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
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
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
'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
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)
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)
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
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