The Dim Light in the Oval Office by Daniel Boris

May 24: BEAUTIFUL MONSTER LAUNCH EVENT W/ BRIAN BAYNES & RYAN HOLMBERG at Fantom Comics

BEAUTIFUL MONSTER LAUNCH EVENT W/ BRIAN BAYNES & RYAN HOLMBERG
>>SATURDAY, May 24th @ 6:30pm
We will be hosting a live Q&A with Brian Baynes and Ryan Holmberg about Beautiful Monster by Maruo Suehiro. Sixteen short comics from Japan's master of erotic horror. Stories are from 1981-1983 (plus a story from 2000). This is Maruo Suehiro's first book translated into English in nearly 12 years.

Maruo Suehiro (b. 1956) is globally recognized as the master of the erotic grotesque in Japanese art and comics. Since his debut in 1980, his exquisite and often shocking imagery has titillated readers of alternative, pornographic, and young adult manga. His other books in English include the impossible-to-find cult classics Mr. Arashi's Amazing Freak Show (1993) and Ultra-Gash Inferno (2001), and the award-winning The Strange Tale of Panorama Island (2013).

Buy copies in-store or on our website: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/beautiful-monster_0A6C52

Library of Congress' Timeless blog on Edward Gorey

Edward Gorey's Eerie Vision: The Centennial Edition

 Neely Tucker

Library of Congress' Timeless blog May 21, 2025 https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/05/edward-goreys-eerie-vision-the-centennial-edition/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/20/2025

Comic strip goes from doodle to Drabble. It began at the Lariat [Kevin Fagan].

Diane Lach,

Lariat, Volume 14, Number 16, 23 February 1984

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAR19840223.2.16

 

Black cartoonists as political commentators

Exhibit features national comic strip creators

Tracey Tate

Laney Tower, Volume 47, Number 3, 30 September 2010

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LANY20100930.2.21

 

Lesbian cartoonist brings strip to UGD [Bechdel]

By HILARY COSTA Aggie Staff Writer

California Aggie, Volume 121, Number 11, 18 January 2002: 3

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=UCD20020118.2.14

 

'Momma' Cartoonist Speaks: Mell Lazarus

California Aggie 25 September 1981

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=UCD19810925.2.81

 

The Beat Digest 05/20/25: Priest rebooting Red Sonja

Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-052025/

 

Interview: BENJAMIN writer Ben H. Winters on science fiction's 'timelessness'

Ollie Kaplan on 05/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-benjamin-writer-ben-h-winters-on-science-fictions-timelessness/

 

Megan Zinn w/ New Yorker cartoonist & author Harry Bliss: "You Can Never Die."

WHMP Radio's The Kids are Amazing May 19 2025

https://soundcloud.com/whmp/megan-zinn-w-new-yorker-cartoonist-author-harry-bliss-you-can-never-die-4

 

PHR pulling digital versions of BOOM! titles from libraries.

Javier Perez on 05/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/phr-pulling-digital-versions-of-boom-titles-from-libraries/

 

Guest editor Tindall marks Bananaman anniversary [Beano]

12 February 2025 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93lewxkj4no

 

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he has aggressive prostate cancer

The creator of the comic strip satirizing office culture said he has the same type of cancer as former president Joe Biden — but may only have months left to live.

Kelly Kasulis Cho

May 20, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/scott-adams-prostate-cancer-dilbert-biden/

 

Dilbert creator Scott Adams shares prostate cancer diagnosis

"My life expectancy is maybe this summer," he said.

By Emma Keates  |  May 20, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/dilbert-creator-scott-adams-prostate-cancer

 

'Lilo & Stitch' Review: Disney's Live-Action Remake Will Engage the Kids, Exhaust the Parents

Frank Scheck

May 20, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/lilo-and-stitch-review-disney-zach-galifianakis-1236221581/

 

Interview: AVATAR: BRAVING THE ELEMENTS podcast hosts tease more super fan celebrity guests

Taimur Dar on 05/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-avatar-braving-the-elements-2025/

 

Shōnen Manga for a Shōnen Mangaka: Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter × Hunter: The Comics Journal #311 Preview

Helen Chazan | May 20, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/shonen-manga-for-a-shonen-mangaka-yoshihiro-togashis-hunter-x-hunter-the-comics-journal-311-preview/

 

Reviews: Night Drive [Richard Sala]

Greg Hunter | May 20, 2025 https://www.tcj.com/reviews/night-drive/

 

Matt Madden from Build Your Own Labyrinth: Constraints and Creativity  May 20, 2025 

https://mattmadd.substack.com/p/war-during-lifetime

War During Lifetime:  A depressingly relevant comic I drew in 2014.

