Oct 11: Manga Workshop with Misako Rocks! at Fall for the Book

Location to be determined - see https://fallforthebook.org/ and https://fallforthebook.org/oct11schedule/

12 p.m.

Manga Workshop with Misako Rocks!

Learn to draw your very own manga with Japanese manga comic artist Misako Rocks! Misako's most recent book is Sew Totally Nala, Bounce Back Volume 3. Elementary and middle school kids will enjoy this highly interactive and engaging workshop where they'll create their own characters. In Sew Totally Nala, Nala goes to a fashion summer camp in the city. When she begins to question if she has what it takes as a designer of kawaii fashion, Timothy the squirrel arrives to help her in this inspiring story about self-esteem and confidence. Sponsored by the Fairfax Library Foundation.

Misako Rocks is a Japanese manga comic artist who's published several manga books all over the world, including manga graphic novels, Bounce Back and No Such Thing as Perfect with Feiwel & Friends at Macmillan. Bounce Back was selected to be on the list of 2021 Best Graphic Novels for Children by the American Library Association. She has also recently released a new activity book series, How To Draw Kawaii Manga with Misako Rocks to show bubbly and kawaii manga character making. Her new book, Sew Totally Nala (Bounce Back Vol.3) is set to be released on Oct 7th 2025!

Department of Payback by Daniel Boris

 

NPR on 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' opera

'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' opens New York's Metropolitan Opera season

Jeff Lunden 
Weekend Edition Saturday September 20, 2025 

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5532601/the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier-clay-opens-new-yorks-metropolitan-opera-season

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesat/2025/09/20250920_wesat_the_amazing_adventures_of_kavalier_clay_opens_new_york_s_metropolitan_opera_season.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5532601

Dulles comics cons impacted by conversion of Dulles Expo Center to Ikea?

I don't know, but here's the story of half the building being converted.

Report: Large portion of Dulles Expo Center to become an Ikea
INSIDENOVA STAFF Sept 26 2025

https://www.insidenova.com/headlines/report-large-portion-of-dulles-expo-center-to-become-an-ikea/article_8b550e69-c32c-4600-a6cf-ebbafddd30b2.html

Oct 26: Cara Gormally: Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder

Cara Gormally: Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder
Sunday, October 26, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
@ mary Riley Styles Public Library, 120 N. Virginia Ave, Falls Church

Join us at Mary Riley Styles Public Library in Falls Church for a discussion with Cara Gormally, author of the graphic memoir Everything is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder, a story of living with the aftermath of trauma and learning how to heal afterwards. The author will discuss how they became a cartoonist, describe their artistic process, and share an excerpt from the book. This event is cosponsored by the Falls Church City Schools Pride Alliance.

This is a story about how therapy to heal from sexual assault trauma led down an unexpected path to reckon with even older wounds of familial homophobia. This book interweaves research and memoir to illustrate the story of how we find our way back to ourselves.

About EVERYTHING IS FINE, I'LL JUST WORK HARDER: One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault. One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara's watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to "friend" them.

Cara always had a long to-do list; always had many projects; always was busy. But as their rapist continued to send friend requests and tried to reconnect with them, they began to lose their grip on their work, projects, and relationships. But then Cara connects with a therapist who guides them through a long but powerful process of healing. And Cara works to desensitize, reprocess, excavate and relive the old wounds in order to move past them and heal.

About the author: Cara Gormally (they/them) is a cartoonist, researcher, and professor. Their comics have appeared in The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, Spiralbound, among others. Cara is the recipient of grants, fellowships, and residencies from the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. They earned a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia and they are currently a professor at Gallaudet University. Cara lives in the DC metro area with their partner Andrea and their child.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/25/2025

SALES DECLINE AT IDW DUE TO DIAMOND, DISAPPOINTING TITLES But Profits Grow

  Milton Griepp on September 25, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60627/sales-decline-idw-due-diamond-disappointing-titles

 

IMAGE TO EXTEND EXCLUSIVITY WINDOW FOR DIRECT MARKET

Comics Retailers to Get Collected Editions and OGNs 27 Days Ahead of Digital and Book Channels

Brigid Alverson on September 24, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60623/image-extend-exclusivity-window-direct-market

 

Report: Manga market to grow to $63 billion by 2033

Heidi MacDonald on 09/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-manga-market-to-grow-to-63-billion-by-2033/

 

Crunchyroll enters the digital comics space with CRUNCHYROLL MANGA

Ollie Kaplan on 09/25/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/crunchyroll-enters-the-digital-comics-space-with-crunchyroll-manga/

 

Milestone As Part Of DC Universe New History But No Sign Of Wildstorm

  24 Sep 2025 

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/milestone-as-part-of-dc-universe-new-history-but-no-sign-of-wildstorm/

 

Florida Law Firm Drags Disney To Court Over 'Steamboat Willie' Use

Jamie Lang | 09/19/2025 

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/disney-steamboat-willie-public-domain-lawsuit-254686.html

 

Pictures of Reuben [National Cartoonists Society]

D. D. Degg 

September 24, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/24/pictures-of-reuben/

 

Pokémon Company Pushes Back Against ICE Raid Video's Use of Iconic Anime Theme Song

A viral U.S. Department of Homeland Security post featuring ICE raids set to the original Pokémon theme sparked swift backlash — and a rare public rebuke from the Japanese entertainment giant.

