Sunday, December 31, 2023

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/30/2023

 

Political Cartoonist Chris Britt Sells His Fangdellas Graphic Novel

The Fangdellas is a new MG graphic novel by political cartoonist Chris Britt, about the adventures of a multigenerational vampire family.

29 Dec 2023   by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/political-cartoonist-chris-britt-sells-his-fangdellas-graphic-novel/

 

Too Many 6 Panel Pages From Tom King? Not Possible, Says James Gunn

29 Dec 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/too-many-6-panel-pages-from-tom-king-not-possible-says-james-gunn/

 

Comic Shops Get A Kid Venom Surprise One-Per-Store Variant Next Week

Next week, retailers will receive a special unannounced Kid Venom: Origins #1 variant cover by artist Luciano Vecchio, one per store.

  29 Dec 2023 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-shops-get-a-kid-venom-surprise-one-per-store-variant-next-week/

 

Book Review - Forgotten Disney: Essays on the Lesser-Known Productions.

Reviewed by Cord A. Scott, UMGC-Okinawa

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-review-forgotten-disney-essays-on.html

 

Kathy Merlock Jackson, Carl H. Sederholm, and Mark I. West (eds.). Forgotten Disney: Essays on the Lesser-Known Productions.  McFarland Publishing, 2023. $49.95. https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/forgotten-disney/

 

The Golden Touch (1935): Re-Examining the Satirical Merits of Walt Disney's Alleged Directorial Misfire

Brennan Thomas 5

The Plausible Impossible in Walt Disney's Thru the Mirror (1936)

Jan Susina 15

Mickey & Co. Enlist: Disney's World War II Animated Shorts

Paula T. Connolly 22

Victory Through Air Power (1943): How Walt Disney Planned to Win the War

Emily Sullivan 31

Roald Dahl, Walt Disney, and The Gremlins: The Story of an Unfinished Film

Mark I. West 40

A Simple Love Story in the Labyrinth of Time: The Impossible Quest of Destino

Francesca Arnavas 46

Make Mine Music (1946): The Music Program Feature and Its Relevance to Pixar/Disney Shorts

Jacki Fitzpatrick 55

Anti-Urbanism, Environmental Degradation, and Solastalgia in The Little House (1952)

Hadas Marcus 70

A Whale of a Tale: Disney Theme Park Iterations of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

Carissa Baker 81

 

Walt Disney Beyond the Barnyard: From Mickey's Kangaroo (1935) to Nature's Strangest Creatures (1959)

Derham Groves 115

Disney's Abandoned Rainbow Road to Oz

Dina Schiff Massachi 124

Walt Disney's Babes in Toyland (1961): Flawed Forerunner to Better Things

Kathy Merlock Jackson 134

  Horizons: The Future That Never Was and Disney's Extinct Attractions

Andrew J. Friedenthal 176

 A Financial Fable: The Rise and Fall of Disney Comics, 1990–1993

Peter Cullen Bryan 201

 Recalling the Details of Forgotten Disney Theme Park Attractions

Bobby Schweizer 225

Bibliography

Camille McCutcheon 235

 

 

Book Review - Ilan Manouach in Review – Critical Approaches To His Conceptual Comics

Gareth Brookes

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-review-ilan-manouach-in-review.html

 

Pedro Moura (ed.) Ilan Manouach in Review – Critical Approaches To His Conceptual Comics. London: Routledge, 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Ilan-Manouach-in-Review-Critical-Approaches-to-his-Conceptual-Comics/Moura/p/book/9781032399713

 

Introduction: A Critical Situatedness of Comics

 

Pedro Moura

 

Part 1: Textuality and Surfaces

 

1. Katz, Noirs & Tintin akei Kongo: Ilan Manouach's Critical Manifesto

 

Xavier Guilbert

 

2. Ilan Manouach's Abrégé de bande dessinée franco-belge: Ontography and the Past and Future of Stories

 

Simon Grennan

 

3. Whitewashing the Smudge. The Politics of Erasure and Unreadability in Ilan

 

Manouach's Cascao

 

Ana Matilde Sousa

 

4. The Void that Challenged Narrative: A Poetics of Emptiness in Riki Fermier

 

Greice Schneider

 

5. Replacing and Reorganizing: A Discursive Arc about Cultural Production

 

Lorenz Ohrmer

 

Part 2: Reading Practices

 

6. Reading Childly: Riki Fermier and Cascao

 

Maaheen Ahmed

 

7. Disability, Comics and the Shapereader

 

José Alaniz

 

8. Shapereader and the Limits of Touch

 

Ian Hague

 

9. Blanco: On Blank and Illegible Books

 

Moritz Küng

 

Part 3: Rethinking the Pasts and the Futures of Comics

 

