Thursday, August 04, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/4/22

Batgirl directors "can't believe" their film's cancellation, either

Adil El Arbi and Bilall Falla said they were "saddened and shocked" in their first statement since news broke

Mary Kate Carr

AV Club August 3 2022

https://www.avclub.com/batgirl-directors-can-t-believe-cancellation-either-1849366979

 

Warner Bros. Scraps 'Batgirl' and Other Films Amid Broader Cost-Cutting Effort

New management at Warner Bros. Discovery plans to overhaul the company's distribution strategy for movies

By Robbie Whelan

Aug. 3, 2022

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-hbo-max-boss-script-for-a-new-hollywood-11621008116

 

Warner Bros. Discovery CEO Defends Axing 'Batgirl': 'We're Not Going to Put a Movie Out Unless We Believe in It'

Adam B. Vary

Variety

Aug 4, 2022 

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/batgirl-david-zaslav-warner-bros-discovery-1235333681/

 

'Batgirl' Debacle Pushes DC Back Once Again

Warner Bros. wants to reach the heights of Marvel Studios, but it lacks the patience and understanding of its characters to ever get there, writes The Hollywood Reporter contributor Richard Newby.

August 4, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/batgirl-cancellation-dc-movies-1235192230/

 

Warner Bros. CEO tries to explain why The Flash is great but Batgirl had to die

David Zaslav is "excited" for Ezra Miller's superhero movie, despite every other Google result you'll get for "Ezra Miller" right now

William Hughes

AV Club August 4 2022

https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-ceo-tries-to-explain-why-the-flash-is-grea-1849374742

 

The DCEU is fine, if by fine you mean a flaming dumpster fire perched on the edge of a volcano full of poison sharks

Heidi MacDonald

08/04/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-dceu-is-fine-if-by-fine-you-mean-a-flaming-dumpster-fire-perched-on-the-edge-of-a-volcano-full-of-poison-sharks/

 

DC Will Have 10-Year Plan Akin to Marvel's Playbook, Says David Zaslav

The Warner Bros. Discovery executive also addressed scrapping 'Batgirl': "Our job is to protect the DC brand."

By Aaron Couch, Pamela McClintock     

August 4, 2022 2

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dc-movies-follow-marvel-playbook-1235193077/

 

Paul Dini, writer of canned Scoob!: Holiday Haunt, says test audiences "dug" it

Big "ruh-roh" on this one for Warner Bros. Discovery

Sam Barsanti

AV Club August 4 2022

https://www.avclub.com/scoob-holiday-haunt-writer-says-audiences-dug-it-1849373192

 

James Gunn confirms Peacemaker season 2 still coming despite those HBO Max troubles

William Hughes

AV Club August 3 2022

https://www.avclub.com/james-gunn-confirms-peacemaker-season-2-despite-those-h-1849369327

 

'THREE WORLDS/THREE MOONS' HEADED TO PRINT

Hickman and Collaborators Looking for Publisher for Substack Project

Posted by Brigid Alverson on August 3, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/51811/three-worlds-three-moons-headed-print

 

Graphix Announces New 'Dog Man' Book, Launch of Dav Pilkey's Epic Comic Club

By Brigid Alverson

Aug 04, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/90011-graphix-announces-new-dog-man-book-launch-of-dav-pilkey-s-epic-comic-club.html

 

Randy Farb – RIP [co-author Jewish comic strip "4 Corners"]

 by D. D. Degg

August 3, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/08/03/randy-farb-rip/

 

Randy Hugh Farb, 61, July 24, 2022~25 Tammuz 5782

Herman Meyer & Son, Inc

 https://meyerfuneral.com/randy-hugh-farb-61/

 

"I'd rather be a pig than a fascist." Revisiting Ghibli's Porco Rosso 30 Years Later

Leah Schnelbach

Wed Jul 27, 2022

https://www.tor.com/2022/07/27/porco-rosso-hayao-miyazaki-classic-30th-anniversary/

 

The Sandman: How Neil Gaiman and Allan Heinberg Adapted a Classic

Neil Gaiman explains why Netflix's adaptation of The Sandman was the right version to receive his blessing and involvement.

