My zoom book launch is happening on May 12 @7pm EST–sign up here for the zoom link! I'll be in conversation with Sacha Mardou, who wrote Past Tense, a graphic memoir about unpacking family secrets using IFS therapy. MK Czerwiec, an organizer of Graphic Medicine, and the author of Taking Turns, a graphic memoir about working as a nurse during the AIDS crisis, will moderate. And my editor, Francesca Lyn, will share some opening remarks. I'm really looking forward to this! If you'd like to check out my graphic memoir, Everything is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder, before the event, it's at your local bookshop or indie books and you can request the book from your library, too. Thanks for being part of this journey with me. Thanks for reading Soft Things: comics about science, research, and being human. I create narrative comics that intertwine research and storytelling to make science relatable. My comics have been featured in the Washington Post and Mutha Magazine, among other outlets. My graphic memoir is forthcoming from Street Noise Books in April 2025. You can pre-order it from your local bookstore and elsewhere. If you're new here, welcome! You might wonder why I'm curious about shame, why this newsletter is called Soft Things, and who the heck I am, anyway. For more comics, check out my Instagram: @cara_gormally and website. |
Friday, April 04, 2025
Cara Gormally's Zoom book launch
Apr 20: Box Brown at Fantom

at 3pm we're hosting cartoonist @boxbrown all the way from Philly for a signing to discuss his comic LEGALIZATION NATION, about the weed legalization movement.
then at 6pm, local music legend @sire.u closes out the day with a DJ set.
free 420 gifts provided by our neighbors at @yana.creatives!
entry to the bracelet event & music set is $10 (tix at link in bio), or free with a purchase of Legalization Nation.
NPR on Daredevil: Born Again
2025 is a year of on-screen superheroes – but where are they?
'Daredevil: Born Again' delivers street level justice

Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock in Daredevil: Born Again
Tom King profile in The 51st
This famous D.C. creator is revitalizing DC Comics
His works on Arlington's android Avenger and Wonder Woman's battles on the White House lawn are putting the District in DC.
Jay Deitcher
The 51st Apr 3, 2025
https://51st.news/meet-the-dc-creator-revitalizing-dc-comics/
June 8: Jim Calafiore at Comic Logic
WaPo graphic novel reviews
4 new graphic novels to fill your spring days with color and mystery
Prepare to rethink ancient myths, explore the depths of the human mind and do more in these new books by Anders Nilsen, María Medem, Jason Novak and Rachel Ang.
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/3/2025
CSotD: A Sad Sack of Different Things [Trump tariffs editorial cartoons]
Mike Peterson
April 3, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/04/03/csotd-a-sad-sack-of-different-things/
Cartoonist Joins Haddam Killingworth News [Robert Summers; "Shiver Me Timbers"]
By Joanne Nesti
Haddam Killingworth News April 2, 2025
https://hk-now.com/2025/04/02/cartoonist-joins-haddam-killingworth-news/
DARK HORSE TO SHUT DOWN TFAW SITE In One of Several 'Tough Decisions'
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59231/dark-horse-shut-down-tfaw-site
TFAW.Com To Close, Next Week's Subs Will Be Their Last
TFAW.Com to close, next week's subscriptions will be their last, site will close at the end of the month, stores will continue
02 Apr 2025 Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/tfaw-com-to-close-next-weeks-subs-will-be-their-last/
MY FATHER - SerioComics 60 + Q&A with Author Shannon Wheeler
Dave Cowen and David Cowen
SerioComics Mar 21, 2025 https://seriocomics.substack.com/p/my-father-seriocomics-60-q-and-a
Interview: Writer Tim Sheridan on STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS #7
By Avery Kaplan on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-writer-tim-sheridan-on-star-trek-lower-decks-7/
UDON SWITCHES BOOK DISTRIBUTOR, BAD IDEA ADDS CANADA:Comic, Graphic Novel Distribution Changes Round-Up
Milton Griepp on April 3, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59233/udon-switches-book-distributor-bad-idea-adds-canada
Clive Revill, Original Voice of Emperor Palpatine in 'Star Wars,' Dies at 94
His voice can be heard for only a minute in "The Empire Strikes Back," but it provided the first draft of a character that would be a mainstay of the franchise for decades.
