Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/4-5/2024

All The Shops That Got Free Comic Book Day Battle Quest Comics

Published Fri, 03 May 2024  

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/all-the-shops-that-got-free-comic-book-day-battle-quest-comics/

 

Twenty More Comic Book Stores With Free Comic Book Day Events

Published Fri, 03 May 2024  

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/twenty-more-comic-book-stores-with-free-comic-book-day-events/

 

135 Comic Shops With Added Guests And Sales For Free Comic Book Day

Today, the 4th of May, is Free Comic Book Day. Thousands of comic book stores will be giving away free comic books, some will have more.

  04 May 2024 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/135-comic-shops-with-added-guests-and-sales-for-free-comic-book-day/

 

Creators Getting Cease And Desists Over Conan And Red Sonja

Creators are getting Cease & Desists Over Conan And Red Sonja these days, as both John Allison and Ben Dunn have to make changes.

Published Thu, 02 May 2024 10:57:07 -0500

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/creators-getting-cease-desists-over-conan-and-red-sonja/

 

Comics and graphic novels are a long way from the underground, with new data revealing them as the caped crusaders of children's book sales, as 2024 Kids News Short Story Competition launches.

Diana Jenkins

May 5, 2024 - https://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/arts/graphic-novels-and-comics-save-the-day-for-aussie-book-publishers/news-story/b9aaf2ce6ac099cb513fc62dd2d76a3a

 

Knox Co. elementary school students to get free copies of graphic novel for 3rd year of 'One Book Read City' [literacy; Tennessee]

Chris Salvemini

  May 1, 2024

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/one-book-read-city-summer-2024/51-5397d3a7-2854-4ea1-a58c-b35a34e1e1ca

 

Interactive Graphic Novel 'Songs of Travel' Launches on May 9th for Mobile From Causa Creations [Vienna]

Posted on April 25, 2024 by Mikhail Madnani

 https://toucharcade.com/2024/04/25/songs-of-travel-mobile-release-date-free-download-interactive-graphic-novel/

 

Fall Out Boy's Pete Wentz Launches Dying Inside Graphic Novel and Merch Line

May 1, 2024

By Matt Morrison

https://www.superherohype.com/comics/574219-dying-inside-pete-wentz-new-comic-fall-out-boy

 

'Mr. Wolf' Comes Home: Second Story Gallery to feature comics art by Camas native; Former elementary teacher Aron Nels Steinke created popular 'Mr. Wolf's Class' books for young readers

Kelly Moyer     

May 2, 2024 https://www.camaspostrecord.com/news/2024/may/02/mr-wolf-comes-home-second-story-gallery-to-feature-comics-art-by-camas-native/

 

Graphic novel 'Wildfire' encourages middle-grade readers to take action on climate change [Breena Bard].

By Gemma DiCarlo (OPB)

Sept. 12, 2023 https://www.opb.org/article/2023/09/12/wildfire-graphic-novel-breena-bard/

 

Move over, Gnasher! The Beano launches its first ever comic for visually impaired children

The new comic strip features some familiar faces

Emma Guinness

May 1, 2024 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/beano-guide-dog-charity-partnership-sight-loss-awareness-b2537736.html

 

Is Garfield a Hoosier? Comic strip cat has a long history in Indiana

by: Austin Hanson       

Posted: Apr 30, 2024

https://fox59.com/news/is-garfield-a-hoosier-comic-strip-cat-has-a-long-history-in-indiana/

 

Merchants & Farmers Bank promoting financial literacy through comics [Marvel]

Leesville Leader  May 2, 2024 

By Emily Burleigh

https://www.theleesvilleleader.com/2024/05/02/merchants-farmers-bank-promoting-financial-literacy-through-comics/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 273: Jason Aaron talks his totally '80s TMNT, and we recap new IP additions

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

April 28, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/28/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-273-jason-aaron/

 

On crafting heroes and creatures: Shannon Denton and Marcus To unpack 'Kingdom Riders'

David Brooke

April 23, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/23/kingdom-riders-qa/

 

Hayao Miyazaki's Anti-Comfort Movie

"The Boy and the Heron" finds the filmmaker revising—and sometimes upending—the themes that have defined his career.

