Sunday, March 31, 2024

What started as a public statement condemning Florida's so-called "Don't Say Gay" law devolved into a years-long, bitter feud in which neither side wanted to give the appearance of surrendering.

Winston Cho

March 28, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/disney-desantis-settlement-florida-1235862516/

Interview With The Dracula Ep. 11 - Chip Zdarsky

Actual Dracula March 29 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmqn45sCIr4

Comic Culture Retro Interviews [Tim Seeley, Gail Simone, Dan Jurgens, Kevin Maguire, Dan Parent, Matt Fraction, and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez]

terence dollard

Mar 27 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1HTmSuDp_Y

Comic Shop Tour - House Of Secrets

POPXP! Network!

Mar 28 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxaoUgeSdE

Byrd Theatre Ghibli Spectacular! Richmond Welcomes Studio Ghibli Fest

by RVA Staff | Mar 27, 2024

https://rvamag.com/photo/film/byrd-theatre-ghibli-spectacular-richmond-welcomes-studio-ghibli-fest.html

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]

Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright

Washington Post March 30 2024.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Nami Oshiro: Art and Comics website

https://www.namioshiro.com/

Friday, March 29, 2024

WaPo letters: Dead White men on dead white trees? Or, do readers actually read the paper?

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Thanks for the March 16 Style article "Female artists are being erased from chain newspapers" on the continuing challenge of shrinking platforms for print cartoonists, especially women.

"Breaking Cat News" creator Georgia Dunn is spot on in her observation that "there are more dead men than living women in the funny pages." The Post is itself guilty of stagnating, perpetually rerunning deceased men's cartoons. Why not stop printing "Peanuts"? I understand it is an iconic comic, but all its strips are archived and easily available elsewhere. There are so many new and talented cartoonists, both women and men. It's obviously not possible to print them all, but let's make room for the new.

The newspaper is not radio or TV with indefinite time to fill and dedicated oldies channels. You've still got two pages that can easily be filled with funny and/or insightful comic strips.

Dalal Musa, Falls Church

I really miss some of the comics discussed in the Style article on the lack of female cartoonists represented in news publications and how they continue to suffer from widespread downsizing. "Rhymes With Orange" was a truly witty comic, and to remove it and continue to print something like "Reply All Lite" is just an insult if it is supposed to be about representing female authors. When "Reply All" was a full strip, it was at times amusing. The "Lite" version is a waste of valuable space. Without comics, I'd likely unsubscribe to the print edition, even though I love having a daily paper at the table to leaf through at breakfast. I know there is a full array of comics in the online version, but the format is clunky and time-consuming. Please bring back "Rhymes With Orange" if nothing else.

Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring

Comments:

Janet Moore:

Today's Republicans are not by any stretch of the imagination "conservatives." They are radicals, albeit of varying degrees.

Nailed it!

As for the Comics section, the first thing I look at every morning is the Comics. That makes what is left almost palatable.

A good comic strip is a reflection of life and brings a touch of humor, whimsy, or simply a smile of recognition or Ah Ha. The best are not always politically motivated. Some of the older strips being rerun often provide a glimpse that sometimes today's POV is not much different than when the strip was first run.

Yes, I can go to outside sources to find my comics, but if I am going to pay for a subscription to a newspaper, I expect to find a comics section included.

MRhode:

I'm not really sure why you published the letter from Harise Poland-Wright, Silver Spring because Rhymes with Orange is still in the paper, appearing as recently as today, something your fact checkers should have caught. I do agree that Peanuts should go, and daily Doonesbury too since they are both repeats. I really like the new Flash Gordon, but it's printed too small to read. I think the comics would benefit from being printed about an inch larger, but I realize that's too much to hope for. Some of us subscribers remember 3 full daily pages (maybe even 4?) and 2 Sunday funnies sections though.

Crackerjack Funnies #37 in FSA photos at Library of Congress

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

Multiple sizes of this public domain photograph can be downloaded here https://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/fsa.8c32835/

April 6-7: 2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

https://artbookfair.eastcityart.com/

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Saturday, April 6, 2024 from 11am-6pm
Sunday, April, 7, 2024 from 10am-4pm

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Free and open to the public

Experience over 100 artists, independent presses and designers from across the DMV, the US, Asia and Europe.

2024 Exhibitors are listed HERE

Declan Shalvey visits Wash DC, but didn't let us know in advance

From his newsletter at https://declanshalvey.substack.com/p/144tri-state-dec

On Tuesday I got an early train up to Washington DC where I did more writing and met an old friend for some drinks. On Wednesday I had a little time before my first signing at Third Eye Comics, so I went to visit the International Spy Museum. I've actually listened to many of their YouTube videos over the years due to my obvious interest in espionage stories so it was great to go to the actual building. I had a great time, I was expecting a pretty dry experience but was VERY impressed with how fun and engaging it all was. I was given a cover [Alex Brown, from Sydney Australia] but unfortunately wasn't given an opportunity to bust out my Aussie accent.

