Monday, April 29, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/27-28/2024

Asian Comics Virtual Highlights Tour

Paul Gravett

Bowers Museum

Apr 25, 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69CFmrMtIFo

Intense, mean, and viscerally upsetting: Aubrey Sitterson and Megan Hutchison talk 'Archie Comics: Judgment Day'

David Brooke

April 25, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/25/archie-comics-judgement-day-qa/

On crafting heroes and creatures: Shannon Denton and Marcus To unpack 'Kingdom Riders'

David Brooke

April 23, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/23/kingdom-riders-qa/

X-Reads Podcast Episode 122: Mohawks, maternity, and Nasty Boys: The X-Men '97 prelude with writer Steve Foxe

Chandler Poling and Chris Riley

X-Reads Podcast

April 25, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/25/x-reads-podcast-episode-122-steve-foxe/

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 272: Unpacking July 2024 releases and Christopher Cantwell talks the return of 'Briar'

David Brooke and Collier Jennings

April 21, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/04/21/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-272/

Meet the 2024–2025 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers [Eric Orner]

By NYPL Staff

April 23, 2024

https://www.nypl.org/blog/2024/04/23/meet-cullman-center-fellows

What Cartoonists Saw in Isolation: A Portrait of the Pandemic

In the spring of 2020, artists captured silliness, sexiness, despondence, and hope. What does quarantine look like when viewed from the other side?

By Gabe Fowler

April 27, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/what-cartoonists-saw-in-isolation-a-portrait-of-the-pandemic

If only we had little grey cells, we wouldn't have little gray cells [size of comic strips letter]

Bob Boxwell,

Washington Post April 27 2024: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/26/redheads-indian-cupboard-racism-forgiving-oj/

Unknown. 2013.

Superman 75 anos.

Guatemala Presna Libre (April 18): 49

R.I.P. Larry Dalrymple, Simpsons cast member and barfly; Born Lawrence Dalrymple, Larry "the Barfly" was 42 [cartoon character obituary]

Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club April 25 2024 https://www.avclub.com/r-i-p-larry-dalrymple-simpsons-cast-member-and-barfly-1851435815

Invasion of Privacy: Comic Editor David Potter [student cartoonist]

Apr 19 2024

Written By Kendall Cruise

https://www.thelamron.com/knights-life/invasion-of-privacy-comic-editor-david-potter

Artomatic and comics in photos, part 2 - floors 5 through 8

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/04/artomatic-and-comics-in-photos-part-2.html

Award-winning illustrator, cartoonist named head of Penn State Graphic Design [Joel Priddy]

April 24, 2024

Pamela Krewson Wertz

https://www.psu.edu/news/arts-and-architecture/story/award-winning-illustrator-cartoonist-named-head-penn-state-graphic/

2023 National Newspaper Award Winner for Editorial Cartooning is Bruce MacKinnon

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/26/2023-national-newspaper-award-winner-for-editorial-cartooning-is-bruce-mackinnon/

How the Baltimore bridge collapse upended a D.C. coffee chain's business [in print as How the Key bridge collapse upended a D.C. coffee chain]

By Marisa Iati and Danny Nguyen. Illustrations by Hannah Good.

April 27, 2024 :B2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/24/baltimore-bridge-coffee-supply/ and https://wapo.st/3JE07xw

April 26, 2024

Is MUTTS Missing From Your Local Paper? Here's Why (and How You Can Show Your Support)

— Alison Datko

https://mutts.com/blogs/news/mutts-missing-from-newspaper-lineups

Kraven The Hunter wants to be your Christmastime supervillain surprise

Sony has delayed Aaron Taylor-Johnson's Kraven to December 13, putting it in direct competition with Sonic 3 and Moana 2

William Hughes

April 27 2024

https://www.avclub.com/kraven-the-hunter-wants-to-be-your-christmastime-superv-1851440735

70 Years of Skewering: The "magic dust" of adding funny drawings to words has been an important part of the Texas Observer.

by Gayle Reaves

April 26, 2024,

A version of this story ran in the March / April 2024 issue.

https://www.texasobserver.org/70-years-of-skewering/

Ed Steckley. 2024-

The Steckley 'Stack!

https://edsteckleyillustrator.substack.com/

Hop Art! [Ralph Steadman beer label exhibit]

