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Tuesday, September 06, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/3-4-5/22

Diane Noomin – RIP

by D. D. Degg

September 2, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/02/diane-noomin-rip/

Paper Girls Sales Quadruple After Amazon Prime Video TV Show

September 2, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/paper-girls-sales-quadruple-after-amazon-prime-video-tv-show/

Rob Liefeld Vs. Mike Carlin Over Hawk & Dove From 1988

September 3, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefeld-vs-mike-carlin-over-hawk-dove-from-1988/

King of Collectibles [Ted Hake]

Samantha Drake CGS'06

25 Aug 2022

https://thepenngazette.com/king-of-collectibles/

Warner Bros. figures it might as well cancel DC FanDome while they're at it

Like Batgirl, DC's own virtual fan event is no longer on the calendar.

Matt Schimkowitz

AV Club September 1 2022

https://www.avclub.com/warner-bros-cancels-dc-fandome-while-they-re-at-it-1849487859

The Persinger Scrapbook: An Esoteric and Ephemeral Cultural Artifact

by Stu McIntire

September 05, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-persinger-scrapbook-esoteric-and.html

Andy Marlette & Pensacola News Journal Part Ways

by D. D. Degg

September 3, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/03/andy-marlette-and-pensacola-news-journal-part/

Waco Tribune-Herald Replaces Comics With Puzzles

by D. D. Degg

September 4, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/04/waco-tribune-herald-replaces-comics-with-puzzles/

Cartoonist Stephan Pastis revisited

Tom Falco

10 with Tom blog September 2, 2022

https://10withtom.com/2022/09/02/cartoonist-stephan-pastis-revisited/

Masha Zhdanova Takes 2022 Locher Award

by D. D. Degg

September 2, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/02/masha-zhdanova-takes-2022-locher-award/

'The Catholic Cartoon': This 19-year-old wants to bring a comic from Instagram to your parish bulletin [religion]

Cristobal Spielmann

August 31, 2022

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2022/08/31/catholic-cartoon-joshua-masterson-243654

35 years of 'Off The Mark' [Mark Parisi]

By Joann Mackenzie

Sep 3, 2022

https://www.gloucestertimes.com/news/35-years-of-off-the-mark/article_f61da2ae-2897-11ed-a6fd-db258102c13f.html

Sept. 2, 2022

A Genius Cartoonist Believes Child's Play Is Anything But Frivolous [Lynda Barry]

By David Marchese

Photograph by Mamadi Doumbouya

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/05/magazine/lynda-barry-interview.html

After a Climate Catastrophe, These Birds Flocked to the Moon

By Etelka Lehoczky

BIRDS OF MAINE, by Michael DeForge | Illustrated | 459 pp. | Drawn & Quarterly | $34.95

A version of this article appears in print on Sept. 4, 2022, Page 13 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Winging It.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/books/review/after-a-climate-catastrophe-these-birds-flocked-to-the-moon.html

Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences

Editors:

Robert Aman,

Lars Wallner

Palgrave Macmillan 2022

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-05194-4

Front Matter

Pages i-xix

PDF

Introduction: Teaching with Comics: Empirical, Analytical, and Professional Experiences

Robert Aman, Lars Wallner

Pages 1-13

Comics as a Tool for Inquiry

Front Matter

Pages 15-15

PDF

Breaking Boundaries: The Place of Comics in Art Education

Clio Ding

Pages 17-37

The Superpowers of the Interrogative Mode

Noran Amin

Pages 39-62

Comics and Social-Emotional Laughter

Dona Pursall

Pages 63-84

Art Education

Front Matter

Pages 85-85

PDF

Comic Art Ed: Making Comics Is for Everyone!