I also went to visit the George Washington Monument and the World War II memorial. You yanks sure know how to build monuments, I'll give ye that.

That evening was the signing at Third Eye Comics in Annapolis and OH BOY, did it go well. Line out the door, I was told, and was forced to believe after seeing the below pic.

Go read the rest of his post at https://declanshalvey.substack.com/p/144tri-state-dec

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns to American University

We are thrilled to be back in the USA with a brand new Ralph Steadman exhibition. A casualty of COVID, the last exhibition, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective was returned to the UK before the tour could be completed. Now with an amazing sponsorship from United Therapeutics a brand new exhibition, Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing will be touring venues across the USA. The first venue sees us returning to the American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington DC from 7th September until 8th December 2024.

The exhibition explores the dynamic between real events and fiction and how, so frequently in Steadman's work, one influences the other. The viewer will witness his early observations and sketches as a student at the East Ham Technical College, and how they informed his first cartoons and submissions to publications like Punch and Private Eye. In his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland he created a modern classic, transferring characters that he witnessed in 1960's London to Lewis Carroll's bizarre, upside-down world. World events and artistic influences creep into his depiction of characters in his children's books and illustrations of Animal Farm.

On display will be pieces that demonstrate his emersion in literature and politics and his complete dedication and commitment to any subject that he tackles. Steadman has been doing his 'filthy scribbling' for nearly 70 years, collaborating across the decades with a diverse band of individuals including Hunter S Thompson, Will Self and Ceri Levy. Each collaboration pulled different elements from Steadman. His penmanship is visceral on projects with Hunter S Thompson such as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and his coverage of the Watergate trials for Rolling Stone Magazine. His illustrations of Will Self's weekly travel column in the Independent, Psychogeography are inventive and energetic. His treatment of extinct and endangered birds and animals with Ceri Levy in the Gonzovation Trilogy show sensitivity and sorrow for the loss of and threat to so many creatures.

Ralph Steadman is a true polymath much like his hero, Leonardo da Vinci, and has worked in multiple disciplines, creating set designs, film posters, sculptures, writing and performing his own songs, an eco opera and writing and illustrating his own books. He is one of a kind. Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing... showcases his amazing talent and imagination.

We could not bring you this amazing new exhibition without the help of our amazing sponsors, United Therapeutics. We are so grateful for you ongoing support.

We are proud to dedicate Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing… to Ralph's beloved wife, Anna. She always supported him in all of his artistic endeavours, and said that early on in their relationship she realised that there were three people in their marriage, herself, Ralph and his art. As soon as she accepted that she could always be there, in the background, making a home for him and their daughter Sadie, as well as being a loving Stepmother to his older children, Suzannah, Theo, Genevieve and Henry.

Anna was a creative force herself, creating expansive embroideries of the Field of the Cloth of Gold, painting scenes from their garden in Kent in media including watercolours, acrylic, pastels, oil pastels and collage, and building fanciful paper mache models and sculptures.

She was a dedicated diarist on all of their trips whether for pleasure or on worldwide trips for Obbbins exploring the wineries of the world and always surrounded by a plethora of close friends whom she adored to 'hang' with.

We are pleased that she made the trips out to New York, Washington DC and San Francisco for the exhibition Ralph Steadman: a Retrospective. She took great delight in seeing Ralph's work enjoyed by such broad and varied audiences and we know that she would have blessed this incarnation with all her heart.

Insight Studios art stolen and on the market

The article has information on what's out there and how to report it. This affects Mark Wheatley and Marc Hempel.

Stolen: Insight Studios Art in Vast Quantities Taken

Scoop March 29 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=273735

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/28/2024

Irish Comics Wiki

https://irishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Irish_Comics_Wiki

Vampires at Breakfast: Elena Steier

by Jennifer M. Contino

Sequential Tart 3 (6; June 2000): http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/june00/steier.shtml

Elena Steier – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/27/elena-steier-rip/

Official Obituary of Elena Vira Steier February 14, 1958 - March 1, 2024

https://www.ahernfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Elena-Vira-Steier?obId=30971527#/obituaryInfo

Remembering Elena Steier

JP Trostle

March 27, 2024

https://editorialcartoonists.com/remembering-elena-steier/

Were They So Torturous? Reevaluating Modern Surgery's Underdog Story [historical British prints].