Monday, April 29 - Saturday, June 22

https://carrollcountyartscouncil.org/event/hop-art/

Artist Creates Relatable Girly Comics That Touch On Various Subjects Including Mental Health (44 Pics) [Tunisia; Salma; Shiki's Stupid Comics; webcomic]

Apr 25, 2024

Hidrėlėy

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-girly-comics-stupid-shiki/

Comic Books Through the Ages

Devin Singh

https://www.advocate-online.net/comic-books-through-the-ages/

April 25, 2024

Outrage over a local comic highlights ski town tensions [Ryan Stolp]

Wyoming Public Radio KHOL/Jackson Hole Community Radio | By Dante Filpula Ankney

April 26, 2024 https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/open-spaces/2024-04-26/outrage-over-a-local-comic-highlights-ski-town-tensions

Remembering the great comics of yesteryear [David Kunzle]

By Michael Taube | Jul 19, 2022

https://troymedia.com/lifestyle/these-comics-artists-of-old-were-among-the-greatest/

The historian who rediscovered America's first comic book [Bob Beerbohm]

By Michael Taube | Apr 23, 2024 https://troymedia.com/arts-entertainment/ae-books/robert-beerbohm-a-pioneering-comics-historian-and-retailer/

CROSSOVER STRIPS [Canada; Philip Street's Fisher; Graham Harrop's Back Bench].

By Michael Taube

July 26, 1999

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/591484/crossover-strips/

How comic books are becoming more accessible

Sound, tactile materials and new technologies are all being used to help bring the visual storytelling of comics to life for blind and partially sighted people

By Mark Sinclair 23/04/2024

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/how-comic-books-are-becoming-more-accessible/

Comic strip exhibition opens in Zhejiang, showcasing realistic works depicting modern China

Global Times Apr 24, 2024

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202404/1311225.shtml

The year of the Spawn: Calgary's Todd McFarlane predicts 2024 will be the year when Spawn reboot gets a greenlight

Eric Volmers

Apr 24, 2024

https://calgaryherald.com/entertainment/local-arts/the-year-of-the-spawn-calgarys-todd-mcfarlane-predicts-2024-will-be-the-year-when-spawn-reboot-gets-a-greenlight

Vancouver author's graphic novel explores the fear of adulthood and running away

Adam De Souza's The Gulf aims to capture raw emotion of being a teenager nearing the end of high school

Margaret Gallagher,

CBC News Apr 23, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/the-gulf-vancouver-author-1.7179499

'Gleem' Review: A Glittering Glimpse into Carrasco's Afrofuturistic Worlds

By Claire C. Swadling,

Harvard Crimson April 23 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/4/23/Gleem-Freddy-Carrasco-Afrofuturistic-Graphic-Novel-Worldbuilding/

New Graphic Novel 'Punk Rock Karaoke' Chronicles Chicago's Diverse DIY Scene

Bianca Xunise's debut young adult graphic novel came out this week, with celebratory events Thursday and Saturday.

by Megan Kirby

https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/04/24/new-graphic-novel-punk-rock-karaoke-chronicles-chicagos-diverse-diy-scene/

From comics kept under the bed to printed collections, a new publisher is saving N.L.'s illustrated past; Heavy Sweater Comics publisher Kevin Woolridge debuts latest titles with book launch on Friday

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News Apr 27, 2024 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/heavy-sweater-april-book-launch-1.7182450

Kamloops author releases 2nd action-packed science fiction comic book [Canada; Nick Klie; Life the Necropolis: The Red Wizard]

Shannon Ainslie

April 22, 2024

https://infotel.ca/newsitem/kamloops-author-releases-2nd-action-packed-science-fiction-comic-book/it104392

The first woman to draw Wonder Woman is alive and well in San Francisco

By Julie Zigoris, San Francisco Standard | March 14, 2023

https://jweekly.com/2023/03/14/the-first-woman-to-draw-wonder-woman-is-alive-and-well-in-san-francisco/

Trina Robbins, 85, the first woman to draw a full issue of 'Wonder Woman'

By JTA, J. Staff | April 24, 2024

https://jweekly.com/2024/04/24/trina-robbins-85-the-first-woman-to-draw-a-full-issue-of-wonder-woman/

Jewish Life Stories: A pioneering woman comic book artist, a British children's book author who raised three Israeli sons [Trina Robbins]

