It's Becoming Impossible to Look Away From 'The Penguin'
Sunday night's episode, "Cent'Anni," underlines the strength of the series, particularly in the character work of Cristin Milioti's Sofia Falcone
By Justin Charity Oct 13, 2024, https://www.theringer.com/dc/2024/10/13/24269397/penguin-episode-4-recap-review-centanni-sofia-falcone-oz-cobb
EXCLUSIVE: NEW PUBLISHER SIGNS DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH DIAMOND, S&S
THE LAB PRESS to Debut in 2025 with 'Essentials'
Posted by Brigid Alverson on October 15, 2024
["We were shocked to hear of the tragic death of the talented comics artist, Revital Bornstein known as "Navy Bird", who was killed in the attack in Jaffa on October 1st."]
Israeli cartoon association
October 2 2024
'I need positive things to come of this': graphic novelist rocked by brother's suicide donates profits to charity. Award-winning Zoe Thorogood hopes the money raised can help halt rising numbers of young men taking own lives [in print as My brother is now eternally 23. I couldn't save him. But maybe I can help save others]
David Barnett
Observer (October 13 2024): 21
Exclusive Interview: Amena Kheshtchin-Kamel on MY YEAR AS EMMA
Kheshtchin-Kamel retells her own satirical story about racial identity in her own words
Christian Angeles
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-interview-amena-kheshtchin-kamel-on-my-year-as-emma/
NYCC '24: Funko founder is back with Thrilljoy, a new collectibles company [merchandising]
Heidi MacDonald
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/funko-founder-is-back-with-thrilljoy-a-new-collectibles-company/
Joe Casey is launching a newsletter….and here's why
Heidi MacDonald
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/joe-casey-is-launching-a-newsletter-and-heres-why/
Joe Casey Writes
https://thejoecasey.substack.com/
The art of politics: 'Poison Pens' exhibit on display at Berkshire School's Warren Family Gallery [presidential political cartoons].
Shaw Israel Izikson
October 11, 2024
Toho to Acquire Indie Distributor GKIDS
The North American studio will continue to operate as a subsidiary of the Japanese media giant under founder/CEO Eric Beckman and president Dave Jesteadt.
Etan Vlessing
October 15, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/japans-toho-gkids-1236032647/
TOHO STUDIOS buys out GKIDS
The legendary Japanese studio bought the North American distributor for an undisclosed sum.
D. Morris
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/toho-studios-buys-out-gkids/
Saudi Arabia sentences Mohammed al-Ghamdi to 23 years [pen name Al-Hazza]
Alan Gardner
A Saudi cartoonist has been sentenced to 23 years in prison, activists say [Mohammed al-Ghamdi, aka Al-Hazza]
By JON GAMBRELL
October 15, 2024
Neon Nights And Ghostly Fiddlers; Inside Gustav Carlson's Ozark-based graphic novel
by Dustin Staggs
September 28, 2024
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2024/sep/28/neon-nights-and-ghostly-fiddlers/
Understanding Portland's new voting system is tough. This artist is trying to make it a piece of cake
By Winston Szeto (OPB)
Sept. 29, 2024
Tommy Ly created a Chinese-language comic strip to explain Portland's ranked-choice voting system by comparing it to selecting mooncake flavors. His goal is to make the complex voting process easier to understand for Chinese seniors, who often face language barriers when participating in elections.
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/09/29/portland-ranked-choice-voting-comic/
Graphic novel shows unconventional routes into science [Becoming a Scientist]
Helen Burchell
BBC News, Cambridgeshire 28 September 2024
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3e957v9pyeo
Heavy Metal Relaunches With Frank Forte, Chris Thompson & Dave Kelly
15 Oct 2024 Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/heavy-metal-relaunches-with-frank-forte-chris-thompson-dave-kelly/
HEAVY METAL back from the dead with new Kickstarter
The venerable magazine will be relaunched next year, two years after its last issue.
