ComicsDC: Comics Research Bibliography

These books were challenged at Ottawa's libraries last year; Ottawa Public Library kept all challenged materials in its collection following complaints [censorship; Tintin].

Arthur White-Crummey · CBC News Feb 10, 2024

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/ottawa-public-library-book-challenges-tintin-stegosaure-1.7109676

Sierra Barnes was at Arlington County Central Library today

ComicsDC blog February 10, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/sierra-barnes-was-at-arlington-county.html

Brian Bolland Seeking His Original Art To Killing Joke And More

Graphitti and DC Comics are to publish an Artists Edition-style volume based on Batman: The Killing Joke by Brian Bolland and Alan Moore.

by Rich Johnston 09 Feb 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/brian-bolland-seeking-his-original-art-to-killing-joke-and-more/

Comic Creators React To… The Vladimir Putin/Tucker Carlson Interview

Tucker Carlson travelled to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. An opportunity denied many other journalists, foreign and especially Russian.

by Rich Johnston 09 Feb 2024

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-creators-react-to-the-vladimir-putin-tucker-carlson-interview/

Ai Weiwei's 'Zodiac' Is a Mystical Memory Tour

Like a cosmological comic, the artist's new 'graphic memoir' entwines recalled experience with legend and imagination.

By Jonathan Landreth

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 10, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Stories Shaped By Time And Loss

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/arts/ai-weiwei-zodiac-memoir.html

Diary of an Abomination

In an illustrated depiction of a young girl's self-discovery, monstrosity is only skin-deep.

By Emil Ferris

February 10, 2024

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/diary-of-an-abomination

A Rhode Island-based comic strip got canned from the Providence Journal. Then the letters came.

Fans of Will Henry's "Wallace the Brave" stood up to corporate consolidation — and won.

By Peter Chianca

February 9, 2024

https://www.boston.com/culture/arts/2024/02/09/a-rhode-island-based-comic-strip-got-canned-from-the-providence-journal-then-the-letters-came/

Strip Search Episode 46, The Return of Will Henry

Peter Chianca

Feb 8, 2024

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/forcedn/stripsearch/SS_willhenry_0224_AUDIO.mp3

'Depicting Mexico And Modernism: Gordo By Gus Arriola' On Display At Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum

February 7, 2024

Raghav Raj

https://www.thelantern.com/2024/02/depicting-mexico-and-modernism-gordo-by-gus-arriola-on-display-at-billy-ireland-cartoon-library-museum/

Meet the unofficial cartoonists of the Edmonton Oilers [sports, hockey]

Preston Hodgkinson

Jan 30 2024

https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/unofficial-cartoonists-oilers

Explore 2024 with your local newspaper [Sunday comics]

Levi Hill

Hobbs News-Sun January 23, 2024

https://www.hobbsnews.com/2024/01/23/column-explore-2024-with-your-local-newspaper/

The prickly pair's barbs are too pointed? [comic strips letter]

Melissa Yorks

Washington Post February 10 2024: A11.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/02/09/tim-scott-bigotry-biden-uaw-alphaville/

Lost the battle, lost the war [aka Just call them comics]

by Glen Weldon

NPR Books Newsletter February 10, 2024

https://view.nl.npr.org/?qs=ae08a3308a7119de5d109f10fc875cd9b18b347cda4cb19f48b4bf160c0b35416adbd3dd15cdca24654a0fabb48445f817257fc9128a2790ca9f00c74e56fb17550ff749b4d51047efdf3a2f18d010f27323a87e227fd5eb

Nadel, Dan. 2023.

All hail the King of Fantasy Art [Frank Frazetta].

Taschen Magazine (2023/24): 98-107

Funimation App Shuts Down on April 2 as Its Accounts Merge With Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll will not support Funimation digital copies

posted on 2024-02-07 by Rafael Antonio Pineda

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-02-07/funimation-app-shuts-down-on-april-2-as-its-accounts-merge-with-crunchyroll/.207344

Sham Schulz Original Peanuts Art Auction

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/11/sham-schulz-original-peanuts-art-auction/

Alfredo Castelli – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/10/alfredo-castelli-rip/

Alfredo Castelli

https://www.cartoonclubrimini.com/en/ospite/alfredo-castelli-2/

In Memoriam: Italian comic creator Alfredo Castelli, creator of Martin Mystére

By John Freeman on February 7, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-italian-comic-creator-alfredo-castelli-creator-of-martin-mystere/

In Memoriam: Comic artist and Crypto comic pioneer, José Delbo

By John Freeman on February 8, 2024

https://downthetubes.net/in-memoriam-comic-artist-and-crypto-comic-pioneer-jose-delbo/

'The Magic of Raina Is Real'

How the cartoonist Raina Telgemeier, the author of Smile, Sisters, and Guts, turned the anxious kid into a hero for the 21st century

By Jordan Kisner

February 6, 2024

Atlantic March 2024)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/raina-telgemeier-cartoonist-smile-guts-books/677180/

For Better or For Worse comic artist Lynn Johnston ventures into kids books

Famed North Vancouver cartoonist Lynn Johnston's new series of kids books follow the adventures of 9-year-old Timothy Bot

Mina Kerr-Lazenby, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

North Shore News Feb 6, 2024

https://www.nsnews.com/local-news/lynn-johnston-alottabotz-8213914

The Final Days of 'Coyote vs. Acme': Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time | Exclusive

Warner was seeking $75 – $80 million but rejected offers from Netflix, Amazon and Paramount, insiders tell TheWrap

Drew Taylor

February 9, 2024

https://www.thewrap.com/coyote-vs-acme-update-offers-warner-bros/

Over Two Weeks Ago, Our Store Had to Shut Down

Nothing like a surprise flood to really kick things off hot for 2024.

