The Dark Weirdness of R. Crumb
The illustrator dredged the depths of his own subconscious—and tapped into something collectively screwy in America.
By Gal Beckerman
April 14, 2025,
This article appears in the May 2025 print edition with the headline "The Anti-Rockwell."
'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' Sequel First-Look: "Scarier, Gorier, Cuter"
Creator Patrick Horvath's followup to the surprise hit arrives July 9, and once again is Richard Scarry meets 'Dexter.'
Borys Kit
April 17, 2025
The Beat Digest 04/18/25: Oni Press reveals EC's "Summer of Fear"
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 04/18/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-041825/
MARVEL GAINS MARKET SHARE AT THE EXPENSE OF SMALLER PUBLISHERS
In Q1 2025 Market Shares
Brigid Alverson on April 18, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/markets/view/59354/marvel-gains-market-share-expense-smaller-publishers
Inside the Guide: Historic Firsts Part I
Robert M. Overstreet
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide #26,
Scoop April 18 2025
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1013?ArticleID=281098
TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
Scoop April 18 2025
https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1013?ArticleID=281099
Toho Sets 200% Production Increase Goal for Anime Business
Mercedes Milligan
April 17, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/toho-sets-200-production-increase-goal-for-anime-business/
Bill Plympton's Oscar-Nominated 'Guard Dog' Debuts on YouTube
Mercedes Milligan
April 17, 2025
Cannes' Annecy Animation Showcase Lineup Features New Films From Cartoon Saloon, GKIDS, La Cachette and More (EXCLUSIVE)
By Jamie Lang
Apr 17, 2025 https://variety.com/2025/film/global/annecy-animation-showcase-lineup-cartoon-saloon-gkids-1236371128/
Call For British Government To Invest £1.5 Million In UK Comics Fund
Rich Johnston 17 Apr 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/call-for-british-government-to-invest-1-5-million-in-uk-comics-fund/
The Daily Heller: Frank Frazetta, the Norman Rockwell of Horror
The Daily Heller April 17 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-he-strikes-terror-into-hearts/
The Daily Heller: My First Interview With Brad Holland
The Daily Heller April 15 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-my-first-interview-with-brad-holland/
Court Theatre in Chicago Presents a New Adaptation of Berlin Graphic Novel
The Jason Lutes graphic novel is now a stage show, with its Weimar-era story eerily relevant.
By Emily McClanathan
April 15, 2025
This North Texan created one of the few national comic strips about a Latino family [Hector Cantú, Baldo]
Elizabeth Myong | Arts Access
KERA April 1, 2025
Robert E. McGinnis, Whose Lusty Illustrations Defined an Era, Dies at 99
In the 1960s and '70s, his leggy femmes fatales beckoned from paperback covers and posters for movies like "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "Thunderball."
Trip Gabriel
April 17, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/arts/robert-e-mcginnis-dead.html
Tom King Asks If Batman Believes In God. Again. (Spoilers)
Tom King asks if Batman believes in God, one more time (Wonder Woman #20 Spoilers)
Rich Johnston 16 Apr 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tom-king-asks-if-batman-believes-in-god-again-spoilers/
What's your favorite Superman story?
Beat Staff on 04/18/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/whats-your-favorite-superman-story/
Comics Cultural Impact Collective
https://www.thecomicsculturalimpactcollective.org/The-Power-of-Comics
Terry Pratchett estate launches 'Discworld graphic novel universe'
Launching with Monstrous Regiment, Thief of Time, and Wee Free Men
by Tasha Robinson
Apr 18, 2025, https://www.polygon.com/books/561109/terry-pratchett-discworld-graphic-novel-universe
Why we should be taking comics more seriously | Karrie Fransman | TEDxYouth@Manchester
TEDx Talks
Dec 4, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA1vshSuyQU
Comic Books: intimidating yet accessible art form, even at MSU [Missouri State University]
Robin Garner,
Jan 24, 2025 Updated Feb 6, 2025
Jules Feiffer Obituary
https://playbill.com/person/view-more?person=00000150-ac7b-d16d-a550-ec7fd1b90000
Drama! On the Diamond bankruptcy docket
Brigid Alverson | April 18, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/drama-on-the-bankruptcy-docket/
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Accused of Using AI to Generate Child Porn [Darrin Bell]
Story by Morgan Music
1/16/2025
"I Wouldn't Do It Again": One Walking Dead Moment Changed the Story In Ways the Creator Never Imagined
By Brian Colucci
Jan 24, 2025
https://screenrant.com/walking-dead-rick-grime-lose-hand-problems-op-ed/
Appel au boycott du Festival d'Angoulême 2026 : «Sans nous, cette édition sera une coquille vide !»
LIBERATION April 18 2025
The Egg, A Symbol of Life — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | April 18, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/the-egg-a-symbol-of-life-this-weeks-links/
Interview: Graphic Novelist Craig Thompson On Ginseng Roots
Laura McCarthy.