 

MAPPING A POST-DIAMOND FUTURE: IS AN ''INDIE DIRECT'' CHANNEL POSSIBLE?

Rob Salkowitz on May 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59588/mapping-post-diamond-future-is-an-indie-direct-channel-possible

 

Flower Power: 'Dandelion's Odyssey' Director Momoko Seto Discusses Her Emotional Animated Adventure

Ramin Zahed

May 19, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/flower-power-dandelions-odyssey-director-momoko-seto-discusses-her-emotional-animated-adventure/

This article was written for the

May-June '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 350).

Fish, Dee. 2025.
When Dick Tracy Called...
Finding Dee Fish (February 11): https://substack.com/home/post/p-156857022

Brian Cronin Reveals Five Other Marvel Superhero Teams That Changed Their Names Like the Thunderbolts Becoming the New Avengers.
CBR newsletter May 20, 2025

Netflix Doubles Down on Kids Games, Adds Exclusive 'World of Peppa Pig' Alongside New Episodes
Alex Weprin
May 19, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/netflix-new-peppa-pig-game-episodes-season-7-1236219591/

'New York Journal of Books' Shutters
May 19, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5370

Boom Studios Leaves Libraries Because Of Penguin Random House
Boom Studios comic books leaves libraries because of Penguin Random House's policies over digital distribution
19 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/boom-studios-leaves-libraries-because-of-penguin-random-house/

This Artwork Is Not By Ryan Ottley, Jim Lee Or Ryan Stegman
This artwork is not by Ryan Ottley, Jim Lee or Ryan Stegman, and hopefully more people will let eBay know.
 20 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/this-artwork-is-not-by-ryan-ottley-jim-lee-or-ryan-stegman/

Diamond Comics Begins To Address Retailer Concerns About ComicSuite
Diamond Comic Distributors begins to address retailer concerns about the future of ComicSuite after Ad Populum's acquisition and layoffs
 20 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-comics-begins-to-address-retailer-concerns-about-comicsuite/

The Future Of The Diamond Previews Catalog
The future of the Diamond Previews catalog, after bankruptcy and acquisition by Ad Populum
 19 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/future-diamond-previews-catalog/

Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Where Are You, DC Comics?
Looney Tunes, Scooby Doo, Where Are You, DC Comics? No sign of either comic book for months has raised questions.
20 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/looney-tunes-scooby-doo-where-are-you-dc-comics/

DC Launch Six New Webcomics On DC GO Vertically Streaming Platform
DC Comics launches six new webcomics on DC GO, their vertically streaming webtoon platform, and bring back a couple of favourites
 19 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-launch-six-new-webcomics-on-dc-go-vertically-streaming-platform/

Savage Dragon Breaks Down Superhero Tropes And Goes After MAGA
Erik Larsen's Savage Dragon breaks down superhero tropes and goes after MAGA... again
19 May 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/savage-dragon-breaks-down-superhero-tropes-and-goes-after-maga/

Marvel rolls out Retrovision covers in July
Heidi MacDonald on 05/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/marvel-rolls-out-retrovision-covers-in-july/

Cover Reveal: "This Slavery" by The Rickard Sisters
John Freeman on May 19, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/cover-reveal-this-slavery-by-the-rickard-sisters/

Lee Enterprises Hosts Live Drawing Series with VeeFriends and Award-Winning Editorial Cartoonists May 20 and May 22 [Zyglis, Phil Hands and DJ Coffman]
    GLOBE NEWSWIRE May 19, 2025
https://www.lee.net/news/lee-enterprises-hosts-live-drawing-series-with-veefriends-and-award-winning-editorial-cartoonists-may-20/article_7e4ba3d9-45bd-4dc4-89a9-9da2617a4176.html

