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Let's Talk Comics: Superhero Clowns

Joanna Colclough

Headlines and Heroes:  Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print blog

March 29, 2023

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/03/superhero-clowns/

April 3: DRAWING THE LINES: Political Cartoons in the Digital Age

Apr 3

DRAWING THE LINES: Political Cartoons in the Digital Age

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/drawing-the-lines-political-cartoons-in-the-digital-age-tickets-595952278307

In Person & Livestream

By UVA Center for Politics

640 followers

When and where

Date and time

Monday, April 3 · 6:30 - 8pm EDT

Location

Ridley Hall | Room G008 405 Emmet Street South Charlottesville, VA 22904

About this event

Join Professor Larry J. Sabato & the Center for Politics for an engaging discussion with four award-winning political cartoonists:

Lalo Alcaraz – Winner '22 Herb Block Prize, two-time Pulitzer finalist, Emmy nominated writer & producer.

Darrin Bell – Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist and creator of the comic strip "Candorville".

Ann Telnaes – Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist for the Washington Post.

Matt Wuerker – Staff cartoonist and illustrator for POLITICO.

For more information please contact Glenn Crossman | 434-243-3540 | GAC4T@virginia.edu

1 hour 30 minutes

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/28/2023

MARVEL ZOMBIES LOOT INDIANA SUPERHERO MUSEUM

Thieves Steal Rare Marvel Comics, Including 'Captain America' #1

 Brigid Alverson on March 27, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53692/marvel-zombies-loot-indiana-superhero-museum

 

Comic Store In Your Future Takes a Trip to Planet Comicon Kansas City

Planet Comicon Kansas City was held on March 17th through the 19th this year. How was it? Was it better than last year? Will I go back?

  27 Mar 2023 

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-store-in-your-future-takes-a-trip-to-planet-comicon-kansas-city/

 

Tom Brevoort On The Worst Half-Decade Working At Marvel Comics

Tom Brevoort recalls his wordt half-decade working for Marvel Comics. Can you guess whose time at the publisher it coincides with?

 Rich Johnston 27 Mar 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-brevoort-on-the-worst-half-decade-working-at-marvel-comics/

 

Hands-on with GlobalComix, a new contender in the digital comics race

Digital comics are coming back

By Anthony Ha

03/28/2023 
https://www.comicsbeat.com/hands-on-review-globalcomix-digital-comics-app/

 

INTERVIEW: David Giuntoli gets existential as the voice of Batman in THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM

"I saw you could go a lot further with these characters in voice acting than you could on the screen."

Taimur Dar

03/28/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-david-giuntoli-gets-existential-as-the-voice-of-batman-in-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham/

 

HEARTSTOPPER creator Alice Oseman to receive Medal for Fiction at Britain's Hay Festival

Other recipients of Hay Medals this year include poet Mererid Hopwood, author Salman Rushdie, and writer/musician Serhiy Zhadan.

Dean Simons

03/28/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/heartstopper-creator-alice-oseman-to-receive-medal-for-fiction-at-britains-hay-festival/

 

"The Political Aspect Of My Work Is Asserting That Comics Like Tits & Clits Do Have Social Value": A Discussion with Sam Meier

Edward Dorey | March 28, 2023 

https://www.tcj.com/the-political-aspect-of-my-work-is-asserting-that-comics-like-tits-clits-do-have-social-value-a-discussion-with-sam-meier/

 

28/3 Seaguy Week - Seaguy Eternal Script

Grant Morrison

Xanaduum March 28 2023

https://grantmorrison.substack.com/p/283-seaguy-week-seaguy-eternal-script

 

Questlove to Direct Live-Action 'Aristocats' for Disney

The director earned an Oscar nod for his doc feature 'Summer of Soul.'

Mia Galuppo

March 27, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/questlove-live-action-aristocats-disney-1235361519/

 

Liv Tyler Returns to Marvel for 'Captain America 4'

Anthony Mackie is toplining the Marvel Studios feature as hero Sam Wilson, taking up the mantle of Captain America for the first time on the big screen.

