Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Metro Weekly recommends Awesome Con
Awesome Con Celebrates the Geek in All of Us
"Awesome Con is a happy place for a lot of people," says Heather Barnes of the annual event landing in D.C. April 4 to 6.
Metro Weekly March 31, 2025
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/03/awesome-con-celebrates-the-geek-in-all-of-us/
PR: SPX Announces Funny Pages at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/1/2025
Retailer op-ed: Trump vs. the American comics industry
by Jacob Shapiro
04/01/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/retailer-op-ed-trump-vs-the-american-comics-industry/
GoComics, What to Expect April 1
D. D. Degg
March 31, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/31/gocomics-what-to-expect-april-1st/
The Miyazaki Maelstrom: OpenAI's Ghibli Craze Signals a Troubling Future for Hollywood
Steven Zeitchik
April 1, 2025
VITO x DINO: Episode 13 - x Rob Guillory
Vito Delsante and Dean Haspiel
Mar 31, 2025 VITO X DINO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM9RUokriws
Comics And Podcasts Part 2 With Dean Haspiel and Vito Delsante
wordballoon
March 31 2025 https://www.youtube.com/live/_CuE6pIqbRM
DSTLRY INKS DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH PRH
First Publisher to Sign with PRH Since Diamond Bankruptcy
Posted by Brigid Alverson on March 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59208/dstlry-inks-distribution-deal-prh
WHAT KILLED COMICS JOURNALISM?
Rob Salkowitz on March 31, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59211/what-killed-comics-journalism
DreamWorks Animator Adrien Liv Shares 11 Important Tips for Success in the Business
Adrien Liv
March 31, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/dreamworks-animator-adrien-liv-shares-11-important-tips-for-success-in-the-business/
Animation Guild Members Envision Kids with Serious Illnesses as Superheroes in Second Exhibit
Mercedes Milligan
VIZ Media Shifts Leadership with Sasaki as Chairman, Woods as CEO
Mercedes Milligan
March 31, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/viz-media-shifts-leadership-with-sasaki-as-chairman-woods-as-ceo/
Chris Ware, artist of the unfulfilled, on how comics map the mind
As his strange, brilliant work goes on show in Barcelona, the graphic novelist explains why human life is never boring
Edwin Heathcote
Financial Times March 27 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/a968ab7f-fed8-490f-a475-7fda749dec07
Comics Sans Frontières. My remarks.
Pedro Moura
Yellow Fast & Crumble Apr 1, 2025
https://yellowfastcrumble.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/comics-sans-frontieres-my-remarks/
America!: Wake Up, This Decade Has Just Been an Elaborate April Fools'!
By Ali Fitzgerald
April 1, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/america-wake-up-this-decade-has-just-been-an-elaborate-april-fools
Pop Culture SquadCast - Live: With Special Guest Tyler Chin-Tanner from A Wave Blue World
Pop Culture Squad April 1 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is38eJq5jZc
Words, Images, & Worlds with Jonathan Cowen
Jason DeHart
Mar 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpmp5P8-vDk
Tom King Talks DC Comics TV And Film
word balloon April 1 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29z2wTqUbVY
Comics and Podcasts With Mike Gold
wordballoon
Mar 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m7zAOELNDA
My BroadcastInking ULTRAMEGA commission
Declan Shalvey
Mar 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgoiKDprQ5Q
Inking HELLBOY commission
Declan Shalvey
Mar 31, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOsOMXr9JJs
Medical assistance for Marvel DC artist Thomas Tenney
Christina Durbin is organizing this fundraiser.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-help-for-marvel-dc-artist-thomas-tenney-and-family
Why "The Virtual Memories Show" is Essential Listening for Comics
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 24 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/why-the-virtual-memories-show-is-essential-listening-for-comics
Graphic Novelist Interview - Elettra Stamboulis on Ai Weiwei [Zodiac]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 21 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/graphic-novelist-interview---elettra-stamboulis
WW2 Graphic Novelist: Danny Jalil [Singapore; Lieutenant Adnan and the Last Regiment]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 19 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/ww2-graphic-novelist-danny-jalil
