Stephen Pastis's appearances last Monday at Politics and Prose

by Bruce Guthrie

I went to both of Stephan Pastis's P+P-related events on Monday.  He had an in-store school visit in the morning and then a VERY sold out event at the Takoma Park Community Center that evening.  I presume the TPCC will post the video of the appearance there at some point.

The presentations were totally different as they were geared for different audiences.  For the morning one, he talked about how he had always wanted to be a cartoonist but went into law.  At some point, he had to face just the fact of just how much he hated his law career and ditched it all to try cartooning.  While he drew and talked about Pearls Before Swine a bit, the main focus was his new book ("Looking Up") and the Timmy Failure series.  I'm guessing most kids don't read his comic strip...  But I guess most kids these days have never seen a newspaper either.

The evening one was a trip through some of the various complaint emails he had gotten over time.  If you attended his 2014 event at the Washington Post (I remember Nick Galifianakis coming up stage for a hug after one of his comments about the country of Turkey) or his 2015 appearance at the National Book Festival, you had heard some of the stories before.  He had added stuff of course including a prescient New Year's cartoon from 2019/2020 about how much of a shitstorm 2020 was going to be.  Unlike the morning sessions, Looking Up and Timmy Failure might have come up but just in passing -- it was almost entirely Pearls Before Swine.

Richard Thompson was mentioned several times during the evening session with reverence.  Stephan had been at the 2016 National Press Club memorial celebration for Richard that Amy put together.

Carolyn Belefski came to the evening event and got to accompany him afterward.  

Another familiar face at the evening event was John Milewski, a friend of mine from Newseum days who now works at the Woodrow Wilson Center and is one of the (probably the lead now-a-days) photographers for Baltimore Comic-Con.  

Attendees in the morning included Jonathan Roth, a local school teacher who's been doing kids books for awhile ("Beep and Bob" and now "Rover and Speck") and is presenting at the store next Wednesday morning.  ( https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/jonathan-roth-rover-and-speck-splash-down-conn-ave )   ( Unrelated but Roz Chast is there that evening -- https://www.politics-prose.com/roz-chast )

I of course took pictures:

The morning session:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2023_10_16A_PastisPP

The evening session:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2023_10_16B1_PastisTCC

If you want to relive the past...   Pictures from the 2014 Washington Post appearance:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2014_DC_Pastis_140602

Pictures from the 2015 National Book Festival appearance:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2015_DC_NBF_Pastis_150905

Pictures from Richard's 2016 memorial event were too numerous for one page so I had to split them into two pages.  The presentation itself:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2016_DC_RThompson_Mem3_160827

And the non-presentation pictures from the event:

http://www.bguthriephotos.com/graphlib.nsf/keys/2016_DC_RThompson_Mem_160827

Book Review: The Mysteries by Watterson and Kascht

I know both of the authors, Watterson better, so this is not an uninterested review. That said, I was there when they met.

The Mysteries, the new book from Watterson and Kascht exists partly due to a meeting between cartoonists brought together by Nick Galifianakis to work on The Art of Richard Thompson book. Kascht was asked to write a chapter on Richard's caricature, and met Bill at Richard's house. See a lovely video on that project here.

Overall, I wasn't sure what to make of this book. I'm still not, but I've just watched the creation video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=des... which helps me understand the mindsets of the two creators.

I have been surprised by the lack of buzz on the ground. The middle Tennessee Books-a-Million store I bought this in had it shelved in graphic novels. I think that it will eventually migrate to being a children's book. It's got the format of short text blocks and facing pictures, and it's a fable. I read it as a climate change fable, assuming that the mysteries are the natural world eventually interpreted through a scientific and industrial bent, until we reach the modern world.

The book isn't cartooning - the book is post-cartooning, it's what you do after you've reached the pinnacle of cartooning / caricature and are looking for something creatively new. This is exactly the type of thing you see in other cartoonists through the years - they turn to sculpture or painting, because they've said what they wanted to in comics. Daumier, Oliphant, Rube Goldberg, Bob Staake, Paul Conrad, and others turned to sculpture like Kascht; others to painting such as Jimmy Swinnerton, and like Watterson has tried pursuing at least 3 times (including Team Cul de Sac's donated painting and now this book).

