Friday, December 31, 2021

Happy New Year from Mike & ComicsDC



The Post on superhero movie actors

Hollywood's top 12 superhero performances of the year, ranked

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/31/21

Andrew Vachss, Hardboiled Writer, Defender of Children, Passes Away

December 29, 2021

by Adi Tantimedh

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/andrew-vachss-hardboiled-writer-defender-of-children-passes-away/

 

A Hero's Legacy Comics & Collectibles In Dire Need Of Assistance [store]

  December 30, 2021

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/a-heros-legacy-comics-collectibles-in-dire-need-of-assistance/

 

The Marvel vs. Martin Scorsese Feud Needs to Die

Kyndall Cunningham

Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-marvel-vs-martin-scorsese-feud-needs-to-die

 

Angoulême 2022 issues formal statement on postponement of festival

Originally scheduled for January 27 to 30, the festival hopes to still take place sometime in late March/early April

Dean Simons

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/angouleme-2022-postponement-statement/

 

INTERVIEW: Nick Bruel on line one for BAD KITTY GETS A PHONE

The newest entry in the New York Times-Bestselling series sees Kitty entering the cellular age!

Avery Kaplan

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nick-bruel-on-line-one-for-bad-kitty-gets-a-phone/

 

Bulletproof Comics sets up a pop-up shop at the movies for SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME

Imagine coming out of a superhero movie and straight into a comics shop.

Ricardo Serrano Denis

12/30/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/bulletproof-comics-spider-man-no-way-home-pop-up-shop/

 

INTERVIEW: R.M. Peaslee and R.G. Weiner Deconstruct Spider-Man in WEB-SPINNING HEROICS [scholarship]

Hannah Means-Shannon

03/11/2013

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-r-m-peaslee-and-r-g-weiner-deconstruct-spider-man-in-web-spinning-heroics/

 

TOP 10 KIDS COMICS OF 2021

We Laughed, We Cried, We Bombarded Our Friends with Trivia

 by Brigid Alverson on December 29, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50076/top-10-kids-comics-2021

 

'Poupelle of Chimney Town' Review: Seeking Refuse

By Ben Kenigsberg

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 31, 2021, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Poupelle of Chimney Town.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/30/movies/poupelle-of-chimney-town-review.html

Thursday, December 30, 2021

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/30/21

This village was a book capital. What happens when people stop buying so many books? [A once-busy Belgian 'book town' starts work on its sequel]

By Reis Thebault and Quentin Ariès

Washington Post December 28, 2021  A10

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/26/book-tourism-belgium/

 

Embracer Group enters into an agreement to acquire Dark Horse and forms the tenth operative group

2021-12-21 10:07

https://embracer.com/release/embracer-group-enters-into-an-agreement-to-acquire-dark-horse-and-forms-the-tenth-operative-group/

 

'Spider-Man' is a box office hero. Is Hollywood in a post-movie star era?

By Ryan Faughnder

Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/newsletter/2021-12-28/spider-man-is-a-box-office-hero-is-hollywood-in-a-post-movie-star-era-the-wide-shot

 

How 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Was "Shaped" by Its Secret Stars

Screenwriters Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers reflect on working with its mystery protagonists and dive into the biggest twists of the $1 billion grossing superhero film: "No one knows the character as well as — or gives as much thought to the character — as someone who has to then embody it and sell it."

Aaron Couch

December 29, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/spider-man-no-way-home-andrew-garfield-tobey-maguire-1235068153/

 

'Black Panther' fans implore Marvel to #RecastTChalla after Chadwick Boseman's death

BY CHRISTI CARRASSTAFF

DEC. 28, 2021

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-28/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-recast-tchalla-marvel

 

Stan Lee Knew Early on Comic Collecting Would Be a Highly Lucrative Hobby

Ryan Parker

December 28, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/stan-lee-predicted-marvel-comic-collecting-lucrative-hobby-1235067767/

 

Thirty Minutes with Stan Lee (circa 1975)

Jan 27, 2016

Sean Howe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=areUni1_j9U

 

Daredevil Writer Brutally Kills Major Spider-Man Character in MCU Fan Art; Daredevil writer Chip Zdarsky creates fan art for Spider-Man: No Way Home, imagining a major character's death while paying homage to comics and films.