By Moeko Fujii

May 2, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/hayao-miyazakis-anti-comfort-movie

 

The Man Behind the Pen [Joe Sutliff]

Contingencies Magazine May/June 2024

https://contingencies.org/a-celebration-to-remember/

 

Deadpool & Wolverine's Cassandra Nova Signals A Surprising Comic Influence

But, surprise, I'm not talking about Grant Morrison's X-Men

Willa Rowe

April 24, 2024

https://kotaku.com/deadpool-and-wolverine-theory-cassandra-nova-x-men-92-1851432053

 

No More Elephantmen At Image Comics Or Dark Horse

No More Elephantmen at Image Comics or Dark Horse - Instead The Elephantmen return to Comicraft where they all began.

 , 04 May 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/no-more-elephantmen-at-image-comics-or-dark-horse/

 

The Voice of a Hundred Faces: Dee Bradley Baker's 'Star Wars' Journey

By Rafael Motamayor

A version of this article appears in print on May 4, 2024, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Speaking for a Whole Universe of Characters.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/02/arts/television/star-wars-the-bad-batch.html

 

If My Favorite Bookstores Were People

 

An illustrator in New York City imagines the personalities of some local bookshops and how they might be embodied.

By Aubrey Nolan

A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2024, Section AR, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: Sketch Pad.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/nyc-bookstores-people.html

 

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

A version of this article appears in print on May 5, 2024, Page 26 of the Sunday Book Review

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

 

Why your homemade bread just won't rise [Ramirez letter]

Paul Manchester,

Washington Post May 4 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/03/food-inflation-emily-franciose-trump-face/

 

Meet N.L's comic book publisher, championing local works like Dirty Laundry and Fishsticks [Kevin Woolridge; Heavy Sweater Comics]

Beth Whitten

CBC May 1 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.4216553

 

Episode 89: At the Drawing Board [Ray Billingsley; Curtis]

Phoebe Judge

This Is Love podcast #89; 05.01.24

https://thisislovepodcast.com/episode-89-at-the-drawing-board/

https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/524GE/traffic.megaphone.fm/VMP8571141108.mp3

 

A perfect Sunday with...Collin Kelly

Little monsters, Indy and Worlds Beyond Number!

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter May 5, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-collin-kelly/?ref=the-cavletter-newsletter

 

Terry Mosher talks about Montreal, cartooning and his new Expos book

Aislin's love for art and baseball came from his godfather John Little, who drew a beautiful painting of the Montreal Royals at Delorimier Downs.

Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette  May 04, 2024

https://montrealgazette.com/sports/terry-mosher-talks-about-montreal-cartooning-and-his-new-expos-book

 

Terry Mosher writes a fun book about love affair with Expos"It's not meant to be a history so much as a memoir — and there's a big difference," cartoonist known as Aislin says about the tragicomedy. Stu Cowan, Montreal Gazette  May 04, 2024 

https://montrealgazette.com/sports/stu-cowan-terry-mosher-writes-a-fun-book-about-love-affair-with-expos

That darn Michael Ramirez

Why your homemade bread just won't rise [Ramirez letter]

Paul Manchester, Silver Spring

Washington Post May 4 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/03/food-inflation-emily-franciose-trump-face/

The April 20 editorial cartoon. (Michael Ramirez/Las Vegas Review-Journal for The Washington Post)

Michael Ramirez's April 20 editorial cartoon, "Food inflation," repeated the common view that food prices are a major, or even the paramount, factor in today's inflation. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics belie this belief. For the 12 months ending in March, the overall consumer price index rose by 3.5 percent, while the CPI for food-at-home items rose by only 1.2 percent.

Further, food-at-home items constitute only 8 percent of the overall CPI, with other items making up 92 percent. This means that if there had been no increase at all in food-at-home prices, overall inflation would have been 3.2 percent, only slightly less than the actual increase of 3.5 percent. So one must look at items other than food at home in breaking down the current rate of inflation.

Joe Sutliff interviewed

The Man Behind the Pen [Joe Sutliff]

Contingencies Magazine May/June 2024

https://contingencies.org/a-celebration-to-remember/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/3/2024

'Knuckles' Sets Opening-Weekend Record for Paramount+ Original Series

The 'Sonic the Hedgehog' spinoff also helped boost viewing of the movies on the streamer.