Christopher Chiu-Tabet
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/heavy-metal-2025/
"I Hope I Made Them Proud:" Bitsie Tulloch Reflects on the End of Superman & Lois
Sam Stone
Oct 15 2024 https://www.cbr.com/superman-lois-bitsie-tulloch-interview/
The Great When by Alan Moore review – a riotous tour of occult London
With bravura brilliance, the Watchmen author conjures up a hyperreal fugitive city, populated by rogues and reprobates
Sukhdev Sandhu
Sat 12 Oct 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/12/the-great-when-by-alan-moore-review-a-riotous-tour-of-occult-london
Heartbreaking Art/Cartoons Created For Israel-Hamas War
By Chirali Sharma -October 7, 2024
https://edtimes.in/heartbreaking-art-cartoons-created-for-israel-hamas-war/
Zack Snyder Introduces the 2024 Superhero Issue
The director of 300, Justice League, and more teams up with Inverse for a special issue all about taking superheroes and comic books seriously.
by Zack Snyder
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/zack-snyder-editor-letter-superhero-issue
Frank Miller and Zack Snyder Talk Comics, Mythology, and Breaking Superhero Canon
For Inverse's 2024 Superhero Issue, guest editor Zack Snyder interviews legendary comic book writer and artist Frank Miller about how he created Sin City, 300, The Dark Knight Returns, and more.
Interview by Zack Snyder
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/frank-miller-zack-snyder-interview
A History of Superhero Kink
From Wonder Woman to the X-Men, kink has always been a pillar of the superhero business — even if modern tastes seem determined to push it to the sidelines.
Written by Hoai-Tran Bui
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/superhero-kink-history-wonder-woman
"Heroes Don't Do That!" Inside the never-ending battle over Batman's love life — from Dick Grayson's matching pajamas to going down on Catwoman.
by Lyvie Scott
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/history-batman-sex-life
How "The Man Who Has Everything" Changed Superheroes Forever
One year before Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons took on the most iconic hero of them all.
by Jake Kleinman
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/dave-gibbons-for-the-man-who-has-everything-watchmen-interview
Can Superheroes Kill?
The evolving morality of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman.
by Ryan Britt and Dais Johnston
Oct. 15, 2024
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/can-superheroes-kill-superman-batman-wonder-woman-morality
An Interview with Maggie Umber
I find it frustrating that a thing drawn in a cartoony style or with word balloons is a comic, but a thing with panels that lacks word balloons and a cartoony style is not.
Nora Hickey
Autobiographix
Oct 16, 2024
https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-maggie-umber
Theology and the Marvel Universe
Edited by Gregory Stevenson
Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2019
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978706170/Theology-and-the-Marvel-Universe
1 What Did It Cost? Sacrifice and Kenosis in The Infinity Saga
Kristen Leigh Mitchell
2 "I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be": The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones
Taylor J. Ott
3 Mythology, Mimesis, and Apocalypse in Jonathan Hickman's Avengers
Matthew Brake
4 "Because You Exist": Biblical Literature and Violence in the X-Men Comic Books
Dan W. Clanton, Jr.
