_9Z1KZE

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred forty-three | Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan Return, part two
Jul 04, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/our-captain-was-attached-to

Fabian Nicieza introduces King Kull in SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN #9!
Forbidden Planet TV
 Jul 4, 2025 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvD673z-Y-Y

Words, Images, & Worlds: Appalachian Comics Edition
 Jason DeHart
 jul 4, 2025  www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFCjOshr1ec

Your PICOF Shopping List, with Special Guest, the Komiks Reader!
 The Comics Cube with Duy Tano  Jul 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2J1OQzctUY

Jim Shooter, Marvel Editor-In-Chief Through Crucial 80s Era, Dies At 73
Rob Salkowitz,
Jun 30, 2025, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/06/30/jim-shooter-marvel-editor-in-chief-through-crucial-80s-era-dies-at-73/

JimShooter.com
http://jimshooter.com/

Rest in peace, Jim Shooter; The former Marvel editor-in-chief and founder of Valiant Comics has passed away at the age of 73.
JK Parkin
July 1, 2025
https://smashpages.net/2025/07/01/rest-in-peace-jim-shooter/

The Rejected Superman 2000 Proposal
 The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
Jul 4, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW2ykkIQdf8

Superman 2000 Proposal
Grant Morrison, Mark Waid, Mark Millar, and Tom Peyer. 1998.
https://www.supermanthroughtheages.com/theages/History/2000/SUPERMAN2000.php

At Home with Weng Pixin
Drawn & Quarterly
Jul 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4zXA2yzabE

The Sounds of Silence: Spotlight on Maggie Umber [2024]
Jared Gardner
CXC Festival
Jul 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UD8lGtrYQA

Ahn Jae-huun in Conversation [2024; Korean animator]
Kyoung Lee Swearingen
CXC Festival Jul 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2sBS8Lr3gI

The Surreal and Magical Realism in Comics [2024]
Caroline Cash ,  Sam Szabo ,  L. Pidge
CXC Festival Jul 3, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGVhO2AjzY

Non-fiction Comics & History: Youth Explosion! [2024]
Andy Kunka , Derf Backderf, Nate Powell,  and Chris Oliveros
CXC Festival
 Jul 3, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOKsF-ywU_Mvv

CXC's Emerging Talent Award 2024 [Kelly Wang]
Jeff Smith and Vijaya Ayer
CXC Festival
 Jul 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo7x1OaxPko

CXC International Spotlight: Léonie Bischoff [2024]
Maggie Flinn
CXC Festival
Jul 3, 2025  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak6FuihM0pU

Talk & Teach: Packing, Shipping, Storing & Displaying Your Original Art: Cheap & Easy Tricks [2024]
Iona Fox
CXC Festival  Jul 3, 2025  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pNKKYHz4uc

Chris Pitzer and Ted Adams Premiere The Eclipse Index [2024]
 CXC Festival Jul 3, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4waJIvvyVU

CXC 2020
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgkQ4N1yB5gzIIaBOHtHTFlv9itabKJt

CXC 2021
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgkQ4N1yB5hEmrpqb7g8m_C_VIA_o6Hl

CXC 2022
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgkQ4N1yB5gk7Mki2LvuQJAcItiMQ7G_

CXC 2023
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgkQ4N1yB5iEhco1TVuosT96PBB_F_Q3

CXC 2024
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqgkQ4N1yB5hUaIE8i1hAiSbQjN1VZHFY


Interview: Adam Stone talks winning the 2000 AD/Thought Bubble art contest & brand new Future Shock: Infiltrator!
2nd July 2025  https://2000ad.com/news/interview-adam-stone-talks-winning-the-2000-ad-thought-bubble-art-contest-brand-new-future-shock-infiltrator/

Calling from the dark: Si Spurrier and Vanesa R. Del Rey dissect 'The Voice Said Kill'
The creators discuss the Cajun setting, the ineffectiveness of genre, building better characters, and much more.
Chris Coplan
June 30, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/06/30/the-voice-said-kill-feature/