Patrick Brzeski

September 25, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/pokemon-company-ice-raid-video-anime-theme-song-pushback-1236385454/

 

French Filmmaker Orgs Pen Open Letter Protesting OpenAI Animation

Animation Magazine

September 24, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/french-filmmaker-orgs-pen-open-letter-protesting-openai-animation/

 

Joe Casey Writes  , Sep 25, 2025

I'VE BEEN AROUND 004 My Image Comics life (so far)

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/ive-been-around-004

 

Graphic Novel Review: Godzilla: Skate or Die!

reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-Okinawa

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-godzilla-skate-or.html

 

Exhibition Review: The 15th National Comic Art Exhibition of China

reviewed by Xu Ying, assistant editor, International Journal of Comic Art

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/exhibition-review-15th-national-comic.html

 

Graphic Novel Review: Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey Through the Heyday of Hollywood

reviewed by Matthew Teutsch, Associate Professor, Piedmont University

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-erased-actor-of.html

 

Pizzino, Christopher. 2025. A change of luck: the comics scholarship of Hillary Chute, Visual Studies (August 15): https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2529083

Cronin, Brian. 2025. Brian Cronin Spotlights How Steve Englehart Used His Final Fantastic Four Storyline to Complain About His Departure. CBR newsletter (September 25)

Cronin, Brian. 2025. Brian Cronin Shows How an Early Fantastic Four Plot Was Resolved Decades Later in the Pages of...Dazzler?! CBR newsletter (September 25)

Crunchyroll Manga to Launch in October
Sep 25, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5576

Disney Sued After Enforcing Rights to Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain
The lawsuit seeks clarity around whether companies can exploit the earliest depiction of Mickey Mouse from a 1928 animated short.
Winston Cho
September 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-sued-enforcing-rights-mickey-mouse-public-domain-1236378997/

The Anime Business - Kurt Hassler - Building the Manga Business [Yen Press]
AnimEigo  Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSm0wESp53o

The Anime Business - Stu Levy - The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of TOKYOPOP
AnimEigo Aug 26, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kQNkvQiClw

The Anime Business - Ep2 - Robert Napton
AnimEigo Mar 28, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0v4viMmIj8

The Anime Business - Ep3 - How I Started The 2nd Biggest Anime Convention - Peter Tatara
AnimEigo Apr 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmwmUgoaZ1M

More to Come 693: AnimeNYC 2025 Interviews [ Denpa Books,  Haga and Kang Jiyoun, creators of BL webtoon 'King's Maker']
Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons
on 08/25/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?podcast=1388

TMNT x Naruto: PW Talks with Caleb Goellner and Hendry Prasetya
By Andrew Farago              
Sep 24, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98640-tmnt-x-naruto-pw-talks-with-caleb-goellner-and-hendry-prasetya.html

Transforming Comics: PW Talks with Robert Kirkman
by Susana Polo |
Sep 19, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 09/22/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Robert Kirkman
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98625-transforming-comics-pw-talks-with-robert-kirkman.html

New York Comic Con 2025 Gets the Business
New York Comic Con is rolling out the red carpet for the industry With an upgraded pro area and more
By Heidi Macdonald                
Sep 19, 2025
A version of this article appeared in the 09/22/2025 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Down to Business
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/98624-new-york-comic-con-2025-gets-the-business.html

Cartoon Crossroads Presents Annual Awards
Sep 24, 2025  https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5574

Embrace your wimpy side: Why I still read Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Josh Siatkowski
Baylor Lariat September 23, 2025
https://baylorlariat.com/2025/09/23/embrace-your-wimpy-side-why-i-still-read-diary-of-a-wimpy-kid/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Mark Russell on the Upcoming Release of the Horror-Comedy One-Shot, 'Thanksgiving,' with AHOY Comics
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    September 19, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57466-fanbase-press-interviews-mark-russell-on-the-upcoming-release-of-the-horror-comedy-one-shot-thanksgiving-with-ahoy-comics/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Frank Cho on Launching an Exhibition of His Work at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    September 23, 2025
     https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57495-fanbase-press-interviews-frank-cho-on-launching-an-exhibition-of-his-work-at-the-philippe-labaune-gallery-in-new-york-city/

Live Long and Repair: Caring for the Library of Congress' Comic Book Collection
Lily Tyndall,
 Library of Congress Blog Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection
July 21, 2022
https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/07/live-long-and-repair/

Book Review: Horror and Comics
Elizabeth Brown and Cody Parish
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 25, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-horror-and-comics.html

Barbara Chamberlin, Kom Kunyosying, and Julia Round, eds. 2025. Horror and Comics. Cardiff:  University of Wales Press, 2025.

