Pat Oliphant, at 90, Joins TDC's Senior Strippers Club
D. D. Degg
July 24, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/24/pat-oliphant-at-90-joins-tdcs-senior-strippers-club/
TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
July 24, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-138/
The Simplistic Moral Lessons of "Superman"
In James Gunn's reboot of the franchise, the titular hero's credo is as shallow as it is broad.
By Richard Brody
July 10, 2025
Published in the print edition of the July 21, 2025, issue, with the headline "Fortress of Synergy."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/07/21/superman-movie-review
2025 Buffalo News Editorial Cartoon Contest Winners [children]
Adam Zyglis
July 24 2025
https://buffalonews.com/news/article_8fa94caf-c911-42c1-9fd8-6134ff1d8c68.html
Trump and Satan Are Bedmates in 'South Park's Scathing 27th Season Opener (Updated with WH response, Comic-Con Panel)
Animation Magazine July 24, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/trump-and-satan-are-bedmates-in-south-parks-scathing-27th-season-opener/
Musical Adaptation Of Manga Graphic Novel 'Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen' In Development With Duncan Sheik
Greg Evans, February 20, 2025 https://deadline.com/2025/02/memoirs-of-amorous-gentlemen-duncan-sheik-broadway-1236295886/
High school graduate publishes his first trailblazing graphic novel [Ayomiku "Yomi" Adegbile]
Ming Henry
February 20, 2025
https://www.aroundosceola.com/news/high-school-graduate-publishes-his-first-trailblazing-graphic-novel
Art exhibit brings history of Frederick Douglass, John Brown to life in graphic novel form [Barron Bell]
February 19, 2025 : By Ryan Klinker
https://www.liberty.edu/news/2025/02/19/art-exhibit-brings-history-of-frederick-douglass-john-brown-to-life-in-graphic-novel-form/
The Daily Heller: Pepe, a Frog That Was Wronged by the Right [Matt Furie]
By Steven Heller
The Daily Heller July 24 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-pepe-a-frog-that-was-wronged-by-the-right/
The Daily Heller: Humor as Competitive Sport [Seymour Chwast; Society of Illustrators' "HUMOR '87" competition]
Steven Heller
The Daily Heller July 22 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-humor-as-a-competitive-sport/
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 211 - Harry Bliss
July 23, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius • Season 5 • Episode 211
https://cartooncaptioncontestpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/17553375-episode-211-harry-bliss
Symptom of the Universe — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | July 25, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/symptom-of-the-universe-this-weeks-links/
Family tragedy, the repression of Argentina's military dictatorship and the delicate legacy hidden in 'The Eternaut'
Martín Oesterheld is the grandson of the man who wrote the comic of the same name. He has led the Netflix series adaptation of the legendary graphic novel. The original creator of the series was disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship, along with his four daughters and three sons-in-law
Gregorio Belinchón
EL PAÍS USA Edition JUL 20, 2025
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-07-20/family-tragedy-the-repression-of-argentinas-military-dictatorship-and-the-delicate-legacy-hidden-in-the-eternaut.html
The comeback of indie comics
Sumi Alexander Anup's Red Eye Chapters, is an online store that offers a space for independent comics; stocks a variety of fiction, non-fiction with graphic narratives
Diya Maria George
22 Jul 2025 https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2025/Jul/23/the-comeback-of-indie-comics
Fanbase Press Interviews Dillon Gilbertson on His Return to Kickstarter for the Third Issue of 'My Neighbor Necromancer'
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
July 18, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57132-fanbase-press-interviews-dillon-gilbertson-on-his-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-third-issue-of-my-neighbor-necromancer/
Reading with Manga One App Editor-in-Chief, NOVELOUS App Producer Yuki Wada
by Rebecca Silverman, Jul 18th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-07-18/reading-with-manga-one-app-editor-in-chief-novelous-app-producer-yuki-wada/.225182
Radical Time Warp: PW Talks to Ben Passmore
by Cheryl Klein
Jul 18, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 07/21/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Ben Passmore
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/98248-radical-time-warp-pw-talks-to-ben-passmore.html
X-Men Monday #302 – Murewa Ayodele Talks 'Storm', 'Thunder War', and 'Rogue Storm'
Chris Hassan
July 21, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/07/21/x-men-monday-murewa-ayodele-rogue-storm/
How one G.I. Joe writer turned Marvel Rivals into a comics run for the ages [Paul Allor]
Josh Broadwell
Jul 21, 2025, https://www.polygon.com/features/614688/marvel-rivals-comics-writer-paul-allor-profile
Why Does It Have To Be So Difficult?: Isaac Roller on PETER KAPRELIAN: A Life In Comics [minicomics]
Isaac Roller
SOLRAD Jul 7, 2025
https://solrad.co/why-does-it-have-to-be-so-hard-isaac-roller-on-peter-kaprelian-a-life-in-comics
'DREDD', Peach Trees, and the Architecture of Oppression
Dystopian cyberpunk film DREDD may unfold within a single building, but that building is a microcosm of how power, poverty, and architecture intertwine to brutal effect.