Cathy G. Johnson

Pages 87-109

Cartooning in Educational Contexts: A Promising Way to Promote Cross-Curricular Work with Children and Adolescents

Ana Pedrazzini, Constanza Zinkgräf, Paola D'Adamo, Lucía Bugallo, Mariana Lozada

Pages 111-130

Loosening the Straight-Away of Thinking: Comic-Making as Arts Education

Hannah Sackett

Pages 131-150

Language, Culture, and Communication

Front Matter

Pages 151-151

PDF

'Multi Is More': Towards Media-Awareness and Multiliteracy in the Flemish Classroom Through Italian Comics

Eva Van de Wiele, Michel De Dobbeleer, Mara Santi

Pages 153-169

Astérix in Scottish National Education

Laurence Grove

Pages 171-184

Developing Disciplinary Literacy Practices with Comics: Highlighting Students' Strengths, Questionings, and Knowings in School Spaces

Ashley K. Dallacqua, Dani Kachorsky, Sara Kersten-Parrish

Pages 185-203

Developing Student Creativity Through the Exploration and Design of Science Comics

Sylvia Pantaleo

Pages 205-228

Social Sciences

Front Matter

Pages 229-229

PDF

Using Comics to Teach East German History

Michael F. Scholz

Pages 231-253

#BlackFemaleIdentityConstructions: Inserting Intersectionality and Blackness in Comics

Grace D. Gipson

Pages 255-276

Materializing the Past: Teaching History Through Graphic Novels

Zane Elward

Pages 277-297

Immigrant Voices and Empathy: A Guide to Transformative Listening in Ruillier's Les Mohamed

Kirby Childress

Pages 299-323

Sep 18, 2021 • 45M

A Conversation With Grant Morrison

The full audio and transcript, at last!

Jonathan Hickman

3 Worlds 3 Moons

Sep 18, 2021

https://3w3m.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-grant-morrison#details

Tokyo Rose: Zero Hour and the History of Japanese Characters in Comics

Eileen Gonzalez Aug 30, 2022

https://bookriot.com/japanese-characters-in-comics/

Jemisin and Campbell's FAR SECTOR comes out on top at the 2022 Hugo Awards [Green Lantern]

Dean Simons

09/05/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/jemisin-and-campbells-far-sector-comes-out-on-top-at-the-2022-hugo-awards/

Emerald City Comic Con 2022: Which Creators Make Other Creators Ask, "How Are They So Good?!"

David Harper

Sep 2, 2022

SKTCHD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDpInhAak_U

Nailed It: Comic Artists on the Page, Panel, Cover, or Detail That Was Just Right

By David Harper

August 30, 2022

https://sktchd.com/column/nailed-it-comic-artists-on-the-page-panel-cover-or-detail-that-was-just-right/

Topical Reviews: From Krakow to Krypton: Jews and Comic Books and Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed!

Samantha Baskind

2011, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29:2 : 165-168

https://www.academia.edu/12465298/From_Krakow_to_Krypton_Jews_and_Comic_Books_and_Masters_of_the_Comic_Book_Universe_Revealed_book_review_2_books_

Topical Reviews: Harvey Pekar: Conversations

Jordana Hall

2011, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29:2 : 165-168

Online at https://www.academia.edu/12465298/From_Krakow_to_Krypton_Jews_and_Comic_Books_and_Masters_of_the_Comic_Book_Universe_Revealed_book_review_2_books_

Monday, September 05, 2022

A very nice review of my Harvey Pekar: Conversations books

I found this by accident tonight while looking up the first author's reviews -

Topical Reviews: Harvey Pekar: Conversations

Jordana Hall

2011, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 29:2 : 165-168

Online at https://www.academia.edu/12465298/From_Krakow_to_Krypton_Jews_and_Comic_Books_and_Masters_of_the_Comic_Book_Universe_Revealed_book_review_2_books_

It's 11 years later, but Ms. Hall's review gave me the warm fuzzies on the last day of summer, as I mope about no longer being able to swim outdoors for another 9 months.

She ends her review with this very kind paragraph:

To those unfamiliar with American Splendor, Conversations is an excellent
introduction to the comics and their creator. To fans of Pekar's work, the book provides insight into the author, his personal tastes, and his creative process. What is more, the conversations with his artist collaborators offer an inside look at the entire production process. Taken together the twenty-one interviews are informative and entertaining, with humorous outbursts from Joyce Brabner, who also gets her say in the later pieces. Harvey Pekar: Conversations is an important book for any scholar or enthusiast of comics.