By Aaron Couch, Borys Kit

March 27, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/captain-america-liv-tyler-betty-ross-1235361579/

 

Indigo Children Creative Team Offers Bonuses for Readers

Spread the Message, Become a Messenger, Get Cool Stuff

Brandon Schatz & Danica LeBlanc

03/28/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/indigo-children-creative-team-offers-bonuses-for-readers/

 

 

George Takei visits Forbidden Planet London and signs THEY CALLED US ENEMY

Forbidden Planet TV

Mar 27, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJLzoC8cHSU

 

PAUL B. RAINEY for WHY DON'T YOU LOVE ME?

Comix Experience

Mar 26, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zuJ2taYvoE

 

Comic Culture with Drawn to Help [children's hospital charity, Steve Barr, Al Bigley and Greg Craven]

terence dollard

Jan 30, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiA28P6zTuI

 

Comic Culture with Hannah Rose May

terence dollard

Mar 22, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUE5eGm_9LQ

 

Comic Culture with Paul Feinstein

terence dollard

Mar 22, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp2pE_pnyjE

 

Comic Culture with Moti Friedman

terence dollard

Mar 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfcBKPusQr8

 

Shelly Bond Talks Visible Women and Her New Teaching Comics Gig

word balloon

Mar 22, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjJXA4N9yM

 

Lance Fensterman is leaving ReedPop after 17 years

Mike Kisken will take over events for now, with Simon Maxwell overseeing digital.

Heidi MacDonald

03/28/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/lance-fensterman-is-leaving-reedpop-after-17-years/

 

Great Battling Gatsbys! Two Interpretations Of An American Classic Are Headed To The Bookshelf

Rob Salkowitz

Mar 24, 2023

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2023/03/24/great-battling-gatsbys-two-interpretations-of-an-american-classic-are-headed-to-the-bookshelf/

 

Victoria Alonso Clashed With Marvel Over Blurring Gay Pride References in 'Ant-Man 3' for Kuwait

By Pamela McClintock, Aaron Couch    

March 28, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/marvels-victoria-alonso-clashed-with-disney-gay-censorship-1235362567/

 

Jeremy Holt Discusses Their Inclusive Retelling of Gatsby

By Sergio Pereira

CBR March 24 2023

https://www.cbr.com/gatsby-jeremy-holt-gatsby/

 

Cullen Bunn talks Ghostlore, Red Zone and more!

TLDR Comic Book Club March 22 2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cullen-bunn-talks-ghostlore-red-zone-and-more/id1542312503?i=1000605274672

WaPo on Joker 2 vs Trump

'Joker 2' steals the show as Trump court drama plays out just steps away [in print as 'Joker 2' trumps real-life drama]

As a handful of protesters turned out in support of the former president, hundreds showed up for a chance to share the big screen with Lady Gaga

By Jada Yuan and Richard Morgan

Washington Post March 28, 2023  C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/03/27/joker-filming-trump-new-york/