Rick Porter

May 2, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/knuckles-record-paramount-plus-series-1235888696/

 

MeTV Announces Toons Network, A Free Channel Dedicated To Classic Animation

By Amid Amidi | 05/02/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/metv-announces-toons-network-a-free-network-dedicated-to-classic-animation-241017.html

 

Weigel Broadcasting Launches MeTV Toons Network for Animation Classics

By Mercedes Milligan

May 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/05/weigel-broadcasting-launches-metv-toons-network-for-animation-classics/

 

Animator Spotlight: Laverne Harding

By Vincent Alexander | 05/01/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animator-spotlight/animator-spotlight-laverne-harding-240936.html

Super Like or Super Dud: Inside Webtoon's new program

Justin Guerrero

05/03/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/super-like-or-super-dud-inside-webtoons-new-program/

 

ABSTRACT STUDIO

https://abstractstudiocomics.com/

 

Free Comic Book Day, A History
Scoop May 3 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1018?ArticleID=274233

 

FlyCoJoe Looks Back on Free Comic Book Day

Joe Elardy.

FlyCoJoe

Apr 26, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEgRljwm-FE

 

It's the last Free Comic Book Day at the place where it was created

Joe Field came up with the idea in 2001

By Jim Harrington | jharrington@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group

San Jose Mercury News May 1, 2024 
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/01/its-the-last-free-comic-book-day-at-the-place-were-it-was-created/

 

Manga Fans Can't Get Enough

Publishers here and abroad are pushing the boundaries of manga to meet surging demand among North American readers

By Deb Aoki

Apr 26, 2024

A version of this article appeared in the 04/29/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Manga Goes Mainstream

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20240429/94912-manga-fans-can-t-get-enough.html

 

The Rise of Manga Indies and New Imprints

By Deb Aoki

Apr 26, 2024

A version of this article appeared in the 04/29/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: The Rise of Manga Indies and New Imprints

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/20240429/94914-the-rise-of-manga-indies-and-new-imprints.html

 

The Latest Unicorn: Scholastic Adapts Manga for the Middle Grade

Scholastic's first manga title updates a classic story for middle grade comics fans. [Tezuka, Unico]

By Brigid Alverson 

Apr 26, 2024

	A version of this article appeared in the 04/29/2024 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: The Latest Unicorn https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/94913-the-latest-unicorn-scholastic-adapts-manga-for-the-middle-grade.html

Manga Goes Dark with Smudge

By Shaenon K. Garrity

Apr 26, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/iowa-edit/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/94906-manga-goes-dark-with-smudge.html

 

In How to Baby New Yorker Cartoonist Liana Finck Offers Un-Advice for New Moms and Moms-to-Be (Exclusive)

The cartoonist and memoirist drew PEOPLE a selection of exclusive pieces of advice in preparation for Mother's Day

By  Liana Finck and Lizz Schumer

 April 30, 2024 

https://people.com/in-how-to-baby-new-yorker-cartoonist-liana-finck-offers-un-advice-for-moms-exclusive-8639598

 

History of political cartoons lecture [ Mike Thompson]

 Taya Gray

Desert Sun

https://www.desertsun.com/picture-gallery/news/local/rancho-mirage/2024/04/30/history-of-political-cartoons-lecture/73519877007/

 

Interview : Hervé Bourhis d'Infractus à American Parano [graphic medicine; autobiography]

Jean-Laurent Truc

3 mai 2024
https://www.ligneclaire.info/herve-bourhis-mon-infractus-290996.html

 

Stormy May Day – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | May 3, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/stormy-may-day-this-weeks-links/

 

After 'Manga-Mura' suit victory, publishers face piracy problem beyond Japan's borders

(Japanese original by Misaki Morokuma, Cultural News Department)

May 1, 2024 (Mainichi Japan)

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240430/p2a/00m/0et/026000c

 

Smash Pages Q&A | Luke Arnold + Chris 'Doc' Wyatt on 'Essentials'

The writing duo discusses their crowdfunding project for the new graphic novel from The Lab Press.

JK Parkin

April 30, 2024

https://smashpages.net/2024/04/30/smash-pages-qa-luke-arnold-chris-doc-wyatt-on-essentials/

 

Last Comics Standing: Bubbles Con brings a beloved alternative comics fanzine to life this weekend.

