Friday, July 29, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 7/27-28/22

 

SCOUT TO PUBLISH MIKE BARR'S 'THE MAZE AGENCY'

New Publisher for Eisner-Nominated Mystery Series

 Brigid Alverson on July 26, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51733/scout-publish-mike-barrs-the-maze-agency

 

With Next Phases Set, Marvel Homes in on Directors

After setting the stage at Comic-Con, the studio is lining up helmers and years' worth of storylines that will conclude with a familiar one-two punch of 'Avengers' movies.

Borys Kit

July 27, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/with-next-phases-set-marvel-hones-in-on-directors-1235187070/

 

Upcoming Marvel Movies: MCU Release Date Schedule for Phase 4, 5, and 6

 

If you're looking for updated details on all the Marvel MCU movies and Disney+ TV series coming up, including Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, The Marvels, Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, and Avengers: Secret Wars, this is the place!

By Mike Cecchini, Kirsten Howard | July 26, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/marvel-movies-release-date-schedule-calendar-timeline/

 

Television's Best Action Cartoon Is Back

Directed by virtuous animator Genndy Tartakovsky, Primal is a continuously inventive and exciting adventure through a prehistoric fantasy world.

  by Dan Schindel

Hyperallergic July 25 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/749444/primal-season-2-review-genndy-tartakovsky/

 

John Lasseter's Second Act

No one could tell a story like Lasseter — until he resigned as Disney Animation/Pixar's chief creative officer in the wake of #MeToo complaints. Now head of Skydance's animation division, where he oversaw August's 'Luck,' he's attempting to turn his own story around.

Rebecca Keegan, Carolyn Giardina       

July 27, 2022

This story first appeared in the July 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/john-lasseter-skydance-animation-luck-1235186710/

 

SDCC '22 INTERVIEW: Nickelodeon's TRANSFORMERS: EARTHSPARK cartoon is more than meets the eye for the cast & crew

Taimur Dar

07/27/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-22-interview-nickelodeons-transformers-earthspark-cartoon-is-more-than-meets-the-eye-for-the-cast-crew/

 

Questioning a Custom in the Age of Anxiety

In "Dear Max," the filmmaker Alex Kahn interrogates his struggle over whether—and why—he should give his pandemic newborn a bris.

Film by Alex Kahn

Text by Hannah Aizenman

July 27, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/questioning-a-custom-in-the-age-of-anxiety

 

God Just Wants Us to Love Her Back

In a new graphic novel, author and cartoonist Liana Finck recasts the famously vengeful and masculine biblical God as an insecure and emotional female deity.

  by Sarah Rose Sharp

Hyperallergic July 25 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/738073/let-there-be-light-liana-finck/

 

Discovery of WW1 graphic novel might re-write history books

A German cartoonist's account of life in an Australian WWI internment camp is being claimed as the world's first-known autobiographical graphic novel.

22 Jul 2022

Richard Watts

https://www.artshub.com.au/news/news/discovery-of-ww1-graphic-novel-might-re-write-history-books-2566363/

 

Kids' Comics Come Roaring Back at Comic-Con

By Brigid Alverson

Jul 27, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/89954-kids-comics-come-roaring-back-at-comic-con.html

 

'Black Panther' sequel: A rebuke of misogyny and racism in 2 minutes [in print as 'Panther' teaser serves as a soothing cultural balm]

Perspective by Robin Givhan

Senior critic-at-large

Washington Post (July 27 2022): A2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/26/black-panther-sequel-rebuke-misogyny-racism-2-minutes/

 

New Batman Villains Take Center Stage in Gotham Nocturne

Superstar writer Ram V talks about introducing new villains to Gotham City, and the influences behind his moody new Batman tale.

  By Mike Cecchini | July 27, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/new-batman-villains-take-center-stage-in-gotham-nocturne/

 

Interview : Al Coutelis après les Passantes va signer un album familial très personnel

Jean-Laurent TRUC.

27 juillet 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/al-coutelis-2022-265314.html

 

Interview : avec leur Monte-Cristo, Jordan Mechner et Mario Alberti transportent Alexandre Dumas de nos jours

Jean-Laurent TRUC.

7 juin 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/jordan-mechner-mario-alberti-263266.html

 

Graphic Meta-Narratives: Exploring The Personal and Political In Indian Comic Art [masters thesis]

Shruti Ravi

Tata Institute of Social Sciences, 2013

online at https://www.academia.edu/7296488/Graphic_Meta_Narratives_Exploring_The_Personal_and_Political_In_Indian_Comic_Art

 

SDCC '22: John Jennings discusses forthcoming books from Abrams ComicArts' Megascope imprint

The new imprint brings speculative fiction and Afrofuturism stories to the forefront.

Nancy Powell

07/28/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc22-abrams-comicarts-megascope-imprint-panel/

 

'She-Hulk: Attorney at Law' Head Writer Jessica Gao Is Finding the Funny in Marvel

With her new series, the Emmy-winning 'Rick and Morty' scribe aims to answer that eternal question: "What happens when a 6-foot-7 green woman has to buy a business suit?"

Ryan Parker

July 28, 2022

This story first appeared in the July 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/she-hulk-attorney-at-law-writer-jessica-gao-marvel-1235186385/

 

Major layoffs and reported new direction at Tapas Media

Tech wreck: a webcomics company once valued at $510 million has now laid off about 30% of its staff.

Heidi MacDonald

07/28/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/major-layoffs-and-reported-new-direction-at-tapas-media/

 

R.I.P. SUNG-RAK JANG (sic), 'Solo Leveling' Artist Also Known as DUBU

by Brigid Alverson on July 27, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51745/r-i-p-sung-rak-jang

 

Solo Leveling Manhwa Artist DUBU Passes Away (Updated)

posted on 2022-07-25 12:55 EDT by Alex Mateo

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-07-25/solo-leveling-manhwa-artist-dubu-passes-away/.188004

 

Manga Sales Up, Exhibitors Down at San Diego Comic-Con

By Deb Aoki

Jul 28, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/89958-manga-sales-up-exhibitors-down-at-san-diego-comic-con.html

 

AT SDCC 2022, A RETURN TO FORM IF NOT SUBSTANCE

 Rob Salkowitz on July 28, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/51750/at-sdcc-2022-a-return-form-if-not-substance

 

DC PLANS 'DEATH OF SUPERMAN' 30TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

With Four New Stories by Original Creative Teams

Brigid Alverson on July 27, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51746/dc-plans-death-superman-30th-anniversary-special

 

Alan Grant, 1949-2022

Tom Shapira | July 28, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/alan-grant-1949-2022/

 

CEO Of Tapas Media, Chang Kim, Has Just Announced Staff Layoffs

Posted on July 28, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/ceo-of-tapas-media-chang-kim-has-just-announced-staff-layoffs/

 

July 26, 2022 by Gil Roth

Episode 496 – Noah Van Sciver

Virtual Memories Show 496: Noah Van Sciver

http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-496-noah-van-sciver

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_496_-_Noah_Van_Sciver.mp3

 

Book Review - Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon by Terence McSweeney

Reviewed by Jason D. DeHart, PhD

International Journal of Comic Art blog July 28, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/07/book-review-black-panther-interrogating.html

 

Terence McSweeney. Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, University Press of Mississippi. 978-1496836090. $16.24. https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/B/Black-Panther

 

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