Facebook Live Drawing with Phil Hands and DJ Coffman
Wisconsin State Journal May 20 2025
https://www.facebook.com/WisconsinStateJournal/videos/568765919190142

Forget and leave behind this dreadful take on Lilo & Stitch
The "live-action" remake looks like a Disney Channel Original and makes all the wrong decisions.
By Jacob Oller  |  May 20, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/lilo-and-stitch-review

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams Announces Terminal Prostate Cancer Diagnosis
Alan Gardner
May 19, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/19/scott-adams-announces-terminal-prostate-cancer-diagnosis/

Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Coffee With Scott Adams 5/19/25 [cancer announcement]
https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1924464966792610224

*This Place Kills Me
Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Nicole Goux. Abrams, $26.99 hardcover (272p) ISBN 978-1-4197-6846-0
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781419768460

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Donald's Drive-Thru"

"Donald's Drive-Thru"
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=4107

Though actually quite grim and cringe as hell, I found this news
sickeningly funny somehow, in ways reminiscent of the big-ups drum
beating Sept 2005 BLS jobs report the month after Hurricane Katrina.
Y'think Microsoft was hoping Mickey D's would pick up some of that
layoff headcount?

Then, of course, is the cringingly upbeat economic hard-sell in the
Mickey D's announcement featuring the new Labor Secretary, and the
obvious clumsy-ass tap-dancing they're going to have to do around our
new quack-ass Health & Human Services Secretary – especially seeing as
Big Mac's is one of El Presidente's favorite brands.

You deserve a break today!

---------------

"McDonald's announces plans to hire 375,000 workers with Trump Labor
secretary", Amelia Lucas at CNBC, 05.12.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/12/mcdonalds-to-hire-375000-workers-trump-labor-secretary.html

"Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce",
Jordan Novet at CNBC, 05.13.2025
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/13/microsoft-is-cutting-3percent-of-workers-across-the-software-company.html

"169,000 New Jobs!", editorial cartoon by Mike Flugennock, 10.19.2005
https://sinkers.org/stage/?p=381

___________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Political Cartoons: dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org

‘Dilbert’ creator Scott Adams also has prostate cancer

'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he has aggressive prostate cancer

The creator of the comic strip satirizing office culture said he has the same type of cancer as former president Joe Biden — but may only have months left to live.

By Kelly Kasulis Cho

May 20, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/05/20/scott-adams-prostate-cancer-dilbert-biden/

Catching Z's by Daniel Boris

 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/19/2025

Diamond Select Toys shut down and more on Diamond layoffs

Heidi MacDonald on 05/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-select-toys-shut-down-and-more-on-diamond-layoffs/

 

UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP - ALLIANCE AND DIAMOND

Acquisitions of Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors Close

Milton Griepp on May 16, 2025  https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59575/under-new-ownership-alliance-diamond

 

COMIC EXECUTIVES, OTHERS, LAID OFF AT DIAMOND As Ad Populum Takes Control

  Milton Griepp on May 19, 2025  https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59578/comic-executives-others-laid-off-diamond

 

Rediscovered Thomas the Tank Engine Pilot Is Released

By Victor Mather

A version of this article appears in print on May 13, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/arts/television/thomas-friends-pilot-episode-ringo-starr.html

 

Thomas Nast – Good? Bad? Ugly?

D. D. Degg

May 18, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/18/thomas-nast-good-bad-ugly/

               

How Thomas Nast's Cartoons Transformed American Life And Culture

By Kaleena Fraga

 May 15, 2025

https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-nast-cartoons

 

Jigsaw artist brands games firm woke for ordering him to remove St George's flag and other details [Mike Jupp]

LETTICE BROMOVSKY

  12 May 2025 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14702073/Jigsaw-artist-games-woke-remove-St-Georges-flag.html

 

Artist says woke bosses ordered him to remove St George's flag from jigsaw puzzle  [Mike Jupp]

   Paul Sims,

    11 May 2025

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34902996/artist-woke-st-georges-flag-puzzles/

 

Keeping it Savage with "Grim" Jim Zub

  Gary B The Casual Comic Guy

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zlueN3YtTw

May 17, 2025 

 

