Saturday, April 19, 2025

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/18/2025

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."

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/r-crumb-dan-nadel-cartoonists-life-review/682118/

https://archive.is/jxsuf

 

'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

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-sequel-first-look-scarier-gorier-cuter-1236192350/

 

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

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/bill-plymptons-oscar-nominated-guard-dog-debuts-on-youtube/

 

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

https://playbill.com/article/court-theatre-in-chicago-presents-a-new-adaptation-of-berlin-graphic-novel

 

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

https://www.keranews.org/arts-culture/2025-04-01/this-north-texan-created-one-of-the-few-national-comic-strips-about-a-latino-family

 

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

https://www.the-standard.org/opinion/comic-books-intimidating-yet-accessible-art-form-even-at-msu/article_b1c79622-dab1-11ef-b1df-33b3e2b83c66.html

 

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

https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-accused-of-using-ai-to-generate-child-porn/ar-AA1xk0lw

 

"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

https://www.liberation.fr/culture/bd/appel-au-boycott-du-festival-dangouleme-2026-sans-nous-cette-edition-sera-une-coquille-vide-20250418_X7HAS2EFVNHADCSZMQMBYZ7AOA/

 

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

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-11/robert-crumb-biography-dan-nadel-book-review

 

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://www.factualopinion.com/the_factual_opinion/2025/04/his-friends-call-him-bobby-w-dan-nadel.html

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,

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/04/17/march-co-author-spearheads-comics-project-to-uplift-appalachia/

 

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

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13926136/poignant-graphic-novel-ephemera-explores-an-oakland-artists-lonely-childhood

 

Comics Cultural Impact Collective calls for £1.5m funding to make most of 'untapped potential of industry' [UK]

Maia Snow

Apr 17, 2025

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/comics-cultural-impact-collective-calls-for-15m-funding-to-make-most-of-untapped-potential-of-industry

 

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

https://www.ideal.es/culturas/condenan-director-salon-comic-granada-intentar-copiar-20240725132519-nt.html 

 

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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