That said, it's a minor book from two great artists. They made a video showing how they made the book, and how contentious it was to collaborate between them. The book stands on its own, but if they have to make a video explaining the book, then it doesn't work on one level, right? I'm glad they made it and maybe it'll break some creative block for both of them, but it's not going to be the most-cited work for either of them. Don't buy it looking for Calvin and Hobbes - buy it for its own merits, and to see what two crack cartoonists get up to when cartooning isn't enough for them anymore.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/15/2023

More About Fables in the Public Domain: In which I interview myself in order to expand on a few things revealed in yesterday's post.

Bill Willingham

These Foolish Games Sep 15 2023

https://billwillingham.substack.com/p/more-about-fables-in-the-public-domain

 

Bill Willingham Declares Fables is Public Domain, What Will DC Do Now?

Bill Willingham has just declared that "As of now, the comic book property called Fables, is now in the public domain"

14 Sep 2023 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bill-willingham-declares-fables-is-public-domain-what-will-dc-do-now/

 

BILL WILLINGHAM 'FIRES' DC, STATES HE IS PUTTING 'FABLES' IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

Claims DC Violated His Contract

 Brigid Alverson on September 14, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55094/bill-willingham-fires-dc-states-he-is-putting-fables-public-domain

 

The Hellboy Inspiration That Richard Corben Gave Director Brian Taylor

Dark Horse Comics celebrates the legacy of horror artist Richard Corben with the Release of Hellboy Artists Collection in May next year.

14 Sep 2023 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-hellboy-inspiration-that-richard-corben-gave-director-brian-taylor/

 

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: RYAN SHELKETT RETURNS TO DIAMOND COMICS DISTRIBUTORS

Former National Sales Director Is Back as Executive Director of Vendor Development, Toys & Merchandise

 Brigid Alverson on September 14, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55089/people-move-ryan-shelkett-returns-diamond-comics-distributors

 

Interview : Jacques Tardi du Père-Lachaise à un prochain Nestor Burma fin 2024

Jean-Laurent Truc

15 septembre 2023
https://www.ligneclaire.info/tardi-pere-lachaise-burma-281984.html

 

Baltimore Comic-Con Interview: David Mack
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270412

 

Baltimore Comic-Con Interview: Garth Ennis
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270456

 

Baltimore Comic-Con Interview: Jim Starlin
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270454

 

Baltimore Comic-Con Interview: Kevin Maguire
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270455

 

Baltimore Comic-Con Interview: Torunn Grønbekk [Norway]

Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270453

 

Baltimore Comic-Con in Photos Part I
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=270405

 

Convention Recap: Baltimore Comic-Con
Scoop September 15 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=270404

 

Here Is Every Book Banned in America

Through the courageous work of PEN America, here is a scrollable, shoppable list of every book currently banned in the United States

Published: Sep 11, 2023
https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/a45012950/banned-book-list/

 

Graphic novel The Super Hero's Journey is a love letter to Marvel comics

Interview | Mutts creator Patrick McDonnell tells us about his stunning new book

By Will Salmon

Newsarama September 14 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/graphic-novel-the-super-heros-journey-is-a-love-letter-to-marvel-comics/

 

Hal Jordan must face both Sinestro and a growing midlife crisis in Green Lantern #3

Interview | Jeremy Adams on finding the humanity in Hal and why Sinestro is more dangerous than ever

By Pierce Lydon

Newsarama September 12 2023

https://www.gamesradar.com/hal-jordan-must-face-both-sinestro-and-a-growing-midlife-crisis-in-green-lantern-3/

 

Trying To Ice-Skate Uphill – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | September 15, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/trying-to-ice-skate-uphill-this-weeks-links/

 

Dan Slott Spider Boy Dr Who and More

word balloon September 13 2023

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

 

At Home with Craig Thompson

Drawn & Quarterly August 29 2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CwiS-M_rviE/

 

Roaming Live! With @nicolejgeorges [Tamaki]

Drawn & Quarterly September 2023

https://www.instagram.com/p/CxGVeKauN6R/

 

Reviews: Roaming [Tamaki]

Irene Velentzas | September 12, 2023 

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/roaming/

 

Buichi Terasawa, Creator of SF Manga 'Cobra,' Dies at 68

The Yomiuri Shimbun

September 12, 2023

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20230912-136070/

 

X-Men Monday #219 – Ed Brisson Talks 'Alpha Flight'

Plus, eXclusive 'Alpha Flight' designs and Fall of X preview art!

