Monday, February 12, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/10-11/2024

These books were challenged at Ottawa's libraries last year; Ottawa Public Library kept all challenged materials in its collection following complaints [censorship; Tintin].

Arthur White-Crummey · CBC News Feb 10, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-public-library-book-challenges-tintin-stegosaure-1.7109676

 

Sierra Barnes was at Arlington County Central Library today

ComicsDC blog February 10, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/sierra-barnes-was-at-arlington-county.html

 

Brian Bolland Seeking His Original Art To Killing Joke And More

Graphitti and DC Comics are to publish an Artists Edition-style volume based on Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Bolland and Alan Moore. 

by Rich Johnston 09 Feb 2024 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/brian-bolland-seeking-his-original-art-to-killing-joke-and-more/

 

Comic Creators React To… The Vladimir Putin/Tucker Carlson Interview

Tucker Carlson travelled to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. An opportunity denied many other journalists, foreign and especially Russian.

 by Rich Johnston  09 Feb 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-creators-react-to-the-vladimir-putin-tucker-carlson-interview/

 

Ai Weiwei's 'Zodiac' Is a Mystical Memory Tour

Like a cosmological comic, the artist's new 'graphic memoir' entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination.

By Jonathan Landreth

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 10, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Stories Shaped By Time And Loss

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/arts/ai-weiwei-zodiac-memoir.html

 

Diary of an Abomination

In an illustrated depiction of a young girl's self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep.

By Emil Ferris

February 10, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/diary-of-an-abomination

 

A Rhode Island-based comic strip got canned from the Providence Journal. Then the letters came.

Fans of Will Henry's "Wallace the Brave" stood up to corporate consolidation — and won.

By Peter Chianca         

February 9, 2024

https://www.boston.com/culture/arts/2024/02/09/a-rhode-island-based-comic-strip-got-canned-from-the-providence-journal-then-the-letters-came/

 

Strip Search Episode 46, The Return of Will Henry

Peter Chianca

Feb 8, 2024

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/stripsearch/SS_willhenry_0224_AUDIO.mp3

 

'Depicting Mexico And Modernism: Gordo By Gus Arriola' On Display At Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

 

February 7, 2024

Raghav Raj

https://www.thelantern.com/2024/02/depicting-mexico-and-modernism-gordo-by-gus-arriola-on-display-at-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum/

 

Meet the unofficial cartoonists of the Edmonton Oilers [sports, hockey]

Preston Hodgkinson

Jan 30 2024

https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/unofficial-cartoonists-oilers

 

Explore 2024 with your local newspaper [Sunday comics]

Levi Hill

Hobbs News-Sun January 23, 2024

https://www.hobbsnews.com/2024/01/23/column-explore-2024-with-your-local-newspaper/

 

The prickly pair's barbs are too pointed? [comic strips letter]

Melissa Yorks

Washington Post February 10 2024: A11.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/09/tim-scott-bigotry-biden-uaw-alphaville/

 

Lost the battle, lost the war [aka Just call them comics]

by Glen Weldon

NPR Books Newsletter February 10, 2024

https://view.nl.npr.org/?qs=ae08a3308a7119de5d109f10fc875cd9b18b347cda4cb19f48b4bf160c0b35416adbd3dd15cdca24654a0fabb48445f817257fc9128a2790ca9f00c74e56fb17550ff749b4d51047efdf3a2f18d010f27323a87e227fd5eb

 

Nadel, Dan. 2023.

All hail the King of Fantasy Art [Frank Frazetta].

Taschen Magazine (2023/24): 98-107

 

Funimation App Shuts Down on April 2 as Its Accounts Merge With Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll will not support Funimation digital copies

posted on 2024-02-07   by Rafael Antonio Pineda

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-07/funimation-app-shuts-down-on-april-2-as-its-accounts-merge-with-crunchyroll/.207344

 

Sham Schulz Original Peanuts Art Auction

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/11/sham-schulz-original-peanuts-art-auction/

 

Alfredo Castelli – RIP

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/10/alfredo-castelli-rip/

 

 

Alfredo Castelli

https://www.cartoonclubrimini.com/en/ospite/alfredo-castelli-2/

 

In Memoriam: Italian comic creator Alfredo Castelli, creator of Martin Mystére

By John Freeman on February 7, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-italian-comic-creator-alfredo-castelli-creator-of-martin-mystere/

 

In Memoriam: Comic artist and Crypto comic pioneer, José Delbo

By John Freeman on February 8, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-and-crypto-comic-pioneer-jose-delbo/

 

'The Magic of Raina Is Real'

How the cartoonist Raina Telgemeier, the author of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, turned the anxious kid into a hero for the 21st century

By Jordan Kisner

February 6, 2024

Atlantic March 2024)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/raina-telgemeier-cartoonist-smile-guts-books/677180/

 

For Better or For Worse comic artist Lynn Johnston ventures into kids books

Famed North Vancouver cartoonist Lynn Johnston's new series of kids books follow the adventures of 9-year-old Timothy Bot

Mina Kerr-Lazenby, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

North Shore News Feb 6, 2024

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/lynn-johnston-alottabotz-8213914

 

The Final Days of 'Coyote vs. Acme': Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time | Exclusive

Warner was seeking $75 – $80 million but rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon and Paramount, insiders tell TheWrap

Drew Taylor

February 9, 2024

https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/

 

Over Two Weeks Ago, Our Store Had to Shut Down

Nothing like a surprise flood to really kick things off hot for 2024.

Brandon Schatz

Feb 11, 2024

https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/over-two-weeks-ago-our-store-had

 

A Graphic Novel Finds a Relatable Hero in a Modern African Woman

The "Aya" series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.

By Elian Peltier

Feb. 10, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/books/aya-of-yop-city-comic-book.html

 

Melissa Flores on the impact of Spider-Gwen, new villains, and writing 'Giant-Size Spider-Gwen'

David Brooke

February 5, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/05/spider-gwen-giant-size-qa-melissa-flores/

 

Visual Chameleon: Talking Art and Empress with Stuart Immonen

Read our extended chat with the art giant about his new book with Mark Millar

By David Harper

May 3, 2016

https://sktchd.com/art-feature/visual-chameleon-talking-art-and-empress-with-stuart-immonen/


Cirocco Dunlap's 'The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy' Scrubs in with Alien Humor and Humanoid Feeling
Karen Idelson
By Karen Idelson
February 6, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/cirocco-dunlaps-the-second-best-hospital-in-the-galaxy-scrubs-in-with-alien-humor-and-humanoid-feeling/
March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

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