Brandon Schatz

Feb 11, 2024

https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/over-two-weeks-ago-our-store-had

A Graphic Novel Finds a Relatable Hero in a Modern African Woman

The "Aya" series explores the pains and pleasures of everyday life in a working-class neighborhood in West Africa.

By Elian Peltier

Feb. 10, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/books/aya-of-yop-city-comic-book.html

Melissa Flores on the impact of Spider-Gwen, new villains, and writing 'Giant-Size Spider-Gwen'

David Brooke

February 5, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/05/spider-gwen-giant-size-qa-melissa-flores/

Visual Chameleon: Talking Art and Empress with Stuart Immonen

Read our extended chat with the art giant about his new book with Mark Millar

By David Harper

May 3, 2016

https://sktchd.com/art-feature/visual-chameleon-talking-art-and-empress-with-stuart-immonen/

Cirocco Dunlap's 'The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy' Scrubs in with Alien Humor and Humanoid Feeling
Karen Idelson
By Karen Idelson
February 6, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/cirocco-dunlaps-the-second-best-hospital-in-the-galaxy-scrubs-in-with-alien-humor-and-humanoid-feeling/
March '24 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 338).

Saturday, February 10, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/9/2024

In Memoriam: José Delbo
Scoop February 9 2024

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=272836

José Delbo, Classic "Wonder Woman" and "Transformers" Artist, Dead at 90

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | February 6th, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/jose-delbo-obit/

Estelle Nadel, Writer of "The Girl Who Sang," Dead at 88

By Chris Cole | January 11th, 2024
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/estelle-nadel/

Ian Gibson, Co-Creator of "The Ballad of Halo Jones," Dead at 77

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | December 12th, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/ian-gibson-obit/

Richard Moll, the Voice of Batman: The Animated Series' Two-Face, Dead at 80

By Christopher Chiu-Tabet | October 28th, 2023
http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/richard-moll-obit/

Who Wants Some Statistics About French Comics?

We have some statistics from one of the most successful comic book publishing countries in the world,, France.

08 Feb 2024

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/who-wants-some-statistics-about-french-comics/

ICV2 INTERVIEW: FORMER DC PRESIDENT JENETTE KAHN,

PART 1: Getting Hired as Publisher at 28, the First Woman in Management, the Early Days;PART 2: Creator's Rights, Karen Berger and the British Invasion, the Batman Movie, Vertigo and Milestone, More

Milton Griepp on February 9, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56197/icv2-interview-former-dc-president-jenette-kahn-part-1 and https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56196/icv2-interview-former-dc-president-jenette-kahn-part-2

GEORGE O'CONNOR MOVES FROM GREEK GODS TO NORSE MYTHS FOR NEW SERIES

'Asgardians' Graphic Novels Launching from First Second in March 2024

Brigid Alverson on February 8, 2024

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/56192/george-oconnor-moves-greek-gods-norse-myths-new-series

Paul Cornell Saucer Country Dr Who Hammer Holmes and More

word balloon February 8 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uTQXt3X6IA

Super Heroes Assemble kicks off with a 'Marvel's Spider-Man' children's series

Christian Angeles

02/09/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/super-heroes-assemble-kicks-off-with-a-marvels-spider-man-childrens-series/

Friday Night's A Great Night (For Football) – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | February 9, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/friday-nights-a-great-night-for-football-this-weeks-links/

We didn't expect this phenomenon to last': France's comic-book tradition is hitting new heights

The market for bédé visual storytelling almost doubled over the course of the pandemic, but can the birthplace of Asterix continue to nurture creators?

Phil Hoad

@phlode

Tue 6 Feb 2024 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/06/france-comic-book-tradition-is-hitting-new-heights

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 604: The 2024 Angouleme International Comics Festival

Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons

on 02/05/2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1295

ImageText Volume 14, Issue 3 (2024)

https://imagetextjournal.com/category/volume-14-issue-3/

Interviews with Queer Cartoonists from the 1980s-1990s: Hope Barrett, N. Leigh Dunlap, Rebecca Gordon, Sina Shamsavari

by Ansley Burtch, Britney Megnath, Brooke Tymoniewicz, Julia Whisenhunt, and Margaret Galvan

https://imagetextjournal.com/burtch-interviews/

Comics as Heterotopic Medium: Lucy Knisley's Graphic Memoir Displacement as Exemplar of Heterotopic Comics