Chris Hassan

September 11, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/09/11/x-men-monday-219-ed-brisson-alpha-flight/

 

Smash Pages Q&A | Joshua Viola on 'True Believers'

JK Parkin

September 14, 2023

https://smashpages.net/2023/09/14/smash-pages-qa-joshua-viola-on-true-belivers/

 

Codependency and unpredictability: Satoshi Miyagawa unpacks 'The Joker: One Operation The Joker'

David Brooke

September 12, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/09/12/joker-manga-satoshi-miyagawa-qa/

 

Phillip Kennedy Johnson opens up about 'Green Lantern: War Journal'

The new John Stewart title launches next week (September 19).

Chris Coplan

September 12, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/09/12/green-lantern-war-journal-qa/

 

'It's a sickness': Chuck D on his new graphic novel and the 'madness' of US gun culture

The Public Enemy frontman talks about why he returned to his first love of art to create a book about the violence dividing his country

Rob Walker

Sat 9 Sep 2023
Last modified on Sat 9 Sep 2023 13.33 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/09/chuck-d-graphic-novel-public-enemy-gun-violence

 

Latino comics embraced at the Museum of Latin American Art

By Andrea Flores

Sept. 12, 2023

https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-09-12/latino-comic-book-expo

 

Mack White, September 12th, 2023

Austin English

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

366 Sep 12, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LOOhODXWxk

 

Margaret Galvan, Sept 5, 2023

Bill Kartalopoulos

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium

365 Sep 7, 2023

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

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 584: Calvin Reid Wins the Tom Spurgeon Award

Calvin Reid, Heidi "The Beat" MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons

on 09/11/2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1275

 

Off Panel #416: Timing Really Matters with Declan Shalvey

David Harper

Sep 11, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel416-timing-really-matters-with-declan-shalvey

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Declan_Shalvey_2023.mp3

 

Reviews: Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Ben Austin-Docampo | September 13, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/impossible-people-a-completely-average-recovery-story/

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 583: Flashback Interviews with Tom Spurgeon and Grant Morrison

Calvin  Reid

09/04/2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1274

Gotham City Living: The Social Dynamics in the Batman Comics and Media, by Erica McCrystal. Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, 217 pp. [book review]

Gordon Alley-Young

Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media
no. 25, 2023, pp. 139–143
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.25.11

https://cora.ucc.ie/server/api/core/bitstreams/15e95495-5684-4182-a38a-d3752fdb28bf/content

 

Chute, Hillary. (2023). 

Beyond Maus: The Legacy of Holocaust Comics ed. by Ole Frahm, Hans-Joachim Hahn, and Markus Streb (review).

Holocaust and Genocide Studies 37(1), 190-191. https://www.muse.jhu.edu/article/906150.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/906150

 

Assimilation of anti-ideological motifs from Underground Comics into mainstream media: a Case of the Boys

Eric Bao & A.J. Naddaff

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

  08 Sep 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2253889

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2253889

 

Ep. 102: Not All Girls Are Stupid, by Minami Q-ta

Deb Aoki and Christopher Woodrow-Butcher

Mangasplaining, September 12, 2023

https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-102-not-all-girls-are-stupid-by-minami-q-ta/

 

Hispanic Issues On-Line (HIOL): Volume 31 (2023): The Graphic Past: Comic and History in 21st-Century Spain: Recent submissions

 

Introduction: Comics in 21st-Century Spain

Cueto Asín, Elena; Moreno-Nuño, Carmen (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256357

 

Comics: A Three-dimensional Art

Matly, Michel (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256356

 