What Makes Hellstones Different From Any Other Fantasy Comic? [W. Frank Walk]
Barney Smith
Storycomic Presents Sep 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MVxZyq4bwI

JAMES ROBINSON for WELCOME TO THE MAYNARD
Comix Experience Sep 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yADc_ysP6Wk

Mark Russell Talks Traveling to Mars: "It's the Best Thing I've Ever Written"
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano  Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3swmdP2rE7M

Bryan Lee O'Malley Returns
Jamar Nicholas, Steve Conley and Mike Manley
Pencil to Pencil Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH_HBal4SxE

Comic Culture with Paul Pope
terence dollard
  Comic Culture Sep 24, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWXUbkgvktk

Jeff Parker on Making Comics After Work
Steve Lieber, Colleen Coover, and Jeff Parker
Helioscope PDX Sep 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJmOR8rEwB8

#244: Utkarsh Ambudkar - The Guy in the Chair Writer
Justin Soderberg  Sep 24, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fio5HeFQUrE

Shopping for Culture and Community: Wes Eastin on the Magic of Movies & Comic Shops
Atom! Freeman
Prana: Direct Market Solutions
Sep 25, 2025 Comic Industry Insiders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz0PAUr_Bhc

Laurence Grove, Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Invention of Comics? Sept 23, 2025
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
428, Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmfOSqy9DgM

2022 Library of Congress Blog on comics preservation

Live Long and Repair: Caring for the Library of Congress' Comic Book Collection

Lily Tyndall,

 Library of Congress Blog Guardians of Memory: Preserving the National Collection
July 21, 2022

https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2022/07/live-long-and-repair/

Frank Cho interview at Fanbase Press

• Fanbase Press Interviews Frank Cho on Launching an Exhibition of His Work at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York City

  Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
• September 23, 2025
•  https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/57495-fanbase-press-interviews-frank-cho-on-launching-an-exhibition-of-his-work-at-the-philippe-labaune-gallery-in-new-york-city/

Acetaminuhh-what? by Daniel Boris

Tik Tok Flip Flop by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/24/2025

Graphic Novel Review: Second Shift by Kit Anderson

Maite Urcaregui,

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025  https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-second-shift-by.html

 

 

Kit Anderson. Second Shift. London:  Avery Hill Publishing, 2025.

 

North Korean Comics Data Base 

Jacco Zwetsloot

http://tinyurl.com/NKcomicsDB

 

'Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie' Review: Strictly for the Kids

The popular Netflix show hits the big screen in a film featuring Laila Lockhart Kraner in the titular role and Kristen Wiig and Gloria Estefan in key supporting parts.

Frank Scheck

September 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/gabbys-dollhouse-the-movie-review-kristen-wiig-1236377966/

 

'Gabby's Dollhouse' Star Encourages Movie Fans of All Ages: "Bring Your Cat Ears"

Laila Lockhart Kraner and director Ryan Credo tease the interactive big-screen adaptation of Netflix's hit preschool series.

Jackie Strause

September 24, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gabbys-dollhouse-the-movie-interactive-dance-cat-ears-1236378965/

 

More Weight: A Guide for Teachers and Librarians.

Glen Downey. 2025.

Top Shelf

https://www.topshelfcomix.com/guides/more-weight-ben-wickey-teachers-guide.pdf

 

Jake Tapper Jokes He May Have to Go Back to Cartooning (A History)

D. D. Degg

September 23, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/23/jake-tapper-jokes-he-may-have-to-go-back-to-cartooning/

 

Elijah Brubaker, 1975-2025

Austin English | September 24, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/elijah-brubaker-1975-2025/

 

Comic Shops Will Now Get Image Graphic Novels A Month Before Amazon

Rich Johnston  23 Sep 2025  https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-shops-will-now-get-image-graphic-novels-a-month-before-amazon/

 

Marvel Zombies has plenty of gore but no guts

Fresh-faced Avengers assemble before the meat grinder in this Disney+ miniseries.

By Jarrod Jones  |  September 24, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/marvel-zombies-review-tv-disney-plus

 

Big estate agency 'totters by' with cartoon marketing push

Jackson-Stops has partnered with Annie Tempest for a second warm-hearted animated advertising collaboration.