Michael Moreci talks greedy billionaires, space travel ahead of 'Roche Limit' deluxe HC
Chris Coplan
July 1, 2025  https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/01/roche-limit-zoop-hc-qa/

  Amaris Ketcham
Interview with Tom Humberstone.
Autobiographix  Jul 2, 2025  
https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/interview-with-tom-humberstone

MINDLESS COMMUNICATION – Tom Humberstone
June 28th, 2025
https://mindlessones.com/2025/06/28/mindless-communication-tom-humberstone/

California man selling Stan Lee signed memorabilia sentenced to prison for $1.2-million tax fraud
By Summer Lin
June 27, 2025 https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-27/stan-lee-memorabilia-seller-sentenced

Interview with Artist and Best-Selling Author Eddie Ahn
Linda Badger
San Francisco Richmond ReView  July 2, 2025
https://richmondsunsetnews.com/2025/07/02/interview-with-artist-and-best-selling-author-eddie-ahn/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Shannon Eric Denton and Tom Mandrake on the Release of the Supernatural Graphic Novel, 'Monster Born,' with Dark Horse Comics
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    July 1, 2025  https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57049-fanbase-press-interviews-shannon-eric-denton-and-tom-mandrake-on-the-release-of-the-supernatural-graphic-novel-monster-born-with-dark-horse-comics/

Fanbase Press Interviews Jake Mastar and Drawsmile on the Upcoming Release of the Graphic Novel Series, 'Demon Rush'
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
July 2, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57057-fanbase-press-interviews-jake-mastar-and-drawsmile-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-graphic-novel-series-demon-rush/

Picture + Panel | Mike Curato + K. Wroten on queer communities
JK Parkin
July 2, 2025
https://smashpages.net/2025/07/02/picture-panel-mike-curato-k-wroten-on-queer-communities/

Almeyda-Cohen, Ana. 2025. Celestinas in Mexico: Challenging Morality and Narrating Sex Work and Love Magic in Mid-Twentieth-Century Popular Press and Comics. Hispanófila 203, 75-94. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsf.2025.a963613 and https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/210/article/963613

Gilbert Shelton and underground comics as a means of social communication. Critical and libertarian education through comix for adults
 José Carmelo Carrasco Santos. 2025.
Revista Internacional de Educación y Análisis Social Crítico Mañé, Ferrer y Swartz 3 (1)
https://ojs.eumed.net/rev/index.php/educacion_analisis_social/article/view/5_C/5E_Chtm and https://ojs.eumed.net/rev/index.php/educacion_analisis_social/article/view/5_C/5E_Cpdf

SHI, Y. J. He Youzhi's comic strip culture from the perspective of Toynbee's historical philosophy. Trans/Form/Ação: Unesp journal o philosophy, Marília, SP, v. 48, n. 5, p. e025048, 2025. Disponível em: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/16961

Tang, Mujun. 2025. "Comentário a 'A Cultura Da história Em Quadrinhos De He Youzhi Sob a Perspectiva Da Filosofia histórica De Toynbee'". Trans/Form/Ação 48 (5): e025109. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2025.v48.n5.e025109.

Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast starts new video series out of Third Eye Annapolis

David Brothers and Chip Zdarsky Pick Their Favorite Comics: The Stacks Episode 1

Comic Book Couples Counseling Podcast

Jul 1, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww3n_9Z1KZE

Comic creators David Brothers and Chip Zdarsky pick their favorite comics from The Stacks at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, Maryland. They discuss the brilliance of Darwyn Cooke in THE NEW FRONTIER, the cozy comfort of MAISON IKKOKU, the beautiful beefy bodies of Richard Corben on display in the new Dark Horse Comics DEN collections, and many more. This is the premiere episode produced by Comic Book Couples Counseling. Next week, Benjamin Percy (PREDATOR VS. WOLVERINE) enters The Stacks.