Sopan Deb
A version of this article appears in print on April 2, 2025, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: Clive Revill, 94, Icy Voice Of Emperor in 'Star Wars'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/movies/clive-revill-star-wars-dead.html
Montgomery County art teacher publishes 8th children's book on space adventures [Jonathan Roth]
April 2, 2025
INTERVIEW: Alex Segura and Sara Century talk new comic, THE FORGOTTEN FIVE
Zack Quaintance on 04/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-alex-segura-and-sara-century-talk-new-comic-the-forgotten-five/
Barrie, Ont. collector sells rare $30K Spider-Man comic from 1962 [Amazing Fantasy No. 15]
By Julianna Balsamo
March 28, 2025
https://www.ctvnews.ca/barrie/article/barrie-ont-collector-sells-rare-30k-spiderman-comic-from-1962/
Montreal indie comic shop part of changing game in the industry
CTV News
Mar 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rv6BScugmk
Reviews: Welcome to Casa Baba
Hagai Palevsky | April 3, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/welcome-to-casa-baba/
Win or Lose: Pixar Animator Posts Kai's Original Trans Storyline Look
Pixar animator Danny Barnhart shared a look at the care given to Kai's original Win or Lose transgender storyline before Disney pulled it.
01 Apr 2025 20:07:07 -0500 by Ray Flook
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/win-or-lose-pixar-animator-posts-kais-original-trans-storyline-look/
Welcome to Casa Baba
Jurijs Tatarkins, Jindrich Janiček, and Giulia Cellino
kuš!
Holy Art Show, Batman! Comic-Inspired Works by Fountain House Artists Land in Hell's Kitchen
by Dashiell Allen
January 9, 2025
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
by Sam Langsdale
University of Texas Press September 17, 2024
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477329788/
Out of the Gutters: Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics
Edited by Jorge J. Santos and Patrick Lawrence
University of Texas Press
2025
https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477331804/
Foreword. Your Obscene Is Not Mine: A Defense of the Art of Comics (Frederick Luis Aldama)
Introduction. "A Cultural Slaughter of the Innocents" (Patrick S. Lawrence and Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
Timeline of Significant Events
Part One. Out of the Gutters: Comics' History of Obscenity
1. Why Sex? (Hillary Chute)
2. "Wise Up, Old Hags! Th' Weak One Is a Valuable Possession to Us": R. Crumb's Bible of Filth and Obscenity as Artificial Scarcity (Patrick S. Lawrence)
3. Howard Cruse's War on the War on Obscenity (Andrew J. Kunka)
4. Obscene Histories: Indexing the Racial Phantasms of Blazing Combat (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
Part Two. Obscenity in the Gutters and at the Margins
5. Graphic Storytelling, Book Challengers, and Obscenity (Richard S. Price)
6. Big-Boned Sapphic Smut: The Reading Pleasure of Comics by and about Black Women (Cathy Thomas)
7. Robert Kirkman's Gays in the Gutter: Anti-Queer Censorship, Obscenity, and The Walking Dead (Jarred Wiehe)
Part Three. Theorizing the Obscene, Seeing Obscenity
8. Planet Xeno: Obscenity as Erotic Alienation in Charles Burns (Jordan Carroll)
9. Seen, Unseen, and Obscene: Historical Violence in Comic Books (Jennifer Caplan)
10. Obscene Empathy: Kink and the Comics Code Authority in X-Men's "Dark Phoenix Saga" (Anthony D'Agostino)
11. Boobs + Monsters: Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Horror Comics, and the Fate of Disciplinary Normalization in the Twenty-First Century (Lee Konstantinou)
Afterword. A Conversation about Community with MariNaomi (Jorge J. Santos Jr.)
AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
Regan Chambers-Kleiner
Headlines & Heroes: Newspapers, Comics & More Fine Print 04/03/2025
https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2025/04/ahha-discovering-black-hispanic-and-indigenous-comic-book-creators/
'A Really Off-Base Comment': Frieren: Beyond Journey's End Originally Written Off as Not 'Charming' Enough by Official Publisher
By Nic Guastella
March 31 2025
https://www.cbr.com/frieren-not-charming-publisher/
'Stories About Overthrowing the Government Are No Longer Allowed': Anime Censorship Overseas Adding to Broadcast Woes [China]
By Renee Senzatimore
April 1 2025 https://www.cbr.com/anime-censorship-broadcast-difficult/
#32 Book birthdays
Books & babies arrive early sometimes
Cara Gormally
Soft Things: Comics about science, research, & being human! Apr 03, 2025
https://caragormally.substack.com/p/32-book-birthdays
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Jason Chatfield
DMA#1: Draw Me Anything!
Process Junkie! Apr 3, 2025
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything
Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."
April 03, 2025
Cul de Sac blog https://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html
ComicsDC blog
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/04/jason-chatfield-i-consider-richard.html
Disney's 'Tangled' Live-Action Movie Hits the Pause Button (Exclusive)
Borys Kit, Mia Galuppo
April 3, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tangled-live-action-remake-pause-disney-1236180940/
Fanbase Press Interviews Kwento Comics' Waverley and Cecilia Lim on Their Return to Kickstarter for 'The Mask of Haliya Volume 2: Echoes of the Forgotten Past' in Collaboration with Clover Press
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
March 28, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56527-fanbase-press-interviews-kwento-comics-waverley-and-cecilia-lim-on-their-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-mask-of-haliya-volume-2-echoes-of-the-forgotten-past-in-collaboration/
Fanbase Press Interviews Jorge Jiménez on the Kickstarter Campaign Launch for 'The DC Art of Jorge Jiménez' with Clover Press
Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
April 1, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56540-fanbase-press-interviews-jorge-jimenez-on-the-kickstarter-campaign-launch-for-the-dc-art-of-jorge-jimenez-with-clover-press/
CinemaCon: Warner Bros. Pictures Animation Teases Slate of Updated Classics and New Originals
Animation Magazine
April 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/04/cinemacon-warner-bros-pictures-animation-teases-slate-of-updated-classics-and-new-originals/
Fantastic Planet: A Surreal, Unsettling Allegory of Oppression Systemic dehumanization, cutout animation, and avant-garde jazz [France].
Kali Wallace
Reactor April 2, 2025
https://reactormag.com/fantastic-planet-a-surreal-unsettling-allegory-of-oppression/
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything
Cara Gormally's Everything Is Fine, I'll Just Work Harder comes out next week
#32 Book birthdays
Books & babies arrive early sometimes
Description
One queer person bravely and creatively uses therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault
One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara's watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to "friend" them.
Cara always had a long to-do list; always had many projects; always was busy. But as their rapist continued to send friend requests and tried to reconnect with them, they began to lose their grip on their work, projects, and relationships. But then Cara connects with a therapist who guides them through a long but powerful process of healing. And Cara works to desensitize, reprocess, excavate and relive the old wounds in order to move past them and heal.
AHHA! Discovering Black, Hispanic and Indigenous Comic Book Creators
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/2/2025
TFAW.com to close down April 30
Heidi MacDonald on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/tfaw-com-closing-down-april-30/
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: NEW CEO AT VIZ, NEW PUBLISHER AT ABRAMS COMICARTS
Co-Founder Leaves Massive, Industry Vet to SDCC
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59223/people-move-new-ceo-viz-new-publisher-abrams-comicarts
YEN ADDS NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM From NTT Solmare Corp. [MangaPlaza]
Milton Griepp on April 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59221/yen-adds-new-digital-platform
Sol Brager ferments inter-generational anxiety with their memoir, Heavyweight
Tina Horn | April 2, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/sol-brager-ferments-inter-generational-anxiety-with-their-memoir-heavyweight/
Reviews: Give Me Liberty! A Revised History of the American Revolution
Kristian Williams | April 2, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/give-me-liberty-a-revised-history-of-the-american-revolution/
Fox Gives Huge Four-Season Pickups to 'The Simpsons,' 'Family Guy' and 'Bob's Burgers'
'American Dad' will also officially return to the network in 2025-26.
