Thursday, December 11, 2025
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/9/2025
NOVEMBER 2025 CIRCANA BOOKSCAN - TOP 20 ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS: Blockbuster Series Takes the First Spot.
Brigid Alverson on December 8, 2025
BINC TO OFFER FOUR $1,500 SCHOLARSHIPS TO 2026 COMICSPRO ANNUAL MEETING; Twice as Many Scholarships, Twice as Much Money as Last Year
Brigid Alverson on December 8, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61171/binc-offer-four-1-500-scholarships-2026-comicspro-annual-meeting
'THE BEAUTY' GETS NEW EDITION To Tie into TV Series Launch
Posted by Milton Griepp on December 9, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61177/the-beauty-gets-new-edition
Ryan Murphy's 'The Beauty' Adaptation Sets Premiere Date Across FX and Streaming
Tony Maglio
Hollywood Reporter December 3, 2025
The latest development in DC/WB/Netflix and now…Paramount
Heidi MacDonald on 12/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-latest-development-in-dc-wb-netflix-and-now-paramount/
The Beat Digest 12/09/25: SWAT KATS breaks Kickstarter records
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 12/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-120925/
Waid & Jiménez, Fraction & Lieber, King & Lee among SUPERMAN/SPIDER-MAN creative teams
Joe Grunenwald on 12/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/superman-spider-man-creative-teams-dc-marvel-crossover/
Paranormal investigator explores ghost ships in latest Hellboy comic set in Labrador
Folklorist 'chuffed' her online ghost ship map inspired comic
Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News
Dec 07, 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/hellboy-comic-labrador-9.6994909
Rashid, Rhivu. 2025. Red Bay becomes Hellboy's next stop. Labrador Morning (November 25): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-31-labrador-morning/clip/16183719-red-bay-becomes-hellboys-next-stop
In Memoriam: Comic Artist Adam Terence Stone
By John Freeman on December 5, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-adam-terence-stone/
Test Your Knowledge of Gen X. Can You Name All of These Faces and Objects?
On two of T Magazine's Holiday Issue covers, an era's biggest stars appear as Simpsons characters. A third features Chris Ware's illustrations of the goods of his youth. [in print as On the Cover]
T Magazine Dec. 7, 2025: cover, 48. online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/gen-x-simpsons-chris-ware-covers.html
How the Animated Sitcom and Gen X Grew Up Together [in print as ' "The Simpsons" Already Did It'].
By James Poniewozik
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 7, 2025, Page 136 of T Magazine with the headline:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/t-magazine/the-simpsons-gen-x-animated-sitcom.html
Malc McGookin
5 December 2025
Cartoons from the Daily Worker help to tell the story of WWII; Star cartoonist MALC MCGOOKIN finds lessons for today in the punch, and the economy of line, of an extraordinary generation of illustrators
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cartoons-daily-worker-help-tell-story-wwii
Lucas Museum Chief Curator's Sudden Exit Raises Questions
Matt Stromberg
Hyperallergic December 8, 2025 https://hyperallergic.com/lucas-museum-chief-curators-sudden-exit-raises-questions/
Roxborough, Scott. 2025. THR Animation Roundtable: Inside the Craft, Chaos and "Nerd Love" Behind This Year's Top Contenders. The directors of this year's best animated feature hopefuls talk inspiration, originality and why emotional truth comes before technique. Hollywood Reporter (December 9): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/kpop-demon-hunters-zooptia-2-animation-roundtable-1236438317/
Roxborough, Scott. 2025. Alexander Woo, Domee Shi, Jared Bush, Liane-Cho Han, Maggie Kang and Ugo Bienvenu at the THR Animation Roundtable - THR Video. Hollywood Reporter (December 9): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/alexander-woo-domee-shi-jared-bush-liane-cho-han-maggie-kang-ugo-bienvenu-thr-animation-roundtable-video/
Nearly 300 Students Join StFX Alumni at Fall Convocation - Legendary cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon receives honorary degree
December 8, 2025
https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/1175198/nearly-300-students-join-stfx-alumni-at-fall-convocation-legendary-cartoonist-bruce-mackinnon-receives-honorary-degree.html
Alison Bechdel and Vermont Cartoonist Laureate Tillie Walden '16 at The Center for Cartoon Studies
Junction Arts & Media
Nov 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/LCiBsFgszUE
Bernie Wrightson at Wonderfest 2008 extended video
Rob Mattison
Monster Model Review Mar 12, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/live/AK7ACLza9Po
Heroescon 2017: A Tribute To Bernie Wrightson
Joe Rauch (Mod.), John Totleben, Jason Moore, Thomas Yeates, Scott Hampton, And Joe Jusko
Heroes Aren't Hard To Find Jul 18, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/live/muqrexVN7i4
Comic Art LIVE Fall 2020 Panel with Comic Artist Walter Simonson
Bill Cox
CAF+ Nov 15, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch/Fo_qJYqFVdc
Geof Darrow's Shaolin Cowboy: This Is What 21 Years of Blood, Sweat & Chainsaws Looks Like
Dave
Direct Edition Dec 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/UDhwmlu6lLg
John Jackson Miller Returns! [Batman]
Words, Images, & Worlds Dec 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/eQCu4btFsw0
Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Frank Barbiere
Pop Culture Squad December 9 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/FgG1rAfMxU4
Xander Morro: The Dirt Palace Library: Dec 8, 2025
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 439; Dec. 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6S_uCdyP_o
Tony Fleecs on Marvel Success and Why Feral is Blowing Up!
Collectors Confessions Dec 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/live/6xMyi-teye4
VITO x DINO: Episode 47 - x Chris Stevens
Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel
Dec 8, 2025 VITO X DINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch/5ueefsILGPo
Inside A&S Comics North Bergen NJ | Comic Shop Tour + Huge Haul!
Collectors Confessions
Dec 6, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhPp45qAwaU
Mike Norton A Dog's Comic Life
wordballoon Dec 3, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTTCczIgsyA
Joe Kelly Live! Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool & the Art of Creating Heroes
Splash Pages Comic Book Club December 9 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ-zzM-q_yY
You're Fired! Now What? A Few Tips to Get Your Animation Career Back on Track
Dominick Domingo
December 8, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/12/youre-fired-now-what-a-few-tips-to-get-your-animation-career-back-on-track/
This article was written for the
December '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 354).