A Message from Mike by Daniel Boris

Not the Mike that runs this blog. I have compassion and less ambition.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/3/2025

Square Enix Manga now available on BOOK☆WALKER Global with over 300 titles, launch discounts included
Hayame Kawachi on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/square-enix-manga-now-available-book%e2%98%86walker-global-over-300-titles-launch-discounts-included/

IDW comics go digital on GlobalComix the same day as stores
Matias De la Piedra on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/idw-comics-globalcomix/

Dynamite's motion denied – but you can still buy their comics
Heidi MacDonald on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dynamites-motion-denied-but-you-can-still-buy-their-comics/

PATHS FORWARD FROM COMICSUITE: RMH Through Reseller, Pull List Add-On or Full POS
  Milton Griepp on July 3, 2025  
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59953/paths-forward-comicsuite

FANTAGRAPHICS CO-PUBLISHER ERIC REYNOLDS ON 'HOSTAGE INVENTORY' AND THE DIAMOND MESS
 Rob Salkowitz
June 30, 2025   https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59926/fantagraphics-co-publisher-eric-reynolds-hostage-inventory-diamond-mess

Graphic Novel Review: DR. WERTHLESS is a perfect case of the road to Hell being paved with good intentions [Wetham parody].
Ricardo Serrano Denis on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dr-werthless-review/

AX 2025 Interview: NOMELON NOLEMON on the unit's first live show overseas [anime music]
Ollie Kaplan on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ax-2025-interview-nomelon-nolemon-on-the-units-first-live-show-overseas/

Q & A with Whitney Gardner
By Amanda Ramirez              
Jul 01, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/98138-q-a-with-whitney-gardner.html

Andrew Aiello, Tom Derby & Ben Davis Buy CGA After Diamond Bankruptcy
Andrew Aiello, Tom Derby and Ben Davis buy the Collectible Grading Authority (CGA) from Ad Populum, in the wake of the Diamond bankruptcy
by Rich Johnston
01 Jul 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/andrew-aiello-tom-derby-ben-davis-buy-cga-after-diamond-bankruptcy/

Dynamite Owed A Million By Diamond, Can't Make Payroll Next Week
Dynamite is owed a million from Diamond, can't make payroll next week, and wants bankruptcy courts to hurry their decisions along
 01 Jul 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-owed-a-million-by-diamond-cant-make-payroll-next-week/

As Court Denies Dynamite Over Diamond, Comic Creators Rally Round; As the Bankruptcy Court denies Dynamite motion to expedite their hearing over payment issues in Diamond bankruptcy case, comic creators rally round to help.  
03 Jul 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/as-court-denies-dynamite-over-diamond-comic-creators-rally-round/

Ad Populum Can't Yet Deal Directly with Diamond Consignment Vendors
An Ad Populum exec says the company has been restricted from dealing directly with Diamond's consignment vendors, and must go through the bankruptcy estate.
 by Rich Johnston
 02 Jul 2025   https://bleedingcool.com/comics/ad-populum-cant-yet-deal-directly-with-diamond-consignment-vendors/

Disney+ Hybrid Series 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' Casts Amy Sedaris & Young Stars
Animation Magazine  July 2, 2025
 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/disney-hybrid-oswald-the-lucky-rabbit-series-announces-kid-cast/

'Iyanu' Studio Lion Forge Inks First-Look Kids & YA Content Deal with Oware
Mercedes Milligan
July 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/iyanu-studio-lion-forge-inks-first-look-kids-ya-content-deal-with-oware/

The Beginning of a Brilliant Career (Book Excerpt)
By Bill Kroyer
July 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/the-beginning-of-a-brilliant-career-book-excerpt/

Bill Kroyer
Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution.
CRC Press
https://www.mrinbetween.org/

Jim Shooter, Editor Who 'Saved the Comics Industry,' Dies at 73
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.
Clay Risen
July 3, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/arts/jim-shooter-dead.html

Jim Shooter, Marvel EIC & Founder Of Valiant Has Died, Aged 73, RIP
Jim Shooter, writer of Superman, Secret Wars and Legion, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel, co-founder of Valiant, Defiant and Broadway has died, aged 73.
  30 Jun 2025  
by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-shooter-marvel-eic-founder-of-valiant-has-died-aged-73-rip/