10. Manouach Contrabandier: Countering Practices to Industrial Publishing.

 

Morvandiau

 

11. Haunted by Tradition: Ilan Manouach and the Ghosts of BD Past

 

Barbara Postema

 

12. [CoCo]: Conceptual Comics and Online Archives

 

Benoît Crucifix

 

13. Can Comics Think? Automation on The Cubicle Island

 

Daniel Worden

 

14. Ilan Manouach: The Comic Book Hacker

 

Maria Clara da S. R. Carneiro and Lielson Zeni

 

Afterword: Like a Robot Bereft of Its Function

 

Xavier Löwenthal

 

Book Review - Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing

Reviewed by Adrienne Resha

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023 https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-review-muslim-comics-and-warscape.html

 

Esra Mirze Santesso. Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing. Ohio State University Press, 2023. 220 pp, $149.95 hardcover, $34.95 paperback. https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215418.html

 

Book review: J. Andrew Deman – The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men - a review by Christopher Roman

reviewed by Christopher Roman, Kent State University

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-review-j-andrew-deman-claremont.html

 

Book Review - Fall Through by Nate Powell

 reviewed by CT Lim

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/book-review-fall-through-by-nate-powell.html

 

Nate Powell. Fall Through. New York: Abrams ComicArts, 2024. https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/fall-through_9781419760822/

 

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/cgc-comics-issues-statement-on-holder-tampering-controversy/

CGC Comics Issues Statement on Holder Tampering Controversy

Hundreds of comics were impacted by a recent scam. CGC has released a statement promising to help those involved.

By Russ Burlingame - December 28, 2023

 

Fraud by Any Other Name: The CGC Comic Grading Scandal

Dr. Andy December 22, 2023

https://bleedingfool.com/blogs/fraud-by-any-other-name-the-cgc-comic-grading-scandal/

 

CGC Reholder Scam!!! I Found the Proof!

Ryan

Automatic Comics

Dec 20, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0RyRbpwKZ8

 

David J. Lee Moves From Impossible Burger To Become CFO Of Webtoon

David J. Lee is now the new CFO and COO of Webtoon Entertainment and Yongsoo Kim is the new CSO, both reporting in to CEO Junkoo Kim. 

29 Dec 2023   by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/david-j-lee-moves-from-impossible-burger-to-become-cfo-of-webtoon/

 

What If…? S02: "1602" Ep End Credits Thank Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert

Here's a look at how What If...? S02E08: "What If... the Avenger Assembled in 1602?" thanked comics writer Neil Gaiman & artist Andy Kubert.

29 Dec 2023

Ray Flook 

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/what-if-s02-1602-ep-end-credits-thank-neil-gaiman-andy-kubert/

 

National Library of Scotland Finally Gets The Broons Annual from 1939

The National Library of Scotland has paid five figures for a copy of the first-ever Broons Annual, published in 1939, for its collection.

 29 Dec 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/national-library-of-scotland-finally-gets-the-broons-annual-from-1939/

 

Walt Handelsman: A look back at national and international cartoons from 2023

    BY WALT HANDELSMAN

    Dec 27, 2023

https://www.nola.com/opinions/walt_handelsman/walt-handelsman-2023-national-cartoon-review/article_1580e178-9b98-11ee-b8c4-b3e6a3559fa6.html

 

Matt Davies' 2023 cartoons of the year

By Matt Davies

Newsday December 29, 2023

https://www.newsday.com/opinion/cartoons/matt-davies-political-cartoons-of-the-year-2023-nhbh90z7

 

The Year 2023 in Lalo Alcaraz Cartoons

https://laloalcaraz.com/the-year-2023-in-lalo-alcaraz-cartoons/

 

John Cole's Tennessee: the 'toons of 2023

 

J. Holly McCall

John Cole

December 29, 2023

https://tennesseelookout.com/2023/12/29/john-coles-tennessee-the-toons-of-2023/

 

Matt Wuerker's Best of 2023

By MATT WUERKER

12/29/2023

https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2023/12/29/matt-wuerker-best-of-2023-00133291?slide=0

 

23 political cartoons that say a lot about 2023

 Amelia Robinson

Columbus Dispatch

https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/cartoons/2023/12/28/highlights-of-2023-in-23-political-cartoons/72040525007/

 

Palestinian and Israeli cartoonists see the war differently (and the same) [Mohammad Sabaaneh, a Palestinian;  Michel Kichka, an Israeli]

By Ann Telnaes

December 29, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/12/29/cartoons-gaza-war-israel-hamas-kichka-sabaaneh/

 

"The Story of the Holocaust Is Not Pretty, And It's Not Redemptive": An Interview with Leela Corman

 by Hélène Tison

International Journal of Comic Art blog December 30, 2023

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-story-of-holocaust-is-not-pretty.html

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