Director Alex Boya Shares the Special Ingredients of His Cannes and Annecy Short, 'Bread Will Walk' [Canada]

Ramin Zahed

May 16, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/director-alex-boya-shares-the-special-ingredients-of-his-cannes-and-annecy-short-bread-will-walk/

 

Pakistani Animated Feature 'The Glassworker' Heads to U.S. Theaters with Watermelon Pics

Animation Magazine

May 16, 2025  https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/pakistani-animated-feature-the-glassworker-heads-to-u-s-theaters-with-watermelon-pics/

 

Mike Deodato On Not Getting Paid For Ironheart By Marvel Studios

Riri Williams' co-creator Mike Deodato talks about not getting paid for the Ironheart TV show by Marvel, and calls on Marvel to do better

18 May 2025

Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-deodato-not-paid-ironheart-marvel-studios/

 

Diamond Select Toys Shut Down As Part Of Ad Populum Purchase?

18 May 2025

 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-select-toys-shut-down-as-part-of-ad-populum-purchase/

 

["Sad to see the end of Diamond Comics as we knew it..."]

Paul Levitz

Paul Levitz's PostMay 17 2025

https://www.facebook.com/paul.levitz/posts/pfbid09oaNUAZAQpMF4d6fzH2FRpixa6xSyBdFi7TUgZMr9htbJdMuT4nvys9P8acfkkRUl

 

RIP Jackson 'Butch' Guice, June 27, 1961-May 1, 2025

Andrew Farago | May 19, 2025

https://www.tcj.com/rip-jackson-butch-guice-june-27-1961-may-1-2025/

Groth, Gary. 2025.
An Interview with Jonathan Lackman & Zachary J. Pinson [The Woman With Fifty Faces].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pbqzysw3b95et2ika36a2/Interview-with-Jon-Lackman-and-Zachary-J-Pinson.pdf

Groth, Gary. 2025.
An Interview with Carol Tyler [The Ephemerata].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8kxbczwnbbzbs5ai7qrop/Interview-with-Carol-Tyler.pdf

Groth, Conrad. 2025.
An Interview with Laura Pérez {Spain; ' Nocturnos'].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/av5ix6lerxvi47oabgwhh/Interview-with-Laura-Perez_Final.pdf

Tommi Parrish Author Q+A [Australian trans cartoonist]
Eric Reynolds
Fantagraphics
 May 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrXx9YK9lcI

MY LITTLE WARLORD and SHAZAM among new DC GO! webcomic title announcements
Taimur Dar on 05/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/new-dc-go-webcomic-titles-announced/

A new cyber-sci-fi epic from Fred Van Lente
word balloon
 May 19 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZsuZYwkSOg

Daniel Kibblesmith Talks Darkwing Duck
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
May 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEKzz-sdgI

'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' Stands on the Shoulders of Animation
Twenty years later, 'Revenge of the Sith' wouldn't have its legacy without the two 'Clone Wars' building on and improving the prequels.
By Justin Carter
io9 May 19, 2025 https://gizmodo.com/revenge-of-the-sith-20th-anniversary-clone-wars-animation-2000604026

Animation Studio Toei Wants to Use AI for Future Productions
In the next few years, anime made by Toei may be touched up by AI in some capacity.
By Justin Carter
io9 May 18, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/animation-studio-toei-wants-to-use-ai-for-future-productions-2000603817

Diamond Staff Laid Off in Post-Acquisition Restructuring
May 19, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5373

Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch calls Marvel "the House of Stolen Ideas" after his stake in the character overlooked for past 25 years - including in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie
Features by Joshua Lapin-Bertone, Contributing writer
Additional contributions by Chris Arrant
 Apr 29 2025 Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-comics-marvel-studios-thunderbolts-the-sentry-creators-creator-paul-jenkins-rick-veitch-cast-aside

Marvel's X-Men comics are broken, says Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, but he knows who can fix them (No, it's not him)
 Graeme McMillan, Editor
 May 19 2025  Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-rob-liefeld-marvel-xmen-scott-snyder-broken-podcast-robservations

