Friday, August 29, 2025
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "DC Flag Remix: #IntifadaDC"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4176
A parody of the Washington DC flag with sandwiches in place of the
stripes, in honor of a guy who threw a sub at a CPB agent downtown a few
weeks ago, has gone viral and a huge hit with folks in neighborhoods
like Capitol Hill. All I could think of, though, was just how toothless
and ineffectual my fellow Washingtonians have apparently been in the
face of a hostile military occupation; basically, the only response we
can muster is to throw sandwiches. No general strikes, student walkouts
being proposed or organized anywhere around here? Any disobedience –
civil or otherwise – being called around town? Any organizations forming
anywhere around here working on plans to make this city ungovernable?
Anything at all beyond throwing sandwiches, creating celebratory t-shirt
art and posting stupid jokes about it on Facebook? Nope, not seeing
anything.
Well, what the hell, then; while I wait for someone to drop an action
call who isn't a freshly minted Democratic Party front – like the "Free
DC Project" or those "No Kings" dipshits – here's something which might
be at least a cut or two more provocative than tossing a foot-long for
all my "flypasters" out there.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org
Cartoons, Capitalism & Censorship: Alison Bechdel & Ann Telnaes on Politics in Art
Censored cartoonists speak out on book bans and death threats [Alison Bechdel & Ann Telnaes].
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/28/2025
Diamond Debtors vs Sparkle Pop Over "Brazen And Unauthorized Actions"
Diamond Debtors Vs Ad Populum/Sparkle Pop over selling off the consigned comics as "brazen and unauthorized actions"
27 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-debtors-vs-sparkle-pop-over-brazen-and-unauthorized-actions/
THE BIGGEST DIAMOND FEE BILL OF ALL
Investment Bank Raymond James Submits Request for Compensation
Milton Griepp on August 28, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60409/the-biggest-diamond-fee-bill-all
'Smiling Friends' Gets Season 3 Premiere Date, First Look From Adult Swim
The animated series from co-creators Michael Cusack and Zach Hadel centers on co-workers Pim and Charlie.
Ryan Gajewski
August 28, 2025
New York Yankees Broadcasters Get Animated for Season 2 of YES Network Kids Show
'HexClad Presents Bronx Buds' Returns for a second season Aug. 9, joined by guest stars and YES broadcasters Michael Kay, John Flaherty, Meredith Marakovits and Nancy Newman.
Connor Merrihew
August 6, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bronx-buds-cartoon-yes-michael-kay-cameo-1236338800/
King of the Hill Is a Texas-size Hit — and Another Season Is Coming
Josef Adalian
Aug. 26, 2025
https://www.vulture.com/article/king-of-the-hill-revival-new-season-ratings.html
Mort Todd – RIP
D. D. Degg
August 27, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/08/27/mort-todd-rip/
Former Editor of Cracked Magazine And Comic Book Legend Mort Todd Passes Away
Fandom Pulse
Aug 26, 2025
https://fandompulse.substack.com/p/former-editor-of-cracked-magazine
Why the world's biggest movie bombed in America ["Ne Zha 2"]
The same epic storytelling conventions that delight moviegoers in China often turn off critics abroad.
By Jeff Yang
August 27, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/27/ne-zha-2-box-office-chinese-mythology/
Joe Casey Writes Aug 28, 2025
DANCING WITH DC'S "FINAL" CRISIS
https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/dancing-with-dcs-final-crisis
'How do you decide who you're going to be when you get up in the morning?'
How one piece of advice from Edward Sorel in 2022 changed my career and helped me finally find my own style.