Reaction To The Death Of Jim Shooter, The Man Who Made Comics Grow Up
The comic book industy reacts to the death of Jim Shooter,at the age of 73, the man who made comics grow up
Rich Johnston
01 Jul 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/reaction-to-the-death-of-jim-shooter-the-man-who-made-comics-grow-up/

In Memoriam: Jim Shooter
Amanda Sheriff
Scoop June 30, 2025  https://www.overstreetaccess.com/in-memoriam-jim-shooter/

Jim Starlin
[" My longtime friend, Jim Shooter, has passed away and already the internet trolls are picking away at his legacy. "]
July 1 2025
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=24808553668733004&id=100000151434982&post_id=100000151434982_24808553668733004&rdid=aNpQs628x5SArqYS

NAKAMA PRESS TO PUBLISH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM HONG KONG: 'Cat Mask Boy' and 'A Little Step'
 Brigid Alverson on July 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59948/nakama-press-publish-two-graphic-novels-hong-kong

GALAXYCON ACQUIRES THREE SHOWS From Incredible Conventions LLC
 Milton Griepp on July 3, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59952/galaxycon-acquires-three-shows

Heritage Comic & Comic Art Auction Rises to $22.6M
Amanda Sheriff
Scoop July 1, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/heritage-comic-comic-art-auction-rises-to-22-6m/

June 30, 2025
Frank Frazetta's 'Famous Funnies' Buck Rogers Cover Art Soars Above $1 Million in Heritage's $22.6 Million Comic & Comic Art Auction
Action Comics No. 1 wrap smashes auction record for stand-alone cover
Steve Lansdale, Public Relations Specialist
https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/frank-frazetta-s-famous-funnies-buck-rogers-cover-art-soars-above-1-million-in-heritage-s-22.6-million-comic-and-comic-art-auction.s

'The Old Guard 2' Review: Thurman vs. Theron
Uma Thurman joins the expanded cast in this sure-footed sequel to the action blockbuster about a team of immortal heroes.
By Brandon Yu
A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2025, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Another Immortal Joins the Mythology.
 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/movies/the-old-guard-2-review-charlize-theron.html

Charlize Theron's Injuries, Uma Thurman's Boundaries
In her return to action, Thurman is pitted against Theron in "The Old Guard 2." The two discuss the pains and pleasures of the genre.
By Robert Ito
July 3, 2025
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/movies/charlize-theron-uma-thurman-old-guard-2-interview.html

Convention Recap: Garden State Comic Fest
Scoop July 2, 2025
 https://www.overstreetaccess.com/convention-recap-garden-state-comic-fest-4/
Contributed by collector and Overstreet Advisor Art Cloos
Photos by Alice Cloos

Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio [ Tom Sutcliffe interview]
Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi ,  Jason Solomons and Hettie Judah.
BBC Radio 4's Front Row June 19 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpp1

Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island [As the Japanese art form, Manga, makes its presence felt at this year's Bradford Literature Festival, writer and comic specialist Paul Gravett who has curated the exhibition, Make Mine Manga, and Manga artist, Eira Richards, discuss the visual vocabulary of this distinctive art genre.]
BBC' Radio 4's Front Row July 1 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f8my

Reviews:  Red Night
Joe McCulloch | July 3, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/red-night/

Red Night
Hanawa Kazuichi, translated by Ryan Holmberg
Breakdown Press

Turkey Arrests Cartoonist for Drawing Moses and Mohammed – Updated
 D. D. Degg  
July 3, 2025   https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/01/turkey-arrests-cartoonists-for-drawing-of-moses-and-mohammed/

Cartoonists held in Turkey for depicting Mohammed and 'Musa'
The satirical magazine LeMan claimed it showed a random Muslim killed by Israel, and not the prophet that Islamic tradition bans depicting.
Canaan Lidor
(July 1, 2025 / JNS)
https://www.jns.org/cartoonists-held-in-turkey-for-depicting-mohammed-and-musa/