Rising Tides Films Animates the True Story of Peace by Chocolate in 'Shokolata' [Syria, Canada]
Mercedes Milligan
December 8, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/12/rising-tides-films-animates-the-true-story-of-peace-by-chocolate-in-shokolata/
Animated Feature Nominees for the 83rd Golden Globes Are Announced
Ramin Zahed
December 8, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/12/animated-feature-nominees-for-the-83rd-golden-globes-are-announced/
'The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants' Director & Team Chart Their Inventive 3D CG Voyage
Tom McLean
December 8, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/12/the-spongebob-movie-search-for-squarepants-director-team-chart-their-inventive-3d-cg-voyage/
This article was written for the
January '26 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 355).
In Memoriam: Comic Artist Iain Buchanan
John Freeman on December 4, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-iain-buchanan/
A Blog by Iain Buchanan – Our New Illustrator
April 2023
https://taukpublishing.co.uk/a-blog-by-iain-buchanan-our-new-illustrator/
Website - https://iainbuchanan.crevado.com/
May 2nd, 2026 will see Free Comic Book Day and "Comics Giveaway Day"
Heidi MacDonald on 12/09/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/may-2nd-2026-will-see-free-comic-book-day-and-comics-giveaway-day/
*Unknown. 1925. ["Ethel M. Hays, artist for the Cleveland Press and N. E. A. service arrived in Billings, Mont., last week for a month's visit at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. George M. Hays."]. Editor and Publisher 58 (12; August 15): 28. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-08-15_58_12/page/28/mode/2up
*Unknown. 1925. ["J.N. 'Ding' Darling, cartoonist for the Register and Tribune Syndicate, Des Moines, Ia., and his family spent last week-end at Lake Okoboji. It will be some time before Mr. Darling returns to his easel."]. Editor and Publisher 58 (13; August 22): 27. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-08-22_58_13/page/26/mode/2up
Unknown. 1925. ["Ellison Hoover, artist who contributes regularly to Life and Saturday Evening Post, has drawn a series of weekly seven-column cartoons for the United Feature Syndicate, New York. They are to run under the title 'The Outrageous Outline of History.'"]. Editor and Publisher 58 (12; August 15): 28. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-08-15_58_12/page/28/mode/2up
Unknown. 1925. [Quin Hall is now drawing daily editorial cartoons for King Features Syndicate]. Editor and Publisher 58 (12; August 15): 28. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-08-15_58_12/page/28/mode/2up
Greene, Sanford. 2024. Physique Variations and Solving Character Design Problems [drawing superheroes]. Proko (July 25): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDxgiotIZII
Licensing Hotline: December 2025
By Karen Raugust
Dec 09, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/99260-licensing-hotline-december-2025.html
Tuesday, December 09, 2025
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/8/2025
NETFLIX BUYING ANOTHER COMIC COMPANY Plus Warner Bros. Movie and TV Studios, Streaming [DC Comics]
Milton Griepp on December 6, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/61163/netflix-buying-another-comic-company
'Swat Kats' Comic Book Breaks Kickstarter Record
By Sam Spratford
Dec 08, 2025
Comic book and manga haven Betty's Books reopens in St. Louis County
Bethany Christo
Ladue News (December 8 2025):
DC Studios Has a Fan in Scott Snyder; "Comics Are Killing It": Gunn. James Gunn is liking what DC Comics has been up to lately (especially Absolute Batman #1), and Scott Snyder feels the same about DC Studios.
07 Dec 2025
by Ray Flook
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/dc-studios-has-a-fan-in-scott-snyder-comics-are-killing-it-gunn/
DC Universe Infinite Expands Into Europe But No Discount For Denmark
, 07 Dec 2025
by Rich Johnston
Art Auctioned in aid of collector and comics professional, Larry Shell
By John Freeman on December 7, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/art-auctioned-in-aid-of-collector-and-comics-professional-larry-shell/
Wallace and Gromit creator reveals whether Aardman Animations will use AI in future - and what they won't compromise on
Laura Rutkowski
7 December 2025
Radio Times: https://www.radiotimes.com/movies/wallace-and-gromit-aardman-nick-park-radio-times-cover-interview/
Aardman bosses on the future of Wallace & Gromit and Feathers McGraw's surprising origins
Michael Hodges
10 December 2024 Radio Times
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/wallace-gromit-feathers-aardman-interview/
Wallace & Gromit creator teases franchise future and whether we'll get a Feathers McGraw prequel
James Hibbs , Katelyn Mensah
10 September 2025 Radio Times:
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/comedy/wallace-gromit-creator-franchise-future-exclusive-newsupdate/
Johnson Features. 1925. The Hearst Newspapers Order the "Skippy" Comic [advertisement]. Editor and Publisher 58 (8; July 18): 43. Online at https://archive.org/details/sim_editor-publisher_1925-07-18_58_8/page/42/mode/2up
Italy's Rainbow Celebrates 30 Years of Magic
Ramin Zahed
December 5, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/12/italys-rainbow-celebrates-30-years-of-magic/
This article was written for the
December '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 354).
'Avengers: Endgame' to Be Rereleased in 2026 Ahead of 'Avengers: Doomsday' (Exclusive)
Borys Kit
December 5, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/avengers-endgame-to-be-re-released-in-2026-of-doomsday-1236443462/
Joshua Williamson LIVE: The All-Stars Thanksgiving Spectacular! [Chip Zdarsky, Scott Snyder
ComicPop Returns
Nov 25, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNnHxs7gS1Y
Chip Zdarsky talks Captain America and Crossovers!
ComicPop Returns
Dec 5, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzZJKx66Y3w
Interview #499 w/ Sierra Barnes | Hans Vogel is Dead Vol 2
Cody
Keeping It Geekly Dec 5, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LKd2MNA_is
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 229 - Kyle Bravo Returns
December 03, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius • Season 5 • Episode 229
https://cartooncaptioncontestpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/18295399-episode-229-kyle-bravo-returns
This Monster Wants To Eat Me's sapphic horror delights in discomfort
Gore and queer romance mix in this pointedly uncomfortable horror anime.
