Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/13-14/2024

Trina Robbins, cartoonist who elevated women's stories, dies at 85

She put out the first American comic book created entirely by women. Years later, she chronicled the history of female comics artists, writing books that excavated the stories of overlooked writers and illustrators.

By Harrison Smith

April 12, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/04/12/trina-robbins-dead/

 

Different Styles, Different Stories in April's Graphic Novels

Minimalist landscapes, maximalist extraterrestrials and schlock movie stars populate this month's diverse offerings.

By Sam Thielman

April 12, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/books/review/new-graphic-novels-april-review.html

 

"Deadpool" comic artist overcame poverty, tragedy [ Mike Hawthorne]

    Isaac Avilucea

    Apr 12, 2024 -

    https://www.axios.com/local/philadelphia/2024/04/12/deadpool-comic-artist-overcame-poverty-tragedy

 

Illustrator Mike Hawthorne Brings Years of Industry Experience to Moore's First Annual Comics Expo

When asked to give the keynote speech at the Moore Comics Expo on April 13, the celebrated comic artist said his answer was "an easy yes."

Posted April 9, 2024

— by Gabi Stevenson, Communications Manager

https://moore.edu/news/illustrator-mike-hawthorne-brings-years-of-industry-experience-to-moore-s-first-annual-comics-expo/

 

Neil Grahame, Our Newest Senior Stripper

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/12/neil-grahame-our-newest-senior-stripper/

 

Don Wright, Editorial Cartoonist With a Skewer for a Pen, Dies at 90

By Sam Roberts

Published April 13, 2024Updated April 14, 2024, 12:44 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/13/business/media/don-wright-dead.html

 

Signs of the New Season

Girl Scout cookies surplus, skimpy-clothes anxiety? It must be spring!

By Emily Flake

April 8, 2024

Published in the print edition of the April 15, 2024, issue, with the headline "Signs of Spring."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/signs-of-the-new-season

 

Apples and oranges and shrooms ["Rhymes With Orange" letter]

Steven P. Levine, Bethesda

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

 

Last rites for the last rights [Ann Telnaes letter]

Arina van Breda, Alexandria

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 269: Adventure of a lifetime: David Pepose unpacks 'Space Ghost'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

April 3, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/03/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-269-david-pepose-space-ghost/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 267: The future of Oni Press: Publisher Hunter Gorinson and EiC Sierra Hahn interview

David Brooke

AIPT Comics podcast March 27, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/27/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-267-oni-press/

 

Oral History Center University of California

The Bancroft Library Berkeley, California

2021  

Trina Robbins: Feminist Herstorian

Bay Area Women in Politics

Interviews conducted by Amanda Tewes in 2021

https://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/robbins_trina_2021.pdf

 

The "Annie"-Versary: A Hundred Years of Little Orphan Annie

Lombard Historical Society

April 27, 2024-December 23, 2024

https://www.lombardhistory.org/the-annie-versary

 

AI can write you a poem and edit your video. Now, it can help you be funnier. AI tool helps people unlock their inner comedian. University of Sydney researchers have developed an AI application using cartoons from The New Yorker to help people be funnier.

Luisa Low

13 April 2024

https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2024/04/13/ai-can-write-you-a-poem-and-edit-your-video--now--it-can-help-yo.html

 

 

Extra! Extra! Steve Brodner's Brilliance Recognized by Herblock Prize

Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is both a great caricaturist and a great portraitist.

Jeet Heer

April 10, 2024

This article appears in the April 2024 issue, with the headline "Facial Recognition."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-brodner-herblock-prize/

 

My Strange Respect For Garfield

Posted By Tristan "Drunk Napoleon" Nankervis on April 8, 2024

https://www.the-solute.com/my-strange-respect-for-garfield/

 

The Uneasy Heartbreak of End of Evangelion   

More than a quarter century after its original release, US audiences can finally watch Hideaki Anno's mecha anime masterpiece in theaters.

 Michael Piantini April 10, 2024

https://hyperallergic.com/900185/the-uneasy-heartbreak-of-hideaki-anno-end-of-evangelion/

 

Marvel, Valiant & IDW Comics Artist Jeffrey Veregge Dies, Aged 50

Comic book and cover artist for Marvel, IDW and Valiant, Jeffrey Veregge died yesterday, at the age of 50, after a long battle with lupus.

 , 13 Apr 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-valiant-idw-comics-artist-jeffrey-veregge-dies-aged-50/

 

Famed comic book artist Jeffrey Veregge is in a battle for his life

Evening on KING 5   Mar 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQ4W0r_EN4

 

Jeffrey Veregge: Of Gods and Heroes

National Museum of the American Indian

New York

October 6, 2018–February 17, 2020

https://americanindian.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/item?id=969

 

Mark Millar To Publish Public Domain Superman Comics – Did DC Say No?