By Andrew Silow-Carroll April 23, 2024 https://www.jta.org/2024/04/23/obituaries/jewish-life-stories-a-pioneering-women-comic-book-artist-a-british-childrens-book-author-who-raised-three-israeli-sons

Veteran of underground comics scene adapts her father's Yiddish tales [Trina Robbins]

By Maya Mirsky | October 31, 2017

https://jweekly.com/2017/10/31/veteran-underground-comics-scene-adapts-fathers-yiddish-tales/

'Death knell of capitalism': Artwork of Uncle Scrooge Duck unveiled in city centre [Brussels]

Sunday, 28 April 2024

Lauren Walker https://www.brusselstimes.com/art-culture/1024652/death-knell-of-capitalism-artwork-of-uncle-scrooge-duck-unveiled-in-city-centre

Review: 'Fun Home' Shares An Important Story.

Kirsten Laskey

Los Alamos Daily Post April 23, 2024

https://ladailypost.com/review-fun-home-shares-an-important-story/

Comic book authors complain about the lack of support in Portugal

The difficulty of getting support in Portugal for Comics was discussed at the Buenos Aires Book Fair, where illustrator Júlia Barata revealed that she is adapting "Caderno de Memórias Coloniais" with Isabela Figueiredo completely 'pro bono'.

April 28 2024

https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/en/cultura/2549759/autores-de-banda-desenhada-queixam-se-da-falta-de-apoios-em-portugal

Demon Slayer Voice Actor Natsuki Hanae and Aniplex Producer Yuma Takahashi Attend Mumbai Comic Con 2024

This marked the first visit of a Japanese voice actor to India for anime promotions. Here are the highlights from their visit.

Rayan Sayyed

April 22, 2024,

https://in.ign.com/demon-slayer/205484/news/demon-slayer-voice-actor-natsuki-hanae-and-aniplex-producer-yuma-takahashi-attend-mumbai-comic-con

What Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse can tell us about the public domain and remix culture

ANDREW DALTON | The Associated Press

Apr 21, 2024

https://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/what-winnie-the-pooh-and-mickey-mouse-can-tell-us-about-the-public-domain-and/article_28f428be-fdf4-11ee-a9f3-378c4bd7fb93.html

Student Spotlight: Ash Padilla '24; Art major lands Assistant Editor position at DC Comics following graduation.

4/23/24 https://miamioh.edu/cca/news-events/2024/04/student-spotlight-ash-padilla-24.html

Louis Southard discusses his career and his latest project, "Comics Are Dying: The Comic"

Nicholas Yanes

April 24 2024

https://www.scifipulse.net/louis-southard-discusses-his-career-and-his-latest-project-comics-are-dying-the-comic/

Post Malone and Michael Bay Are Cooking Up Something Crazy With Demons and Trucks

The musician and filmmaker are collaborating on a new project that'll start as a graphic novel to be published in 2025

April 23, 2024 https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/post-malone-michael-bay-graphic-novel-movie-1235009062/

A perfect Sunday with...Michael Moreci

Fever Pitch, having time as an enemy and the perfect Sunday pastry

Cavan Scott

The Cavletter Apr 28, 2024

https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-michael-moreci/?ref=the-cavletter-newsletter

Barbara Dale Retrospective June 15, 2023-August 6 2023 Virtual Tour

Peale Museum

https://thepeale.org/vt-barbara-dale/

Launch Night! Heroes: British Invasion At London's Cartoon Museum

Launch Night! Heroes: The British Invasion Of American Comics, a new exhibition at London's Cartoon Museum

by Rich Johnston

27 Apr 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/launch-night-heroes-british-invasion-at-londons-cartoon-museum/

Preventing the Destruction of the World: Ian Cordingley on THE SECRET OF THE SWORDFISH by Edgar Jacobs

Ian Cordingley

April 15, 2024

https://solrad.co/preventing-the-destruction-of-the-world-ian-cordingley-on-the-secret-of-the-swordfish-by-edgar-jacobs

2023 NCS Divisional Award Nominees for the 78th Annual NCS Reuben Awards!

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/04/28/2023-ncs-divisional-award-nominees-for-the-78th-annual-ncs-reuben-awards/

Searching for Snoopy: What happened to all the 'Peanuts' statues in St. Paul?