From Iberia to Hispania: The Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish Graphic Narrative (1940–2020)

Hernando Morejón, Jacobo (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256355

 

The Classics in Vignettes: La vida es sueño as a Case Study in Adapting Literary Classical Works to the Comic Format

Castillo, Moisés R; Moreno-Nuño, Carmen (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256354

 

Avant-Garde Artists and the Aura of Homosocial Creativity: Fermín Solís's Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas

Cueto Asín, Elena (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256353

 

Fragments of a Civil War: From "Otros tiempos" to Estampas 1936

Pérez del Solar, Pedro (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256352

 

"Quería que el lector se pusiera en su lugar": Techniques for the Recovery of History in Twists of Fate by Paco Roca

Harris, Sarah D (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256351

 

Metafictional Archive: Memory, mise en abyme, and the Atlantic in Miguelanxo Prado's Ardalén (2012)

Meijide Lapido, Arturo (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256350

 

In the Interest of Full Dis-Closure: Miguel Brieva's Illustrations of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Diccionario del franquismo and the Unending Process of (Un)Learning Francoism

Ferrán, Ofelia (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256349

 

Afterword: Graphic Pasts in Graphic Presents

McGlade, Rhiannon (Hispanic Issues, 2023)

https://hdl.handle.net/11299/256347

In Memoriam (2023)

nationalcartoonists

  Sep 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUc22z3-eO4

 

DC Comics releases statement on Fables: it is "not in the public domain"

DC COmics is defending its copyrights

Heidi MacDonald

09/15/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-comics-fables-not-in-the-public-domain/

 

The Winners of the 2023 Ringo Awards

Dean Simons

09/15/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-winners-of-the-2023-ringo-awards/

 

Black Josei Press soars at 2023 Ignatz Awards

Beat Staff

– Dean Simons and Heidi MacDonald contributed to the reporting on this story

09/15/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/black-josei-press-soars-at-2023-ignatz-awards/

 

The Art and Rhythm of Indie Comics: An Interview with Dre 'DaBrute' Daniels

StoryComic

Sep 15, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqZPjrom9Vk

 

'The Inventor' Review: Leonardo da Vinci in the Limelight

By Lisa Kennedy

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 15, 2023, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: The Inventor.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/movies/the-inventor-review.html

 

The Secret to Appreciating Garfield

For well over 40 years, a fat orange cat has been a linchpin of American culture. It's time to accept that.

Opinion by Jeremy Gordon

September 14, 2023

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/09/garfield-comic-appreciation/675308/ or https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/how-i-learned-to-love-garfield/ar-AA1gHJD0

 

Sen. Kennedy's sexually graphic story time left out the best parts

The conservative lawmaker tried to shock America by reading aloud from 'Gender Queer.' He should have kept reading. [in print as The senator should have continued reading]

Monica Hesse

September 15, 2023 : C1-2.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2023/09/14/kennedy-senate-gender-queer-maia-kobabe/

 

French Critics Association ACBD give Prix Comics 2023 to Williams & Blackman's ECHOLANDS

Echolands is the fifth recipient of the annual Francophone critics award recognising translated material originated in English

Dean Simons

09/15/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/french-critics-association-acbd-give-prix-comics-2023-to-williams-blackmans-echolands/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/5-6/2023

Next Issue Podcast | Creator Spotlight | KILL YOUR DARLINGS | KLC Press

Next Issue Podcast July 28 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JurReez8c

 

Comic Book Club: Jamie Rotante, Vin Lovallo, Ethan S. Parker And Griffin Sheridan [ "Kill Your Darlings";  Bite-Sized Archie]

ComicBookClub

Aug 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhxAEUg5Jo

 

The Kill Your Darlings Team

wordballoon August 4 2023

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

 

Talking indie comics publishing LIVE! [Kill Your Darlings]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ1CxB-n5Y

Aug 3, 2023  The Elseworlds Exchange - A Comic Book Culture Podcast

 

Image Comics Pulls Bookstore Sales From Diamond To Simon & Schuster

Rich Johnston

 4 Aug 2023

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-pull-bookstore-sales-from-diamond-to-simon-schuster/

 

John Floyd, Comic Book Inker, Dies At 61. RIP.

