Friday, December 31, 2021

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

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]

By Reis Thebault and Quentin Ariès

Washington Post December 28, 2021 A10

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

Tuesday, December 28, 2021

Apatoff on Ramirez, Ilic, and Telnaes

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

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