Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/11/2025

MAGNETIC PRESS GETS FIRST LOOK AT LABEL 619

First Title Will Be 'MKFZ'

Milton Griepp on February 11, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58818/magnetic-press-gets-first-look-label-619

 

How Diamond Book Distributors helped change the comics industry

Heidi MacDonald on 02/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/how-diamond-book-distributors-helped-change-the-comics-industry/

 

The New GoComics for 2025 – updated

D. D. Degg

February 10, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/02/10/the-new-gocomics-for-2025/

 

A Darrin Bell Comics Timeline

D. D. Degg

February 11, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/02/11/a-darrin-bell-comics-timeline/

 

Rob Liefeld Says Marvel Is Broken And His Appearance Delayed Deadpool

10 Feb 2025 by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefeld-says-marvel-is-broken-and-his-appearance-delayed-deadpool/

 

Warner Bros. Discovery Marks Tom & Jerry's 85th Anniversary With Slew Of New Licensing Deals

 Amid Amidi | 02/10/2025  https://www.cartoonbrew.com/classic/warner-bros-discovery-marks-tom-jerrys-85th-anniversary-with-slew-of-new-licensing-deals-245663.html

 

'Black Lightning' creator Jenny Blake Isabella comes out as transgender at 73

"This is real. I'll have more to say soon," wrote Jenny Blake Isabella.

Rachel Shatto

February 10 2025

https://www.pride.com/coming-out/black-lightning-creator-jenny-blake-isabella-comes-out-as-transgender-at-73

 

She Keeps 'The Lion King' in Motion

"Everything in the show moves," said Ruthlyn Salomons, whose job for 25 years has been to oversee all the parts, people and puppets of this kinetic musical.

By Ellen Jacobs

    Feb. 10, 2025

    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/arts/dance/ruthlyn-salomons-lion-king-broadway.html

 

'Goldie' Creator Emily Brundige Introduces Her Big-Hearted Animated Heroine (NEW CLIP)

Ramin Zahed

February 10, 2025

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/02/goldie-creator-emily-brundige-introduces-her-big-hearted-animated-heroine-new-clip/

This article was written for the March '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 348).

 

Conan Movie Introduction

Jim Zub

Feb 10, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA8QKxuGmCI

 

Making Black Panther: Five Decades of Marvel Creators Explain How They Built the World of Wakanda

Troy-Jeffrey Allen

February 8 2025

https://tjacomics.medium.com/making-black-panther-talking-with-marvel-creators-across-five-decades-about-the-world-of-wakanda-7d174a6faf7a

https://tjacomics.medium.com/making-black-panther-five-decades-of-marvel-creators-explain-how-they-built-the-world-of-wakanda-98df8f08dbf9

https://tjacomics.medium.com/making-black-panther-five-decades-of-marvel-creators-explain-how-they-built-the-world-of-wakanda-296f7ac59553

https://tjacomics.medium.com/making-black-panther-five-decades-of-marvel-creators-explain-how-they-built-the-world-of-wakanda-5c11180e1b8a

Rhode, Mike. 2025.
WaPo published final Candorville comic strip this weekend.
ComicsDC (February 11): https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/02/wapo-published-final-candorville-this.html

Wife of 'Rubes' cartoonist was eating lunch when a devastating injury upended their lives  [Leigh Rubin].
By Joan Lynch
February 11, 2025
https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/article299854329.html

Paranoid Gardens Artist Chris Weston Talks Being Starstruck by Moebius - Creator Owned Art
Weston met the comic "god" years ago
Liam McGuire
Comic Frontier  Feb 11, 2025
https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/paranoid-gardens-artist-chris-weston-talks-being-starstruck-by-moebius-creator-owned-art

The Comics That Define Superman
Think Superman is nothing but a boring do-gooder with too many powers? These great comics will change your mind.
  By Joe George | February 10, 2025
https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/the-comic-books-that-defined-superman/

Silence in the Quagmire:The Vietnam War in U.S. Comics
Harriet E. H. Earle
Nebraska Press, 2025
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496240545/silence-in-the-quagmire/

Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics [David Mack]
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Nebraska Press, 2024
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496226686/storytelling-in-kabuki/

The New Nancy: Flexible and Relatable Daily Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Jeff Karnicky
Nebraska Press, 2023
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496235862/the-new-nancy/

Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life
Dan Nadel  
Scribner, 2025

Rea Irvin's "Eustace Tilley" at One Hundred
The magazine celebrates its centenary.
By Françoise Mouly
February 10, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2025-02-17

Welcome to this month's CartoonStock Caption Contest by Peter Kuper
Bob Mankoff, Lawrence Wood, Trevor Hoey, Joel Mishon and Peter Kuper
CartoonStock, a Cartoon Collections Co.
Feb 7, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9sFDq1RX8g

"Unhealthy Doctor" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
February 10, 2025 by Lawrence Wood
https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/unhealthy-doctor-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

Can A.I. Voice 'The Simpsons'? We Found Out. | NYT Opinion
Hank Azaria
The New York Times Feb 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hz19kpCse4

Boredom, blacklisting or new beginnings? Why Crockett Johnson ended Barnaby
Philip Nel | February 11, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/boredom-blacklisting-or-new-beginnings-why-crockett-johnson-ended-barnaby/

Saving Captain America [original art conservation]
Heather Wanser,
Library of Congress Guardians of Memory blog February 11, 2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/preservation/2025/02/captain-america/