  By Aaron Sagers | August 3, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sandman-how-neil-gaiman-allan-heinberg-adapted-classic/

 

How The Sandman Found Its Death

Kirby Howell-Baptiste reveals the challenges (and joys) of becoming Death on Netflix's The Sandman.

  By Alana Joli Abbott | August 1, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sandman-death-kirby-howell-baptiste/

 

The Sandman: What Becoming the Lord of Dreams Was Like for Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge becomes Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming, in Netflix's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman.

  By Ed Gross | August 3, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sandman-dream-tom-sturridge/

 

The Sandman: How Gwendoline Christie Embraced Evil with Lucifer Morningstar

After saving one realm in Game of Thrones, Gwendoline Christie is set to rule another as Lucifer in Netflix's The Sandman.

  By Alana Joli Abbott | August 3, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-sandman-gwendoline-christie-lucifer-morningstar/

 

'She-Hulk' Producers Respond to CGI Criticisms

Writer Jessica Gao, director Kat Coiro and star Tatiana Maslany reacted to the Disney+ series' visual effects controversies at the show's Television Critics Association press tour panel: "It's very hard to win when you make women's bodies."

James Hibberd

August 3, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/she-hulk-producers-respond-cgi-criticisms-1235191972/

 

Nick Drnaso on Escaping From Isolation

"In my work there's a recurring theme of being out of step with the modern world."

By Oliver Munday

July 29, 2022

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/07/nick-drnaso-acting-class-short-story-interivew/670973/

 

'Third Person' captures what it's like to be a trans person with dissociative identity disorder

In her debut memoir, graphic novelist Emma Grove chronicles her experience navigating the mental healthcare system while trans

By Cassandra Kislenko  • July 21, 2022

https://xtramagazine.com/culture/books/third-person-emma-grove-227245

 

Comic-Con 2022: 'Love and Rockets' creators Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez celebrate 40 years of comics

By Peter Larsen | plarsen@scng.com | Orange County Register

 July 23, 2022

https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/23/comic-con-2022-love-and-rockets-creators-gilbert-and-jaime-hernandez-celebrate-40-years-of-comics/

 

Perfectly Realized: On Tove Jansson's 'The Summer Book' at 50

Timothy Walsh July 29, 2022

https://themillions.com/2022/07/perfectly-realized-on-tove-janssons-the-summer-book-at-50.html

 

Bugs Bunny Scholarship Is a Wascally Wesearch Wabbit Hole

In this edition of Research Rabbit Hole, we dig up scholarship about what one academic calls "the signifying rabbit."

By: The Editors

JSTOR Daily, July 27, 2022

https://daily.jstor.org/bugs-bunny-scholarship-is-a-wascally-wesearch-wabbit-hole/

 

Yosemite Sam Never Settles Down [Bugs Bunny]

Bruce McKenna

California History

Vol. 79, No. 1, Literature and the Arts in California and the Pacific Northwest (Spring, 2000), pp. 42-49 (8 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25591576?mag=bugs-bunny-scholarship-is-a-wascally-wesearch-wabbit-hole#metadata_info_tab_contents

 

The Tweety Bird Test: How a classic Tweety Bird cartoon became a mainstay in linguistics research. [1950 Merrie Melodies animated short Canary Row]

Greg Uyeno                             

October 9, 2019

https://daily.jstor.org/the-tweety-bird-test/

 

Southern Fried Foster: Representing Race and Place through Music in Looney Tunes Cartoons

Joanna R. Smolko

American Music

Vol. 30, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 344-372 (29 pages)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/americanmusic.30.3.0344?mag=bugs-bunny-scholarship-is-a-wascally-wesearch-wabbit-hole#metadata_info_tab_contents

 

BONUS: Micro-Face: The Musical

Kenny Malone and Amanda Aronczyk

NPR's Planet Money August 1, 2022

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/08/01/1113461350/bonus-micro-face-the-musical

https://edge2.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pmoney/2022/08/20220801_pmoney_a22a458f-3d3e-4fdd-993a-dafe3073f0d1.mp3

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