Erdogan says cartoon depicting prophets is 'vile provocation'
By Ece Toksabay
Reuters July 1, 2025  https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/turkey-says-cartoon-depicting-prophets-is-islamophobic-hate-crime-2025-07-01/

Clashes and arrests in Turkey over magazine cartoon allegedly depicting prophet Muhammad
Turkey police face demonstrators after prosecutor orders arrests at LeMan magazine, whose editor-in-chief denies allegation and says image has been deliberately misinterpreted
Agence France-Presse in Istanbul
Mon 30 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/istanbul-turkey-leman-magazine-alleged-prophet-muhammad-cartoon-protests-arrests

Turkiye detains four over cartoon allegedly depicting Abrahamic prophets
Al Jazeera 1 Jul 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/turkey-detains-four-over-cartoon-allegedly-depicting-abrahamic-prophets

Laurie Gambill Myers – RIP
D. D. Degg
July 2, 2025  
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/02/laurie-gambill-meyers-rip/

'Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of Comics' exhibit now open at Comic-Con Museum
New exhibit celebrates 40 years of strips by local cartoonist Greg Evans and his co-writer and daughter Karen Evans
By David J. Bohnet
The San Diego Union-Tribune
  July 1, 2025 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/01/growing-up-luann-40-years-of-comics-exhibit-now-open-at-comic-con-museum/

San Marcos cartoonist focus of new Comic-Con Museum exhibit [Luann]
   by Luis Monteagudo Jr. • Times of San Diego June 30, 2025,
https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2025/06/30/san-marcos-cartoonist-focus-of-new-comic-con-museum-exhibit/

Jamie Lang Officially Takes The Reins At Cartoon Brew, An Introduction To The Site's New(ish) Owner By Jamie Lang | 07/01/2025https://www.cartoonbrew.com/site-news/cartoon-brew-jamie-lang-new-owner-248167.html

Cartoon Brew Is Changing Ownership, A Farewell From The Site's Co-Founder (Video)
Amid Amidi | 06/30/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/site-news/cartoon-brew-is-changing-ownership-a-farewell-from-the-sites-co-founder-video-248145.html

 I Sold Cartoon Brew. Here's What Happens Next.
Amid Amidi
Jun 30, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMKvs6FmXAk

Maryland political cartoonist talks about state of his work after being let go by Sun [KAL]
Denise Koch
  WJZ July 3, 2025   CBS Baltimore
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/photos-maryland-political-cartoonist-kevin-kallaugher-sun-baltimore/

Hot Dog and a Shake — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | July 3, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/hot-dog-and-a-shake-this-weeks-links/

Cartoonist Hannah Good illustration in today's WaPo. July 3, 2025.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/2/2025

Reviews: Ginseng Roots

Charles Hatfield | July 2, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/ginseng-roots/

 

Diamond Updates: Dynamite pleads hardship; CGA sold; Diamond responds to Alliance

Heidi MacDonald on 07/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-updates-dynamite-pleads-hardship-cga-sold-diamond-responds-to-alliance/

 

Publishers Respond to Diamond's Plan to Liquidate Stock

Posted on July 1, 2025 by Brett

https://graphicpolicy.com/2025/07/01/publishers-respond-to-diamonds-plan-to-liquidate-stock/

 

The State of Distribution: Comic Industry Insiders Live

Atom Freeman and Heidi MacDonald

Prana: Direct Market Solutions July 1 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjQBdPjls8E

 

The Complicated Feminist Legacy of Underground Comix

Christina Lee | July 2, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-complicated-feminist-legacy-of-underground-comix/

 

R.I.P. Jim Shooter

Chris Mautner | July 2, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/r-i-p-jim-shooter/

 

Doctors said I was 'too young' to be seriously ill. I had Stage 4 cancer. [graphic medicine, memoir]

Drea Cornejo and Lara Antal

Washington Post (June 23 2025): D4-5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/12/lung-cancer-diagnosis-generation-c-comic/

 

Veteran Journalist Jamie Lang Acquires Cartoon Brew From Amid Amidi

Animation Magazine

July 1, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/veteran-journalist-jamie-lang-acquires-cartoon-brew-from-amid-amidi/