5 The Gospel According to Thanos: Violence, Utopia, and the Case for a Material Theology
Tim Posada
6 "Those Are the Ancestors You Hear": Marvel's Luke Cage and Franz Rosenzweig's Theology of the Creation
Levi Morrow
7 Spider-Man and the Theology of Weakness
Gregory Stevenson
8 Of Venom & Virtue: Venom as Insight into Issues of Identity, the Human Condition, and Virtue
Jeremy E. Scarbrough
9 Matt Murdock's Ill-fitting Catholic Faith in Netflix's Daredevil
Daniel D. Clark
10 Gods upon Gods: Hierarchies of Divinity in the Marvel Universe
Austin M. Freeman
11 The Thor Movies and the "Available" Myth: Mythic Reinvention in Marvel Movies
Andrew Tobolowsky
12 Thor: Ragnarok, Postcolonial Theology, and Life Together
Kevin Nye
13 Savage Monster or Grieving Mother? Sabra and Marvel's Political Theology of Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine
Amanda Furiasse
14 Modern Re-enchantment and Dr. Strange: Pentecostal Analogies, the Spirit of the Multiverse, and the Play on Time and Eternity
Andrew D. Thrasher
Theology and Spider-Man
Edited by George Tsakiridis
Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2021
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978710894/Theology-and-Spider-Man
Introduction: Theologizing the Spider
George Tsakiridis
1 Sin and Sam Raimi's Spider-Man: A Spider-Harmatiology
Jerome Van Kuiken
2 Tyger, Lamb, Spider, Hunter: "Kraven's Last Hunt" and The Web of Theodicy
Peter Admirand
3 Untangling the Web of Sins: The Superior Spider-Man as Secular Hagiography
David K. Goodin
4 Let Him Be to You as a Goblin: Forgiveness as the Defeat of Evil in Spider-Man Comics
Travis B. Hill
5 "Look out, here comes the Spider-Man": An Exploration of the Creedal Theology of Spider-Man
George Tsakiridis
6 Moral Formation in Pedagogies of Violence: Civil War's Peter Parker
John C. McDowell
7 Peter Parker's Progeny: Power, Genetics, and Virtuous Parenting in Spider-Girl
Michael Buttrey and Leah DeJong
8 "Not Gonna Turn Invisible": Into the Spider-Verse and Black Theology
Matthew Vega and Russell P. Johnson
9 A Web of Significations: The Hermeneutics of Theological Anthropology in Marvel's Spider-Man (2018)
Ched Spellman
10 Venom the Liberation Theologian
Josh McDonald
11 Loss, Death, and Afterlife: Thanatology and Theology in Spider-Man Comics
Allan Novaes
12 Spider-Man: An Icon in your Pocket
Joseph E. Gaston
Theology and the DC Universe
EDITED BY GABRIEL MCKEE AND ROSHAN ABRAHAM -
Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2023
HTTPS://ROWMAN.COM/ISBN/9781978716117/THEOLOGY-AND-THE-DC-UNIVERSE
Introduction – Gabriel Mckee and Roshan Abraham
1. A Plenitude of Creators: Cosmogony in the DC and Christian Canons – Christopher Heard
2. By(e) Rao! Personification or Deception – David A. Skelton
3. Reimagining Gnostic Theo-Mythology through Grant Morrison's JLA: Rock of Ages – Matthew J. Dillon
4. Superman v. The Powers: What Walter Wink's Nonviolent Theology Reveals About the Man of Steel's "No-Killing" Rule – Andrew Kuzma
5. Providentialism and Political Religion: Zack Snyder's Man of Steel – John C. McDowell
6. Wonder Woman and the Labors of Hercules – Janelle Peters
7. Dr. Fate and Meher Baba: The Aesthetics of a Comic Book Cosmology – James Newell
8. The Queer Theology of the Doom Patrol – Michael Barnes Norton and Jana McAuliffe
9. The St. Francis of the DC Universe: How Animal Man Makes the Case for Pluralism in Animal Ethics – Andrew Kuzma
10. The Gospel According to Robin Hood and the Rebirth of Green Arrow – Danielle Terceiro
11. In the Land of No Return: Nergal and Mesopotamian Religion in DC's Hellblazer – Gina Konstantopoulos
12. Lost Souls and Old Sons: Augustinian Theodicy and the Path to Redemption in NBC's Constantine – Darian J. Shump
13. God Will be All in All: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Darkseid as Omega Point in Final Crisis – Matthew Brake