Short Lived British Comics: Marvel UK's "Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails"
By John Freeman
downthetubes May 18, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/short-lived-british-comics-marvel-uks-lady-lovely-locks-and-the-pixietails/

In Memoriam: Comic Artist Mario Capaldi
John Freeman
downthetubes on 6th July 2004.
https://downthetubes.net/british-comics-reference/in-memoriam-comic-artist-mario-capaldi/

'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2' Delayed a Year to 2027
Paramount is also delaying the release of 'The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender' to later in 2026.
Ryan Gajewski
May 16, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem-2-delays-release-1236219433/

Ann Telnaes, Liza Donnelly: cartoonistes, Américaines et en colère
À Morges, la Maison du dessin de presse frappe fort en exposant ces deux dessinatrices de presse qui comptent. Rencontre sans tabou.
Florence Millioud
  17.05.2025, https://www.24heures.ch/maison-du-dessin-de-presse-deux-voix-americaines-qui-comptent-369000634305

Telnaes and Donnelly interviewed, but in French

Ann Telnaes, Liza Donnelly: cartoonistes, Américaines et en colère

À Morges, la Maison du dessin de presse frappe fort en exposant ces deux dessinatrices de presse qui comptent. Rencontre sans tabou.

Florence Millioud

  17.05.2025, https://www.24heures.ch/maison-du-dessin-de-presse-deux-voix-americaines-qui-comptent-369000634305

Tom King talked about Supergirl on io9

 

The Team Behind Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow Looks Back on Kara's Legacy, and Her Future

Tom King, Bilquis Evely, and Matheus Lopes sit down with io9 to discuss shaping Supergirl's modern legacy in Woman of Tomorrow.

By James Whitbrook 

io9 March 28, 2025

https://gizmodo.com/supergirl-woman-of-tomorrow-interview-tom-king-bilquis-evely-matheus-lopes-2000582142

Shannon Gallant remembers Butch Guice

It's towards the bottom of this obituary.

RIP Jackson 'Butch' Guice, June 27, 1961-May 1, 2025

Andrew Farago | May 19, 2025 

https://www.tcj.com/rip-jackson-butch-guice-june-27-1961-may-1-2025/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/17-18/2025

Britos, Maximiliano. 2020.
Entrevista a Germán Erramouspe (Parte 1-2).
Legado de Orfeo (September 9, 11): https://legadodeorfeo.com.ar/entrevista-a-german-erramouspe-parte-1/ and https://legadodeorfeo.com.ar/entrevista-a-german-erramouspe-parte-2/

Freeman, John. 2025.
Comic Creator Spotlight: Artist Germán Erramouspe [Argentina].
Downthetubes (May 17): https://downthetubes.net/comic-creator-spotlight-artist-german-erramouspe/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 5/16/2025

It's official: Diamond Comics acquired by Universal Distribution and Ad Populum
Heidi MacDonald on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/its-official-diamond-comics-acquired-by-universal-distribution-and-ad-populum/

Breaking: "Massive" layoffs at Diamond Comics today
Heidi MacDonald on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/breaking-massive-layoffs-at-diamond-comics-today/

Aftershock Comics emerges from bankruptcy
Heidi MacDonald on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/aftershock-comics-emerges-from-bankruptcy/

Business Wrap-up: Rebellion goes with Lunar, Dynamite explores, comings and goings
Heidi MacDonald on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/business-wrap-up-rebellion-lunar-dynamite/

Rebellion/2000AD/Judge Dredd Signs Up To Lunar Distribution
Rich Johnston
15 May 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rebellion-2000ad-judge-dredd-signs-up-to-lunar-distribution/

Universal Distribution And Ad Populum Officially Buy Diamond Comics
by Rich Johnston
  16 May 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/universal-distribution-and-ad-populum-officially-buy-diamond-comics/

Turtel Onli, indie comic book pioneer and Black Age of Comics founder, dies at 72
    Evgenia Anastasakos,
    Feb 10, 2025 https://www.hpherald.com/evening_digest/turtel-onli-indie-comic-book-pioneer-and-black-age-of-comics-founder-dies-at-72/article_36518b80-e801-11ef-be77-bbc4ae17d6ea.html