By Elijah Gonzalez | December 8, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/this-monster-wants-to-eat-me-explained
There's No Wrong Place to Start Reading Comics
David Harper
December 3, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/theres-no-wrong-place-to-start-reading-comics/
Terry Dodson talks Ultimate Endgame, AdventureMan, and more
SKTCHD's Off Panel Dec 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8xQwclGK4
Jimmy Palmiotti On Harley Quinn Power Girl Kickstarter and more [at C2E2 2015]
wordballoon
Dec 8, 2025
Recorded live at C2E2 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXFN2eQuPrs
Dalton Webb (1972-2025), an artist's life
Henry Chamberlain | December 8, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/dalton-webb-1972-2025-an-artists-life/
*Degg, D. D. 2025. Ken Crook – RIP. Daily Cartoonist (December 5): https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/12/05/ken-crook-rip/
*MacGowan, Carl. 2025. Kenneth E. Crook, Newsday editorial cartoonist in the 1960s, dies at 96. Newsday (December 4): https://www.newsday.com/long-island/obituaries/kenneth-crook-obituary-newsday-t51xypp9
Drawing Fire with Ellen Forney - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop
Dec 5, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcIM-wgoCdU
*Sagers, Aaron. 2025. Rob Liefeld Live Q&A - Creator of Deadpool. Den of Geek (December 8): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuyKXLtCsxM
The Show Must Go On
A location shoot's hierarchy of needs.
By Adrian Tomine
December 8, 2025
Published in the print edition of the December 15, 2025, issue.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/15/the-show-must-go-on
John D. King May 3, 1951 — October 27, 2025
Trainor Funeral Home (December 8 2025): https://www.trainorfuneralhome.com/obituaries
Monday, December 08, 2025
Missed it - Wash Examiner on Alley Oop over a year ago
These are great collections. I have a bunch of them.
Archiving Alley Oop
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/6-7/2025
*Kusek, Sam. 2025. Christopher Irving: On the art of conversation [comics scholar; Graphic NYC: The Essay Collection]. Creative Independent (June 30): https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/comic-book-historian-christopher-irving-on-the-art-of-conversastion/
*Romero-Jódar, Andrés. 2013. Comic Books and Graphic Novels in their Generic Context. Towards a Definition and Classification of Narrative Iconical Texts. ATLANTIS: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 35 (1; June): 117-135. Online at https://www.academia.edu/3759133/
*Kaplan, Avery. 2021. Interview: Sophia Glock reveals details about Passport; The cartoonist told The Beat what it was like to get her graphic novel vetted by the CIA (yes, seriously). The Beat (July 28): https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-sophia-glock-reveals-details-about-passport/
*Glock, Sophia. 2024. Memoir and Graphic Storytelling with Sophia Glock '04. Ampersand International Arts Festival (May 7): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUpdSwP_v0w
*Figa, Alenka. 2017. Myth, Motherhood and Buttered Toast: An Interview with Sophia Wiedeman [Sophia Glock]. Women Write about Comics (January 26): https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/01/myth-motherhood-and-buttered-toast-an-interview-with-sophia-wiedeman/
*Kirichanskaya, Michele. 2021. Interview with Cartoonist Sophia Glock. Geeks OUT (June 18): https://www.geeksout.org/2021/06/18/interview-with-cartoonist-sophia-glock/
*Woodroof, Martha. 2015. Comic Books For Life [Sophia Weideman, Sophia Glock]. WMRA's The Spark (February 27): https://www.wmra.org/the-spark/2015-02-27/comic-books-for-life
*Mougin, Solange. 2025. Bam! Pow! Bubbles burst as Angoulême comics festival is cancelled. France 24 English's Entre Nous (December 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xGrQGsbK8
*Irving, Christopher. 2022. Cliffhanger! Cinematic Superheroes of the Serials, 1941-1952. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher (ed.). 2018. Conversations: Larry Hama. University Press of Mississippi
*Irving, Christopher and Seth Kushner (photo). 2015. New York Comics [comics journalism/art book]. France: MuttPop Publishing
*Irving, Christopher (ed.). 2015. Conversations: Michael Allred. University Press of Mississippi
*Irving, Christopher. 2014. The Amazing Heroes Handbook [golden age superhero histories for toys line]. Fresh Monkey Fiction
*Irving, Christopher. 2012. Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origin of the American Comic Book. PowerHouse Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2010. Graphic NYC Presents: Dean Haspiel - The Early Years. IDW Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. Comics Introspective, Volume I: Peter Bagge. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. The Blue Beetle Companion: His Many Lives from 1939 to Today. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. Modern Masters, Volume 11: Charles Vess. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Unknown. 2025. Booklist Editors' Choice: Graphic Novels, 2025. Booklist (December 1). online at https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9818895
*Lloyd, Megan Wagner & Abhi Alwar. 2025. Megan Wagner Lloyd & Abhi Alwar, Super Pancake And The Terrible Toast authors at East City Bookshop November 16, 2025 [audio recording and photographs]. Washington, DC: East City Bookshop. online at https://archive.org/details/megan-wagner-lloyd-abhi-alwar-super-pancake-and-the-terrible-toast-east-city-bookshop-251116
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. French Politicians Squabble, Launch Mayoral Campaigns Over Angoulême. Bleeding Cool (December 6): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/french-politicians-squabble-launch-mayoral-campaigns-over-angouleme/
*Smart, James. 2025. The best graphic novels of 2025: Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined. Guardian (December 2): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/02/best-graphic-novels-2025-anders-nilsen-michael-d-kennedy-gareth-brookes
*Arrant, Chris. 2025. DC never stopped making Vertigo books, the only thing that disappeared was the logo says DC's Chris Conroy. Popverse (November 27): https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-veritgo-never-stopped-publishing-logo-chris-conroy
*Arrant, Chris. 2025. DC Vertigo Executive Editor Chris Conroy on taking over an iconic imprint - NYCC 2025. Popverse (November 10):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd-EhLYTYo4