By Laura L. Beadling

https://imagetextjournal.com/beadling-heterotopic/

Shaping Post-Colonial Identity: Cossacks and Ukrainian Comics

By Svitlana Stupak

https://imagetextjournal.com/stupak-shaping/

Review of Strong Bonds: Child-Animal Relationships in Comics, ed. Maaheen Ahmed

By Hiba Aleem

https://imagetextjournal.com/aleem-ahmed/

Review of Christopher Gavaler's The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images

By Sam Cowling

https://imagetextjournal.com/cowling-gavaler/

Review of Scott Bukatman's Black Panther

By Rachel M. Hartnett

https://imagetextjournal.com/hartnett-bukatman/

Review of Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer's Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

By Karen Libby

https://imagetextjournal.com/libby-ellis/

Review of Mylo Choy's Middle Distance: A Graphic Memoir

By Brandon Murakami

https://imagetextjournal.com/murakami-choy/

Oh, mother

In Spring 2023, Melina P. Himenez and Cody Paddack taught IDH2930 – Bring Your Own Graphic Novels, an Uncommon Reads course through the UF Honors…

https://imagetextjournal.com/delcanal-ferreira/

Graphic Novels and Their Merits to Memoirs

In Spring 2023, Melina P. Himenez and Cody Paddack taught IDH2930 – Bring Your Own Graphic Novels, an Uncommon Reads course through the UF Honors…

https://imagetextjournal.com/rodriguez-valdes-kairalla/

Tshetu, Peter Jr. and Pindayi, Brian (2024) "Film Review: No Straight Lines—The Rise of Queer Comics,"Journal of International Women's Studies: Vol. 26: Iss. 1, Article 19.

Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol26/iss1/19 or https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3223&context=jiws

Paolo Armelli

February 7 2024

È morto Alfredo Castelli, creatore di Martin Mystère e gigante del fumetto italiano

https://www.wired.it/article/alfredo-castelli-morto-martin-mystere-fumetti/

Reingold, Matt. 2024.

Bauer, Heike, Andrea Greenbaum, and Sarah Lightman, Eds. Jewish Women in Comics: Bodies and Borders [book review].

Contemporary Jewry (February 1): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12397-023-09538-2 or https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12397-023-09538-2

Subhan Asra, M. 2024. Analysis of infrastructure-superstructure on platform and practices of Line webtoon Indonesia. Jurnal Mantik, 7 (4; February): 3400-3410.

online at https://doi.org/10.35335/mantik.v7i4.4793 or https://iocscience.org/ejournal/index.php/mantik/article/view/4793

Dave Baker cracks comics wide open with 'Mary Tyler MooreHawk'

The writer-artist talks about the book's infusion of prose, challenging readers, exploring pop culture, and writing for yourself.

Chris Coplan

February 6, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/06/mary-tyler-moorehawk-feature/

X-Men Monday #238 – Steve Foxe Discusses 'Dead X-Men' #1

Chris Hassan

February 5, 2024

https://aiptcomics.com/2024/02/05/x-men-monday-238-steve-foxe-dead-x-men/

Frank Renlie – RIP

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/02/08/frank-renlie-rip/

Who is Handala, the barefoot, spiky-haired boy who symbolizes Palestinian resistance?

Hadeel Al-Shalchi

All Things Considered February 6, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1228097975/handala-naji-al-ali-cartoon-palestinian-symbol

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2024/02/20240209_atc_who_is_handala_the_barefoot_spiky-haired_boy_who_symbolizes_palestinian_resistance.mp3

Cartoonist Bill Griffith on "Nancy" and "Zippy the Pinhead"

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn February 9, 2024
https://www.npr.org/2024/02/09/1197956775/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn-cartoonist-bill-griffith

https://chrt.fm/track/138C95/prfx.byspotify.com/e/play.podtrac.com/npr-510309/traffic.megaphone.fm/NPR9405210753.mp3

FIGHTING TO BELONG! Explores Vital AANHPI Historical Events Through Time-Traveling Kids

by Tai Gooden

Feb 6 2024

https://nerdist.com/article/fighting-to-belong-graphic-novel-interview-author-amy-chu-aanhpi-historical-events-through-time-traveling-kids/

Why Bob Iger Is So High on 'Moana 2' and What It Means for the Live-Action Pic

The surprise announcement that the sequel will hit theaters this Thanksgiving likely means that the Dwayne Johnson remake will move out of 2025 to provide some distance between the two movies.

By Aaron Couch, Pamela McClintock

February 8, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/moana-2-2025-remake-1235819635/

Animation Legend Ron Husband Helped Launch Louis Vuitton's New Fall Fashion Line

By Amid Amidi | 02/08/2024

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/fashion/animation-legend-ron-husband-helped-launch-louis-vuittons-new-fall-fashion-line-237882.html

Michael de Adder on former WaPo job at X/Twitter

February 09, 2024

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2024/02/michael-de-adder-on-former-wapo-job-at.html

Watch: 'The Boy and the Heron' Producer Toshio Suzuki Talks Miyazaki and the Future of Animation

By Mercedes Milligan

February 8, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/02/watch-the-boy-and-the-heron-producer-toshio-suzuki-talks-miyazaki-and-the-future-of-animation/