Mark Millar plans to publish public domain Superman comics by himself in 2033 - did DC Comics say no to his plans?

  14 Apr 2024

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mark-millar-to-publish-public-domain-superman-comics-did-dc-say-no/

On Creating THE AUTHORITY With Bryan Hitch
Warren Ellis
May 31, 2023
https://warrenellis.ltd/work/on-creating-the-authority-with-bryan-hitch/

Jeet Heer on Brodner's Herblock award

Extra! Extra! Steve Brodner's Brilliance Recognized by Herblock Prize

Brodner, a frequent contributor to The Nation, is both a great caricaturist and a great portraitist.

Jeet Heer

April 10, 2024

This article appears in the April 2024 issue, with the headline "Facial Recognition." 

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/steve-brodner-herblock-prize/

 

That darn Ann Telnaes and Rhymes with Orange.

Last rites for the last rights  [Ann Telnaes letter]

Arina van Breda, Alexandria

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

The March 29 editorial cartoon. (Ann Telnaes/The Washington Post)

I am a big fan of Ann Telnaes, a gifted editorial cartoonist with a keen ability to capture the political zeitgeist. But I must take issue with her March 29 cartoon, "The right wing's to-do list."

She was all too correct about the right wing's goal of eroding many rights that Americans have enjoyed for decades. But putting "voting rights" at the bottom of that list was incorrect. It is precisely by eroding voting rights at each and every opportunity that conservative Supreme Court justices, members of Congress and state and local officials will further eradicate our other rights. Once we lose unfettered access to the ballot, our most fundamental right, the rest of our rights will be at risk. Let's hope Americans realize what is at stake in this year's elections and vote.

Apples and oranges and shrooms [ "Rhymes With Orange" letter]

Steven P. Levine, Bethesda

Washington Post (April 13 2024): A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/12/kevin-morris-hunter-shanahan-autism-stoicism/

The Post's cartoonists need a refresher on the Book of Genesis, it seems. A "Rhymes With Orange" cartoon featured prominently in the March 30 Free for All cited Eve, of biblical renown, saying, "The trouble didn't start after I ate the apple. It was after I ate the mushroom — that's when the snake started talking."

On first glance, I didn't even get the cartoon. It was only after seeing it for the second time that I realized it was alluding to psychedelic mushrooms, not the regular kind, with which I am more familiar. But that closer glance also revealed the comic's basic ignorance of the sacred text. As almost every beginning Sunday school pupil knows, the snake started talking to Eve before she ate the apple, not after.

First Day of Trial by Daniel Boris

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/12/2024

Interview: Nicole Maines on dreaming up BAD DREAM: A DREAMER STORY & SUICIDE SQUAD: DREAM TEAM

The actor, activist and comic writer shared her thoughts on Nia Nal's latest exploits.

Avery Kaplan

04/08/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nicole-maines-on-bad-dream-a-dreamer-story-suicide-squad-dream-team/

 

In Memoriam: Trina Robbins
Scoop April 12 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273947

 

Trina Robbins, Creator and Historian of Comic Books, Dies at 84

By Gavin Edwards

A version of this article appears in print on April 12, 2024, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Trina Robbins, 85, Who Drew Comics and Advocated for Women Artists, Dies.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/trina-robbins-dead.html

 

R.I.P. TRINA ROBBINS

Writer, Artist, Historian, Advocate for Comics for Women and Girls

 Brigid Alverson on April 11, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56686/r-i-p-trina-robbins

 

Trina Robbins – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/11/trina-robbins-rip/

 

Trina Robbins, R.I.P.

Mark Evanier

News from ME April 10, 2024 

https://www.newsfromme.com/2024/04/10/trina-robbins-r-i-p/

 

Comic Book Creators Pay Tribute And Share Memories Of Trina Robbins

Yesterday, Trina Robbins died at the age of 85,. Comic book creators of all stripes paid tributes and shared memories on social media.

  11 Apr 2024 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creators-pay-tribute-and-share-memories-of-trina-robbins/

 

Rest in peace, Trina Robbins

The influential comics creator and pioneer has passed away at the age of 85.

JK Parkin

April 11, 2024

https://smashpages.net/2024/04/11/rest-in-peace-trina-robbins/

 

An Interview with Trina Robbins

The Editors | April 12, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-trina-robbins/

In this vintage interview from The Comics Journal #53 (Winter 1980), Bill Sherman speaks with the cartoonist Trina Robbins (1938-2024) about a life in underground comics as the '70s drew to a close.