Simon Cairnes

15th Sep 2025

https://thenegotiator.co.uk/news/agencies-people-news/big-estate-agency-launches-ad-campaign-by-famous-cartoonist/

 

Interview with Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

I think my comics are a lot like the way I speak. Erratic, silly, very personal.

Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey

Autobiographix Sep 24 2025

https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/interview-with-hilary-campbell

 

Graphic Novel Review: Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832

reviewed by John Craig

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-surrounded.html

 

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded:  America's First School for Black Girls, 1832. New York:  NBM Publishing, 2025. 144 pp. US $24.99 (Hardcover). ISBN:  978-1-6811-2348-6. https://nbmpub.com/products/surrounded

 

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert. Surrounded:  America's First School for Black Girls, 1832. New York:  NBM Publishing, 2025. 144 pp. US $24.99 (Hardcover). ISBN:  978-1-6811-2348-6. https://nbmpub.com/products/surrounded

November 1, 2005 by Richard Starkings
Lettering Roundtable: Thinking About Thought Balloons, and Other Abandoned Storytelling Techniques
https://balloontales.com/lettering-roundtable-thinking-about-thought-balloons/

WEBTOON partners with BOOM! Studios to bring award-winning comics to vertical scroll format
Hayame Kawachi on 09/24/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/webtoon-partners-with-boom-studios-to-bring-award-winning-comics-to-vertical-scroll-format/

Let's Talk Comics Episode 25: Jordie Bellaire Talks Redlands, Exquisite Corpses & the Art of Color
Jim Viscardi
Let's Talk Comics (25; September 17, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-25-jordie-bellaire-talks-redlands-exquisite-corpses-the-art-of-color

Kieron Gillen Talks Collaboration, DIE, The Power Fantasy, and Creator-Owned Freedom
Jim Viscardi
Let's Talk Comics (24; Sept 12 2025): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kieron-gillen-talks-collaboration-die-the-power/id1788239566?i=1000726520381
https://open.spotify.com/show/1KZgpaYJV3rFmKSo8jrzh1
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-24-kieron-gillen-talks-collaboration-die-the-power-fantasy-and-creator-owned-freedom

Let's Talk Comics Episode 23: Frank Barbiere Talks His Image Comics Return With The Author Immortal
September 8, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-23-frank-barbiere-talks-his-image-comics-return-with-the-author-immortal

Let's Talk Comics Episode 22: Jason Fabok Talks Building the World of Rook: Exodus With Geoff Johns & Ghost Machine
September 2, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-22-jason-fabok-talks-building-the-world-of-rook-exodus-with-geoff-johns-ghost-machine

Finch Talks the Making of Skinbreaker with Robert Kirkman
Let's Talk Comics Episode 21 August 15, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-21-david-finch-talks-the-making-of-skinbreaker-with-robert-kirkman

Let's Talk Comics Episode 20: James Tynion IV on 5 Years of The Department of Truth
August 14, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-20-james-tynion-iv-on-5-years-of-the-department-of-truth

Let's Talk Comics Episode 19: Jacob Phillips Talks Zombies, Westerns & Everything Dead & Dying
August 8, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-19-jacob-phillips-talks-zombies-westerns-everything-dead-dying

Let's Talk Comics Episode 18: Si Spurrier Talks Sweaty Crimes, Strange Worlds, and The Voice Said Kill
June 27, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-18-si-spurrier-talks-sweaty-crimes-strange-worlds-and-the-voice-said-kill

Let's Talk Comics Episode 17: David Marquez Talks Coming To Image Comics, The UnChosen & the Writer/Artist Paradox
June 12, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-17-david-marquez-talks-coming-to-image-comics-the-unchosen-the-writer-artist-paradox

Let's Talk Comics Episode 16: Maytal Zchut Talks Ghost Machine, Devour, Sisterhood & Making The Jump From TV
June 6, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-16-maytal-zchut-talks-ghost-machine-devour-sisterhood-making-the-jump-from-tv

Let's Talk Comics Episode 15: Chris Condon Talks News From The Fallout, Texas Crime & Zombies in Media
May 23, 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-episode-15-chris-condon-talks-news-from-the-fallout-texas-crime-zombies-in-media

Kieron Gillen
the owl revolution comes [AMA excerpt from  Alex Segura's Discord]
Kieron Gillen's Wordmail.#343  Sep 24, 2025  
https://buttondown.com/KieronGillen/archive/343-the-owl-revolution-comes/

Exclusive: Abrams & Marvel announce Powell's THOR: BEHEMOTH OF THE BLACK MOON
Samantha Puc on 09/24/2025  https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-abrams-marvel-announce-powells-thor-behemoth-of-the-black-moon/