April 16, 2025
https://www.in-common.co.uk/2025/04/16/interview-graphic-novelist-craig-thompson-on-ginseng-roots/
"I Think Comics Have So Much Versatility in the Way They Can Tell a Story" – Zen K. Talks Comics Craft and Language, Manga Inspirations, and Being Published by Koguchi Press
by Andy Oliver
Broken Frontier April 16, 2025
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/zen-k-six-to-watch-interview/
'Crumb' does not shy away from the cartoonist's faults — just as he wanted
By Chris Vognar
April 11, 2025
Andrew Wheeler And Rye Hickman On Their Queer-Faith Coming Of Age Graphic Novel 'Hey, Mary!': "Her Name Is Mary, And She's Literally Mother"
Alex Zalben
April 15 2025
https://comicbookclublive.com/2025/04/15/hey-mary-andrew-wheeler-rye-hickman-interview/
Craig Yoe Conversation
Noah Van Sciver
Apr 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zck_Di7SqY
Chris Cajero Cilla, April 8th, 2025
Austin English
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 420; Apr 11, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTkYi9fk5ys
His Friends Call Him Bobby (w. Dan Nadel)
Joe McCulloch, Chris Mautner, Tucker Stone
Comic Books Are Burning In Hell,
2025.04.15
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/comicsinhell/CB.189.His_Friends_Call_Him_Bobby.mp3
'March' Co-Author Spearheads Comics Project To Uplift Appalachia [Andrew Aydin]
Rob Salkowitz
Apr 17, 2025,
Batcat Is the Nonbinary Comic Book Hero Kids Need
Luke Tsai
Apr 17 2025
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974781/batcat-nonbinary-graphic-novel-for-kids
This East Bay Graphic Novel Celebrates the Magic of Passing Notes With Friends
Luke Tsai
Feb 20 2025
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13972135/raised-by-ghosts-east-bay-graphic-novel-review-teenagers
Poignant Graphic Novel 'Ephemera' Explores an Oakland Artist's Lonely Childhood [Briana Loewinsohn]
Rae Alexandra
Mar 14, 2023
Comics Cultural Impact Collective calls for £1.5m funding to make most of 'untapped potential of industry' [UK]
Maia Snow
Apr 17, 2025
Off Panel #495: The Canva Background with Heidi MacDonald
April 14 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-495-the-canva-background-with-heidi-macdonald
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 668: Alliance Wins the Battle for Diamond
Calvin Reid, Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons
04/11/2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1363
Unmasking comics: How an existential realignment can unstuck the industry
The industry at-large has big questions to face about identity, supporting creators, telling certain stories, and much, much more.
Chris Coplan
April 17, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/04/17/comics-needs-existential-realignment/
Ryan North talks all things Fantastic Four
Corey Mintz
April 18, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/04/18/fantastic-four-ryan-north-under-doom/
Batman's tea, angels, and locked rooms: Al Ewing on crafting a mind-bending 'Detective Comics Annual'
'Detective Comics Annual 2025' is a strange but magic trip for Batman.
David Brooke
April 15, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/04/15/batman-detective-comics-annual-al-ewing-qa/
ANNOUNCING THE 13th CARTOONIST STUDIO PRIZE WINNERS
Center for Cartoon Studies April 15, 2025
https://www.cartoonstudies.org/announcing-the-13th-cartoonist-studio-prize-winners/
How do you get Superman right in 2025? 'Don't screw up,' say DC's 3 big Superman writers
Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Dan Slott on the Summer of Superman
Susana Polo
Polygon Apr 16, 2025, https://www.polygon.com/comics/559501/superman-summer-special-dc-comics-waid-williamson-slott
Socios de la Sectorial del Cómic piden la dimisión de su presidente, pero él rechaza irse
La Asociación de Críticos y Divulgadores de Cómic (ACDCómic), la Confederación Española de Gremios y Asociaciones de Libreros (CEGAL), entre otros, reclaman la renuncia de Alejandro Casasola
El Salón del Cómic de Granada continúa "con éxito" su 30 edición y celebra el Sábado Social
11 de abril 2025
https://www.granadahoy.com/ocio/socios-sectorial-comic-presidente_0_2003712358.html
Condenan al director del Salón del Cómic de Granada por intentar copiar «de mala fe» la marca Ficzone
Alejandro Casasola fue denunciado por la apropiación de la conocida marca del Festival Internacional de Cómic y Cine
Marta Ramírez
25 de julio 2024
Koukoulas, Yannis (2025) "Parody and Mis-unda-stendings in Comics Art World: Bridging the Gap with New Criteria," SANE journal: Sequential Art Narrative in Education: Vol. 2: Iss. 9, Article 1.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/sane/vol2/iss9/1
How Comic Books Can Transform Student Learning | Illya Kowalchuk | TEDxCU
TEDx Talks May 17, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYA8Yxlar3E
Mark Waid On JLU World's Finest and Batman Robin Year One
word balloon Apr 17, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvMpWH6vk00
What makes a superhero? | Stan Lee | TEDxGateway 2013
TEDx Talks
Dec 27, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSGf6is3U2w
Why Do We Idolize Superheroes, and Should We? | Lawrence Raia | TEDxYouth@SRDS
TEDx Talks Jun 3, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-QUrUZ6ZTE
Why comics belong in the classroom | Gene Yang | TEDxManhattanBeach
TEDx Talks Dec 2, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz4JqAJbxj0
Scott's Favorite Superman Stories:
Newsletter #208: The Fundamentals
Defining a comic book series in the 2025 market PLUS Happy Superman Day!
Scott Snyder
Apr 18, 2025
https://bestjackettpress.substack.com/p/newsletter-208-the-fundamentals
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