By Sean Gribbin

CBR December 26 2021

https://www.cbr.com/daredevil-chip-zdarsky-spider-man-uncle-ben-death/

 

Interview with Chip Zdarsky (December 2021) [Daredevil]

Kuljit Mithra

December 2021

https://www.manwithoutfear.com/daredevil-interviews/Chip-Zdarsky-Devils-Reign

 

Chip Zdarsky On Daredevil, Newburn, Howard The Duck, All-Nighter, Kaptara, Public Domain, Batman!

Daniel Fee

Dec 28, 2021

Daniel Fee33

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

 

Covid strikes again: Angoulême 2022 delayed to Spring

With a worldwide surge in Omicron cases and the Monday announcement of new covid restrictions in France, the Festival declares it will postpone

Dean Simons

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/covid-strikes-again-angouleme-2022-delayed-to-spring/

 

2021 Prism Award Winners Announced

The winners and finalists were revealed in a video released on YouTube on Monday.

Avery Kaplan

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2021-prism-award-winners-announced/

 

 

Schomburg's Black Comic Book Festival 2022 goes all virtual in face of latest covid surge

Despite recently announcing a hybrid 10th anniversary event, New York's Schomburg Center has once more made the Black Comic Book Festival a wholly virtual affair.

Dean Simons

12/29/2021

https://www.comicsbeat.com/schomburgs-black-comic-book-festival-2022-goes-all-virtual-in-face-of-latest-covid-surge/

 

The Black Comic Book Festival Is Turning 10!

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 13, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/13/black-comic-book-festival-turning-10

 

Confessions of a Black Comic Book Festival Cosplayer: Michael Flood's Impromptu Idea With a Fellow Cosplayer Helped Start a Festival Tradition

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 21, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/21/black-comic-book-festival-cosplayer-michael-floods

 

A Conversation with Micheline Hess: Designer of Black Comic Book Festival Artwork Shares Her Inspiration

by Lisa Herndon, Communications and Publications Manager, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

December 27, 2021

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/12/27/conversation-micheline-hess-designer-black-comic-book-festival

 

Graphic Novel Production Schedules Are Too Short—and the Publishing Industry Should Care About It

by Nilah Magruder

December 20, 2021

Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021.

https://www.sfwa.org/2021/12/20/graphic-novel-production-schedules-too-short/

Wednesday, December 29, 2021

Nilah Magruder, an artist based in Western Maryland, on deadlines

Graphic Novel Production Schedules Are Too Short—and the Publishing Industry Should Care About It

by Nilah Magruder

December 20, 2021

Note: This article first appeared in The Bulletin #216 in October 2021.

https://www.sfwa.org/2021/12/20/graphic-novel-production-schedules



Author headshot of Nilah Magruder

Nilah Magruder is an artist based in Western Maryland. She is the author of M.F.K., a middle-grade graphic novel and winner of the Dwayne McDuffie Award for Diversity, and How To Find a Fox, a picture book. She has published short stories in Fireside Magazine and the All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages anthology. Nilah has also written for Marvel Comics, illustrated children's books for Disney- Hyperion, Scholastic, and Penguin, and worked as a writer and storyboard artist in television animation. She is currently writing and illustrating three graphic novels. When she is not working, Nilah is watching movies, baking, and snuggling with her cat, dog, and turtle.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/29/21

Goodwyn, Al. 2021.

Best Of 2021.

Goodwyn Editorial Cartoons (December 28): http://xp4zn.mjt.lu/nl2/xp4zn/5y340.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 4: MICHAEL RAMIREZ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 13, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-4-michael.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 5: MIRKO ILIĆ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 18, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-5-mirko-ilic.html

 

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 6: ANN TELNAES

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 26, 2021

http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2021/12/political-cartoons-part-6-ann-telnaes.html

 

Joel Pett offers some 2020 hindsight of a year to forget

By Joel Pett | Marcus Dorsey

Lexington Herald Leader December 28, 2020

https://www.kentucky.com/opinion/editorial-cartoons/joel-pett/article248130085.html

 

Cartoonist Phil Hands unveils his 2021 jeer in review

    Phil Hands | Wisconsin State Journal

    Dec 27, 2021

    https://madison.com/opinion/columnists/cartoonist-phil-hands-unveils-his-2021-jeer-in-review/article_9ee9027e-dba4-5adb-91a7-881031d22ed3.html

 

USA TODAY cartoonist Mike Thompson's 2021 in review

 Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.sj-r.com/picture-gallery/opinion/2021/12/27/2021-funny-cartoon-review-today-cartoonist-mike-thompsons-2021-review/9024561002/

 

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star  Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Michael De Adder

Editorial cartoonist Michael De Adder shares the insightful cartoons he is most proud of from 2021.