These Conversations books are labors of love - I may have made $50 on this one, but I doubt it - and great resources. I buy all of them. I wish I had time to do more - a Herblock one was discussed with Tom Inge before his death, and there's plenty of other non-comic book cartoonists who deserve collections.

Alex Bowman places as finalist in Locher Award

Here's the details. Local cartoonist Ann Telnaes was also a judge.

http://locheraward.org/news/2022/9/2/announcing-the-2022-locher-award

The Persinger Scrapbook: An Esoteric and Ephemeral Cultural Artifact

by Stu McIntire

ser·en·dip·i·ty
/ˌserənˈdipədē/
noun
the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
"a fortunate stroke of serendipity"

Fredonia, Kansas is a small town (population <2,500) in the southeastern region of the State. It is surrounded by farmland and is an atypical representation of mid-American life... a living celebration of faith, family and community. It's the type of place where high school sports and the annual Homecoming event are a Big Deal.

A barber shop once existed on N. 6th Street, run by a gentleman named I.A. Persinger. Persinger's establishment, called The Bungalow, was approximately a block over and a block up from my grandparent's house on N. 7th Street, which was on a corner across the street from the high school.

The Bungalow was known to draw customers from at least as far away as Moline, in Elk County, some 40 miles away. That was no small thing during the Depression when resources were scarce. It was almost certainly a communal spot. While customers waited, they could peruse and write in, or sign, a delightfully unique item that Persinger created. It began as a scrapbook in which the barber collected his favorite newspaper comic strip, Wash Tubbs (Roy Crane was the creator of the strip from April 14, 1924 - May 29, 1943).

What set Persinger's Scrapbook apart from "any other" scrapbook were the notations and commentary Persinger added, along with scribblings penned by delighted customers. Persinger's Scrapbook is notable, as has been described by researchers and scholars, as a diary, almanac, and news source. Some of the comments Persinger penned read almost as quaint, humorous and poetic high school yearbook inscriptions.

This is no typical scrapbook. It tips the scales at some 35 pounds and is at least a foot thick, if not more so. It was lovingly collected, collated and bound over a number of years by its owner and willingly shared with the public. It survived (surprisingly intact, considering its handling) decades of constant page-turning and reading not to mention the ravages of decay common to pulp materials.

To our good fortune, the Columbia University Libraries are now the custodians of the Persinger Scrapbook. The link here is to a video presented by Library staff that describes the challenges faced when deciding how best to restore this treasure for future generations. The goal, if it can be achieved, is to digitize as much of the content as possible and to make it available as an eBook. Watch the video through and share in the glee expressed by the presenters. While doing so, give a thanks to Maggie Thompson for her considerable efforts to this happen.

On a personal note, though Persinger predated me and the rest of my family, he was active in Fredonia for the decades of my grandfather's young adulthood and middle age. They were neighbors and possibly friends. It is entirely possible that Persinger was my grandfather's barber. It is possible my grandfather held the Persinger Scrapbook and read through it. (My grandfather was a comic strip fan from his childhood days of Alphonse & Gaston, Bringing Up Father, Foxy Grandpa, and the Yellow Kid). If I may dream... it's entirely possible the Persinger Scrapbook includes one or more of my grandfather's handwritten messages. Time - and careful conservation - will tell. I, for one, eagerly anticipate seeing the page-by-page high-res scans once Columbia University is able to release a digitized version. That is true even if no sign of my grandfather's hand is detected.

My mother lived out her final years in Fredonia, where she grew up and graduated high school. She and my dad relocated there after my dad's retirement. My mom owned and operated an antique shop for a time. She was a local history buff and would have been ecstatic with this discovery. Even if my mother never knew I.A. Persinger on a personal level, there is no doubt she knew who he was, as well as his wife and daughter. I was made aware of this too late to share with my mom and well beyond the time I could query my grandfather. I've been to Fredonia countless times but do not have a personal history there. I see this as one more connection which though tenuous, is no less treasured.

video:
https://youtu.be/bQoIvoh8iEc

Saturday, September 03, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/2/22

How She-Hulk Reinvents Marvel Villain Team The Wrecking Crew

A quartet of powered-up baddies get a new approach in She-Hulk episode 3.