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. As Netflix Buys Warner Bros/DC Comics, Mark Millar Quits Social Media. Bleeding Cool (December 5): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/as-netflix-buys-warner-bros-dc-comics-mark-millar-quits-social-media/
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. What Will Netflix Buying Warner Bros. Mean For DC And DC Comics? Bleeding Cool (December 5): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/what-will-netflix-buying-warner-bros-mean-for-dc-and-dc-comics/
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. Get Ready To Netflix And Joe Chill? Comic Creators React To DC News. Bleeding Cool (December 7): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/get-ready-to-netflix-and-joe-chill-comic-creators-react-to-dc-news/
*Rosner, Elias. 2025. "Excalibur" (1988) #42-50 with Kelly Thompson; or, Why Can't I Hold All These Technets?! Make Mine Multiversity (139; November 30): https://eliasrwrites.ghost.io/make-mine-multiversity-139/ and https://rss.art19.com/episodes/7b26bbd7-8d8e-4729-821e-6747fe07fbff.mp3
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Saddest Part Of Sara Pichelli's Life, Not Being Paid For Miles Morales; The saddest part of Sara Pichelli's life is not getting paid by Marvel for the use of her co-creation, Miles Morales: Spider-Man. Bleeding Cool (December 7): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/saddest-part-of-sara-pichellis-life-not-being-paid-for-miles-morales/
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Marc Craste's Picatopia Graphic Novel Based On His BAFTA-Winning Film. Bleeding Cool (December 6): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marc-crastes-picatopia-graphic-novel-based-on-his-bafta-winning-film/
Harper, David. 2025. Matthew Rosenberg talks We're Taking Everyone Down With Us, comics podcasting, and more. SKTCHD's Off Panel (December 5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73jLZ2rT64
Scott, Cavan. 2025. A perfect Sunday with... Dylan Shipley. The Cavletter (December 7): https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-dylan-shipley/
Pimienta, Jose. 2025. Dear Librarians [comic]. Booklist Reader (December): 32
Smith, Sara. 2025. Manga Essentials: History, Fact and Fiction. Booklist Reader (December): 25
Hunter, Sarah and Susan Maguire (eds). 2025. Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries 2025. Booklist. Online at https://subs.booklistonline.com/custompages/Booklist/booklist_authenticator.aspx?publication=booklist&edition_date=2025-06-25
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4 Readers' Advisory for Readers New
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by Robin Brenner
8 Beyond a Core Collection
by Sarah Hunter
12 The Appeal of the Real
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by Scot Smith
18 Combatting Self-Censorship in a
Conservative Community
by Brenda Lower
20 Manhua in Print
by Marissa Hause
23 Wait, You've Got WHAT in Your Graphic
Medicine Collection?
by Matthew Noe
28 Zines as Graphic Medicine
A Program for Library Workers
by Cassy Lee
32 The New Underground
by Olivia Radbill
35 From Webcomics to Print, and Vice Versa
by Melanie C. Duncan
38 A Cat Manga for Every Reader
by Kacy Helwick
Comic Interludes
7 Dear Librarians
by Jose Pimienta
31 Untangled
by Hamish Steele
Writing the Strongest Villainess - an Interview with Light Novel Author Touko Amekawa
by Rebecca Silverman, Dec 5th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-12-05/writing-the-strongest-villainess-an-with-light-novel-author-touko-amekawa/.231166
The Long Career of Romeo's Blue Sky Character Designer Yoshiharu Satō
by Lynzee Loveridge, Dec 3rd 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-12-03/the-long-career-of-romeo-blue-sky-character-designer-yoshiharu-sato/.224844 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQWV4dgJDlQ
Hunt Emerson memoir, "50-Odd Years of Big Noses" in the works
By John Freeman on December 6, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/hunt-emerson-memoir-50-odd-years-of-big-noses-in-the-works/
*Romero-Jódar, Andrés. 2013. Comic Books and Graphic Novels in their Generic Context. Towards a Definition and Classification of Narrative Iconical Texts. ATLANTIS: Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies 35 (1; June): 117-135. Online at https://www.academia.edu/3759133/
*Kaplan, Avery. 2021. Interview: Sophia Glock reveals details about Passport; The cartoonist told The Beat what it was like to get her graphic novel vetted by the CIA (yes, seriously). The Beat (July 28): https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-sophia-glock-reveals-details-about-passport/
*Glock, Sophia. 2024. Memoir and Graphic Storytelling with Sophia Glock '04. Ampersand International Arts Festival (May 7): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUpdSwP_v0w
*Figa, Alenka. 2017. Myth, Motherhood and Buttered Toast: An Interview with Sophia Wiedeman [Sophia Glock]. Women Write about Comics (January 26): https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2017/01/myth-motherhood-and-buttered-toast-an-interview-with-sophia-wiedeman/
*Kirichanskaya, Michele. 2021. Interview with Cartoonist Sophia Glock. Geeks OUT (June 18): https://www.geeksout.org/2021/06/18/interview-with-cartoonist-sophia-glock/
*Woodroof, Martha. 2015. Comic Books For Life [Sophia Weideman, Sophia Glock]. WMRA's The Spark (February 27): https://www.wmra.org/the-spark/2015-02-27/comic-books-for-life
*Mougin, Solange. 2025. Bam! Pow! Bubbles burst as Angoulême comics festival is cancelled. France 24 English's Entre Nous (December 2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7xGrQGsbK8
*Irving, Christopher. 2022. Cliffhanger! Cinematic Superheroes of the Serials, 1941-1952. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher (ed.). 2018. Conversations: Larry Hama. University Press of Mississippi
*Irving, Christopher and Seth Kushner (photo). 2015. New York Comics [comics journalism/art book]. France: MuttPop Publishing
*Irving, Christopher (ed.). 2015. Conversations: Michael Allred. University Press of Mississippi
*Irving, Christopher. 2014. The Amazing Heroes Handbook [golden age superhero histories for toys line]. Fresh Monkey Fiction
*Irving, Christopher. 2012. Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origin of the American Comic Book. PowerHouse Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2010. Graphic NYC Presents: Dean Haspiel - The Early Years. IDW Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. Comics Introspective, Volume I: Peter Bagge. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. The Blue Beetle Companion: His Many Lives from 1939 to Today. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Irving, Christopher. 2007. Modern Masters, Volume 11: Charles Vess. TwoMorrows Publishing