John Floyd, the inker best known for working with Barry Windsor-Smith, has died at the age of 61, after suffering from pancreatic cancer.

 04 Aug 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/john-floyd-comic-book-inker-dies-at-61-rip/

 

Jim Adcock – RIP [editorial cartoonist]

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/08/04/jim-adcock-rip/

 

James Adcock (June 12, 1948 - July 19, 2023) Obituary

https://www.burbagefuneralhome.com/obituary/james-adcock

 

Jim Adcock: From publisher to painter, shaping Ocean Pines for three decades

Friday, July 7, 2023

https://oceanpines.org/web/pages/news_content?announcementId=1956&backURL=/opa-news

 

Woo, Benjamin. 2008. "An Age-Old Problem: Problematics of Comic-Book Historiography." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351035138_An_Age-Old_Problem_Problematics_of_Comic-Book_Historiography

 

Berndt, Jaqueline (ed.). 2010.

Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Towards Scholarship on a Global Scale

(series Global Manga Studies, vol. 1)

International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University, 2010

Online at https://www.academia.edu/660784/Researching_comics_on_a_global_scale

 

Introduction:

attempts at cross-cultural comics studies 1

Jaqueline BERNDT

 

PART I: Examining Manga/Comics Studies

Challenges to international comics studies in the context of globalization 15

Thierry GROENSTEEN

 

2: Cultural recognition of comics and comics studies: comments on Thierry

Groensteen's keynote lecture 27

MORITA Naoko

 

3: Pictotext and panels: commonalities and differences in manga, comics, and BD  37

NATSUME Fukanosuke

 

4: Manga truisms: on the insularity of Japanese manga discourse 53

ODAGIRI Hiroshi

 

5: Manga/comics studies from the perspective of science fiction research: genre, transmedia, and transnationalism  67

Shige (CJ) SUZUKI

 

6: Researching comics on a global scale 85

Pascal LEFÈVRE

 

 

PART II: Authorships and Readerships in Manga/Comics  97

 

7: How creators depict creating manga: mangaka manga as  authenticating discourse  99

SAIKA Tadahiro

 

8: Fieldwork in aesthetics: on comics' social legitimacy 111

Thomas BECKER

 

9: Dōjinshi research as a site of opportunity for manga studies 125

Nele NOPPE

 

10: Theorizing comics/manga genre as a productive forum: yaoi and beyond  145

MIZOGUCHI Akiko

 

11: When a 'male' reads shōjo manga 171

ITŌ Kimio

 

12: BD in young girl-oriented magazines in France 179

INOMATA Noriko

 

13: Drawing the ideal modern woman: Ms. Lee Wai-Chung and her Mr. 13-Dot  193

Wendy WONG

 

PART III: Manga/Comics as Media of Historical Memory  201

 

14: Lest we forget: the importance of history in Singapore and Malaysia comics studies 203

LIM Cheng Tju

 

15: War comics beyond the battlefield: Anne Frank's transnational transnational representation in sequential art  217

Kees RIBBENS

 

16: Barefoot Gen and 'A-bomb literature': re-recollecting the nuclear Experience  233

KAWAGUCHI Takayuki

 

 

17: How emotions work: the politics of vision in Nakazawa Keiji's Barefoot Gen  245

KAJIYA Kenji

 

18: Manga Bomb: between the lines of Barefoot Gen 263

Thomas LAMARRE

 

Afterword:

intentions and methods behind my proposal for remakes of Barefoot Gen abroad  309

YOSHIMURA Kazuma

 

Colorado's Time Warp Comics Has $14,000 Of Comics Stolen In Break-In

5 Aug 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/colorados-time-warp-comics-has-14000-of-comics-stolen-in-break-in/

 

Why Ms. Marvel Airing Tonight on ABC Means More Than You May Realize

5 Aug 2023 

by Ray Flook

 https://bleedingcool.com/tv/why-ms-marvel-airing-tonight-on-abc-means-more-than-you-may-realize/

 

Walter Simonson

" Deeply saddened to learn that Allen Spiegel has caught the last train out."

