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60 Years of Fantastic Four History in 90 Minutes | Marvel Recap
Marvel Entertainment Jul 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZBgbT_jtmQ

Interview with Comic Art Collector Tyler T
Bill Cox
CAF+ Jul 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3f_71gV6d0

Episode 717: Katie Fricas
RiYL Podcast Jul 13, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erB6WiBhzSc

Musician Nick Carter Talks Latest Comic Project & Backstreet Boys' Upcoming Las Vegas Residency
C. M. Ramsburg
CBR Presents Jul 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9H2HUkct8Q

Words, Images, & Worlds with Kane Lynch (Updated)
Jason DeHart
Jul 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-UW2olXDU

Words, Images, & Worlds with Jake Mastar
Jason DeHart
Jul 13, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1xHrvcq2gw

Words, Images, & Worlds with Travis Webb
Jason DeHart
Jul 14, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMYHqDd0Ias

Islands in the Sky Kickstarter - Survivor & Creator Matthew K. Manning
Appalachia Comics
Jul 9, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0pxlaJzS8

Sam Humphries Writes The New Avengers
wordballoon Jul 8, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww5jepBHy3M

Umwelt Comics with Aidan Koch - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop Jul 11, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5erkMv6sdQ

Brian Bolland's incredible career – 2000 AD: The Deep Dive
ST33-V and Chris Sims
Jul 12, 2025 The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ylv-pTdeEE

Episode 57: Rob Jones about Dick Giordano and drawing Liberty Girl
Dennis Mallonee
The Heroic Voice Jul 12, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owg7U6K2AxU

Inking Ripley/Aliens
Declan Shalvey
Jul 9, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IyymorsTzU

Daniel Miyares Talks with Roger
by Roger Sutton
The Horn Book Jul 17, 2025 https://read.hbook.com/daniel-miyares-talks-with-rogers

AX 2025 Interview: Acky Bright teases cross-industry project and how he's like ONE PIECE's Zero
Ollie Kaplan on 07/17/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ax-2025-interview-acky-bright/

Four Questions for Amar Shah
By Pooja Makhijani
Jul 17, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/98229-four-questions-for-amar-shah.html

Alan Gratz Is Going for the Gold
Riding the wave of interest in middle grade historical fiction, Alan Gratz returns to Nazi Germany with a fast-paced Olympic thriller, and releases a graphic novel adaptation of a backlist bestseller
By Linda Lowen
Jul 11, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/14/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Going for Gold
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/98188-alan-gratz-is-going-for-the-gold.html

Fanbase Press Interviews Sarah Cooke on Her Return to Kickstarter for the Second Volume of the Comic Book Anthology, 'Faster Than Light'
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
July 15, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57116-fanbase-press-interviews-sarah-cooke-on-her-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-second-volume-of-the-comic-book-anthology-faster-than-light/

Between the Panels: Cartoonist Juni Ba on Getting Lost in Manga, Being Obsessed with Storytelling, and Surviving an Early Cautionary Tale
Kevin Sharp, Fanbase Press Contributor
July 16, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/between-the-panels/item/57120-between-the-panels-cartoonist-juni-ba-on-getting-lost-in-manga-being-obsessed-with-storytelling-and-surviving-an-early-cautionary-tale/

Goldstein, Steve. 2017, In These Splintered Times, An Editorial Cartoonist's Job Can Be Harder [Steve Benson]. KJZZ's The Show (September 18): https://www.kjzz.org/2017-09-18/content-538098-these-splintered-times-editorial-cartoonists-job-can-be-harder

Graphic Novel Review: SIMPLICITY by Mattie Lubchansky is a mournful yet optimistic tale of living outside society
Sean on 07/17/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/graphic-novel-review-simplicity-by-mattie-lubchansky-is-a-mournful-yet-optimistic-tale-of-living-outside-society/

There Isn't A Word of Truth In Any of That"- A Conversation With The Elusive & Prolific Clair Noto on Hollywood, Marvel, and Her Erasure from Red Sonja
July 8, 2025 by fourcolorsinners
https://fourcolorsinners.com/2025/07/08/there-isnt-a-word-of-truth-in-any-of-that-a-conversation-with-the-elusive-prolific-clair-noto-on-hollywood-marvel-and-her-erasure-from-red-sonja/

MINDLESS COMMUNICATION – Kieron Gillen
July 12th, 2025
https://mindlessones.com/2025/07/12/mindless-communication-kieron-gillen/

Can Neon Ichiban Breathe New Life into Digital Comics?
By Dean Simons
Jul 16, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98218-can-neon-ichiban-breathe-new-life-into-digital-comics.html