PR: Important Information for the 2023 Ignatz Awards Submissions

Info On Some Changes to the Submission Process

Hello Creators and Publishers!! We learned a lot last year with the new submission process and judging teams, so we are tweaking things a bit this year to make the process smoother all the way around. Below is the information you need about the changes we made to submit your works for this year's Ignatz Awards. Please read all of the below and any questions, do not hesitate to send them to ignatzawards@smallpressexpo.com. Thanks, Warren and Francesca 2023 Ignatz Awards Schedule April 1 - Ignatz Submissions Open May 31 - Ignatz Submissions Close Mid-August - Ignatz nominees announced September 9 @ 9:30PM - Ignatz Awards Ceremony Ignatz Logo by Juni Ba. The Ignatz Awards are proudly sponsored by: NEW SUBMISSION PAGE DESIGN There is now a new Ignatz Submissions landing page that is much more user friendly with all of the Ignatz categories. You can get to the submissions page one of two ways: On the SPX landing page, click on the Submit Works to the 2023 Ignatz Awards icon. Go directly to the Ignatz submission landing page here. NOTE: The submission forms will not be active until Saturday April 1. CHANGES TO THE SUBMISSION PROCESS 1. Starting this year, everyone will submit their works to one and only of the following mutually exclusive categories: Outstanding Minicomic Outstanding Graphic Novel Outstanding Anthology Outstanding Collection Outstanding Comic Outstanding Online Comic You can read the definitions of these categories on the About The Ignatz Awards page on our web site. 2. For any of the above categories, you now have the option of uploading up to three 1MB photos of your printed works. With the advent of digital submissions, the judges can get a better feel for your work in terms of production values by showing them a few photographs. 3. All works submitted to the above categories can also be submitted to the remaining categories of Outstanding Story, Outstanding Series, Outstanding Artist and Promising New Talent. 4. You will be asked for two new pieces of information for the above categories: the dimensions of your book/comic and the number of pages. UPLOADING PDF FILES We ask that everybody take a look at compressing large PDF files. Here is the information from Adobe . We request you do so if indeed the Adobe compression does not impact the reading experience of your work. If you can do this, it will decrease the amount of time you will spend during the the upload process. We also recommend splitting large (over 100MB PDF's) into two, as shown here on the Adobe site. Based on the experience of running virtual Ignatz Awards over the past two years, we are making this move to digital submissions permanent, as well as making a few important changes to the entire process: Here is other important PDF information: Please send us PDFs only of no more than two 200meg files in size per submission PDF file naming convention for Mini-comics, Comics, Series, Story, Artist, Promising New Talent, Collections and Graphic Novels is: CreatorLastName.CreatorFirstName.Comic_Title.IssueNumber (If needed).Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf If there is no Issue Number, then do not put one in the file nameIf it is self published, put Self as the Publisher PDF file naming convention for Anthologies is: EditorLastName.EditorFirstName.Comic_Title.Publisher.PubMonthPubYear.pdf COPIES FOR THE SPX COLLECTION AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS In addition to the digital submission, you will be required to send us one physical copy so we can display the Ignatz noms at the show, as well as preserve your works for future generations in the SPX Collection at the Library of Congress: Please mail the submission to Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824 Physical copies are due at the PO box by August 5. Copyright © 2023 Small Press Expo, All rights reserved.  You are getting this email because we know you might want a table to SPX 2022!!  Our mailing address is:  Small Press Expo P.O. Box 5704 Bethesda, Maryland 20824

Small Press Expo | P.O. Box 5704, Bethesda, MD 20824

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/27/2023

Pivoting from Comics, to Graphic Novels

When the pandemic hit, everything changed. For the better.

Brandon Schatz

The Indirect Market March 27 2023

https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/pivoting-from-comics-to-graphic-novels

 

X-Men Monday #197 – Gerry Duggan Talks 'X-Men', 'Invincible Iron Man', and 'Uncanny Avengers'

Chris Hassan

March 27, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/27/x-men-monday-197-gerry-duggan-x-men-iron/

 

AIPT Comics Podcast episode 215: Ryan North talks the new and exciting in 'Fantastic Four' and 'Danger and Other Unknown Risks'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

March 26, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/26/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-215-ryan-north/

 

 

China Box Office: Makoto Shinkai's Anime Hit 'Suzume' Soars With $50M Opening

Japanese anime is earning more than ever in China, while U.S. superhero films are fumbling.

Patrick Brzeski

March 26, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/china-box-office-makoto-shinkais-anime-suzume-50m-opening-1235361248/

 

ICV2 INTERVIEW: RENATO FRANCHI ON CMON'S MOVE INTO COMICS

With 'Zombicide,' Dan Abnett on 'Twilight Imperium,' and More

Brigid Alverson on March 24, 2023  https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53681/icv2-interview-renato-franchi-cmons-move-into-comics

 

With courage and conviction: Jason Landsel talks 'By Water: The Felix Manz Story'

The first of three debut GNs debuts next week, March 21.