Rich Griset

May 2, 2024

https://www.styleweekly.com/last-comics-standing/

 

"I Like Reopening Certain Parts of My Life that Were Challenging" – Clio Isadora on Autobio Comics and Her Avery Hill Graphic Novel 'Sour Pickles'

by Andy Oliver

May 2, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/clio-isadora-british-comics-now/

 

"I Feel Like 'The Jellyfish' is the Most Personal Book I've Ever Made" — An Interview with Boum on Her Pow Pow Press Graphic Medicine Story [Canada]

by François Vigneault

May 1, 2024

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/boum-interview-jellyfish/

 

How NYC Public Schools Secretly Became One Of America's Largest Comics Publishers

Rob Salkowitz

May 2, 2024,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2024/05/02/how-nyc-public-schools-secretly-became-one-of-americas-largest-comics-publishers/

 

Steve Reich's Music Echoes in Jordan Mechner's Graphic Memoir 'Replay'

Like Steve Reich's Different Trains, Jordan Mechner's graphic memoir Replay is a work of introspection that looks to history and tragic synchronicity.

Luis Aguasvivas

/ 30 April 2024

https://www.popmatters.com/jordan-mechner-replay-memoir-review

 

Jordan Mechner. 2024.

In Jordan's Words: Replay Annex

https://www.jordanmechner.com/en/library/replay-annex/

 

More to Come 616: New Abrams Manga Imprint and the ComicsPRO Retail Report

Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and  Meg Lemke

PW Comics World: More To Come 04/29/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1309

 

Shores, M.W. 2024.

Book review: Suzuki, Shige  (CJ)  and  Ronald  Stewart (2023). Manga:  A  Critical  Guide. Bloomsbury Academic.

The European Journal of Humour Research 12 (1): 260–263.

Online at https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/903/765

 

Book Review: Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute

Ezra Rosser
Law, Culture and the Humanities  April 27, 2024

https://doi.org/10.1177/17438721241248948

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17438721241248948

 

Based on: Comics and Conquest: Political Cartoons and a Radical Retelling of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute By Koehler Rhiannon. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023.

 

"I like to play with words": Dan Abnett on 2000 AD, Warhammer, and more – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

Apr 29, 2024 The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

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

 

ESSAY: Terra Incognita: How DC Comics Has Failed Tara Markov [Teen Titans]

  Leah Paloma April 26, 2024

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2024/04/terra-incognita-how-dc-comics-has-failed-tara-markov/

 

Patrick Horvath discusses 'Free For All,' a sci-fi love story made for the Trump era

'Free For All' is now being crowdfunded via Zoop.

Chris Coplan

May 2, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/05/02/free-for-all-qa/

 

Off Panel #447: Murder Bear with Patrick Horvath

 April 29 2024

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel447-murder-bear-with-patrick-horvath

 

The Cataclysmic Poet: A Conversation with Steve Orlando on 'Scarlet Witch' #1

David Brooke

April 26, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/26/interview-steve-orlando-scarlet-witch-1/

 

The Judgment Of Magneto [X-Men]

By Asher Elbein

Defector April 24, 2024

https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto?giftLink=a10238901e1b132593a08ac3fe4c9685

 

Grennan, Simon., & Lus Arana, Luis Miguel. 2024. Comics in the design studio. On the use of graphic narrative as a tool to represent, narrate, and rethink architectural space. In F. Colonnese, N. Grancho & R. Schaevebeke (Eds.) Approaches to Drawing in Architecture and Urban Design. Cambridge Scholars.

online at https://chesterrep.openrepository.com/handle/10034/628624

 

DC Pulls Controversial Content Suspected of Being Produced by Generative A.I. [Daxiong (Jingxiong Guo)]

By Brian Cronin

CBR Apr 22, 2024

https://www.cbr.com/dc-pulls-covers-generative-ai-art-suspected/

 

Guide Dogs partnership sees special comic strip feature in this week's Beano

Melanie May | 1 May 2024

https://fundraising.co.uk/2024/05/01/guide-dogs-partnership-sees-special-comic-strip-feature-in-this-weeks-beano/

 

C2E2 2024 PHOTOS – PART 1-2: Friday

 Dennis Viau on May 2, 2024 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56829/c2e2-2024-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56828/c2e2-2024-photos-part-2

 

Interview: Tom Sniegoski & Jeannine Acheson reveal details about VAMPIRELLA: DARK REFLECTIONS

Deanna Destito

05/03/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-tom-sniegoski-jeannine-acheson-reveal-details-about-vampirella-dark-reflections/

 

Coca, Vin, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, and Nicole Chrolavicius. 2024.