Toronto Star Dec. 27, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

The Year in Cartoons: Theo Moudakis

Editorial cartoonist Theo Moudakis looks back at the events that acted as his muse in 2021.

Toronto Star  Dec. 28, 2021

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorial_cartoon/2021/12/28/the-year-in-cartoons-theo-moudakis.html

 

Matthew Vaughn on 'The King's Man,' the Future of 'Kingsman' and Reuniting with Henry Cavill

Brian Davids

December 24, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/kings-man-director-matthew-vaughn-sequel-streaming-1235067371/

 

T. Mark Taylor, Artist and Toy Designer for He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Dies at 80

Both franchises went on to launch animated series as well as movies, while Taylor's toy work was featured in documentaries.

Associated Press December 26, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/t-mark-taylor-dead-artist-toy-designer-for-he-man-and-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-1235067478/

 

Why Dark Horse Embraced a Sale to a Swedish Gaming Giant

The deal, expected to close in 2022, gives the publisher financial stability while offering owner Embracer access to new IP.

Graeme McMillan

December 28, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/dark-horse-comics-sale-embracer-1235067627/

 

How Smithers Came Out

The father-son writing duo Rob and Johnny LaZebnik teamed up (with an assist from Christine Baranski) to at last create an openly gay romantic life for Waylon Smithers on "The Simpsons."

By Andrew Marantz

December 27, 2021

Published in the print edition of the January 3 & 10, 2022, issue, with the headline "Whither Smithers?."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/how-smithers-came-out

BD store in a Belgian town featured in the Post

This village was a book capital. What happens when people stop buying so many books? [A once-busy Belgian 'book town' starts work on its sequel]

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Apatoff on Ramirez, Ilic, and Telnaes

POLITICAL CARTOONS part 4: MICHAEL RAMIREZ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 13, 2021


POLITICAL CARTOONS part 5: MIRKO ILIĆ

David Apatoff

Illustration Art December 18, 2021


POLITICAL CARTOONS part 6: ANN TELNAES


Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/28/21

Apparently I blanked out there for a couple of days. There were no updates sent here for Dec 26-27.


'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Hurtles Past $1B at Global Box Office in Pandemic-Era First

Pamela McClintock

December 26, 2021

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/spider-man-no-way-home-box-office-pandemic-record-1235067456/

 

THE (COMIC) BOOKS OF BOBA FETT

Collectible Comics for the 'Star Wars' Moment Fans Have Waited for Since 1983

  by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez on December 27, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50049/the-comic-books-boba-fett

 

C2E2 2021 PHOTOS - PART 4-6, Saturday

Posted by Dennis Viau on December 26, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50047/c2e2-2021-photos-part-4

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50046/c2e2-2021-photos-part-5

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50045/c2e2-2021-photos-part-6

 

Is Disney the Met's Fairy Godmother?

By Max Lakin

Dec. 26, 2021

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/arts/design/disney-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html

 

Wayne Thiebaud – RIP

  Posted by D. D. Degg

December 26, 2021

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/12/26/wayne-thiebaud-rip/

 

Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101

By Michael Kimmelman

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 27, 2021, Section A, Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: Wayne Thiebaud, 101, A Down-to-Earth Painter Of the Everyday, Is Dead.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/26/obituaries/wayne-thiebaud-dead.html

 

Wayne Thiebaud, prolific California painter and teacher, dies at 101

By Mary Rourke

Dec. 26, 2021 

https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-12-26/wayne-thiebaud-death-california-painter

 

Wayne Thiebaud, painter known for depicting cakes and scenes of San Francisco, dies at 101

By Associated Press

December 27 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/painter-wayne-theibaud-dies/2021/12/27/0a0307b0-66be-11ec-b0a7-13dd3af4f70f_story.html

 

Newspaper Strips

Pascal Lefèvre

2016, The Routledge Companion to Comics

https://www.academia.edu/27491376/Newspaper_Strips

 

Transitions 6 Comica Symposium

Tony Venezia

https://www.academia.edu/16937187/Transitions_6_Comica_Symposium

Programme for Transitions 6 Comica Symposium, 31 October 2015, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