Lieutenant Adnan and the Last Regiment [Singapore; writer Danny Jalil and illustrator Zaki Ragman]
Melanie Oliveiro
Daily Cuts 05 Feb 2024
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/daily-cuts/lietenant-adnan-and-last-regiment-4100331
WW2 Graphic Novel Creator: Victoria Stebleva [The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a Survivor of Bergen-Belsen]
Jonathan Sandler,
Graphic Memoir Blog 27 March 2025
https://graphicmemoir.co.uk/f/ww2-graphic-novel-creator-victoria-stebleva
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Our Chief Executive Karen Pollock CBE was on BBC Breakfast this morning to discuss how Holocaust survivor Peter Lantos BEM's new graphic novel is making his testimony accessible to young people today. [The Boy Who Didn't Want to Die: A Graphic Memoir from a Survivor of Bergen-Belsen]
Holocaust Educational Trust (UK) Jan 7 2025
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1295205364860956
Listen: Two Women in a Hotel Room go to WonderCon 2025
Heidi MacDonald and writer Amy Chu 04/01/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/listen-two-women-in-a-hotel-room-go-to-wondercon-2025/
https://soundcloud.com/heidi-macdonald-3/four-women-in-a-hotel-room-wondercon-2025
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
May 3: John Gallagher at Beyond Comics for Free Comic Book Day
Fantom Comics' Jacob Shapiro on tariffs and printing comics
Retailer op-ed: Trump vs. the American comics industry
by Jacob Shapiro
04/01/2025
https://www.comicsbeat.com/retailer-op-ed-trump-vs-the-american-comics-industry/
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/31/2025
DSTLRY joins Penguin Random House for distribution
Heidi MacDonald on 03/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dstlry-joins-penguin-random-house-for-distribution/
Penn lays off lecturer who drew antisemitic cartoons citing 'budgetary' reasons
"I think it's the same reason they gave to Jesus just before they crucified him," former lecturer Dwayne Booth wrote on social media.
(March 28, 2025 / JNS) https://www.jns.org/penn-lays-off-lecturer-who-drew-antisemitic-cartoons-citing-budgetary-reasons/
The news can be stressful. New Yorker cartoonist Barry Blitt wants you to laugh at it
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist on the climate of editorial cartooning in a divided world
Piya Chattopadhyay and Brianna Gosse · CBC Radio Mar 29, 2025 https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/cartoonist-barry-blitt-1.7494254
A salute to beloved columnist after 35 years (and also a not so beloved comic) ["Phoebe and Her Unicorn"; "Heart of the City"]
AMY GILLIGAN Telegraph Herald Mar 26, 2025 https://www.telegraphherald.com/news/opinion/article_a08a5faf-581d-4387-ac9c-db7467fd562f.html
"Arctic Circle" joins daily U-B comics page, replacing "Phoebe and Her Unicorn"
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin Mar 29, 2025
Westfield Childhood Comic Book Fan Publishes First Graphic Novel
Matt Myklusch is hosting a special launch event at the Westfield Memorial Library on Tuesday for his graphic novel "The Blood of Kings."
Alexis Tarrazi,
Westfield, NJ Patch Jan 6, 2025
Drawing Conclusions Part 2: More Topps Copycat Capers
March 27, 2025 By Roy Carlson
https://www.sportscollectorsdaily.com/drawing-conclusions-part-2-more-topps-copycat-capers/
Every Live-Action Disney Remake, Ranked
By Josh Bell
Updated Mar. 21, 2025
https://www.vulture.com/article/live-action-disney-remakes-ranked.html
'Coyote vs. Acme' Movie Saved by Ketchup Entertainment
The film that ignited social media when Warner Bros. canceled it for a tax write-off has gone to the indie outfit after recent negotiations.
Etan Vlessing
March 31, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/coyote-vs-acme-movie0saved-ketchup-entertainment-1236176482/
Warner Bros. Set to Raze Historic 'Looney Tunes' Studio Building
Animation Magazine
March 28, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/warner-bros-destroying-former-looney-tunes-studio-building/
An interview with Paul Pope: 'You can be your own audience'
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | March 31, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/an-interview-with-paul-pope-you-can-be-your-own-audience/
To Life Draw or Not to Life Draw, That Is an Animator's Question
Tom Sito
March 28, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/to-life-draw-or-not-to-life-draw-that-is-an-animators-question/
This article was written for the April '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 349).