*Unknown. 2025. Booklist Editors' Choice: Graphic Novels, 2025. Booklist (December 1). online at https://www.booklistonline.com/products/9818895
*Lloyd, Megan Wagner & Abhi Alwar. 2025. Megan Wagner Lloyd & Abhi Alwar, Super Pancake And The Terrible Toast authors at East City Bookshop November 16, 2025 [audio recording and photographs]. Washington, DC: East City Bookshop. online at https://archive.org/details/megan-wagner-lloyd-abhi-alwar-super-pancake-and-the-terrible-toast-east-city-bookshop-251116
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. French Politicians Squabble, Launch Mayoral Campaigns Over Angoulême. Bleeding Cool (December 6): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/french-politicians-squabble-launch-mayoral-campaigns-over-angouleme/
*Smart, James. 2025. The best graphic novels of 2025: Alison Bechdel and Joe Sacco return; plus Black Country cowboys, vengeful gods and an angling classic reimagined. Guardian (December 2): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/02/best-graphic-novels-2025-anders-nilsen-michael-d-kennedy-gareth-brookes
*Arrant, Chris. 2025. DC never stopped making Vertigo books, the only thing that disappeared was the logo says DC's Chris Conroy. Popverse (November 27): https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-dc-veritgo-never-stopped-publishing-logo-chris-conroy
*Arrant, Chris. 2025. DC Vertigo Executive Editor Chris Conroy on taking over an iconic imprint - NYCC 2025. Popverse (November 10):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd-EhLYTYo4
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. As Netflix Buys Warner Bros/DC Comics, Mark Millar Quits Social Media. Bleeding Cool (December 5): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/as-netflix-buys-warner-bros-dc-comics-mark-millar-quits-social-media/
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. What Will Netflix Buying Warner Bros. Mean For DC And DC Comics? Bleeding Cool (December 5): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/what-will-netflix-buying-warner-bros-mean-for-dc-and-dc-comics/
*Johnston, Rich. 2025. Get Ready To Netflix And Joe Chill? Comic Creators React To DC News. Bleeding Cool (December 7): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/get-ready-to-netflix-and-joe-chill-comic-creators-react-to-dc-news/
*Rosner, Elias. 2025. "Excalibur" (1988) #42-50 with Kelly Thompson; or, Why Can't I Hold All These Technets?! Make Mine Multiversity (139; November 30): https://eliasrwrites.ghost.io/make-mine-multiversity-139/ and https://rss.art19.com/episodes/7b26bbd7-8d8e-4729-821e-6747fe07fbff.mp3
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Saddest Part Of Sara Pichelli's Life, Not Being Paid For Miles Morales; The saddest part of Sara Pichelli's life is not getting paid by Marvel for the use of her co-creation, Miles Morales: Spider-Man. Bleeding Cool (December 7): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/saddest-part-of-sara-pichellis-life-not-being-paid-for-miles-morales/
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Marc Craste's Picatopia Graphic Novel Based On His BAFTA-Winning Film. Bleeding Cool (December 6): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marc-crastes-picatopia-graphic-novel-based-on-his-bafta-winning-film/
Harper, David. 2025. Matthew Rosenberg talks We're Taking Everyone Down With Us, comics podcasting, and more. SKTCHD's Off Panel (December 5): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k73jLZ2rT64
Scott, Cavan. 2025. A perfect Sunday with... Dylan Shipley. The Cavletter (December 7): https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-dylan-shipley/
Pimienta, Jose. 2025. Dear Librarians [comic]. Booklist Reader (December): 32
Smith, Sara. 2025. Manga Essentials: History, Fact and Fiction. Booklist Reader (December): 25
Hunter, Sarah and Susan Maguire (eds). 2025. Booklist's Guide to Graphic Novels in Libraries 2025. Booklist. Online at https://subs.booklistonline.com/custompages/Booklist/booklist_authenticator.aspx?publication=booklist&edition_date=2025-06-25
Features
3 State of Comics Librarianship
by Shira Pilarski
4 Readers' Advisory for Readers New
to Comics
by Robin Brenner
8 Beyond a Core Collection
by Sarah Hunter
12 The Appeal of the Real
Graphic Memoirs for Teens
by Scot Smith
18 Combatting Self-Censorship in a
Conservative Community
by Brenda Lower
20 Manhua in Print
by Marissa Hause
23 Wait, You've Got WHAT in Your Graphic
Medicine Collection?
by Matthew Noe
28 Zines as Graphic Medicine
A Program for Library Workers
by Cassy Lee
32 The New Underground
by Olivia Radbill
35 From Webcomics to Print, and Vice Versa
by Melanie C. Duncan
38 A Cat Manga for Every Reader
by Kacy Helwick
Comic Interludes
7 Dear Librarians
by Jose Pimienta
31 Untangled
by Hamish Steele
Writing the Strongest Villainess - an Interview with Light Novel Author Touko Amekawa
by Rebecca Silverman, Dec 5th 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-12-05/writing-the-strongest-villainess-an-with-light-novel-author-touko-amekawa/.231166
The Long Career of Romeo's Blue Sky Character Designer Yoshiharu Satō
by Lynzee Loveridge, Dec 3rd 2025
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2025-12-03/the-long-career-of-romeo-blue-sky-character-designer-yoshiharu-sato/.224844 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQWV4dgJDlQ
Hunt Emerson memoir, "50-Odd Years of Big Noses" in the works
By John Freeman on December 6, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/hunt-emerson-memoir-50-odd-years-of-big-noses-in-the-works/
Sunday, December 07, 2025
Megan Wagner Lloyd & Abhi Alwar, Super Pancake And The Terrible Toast authors at East City Bookshop November 16, 2025
Megan Wagner Lloyd & Abhi Alwar, Super Pancake And The Terrible Toast authors at East City Bookshop November 16, 2025 [audio recording and photographs]
Washington, DC: East City Bookshop. online at https://archive.org/details/megan-wagner-lloyd-abhi-alwar-super-pancake-and-the-terrible-toast-east-city-bookshop-251116
Saturday, December 06, 2025
Sophia Glock speaking about Passport at the library in Falls Church
Sophia Glock is recounting her career
She's also a New Yorker cartoonist.
Talking about her book Passport, she realized YA is an attitude and redid the first version which was of a 5-year-old's view of travelling overseas. The finished book became an adolescent's viewpoint.
She prefers to work in pencil. Mechanical pencil to be specific.
She looked at other books to figure out how to rework it.