Jason Chatfield
Aug 28 2025
https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/how-do-you-decide-who-youre-going-33c
Matt Madden from Build Your Own Labyrinth: Constraints and Creativity Aug 28, 2025
Haiku Comics
https://mattmadd.substack.com/p/haiku-comics
JoAnn McLaughlin of Disney Consumer Products on capturing the nostalgic vibe of The Fantastic Four: First Steps through apparel, toys and more
Billy Langsworthy, Brands Untapped 24.08.25
Laura Adnitt on the development – and success – of Story House Egmont's Disney Stitch magazine
Ian Downes, Brands Untapped 26.08.25
The Cabbie vs. Night Zero [Spain, England, 2000AD]
Hagai Palevsky | August 28, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/the-cabbie-vs-night-zero/
Reviews: Cover Story: The 2000 AD Design Art of Robin Smith
Tom Shapira | August 28, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/cover-story-the-2000-ad-design-art-of-robin-smith/
Erica Friedman on 08/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/anime-nyc-2025-is-the-room-where-everything-happens-for-manga-and-anime/
Kirby @ 108 Or, What I'm Doing Now that My Summer Vacation is Over
charles hatfield
28 August 2025
https://kirbystudies.org/2025/08/28/kirby-108/
Kirby @ 108 Or, What I'm Doing Now that My Summer Vacation is Over
Charles Hatfield
Hand of Fire blog 28 August 2025
https://kirbystudies.org/2025/08/28/kirby-108/
AnimeNYC 2025: Beyond Miyazaki: The Directors of Studio Ghibli
Jeremy Fuscaldo
The Beat 08/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/animenyc-2025-beyond-miyazaki-the-directors-of-studio-ghibli/
NYCC 2025 Professional Programming Announced
Aug 27, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5516
'Call Me By Your Name' Graphic Novel Lands with Faber
Aug 27, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5515
Fanbase Press Interviews Damian Alexander on the Upcoming Release of the Graphic Novel, 'Absolutely Everything,' with Lerner's Graphic Universe
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
August 28, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57307-fanbase-press-interviews-damian-alexander-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-graphic-novel-absolutely-everything-with-lerners-graphic-universe/
Fanbase Press Interviews Brian Gonsar on the Upcoming Release of the Middle Grade Graphic Novel, 'Dracula's Brunch Club,' with Oni Press
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
August 22, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57291-fanbase-press-interviews-brian-gonsar-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-middle-grade-graphic-novel-draculas-brunch-club-with-oni-press/
The Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to 'The Lion King'
Laura Collins-Hughes
Photographs and Video by Amir Hamja
A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 28, 2025, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Her Long Run as Rafiki Ends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/theater/tshidi-manye-lion-king-rafiki.html
The Lois Lane Test
There are a few key criteria by which one can judge a Lois Lane depiction... and, in turn, our understanding of any Superman narrative.
J.L. Akagi
Reactor August 25, 2025
https://reactormag.com/the-lois-lane-test/
Can You help Rebuild Rochester's Get Ready Comics? [British store]
John Freeman on August 28, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/can-you-help-rebuild-rochesters-get-ready-comics/
In Memoriam: Comic Artist Dave Taylor
John Freeman on August 27, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-dave-taylor/
Interview: Dave Taylor On The All-New World Of Megatropolis
9th September 2020
https://2000ad.com/news/interview-dave-taylor-on-the-all-new-world-of-megatropolis/
BCP Interview – Dave Taylor
Craig Neilson-Adams (aka Ceej)
September 3, 2013
https://bigcomicpage.com/2013/09/03/bcp-interview-dave-taylor/
Stephenson and Taylor Resurrect "Nowhere Men" [Interview]
By Kyle Welch | December 17th, 2015
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/nowhere-men-interview/
SPX 2025: Panel and Workshop Schedule
Dean Simons on 08/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/spx-2025-panel-and-workshop-schedule/
September 11: Paul Karasik - For Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
Paul Karasik - For Paul Auster's New York Trilogy
From novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective fiction
Date and time
Location
Solid State Books
600F H Street Northeast Washington, DC 20002WaPo on “Ne Zha 2” failure in the US
Why the world's biggest movie bombed in America ["Ne Zha 2"]
The same epic storytelling conventions that delight moviegoers in China often turn off critics abroad.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/27/2025
DIAMOND ASKS COURT TO ORDER SPARKLE POP TO STOP SELLING CONSIGNMENT INVENTORY And Order Payment, Assess Fees, Punitive Damages
Milton Griepp on August 27, 2025
Diamond fires back: "Sparkle Pop's brazen and unauthorized actions must be stopped."
Heidi MacDonald on 08/26/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-fires-back-sparkle-pops-brazen-and-unauthorized-actions-must-be-stopped/
WEBTOON CUTS LOSSES IN Q2 With English App Use Growth
Milton Griepp on August 27, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60399/webtoon-cuts-losses-q2
Wings Of Fire: Darkstalker Gets A 600,000 Graphic Novel Print Run
The Wings Of Fire: Darkstalker graphic novel by Tui T. Sutherland and Jake Parker gets a 600,000 print run from Scholastic Graphix in October
26 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/wings-of-fire-darkstalker-gets-a-600000-graphic-novel-print-run/
Inside The World Of Raina Telgemeier Memoir Gets A 200,000 Print Run
Facing Feelings: Inside The World of Raina Telgemeier gets a 200,000 print run from Scholastic Graphix
26 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/inside-the-world-of-raina-telgemeier-memoir-gets-a-200000-print-run/
InvestiGators: Case Files Graphic Novel Gets A Half Million Print Run
InvestiGators: Case Files graphic novel by John Patrick Green, Steve Behling, and Chris Fenoglio gets a half million print run
26 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
Diamond Must Now Act Against Each Publisher Before Liquidating Comics
It has been confirmed that Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the debtor in this bankruptcy, must now act individually against each publisher before liquidating all their comics.