'Look Back' Wins Grand Prix at Niigata Int'l Animation Film Festival
Mercedes Milligan
March 28, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/look-back-wins-grand-prix-at-niigata-intl-animation-film-festival/
GKIDS' 4K Re-Release of 'Princess Mononoke' Rules IMAX Theaters with an Estimated $4 Million Weekend
Ramin Zahed
March 30, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/gkids-4k-re-release-of-princess-mononoke-rules-with-an-estimated-4-million-weekend/
A War Comics mystery – where was "Hero of the Snows" published?
By John Freeman on March 31, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/a-war-comics-mystery-where-was-hero-of-the-snows-published/
HEARING DELAYED, IMAGE/DIAMOND CONTRACT DEETS: Auction Week Bankruptcy Round-Up
Milton Griepp on March 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59200/hearing-delayed-image-diamond-contract-deets
SPENCER SIMPSON, ART BALTAZAR JOIN COMICBOOKS FOR KIDS BOARDS
Baltazar Is First Appointee to New Advisory Board
Brigid Alverson on March 28, 2025
Ed Piskor Tribute With Jim Mahfood Skeme Richards Michel Fiffe @japanbookhunter
Dave
West Coast Davengers Mar 30, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddr1oxBB-n0
Saturday Spill: The Tilley Watch Online, March 24-28, 2025; Long Lost Lee Lorenz Interview Found
Michael Maslin
Ink Spill March 29, 2025
What of the Humans: Elias Rosner on R.U.R by Kateřina Čupová
Today on SOLRAD, Elias Rosner looks at R.U.R. by Kateřina Čupová, translated by Julie Nováková, and published by: Rosarium Publishing
Elias Rosner
SOLRAD March 24, 2025
https://solrad.co/what-of-the-humans-elias-rosner-on-r-u-r-by-katerina-cupova
Faith Erin Hicks Talks Universal Monsters: The Mummy.
Liam McGuire
Comic Frontier Mar 31, 2025
https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/faith-erin-hicks-talks-universal-monsters-the-mummy
Letter: Comic strip no laughing matter for wildlife [Dennis the Menace]
Lucy Hardy
January 8 2025
https://www.pressherald.com/2025/01/08/letter-comic-strip-no-laughing-matter-for-wildlife/
'Felt violated': Cowabunga Comics in Green Cove Springs burglarized
By Alexus Cleavenger, Action News Jax
January 07, 2025 https://www.wokv.com/news/local/felt-violated-cowabunga-comics-green-cove-springs-burglarized/5YI4XYENP5EGVMKU72W3ZOKKA4/
Graphic Novel "The Pacific Northwest Disaster Guide" Seeks to Prepare Us for the Worst
The imagined ruins of the Bagdad Theater could inspire disaster readiness in Portlanders.
Gabriel Granillo
January 07, 2025
https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2025/01/07/graphic-novel-the-pacific-northwest-disaster-guide-seeks-to-prepare-us-for-the-worst/
British newsstand retailer WH Smith changes hands
Dean Simons on 03/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/british-newsstand-retailer-wh-smith-changes-hands/
ChatGPT's viral Studio Ghibli-style images highlight AI copyright concerns
By MATT O'BRIEN and SARAH PARVINI
March 28, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/studio-ghibli-chatgpt-images-hayao-miyazaki-openai-0f4cb487ec3042dd5b43ad47879b91f4
Amid a Back-to-the-Future Moment for Animation, Could 'The Critic' Make a Comeback?
A 'King of the Hill' revival is imminent, and 'American Dad!' is set to return to Fox. Could another Fox animated series return in the near future?
Alex Weprin
March 29, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/the-critic-reboot-fox-animated-series-jon-lovitz-1236175123/
'Common Side Effects' Renewed for Season 2 at Adult Swim
The news comes ahead of Sunday's season one finale for Mike Judge and Greg Daniels' animated take on Big Pharma, created by Joe Bennett and Steve Hely.
Etan Vlessing
March 28, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/common-side-effects-renewed-season-2-1236174892/
Coyote Vs. Acme officially saved by Ketchup Entertainment
That's not all, folks! Coyote Vs. Acme is finally out of Warner Bros. jail.
By Emma Keates | March 31, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/coyote-vs-acme-saved-from-warner-bros-by-ketchup-entertainment
Snow White's Failure Has Turned Rachel Zegler Into a Scapegoat—and an Icon
Disney insiders are blaming the young actress for the film's poison box office, but their plan is backfiring.