Book Review: Comics, Culture, and Religion: Faith Imagined
 reviewed by Dominick Grace
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 24, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-comics-culture-and-religion.html

Reviewer Peter Dabbene Interviews Loo Hui Phang, Author of Erased: An Actor of Color's Journey through the Heyday of Hollywood
Foreword This Week August 15, 2024
https://mailchi.mp/forewordreviews/reviewer-peter-dabbene-interviews-loo-hui-phang-author-of-erasedforeword-this-week

'South Park' Bets on Mocking Social Gambling, the Israel-Gaza Conflict and Once Again, Kyle's Mom
Kevin Dolack
September 24, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/south-park-social-gambling-israel-gaza-conflict-kyles-mom-1236379269/

Meet the Woman Who Turned Gibran's Classic The Prophet Into a Graphic Novel [Zeina Abirached, Lebanon]
Roza Melkumyan
September 01, 2025
https://www.aramcoworld.com/articles/2025/so25/authors-corner-drawing-out-gibran-a-conversation-with-zeina-abirached

ElfQuest Creators Donate $500,000 for Comic Preservation [library]
Fall 2025
https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/elfquest-creators-donate-500000-comic-preservation

A Century of The New Yorker's Transportation Cartoons
Jodi Shapiro, Roz Chast and Ellis Rosen
New York Transit Museum  Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qb1niSaXIg

CSS RLC Forum: Cataloging the Uncataloged: North Korean Comics and Graphic Novels
Jacco Zwetsloot
Research Librarians Cohort (CSS) September 24, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX1U75cUgKI

Beth Wolfensberger Singer
www.bethwolfensbergersinger.com

Remote DreamWorks Staffers Attempt to Unionize With Animation Guild

Around 75 people who work on L.A.-based projects are endeavoring to join the IATSE Local in order to "regain the same health care, retirement plans, and protections my coworkers enjoy," says one staffer.

Katie Kilkenny
September 24, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/remote-dreamworks-staffers-unionize-animation-guild-1236379312/

Oct 8: Author Talk: Mike Curato

Author Talk: Mike Curato

https://arlingtonva.libcal.com/event/14808256

 

Celebrate the Freedom to Read with Banned Book Author Mike Curato

Join us for a presentation with Mike Curato and discuss topics such as banned books and censorship.

Mike Curato is an author and illustrator of picture books and graphic novels. His highly acclaimed and 2024 Top Ten Challenged Book debut young adult graphic novel, Flamer, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award. Born and raised outside of New York City, Mike has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil. 

REGISTRATION RECOMMENDED: First-come, first-served seating. By registering, you will receive event updates. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. Books will be available for purchase courtesy of One More Page Books. 

For questions, please contact libraryprograms@arlingtonva.us

This program is part of the Library's recognition of Banned Books Week and National Coming Out Day.

 

Date:

Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Time:

6:30pm - 8:00pm

Location:

Dorothy Hamm Middle School (4100 Vacation Lane, Arlington, VA, 22207)

Library:

*Off-Site

Audience:

Events for Adults

Categories:

Author Talk

Calendar:

Arlington Public Library

 

Go, Pac-Man! by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/23/2025

"I can't do that, Dave": How artificial stupidity almost killed Kibbles 'n' Bits [comics journalism]

Heidi MacDonald on 09/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/i-cant-do-that-dave-how-artificial-stupidity-almost-killed-kibbles-n-bits/

 

EXCLUSIVE: IDW JOINS NEON ICHIBAN LINEUP AS DIGITAL SPACE CONTINUES ITS RESURGENCE

Rob Salkowitz on September 22, 2025   https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/60602/exclusive-idw-joins-neon-ichiban-lineup-digital-space-continues-its-resurgence

 

'Afraid for my life': Pender County Commissioner says he feels threatened by political cartoon in county paper

By Delaney Tarpley

WECT Sep. 17, 2025

https://www.wect.com/2025/09/18/afraid-my-life-pender-county-commissioner-says-he-feels-threatened-by-political-cartoon-county-paper/

 

One of the world's best cartoonists is set to appear at The Word [David Haldane]

By Ryan Smith

Shields Gazette 17th Sep 2025

https://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/one-of-the-worlds-best-cartoonists-is-set-to-appear-at-the-word-5321192

 

Cartoonist David Haldane on Blyth library, Private Eye and the North

  Lyndsey Skinner | May 23, 2024

https://www.northernsoul.me.uk/interview-david-haldane/

 

Reviews: Spent: A Comic Novel [Bechdel]

Tate McFadden | September 23, 2025  https://www.tcj.com/reviews/spent-a-comic-novel/

 

Interview: John Claude Bemis on RODEO HAWKINS AND THE DAUGHTERS OF MAYHEM

Javier Perez on 09/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-john-claude-bemis-on-rodeo-hawkins-and-the-daughters-of-mayhem/