Zoe Copeman

Library of Congress Swann Fellow Lecture March 12, 2024

https://www.loc.gov/item/webcast-11275/

https://tile.loc.gov/streaming-services/iiif/media:webcasts:2024:240312pnp1200:240312pnp1200-1280x720_2000/full/full/0/full/default.txt

The Comics of Anke Feuchtenberger & Their Many Expressionisms

Elizabeth Nijdam

Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division (April 28 2017):

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690507/

https://tile.loc.gov/streaming-services/iiif/:service:gdc:gdcwebcasts:17:04:28:pn:p1:20:0:170428pnp1200:170428pnp1200_1280x720_2000/full/full/0/full/default.txt

That's Not Funny! Cartooning in a Charlie Hebdo World

Signe Wilkinson and Ann Telnaes

Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-04-30.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689742/

https://tile.loc.gov/streaming-services/iiif/:service:gdc:gdcwebcasts:15:04:30:pn:p1:20:0:150430pnp1200:150430pnp1200_960x720_1600/full/full/0/full/default.txt

Substacks about comics! Part 2

A round-up of indie comics-related newsletters, to the best of our knowledge

Cara Gormally, Nora Hickey, and Amaris Ketcham

Soft Things: Comics about Research Mar 28, 2024

https://caragormally.substack.com/p/substacks-about-comics-part-2

Reviews: Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage

Leonard Pierce | March 26, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/masters-of-the-nefarious-mollusk-rampage/

Masters of the Nefarious: Mollusk Rampage

Pierre La Police, translated by Luke Burns

New York Review Comics

"Father of Krazy Kat Admired As Mild-Mannered Genius," by Damon Runyon. Arizona Gazette on August 13, 1921

reprinted at https://popculturesquad.com/2024/03/18/brainiac-on-banjo-rare-praise-indeed/

Walter Winchell on Broadway [TAD]

Milt Gross

Miami Tribune (July 10, 1935)

online at https://www.facebook.com/thedailycartoonist/posts/pfbid0AoLAZKWPXocRaUTYn6JewZD68RqKzhmsaGh7WpJCcqAX9tVhRweQ2w56mvA7mUZ4l

Blake's Buzz Presents Jason Aaron PLANET COMICON EDITION

Mar 12 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_AWIv4i99Q

Blake's Buzz Presents Francis Manapul PLANET COMICON EDITION

Mar 11 2024

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

Blake's Buzz Presents Jimmy Palmiotti PLANET COMICON EDITION

Mar 15 2024

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

Between the Panels with Don Rosa

chris coats

2015 Feb 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA2t919J1ww

Between the Panels with Roy Thomas

Daryl Coats

chris coats 2015 Feb 19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PM3sOOYMLo

Once upon an interview at the end of the world

Jason Aaron, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Nick Dragotta, and Leila del Duca

Helioscope PDX

Mar 20 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK_3ELwkcAM

Guest Jason Aaron Talks TMNT! Valiant, Image, & Scout Hire AI "Artists"! New X-Men Teams Announced!

Pros And Cons March 18 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EmXtXZ0Iro

Guest Jordan Plosky Talks Zoop & Crowdfunding! What's Happening to Cartoonist Kayfabe? X-Men Update!

Pros And Cons March 25 2024

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chris Burnham Talks Jason Aaron's Relaunch, Reveals First Look (Exclusive)

Chris Burnham draws the prelude in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Alpha #1, leading into the Jason Aaron-written series.

By Jamie Lovett - March 26, 2024

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-alpha-tmnt-comics-first-look-chris-burnham-jason-aaron-donatello-purple/

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Jason Aaron Teases Brand-New Villain and "Grit" In Series Relaunch

Jason Aaron talks about TMNT plans, including hinting at plans for Jennika's future.

By Jamie Lovett - February 20, 2024

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tmnt-comics-jason-aaron-relaunch-idw-interview/

"Return To New York": New TMNT Writer Jason Aaron Teases The Turtles' Next Comic Era

By Spencer Connolly

Published Mar 7, 2024

https://screenrant.com/jason-aaron-new-tmnt-comics-interview/

WEBTOON launches "Super Like," a new monetization program for comics creators

Deb Aoki

03/28/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/webtoon-launches-super-like-a-new-monetization-program-for-comics-creators/

VIZ Media 2023/2024 Library Catalog

https://dw9to29mmj727.cloudfront.net/newsletters/20230614/VIZ_LibraryCatalog2023-2024.pdf

Indie comic books are no longer just kids' stuff; Complete with complex plotlines and mature humour, self-published comics are garnering a steady readership [India]

23 Mar 2024

Shweta Sharan

https://www.livemint.com/specials/indie-comic-books-are-no-longer-just-kids-stuff-11711185656687.html

'Dog Sees God' takes dark spin on classic comic

TROJANVISION March 22, 2024

https://today.troy.edu/trojanvision/2024/03/22/dog-sees-god-takes-dark-spin-on-classic-comic