By Chris Murphy
March 28, 2025
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/snow-whites-failure-has-turned-rachel-zegler-into-a-scapegoat-and-an-icon
Adult Swim's Lazarus offers more than just Cowboy Bebop nostalgia
Shinichirō Watanabe's new anime series stands on its own.
By Kambole Campbell | March 31, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/lazarus-review-tv-adult-swim-anime
New Adventures for the World's Favorite Barbarian [Conan]
Sunday, March 16, 2025 Ismail D. Soldan
https://www.blackgate.com/2025/03/16/new-adventures-for-the-worlds-favorite-barbarian/
Monday, March 31, 2025
Rosarium's edition of R.U.R by Kateřina Čupová reviewed at SOLRAD
What of the Humans: Elias Rosner on R.U.R by Kateřina Čupová
Today on SOLRAD, Elias Rosner looks at R.U.R. by Kateřina Čupová, translated by Julie Nováková, and published by: Rosarium Publishing
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/29-30/2025
Hayame Kawachi on 03/30/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ultraman-channel-launches-on-prime-video-210-hours-iconic-content/
2025 Could Be a Very Bad Year for Comic Books
Derek Gibbs
January 6, 2025
https://clownfishtv.com/2025-comic-book-industry-diamond/
AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 321: Jeff Lemire & Nick Robles on reinventing Wally West in 'Absolute Flash'
David Brooke and Alex
March 23, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/23/jeff-lemire-nick-robles/
New comic shares stories of LGBTQs affected by UK military's gay ban – in 10 images
"The process of creating the comic strip was painstaking and at each stage I saw the images getting ever closer to my memories" [Coming Home issue 2]
Jamie Tabberer
https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/literature/veterans-military-gay-ban-comic-book-477591/
6 January 2025
Artist Drew Struzan victim to Alzheimer's, can no longer paint
John Freeman on March 28, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/artist-drew-struzan-victim-to-alzheimers-can-no-longer-paint/
Skybound Sold 4.5 Million Comics In 2024… Would You Invest?
28 Mar 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/skybound-sold-4-5-million-comics-in-2024-would-you-invest/
More Skybound Entertainment Layoffs Identified, This Year And Last
28 Mar 2025 by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/more-skybound-entertainment-layoffs-identified-this-year-and-last/
Graham Nolan Asks People To Buy DC Comics' Absolute Batman
27 Mar 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/graham-nolan-dc-comics-absolute-batman/
Bruce Dickinson Graphic Novel Printed With William Blake Grave Soil
Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson's graphic novel The Mandrake Project will be printed with soil from William Blake's grave.
29 Mar 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bruce-dickinson-graphic-novel-printed-with-william-blake-grave-soil/
Lake Como Comic Art Festival Shows Off Its Portfolio Of Guests
28 Mar 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/lake-como-comic-art-festival-shows-off-its-portfolio-of-guests/
Jon Lovitz and Al Jean are trying to bring back The Critic
Say it with us: "Reboot my show! Reboot my show! Reboot my show!"
By William Hughes | March 29, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/critic-reboot-jon-lovitz-al-jean
30 years ago, The Critic enrolled six-year-olds everywhere in film school
Al Jean and Mike Reiss' dark comedy about the world's saddest profession was a big hit on the playground
By Matt Schimkowitz | May 20, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/the-critic-at-30-essay-childhood-film-school-tv-show-1851472186
5 new comics to read in April, including weekly G.I. Joe Silent Missions
Plus, a trilogy of adaptations, a photographer biography, and a cosmic cooking adventure.
By Oliver Sava | March 28, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/new-comic-books-april-2025-gi-joe-new-york-stories
Suicide Squad's mythic "Ayer cut" could see release once DC gets "some scores on the board"
Ahead of A Working Man, David Ayer drops more information about his long-teased director's cut of Suicide Squad.
By Matt Schimkowitz | March 25, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/david-ayer-suicide-squad-wins-on-board
Hy Eisman – RIP
D. D. Degg
March 28, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/28/hy-eisman-rip/
Getting Hy on Comics: A Profile of Hy Eisman
Mark Squirek
Editor's note: This article originally appeared in Hogan's Alley #15. 2009.
https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman
["It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of an incredibe (sic) artist, and a dear friend and instructor to many at the Joe Kubert School, Hy Eisman"].
Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, Inc .March 28 2025
https://www.facebook.com/thekubertschool/posts/pfbid0R2jEBb6s1Dwy9Wvt296YvH5tuSiirjVV2mB7W8eG9U2LBzmZqxTJKbhQuyPESxKCl
Alan Moore salutes the 'ramshackle institution' that changed his life
Alan Moore is the most revered comics writer alive, and he owes much of his success to Arts Lab, he tells Big Issue
Alan Moore, Alistair Fruish
23 Mar 2025
https://www.bigissue.com/culture/art/alan-moore-arts-lab-northampton-comics/
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is 'Snow White' the dopiest Disney remake of all?
Stephen Thompsom, Aisha Harris, Candice Lim, Shar Jossell,
Pop Culture Happy Hour March 21, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/21/1239865411/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-is-snow-white-the-dopiest-disney-remake-of-all
https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR4647351234.mp3
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239865411
["Agneta Hallin har tyvärr gått bort." (Agneta Hallin has sadly passed away)][Seriefrämjandet - The Swedish Comics Association supporter]
Fredrik Strömberg's Post March 19 2025
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10161142790727901&id=652437900&rdid=s9PKAfatU22h9ezi
Edward Sorel Has a Confession [in print as An Illustrator's Confession]
By David W. Dunlap
March 30, 2025 : A2
online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/pageoneplus/edward-sorel-has-a-confession.html
AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules [in print as AI-generated images in iconic Ghibli style go viral as Open AI loosens rules]
By Gerrit De Vynck and Tatum Hunter
March 30, 2025: A12
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/28/chatgpt-ghibli-ai-images-copyright/
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Archive - JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE SIGNING with DJ BEN HA MEEN And Julian Lytle [audio and photos]
JIMI HENDRIX: PURPLE HAZE SIGNING with DJ BEN HA MEEN And Julian Lytle [audio and photos]
WaPo on AI-generated images in iconic Ghibli style
AI generated Ghibli images go viral as OpenAI loosens its rules [in print as AI-generated images in iconic Ghibli style go viral as Open AI loosens rules]
NPR on Snow White
Mirror, mirror on the wall, is 'Snow White' the dopiest Disney remake of all?
Pop Culture Happy Hour March 21, 2025
Guy Billout in today's NYT
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Edith Pritchett is back in WaPo
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/28/2025
British publishers launch Comic Book UK trade association
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 03/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/cbuk-trade-assoc/
ANDRA VOICE ACTOR PENS COMIC
'Masters of the Universe: Andra'
Milton Griepp on March 28, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59188/andra-voice-actor-pens-comic
TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
Scoop March 28 2025
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1013?ArticleID=280757
Donations Sought for Mike W. Barr
Scoop March 28 2025
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=280838
A Fox in Archie's Henhouse [Alex Toth]
Paul Castiglia
Scoop March 28 2025
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1017?ArticleID=280854
People Love Studio Ghibli. But Should They Be Able to Recreate It?
An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki's style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
Madison Malone Kircher
March 27, 2025 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/style/ai-chatgpt-studio-ghibli.html
"An Insult to Life Itself": OpenAI's New Tech Fuels Ghibli Imitation Trend, Raises Questions
Animation Magazine
March 27, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/an-insult-to-life-itself-openais-new-tech-fuels-ghibli-imitation-trend-raises-questions/
Studio Ghibli faces its biggest villain yet: an ironic onslaught of AI
Hayao Miyazaki's environmentalist masterpiece Princess Mononoke returns to theaters while his style is stolen by AI.
By Jacob Oller | March 27, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/studio-ghibli-openai-slop-princess-mononoke-4k-restoration
Lost media detectives finally found the full original pilot for Family Guy
Although seven minutes of the pilot were included in Family Guy DVD sets back in 2003, the full version has never been seen online.
By William Hughes | March 21, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/family-guy-full-pilot-lost-media-found
'The Bully Monster's Art Director Discusses the Acclaimed Brazilian Animated PSA
Ramin Zahed
March 27, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/the-bully-monsters-art-director-discusses-the-acclaimed-brazilian-animated-psa/
The Treasured Marvel Comic Book That Could Earn You More Than $3 Million [Amazing Fantasy #15; Spider-Man]
By William Fischer
Jan. 4, 2025 https://www.moneydigest.com/1748593/marvel-comic-book-worth-over-3-million/
Comic book industry calls on Chancellor to create hundreds of new creative industry jobs with extension of existing tax relief [Comic Book UK]
John Freeman
Small Press Day returns in July [UK].