 

The Directors of Prize-Winning Short 'Budō' on Crafting a Stop-Motion Cat Tale [Sweden]

Ramin Zahed

July 1, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/the-directors-of-prize-winning-short-budo-on-crafting-a-stop-motion-cat-tale/

 

Exclusive: Aethon adapts HE WHO FIGHTS WITH MONSTERS into a webcomic

Deanna Destito on 07/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-aethon-adapts-he-who-fights-with-monsters-into-a-webcomic/

 

New Report Finds Manga Sales Up; Anime DVD Down in '07

by Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 12/7/2007

archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20071209162907/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6510598.html

 

Fan Creativity Explodes at Comiket

This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week on August 21, 2007

By Ed Chavez -- Publishers Weekly, 8/21/2007

https://web.archive.org/web/20071214001359/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6470409.html

 

MangaNovel Offers Digital Access, User Translations

This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week on November 13, 2007

By Ed Chavez -- Publishers Weekly, 11/13/2007

https://web.archive.org/web/20071222013041/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6500472.html

 

Christine Feehan Romances Manga Fans

By Brigid Alverson -- Publishers Weekly, 11/26/2007

archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20071130214605/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6505255.html

 

R.I.P. JIM SHOOTER
Marvel EiC Wielded a Strong Hand, Expanded Marvel's Presence in the Direct Market
Brigid Alverson on July 1, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59934/r-i-p-jim-shooter

MARVEL COMICS RETURN TO NEWSSTANDS In a Bookazine with Variant Covers
Brigid Alverson on July 1, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59939/marvel-comics-return-newsstands

 DYNAMITE ASKS FOR RUSH HEARING ON DIAMOND PAYMENTS
Says Next Payroll Is at Stake
  Milton Griepp on July 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59944/dynamite-asks-rush-hearing-diamond-payments

 'The Old Guard 2' Review: Charlize Theron and KiKi Layne Bring All the Right Moves, but Netflix Sequel Doesn't Have the Same Kick
Uma Thurman and Henry Golding join the returning cast in this follow-up to 2020's adaptation of the graphic novel series about immortal soldiers battling to protect humanity.
David Rooney
July 2, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-old-guard-2-review-charlize-theron-kiki-layne-netflix-1236304143/

 'South Park' Creators Say Skydance-Paramount Merger Is "a Sh**show" and Is "F***ing Up" Their Show
Tony Maglio
July 2, 2025  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/south-park-creators-blast-skydance-paramount-merger-1236304601/

 Takehiko Inoue Unveils Mural at New Kinokuniya
This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week on November 27, 2007
By Kai-Ming Cha and Heidi MacDonald -- Publishers Weekly, 11/26/2007
Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20071208140401/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6505266.html

Comics Briefly
-- Publishers Weekly, 11/27/2007
archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20071208140406/http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6505375.html

Jack Ohman
Hey! More Mixed Media strips!
Jack Ohman's You Betcha!  Jul 2, 2025
https://jackohman.substack.com/p/hey-more-mixed-media-strips

The Prince of Asgard becomes the MORTAL THOR in new status quo shift
  Taimur Dar on 07/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/mortal-thor-details/

Baltimore Sun fires its longtime cartoonist, Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher
Fern Shen
Baltimore Brew July 1, 2025
https://www.baltimorebrew.com/2025/07/01/baltimore-sun-fires-its-longtime-cartoonist-kevin-kal-kallaugher/

James Gunn Shares His Thoughts On the DCU Batman's Costume, And the Chance of the Blue and Gray
Sean O'Connell,
CBR Presents Jul 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrgL-w8YpvI

Interview with Comic Art Collector Ron Shepherd
Bill Cox
CAF+  Jul 1, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTu_AXsExQk

Ironheart Details With Dominique Thorne and Anthony Ramos!
Marvel Entertainment
Jul 2, 2025 The Official Marvel Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYvdMphDmS0

MCU Super Hero Landings | Compilation
 Marvel Entertainment Jul 2, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDQR9-H7mB4