Publishers Await Answers on Inventory Tied Up in Diamond Bankruptcy
By Sam Spratford
Jul 16, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98225-publishers-await-answers-about-inventory-tied-up-in-diamond-bankruptcy.html

Vault Comics and Aethon Books Expand Their Print Offerings
By Jim Milliot
Jul 16, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/98213-vault-comics-aethon-books-to-expand-print-offerings.html

Joe Wicks and Studio AKA debut animated Activate series
by Billy Langsworthy
15.07.25 https://www.brandsuntapped.com/joe-wicks-and-studio-aka-debut-animated-activate-series/

Amazon Renews 'Invincible' for Season 5 While You're Still Waiting for Season 4
Where's season 4, William?
By Isaiah Colbert
io9 July 17, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/invincible-season-5-prime-video-amazon-2000630677

Excerpt: Manga: A New History by Eike Exner
July 17, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/excerpt-manga-a-new-history-by-eike-exner/

Exclusive Interview: Tim Seeley talks adapting Revival, tonight's reveal, and how the show is just getting started
Christian Angeles on 07/17/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-interview-tim-seeley-talks-adapting-revival-tonights-reveal-and-how-the-show-is-just-getting-started/

Mansect
Shinichi Koga, translated by Ryan Holmberg
Living The Line Books

Reviews: Mansect
Leonard Pierce | July 17, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/mansect-2/

Reviews: Mansect
Sean McCarthy | July 17, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/mansect/

Nik Kowsar
Meeting David Levine: The Master Who Changed My Life Through Art
Nik's Substack Jul 17, 2025
https://nkowsar.substack.com/p/meeting-david-levine-the-master-who

Taika Waititi tapped to direct a "fun sci-fi blockbuster" version of Judge Dredd
Waititi's version of Dredd, from a screenplay by Drew Pearce, will reportedly hew closer to the "dark humor" and worldbuilding of the original comics.
By William Hughes | July 17, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/taika-waititi-judge-dredd-film-version

Taika Waititi Tackling 'Judge Dredd' Movie in Hot Package Hitting Hollywood (Exclusive)
Borys Kit
July 17, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/taika-waititi-tackling-judge-dredd-movie-1236311752/

Video game industry actors pass SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement
Javier Perez on 07/17/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/video-game-industry-actors-pass-sag-aftra-interactive-media-agreement/

Nik Kowsar on meeting David Levine

Nik Kowsar

Meeting David Levine: The Master Who Changed My Life Through Art

Nik's Substack Jul 17, 2025

https://nkowsar.substack.com/p/meeting-david-levine-the-master-who

which includes a link to a story about his cartooning career in Iran

How a Cartoon and a 'Suitcase full of Dollars' Turned My Life Upside Down
The story behind the Crocodile Cartoon, the Suitcase, and the devastating consequences of a joke
Nik Kowsar
Nik's Substack Dec 21, 2024
https://nkowsar.substack.com/p/how-a-cartoon-and-a-suitcase-full

Superman - the Movie Merch

I saw Superman (2025) at Ballston last night. I thought the movie was a standard superhero movie and I consider them all B movies by definition. It was fine by me, but not great and I don't need to see it again. I was hoping for more though.

There were way too many uninteresting fights. My buddy who went with me and isn't a superhero movie fan was really bored by these and turned off by the lack of the development of the characters.

Supes costume looked curiously clunky to me. Anyone else?

Mr. Terrific was cool though.

I really, really could have done w/o the Ultraman twist.

The dimensional rift as shown, was really stupid and unnecessary.

Here's the comic book creators that were credited. Rich Johnston always covers this at Bleeding Cool, so I'd recommend checking out his column.

OK, enough of that. Let's get down to the merch, and other ephemera (ie the FF poster). I don't go to the movies very often anymore so I was surprised to see a mini-mart opened in front of the concessions.

Nice Fantastic Four poster in the lobby; I'm sure these will be collectible, but I miss the giant displays of cardboard that the theaters used to have.

I'm not sure what this table in the lobby was for...


the now-common overdone popcorn bucket...

Pillows and blankets in case you need to sleep in those darn recliners that you can't get away from...

...and what appears to be a popcorn maker with Superman powering it with his heat vision

and the Smurfs were not ignored as their next movie opens this week...

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/16/2025

Peter Russell-Clarke — RIP

Alan Gardner

July 15, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/15/peter-russell-clarke-rip/

Peter Russell-Clarke's greatest gift was how he made you feel like one of the family

Wendy Hunt

July 7, 2025

https://theconversation.com/peter-russell-clarkes-greatest-gift-was-how-he-made-you-feel-like-one-of-the-family-260587

Children Learn To Draw Cartoons With Cartoonist Rick Stromoski

By Jenna Visca

Jul 14, 2025 https://www.newtownbee.com/07142025/children-learn-to-draw-cartoons-with-cartoonist-rick-stromoski/

July 16, 2025

This job is a North American symbol. It looks different now.