26 Aug 2025
by Rich Johnston
Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons? Part I [sports]
August 26, 2025 By Eric White
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/who-drew-the-classic-topps-baseball-cartoons-part-i/
What's Driving You Crazy? – Nationwide attention in an unusual place for the issue of cars and pedestrians ["Pearls Before Swine"].
Nathan Tannenbaum,
8NewsNow / KLAS Aug 25, 2025
Ricardo Liniers on Macanudo, Music, and Making Comics a Daily Tightrope Walk
August 22, 2025
By Alex Garcia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvXUXmUSyBI
Whittie Writer & Cartoonist Explores Modern Kinship in New Book
In her book "Kin," due out in November, Sophie Lucido Johnson '08 encourages us to deepen our everyday relationships
By Tara Roberts with original illustrations for Whitman Magazine by Sophie Lucido Johnson '08
Aug 25, 2025
Interview with Julie Campbell
"Nature always influences everything I create, even if it's a fantasy"
Amaris Ketcham
Aug 27
2025 https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/interview-with-julie-campbell
Off Panel #514: Slow Horses with Ed Brubaker
David Harper
August 27, 2025
https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-514-slow-horses-with-ed-brubaker/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Ed_Brubaker_2025.mp3
Japan's Toei Animation Launching Osaka Studio in Pursuit of Fresh Talent
Mercedes Milligan
August 26, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/08/japans-toei-animation-launching-osaka-studio-in-pursuit-of-fresh-talent/
'Flow' Co-Writer, Producer on Its Impact on Latvia, Follow-up 'Limbo,' Co-Directing 'I Love You, Lex Fridman!'
Matīss Kaža discusses his Dream Well Studio and Trickster Pictures and movies beyond 'Flow': "There's this other wonderful cinema to discover for everyone, too."
Georg Szalai
August 26, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/flow-follow-up-limbo-producer-interview-lex-fridman-film-1236343696/
'It has to get ugly in order for it to be beautiful sometimes': Mike Curato on his latest, Gaysians
Alex Dueben | August 27, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/it-has-to-get-ugly-in-order-for-it-to-be-beautiful-sometimes-mike-curato-on-his-latest-gaysians/
SCOTT SHAW! | PENCIL TO PENCIL 5/27/25
JAMAR NICHOLAS, STEVE CONLEY and MIKE MANLEY
Pencil to Pencil Aug 27 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVn8LnLU7v8
Spend a day with us in our comic book studio!
Liela del Duca
Helioscope PDX Aug 27, 2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBXeUAj6LOE
Immortal Legend Batman | Interview with Kyle Higgins | DC
DC Comics Aug 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ncOLKXmSM
What is a Publishing Aggregator? Comic Industry Insiders LIVE
Atom Freeman and Brian Garside
Prana: Direct Market Solutions
Comic Industry Insiders LIVE, Aug 26, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KJa45Ajtr8
Off Panel #514: Slow Horses with Ed Brubaker
SKTCHD
Aug 27, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uaeJADwG1k
Off Panel #513: Off the Grid with Jesse Lonergan
SKTCHD
Aug 25, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJGeXDCUtcM
Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guests Mark Morales & Todd Harris [The Magical]
Pop Culture Squad
Aug 26, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLxkokBra_U
Sports & Action Comics with Laura Gao - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop
Aug 22, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdwpcdIbwBI
Fabian Nicieza introduces FREE AGENTS!
Forbidden Planet TV
Aug 22, 2025 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZPhlTrXPLU
VITO x DINO: Episode 32 - Jack Kirby (Pt 2)
Vito Delsante
Aug 25, 2025 VITO X DINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPRlPPpTsmc
Paul Cornell Builds Worlds: From Commando to Nessie to Comics' Next Wave
wordballoon
Aug 26, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srfc4GYlqko
Interview with Comic Art Collector Roland Benton
CAF+ Aug 26, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uDyTfNHG_o
Live Art Sale and Chat with Comic Artist Kevin Nowlan
CAF+ Aug 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPiyXiNnK3s
A Comic Book Page I Love From Uncanny X-Men #201 with Clayton Henry
CAF+ Aug 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b45_T9O140A
Words, Images, & Worlds with Michelle Lodge & Michael Bardo [Fantastic Freaks]
Jason DeHart
Aug 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SQBU9Zljh4
Words, Images, & Worlds with R. Alan Brooks
Jason DeHart
Aug 27, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9IbGRL1VC0
The Most Unique Comic Shop in NJ!