Patrick Horvath - Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees: Rite of Spring
Justin Soderberg Jul 2, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast #232: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbi9qiao9ZE

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Richard Case
Pop Culture Squad
 Jul 1, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0_uvqhZoM

Inking CROSSBONES commission
Declan Shalvey
  Jul 1, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp2gg9miKMg

EST #4 | Mutants, Zombies, and Pig-Men with Chris Anderson
Jamie Jones and  Matthew Sardo
CAF+  Jul 1, 2025 EYE SEA THREE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6NNlX2yu40

Words, Images, & Worlds: Phantom Hawk Edition
Jason DeHart and  Matthew Jasso
  Jul 1, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCmYUr-k7cE

Jim Shooter RIP The Word Balloon Interview
wordballoon
Jul 1, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaKRmR1GqUQ

My 5-Cents +Dave Hill's Dark Regards & Jim Shooter
 Dean Haspiel's Newsletter    Jul 2, 2025  : https://deanhaspiel.substack.com/p/my-5-cents

TV review: IRONHEART eps 4-6 end on a dark, abrupt note
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 07/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ironheart-eps-4-6/

Turkish police detain cartoonist over Prophet Muhammad caricature, sparking protests
Associated Press
Washington Post June 30, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/turkey-satirical-magazine-prophet-cartoon/fc8a980a-55f2-11f0-b45b-dc9aeb848c03_story.html

Turkish police detain 3 more employees of satirical magazine over prophet cartoon controversy [in print and truncated as "3 more detained in cartoon investigation"]
By Associated Press
Washington Post July 2, 2025: A6
online (complete article) at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/turkey-satirical-magazine-prophet-cartoon/70b1aaf2-5661-11f0-b45b-dc9aeb848c03_story.html

VITO x DINO: Episode 24 - God Only Knows
Vito Delsante
  Jun 16, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo0bNrkn_Yw

VITO x DINO: Episode 25 - Versus
Vito Delsante
 Jun 23, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSLIG1ChJQE

The Comics of Dean Haspiel & Vito Delsante - Heroes, Anti-Heroes & Brooklyn Tales
Splash Pages Comic Book Club
 Jun 24, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/live/qftbCGsWPh4

Dean Haspiel Talks A Life Of Indie Comics To Tripwire
June 27, 2025
https://tripwiremagazine.co.uk/headlines/dean-haspiel-talks-a-life-of-indie-comics-to-tripwire/

Tom Sniegoski Talks Herculoids, Vampirella, and Writing Horror Comics on Splash Pages

Splash Pages Comic Book Club

Jun 23, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/ARQW7ApFrB4

Ryan Stegman & Jason Howard Want to Damn Your Soul with THE MISSIONARY #3
DSTLRY
  Jun 3, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/live/nftW4fNamLM
Jun 23, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/ARQW7ApFrB4

Turkey's latest prophet cartoon controversy mentioned in Post

Only the 2nd article appeared in print, leading one to wonder, who was the original detainee? The first article doesn't actually mention his name, but the second says he's Dogan Pehlevan of LeMan magazine.

Turkish police detain cartoonist over Prophet Muhammad caricature, sparking protests
Associated Press
Washington Post June 30, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/06/30/turkey-satirical-magazine-prophet-cartoon/fc8a980a-55f2-11f0-b45b-dc9aeb848c03_story.html

Turkish police detain 3 more employees of satirical magazine over prophet cartoon controversy [in print and truncated as "3 more detained in cartoon investigation"]
By Associated Press
Washington Post July 2, 2025: A6
online (complete article) at https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/01/turkey-satirical-magazine-prophet-cartoon/70b1aaf2-5661-11f0-b45b-dc9aeb848c03_story.html

Graphic medicine in WaPo

Doctors said I was 'too young' to be seriously ill. I had Stage 4 cancer. [graphic medicine, memoir]

Drea Cornejo and Lara Antal

Washington Post (June 23 2025): D4-5

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/06/12/lung-cancer-diagnosis-generation-c-comic/