Ryan Dyer / 21 July 2025 https://www.popmatters.com/dredd-architecture-of-oppression
Baumeister, Hannah. 2025. Giuseppe Martinico and Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo (ed), Graphic Law and Drawn Justice: A Legal Analysis [book review] Liverpool Law Rev (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10991-025-09388-y and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10991-025-09388-y
Giuseppe Martinico and Gianpaolo Maria Ruotolo (ed), Graphic Law and Drawn Justice: A Legal Analysis, London UK & New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2025
Labra, Diego. 2025. Going "Against the Grain": The (Re)configuration of Argentine Comics as a Field of Restricted Production in the Face of Increasing Globalization, 2001–2019. Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 43, 2025, p. 129-153. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sla.00009. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/966256
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/article/966256/pdf
Intuitive, Impractical Passions
Dan Nadel on the work of legendary underground cartoonist, artist, and sculptor Michael McMillan.
By Dan Nadel
July 21, 2025 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/intuitive-impractical-passions/
Terminal Exposure: Comics, Sculpture, and Risky Behavior by Michael McMillan and Dan Nadel (editor). New York Review Comics, 2025. 248 pages.
'The Fantastic Four: First Steps' Review: A Newborn Franchise
Brandon Yu
A version of this article appears in print on July 25, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: Family Drama in Superhero Tights.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/movies/the-fantastic-four-first-steps-review.html
The 'Fantastic Four' Movie That Never Was
The first attempt at making a film about the superheroes was an extremely low-budget affair that was shot, abandoned and mostly forgotten about in the 1990s.
Maya Phillips
July 25, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/movies/fantastic-four-forgotten-film.html
Manga's First Century
How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905–1989
by Andrea Horbinski
University of California Press 2025
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/mangas-first-century/
Vintage Vibes and Fresh Finds: Comic book collecting can be an expensive, but joyful hobby
Taylor Staples
Wyoming Tribune Eagle Feb 21, 2025
https://www.wyomingnews.com/features/todo/vintage-vibes-and-fresh-finds-comic-book-collecting-can-be-an-expensive-but-joyful-hobby/article_3073669e-ef08-11ef-89ba-bba75519c288.html
Chery, Samantha and Emily Yahr. 2025. 'South Park' makes fun of Trump over Epstein list, Paramount lawsuit [in print as 'South Park' skewers Trump]. Washington Post (July 25): B1-2. online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/24/south-park-trump-episode-paramount-season-27-premiere/
Branigin, Anne. 2025. The hottest sound of the summer? K-pop [in print as K-pop is slaying: With Netflix's animated demon hunters, the music genre is the sound of summer]. Washington Post (July 25): B1-2. online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2025/07/24/k-pop-demon-hunters-bts-blackpink/
Yang, Jeff. 2025. How 'KPop Demon Hunters' became a global phenomenon: The hit film shows how remixing South Korean culture with an American eye can have universal appeal. Washington Post
(July 25): https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/25/kpop-demon-hunters-asian-americans/
Klimek, Chris. 2025. Finally, the Fantastic Four get the movie they (and we) deserve [in print as For superheroes, a step in the right direction]. Washington Post (July 25): Weekend 18. online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/23/fantastic-four-first-steps-review/
For Superman, sequels are kryptonite
James Gunn's upbeat new blockbuster is an attempt to reboot a superhero with a dodgy screen history.
Chris Klimek
July 25, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/07/24/superman-movie-sequels/
SRJC Multicultural Museum features Black comic book character history exhibit
Max Underdown,
February 20, 2025 https://www.theoakleafnews.com/arts-entertainment/2025/02/20/srjc-multicultural-museum-features-black-comic-book-character-history-exhibit/
Lessons from a comic mastermind [Bill Watterson].
By JEREMY SPEER
Feb 22, 2025
https://advertiser-tribune.com/news/566085/lessons-from-a-comic-mastermind/
CT resident and longtime comics fan has created funny-named private eye for new graphic novel [Mark Nelson O'Brien]
Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant February 21, 2025
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ct-resident-longtime-comics-fan-110000347.html
The Million Year Picnic: A Hidden Comic Haven [store]
Neeraja S. Kumar
February 20, 2025
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/2/20/the-million-year-picnic/