David Brooke

March 14, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/14/by-water-jason-landsel-qa/

 

INTERVIEW: Screenwriter Jase Ricci and producer/co-director Sam Liu explore Lovecraftian horror in BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM

The Caped Crusader enters the mouth of madness in the latest DC animated film!

Taimur Dar

03/27/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-jace-ricci-sam-liu-batman-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham/

 

Considering Life on the Autism Spectrum Through Making an Auto/Biographical Comic

Assunta Alegiani (Berlin)

Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/alegiani/

 

Killing the Colorist? Künstlerische Arbeitsteilung im Produktionsprozess von Batman: The Killing Joke1

Helene L. Bongers (Berlin)

Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/bongers

 

Aging in/with Comics: Processes of Selection and Reflection

Lucia Cedeira Serantes (London, Ontario) and Nicole K. Dalmer (Hamilton, Ontario)

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/serantes/dalmer and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_serantes_dalmer.pdf

 

Narrative des Erinnerns und Vergessens in Alzheimer-Comics

Naomi Lobnig (Wien)

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/lobnig/ and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_lobnig.pdf

 

Grafische Erzählungen als Generationenporträt
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff im Gespräch mit Charlotte Müller über ihren Comic Ein Haus mit vielen Fenstern. Gesammelte Lebensgeschichten (2022)

Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (Berlin), Charlotte Müller (Berlin)

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/kr%C3%BCger-f%C3%BCrhoff/m%C3%BCller/ and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_kr%C3%BCger-f%C3%BCrhoff_mueller.pdf

 

The Boys intersektional und multimedial betrachtet
Age und Gender als machtkonstituierende Kategorien in Comicreihe und Serie1

Ruth Gehrmann (Mainz) und Lisa Brau-Weglinski (Mainz)

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/gehrmann/brau-weglinski and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_gehrmann_brau-weglinski.pdf

 

Erinnerung (auf-)zeichnen: Biografische Graphic Novels lassen Opfer des NS-Regimes zu Wort kommen

Überleben in Dachau, Die Geschichte von Francine R. – Widerstand und Deportation und Bald sind wir wieder zu Hause rezensiert von Frank Kaltofen

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/kaltofen

 

Ein Handbuch, das seinen Namen verdient

Handbuch Polnische Comickulturen nach 1989 rezensiert von Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff

Closure (9 March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/dolle-weinkauff

 

From ›Comics‹ to ›Graphic Novels‹? The Journey is the Reward!

Dreaming the Graphic Novel. The Novelization of Comics reviewed by Kerstin Howaldt

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/howaldt

 

Messlatte mit Mic Drop: Chris Gavalers detailbesessene Bestandsaufnahme der Erzähl- und Bildtheorie des Comics

The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images rezensiert von Lukas R. A. Wilde

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/wilde

 

Vor dem Vergessen gerettet

Rebirth of the English Comic Strip. A Kaleidoscope 1847-1870 rezensiert von Ole Frahm

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/frahm

 

Den Holocaust erinnern, erzählen und zeichnen: Ein Sammelband zu Holocaustcomics Beyond MAUS

Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics rezensiert von Deborah Fallis

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/fallis

 

Eigenlogik oder mediale Interdependenz?

Der Comic als Form. Bildsprache, Ästhetik, Narration rezensiert von Mara Stuhlfauth-Trabert und Florian Trabert

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/stuhlfauth-trabert/trabert

 

Auf den Punkt gebracht.

Kusama. Eine Graphic Novel rezensiert von Barbara M. Eggert

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/eggert

 

Wie kann ein postkolonialer Comic aussehen?