Collectors Confessions
Aug 26, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dRDE5LzztY
Cats, Ninjas & Demons: The Weird Mix Behind Kuro Shouri [Kristin Laflin (aka Kikirini); webcomic]
Barney Smith
Storycomic Presents, Aug 21, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfInZx05DNc
Using AI To Animate Your Own Characters A Journey Into Six AI Models
hilary price
Aug 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpQtrnYLL0A
Stories from Ireland: Frank Miller at Dublin Comic Con and the Tallaght Academy of Sequential Art
James Bacon on August 26, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/stories-from-ireland-frank-miller-at-dublin-comic-con-and-the-tallaght-academy-of-sequential-art/
King Cobra, DC Thomson superhero, returns
John Freeman on August 26, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/king-cobra-dc-thomson-superhero-returns/
How Marvel's Huge Budget for 'Eternals' Actually Worked Against It
The experience taught director Chloé Zhao that bigger isn't always better.
By Sabina Graves
August 27, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/how-marvels-huge-budget-for-eternals-actually-worked-against-it-2000649299
James Gunn's Superman walked so that his Peacemaker could fuck
The writer-director took his DCU from saving squirrels to snorting coke and hanging dong in the space of a month. Is there a method to his madness?
By William Hughes | August 27, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/james-gunn-superman-walked-so-peacemaker-could-screw
Corto Maltese Sets Sail at Fantagraphics
By Dean Simons
Aug 27, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98448-corto-maltese-sets-sail-at-fantagraphics.html
Emotional Autobiography: PW Talks with Diane DiMassa
By Rob Kirby
Aug 27, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98450-emotional-autobiography-pw-talks-to-diane-dimassa.html
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela Sánchez. Mad Creek, $22.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-8142-5948-1
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9780814259481
Disney Adults: Exploring (and Falling in Love with) a Magical Subculture
A.J. Wolfe. Gallery, $28.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-6680-6921-9
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781668069219
The Architect's Epiphany
Chi-Kit Kwong and Chi-Ho Kwong, trans. from the Chinese by Book Buddy Media. Nakama, $10.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-5458-1902-9
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781545819029
'Black Mirror' Is Becoming A Graphic Novel — Get A Free Sneak Peek
Leslie Katz,
Aug 14, 2025, https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/08/14/black-mirror-is-becoming-a-graphic-novel---get-a-free-sneak-peek/
DC Comics Sees An 'Absolute' Success
By Susana Polo
Aug 27, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98487-dc-comics-s-absolute-success.html
How the legacy of beloved Hong Kong comic strip Old Master Q lives on
Alfonso Wong's beloved comic strip still resonates with generations of Hongkongers nostalgic for a simpler time
Paul French
17 Aug 2025
https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture/article/3321945/how-legacy-beloved-hong-kong-comic-strip-old-master-q-lives
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
Jan 15: Paul Karasik's course at Politics and Prose
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ONLINE CLASS: Paul Auster's New York Trilogy: An Adaptation from Novel to Graphic Novel (2600)
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One Thursday: January 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
Price:
$50 per person (10% off for members)
Lecture and Discussion. This online class will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.
The late Paul Auster's New York Trilogy is among his most beloved masterworks. Now all three tales have been adapted into graphic novels in a single volume by two-time Eisner Award winner and New Yorker cartoonist, Paul Karasik, with the aid of David Mazzucchelli ("Asterios Polyp") and Lorenzo Mattotti (New Yorker cover artist).
Join Karasik for an in-depth look into this unusual detective novel triptych, exploring themes of identity, language, and the nature of reality. Along with our discussion of the novel, we will also delve into the nature of graphic novel adaptation—how it works, what parameters are put in place, the working relationship between author and illustrator.
Although not required, participation in this class would be deeply enhanced by reading either or both Auster's original prose, New York Trilogy, as well as the graphic novel adaptation.
One Thursday: January 15 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. ET Online
Required Reading:
Paul Auster's New York Trilogy graphic novel (9780553387643)
Recommended Reading:
New York Trilogy by Paul Auster (9780143039839)
About the Instructor:
Two-time Eisner Award winner, Paul Karasik, began his career as the Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly's RAW magazine. He has subsequently worked on scholarly books about comics ("How To Read Nancy" with Mark Newgarden), co-written an award-winning comics memoir ("The Ride Together" with Judy Karasik), and edited comics collections ("The Complete Fletcher Hanks").
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.
Announcing Debut Books at SPX 2025
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