14. Utopia, Rebellion, and the Kingdom of Heaven in the Legion of Super-Heroes – Gabriel Mckee
15. War and Hope: Apocalyptic Theology in Kingdom Come – Gregory Stevenson
Theology and Batman
Examining the Religious World of the Dark Knight
EDITED BY MATTHEW WILLIAM BRAKE AND C. K. ROBERTSON
Lexington Books / Fortress Academic 2022
FOREWORD BY PAUL LEVITZ - AFTERWORD BY MICHAEL USLAN
Introduction: Batman as a Focus of Theological Inquiry
C.K. Robertson, Ph.D., and Matthew Brake
Section One: Theodicy and Evil
1. The Karmic Tragedy of Bruce Wayne: Batman as Anti-Buddha
Wesley D. Cray
2. Suffering and Evil in the Book of Job and Batman: The Killing Joke
Francesco Del Bianco
3. Evil After Christianity: Joker (2019) as Post-Christian Theodicy
Katherine Kelaidis
4. Beginning with Wickedness, or the Long Dark Knight of the Polis' Soul
John C. McDowell
5. Batman Encounters Judaism and the Holocaust
Rafael Medoff
Section Two: Ethics and Morality
6. "Fear of Faith" and Faith over Fear: Scarecrow as Emblem of a Purgatorial Gotham
Christina M. Knopf
7. Pride Goeth Before the Knightfall: Sabbath as Heroic Practice
Drew McIntyre
8. Batman Forever: Morality and Narrative in Grant Morrison's Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne
Andrew Kuzma
9. The Bat-Bodhisattva: A Buddhist reading of our favorite (Anti)Hero
John Thompson
10. Batman's Cardinal Virtues in Dark Knight Returns
Joseph Turner
Section Three: Justice and Vengeance
11. Reflections on Revolutionary Gotham: Sovereignty, Sacrifice, and Theological Fantasy in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Trilogy
Ryan Haecker
12. No Saviors in Gotham: Black Liberation and Whiteness in Batman: The Cult
Peter Herman
13. Vengeance, Justice, and Batman's War on Crime
Randall M. Jensen
14. False Messiah and Real Devils: Batman and Girard on the Fate of Gotham Mimesis and the Messianic
Clint Jones
15. Fighting for Righteousness: Batman's Atonement
Joshua Wise
Section Four: Deities and the Divine
16. Morality, Epistemology, and How Batman Can Know That God Exists
Batman: Atheist?
Armond Boudreaux
17. How One Becomes What One Is: The Nietzschean Polytheology of Joker (2019)
Vernon W. Cisney
18. Dark Knight of the Soul: Reading Batman with Apophatic Theology
Stephen Garner
19. The Dark Knight and the Dark Side of God
Michael D. Nichols
20. God-Confusion in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Michael Anthony Novak
NYCC '24: Day 0 – Retailer Day surges despite bathroom breakage
Billy Henehan
10/16/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/nycc24-day-0-retailer-day-surges-despite-bathroom-breakage/
Marvel launches Premier Collection as a jumping on point
Heidi MacDonald
10/16/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-launches-premier-collection-as-a-jumping-on-point/
Prix de la critique ACBD de la BD québécoise 2024 à Je pense que j'en aurai pas
16 octobre 2024
Jean-Laurent Truc
https://www.ligneclaire.info/prix-de-la-critique-acbd-de-la-bd-quebecoise-2024-a-je-pense-que-jen-aurai-pas-297475.html
"I Was A Bit Shocked" – Deku, Bakugo, and All Might Actors on My Hero Academia: You're Next
Daiki Yamashita, Nobuhiko Okamoto, and Kenta Miyake talk about legacy, heroism, and hubris in My Hero Academia: You're Next.
By Daniel Kurland | October 16, 2024
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/deku-bakugo-all-might-actors-my-hero-academia-youre-next/
Atlas/Seaboard Down Under
A Look At The Publishing History of an American Company in Australia
Daniel Best
Daniel Best - Author Oct 16, 2024
https://danielbest1967.substack.com/p/atlasseaboard-down-under-0ea
Best New Comics for Adults
New York Public Library October 2024
https://www.nypl.org/books-more/recommendations/comics-2024/adults
https://www.nypl.org/sites-drupal/default/files/2024-10/NYPL_Best_Comics_2024_Adults.pdf
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