When she decided to do this book she had to figure out how to reveal the fact that her parents were spies.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/5/2025
Chiu-Tabet, Christopher. 2025. The Beat Digest 12/05/25: THE BEAUTY arrives on FX in January. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-120525/
MacDonald, Heidi. 2025. What does Netflix buying Warner Bros mean for DC Comics? The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-does-netflix-buying-warner-bros-mean-for-dc-comics/
McGuire, Liam. 2025. The Best Comics of 2025. Comic Frontier (December 5): https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/best-comics-2025-list-marvel-dc
Gossett, Christian, Kris Simon, and David Hyde. 2025. Superfan Interview: Barbra Dillon of Fanbase Press. Superfan Podcast (December 5): https://spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/superfan-interview-barbra-dillon
Aquino, Jimmy. 2025. Thought Bubble Festival: Lucy Sullivan/Sarah Gordon/Paul Cornell! Comic News Insider (1678; December 3): https://www.comicnewsinsider.com/episodes/cni-1678 and https://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI1678.mp3
Aquino, Jimmy. 2025. Thought Bubble Festival: Avery Hill Special - Donya Todd/Katriona Chapman! Comic News Insider (1679; December 5): https://www.comicnewsinsider.com/episodes/cni-1679 and https://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI1679.mp3
Thompson, Maggie. 2025. TURNING POINTS [157]. Scoop (December 4): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-157/
Sheriff, Amanda. 2025. GoFundMe for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, Scoop (December 1): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/gofundme-for-mike-w-barrs-medical-care/
Sheriff, Amanda. 2025. The Pacific Northwest in Comics Exhibit in Portland. Scoop (December 3): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/the-pacific-northwest-in-comics-exhibit-in-portland/
Cloos, Art and Alice Cloos (photo.). 2025. Convention Recap: Big Apple Comic Con Holiday Con. Scoop (December 1): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/convention-recap-big-apple-comic-con-holiday-con/
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Absolute Batman #14 Had Orders Of 200,000, #15 Has Orders Of 300,000. Bleeding Cool (December 4): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/absolute-batman-14-had-orders-of-200000-15-has-orders-of-300000/
Salkowitz, Rob. 2025. Prestigious European Comics Festival Canceled Following Boycotts [Angouleme]. Forbes (December 3): https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/12/03/prestigious-european-comics-festival-canceled-following-boycotts/
Daniels, Robert. 2025. 'Endless Cookie' Review: An Animated Family History [in print as Endless Cookie]. New York Times (December 5): C5. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/movies/endless-cookie-review.html
Yu, Brandon. 2025. '100 Nights of Hero' Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale [in print as 100 Nights of Hero]. New York Times (December 5): C7. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/movies/100-nights-of-hero-review.html
Barnes, Brooks. 2025. But Who Is the Snake in 'Zootopia 2'? Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De'Snake is based on him. New York Times (December 4): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/media/zootopia-2-snake-gary-goldman.html
Zuckerman, Esther. 2025. Fans Are Obsessed With This Celebrity Couple. They Star in 'Zootopia.' New York Times (December 5): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/movies/zootopia-fans-nick-wilde-judy-hopps.html
McGowan, Andrew. 2025. Ginnifer Goodwin on 'Zootopia 3' Hopes and the Judy-Nick Romance Debate: 'Without Question, These Characters Are Soulmates'. Variety (December 4): https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ginnifer-goodwin-zootopia-3-hopes-judy-nick-romance-1236598900/
Unknown. 2025. Dick Tracy items on display at Norman Firehouse Art Center. Norman Transcript (June 27): https://www.normantranscript.com/community/dick-tracy-items-on-display-at-norman-firehouse-art-center/article_45754084-1022-4996-a901-1a77aee8c070.html
Sauer, Patrick. 2025. A Bold Finnish Artist Brought These Precious Little Hippopotamus-Like Trolls to the World 80 Years Ago [Moomins; Tove Jansson]. Smithsonian Magazine (n.d.): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-bold-finnish-artist-brought-these-precious-little-trolls-to-the-world-80-years-ago-180986897/
Galuppo, Mia. 2025. Alyssa Raimann will serve as vice president of Good Girl, which also has a Mariko Tamaki graphic novel adaptation in the works. [Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me]. Hollywood Reporter (June 27): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tommy-dorfman-production-banner-thriller-aesthetica-1236301466/
Eckerling, Debra L. 2025. "The Writer:" A Fun Supernatural Graphic Novel Infused with Judaism. Jewish Journal (June 27): https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/382469/the-writer-a-fun-supernatural-graphic-novel-infused-with-judaism/
Burscough, Clark. 2025. (Slight Return) — This Week's Links. TCJ (December 5): https://www.tcj.com/slight-return-this-weeks-links/
Unknown. 2025. New stamps celebrate six Canadian graphic novelists. Canada Post Magazine (November 20): https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/personal/perspectives/graphic-novelists-2025/
Browning, Sommer. 2025. Comics and Comedy: Francesca Lyn is a key figure in the local comics scene — writing, editing, teaching and even performing stand-up comedy on the side. Style Weekly (November 17). online at https://www.styleweekly.com/comics-and-comedy/
Jahn, Jennifer. 2025. Author and educator Kim Shearer combines love of teaching with graphic-novel writing. Northern Kentucky Tribune (November 30): https://nkytribune.com/2025/11/author-and-educator-kim-shearer-combines-love-of-teaching-with-graphic-novel-writing/
Cornell, Paul, Stuart Moore and Chris Ryall. 2025. The Magic of Marvel: How We Met the Avengers, Doctor Strange, Daredevil and Others; Paul Cornell, Stuart Moore and Chris Ryall Discuss How They Discovered Their Love For Marvel Comics. Literary Hub (November 25): https://lithub.com/the-magic-of-marvel-how-we-met-the-avengers-doctor-strange-daredevil-and-others/
Mouly, Françoise. 2025. A Romp Through Rea Irvin's Forgotten Sunday Funnies; Revisiting a comic strip by The New Yorker's first art editor [Ra Irvin's The Smythes]. New Yorker (November 25): https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-romp-through-rea-irvins-forgotten-sunday-funnies
Clements, Alexis. 2025. And Then What? The Road After "Success" in the Arts; Alexis Clements uses Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel "Spent" to meditate on the predicament of the creative artist today. Los Angeles Review of Books (November 29): https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/and-then-what-the-road-after-success-in-the-arts/
Vittorini, Fabio. 2025. From "Here" to Eternity. Space-time singularities between literature, graphic novel and cinema [Richard McGuire]. Comparatismi (10): 570–587. Online at https://doi.org/10.14672/20253133 and https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/3133 and https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/3133/2253
Sorondo, Alexander. 2025. Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore. Metropolitan Review (November 25): https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-the-attic
Vigneault, François. 2025. "You Laugh to Keep from Crying" — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections 'Pastimes' and 'Fruit Salad' [Canada]. Broken Frontier (November 19):
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversation-with-pascal-girard-and-cathon/
Oliver, Andy. 2025. "I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!" – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel 'Finding Home' [Indonesia]. Broken Frontier (December 3): https://www.brokenfrontier.com/dominica-claribelle-interview/