 

The Beat Digest 09/23/25: THUNDER CHILD rises in WAR OF THE WORLDS sidequel

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 09/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-092325/

Brian K. Vaughan discusses sex, gun crime & supernatural romance in the unique world of SPECTATORS
 Forbidden Planet TV   Sep 17, 2025 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx6hIZGxxqM

Image Comics announces 27-day comics shop exclusivity window
Heidi MacDonald on 09/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/image-comics-announces-27-day-comics-shop-exclusivity-window/

The Comic Watchers- Episode 281: Jim Zub And The Journey With Conan The Barbarian
Comic Watch
  Sep 18, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPmWC9s9lgU

Prowling the Streets of Cat Francisco with 'Gabby's Dollhouse: The Movie's Director & Head of Character Animation
Ramin Zahed
September 22, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/prowling-the-streets-of-cat-francisco-with-gabbys-dollhouse-the-movies-director-head-of-character-animation/
This article was written for the
September-October '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 352).

'Bob's Burgers' Creator Loren Bouchard Talks About His Big-Hearted Show's 300th Episode and 16th Season
 Ramin Zahed
September 22, 2025
 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/bobs-burgers-creator-loren-bouchard-talks-about-his-big-hearted-shows-300th-episode/

J Alex Morrissey
TRADECRAFT Sep 23, 2025
 EPISODE 245 MIKE OEMING, Comic Book Artist and Writer
 https://jalexmorrissey.substack.com/p/episode-245-mike-oeming

Graphic Novel Reviews: Enchanted Lion Books
  Liz Brown
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 23, 2025 https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-reviews-enchanted-lion.html

Book Review: Chinese Animation. Volume 1: Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics
reviewed by John A. Lent, editor and publisher, International Journal of Comic Art
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 23, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-chinese-animation-volume-1.html

Thomas Paul Thesen. Chinese Animation. Volume 1:  Religion, Philosophy and Aesthetics. Ahrensburg:  Thesensches Offizin, tredition GmbH, 2025.

Burns, Feazell, Murakami, and Plant given the nod at CXC 2025
Dean Simons on 09/23/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/burns-feazell-murakami-and-plant-given-the-nod-at-cxc-2025/

Review: A 'Kavalier & Clay' Opera Doesn't Meet Its Moment
The Metropolitan Opera opened its season with a superficial adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay."
By Joshua Barone
A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 23, 2025, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: A Weighty Opening
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/arts/music/kavalier-clay-met-opera-review.html

Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff  Sep 23, 2025
 Green Archer Comics Kickstarts the Adventures of a Forgotten Pulp Hero
https://www.patreon.com/posts/green-archer-of-139558518

Afl. 90 - Hoe geld op de juiste plekken kan zorgen voor grote transities [Dutch cartoonist Betje at 59:00]
Maartje Bregman en Tessel Zandstra
Happy Times Radio (September 16 2025): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6XxByxsHC0nRDeFAXM7yP1

Superfan Podcast  Sep 23, 2025
Tripwire's Joel Meadows! [comics journalism]
https://spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/tripwires-joel-meadows

Mo Willems on How He's Forced Millions of Adults to Get Silly
The author of Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! reveals his tricks for breaking down even the most serious parents.
By Dan Kois
Sept 22, 2025 https://slate.com/culture/2025/09/mo-willems-dont-let-the-pigeon-kids-books.html

Local Comic Shop Day: From Hype to Impact
  Atom! Freeman and Brian Garside
Prana: Direct Market Solutions Sept 23 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4DwxAHt_O0

Words, Images, & Worlds with Ray Fawkes [The Phantom comic book]
Jason DeHart
 Sep 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b7tW9ZbJIk

Words, Images, & Worlds: Racer X Edition with Mark Russell
Jason DeHart
 Sep 23, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C4-x2cfrfs

Words, Images, & Worlds with Liniers & Angelica Del Campo
Jason DeHart
  Sep 14, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMzPYbXgZ4g

Words, Images, & Worlds with Ralph Macchio
Jason DeHart
 Sep 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dx7rL2I7IQ

The Comic Obsessive Episode 40: The One with The Uncanny Omar [fandom, comics collecting]
Jason DeHart and Adam Pyles
  Sep 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quCVKZhfOMc

Ryland Grant – Making Evel Knievel Comics & Indie Films
  Sep 23, 2025 Word Balloon Comics Podcast
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-WiU9hOZqU

Evel Knievel Comics From Ryland Grant
wordballoon Sept 23 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfweLmoLjag

Greg Pak Rolls The Dice on Dungeons and Dragons
Wordballoon  Sep 19, 2025
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwjVnxSRLU0