Interview: NICK CARTER takes on comics, AI, and LOVE LIFE TRAGEDY [music]
Deanna Destito on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-nick-carter-takes-on-comics-ai-and-love-life-tragedy/

Clark, Alan. 1998. Dictionary of British Comic Artists, Writers and Editors. London: The British Library

Friday Spill: Whatever Gave You That Idea? [gag cartoon ideas]
Michael Maslin
Inkspill May 16, 2025
https://michaelmaslin.com/friday-spill-what-ever-gave-you-that-idea/

Dan McDaid auctions unusual Thunderbolts* art in aid of mental health charity, MIND
John Freeman on May 15, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/dan-mcdaid-auctions-unusual-thunderbolts-art-in-aid-of-mental-health-charity-mind/

Why Comics and Crowdfunding Are a Perfect Match
By Tyler James, Publisher of ComixTribe, Creator of the ComixLaunch Comic Book Crowdfunding Planner
downthetubes  May 15, 2025  
https://downthetubes.net/why-comics-and-crowdfunding-are-a-perfect-match/

Well Before Star Trek Hit TV, Starfleet Took Flight With a Little-Known Comic [in UK's Joe 90 anthology]
Ambrose Tardive
Feb 10, 2025 https://screenrant.com/star-trek-old-comic-tv-show-differences-factoid/

Hilma af Klint Inspires an Artist to Take a Closer Look
She was an artist who believed in progress, in the evolution of humanity.
Sarah Glidden
Hyperallergic April 19, 2019
https://hyperallergic.com/496146/hilma-af-klint-inspires-an-artist-to-take-a-closer-look/

When The Subway Sun Ruled NYC's Underground
With its signature two-toned design and illustrations, the mock newspaper encouraged polite passenger etiquette and promoted local attractions. [Fred Cooper]
  Maya Pontone May 15, 2025
https://hyperallergic.com/1008490/when-the-subway-sun-ruled-nyc-underground-poster-house/

Zapiro Cartoon Deemed Unfit
D. D. Degg
May 16, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/16/zapiro-cartoon-deemed-unfit/

Solidarity and AfriForum vs Daily Maverick [Zapiro]
Tyrone August
30 April 2025
https://presscouncil.org.za/2025/05/05/solidarity-and-afriforum-vs-daily-maverick/

2025 Jay Kennedy Scholarships to Samantha Huyck/Abby McColgan
D. D. Degg
May 16, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/15/2025-jay-kennedy-scholarship-to-samantha-huyck-and-abby-mccolgan/

Clay Jones versus ToonAmerica AI-yi-yi (and some good news)
D. D. Degg
May 15, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/15/clay-jones-versus-toonamerica-ai-yi-yi-and-some-good-news/

'Arco' Review: In Charming, Natalie Portman-Produced French Animated Film, a Boy From the Future Must Find His Way Home

Illustrator Ugo Bienvenu's debut feature tells a story of unexpected friendship and the fate of a world impacted by climate change.
Lovia Gyarkye
May 16, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/arco-review-natalie-portman-animation-1236215110/

The Beat Digest 05/16/25: Remender and Acuña plot an ESCAPE
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 05/16/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-051625/

TURNING POINTS by Maggie Thompson
 May 15, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-128/

The Daily Heller: Peter Kuper Takes a Bug's-Eye View of the World
By Steven Heller
The Daily Heller May 13 2025
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-peter-kuper-takes-a-bugs-eye-view-of-the-world/

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred thirty-seven | Mark Waid, part two
May 16, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/pay-it-no-mind

'Fairly OddParents' Creator Butch Hartman Launches Independent Animation Studio
 Mercedes Milligan
May 15, 2025 https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/fairly-oddparents-creator-butch-hartman-launches-faith-based-animation-studio/

'Hair Love' Director Matthew A. Cherry Launches Kickstarter for New Musical Short
 Mercedes Milligan
May 15, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/05/hair-love-director-matthew-a-cherry-launches-kickstarter-for-new-musical-short/

The Director of 'Thunderbolts*' Unpacks the Movie's Spoilers
The filmmaker Jake Schreier explains how a test of the film led to a change in the ending and other developments.
By Kyle Buchanan
May 16, 2025,
 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/movies/thunderbolts-jake-schreier-movie-ending-changes.html