Wilyan, Kevin and Dany Muhammad (trans.). 2025. Interview With Comic Paradise Organisers at Comipara 5 [Indonesia]. KAORI Nusantara / Indonesian Anime Times (December 4): https://www.kaorinusantara.or.id/english/27623/interview-with-comic-paradise-organisers-at-comipara-5
Wilyan, Kevin and Eriq Affandi (trans.). 2024. Has Comiket Changed Post Pandemic? Interview with Comic Market's Organizer. KAORI Nusantara / Indonesian Anime Times (August 26): https://www.kaorinusantara.or.id/english/22338/comiket-post-pandemic-interview
Brooke, David. 2025. Benjamin Percy brings brutality and brokenness to his new 'Punisher' ongoing in 2026. AIPT (December 2): https://aiptcomics.com/2025/12/02/benjamin-percy-punisher-2026/
Harkham, Sammy. 2025. R. Crumb and George DiCaprio Talk Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Astral Projection, and Acid Trips; The pair sit down to discuss the glory days of underground comics—and a new show of Crumb's work at David Zwirner in Los Angeles. Cultured Magazine (November 24): https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/11/24/art-robert-crumb-george-dicaprio-david-zwirner/
Buhle, Paul . 2025. Conversations with Underground Comix Kingpin Dennis Kitchen; For Milwaukeeans with a long memory—really anyone in Wisconsin looking back fondly on the counterculture era—Denis Kitchen may be recalled as an almost cosmic force. Shepherd Express (December 3): https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/conversations-with-underground-comix-kingpin-dennis-kitchen/
Smith, Suzette. 2025. How Making Nonfiction Comics Changed My Mind; Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting. Portland Mercury (November 13): https://www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/11/13/48120960/how-making-nonfiction-comics-changed-my-mind
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Greg Weisman & Nate Cosby on Holiday Sleuthing in the GARGOYLES WINTER SPECIAL 2025! Freak Sugar (December 2): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-greg-weisman-nate-cosby-on-holiday-sleuthing-in-the-gargoyles-winter-special-2025/
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Olivia Cuartero-Briggs on Magic & Teen Drama in FATE: THE WINX SAGA: DARK DESTINY. Freak Sugar (November 14): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-olivia-cuartero-briggs-on-magic-teen-drama-in-fate-the-winx-saga-dark-destiny/
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Luciano Vecchio on Giving the X-Man His Due in MARVEL'S VOICES: ICEMAN [gay character]. Freak Sugar (November 14): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-luciano-vecchio-on-giving-the-x-man-his-due-in-marvels-voices-iceman/
Schindel, Dan. 2025. Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah; Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to '41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life. Hyperallergic (November 10): https://hyperallergic.com/before-wonder-woman-there-was-fletcher-hanks-fantomah/
Decker, Robert. 2025. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power, by Michelle Bumatay [book review]. French Forum 49 (1): 186-188. online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/frf.2025.a975504 and https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/975504
Bumatay, Michelle. 2025. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
Hernon, Matthew. 2025.Shigeru Mizuki and His World of Yokai: A look back at the life and times of one of Japan's most revered manga artists. Tokyo Weekender (November 30): https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/anime-and-manga/shigeru-mizuki-and-his-world-of-yokai/
Stigliano, Giovanni. 2025. KUCHiXO Interview: Exploring the Frontiers of Comics Beyond Storytelling [Taiwan]. Asian Movie Pulse (December 4): https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/12/kuchixo-interview/
Nelson, Samantha. 2025. Batman writer Scott Snyder would drop everything to bring American Vampire to the screen. Polygon (November 28): https://www.polygon.com/batman-scott-snyder-american-vampire-tv-show-adaptation/
Deverell, Richard D. 2025. "This isn't a mudhole… It's an operating table.": The Second Comics Code and the Direct Market, 1980-1989." Mise au point (21; December 5): http://journals.openedition.org/map/8205 and https://doi.org/10.4000/154x6
Kirtley, Clare, Christopher Murray, Phillip B. Vaughan, and Benjamin W. Tatler. 2025. Coming Up Next: The Extent of the Perceptual Window in Comic Reading. Cognitive Science, 49 (November 19): e70142. online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70142 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.70142
Beers Fägersten, Kristy. 2025. Unsolicited: Dick Pics and Interactional Omissions as Visualized in Swedish Comic Art. Sexuality & Culture (November 16): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5 ; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5 ; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5.pdf
Rascoe, Ayesha. 2025. 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' is Patrick Horvath's gruesome graphic novel. NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (November 16): https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5602889/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-is-patrick-horvaths-gruesome-graphic-novel ; https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/11/20251116_wesun_beneath_the_tress_where_nobody_sees_is_patrick_horvath_s_gruesome_graphic_novel.mp3 ; https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5602889
Chumko, André. 2025. Kim Anderson's art of chaos, colour and coping [New Zealand; disability]. [Wellington, New Zealand] Post (June 29): https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/360736429/kim-andersons-art-chaos-colour-and-coping
Capoccia, Noemi. 2025. Superman and Dante meet in Florence in new graphic novel signed by Nucci and Celoni [Italy]. Finestre sull' Art (June 29): https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/books/superman-and-dante-meet-in-florence-in-new-graphic-novel-signed-by-nucci-and-celoni
Grimaldi, Lennie. 2025. UB Recalls Schmoo-Mania, 'Walrus-Like Critters Devoted To Fulfilling All Human Needs' [Li'l Abner]. Only in Bridgeport (June 28): https://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/ub-recalls-schmoo-mania-walrus-like-critters-devoted-to-fulfilling-all-human-needs/
JamesXRMan. 2025. "ALAMU: Diary of a Street Lagosian" Is the Bold New Motion Comic Redefining African Urban Drama [Nigeria]. Comic Book Movie (June 28): https://comicbookmovie.com/comics/alamu-diary-of-a-street-lagosian-is-the-bold-new-motion-comic-redefining-african-urban-drama-a221348
Arish. 2025. Make Your Own Graphic Novel Online – No Design Skills Needed [artificial intelligence]. Art (June ?): https://vocal.media/art/make-your-own-graphic-novel-online-no-design-skills-needed
Burlingame, Russ. 2025. Absolute Batman #1 goes back for a blockbuster tenth printing. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/absolute-batman-1-goes-back-for-a-blockbuster-tenth-printing/
Baxi, Steve. 2025. Trade Rating: Out Of Alcatraz is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/trade-rating-out-of-alcatraz-is-a-prison-escape-thriller-with-something-powerful-to-say/
Blumenthal, Ralph. 2025. Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten 'Soldier in Art' [in print as In the Past, Finding a Parable for the Present]. New York Times (December 5): C10-11. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/design/arthur-szyk-museum-of-jewish-heritage.html
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "All I Want For Christmas"
"All I Want For Christmas"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4213
"...history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who
spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not
as the powerful narrated it, but as the oppressed lived it."