 

Episode 151 - Tom Bachtell [caricature]

  Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast

April 10, 2024

Season 4 Episode 151

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/14867518-episode-151-tom-bachtell

 

Library of American Comics

http://libraryofamericancomics.com/

 

Convention Recap: SC Comicon
Scoop April 12 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=273954

 

SC Comicon in Photos

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=273955

 

"You Can Best Access The Truth About An Era And Time Through Its Pop Culture Ephemera": An Interview with Tim Lane

Steven Brower | April 8, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/you-can-best-access-the-truth-about-an-era-and-time-through-its-pop-culture-ephemera-an-interview-with-tim-lane/

 

¡Vámonos! Dora Is Back for a New Round of Exploring

By Laurel Graeber

April 10, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/arts/television/dora-nickelodeon.html

 

What to Watch This Weekend: A Food-Fantasy Anime

"Delicious in Dungeon" on Netflix combines the aesthetic pleasures of anime with the food-nerd pleasures of Serious Eats.

By Margaret Lyons

A version of this article appears in print on April 12, 2024, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Nothing Can Stop This Quest Fueled by a Healthy Appetite.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/arts/television/delicious-in-dungeon.html

 

Animator Spotlight: Bobe Cannon

By Vincent Alexander | 04/11/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animator-spotlight/animator-spotlight-bobe-cannon-239528.html

 

Workers At Vancouver's Icon Creative Studio Announce Plans To Unionize

By Amid Amidi | 04/10/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/workers-at-vancouvers-icon-creative-studio-announce-plans-to-unionize-239518.html

 

Former X-Men '97 head writer Beau DeMayo breaks silence to talk about that incredible latest episode

Without talking about his departure from the series, DeMayo discussed the devastating "Remember It," the "centerpiece" of his plans for the show

William Hughes

AV Club April 12 2024

https://www.avclub.com/x-men-97s-beau-demayo-breaks-silence-to-talk-about-that-1851405518

 

Dear god, they're trying to bring Heroes back again

Heroes creator Tim Kring's greatest superpower is apparently an inhuman amount of persistence

William Hughes

AV Club April 11 2024

https://www.avclub.com/dear-god-theyre-trying-to-bring-heroes-back-again-1851402321

 

Black Hole Sun – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | April 12, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/black-hole-sun-this-weeks-links/

 

Independent Lens 04/08/24

Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's

Season 25 Episode 14 | 54m 41s  |

https://www.pbs.org/video/matter-of-mind-my-parkinsons-ub8mbf/

 

ESSAY: The Punk Rock of Geneviève Castrée

  Annie Mok April 10, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/04/essay-the-punk-rock-of-genevieve-castree/

 

Nod Away Present Past Future: an Interview with Joshua Cotter by Matthew Makman

Matthew Makman

April 8, 2024

https://solrad.co/nod-away-present-past-future-an-interview-with-joshua-cotter-by-matthew-makman

 

Death of Visionary Latino Comics Expo Co-Founder Ricardo Padilla, beloved family man

ObserverNews April 11, 2024

https://news.payyng.com/2024/04/11/death-of-visionary-latino-comics-expo-co-founder-ricardo-padilla-beloved-family-man/

 

LJ Talks with Emil Ferris, Author of 'My Favorite Thing Is Monsters'

by Tom Batten
Apr 10, 2024 https://www.libraryjournal.com/story/LJ-Talks-with-Emil-Ferris-Author-of-My-Favorite-Thing-Is-Monsters

 

Chris Roberson Discusses "Panya: The Mummy's Curse"

By Mark Tweedale | April 8th, 2024

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/chris-roberson-panya/

 

Jamming, Blocking, and Paranormal Yeeting: An Interview With "Blood City Rollers's" V.P. Anderson and Tatiana Hill

By Elias Rosner | April 9th, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/blood-city-rollers-anderson-hill/

 

Smash Pages Q&A | S.E. Case on 'Rigsby WI'

JK Parkin

April 10, 2024

https://smashpages.net/2024/04/10/smash-pages-qa-s-e-case-on-rigsby-wi/

 

"Part of My Personal Goal Has Always Been to 'Keep the Underground Alive', Whatever That Means" – Rick Altergott on Returning to the World of 'Doofus' in 'Blessed Be'

by Andy Oliver

April 11, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/blessed-be-doofus-altergott/

 

X-Men Monday #246 – Luciano Vecchio Talks 'Resurrection of Magneto'

Chris Hassan

April 8, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/08/x-men-monday-246-luciano-vecchio-magneto/

 

Benjamin Percy talks the neo-gothic, 'Hellraiser' – influenced 'Hellverine' #1

'Hellverine' #1 drops into comic shops May 29!

David Brooke

April 9, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/09/benjamin-percy-hellverine-qa/

 

Joshua Williamson invites us into "House of Brainiac"

We took part in an hour-long chat — here's what we learned.

Chris Coplan

April 9, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/09/house-of-brainiac-deep-dive/

 

Superman's first appearance sells for $6 million, becoming world's most valuable comic

When it was released in 1938, Action Comics No. 1 sold for 10 cents — equivalent to about $2 today.