How a former door-to-door salesman thinks about his job.

Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa/For The Washington Post)

July 15, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/shifts-salesman-comic/

'The opposite of fast fashion': The romance of a well-made shoe

Part of Shifts, an illustrated history of work.

Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa/For The Washington Post)

July 9, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/shifts-bespoke-shoemaker-comic/

How a film projectionist creates 'visions on screen'

Part of Shifts, an illustrated history of work.

Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa /For The Washington Post)

July 7, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/shifts-film-projectionist-comic/

'I lived on a cliff with 10,000-year-old icebergs and a beagle'

How a former lighthouse keeper thinks about the job.

Beatrix Lockwood and Maya Scarpa/For The Washington Post)

July 2, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/shifts-lighthouse-keeper-comic/

Former N.L. lighthouse keeper's tale gets comic book treatment in the U.S.

Barry Porter's experiences were recreated as comics for the Washington Post

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News Jul 13, 2025

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/barry-porter-comic-washington-post-1.7581473

Look After Yourself in Retirement: John M. Burns comic strip advice

John Freeman on July 15, 2025

https://downthetubes.net/look-after-yourself-in-retirement-john-m-burns-comic-strip-advice/

TOP DOLLAR COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS, SPRING 2025

Sales Rankings Based on Comic Store POS Data

ICv2 July 16, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/60046/top-dollar-comics-graphic-novels-spring-2025

Rolling the Dice and Betting On Yourself, Get to Know Steenz

Pages and Panels Jun 24 2025

https://www.pages-and-panels.com/articles-and-interviews/steenz-betting-on-yourself

'If you had my wiener, would it save your son?': The big, hairy questions of Dandadan

Shaenon Garrity | July 16, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/if-you-had-my-wiener-would-it-save-your-son-the-big-hairy-questions-of-dandadan/

Supreme Court Scolds Hemant Malviya; Grants Protection From Arrest

Alan Gardner

July 15, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/15/supreme-court-scolds-hemant-malviya-grants-protection-from-arrest/

SC grants interim protection from arrest to cartoonist in PM, RSS cartoon case

Abraham Thomas

Jul 15, 2025 https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/sc-grants-interim-protection-from-arrest-to-cartoonist-in-pm-rss-cartoon-case-101752575908092.html

A bench of justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Aravind Kumar permitted Hemant Malviya to submit an affidavit expressing a genuine apology, even as it expressed serious reservations

Interview + Preview: Judd Winick talks the first HILO PRESENTS OGN, THE MIGHTY
Ollie Kaplan on 07/16/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-preview-judd-winick-talks-the-first-hilo-presnts-ogn-the-mighty/

Daniel Best - Author
Jun 24, 2025
Diamond Distributors: Exit Interviews
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/diamond-distributors-exit-interviews

Daniel Best - Author , Jul 16, 2025
Diamond Distributors Warehouse Sale
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/diamond-distributors-warehouse-sale

Clay Jones
Margolis & Cox
Claytoonz Jul 16, 2025 https://claytoonz.substack.com/p/margolis-and-cox/

Adrian Tchaikovsky and Cosmic Lighthouse making a debut with THE FINAL ARCHITECTURE: SALVATION'S CHILD
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 07/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/salvations-child/

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

PR: Announcing Small Press Expo 2025 International Special Guests

For Immediate Release

Contact Email: press@smallpressexpo.com

Small Press Expo Announces Carlos Sanchez, Ingrīda Pičukāne, Lee Lai, Štěpánka Jislová, Joonas Sildre, Kit Anderson, Vivianna Maria Stanislavka, Marc Torices, and Rachel Coad as International Special Guests for SPX 2025

Bethesda, Maryland -July 16, 2025

Media Release - Small Press Expo is proud to announce the International Special Guests for SPX 2025. The show takes place on Saturday, September 13, and Sunday, September 14, with programming and workshops about the amazing world of independent comics as well as an exhibitor floor featuring over 500 creators.

Additional Special Guests will be announced over the next few weeks.

SPX 2025 is honored to have the following creators as Special Guests to this year's show:

Visit the SPX 2025 Website for More Info

Carlos Sánchez

Carlos Sánchez is appearing all the way from Barcelona. His debut graphic novel, Rune: The Tale of a Thousand Faces, which he will be signing at the event, became the first graphic novel to win a Waterstones Children's Book Prize category award in the history of the prize. It has also been shortlisted for Best Graphic Novel at The Week Jr. Awards 2025. It won Best Graphic Novel at the British Book Design & Production Awards, 2024.