Widerstand. Drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun rezensiert von Robin Frisch

Closure (9; March 2023):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/frisch

 

Non-Narrative Comics: About this Issue

Cord-Christian Casper and Kerstin Howaldt

Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/about and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_editorial_en.pdf

 

Nicht-narrative Comics: Über diese Ausgabe

Cord-Christian Casper and Kerstin Howaldt

Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_editorial_de.pdf  and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_baetens.pdf

 

Nonnarrative or Noncomics? (with some notes on Holz by Olivier Deprez and Roby Comblain)

Jan Baetens (Leuven)

  Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/baetens and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_baetens.pdf

 

Closure

Gareth A Hopkins (Great Dunmow)

Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/hopkins1 and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_hopkins1.pdf

 

Process Comic

Gareth A Hopkins (Great Dunmow)

Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/hopkins2 and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_hopkins2.pdf

 

Waiting (2018) for the ›Good Life‹ with Adriana Lozano [Columbia]

Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (Cambridge)

Closure 8 (2021):  https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/arambur%C3%BA-villavisencio and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_aramburu-villavisencio.pdf

 

Quasi-Figuren: Im Grenzbereich der Körperlichkeit

Thierry Groensteen

Closure 8 (2021):   https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/groensteen and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_groensteen.pdf

 

Comics, Non-Narrativity, Non-Eventfulness: Three Examples From Brazil

Benjamim Picado (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil), João Senna (Bahia Federal University, Bahia State, Brazil), Greice Schneider (Sergipe Federal University, Sergipe State, Brazil)

Closure 8 (2021):   https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de//closure8/Picado_Senna_Schneider and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_picado_senna_schneider.pdf

 

Graphic Storytelling: Teaching Experience and Utility

Darren C. Fisher (Melbourne/Victoria)

Closure 8 (2021):   https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/fisher and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_fisher.pdf

 

Never Judge a Book by Its Cover? Picturing the Interculturally Challenged Self in the Japanese Journals of European Comics Artists Dirk Schwieger, Inga Steinmetz, and Igort1

Barbara M. Eggert (Linz)

Closure 8 (2021):   https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/eggert and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_eggert.pdf

 

Rhetoric of Images: Emblematic Structures and Craig Thompson's Habibi

Julia Ingold (Bamberg)

Closure 8 (2021):   https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/ingold and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_ingold.pdf

 

 

Comics and Archives: A Handy and Helpful Guide

Comics & Archive reviewed by Lynn L. Wolff

Closure (8; 2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/wolff

 

Comics & Archive

Felix Giesa and Anna Stemmann (Eds.)

Berlin: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag, 2021

 

Luci Gutiérrez's "Rise and Shine"

The artist discusses the first rays of spring sunlight, and the pleasures and challenges of routine. [Spain]

By Françoise Mouly

March 27, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/2023-04-03

 

27/3 Seaguy Week! Captain Lotharius

Grant Morrison.

Xanaduum March 27 2023 https://grantmorrison.substack.com/p/273-seaguy-week-captain-lotharius

 

Interview: Souls Go To 'Etheres' from Source Point Press [writer Anas Abdulhak]

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

PREVIEWSworld Mar 21, 2023

https://previewsworld.com/Article/266168-Interview-Souls-Go-To-Etheres-from-Source-Point-Press

 

Philippines 40th National Book Awards finalists announced

With this year's awards, the "Graphic Literature" category has been renamed "Graphic Novels and Comics" and split into two linguistic categories (English and Filipino).

Dean Simons

03/27/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/philippines-40th-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/

 

"Curbside dining in New York" [gag cartoon process]

Jason Chatfield

New York Cartoons #25, March 27 2023

https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/25-curbside-dining-in-new-york-1f2

 

A Sociocultural Oral History of Tits & Clits

Edward Dorey | March 27, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/a-sociocultural-oral-history-of-tits-clits/

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode twenty-eight | Meghan Fitzmartin, part two

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan

March 27 2023

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/its-our-lot-in-life

 

Passion Project: 'Tinkersons' creator sticks with what he loves [Bill Bettwy]

Rachel Foor

Altoona Mirror Mar 27, 2023

https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2023/03/passion-project/

 

Much-Anticipated Afrofuturism Exhibit Featuring Marvel's 'Black Panther' Suit Opens At NMAAHC

Matt Blitz

https://dcist.com/story/23/03/27/smithsonian-african-american-history-afrofuturism-exhibit-black-panther-pop-culture/