April 6, 2024, https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/supermans-first-appearance-sells-6-million-becoming-worlds-valuable-co-rcna146718

By Rob Wile

 

Anna-Sophie Jürgens, Anastasiya Fiadotava & Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe (17 Mar 2024): Vaude-villain and violent funster: Harley Quinn and humour, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics,   https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2024.2330587 and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2024.2330587

 

Tula Lotay's Words of Wisdom for Aspiring Female Artists in Comics

Scott Dunbier

Comic Book Pros 2  Apr 9, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUKUVkJDz6w

 

Juanjo Guarnido Talks Cinematic Style in Comic Art

Scott Dunbier

Comic Book Pros 1, Apr 4, 2024

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

 

JUNJI ITO PROJECT　伊藤潤二 コンセプトムービー

朝日新聞 Arts & Culture

 Feb 29, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYkZwKY-ZE

 

who created wolverine with mark waid

word balloon   Apr 10, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKTjTE73bTs

 

More to Come 613: Liz Frances Interview [ Street Noise Books]

Meg Lemke

PW Comics World: More To Come 04/08/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1295

 

Book review: Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film. Carolyn Cocca. New York: Routledge, 2021 (ISBN 9780367894696)

Jacob M. Held

Hypatia , First View , pp. 1 – 4 02 April 2024

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hypatia/article/wonder-woman-and-captain-marvel-militarism-and-feminism-in-comics-and-film-carolyn-cocca-new-york-routledge-2021-isbn-9780367894696/ED7C2CB5D5F8DD100700894A875C8ADC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2023

 

Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel: Militarism and Feminism in Comics and Film. Carolyn Cocca. New York: Routledge, 2021 (ISBN 9780367894696)

 

Rethinking and redrawing teaching and learning: Latinx preservice teachers documenting their pedagogies of the home through comic strips

Mónica González Ybarra, Elenia Marroquin

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy  06 April 2024

https://doi.org/10.1002/jaal.1348 and https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jaal.1348

Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer' tops library group's list of challenged books

The American Library Association has announced that Sonoma County native Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer" was the most "challenged" book of 2022.

Hillel Italie / Associated Press

May 16, 2023

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/gender-queer-tops-library-groups-list-of-challenged-books/

 

Maia Kobabe's 'Gender Queer,' about growing up in Sonoma County, tops library group's list of challenged books for third year

Nearly five years after it was published, Maia Kobabe's "Gender Queer" continues to stir up controversy at libraries across the country.

Charles Swanson

The Press Democrat

April 10, 2024, https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/maia-kobabes-gender-queer-about-growing-up-in-sonoma-county-tops-libra/

 

'Charlie Brown Christmas' Soundtrack Hits No. 2 on Billboard's Top Album Sales Chart

It's a new peak for Vince Guaraldi Trio's classic holiday jazz set, first released in 1965.

Keith Caulfield 12/23/2022 https://www.billboard.com/music/chart-beat/charlie-brown-christmas-soundtrack-album-sales-chart-number-two-1235191283/

 

'Weird Al' Yankovic Is Getting His Own Graphic Novel, 'The Illustrated Al'

Gil Kaufman 5/26/2022

https://www.billboard.com/culture/lifestyle/weird-al-yankovic-graphic-novel-illustrated-al-1235077698/

 

BTS 'FAME' Manga to Tell Story of Group's Rocket Ride to Global Superstardom

01/5/2024 https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/bts-fame-manga-comic-book-1235576277/

 

Rock Band Rush Gets a Comic Book Makeover & It's a No. 1 New Release

Learn about the Canadian band's rise to fame through an illustrated story you can buy online now.

04/10/2024

https://www.billboard.com/culture/product-recommendations/rush-comic-book-buy-online-1235653461/

 

The long-abandoned follow-up to "Tommy" that eluded the guitarist/songwriter for 50 years will finally see the light on Dec. 19 [Pete Townshend]

Gil Kaufman 12/13/2023 https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/who-pete-townshend-graphic-novel-version-lifehouse-rock-opera-1235544363/

 

Harry Styles Is Getting His Own Comic Book Featuring One Direction

Hannah Dally

05/9/23 https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/harry-styles-comic-book-one-direction-details-1235325228/

ILLENIUM to Release Origin Story Graphic Novel This Fall: See Exclusive Images

ILLENIUM Presents: Starfall is coming Nov. 21.

Katie Bain

10/04/23 https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/illenium-graphic-novel-comic-starfall-origin-story-z2-comics-1235433663/

Santa Rosa author explains, embraces new approach to gender identity [Maia Kobabe]

The recent uproar over the "Gender Queer" book is only part of Maia Kobabe's story — a personal narrative that has served as an inspiration to young people who have grappled with questions about gender identity.|

MATT VILLANO

FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

December 29, 2021

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/santa-rosa-author-explains-embraces-new-approach-to-gender-identity/