The creative tributes to the comic strip characters were ubiquitous in the capital city in the early 2000s.

By Katie Galioto Star Tribune

April 26, 2024 https://www.startribune.com/peanuts-statues-st-paul-snoopy-charlie-brown-lucy-linus/600361833/

Interview : Kokopello pour un grand bazar décrypté [La Tour de Babel]

Jean-Laurent Truc

28 avril 2024

https://www.ligneclaire.info/kokopello-la-tour-de-babel-290778.html

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Barbara Dale Retrospective June 15, 2023-August 6 2023 Virtual Tour

Peale Museum

https://thepeale.org/vt-barbara-dale/

There's no exhibit catalog, but this recreation is pretty stunning.

Puppy Love by Daniel Boris

Joe Sutliff KickStarter

There are two weeks left to join in our Kickstarter project, "How To Be
Jewish in 30 Seconds" based on our YouTube series "The Rabbi and I." The
book offers Rabbi Ken Block's perspective on what is important about faith and religion versus what is custom and dogma, with his usual style and wit. If you're not Jewish, you can always just read the cartoons -
some of them came out pretty good.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/30seconds/how-to-be-jewish-in-30-seconds

And if you want to check out some of the past recordings on our YouTube
channel, visit here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrGzwWwGKWrgKfU53XPjYbA

We're always looking for questions, topics and guests!

Joe

Ralph Steadman beer label exhibit opening in Westminster, MD on Monday

Hop Art!

Monday, April 29 - Saturday, June 22

https://carrollcountyartscouncil.org/event/hop-art/

Venue

The Carroll Arts Center

91 West Main Street
Westminster, MD 21157

| Free

Tevis Gallery

A collection of works created by Ralph Steadman from Flying Dog Brewery, as well as other local brewery artists.

This exhibit celebrates the diversity and complexity of beer as both a beverage and a cultural symbol.

Reception: Thursday, May 2 from 5 – 7pm

About Ralph Steadman:

Ralph Steadman was born in 1936 in Wallasey. One of his earliest memories is hiding in an Anderson Shelter during an air raid in WWII while his mother knitted. Before the end of the war the family moved to North Wales and ended up staying once the war ended in the North Wales town of Abergele. Ralph attended Abergele Grammar School but was terrorized by the headmaster who routinely caned boys and it led him to believe that "Authority is the mask of violence."

In 1959, frustrated by the limits of his skills, he enrolled at East Ham Technical College to learn the 'discipline of drawing'. It was here he met his mentor, Leslie Richardson, who taught life drawing. 1960 saw his first appearance in Punch magazine, where he eventually progressed to cover design. In 1961, encouraged by Richardson, he enrolled at the London College of Printing. By this point he was beginning to find the demands of newspaper cartooning too restrictive:

'Cartooning wasn't just making a little picture and putting a caption underneath. It's also something else – a vehicle for expression of some sort, protest, or it's actually a way of saying something which you cannot necessarily say in words.'

In 1961 he wrote to the editor of newly founded Private Eye and began to explore a new, more provocative style, drawing on influences like George Grosz and John Heartfield. During the 1960s he illustrated several children's books, including Fly Away Peter (1964 featured right), The Big Squirrel and the Little Rhinoceros (1965), The False Flamingos (1967), and The Jelly Book (1967), which he also wrote. His work was regularly appearing in New Society, Radio Times, Town, New Musical Express and the Daily Telegraph.

In 1967 he began work on his illustrated Alice in Wonderland, which won the Frances Williams Award in 1972. Steadman updated the classic Tenniel illustrations for the 1960's turning the White Rabbit into a commuter, perpetually late for work, the Mad Hatter became a union leader and the Caterpillar suddenly began to resemble John Lennon enshrouded in a fog of smoke.

His big break really came in 1970. Having published his first collected book of cartoons, Still Life with Raspberry, with it under his arm, he set off to America to cover the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan's Monthly, where everything would change on his meeting Hunter S. Thompson. Described as "a Hell's Angel who had shaved his head," Steadman set off to meet this maverick journalist at the Kentucky Derby. Legend has it that it took them 3 days to find each other. Ralph often recalls that Hunter commented when they finally met, "Well they said you were weird, but I did not think you would be that weird!". Warned not to do any of his "Filthy scribbling" Ralph almost caused a fight at the Pendennis Club in Lousiville before being maced by Hunter to help him escape.