Inside 3 Rare art spiegelman Books | Collector's Commentary with Paul C. Tumey
Paul C. Tumey Author
 May 4, 2025  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2L1ZhzpxB8

Al Ewing Thor Green Lantern Venom and More
word balloon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sZRi-Ouo0U

Matt Bors Talks Toxic Avenger and more
word balloon  May 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ir9pAWCyedI

Brodner Kuper
 Steve Brodner May 16, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAu-5AiASq0

Peter Kuper interview: On Comics and INSECTOPOLIS
Henry Chamberlain
May 9, 2025
https://comicsgrinder.com/2025/05/09/peter-kuper-interview-on-comics-and-insectopolis/

Here's Your First Look at Nicolas Cage's SPIDER-NOIR
by Eric Diaz
May 13 2025
https://nerdist.com/article/nicolas-cage-spider-noir-prime-video-series-first-look/

Watch Daredevil Brooding in the Rain for 10 Hours in Marvel's Latest ASMR Video
by Eric Diaz
May 12 2025
https://nerdist.com/article/marvel-daredevil-rain-asmr-ambiance-video/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Stephan Franck on His Return to Kickstarter for the Neo-Noir Graphic Novel Series, 'Palomino: Volumes 4 and 5'
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press  May 15, 2025
      https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56762-fanbase-press-interviews-stephan-franck-on-his-return-to-kickstarter-for-the-neo-noir-graphic-novel-series-palomino-volumes-4-and-5/

    Fanbase Press Interviews Sara Kenney on Launching a Kickstarter Campaign for the Graphic Novel, 'Acid Box,' with Avery Hill
    Barbra Dillon, Fanbase Press Editor-in-Chief
    May 9, 2025
https://fanbasepress.com/press/interviews/comics/item/56730-fanbase-press-interviews-sara-kenney-on-launching-a-kickstarter-campaign-for-the-graphic-novel-acid-box-with-avery-hill/

Robert Benton, Influential Director and Screenwriter, Dies at 92 [Superman musical and movie co-writer]
Douglas Martin
A version of this article appears in print on May 14, 2025, Section B, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Robert Benton, Force Behind Bonnie, Clyde and Kramers, Dies at 92
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/movies/robert-benton-dead.html

At Least, Be Human – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | May 16, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/at-least-be-human-this-weeks-links/

Off Panel #499: Giallo-wood with Alejandro Arbona
 May 12 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-499-giallo-wood-with-alejandro-arbona

Dan Nadel on Crumb: A Cartoonist's Life, May 6, 2025
New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 424  May 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsS7g7d4d0c

'Absolute Batman' restores a long-lost Bruce Wayne trait
Diane Darcy
May 15, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/15/absolute-batman-homages-golden-age-scott-snyder/

The Absolute truth: Scott Snyder on rebuilding Batman and why comics matter more than ever
The modern comics legend is using 'Absolute Batman' to redefine his career and comics at-large.
David Brooke
May 13, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/13/scott-snyder-absolute-batman-qa/

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 328: Scott Snyder's 'Absolute Batman': Fear, Trauma, and Rebuilding a Dark Knight
David Brooke and Chris Coplan
May 11, 2025 https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/11/aipt-comics-podcast-328-scott-snyders-absolute-batman/

Inside 'Exquisite Corpses': James Tynion IV and Michael Walsh unleash a serial killer event unlike any other
David Brooke
May 12, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/05/12/exquisite-corpses-tynion-walsh-qa/

Found in Translation: Two theater veterans forge their own artistic path by freely adapting the acclaimed graphic novel, Berlin.
By Web Behrens
April 9, 2025, https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/april-2025/the-acclaimed-graphic-novel-berlin-hits-the-stage/

Long London, Magic & the future of Humanity
by smoky man in collaboration with Omar Martini & Francesco Pelosi
May 6, 2025
https://alanmooreworld.blogspot.com/2025/05/long-london-magic-future-of-humanity.html

Versus, 'Fall in Love, You False Angels,' Historie Win 49th Kodansha Manga Awards
  2025-05-12   Joanna Cayanan
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-05-12/versus-fall-in-love-you-false-angels-historie-win-49th-kodansha-manga-awards/.224366