Planet Hulk Revisited: Greg Pak on Legacies and New Frontiers
Sep 23, 2025 Word Balloon Comics Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZv7SokFUnE

A CONAN MILESTONE With Jim Zub
Wordballoon   Sep 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQKmz393FBQ

Mark Russell Talks Racer X Wonder Woman and more
Wordballoon   Sep 9, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xMYM_0oBd4

Jimmy Palmiotti & Amanda Conner: Punisher's Return and more
John Siuntres
word balloon   Sep 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWEMGKTlRc

Make a Boring Comic with Nick Bertozzi - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop
Sep 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O09lurUCq7g

Comic Art Collector Ted VanLiew from Superworld Comics
Bill Cox
CAF+ Sept 23 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuDA7sSrkg

Comic Art Flip with OA Collector Alex Johnson
CAF+  Sep 18, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmV7BlFBNdQ

Original Comic Art For Sale from Anthony Snyder
 CAF+  Sep 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1FVEvJOZe4

Comic Art Collector Tom Perreira - Human Torch Collector
CAF+  Sep 16, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF7-dyDpNhM

A Page I love with Comic Artist Paul Pope
Kevin Sharp
CAF+  Sep 14, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBcIXPqbpF4

Ask The Cartoonists! | Pencil To Pencil 9/10/25
Jamar Nicholas, Mike Manley And Steve Conley
Pencil to Pencil Sep 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW6_f6DOxzo

Shop Talk | Pencil To Pencil 9/17/25
Jamar Nicholas, Steve Conley And Mike Manley
Pencil to Pencil Sep 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8johbaM8rs

COFFEE BREAK W/ JN 9/18/25
Jamar Nicholas,
Pencil to Pencil   Sep 18, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjSP_9tQJUQ

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: Episode #110 With Special Guest Zack Quaintance
  Sep 16, 2025 Pop Culture SquadCast - Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRL8s754_oY

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: Episode #109 With Special Guest Tyler Mane [The Last Spartan: Red Tape]
  Sep 11, 2025 Pop Culture SquadCast - Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2myBLkEbYaM

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: Episode #108 With Special Guest Matt Bors
  Sep 9, 2025 Pop Culture SquadCast - Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftWFKcq5Oik

Episode 64: Writer Steven Grant talks about Marvel, the Hardy Boys, and things in between
Dennis Mallonee
The Heroic Voice  Sep 14, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPORh-FjMu0

SPX 2025 Ignatz [Awards]
Small Press Expo Sep 13, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjW7Tsdbp5E

Space Comics with Sarah Maloney - SAW Free Friday Night Comics Workshop
Sequential Artists Workshop
Sep 12, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcxqwTH1MQU

Off Panel #518: Bankers Hours' with John Allison
SKTCHD
 Sep 22, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XpO17n9M3E

Off Panel #494: Corpse Crew with James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh
SKTCHD
 Sep 10, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP4NJZeM8rY

Off Panel #497: Chekhov's Tree Robot with Sophie Campbell
SKTCHD
 Sep 10, 2025 Off Panel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ80Pl2UvWA

#242: Rebekah McKendry and David Ian McKendry - Barstow Writers
Justin Soderberg  Sep 10, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErYXPp2YAIk

VITO x DINO: Episode 36 - The Perfect Square [SPX]
Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel
  Sep 22, 2025 VITO X DINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9RSE7gl19k

Dean gives his SPX report on VITO X DINO

VITO x DINO: Episode 36 - The Perfect Square

Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel

  Sep 22, 2025 VITO X DINO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9RSE7gl19k

"Not taking a risk is a risk. That's how I see it." This week, Dean and Vito discuss the idea of the "comfort movie," Dean gives his SPX report, they choose their favorite Robert Redford (RIP) movie and briefly talk about free speech/censorship before going into another round of Creator VERSUS!

His SPX chat starts at 11:30

SPX 2025 Ignatz

SmallPressExpo

Sep 13, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjW7Tsdbp5E

Nov 1: D.C. Zinefest

D.C. Zinefest

Saturday, November 01
11:00am - 4:00pm

https://dclibrary.libnet.info/event/14691669

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library

Event Space

DC Zinefest is a one-day independent event designed to provide a space for zine-makers, self-published artists, and writers to share their work with each other and the Washington, D.C., community.

Saturday, November 1st from 11am–4pm, DC Zinefest will once again be hosting its fest on the fifth and fourth floor of the beautiful MLK Jr. Library.

DC Punk Archive will host an open house showcasing the zine collection 1-3pm in The People's Archive on the 4th floor, along with a full schedule of workshops

11-4 pm Zinefest open on the MLK Library, Floor 511:30-1:00 and 2:00- 3:30 Workshops in Floor 4  conference center
2-4 pm People's Archive Zine Open House (Floor 4, The People's Archive)

+ Plus a great schedule of informal talks and performance art on the first floor in collaboration with Transformer and the fall exhibition D.I.Y. in the District: Celebrating D.C.'s Artist-Run Spaces, 12-5 p.m.