Dahlia Ramirez.

New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast 4 (153; May 1): https://www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/14993968-episode-153-dahlia-ramirez

Matt Madden's Build Your Own Labyrinth: Constraints and Creativity

https://mattmadd.substack.com/

 

GENEVA CELEBRATES WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY AND EDITORIAL CARTOONING

Shirin Ebad and Christiane Amanpour, et. al.

Freedom Cartoonists Foundation

Geneva Graduate Institute

May 3 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCyPSCav1w

 

Sales Charts: Top Ten Most Popular Comics on GlobalComix the week of May 5, 2024

Digimon Liberator tops the charts this week

Heidi MacDonald

05/03/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/sales-charts-top-ten-most-popular-comics-on-globalcomix-the-week-of-may-5-2024/

 

In 'Dead Boy Detectives,' two best mates reject their deadly fates

Glen Weldon, Nikki Birch, Joelle Monique

Pop Culture Happy Hour April 29, 2024 

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198005101/in-dead-boy-detectives-two-best-mates-reject-their-deadly-fates

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR2640345067.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198005101

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Dear U.S. Left: Stop Asking Me To Vote"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist, Mike Flugennock:

"Dear U.S. Left: Stop Asking Me To Vote"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3852

Dear US Left:
With all due respect — I really do love ya, we've worked together and 
hit the barricades and been ride-or-die n'all that, but — you've just 
gotta stop this shit right now, y'all, 'cos it's the biggest waste of 
time ever at this point. Seriously, for myself and all of our 
comrades, I'm here to tell you, you just gotta STOP IT, brah.

Stop asking us to VOTE.

Stop asking us to play in a crooked rigged casino, to participate in a 
phony "democracy" and vote in a useless "election" in which the 
candidates and platforms are already decided by the Party and the 
permissible issues and voices already decided by the media. Stop 
asking us to drag ourselves off to participate in an empty ritual in 
an empty institution which has achieved absolute zero.

Stop insulting our intelligence by asking us to participate in the 
"democracy" of a nation in which the State, the Party and 
Establishment institutions have at long last finally, thoroughly, 
utterly and completely alienated us and then relentlessly implores us 
to participate in their useless, capitalist media-controlled 
"democratic" institutions. After doing their level best to beat down 
and silence the dissent and outrage of billions across the nation and 
the Earth, they've got the spectacular gall to try to shame, frighten, 
and browbeat us into slinking back to their polls for "abortion 
rights" — for affluent, professional-class American women, of course; 
not the reproductive rights of working-class and poor women, nor 
immigrant women, nor Afghan or Iraqi women, and for goddamn sure not 
the reproductive rights of PALESTINIAN women.

After this staggering mass alienation and good old-fashioned 
ideological witch hunt, the likes of the Democratic Party and MSNBC 
just can't shut the hell up about "abortion rights", and their 
broadcasts are wall-to-wall with the Trump Trials and the threat to 
Democracy™. The more of that crap I hear, the more it disgusts and 
amuses me because the more I think back, the less evidence I see that 
Democracy™ has ever brought us anything approaching absolutely jack in 
the way of positive, substantive change; that voting for politicians 
in an "election" has ever done anything but drag our misery out 
endlessly while we wait around for the politicians to fight our 
struggle for us.

That "democratic" institutions in a "democratic" nation practically 
break their necks to be first in line to suppress the People's voices 
and cover their eyes and ears while two "democratic" nations with the 
assistance of the "International Community" carry out the most horrid 
industrial-strength genocide of the past century should tell us 
everything we need to know about Democracy™ at this point. It's truly 
gobsmacking that after six or seven months of some of the most vicious 
beatdowns on dissent and public expression worldwide, the Democratic 
Party — and their pals on cable TV "news" and on the US Left — still 
have the nerve to come around whining and scraping and begging us to 
participate in their goddamn little fake Democracy™, to vote in their 
empty-ass "elections" which change absolutely nothing.

Malcolm X teaches us that "democracy is hypocrisy"; he teaches us that 
every bit of positive change won for the People ANYWHERE ON EARTH was 
NOT the result of "democracy", but by the People, the people who were 
willing to organize and take direct action on their own behalf and do 
whatever it takes to achieve what they deserve and what belongs to 
them — up to and including armed force. Malcolm X teaches us this, 
Lenin teaches us this, Abbie Hoffman and Audre Lorde teach us this — 
hell, even George Carlin teaches us this.