His forthcoming book, Rune: The Tale of the Obisidian Maze also published by Flying Eye Books, is due for release in 2025.

Ingrīda Pičukāne

Ingrīda's Pičukāne's new book Feminae Explorarum is a selection of comics, often set in vibrant forest worlds, inhabited by women engaged in quiet, personal acts of exploration. Blending myth and realism, the stories embrace states like menstruation, drunkenness, and solitude as meaningful experiences rather than trivialities. The forests are neither untouched nor idealized—they are tangled spaces of nature and human debris, magical and reflective. Ingrīda Pičukāne challenges expectations of femininity, offering a richly subjective and feminist perspective on what it means to truly observe and exist.

Lee Lai

A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife.

Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape—not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. In high school, they were each other's lifeline—two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down.

In Cannon, Lee Lai's much anticipated follow-up to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer.

Štěpánka Jislová

Štěpánka Jislová is an award-winning comics artist based in Prague and the cofounder of the Czech branch of Laydeez do Comics, an international organization that promotes female comic artists and their work. Jislová collaborated with Czech writer Tereza Čechová on the 2021 Muriel prize–winning Bez vlasů, later published by Graphic Mundi in English as Bald. Her new graphic novel Srdcovka (the original Czech edition of Heartcore) received the Muriel Award in three categories in 2024, including the main prize.

Joonas Sildre

Joonas Sildre is the author of the graphic novel "Between Two Sounds," which tells the story of the acclaimed Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The graphic novel follows the celebrated Estonian composer through the cultural, political, personal, and spiritual upheavals that led to the distinctive style that made him the most performed living composer in the world. It is based on years of research and close collaboration with Arvo Pärt himself. The English translation of the book was published in 2024, bringing the total number of languages in which the book has been published to nine, following its original 2018 release. In the US, the book has received three top awards from the independent publishers' associations.

Kit Anderson

Kit Anderson's short stories have been published by Parsifal Press and collected by Avery Hill in the graphic novel Safer Places. Kit lives near Zürich with her partner and tiny dog where she enjoys walking in the woods and making comics about memory, nature, and wizards sometimes, too. Her latest graphic novel is the science fiction adventure Second Shift.

Vivianna Maria Stanislavka

Vivianna is attending on behalf of publisher kuš! - she has been featured in multiple kuš! anthologies. She's also bringing a limited edition zine for those who regularly delete their internet search history. Warning - she will doodle in your books!

kuš! (speak koosh!) is a comic art publisher from Latvia founded in Riga in 2007. It is most well known for its signature pocket-sized anthologies and its mini-kuš! series. Kuš! popularizes comics in a country where this medium is practically non-existent and to promotes Latvian comics abroad.

Marc Torices

Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular trainwreck—you just can't look away.

Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone's jokes. When his friend Alspacka is kidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and emotional ordeal, upending Cornelius's life. Torn between his desire to be a writer and his immense guilt over his cowardly role in Alspacka's abduction, Cornelius is a classic Faustian figure: an aspiring artist so hungry for success that he will pay any price.

Exquisitely drawn, Cornelius's kaleidoscope of styles pays homage to the comics medium, an unabashed love letter to the form itself. Translated from the Spanish by Eisner Award-winner Andrea Rosenberg, Marc Torices's critically acclaimed and award-winning Cornelius is mesmerizing in its originality.

Rachel Coad

Rachel Coad will be at SPX showcasing both her 2023 book NEW YORK CITY GLOW and 2025 release, S TRAY CATS AND BAD FISH, Silence of the Eels, as well as her illustration work.

London 1977. A fish called 'Creasy' lives in the cistern of the men's room at the Holborn tube station. He's a key player in London's underworld. His nemesis Ratty from Spitalfields is gaining power. Ratty's money launderer disappears, all animal appendages' point to Creasy.

Punk is here, and punkfish rule the waterways of London. Coked-up eels, a lion finds his purpose, and a fish improves his art collection.

Small Press Expo (SPX) is the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons. SPX is a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit that brings together more than 500 artists and publishers to meet their readers, booksellers, and distributors each year. Graphic novels, mini comics, and alternative comics will all be on display and for sale by their authors and illustrators. The expo includes a series of panel discussions and interviews with this year's guests.

The Ignatz Award is a festival prize held every year at SPX recognizing outstanding achievement in comics and cartooning, with the winners chosen by attendees at the show.

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Catching up with WaPo's Shifts comics

I've been falling behind on letting people know that the Post started these again, and they've been very interesting.

This link appears to list them all, via editor Beatrix Lockwood. Here's the 2025 ones, most of which appeared in print. The CBC picked up one to follow up on at Former N.L. lighthouse keeper's tale gets comic book treatment in the U.S.

July 16, 2025

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