Prospects of Comics Studies in India

Diptarup Ghosh Dastidar

2019, GNOSIS: Special Issue-3  March 2019 p. 113-128

https://www.academia.edu/40883728/Prospects_of_Comics_Studies_in_India

 

Boba Fett, Intergalactic Man of Mystery

By Dave Itzkoff

    A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 26, 2021, Section AR, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Boba Fett, Intergalactic Mystery Man.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/24/arts/television/star-wars-boba-fett-disney.html

 

'Cowboy Bebop' Beats and the Universe of 'Dune': What 'Arcane' Is Made of

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

Dec. 21, 2021

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 26, 2021, Section AR, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: This Show Is Made of 'Bebop' Beats and More

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/arts/television/arcane-netflix-moodboard.html

 

Opinion: The best Ann Telnaes cartoons of 2021 [in print as Ann Telnaes: Best of 2021]

Washington Post December 26 2021, p. A29

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/12/24/ann-telnaes-best-cartoons-2021/

 

Various. 2021.

2021 in editorial cartoons

Washington Post December 25 2021: 17

 

Various. 2021.

Best editorial cartoons of 2021

St. Louis Post-Dispatch Dec 26, 2021

    https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/editorial/best-editorial-cartoons-of-2021/collection_0adabf9a-a56f-5e08-b8b1-39367284c86c.html#9

 

Best of 2021

By MATT WUERKER

12/27/2021

https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2021/12/22/matt-wuerker-cartoons-best-of-2021-000274?slide=0

 

WhoWhatWhy's Best Ted Rall Cartoons of 2021

Ted Rall

12/25/21

https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/whowhatwhys-best-ted-rall-cartoons-of-2021/

 

National comic strip goes deep in N. Idaho [Sherman's Lagoon]

 by MIKE PATRICK

 Couer d' Alene / Post Falls Press December 26, 2021

https://cdapress.com/news/2021/dec/26/national-comic-strip-goes-deep-n-idaho/

 

DARK HORSE'S TOP PROPERTY FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS WAS A MANGA

And Now There's a Worldwide Ad Campaign [ Berserk]

 by Milton Griepp on December 28, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50061/dark-horses-top-property-past-three-years-was-manga

 

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: MICHAEL COTTON NEW EXECUTIVE EDITOR AT AWA

Formerly Senior Editor of Superman Group at DC

by Brigid Alverson on December 27, 2021

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50058/people-move-michael-cotton-new-executive-editor-awa

 

Comic Creator Ryan "Bode" Bodenheim Dies, Aged 44. RIP

Posted on December 27, 2021

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-creator-ryan-bodenheim-dies-aged-44-rip/

 

Comic Folks Remember Ryan "Bode" Bodenheim, Who Died Last Week

 December 28, 2021

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-folks-remember-ryan-bode-bodenheim-who-died-last-week/

 

Comic Store In Your Future: Have Variants Outlived Their Usefulness?

December 25, 2021

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-have-variants-outlived-their-usefulness/

 

Clyde Wells – RIP

by D. D. Degg

December 27, 2021

http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/12/27/clyde-wells-rip/

 

Longtime 'Augusta Chronicle' editorial cartoonist Clyde Wells dies at 87

Joe Hotchkiss

Augusta Chronicle

https://www.augustachronicle.com/story/news/2021/12/27/longtime-augusta-chronicle-cartoonist-clyde-wells-dies-87/9029262002/

 

Clyde Stokes Wells May 18, 1934 - December 27, 2021

Thomas Poteet & Son

https://www.thomaspoteet.com/obituaries/Clyde-Wells-4/#!/Obituary

 

Nat Gertler Buys Rights To Salimba, Gives Back To Paul Chadwick

Posted on December 25, 2021

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/nat-gertler-buys-rights-to-salimba-gives-back-to-paul-chadwick/

 

Gundam Creator: Japan "No Longer an Advanced Country" for Animation [Yoshiyuki Tomino]

Posted on December 25, 2021

by Adi Tantimedh

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/gundam-creator-japan-no-longer-an-advance-country-for-animation/

 

Bad Idea Comics Offers Collectors an "Invisible" Slabbed Comic

 December 27, 2021

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bad-idea-comics-offers-collectors-an-invisible-slabbed-comic/