Rick Porter
April 2, 2025
'Devil May Cry' Creator Adi Shankar Introduces Netflix's New Demon Hunter
Jeff Spry
April 1, 2025
This article was written for the
April '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 349).
Interview: Nick Winn on how Pendleton Ward's boy band inspired ADVENTURE TIME #1
Ollie Kaplan on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nick-winn-on-how-pendleton-wards-boy-band-inspired-adventure-time-1/
'Superman' Stars Unveil Krypto-Heavy New Footage and Recall "Witnessing the Magic of Cinema"
James Gunn and his cast brought DC Studios' first movie to Las Vegas.
By Ryan Gajewski, Aaron Couch
April 1, 2025
Dav Pilkey Topped Canada's Bestseller Lists in 2024
By Jim Milliot
Apr 02, 2025 https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/international/international-book-news/article/97460-dav-pilkey-topped-canada-s-bestseller-lists-in-2024.html
Bologna Children's Book Fair 2025: Going Graphic
By Ed Nawotka
Apr 02, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/97470-bologna-children-s-book-fair-2025-going-graphic.html
Somebody shoots first in the Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld trailer
The animated anthology series returns to Disney+ on Star Wars Day (May 4).
By Mary Kate Carr | April 2, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/star-wars-tales-of-the-underworld-trailer
Common Side Effects skewers big pharma with deadpan humor and expressive animation
Adult Swim's surreal new series centers on a cure-all drug that the government wants to keep under wraps.
By Kambole Campbell | January 27, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/common-side-effects-review-tv-adult-swim
Proxima doesn't speak in Endgame because Marvel reportedly didn't want to pay Carrie Coon more
The actor would have made a bigger deal about it, but didn't want to watch the movie.
By Drew Gillis | April 2, 2025 https://www.avclub.com/carrie-coon-avengers-endgame-pay
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
The launch of GPT-4o inspired a rash of A.I.-generated Studio Ghibli-style images. They may bode worse for audiences than for artists.
By Kyle Chayka
April 2, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-limits-of-ai-generated-miyazaki
The "Snow White" Controversy, Like Our Zeitgeist, Is Both Stupid and Sinister
Placing the failure of the live-action remake largely at Rachel Zegler's feet is almost perversely flattering to her.
By Jessica Winter
April 1, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-snow-white-controversy-like-our-zeitgeist-is-both-stupid-and-sinister
SOUTH PARK Season 27 teases new war with Canada and the return of Starvin' Marvin
Taimur Dar on 04/02/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/south-park-season-27-announced/
Awesome Con Celebrates the Geek in All of Us
Randy Shulman
Metro Weekly March 31, 2025
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/03/awesome-con-celebrates-the-geek-in-all-of-us/
Komicxs Dialectic [Uncivilized Books; Tom Kaczynski]
Drawing With Gabrielle Bell
Mar 25, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzQXoqRrUAY
#217: Anthony Cleveland and Alex Cormack - Buried Long, Long Ago
Justin Soderberg Apr 2, 2025 Capes and Tights Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn5Hh_hOXKQ
Ithacon Preview With Don Simpson
word balloon April 2 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJMFMDFgWk8
Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation (with Sean T. Collins and Julia Gfrörer)
Jesse Hawken
Junk Filter 208: April 1 2025
https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/jesse-hawken/episodes/208-Francis-Ford-Coppola-The-Conversation-with-Sean-T--Collins-and-Julia-Gfrrer-e30vlue
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Metro Weekly recommends Awesome Con
Awesome Con Celebrates the Geek in All of Us
"Awesome Con is a happy place for a lot of people," says Heather Barnes of the annual event landing in D.C. April 4 to 6.
Metro Weekly March 31, 2025
https://www.metroweekly.com/2025/03/awesome-con-celebrates-the-geek-in-all-of-us/
PR: SPX Announces Funny Pages at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center
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