"Democracy" is an impediment to change. "Democracy" is a prison, and 
we need to jump the guards and bust out. At this point, it should be 
abundantly clear that "revolution is the ONLY solution" isn't just a 
tight, clever slogan, and it's time to cut the crap and get the hell 
on with it.

Stop asking us to try to tear down the Master's house with the Master's tools.

Stop asking us to VOTE.

---------------

Associated Links:

- "Decision 2004", August 2004: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3441
- "Decision 2016", April 2016: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=1910
- "Dinnertime For Democrats", January 2017: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2145
- "It's Official: The Democrats Don't Care", July 2018: 
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2571
- "Garbage In…", February 2019: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2675
- "At Last! The Left Rises!", March 2020: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=2954
- "I Voted", June 2020: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3005
- "You're Helping Trump!", September 2020: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3062
- "Afghan Women's Liberation No. 2 (or, Won't Somebody Think Of The 
Women?)", August 2021: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3298
- "Met Gala", September 2021: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3320
- "What is HIMARS?", June 2022: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3462
- "Bone Deep", July 2022: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3484
- "We Will Return", July 2023: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3658
- "Shaddup!", November 2023: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3732
- "Know Your Enemy", December 2023: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3747
- "Us And Them", January 2024: http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3774
- "But… What About Abortion?": February 2024 http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3788

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- V.I. Lenin, from Collected Works vol. 28, 1919, "'Democracy' And 
Dictatorship" 
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/dec/23.htm
- "Marxism And Bourgeois Elections", at International Bolshevik 
Tendency, Oct 2019 
https://bolshevik.org/statements/ibt_20191027_marxism_bourgeois_elections.html
- Audre Lorde, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's 
House", 
https://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Lorde_The_Masters_Tools.pdf
- "George Carlin Doesn't Vote", 1991, 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIraCchPDhk
- "You Measure A Democracy…", Abbie Hoffman, ca. 1968, 
https://www.socratic-method.com/quote-meanings-interpretations/abbie-hoffman-you-measure-a-democracy-by-the-freedom-it-gives-its-dissidents-not-the-freedom-it-gives-its-assimilated-conformists
- Malcolm X, "Democracy Is Hypocrisy", 1964 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfAFfu6VD0
- Malcolm X, "The Ballot Or The Bullet", 1964 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zLQLUpNGsc
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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Pop Culture Happy Hour on Dead Boy Detectives

In 'Dead Boy Detectives,' two best mates reject their deadly fates

Glen Weldon, Nikki Birch, Joelle Monique

Pop Culture Happy Hour April 29, 2024  

https://www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1198005101/in-dead-boy-detectives-two-best-mates-reject-their-deadly-fates

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR2640345067.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1198005101

GENEVA CELEBRATES WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY AND EDITORIAL CARTOONING

Shirin Ebad and Christiane Amanpour, et. al.

Freedom Cartoonists Foundation

Geneva Graduate Institute

May 3 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzCyPSCav1w

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day and the presentation of the Kofi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award 2024, the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation and the City of Geneva, in partnership with the Geneva Graduate Institute, invite you to a special event featuring Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize, mentor to imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, and Christiane Amanpour, CNN star journalist and member of the Freedom Cartoonists Foundation advisory board. 

Welcoming remarks by Marie-Laure Salles, Director, Geneva Graduate Institute 

Introductions by: Patrick Chappatte, President & Marie Heuzé, Vice-President, Freedom Cartoonists Foundation Sami Kanaan, Administrative Councillor, Department of Culture and Digital Transition, City of Geneva Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights

The keynote speech by Shirin Ebadi will be followed by a discussion on the place of women cartoonists in the world moderated by Christiane Amanpour with : Nadia Khiari, Tunisian cartoonist, Willis from Tunis Rachita Taneja, Indian cartoonist, Sanitary Panels Ann Telnaes, American editorial cartoonist, Washington Post 

The Freedom Cartoonists Foundation will then hand out the 2024 Ko­fi Annan Courage in Cartooning Award. 

This event will be bilingual in English and French. In partnership with Cartoonists Rights (USA), Cartooning for Peace (France), The Kofi Annan Foundation, The Geneva Press Club, Caran d'Ache. Media partners: Le Temps, RTS, True Heroes Films, Clin d'œil Films.