August 5 2023

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9823576171017989&set=a.121257911249912

 

Fifty Years Later, Walter Simonson Gives Dan Jurgens His Comic Back; Walter Simonson had a tale to tell on Facebook about, three handmade comics that showed up at Marvel in 1975. 

05 Aug 2023  by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fifty-years-later-walter-simonson-gives-dan-jurgens-his-comic-back/

 

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new local comic book publishing company

Kevin Woolridge gears up for a busy fall when Heavy Sweater Comics releases locally made comics

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News August 6 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/kevin-woolridge-heavy-sweater-comics-1.6922297

 

Around the Writers' Table: With two New Yorker cartoonists [Mick Stevens and Paul Karasik]

Kate Feiffer

Martha Vineyard's Times August 2, 2023

https://www.mvtimes.com/2023/08/02/around-writers-table-two-new-yorker-cartoonists/

 

Mike Thompson: Half-seriously now ... In defense of Donald Trump

A look at political cartoonists who forego criticizing former President Donald Trump and their reasons for doing so.  [Dick Wright, Gary Varvel]

By Mike Thompson

August 4, 2023

https://www.startribune.com/mike-thompson-half-seriously-now-in-defense-of-donald-trump/600294977/

 

AFS Cinema Celebrates Max Fleischer, the Man Who Made Betty Boop Boop-Oop-a-Doop

The animation revolution created by the cartoon pioneer reappraised in the Fleischer Studios Legacy

By Richard Whittaker, Fri., Aug. 4, 2023

A version of this article appeared in print on August 4, 2023 with the headline: The Man Who Made Betty Boop

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2023-08-04/afs-cinema-celebrates-max-fleischer-the-man-who-made-betty-boop-boop-oop-a-doop/

 

Who was the target demographic? [Michael Ramirez letter]

Heather J. Lynch,

Washington Post August 5 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/readers-reactions-critique-pickleball-anna-leigh-waters/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/4/2023

Theft at Time Warp Comics & Games in Boulder, CO
Scoop August 4 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=269706

 

Joe Parente – Little Nemo Shop Exhibit, Sale Now Live  [original art auction]
Scoop August 4 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=269741

 

Kris Longo Steps Away From Heavy Metal Magazine As Publisher

Kris Longo, formerly of DC Comics and Bonfire Marketing, has stepped down from the Publisher role at Heavy Metal Magazine.

by Rich Johnston

3 Aug 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/kris-longo-steps-away-from-heavy-metal-magazine-as-publisher/

 

R.I.P. SAVERIO TENUTA

Heavy Metal Artist, Creator of 'Legends of the Pierced Veil'

Brigid Alverson on August 3, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54773/r-i-p-saverio-tenuta

 

Saverio Tenuta auteur de La Légende des Nuées écarlates est décédé

Jean-Laurent Truc

4 août 2023 
https://www.ligneclaire.info/saverio-tenuta-deces-280460.html

 

José Luis Ruiz Pérez, Of Tiger And The Eye, Has Died

Jean-Marc Lofficier tells us the sad news. "It is with a heavy heart that I must announce the passing of Mexican artist José Luis Ruiz Pérez."

by Rich Johnston

3 Aug 2023 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jose-luis-ruiz-perez-of-tiger-the-eye-has-died/

 

This Year's Free Comic Book Day From Image Comics Now Sells For $40

The Sacrificers, by Rick Remender, Max Fiumara and Dave Craig launching from Image Comics this week has been blowing up on eBay.

by Rich Johnston

 3 Aug 2023 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/this-years-free-comic-book-day-from-image-comics-now-sells-for-40/

 

Convention Recap: TerrifiCon
Art Cloos
Photos by Alice Cloos

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=269763

 

TerrifiCon in Photos: Part I

Photos by Alice Cloos
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=269764

 

The Daily Heller: What to Do With All This Ephemera [Richard Marschall]

 The Daily Heller 

By Steven Heller

August 3 2023

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-what-to-do-with-all-this-ephemera/

 

Editorial cartoons are not memes

July 31, 2023 by Graeme MacKay

https://mackaycartoons.net/2023/07/31/editorial-cartoons-are-not-memes/

 

Mackay:  Graeme MacKay's Editorial Cartoon Archive

https://mackaycartoons.net/

 

A love letter to The Nib, in its final days

The Nib has been an inspiration, and its departure raises questions about the path forward for other indie comics publications.