By Don Kaye | September 1, 2022

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/she-hulk-reinvents-marvel-villain-team-the-wrecking-crew/

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 532: Mad Cave Acquires Papercutz

Calvin Reid and Heidi MacDonald

on 08/26/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1215

DC OPENS NEW DIRECT DISTRIBUTOR In Global Deal with Universal Distribution

by Milton Griepp on September 1, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52055/dc-opens-new-direct-distributor

DC Comics Signs New Deal With Universal, Canadian Distributor

September 1, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-signs-new-deal-with-universal-canadian-distributor/

Rachel Pollack Appeal By Neil Gaiman, Gail Simone, Shelly Bond & More

September 1, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rachel-pollock-appeal-by-neil-gaiman-gail-simone-shelly-bond-more/?mc_cid=b74a6a30d5

Republican Candidate Reported To Police Over Possessing Gender Queer

September 1, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/republican-candidate-reported-to-police-over-possessing-gender-queer/

Those Chosen By The Planet – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | September 2, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/those-chosen-by-the-planet-this-weeks-links/

Area schools remove books under new law that is unlikely to be enforced

Blythe Bernhard

Aug 30, 2022

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/more-st-louis-area-schools-remove-library-books-under-new-law-that-police-are-unlikely/article_72ebfce1-e25c-555a-a2d6-59de46f0054e.html

DC Comics features stereotypical Latino foods on Hispanic Heritage Month covers

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN

August 31, 2022

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/30/entertainment/dc-comics-hispanic-heritage-month-covers-food-cec/index.html

Smash Pages Q&A | Stephen Graham Jones on 'Earthdivers'

JK Parkin

August 29, 2022

https://smashpages.net/2022/08/29/smash-pages-qa-stephen-graham-jones-on-earthdivers/

Stephen Graham Jones on Exploring Morality and Ecology with 'Earthdivers'

Justin Cober-Lake / 29 August 2022

https://www.popmatters.com/stephen-graham-jones-earthdivers-interview

INTERVIEW: All Rise for Joseph P. Illidge, Shawn Martinbrough, and Judge Kim

Wendy Browne August 29, 2022

https://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2022/08/interview-all-rise-for-joseph-p-illidge-shawn-martinbrough-and-judge-kim/

El Alto: graphic novel depicts Bolivia city's future as Indigenous and robotic

Thomas Graham in La Paz

Mon 29 Aug 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/29/el-alto-graphic-novel-bolivia-altopia-future-2053

The creators of 'Blood Oath' on family, violence, and Prohibition

Alex Segura, Rob Hart, and Joe Eisma breakdown their newly-released ComiXology Original.

Chris Coplan

August 30, 2022

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/08/30/blood-oath-creators-qa/

"The Goal Was to Impress Myself": Comics Painter Alex Ross on First Graphic Novel 'Fantastic Four: Full Circle' (Exclusive First Look)

The legendary artist behind seminal 1990s works 'Marvel' and 'Kingdom Come' is changing up his style with the first, major long-form work in years. "There's definitely a risk involved in varying what I do," he says.

Borys Kit

August 30, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/fantastic-four-full-circle-comic-artist-alex-ross-graphic-novel-1235208156/

Larasati, S. D., & Rasikawati, I. (2022). Problems and Strategies in Comics Translation . International Dialogues on Education Journal, 9(1), 61–85. https://doi.org/10.53308/ide.v9i1.276 and https://idejournal.org/index.php/ide/article/view/276

PW Comics World: More To Come

More to Come 531: Interviews from the More To Come Archive [Ben Passmore and Maia Kobabe, Carla Speed McNeil, James Tynion IV]

produced by Kate Fitzsimons

on 08/19/2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1214

Diane Noomin, influential feminist cartoonist and editor has died

Among her achievements was to push for an honest, unflinching look at the female experience in cartooning

Dean Simons

09/02/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/diane-noomin-influential-feminist-cartoonist-and-editor-has-died/

Off Panel #364: To the Moons with Mike Del Mundo, Jonathan Hickman, and Mike Huddleston [Three Worlds/Three Moons aka 3W3M]

David Harper