Together Ralph and Hunter would develop 'Gonzo' journalism, where you do not simply cover the story but become the story. So began a lifelong collaboration, including the iconic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, which was originally serialised in Rolling Stone Magazine. Another lifelong association was begun, and Steadman is still listed as Gardening Correspondent for the legendary publication.

Between projects with Hunter, including Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trial '72, The Curse of Lono (1983) and Polo is My Life (1994), and numerous pieces for Rolling Stone, Steadman continued to produce his own books, including Sigmund Freud (1979), I Leonardo (1983), The Big I Am (1998), as well as children's books such as That's My Dad (1986), No Room to Swing a Cat (1989) and Teddy! Where Are You? (1994).

In 1987 Steadman was approached by Gordon Kerr at Oddbins to travel the vineyards of the world and produce artwork for their catalogues. Gordon remains a friend and now writes condensed history books.

etween 1987 and 2000 he did just that, producing hundreds of artworks, many of which would eventually appear in his two award- winning books on wine, The Grapes of Ralph and Untrodden Grapes, and his book about whisky, Still Life with Bottle.

He has always diversified in his career, producing theatre sets for a ballet of The Crucible (2000) performed at the Royal Opera House; a production of Gulliver's Travels (1995) for Clwyd Theatr Cymru; and an oratorio and images for an eco-opera, The Plague and the Moonflower, with music composed by Richard Harvey.

More recently he has illustrated three books about extinct and endangered birds and animals with Documentary film-maker and co-Gonzovationist Ceri Levy, Extinct Boids (2012), Nextinction (2015) and Critical Critters (2017).

Levy approached him tentatively through another acquaintance, Lady Catherine St German's whose husband, Peregrin started the charming Port Eliot Festival. He was putting together a show of artworks, The Ghost of Gone Birds, to feature extinct birds by a variety of artists and he asked if Steadman might submit a drawing of an extinct bird of his choice. Illustrations of extinct birds by Ralph Steadman for his his first collaboration with Gonzovationist, Ceri LevyLevy often muses that he had no response for several weeks and suddenly 4 extinct birds appeared in his inbox and lo, the Gonzovation Movement was born. Steadman ended up producing over 100 images of extinct birds, and imagined boids, which Bloomsbury then published. Steadman's artworks were all hung, side by side in rows in one room and binoculars were provided for the viewers to view them through. Following on from Extinct Boids they naturally decided to collaborate on a book about critically endangered birds, entitled Nextinction, and then on their third book together which focussed on endangered animals, Critical Critters.

In between all these Gonzovation projects, Ralph was asked by Vince Gilligan to create the collectors DVD Box Set artwork for his hit series, Breaking Bad. He produced portraits of 7 of the cast members, 6 of which appeared as the DVD box covers. Only one was unused as the artist would not grant permission for its use and so the image sits in a drawer, destined to be unused and unseen. The image featured right is an unused portrait of the character, Hank.

At the end of 2018 he also worked on visuals for the poster art for a brand new Broadway show, Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus starring Nathan Lane.

In 2012 a film of his life and influences, 15 years in the making, called For No Good Reason premiered at the Toronto Film Festival to critical acclaim.

Ralph is still drawing and producing art today, working regularly for the New Statesman, The Independent and the New York Observer, as well as working on his own projects. He is a maverick and trail blazer whose art inspires and influences artists today.

Saturday, April 27, 2024

Hannah Good story in WaPo

How the Baltimore bridge collapse upended a D.C. coffee chain's business [in print as How the Key bridge collapse upended a D.C. coffee chain]

By Marisa Iati and Danny Nguyen. Illustrations by Hannah Good.

April 27, 2024 :B2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/04/24/baltimore-bridge-coffee-supply/ and https://wapo.st/3JE07xw

In the print paper Good is credited with the text reporters. In the online version, she's buried under the story editors. Why is the Post even telling us who the editors are?

Artomatic and comics in photos, part 2 - floors 5 through 8

Artomatic ends tomorrow, so you theoretically can rush through and see these artists, as well as those featured in part 1. Some of these people identify as cartoonists, but many of them are just influenced by the prevalence of comics and animation in modern life. Or historical images, in the case of the tattooist reinventing Rosie O'Neill's Kewpies. More captioning to come, hopefully someday.