John Freeman
March 27, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/small-press-day-returns-in-july/
Barry Blitt's "Left to Their Own Devices"
The Trump Administration's not-so-classified group chat.
By Françoise Mouly
March 28, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-04-07
CSotD: Scandal for Schools [editorial cartoons on education]
Mike Peterson
March 28, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/28/csotd-scandal-for-schools/
Artist Drew Friedman documentary LA premiere, March 29, 2025
Mark Frauenfelder
Mar 21, 2025
https://boingboing.net/2025/03/21/artist-drew-friedman-documentary-la-premiere-march-29-2025.html
Bob Mankoff '66 to Deliver Alumni Keynote at 2025 A&S | Maxwell Convocation
Syracuse University News March 25, 2025, By Sean Grogan
Northeastern community celebrates power of truth and comics with legendary cartoonist Alison Bechdel
During the 2025 Hanson Lecture, Bechdel, writer and artist behind "Fun Home" and the Bechdel test, and Northeastern faculty and students examined how comics are a powerful tool for truth-telling and empathy.
Cody Mello-Klein
Northeastern Global News March 20, 2025
https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/03/20/alison-bechdel-cartoonist-hanson-lecture/
A closer look at the ban on 'Maus' [Hillary Chute interview]
Hillary Chabot
Northeastern Global News January 28, 2022
https://news.northeastern.edu/2022/01/28/maus-ban/
Why comics and graphic novels like 'Maus' are effective teaching tools
Ian Thomsen
June 7, 2023 Northeastern Global News
https://news.northeastern.edu/2023/06/07/comics-graphic-novels-teaching-education/
Publisher's Firing Shows Double Standard in Israel/Palestine Cartooning
Hank Kennedy
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) March 27, 2025
https://fair.org/home/publishers-firing-shows-double-standard-in-israel-palestine-cartooning/
Op-comic: A personal case against eliminating the penny
By Emily Menez and Theora Kvitka
March 27, 2025
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-27/op-comic-eliminate-penny
Ghibli Treasures & Anime Icons Fuel Record-Setting Heritage Auction Event
Mercedes Milligan
March 27, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/03/ghibli-treasures-anime-icons-fuel-record-setting-heritage-auction-event/
The Daily Heller: The Mad Peck is Mad No Longer
By Steven Heller
March 24 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-mad-peck-is-mad-no-longer/
Episode 195 - Lawrence Wood
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast March 19 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-195-lawrence-wood/id1558958290?i=1000700009144
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast Episode 196 - Tommy Siegel
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-196-tommy-siegel/id1558958290?i=1000700966996
Jim Keefe Mar 28, 2025
Hy Eisman [obituary]
https://www.patreon.com/posts/hy-eisman-125385631
Hy and Fernando Full [aka Behind the Tracing Paper: Hy Eisman and Fernando Ruiz]
Kubert School Media May 3, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_8uwAVnOyo
"Rest Stop: How San Diego's location is impacting the Spread of bird flu." [comics journalism]
Steve Breen and Philip Salata
inewsource
https://inewsource.org/2025/03/26/san-diego-bird-flu-migration-illustrated/
Alabama halted a library's funding. Supporters raised the cash in days. [in print as Advocates raise cash to keep Ala. library open; Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan; censorship]
Kyle Melnick
Washington Post (March 28, 2025 ): A2.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/26/fairhope-alabama-library-funding-pause/
Disney's Liz Shortreed on putting authenticity at the heart of its Disney Princess collection with Bath & Body Works
Billy Langsworthy
Mummy Pig's pregnancy to usher in "transformative new era" for Peppa Pig
Billy Langsworthy
March 06..25 https://www.brandsuntapped.com/mummy-pigs-pregnancy-to-usher-in-transformative-new-era-for-peppa-pig-2/
Craig Narveson – Director of Partnerships at Kahoot! – on crafting educational content with brands like Hello Kitty, SpongeBob and Peanuts
Billy Langsworthy
Interview: COME OUT AND PLAY editors on why 'queerness and athletics are not at odds'
Ollie Kaplan on 03/28/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-come-out-and-play-editors-on-why-queerness-and-athletics-are-not-at-odds/
Do Not Collect $200 – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | March 28, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/do-not-collect-200-this-weeks-links/
'Comics Sans Frontières' celebrates the magic of the medium [academic conference; Art Spiegelman]
By Lily Harvey
The Rice Thresher. 3/25/25
Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance [African-American history]
Dominic Davies
The Conversation UK. March 24, 2025
Off Panel #492: No Rain with Matt Fraction
March 24 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-492-no-rain-with-matt-fraction
Meet the creator of ITHAQA, a comic book mystery set in the gorgeous Finger Lakes city [Michael Watson]
Jacob Mack
Ithaca Journal March 24 2025
A License to Cartoon: Creativity and Capitalism in Schulz, Davis, and Watterson
CJ Standal
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025
NIF 2025 Interview with El Hufbauer
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-el-hufbauer/
NIF 2025 Interview with Asmodeus
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-asmodeus/
NIF 2025 Interview with Mariah Currey
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-mariah-currey/
NIF 2025 Interview with Grovey Pascasio [Philippines]
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-grovey-pascasio/
NIF 2025 Interview with studioCARTRIDGE [Canada]
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-interview-with-studiocartridge/
NIF 2025 Interview with Maiji/Mary Huang [Canada]
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-maiji-mary-huang/
NIF 2025 Interview with A F Azar
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-a-f-azar/
NIF 2025 Interview with Blue Delliquanti
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-2025-interview-with-blue-delliquanti/
NIF 2025 Interview with spicymotte [Germany]
CARTOONIST COOPERATIVE March 2025 https://cartoonist.coop/journal/nif-interview-with-spicymotte/
Swept Away: PW Talks with Cara Gormally
by Ash Holland
Faith Erin Hicks on capturing the gothic romance of The Mummy in comics with Skybound
Billy Langsworthy
Filmmaker Sook-Yin Lee adapted her ex-boyfriend's sex-work memoir Paying for It
by Justine Smith
March 24, 2025
The Comic Art of James Swinnerton, March 19, 2025 [aka Jimmy! How comics pioneer James "Jimmy" Swinnerton finally got his due.
Pete Maresca, Michael Tisserand, Paul C. Tumey, Eddie Campbell and Rick Marschall
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 417; Mar 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1voFhszoLNw
Carol Lay, March 25, 2025 [aka The Comic Art of Carol Lay]
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium
418; Mar 26, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfoV0DZJxrU
EXCLUSIVE Simon Bisley interview - The 2000 AD Creator
Michael Molcher,
The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast Mar 22, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJZDYCeVcpcTapes
Cris Siqueira's graphic novel "May You Get What You Want"
Milwaukee PBS's The Arts Page Mar 23, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2TwwHIfBZQ
Goats Flying Press prods comics to new heights (and depths)
Chris Coplan
March 27, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/27/goats-flying-press-interview/
X-Men Monday #290 – Jason Loo Talks 'Concert of Champions'
Chris Hassan
March 24, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/24/x-men-monday-jason-loo-concert-champions-2/
Sculpting the Mythic: Javier Rodríguez on crafting 'Absolute Martian Manhunter's' surreal vision
Rodríguez reveals how stepping out of his comfort zone helped him create a bold, mythic vision for Martian Manhunter.
David Brooke
March 25, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/03/25/javier-rodriguez-absolute-martian-interview/
Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat review – the black and white truth about motherhood
Barnicoat's memoir of early parenthood is funny, unflinching and a welcome corrective to the ceaseless pressures new mums face from social media
Rachel Cooke
There's No Time Like the Present by Paul B Rainey review – a funny, unpredictable and wild comic
Three characters stuck in the past are given access to the future in the former Observer/Faber prize winner's mordant and misanthropic sci-fi graphic novel
Rachel Cooke
The Cartoon Museum Announces the Winners of the Young Cartoonist Awards 2024
Broken Frontier March 24, 2025
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/young-cartoonist-2024/
American comics writer brings Korean hero Yi Sun-shin's legacy to life
Onrie Kompan's Yi Sun-shin comic series sold over 460,000 copies
By Jang Yoon,
Lee Jae-eun
Published 2025.03.26. https://www.chosun.com/english/people-en/2025/03/26/OBAZZHQGOVFJZN7KDF6LPIEG7Y/
Reviews: The Collected Toppi Vol. 11: War Stories
Hagai Palevsky | March 27, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-collected-toppi-vol-11-war-stories/
The Collected Toppi Vol. 11: War Stories
Sergio Toppi
Magnetic Press