– Peter McLaren at Orinico Tribune, 11.29.2025
What really amuses me about all this – besides the fact that the Defense
Secretary sounds as if he got lost on the way to ComicCon – is that all
the imperialist Liberals out there are strangely silent. I mean, c'mon,
peeps – isn't this what you wanted? Wreck and occupy the place and nab
all of our oil that Venezuela had under their country? I mean, that has
to be the real mission, after watching the Donster pardon some
crooked-ass coke-dealing Honduran politician who was said to have
claimed he would shove the cocaine up Americans' noses personally, or
some whacked shit.
Perhaps I don't watch enough MSNBC – oh, sorry, MSNOW – but all the
imperialist Liberals in my life have been real, real, real goddamn
quiet. I mean, y'all wanted to get rid of that popularly-elected
socialist government which has actually been working to give the People
what they want and refuses to suck Uncle Sam's dick – oh, I'm sorry;
that corrupt, brutal dictator, huh? They're always "brutal dictators"
with these Liberals ...and you just know the People love Maduro when a
rank, fashy rag like the New York Times says that he's "clinging to
power".
Sometimes, I think it might almost be worth the risk of annihilation to
watch Amerika get its ass sucked into another quagmire in Latin America
against Russia and China. A ringside seat for the collapse of the Empire
would be really sweet.
Hooray for Santy Claus.
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"Will US Attack Venezuela?", Roger D. Harris in the L.A. Progressive,
Oct 13, 2025
https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/will-us-attack-venezuela
"The Spirit of Chavismo: Why Trump Must Not Invade Venezuela", Peter
McLaren at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/the-spirit-of-chavismo-why-trump-must-not-invade-venezuela/
"Why the US War Secretary doesn't want Venezuela 'cartel' strikes
investigated", Rachel Marsden at RT, Dec 05 2025
https://www.rt.com/news/629082-hegseth-venezuela-drug-strikes/
"Trump Pardons Convicted Narco-Trafficking Pol Amid Plot to Rig Honduran
Election", Wyatt Reed at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/trump-pardons-convicted-narco-trafficking-pol-amid-plot-to-rig-honduran-election/
The Fleshtones, "Hooray For Santa Claus (Theme from 'Santa Claus
Conquers The Martians')"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgD4Zua-F8
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4213
"...history also remembers those who refused resignation. Those who
spoke in the cadence of resistance, who dared to describe the world not
as the powerful narrated it, but as the oppressed lived it."
– Peter McLaren at Orinico Tribune, 11.29.2025
What really amuses me about all this – besides the fact that the Defense
Secretary sounds as if he got lost on the way to ComicCon – is that all
the imperialist Liberals out there are strangely silent. I mean, c'mon,
peeps – isn't this what you wanted? Wreck and occupy the place and nab
all of our oil that Venezuela had under their country? I mean, that has
to be the real mission, after watching the Donster pardon some
crooked-ass coke-dealing Honduran politician who was said to have
claimed he would shove the cocaine up Americans' noses personally, or
some whacked shit.
Perhaps I don't watch enough MSNBC – oh, sorry, MSNOW – but all the
imperialist Liberals in my life have been real, real, real goddamn
quiet. I mean, y'all wanted to get rid of that popularly-elected
socialist government which has actually been working to give the People
what they want and refuses to suck Uncle Sam's dick – oh, I'm sorry;
that corrupt, brutal dictator, huh? They're always "brutal dictators"
with these Liberals ...and you just know the People love Maduro when a
rank, fashy rag like the New York Times says that he's "clinging to
power".
Sometimes, I think it might almost be worth the risk of annihilation to
watch Amerika get its ass sucked into another quagmire in Latin America
against Russia and China. A ringside seat for the collapse of the Empire
would be really sweet.
Hooray for Santy Claus.
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"Will US Attack Venezuela?", Roger D. Harris in the L.A. Progressive,
Oct 13, 2025
https://www.laprogressive.com/foreign-policy/will-us-attack-venezuela
"The Spirit of Chavismo: Why Trump Must Not Invade Venezuela", Peter
McLaren at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/the-spirit-of-chavismo-why-trump-must-not-invade-venezuela/
"Why the US War Secretary doesn't want Venezuela 'cartel' strikes
investigated", Rachel Marsden at RT, Dec 05 2025
https://www.rt.com/news/629082-hegseth-venezuela-drug-strikes/
"Trump Pardons Convicted Narco-Trafficking Pol Amid Plot to Rig Honduran
Election", Wyatt Reed at Orinico Tribune, Nov 29 2025
https://orinocotribune.com/trump-pardons-convicted-narco-trafficking-pol-amid-plot-to-rig-honduran-election/
The Fleshtones, "Hooray For Santa Claus (Theme from 'Santa Claus
Conquers The Martians')"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKgD4Zua-F8
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Friday, December 05, 2025
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