Follow DC Zinefest on Instagram or our email listserv for the latest updates on DCZF '25.

Learn more about DC Zinefest 

AGE GROUP: | Adults | 13 - 19 Years Old (Teens) |

EVENT TYPE: | Special Collections | Exhibit | Arts & Crafts |

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library - Central Library

Phone: (202) 727-0321

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Hours

901 G Street Northwest
, DC, 20001

Green Archer Comics interview

Dave Richards Writes Awesome Stuff  Sep 23, 2025 

 Green Archer Comics Kickstarts the Adventures of a Forgotten Pulp Hero
https://www.patreon.com/posts/green-archer-of-139558518

The Rant Heard 'Round the World by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/22/2025

Working Cartoons: Ted Key's Hazel and Domestic Labor Across Media

Daniel Worden

The Journal of Modern Periodical Studies 16 (1), 73-92, 2025

https://doi.org/10.5325/jmodeperistud.16.1.0073

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/jmps/article-abstract/16/1/73/402284/Working-Cartoons-Ted-Key-s-Hazel-and-Domestic

 

MARVEL TO INCLUDE SIGNED ORIGINALS IN 'TRUE BELIEVER BLIND BAGS' For 'Ultimate Endgame' #1

Brigid Alverson on September 19, 2025 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/60591/marvel-include-signed-originals-true-believer-blind-bags

 

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 697: SPX 2025 Interviews [Tom Devlin of Drawn & Quarterly, and Lee Lai]

Meg Lemke

on 09/19/2025

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1393

 

Bud Plant is calling it a day: A conversation with the comics retail pioneer

Zach Rabiroff | September 22, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/bud-plant-is-calling-it-a-day-a-conversation-with-the-comics-retail-pioneer/

 

Hey Kids! Free Comics!

D. D. Degg

 September 21, 2025 

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/09/21/hey-kids-free-comics/

 

Joe Casey Writes   Sep 22, 2025

  I'VE BEEN AROUND 003: My Image Comics life (so far)

https://thejoecasey.substack.com/p/ive-been-around-003

 

'The Late Show' Hits Back at Jimmy Kimmel Suspension with Animated "Be Our Guest" Riff; Protestors March at Disney; Disney+ Subscribers Cancel in Droves

By Animation Magazine

September 19, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/the-late-show-hits-back-at-jimmy-kimmel-suspension-with-animated-be-our-guest-riff/

 

'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle' Is the Top Japanese Movie of All Time, Scores No. 1 for Second Week in NorAm

By Animation Magazine

September 21, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/09/demon-slayer-infinity-castle-is-the-top-japanese-movie-of-all-time-scores-no-1-in-noram/

 

Book Review: Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations

reviewed by Cecilia Garrison, Teaching/Research Assistant, California Institute of Integral Studies

International Journal of Comic Art blog September 22, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/book-review-analyzing-marvel-universe.html

 

Douglas Brode, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe. Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. Jefferson, NC:  McFarland, 2024.

Graphic Novel Review: Should We Buy a Gun?
 Reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-Okinawa
International Journal of Comic Art blog September 22, 2025
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/09/graphic-novel-review-should-we-buy-gun.html

Dave Cowen and Gabriel Wexler. Should We Buy a Gun? Los Angeles:  SerioComics, 2025.

Kreneck, Kevin. 2025. Dangerous Days and Really Long Nights: Forty Years of National And World Events Through The Lens Of Political Cartooning. Tribune Content Agency. Online at https://tribuneagency.wpenginepowered.com/files/2025/6079-promo-op-art/Kevin-Kreneck-Dangerous-Days-80pp.pdf

Moran, Tom. 1974. R. Cobb Interview. Venice SideShow (September). Online at https://monstermagazineworld.blogspot.com/2025/09/venice-sideshow.html

Crunchyroll CEO on the Blockbuster Implications of 'Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle': "It's Now Undeniable How Big Anime Has Become"
Crunchyroll chief Rahul Purini discusses how much bigger the $555 million hit might grow, plans for the next two films in the trilogy and why anime is now a core Sony growth engine.
Patrick Brzeski
September 22, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/crunchyroll-ceo-demon-slayer-infinity-castle-anime-success-1236377193/

The Chairman in Profile: Gay Talese and Edward Sorel, the writer and illustrator of "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," on the origins, aftermath, and eventual sanctification of the greatest profile in magazine history
Mark Rozzo
Photographs by Jonathan Becker
Air Mail September 20, 2025  https://airmail.news/issues/2025-9-20/the-chairman-in-profile