Japanese manga artist urges calm over viral 2025 earthquake prediction [Ryo Tatsuki]
15-05-2025
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/world-news/article/302550/Japanese-manga-artist-urges-calm-over-viral-2025-earthquake-prediction

Japan dismisses viral manga, feng shui earthquake rumours as tourist bookings plunge [Ryo Tatsuki]
Julian Ryall
30 Apr 2025 https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/lifestyle-culture/article/3308398/japan-dismisses-viral-manga-feng-shui-earthquake-rumours-tourist-bookings-plunge

What's behind these weird viral rumours of a massive earthquake in Japan in July? [Ryo Tatsuki]
Julia Davis
06 May 2025
https://macaonews.org/travel/japan-july-earthquake-rumours-ryo-tatsuki/

Disaster prophecy in 1999 Japan book leads to flight reductions, canceled trips from HK [Ryo Tatsuki]
Ayane Matsuyama
May 17, 2025 (Mainichi Japan)
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20250516/p2a/00m/0na/002000c

Ep. 119: Kaiju No. 8 Vol. 1, by Naoya Matsumoto
May 15, 2025
https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-119-kaiju-no-8-vol-1-by-naoya-matsumoto/

WaPo comics from Gemma Correll and Michelle Kondrich

These both appeared in print today. I'm not sure why they didn't run Kondrich's on Father's Day though.

An hour-by-hour countdown of your emotions on an international flight [in print as A cartoonist's take on the emotional journey that is a 10-hour flight]

Time flies when you're stuck in a tin can.

Guest column by Gemma Correll

Washington Post May 18, 202: F6.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/16/international-flight-emotions-comic/

free to read link: https://wapo.st/44K103s

When timelines cross

Watching my daughter with her grandfather brings age into sharp focus.

Michelle Kondrich

Washington Post May 18, 202: FA18.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/when-timelines-cross/

free to read link: https://wapo.st/4mmdwMP

Also, for the record, this local appearance by Nilah Magruder was missed. If anyone went, please feel free to comment

Comics links in the Mucha exhibit at the Phillips

 I just saw the show yesterday. Here's info from the Phillips Gallery on it. Relevant quotes are

  In the 1960s, Mucha’s distinctive style found new life in the vibrant poster art of the counterculture movement—becoming a trademark of psychedelic rock posters and album covers, influencing iconic bands like the Grateful Dead and The Rolling Stones—as well as comic books, Japanese manga, and murals.

 Mucha’s visual language also made a lasting impact on Japanese manga, where his stylized forms can be seen in the work of artists such as Hideko Mizuno, one of the first successful “shojo manga (girls’ comics)” artists in Japan, and others. Underscoring his enduring influence, the exhibition will pair classic Mucha works with contemporary examples they inspired, from the cover of a 1969 album for Diana Ross & The Supremes to Joe Quesada’s comic book illustrations.

 Not mentioned therein is Mucha's work on designing Krokodil, a comics magazine in the late 19th century. Here's photos of that and the people that adapted his style.

 

Terry Moore's Strangers in Paradise comic cover, and Mucha's original

 

 

Mangaka influenced by Mucha includes Yoshitaka Amano, Akemi Matsunae, and Hideko Mizuno.

 

 

Comic books by Joe Quesada,  John Tyler Christopher, and Michael Kaluta. None by Charles Vess surprisingly...

 

 

Two prints by Barry Windsor-Smith

If you missed it in DC, the exhibit is traveling the US.

.The Phillips Collection, in collaboration with The Mucha Foundation, announces the North American tour of Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line, a groundbreaking exhibition that reappraises the work and influence of Czech artist Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939). Organized by the Mucha Foundation, this major exhibition will premiere at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, on February 22, 2025, and will be on view through May 18, 2025. The exhibition will then travel to the New Mexico Museum of Art, Sante Fe, NM (June 20–September 20, 2025); the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL (November 19, 2025–March 1, 2026); the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (April 11–August 30, 2026); and the Museo Kaluz, Mexico City, Mexico (October 8, 2026–February 8, 2027).\

 

I'll try to improve and repost the photos, but no promises.