Kerry Vineberg

08/04/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/a-love-letter-to-the-nib-in-its-final-days/

 

I Know You Are, But What Am I – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | August 4, 2023 | 1 comment

https://www.tcj.com/i-know-you-are-but-what-am-i-this-weeks-links/

 

Reviews: Murky World [Corben]

Tom Shapira | August 1, 2023 | 3 comments

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/murky-world/

 

Murky World

Richard Corben, with Mike Shields, Beth Corben Reed & Clem Robins

Dark Horse

 

Reviews: Social Fiction [ Chantal Montellier]

Helen Chazan | August 2, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/social-fiction/

 

Social Fiction

Chantal Montellier, translated by Geoffrey Brock

New York Review Comics

 

Reviews: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles / Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1-5

Tegan O'Neil | August 3, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-usagi-yojimbo-wherewhen-1-5/

 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Bite-Sized Archie's Ron Cacace and Vincent Lovallo

  Lisa Fernandes July 28, 2023

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/07/exclusive-interview-bite-sized-archies-ron-cacace-and-vincent-lovallo/

 

COMICS ACADEME: Spriggan: A Fun, Action-Packed Mix of Archaeology, Aliens, and International Politics – Part Two

  Stephanie Halmhofer August 3, 2023

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2023/08/comics-academe-spriggan-a-fun-action-packed-mix-of-archaeology-aliens-and-international-politics-part-two/

 

'Shortcomings' Review: Dazed and Confused

By Devika Girish

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 4, 2023, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: He's Finally Coming of Age, And It's a Mighty Struggle

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/movies/shortcomings-review.html

 

'Cat Kid Comic Club' Review: Tiny Frogs, Big Imaginations

By Laurel Graeber

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 4, 2023, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Big Imaginations Swim in a Tiny Pool.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/03/theater/cat-kid-comic-club-review.html

 

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem' Review: Superfly's Revenge

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 4, 2023, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: Up From the Sewers in Search of Acceptance

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/movies/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem-review.html

 

How the 'Spider-Verse' Movies Have Changed Animation for the Better

By Esther Zuckerman

Aug. 4, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/movies/spider-man-versus-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles.html

 

Five Children's Movies to Stream Now [animation].

By Dina Gachman

Aug. 4, 2023,  https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/movies/kids-movies-streaming.html

 

Off Panel #410: The Secret with Eitan Manhoff [store owner]

David Harper

Jul 31, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel410-the-secret-with-eitan-manhoff

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Eitan_Manhoff.mp3

 

"I Can't Wait for It to Be in People's Hands" – Dan White on the Eagerly Awaited 'Cindy and Biscuit' Collection from Oni Press

by Andy Oliver

August 1, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/dan-white-cindy-biscuit-oni-press/

 

"I Love the Escapism that Genre Fiction Offers" – Rachel Tubb on Comics Community, Creative Process and Contributing to Anthologies

by Andy Oliver

July 31, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/rachel-tubb/

 

"Writing and Drawing Fantasy is Simply a Lot of Fun" – Kry Garcia Talks Self-Publishing, Pushing Boundaries, and the Spanish Indie Scene

by Andy Oliver

August 2, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/kry-garcia/

 

"Trust Yourself Enough to Stick to Your Vision" – Beck Kubrick on the Comics Publishing Journey

by Andy Oliver

August 3, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/beck-kubrick/

 

Graphic sound and silence: Chris Ware's aural depiction of alienation and isolation

Ryan Twomey

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics  23 Jul 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238806

 

"You are never done. You have to keep going.": Teresa Wong on, before, and after the text

Amritha R. Krishnan  &  Smita Jha

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics

23 Jul 2023

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238819

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2238819

 