GROHL, OZZY, LARS and more tell LEMMY stories in new MOTÖRHEAD graphic novel

'No Remorse' features all-star cast of famous friends and fans

March 21 2024

https://www.revolvermag.com/culture/lemmy-kilmister-new-motorhead-graphic-novel

Tyranny and resistance in "Death Strikes," the graphic novel adaptation of a concentration camp opera

Gareth Branwyn

Mar 22, 2024

https://boingboing.net/2024/03/22/tyranny-and-resistance-in-death-strikes-the-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-a-concentration-camp-opera.html

Around Town: Library announces this year's Graphic Novel Character Contest winners [student cartoonists]

By CASSIA CATTERALL

Gillette [WY] NEWS RECORD

Mar 23, 2024

https://www.gillettenewsrecord.com/news/living/article_6d353e6c-5c3c-5453-a572-c51f5435898e.html

Graphic novel about dictator's book bans in 1980s Korea faces restrictions in 2020s America; 'Korean history is being banned in America!': author ["Banned Book Club"]

By Jon Dunbar

2024-03-23

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/03/113_371016.html

Graphic novel about dictator's book bans in 1980s Korea faces restrictions in 2020s America; 'Korean history is being banned in America!': author ["Banned Book Club"]

By Jon Dunbar

2024-03-23

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2024/03/113_371016.html

Nearly pristine copy of first-ever Superman comic expected to sell for record-breaking price at auction

Dean Balsamini

New York Post March 23, 2024, https://nypost.com/2024/03/23/us-news/nearly-pristine-copy-of-first-ever-superman-comic-expected-to-sell-for-record-breaking-price-at-auction/

ASU student a superhero in fight for better disability representation in comics [Maya Sarraf].

By Dolores Tropiano

March 21, 2024

https://news.asu.edu/20240321-arts-humanities-and-education-asu-student-superhero-fight-better-disability-representation

Two charged for beating, robbing Bucks County comic book store owner in 2022

By Emily Rose Grassi

March 19, 2024

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/comic-book-store-violent-robbery-arrest-bucks-county/3807345/

Michigan men charged with beating, robbing comic book store owner

Police in Michigan collaborated with officials in Pennsylvania to track down the men

Brandon Carr

WDIV ClickOnDetroit

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/03/20/michigan-men-charged-with-beating-robbing-comic-book-store-owner/

Exclusive Interview with Goran Sudžuka for MARJORIE FINNEGAN Kickstarter!

AWA Studios March 28 2024

https://awastudios.com/exclusive-interview-with-goran-sudzuka-for-marjorie-finnegan-kickstarter/

'AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER' COMES TO WEBTOON With Live-Action Series Streaming on Netflix, Dark Horse to Put Entire Series Online

Brigid Alverson on March 27, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56582/avatar-the-last-airbender-comes-webtoon

DC Comics Outsources Joker: The World To Twelve Countries

DC Comics is following up their internationally outsourced graphic anthology Batman: The World with Joker: The World.

27 Mar 2024 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-outsources-joker-the-world-to-twelve-countries/

UnBarks it: Luck of the North

Deconstructing the comics genius of Carl Barks

Margreet de Heer

Margreet's Comics Mar 28, 2024

https://margreetdeheer.substack.com/p/unbarks-it-luck-of-the-north

A pop-up shows up

Nat Gertler

The AAUGH Blog March 28, 2024

https://aaugh.com/wordpress/2024/03/a-pop-up-shows-up/

David Kunzle obituary

Isabella Nizza

Wed 20 Mar 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/mar/20/david-kunzle-obituary

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Germantown teen self-pubs Holocaust GN in 2013

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/29/2024

Friday, March 29, 2024

WaPo letters: Dead White men on dead white trees? Or, do readers actually read the paper?

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Crackerjack Funnies #37 in FSA photos at Library of Congress

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

April 6-7: 2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Declan Shalvey visits Wash DC, but didn't let us know in advance

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns to American University

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns

Bigger and Better than Ever

For Anna Steadman - 21st March 1944 - 2nd February 2022

Insight Studios art stolen and on the market

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/28/2024

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Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists] Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-WrightWashington Post March 30 2024.online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Untitled FSA/OWI Photos: Stories Waiting to be Uncovered shows a picture of Crackerjack Funnies #37 on what appears to be a sofa or a train seat, matched with a Dale Carnegie book, of all things.

2024 CAPITAL ART BOOK FAIR

The 2024 Capital Art Book Fair will take place:

Eastern Market's North Hall225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003

Ralph Steadman Exhibition Returns

Bigger and Better than Ever

For Anna Steadman - 21st March 1944 - 2nd February 2022

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Dead White men on dead white trees [letters on women cartoonists]
Dalal Musa and Harise Poland-Wright
Washington Post March 30 2024.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/29/fani-willis-larry-hogan-female-cartoonists/

Eastern Market's North Hall
225 7th Street SE, WDC 20003