Book Review: Reframing the perpetrator in contemporary comics: on the importance of the strange

by Dragoș Manea, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, 215 pp., €93.08 (ebook), €117.69 (hardback), ISBN 978-3-031-03853-2

Olga Michael

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 28 Jul 2023

 https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2241530

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21504857.2023.2241530

 

Sarnath Banerjee: audience, craft and creative politics

Shilpa Shirishkumar Tanna &  Geetha Bakilapadavu

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 25 Jul 2023

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2235404

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2023.2235404

 

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' movie: 'Barbie' for teenage boys [This animated film oozes Turtle Power]

Review by Kristen Page-Kirby

Washington Post August 4, 2023 : Weekend 18

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2023/07/31/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem-movie-review/

 

'Shortcomings': Winning performances carry film across the finish line [in print as Actors' charm elevates a familiar story]

Review by Michael O'Sullivan

Washington Post August 4, 2023 : Weekend 19

online at  https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2023/08/01/shortcomings-movie-review/

 

Help writer-artist Bill Messner-Loebs

Clifford Meth

Go-Fund-Me August 1 2023

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-writerartist-bill-messnerloebs

 

A Natural History Museum show on the cultural impact of … cellphones? [artwork by Glass Eye studio's writer Joanne Starer and artist Khary Randolph]

Review by Mark Jenkins

July 21, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2023/07/21/national-museum-natural-history-cellphone-unseen-connections/

 

Image Comics ditches Diamond, takes bookstore distribution to Simon & Schuster

Joe Grunenwald

08/04/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/image-comics-simon-schuster-bookstore-distribution/

 

 

CHIP ZDARSKY INTERVIEW | NEWBURN | BATMAN | DAREDEVIL - The House of Nerd Show Ep. 120 - LIVE!

The House of Nerd Show

Jul 30, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv1u8Y_ap-0

 

Ben Affleck's Batman Movie Covered "80 Years" of Unexplored "Mythos," Insider Says

by Jake Kleinman

Aug. 2, 2023

https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/ben-affleck-batman-movie-jay-oliva-interview

 

Ben Affleck's Canceled Batman Movie Was Much Bigger Than We Thought

New information about Ben Affleck's canceled Batman movie suggests that the film would have been about a lot more than a fight against Deathstroke.

  By Joe George | August 4, 2023

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/batman-ben-affleck-canceled-movie-much-bigger-than-we-thought/

 

Aug 3 2023

Joe Maniscalco

Work-Bites Working Class Spotlight on Comic Book Artist Dean Haspiel

https://www.work-bites.com/view-all/y3p0r4mpqnusk00u7yvuyj5prm5d00

 

'Good Omens' takes a breather between apocalypses

Glen Weldon, Nikki Birch, Greta Johnsen

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 1, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/18/1188333619/good-omens-takes-a-breather-between-apocalypses

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2023/08/20230801_pchh_ac7d4c3b-b99c-4f7b-8ecf-34478b29ecb9.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1188333619

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles return, rebooted and reinvigorated, for 'Mutant Mayhem'

Stephen Thompson

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 4, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/04/1191834367/mutant-mayhem-review-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles

 

'Mutant Mayhem' reboots the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and does it well

Stephen Thompson, Bilal Qureshi, Jordan Morris, Roxana Hadadi

Pop Culture Happy Hour August 4, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/24/1189855078/mutant-mayhem-reboots-the-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-does-it-well

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2023/08/20230804_pchh_852a6deb-f57c-4014-bae3-13d200bd8759.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1189855078

Every Marvel TV show, ranked from worst to best

A heroic countdown of all 25 Marvel series, including the recently concluded Secret Invasion, long-running Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., and, yes, even Iron Fist

Danette Chavez, Sam Barsanti, Saloni Gajjar, Baraka Kaseko, Shanicka Anderson, Gwen Ihnat,  William Hughes, Alex McLevy, Caroline Siede, Jarrod Jones, Stephen Robinson, Manuel Betancourt,  Mary Kate Carr, and Sarah Shaffi

July 26, 2023

https://www.avclub.com/every-marvel-tv-show-ranked-from-worst-to-best-1848086048