Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/11/2023

Tony Rose has been searching the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for me, in addition to helping me format citations, so you'll see a spate of old citations from the ADG at the bottom of this list and in tomorrow's. - Mike

Chip Zdarsky Interview | Spider-Man by Chip Zdarsky Omnibus | Daredevil | Devil's Reign | Batman

Omar and Melanie
Near Mint Condition  April 10 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCKYxN2kkCU

 

R.I.P. AL JAFFEE

Creator of the 'MAD Magazine' Fold-In

 by Brigid Alverson on April 10, 2023 
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53821/r-i-p-al-jaffee

 

R.I.P. Al Jaffee

One of the most innovative, prolific cartoonists that ever lived, died today. At 102.

Jason Chatfield

New York Cartoons (26) Apr 10, 2023

https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/26-rip-al-jaffee

 

Al Jaffee, 1921-2023

Michael Dean | April 11, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/al-jaffee-1921-2023/

 

Al Jaffee – RIP

D. D. Degg

Daily Cartoonist April 10 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/10/al-jaffee-rip/

 

Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102

By Neil Genzlinger

A version of this article appears in print on April 11, 2023, Section B, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Al Jaffee, Whose Wit Added Wrinkles to Mad's Back Page, Dies at 102.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

Al Jaffee, longtime Mad magazine cartoonist, dead at 102

By HILLEL ITALIE
AP April 10 2023

https://apnews.com/article/al-jafee-mad-magazine-cartoonist-dies-f676fbeb190b44c8aa4abcb0daa5d571

 

Al Jaffee of MAD Magazine Dies, Aged 102

Al Jaffee has passed away at age of 102. Best known for Mad Magazine, his fold-in pages were published every month from 1964 til 2019.

  10 Apr 2023  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/al-jaffee-of-mad-magazine-dies-aged-102/

 

[MAD Magazine mourns the loss of the incomparable Al Jaffee, creator of the MAD Fold-In, "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions," and many other MAD features through the decades].

MAD Magazine April 10 2023

https://www.facebook.com/MADMagazine/posts/pfbid02DyhT1JsJkxwQFQ7PVRFkCoNM5RUT1BjjWHZKcXmGAU366AtajHV3pL3rqUQti12fl

 

AL JAFFEE TRIBUTE

By The Editors Monday, April 10th, 2023

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2023/04/10/al-jaffee-tribute

 

MAD Celebrates Al Jaffee's 95th Birthday

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2016/03/31/mad-celebrates-al-jaffees-95th-birthday

 

R.I.P. RACHEL POLLACK

Creator of Early Transgender Character, Coagula, in 'Doom Patrol'

Brigid Alverson on April 10, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53813/r-i-p-rachel-pollack

 

C2E2 2023 PHOTOS – PART 3-4

Saturday

Posted by Dennis Viau on April 11, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53820/c2e2-2023-photos-part-3

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53819/c2e2-2023-photos-part-4

 

Bad Idea Comics Now Exchanging Pins For Plastic Eggs

Bad Idea Comics' latest Bad Idea in an attempt to get some free press and hype up the collectors market has once again worked.

by Rich Johnston

 10 Apr 2023 
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bad-idea-comics-now-exchanging-pins-for-plastic-eggs/

 

RiYL April 09, 2023

Brian Heater

Episode: 575: (Bonus) Chip Zdarsky

https://riyl.podcastpage.io/episode/episode-575-bonus-chip-zdarsky

https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/628eacd04a4aec0013fcdb67/e/64332aa1cc2bdf0011214c0d/media.mp3

 

Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth introduce the National Cartoonists Society Foundation Jay Kennedy Award

Jason Chatfield

Feb 21, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqnn9AcKSiE

 

Getting the same tax breaks as the heterosexuals- a look at Rob Kirby's Marry Me a Little

"You have to come out every single day, everywhere you go and good luck with that because that's never fun…"

Scott Cederlund

Apr 11, 2023

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/marry-me-a-little-rob-kirby-review/

 

Alan Menken talks adaptations of 'Aladdin' and 'The Little Mermaid'

By Thomas Floyd

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/10/alan-menken-aladdin-little-mermaid/

 

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book

At a meeting of science teachers, the CO2 Coalition handed out comic books depicting carbon as good for planet. They got kicked out.

By Maxine Joselow

April 11, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

 

'Astrobots' Interview: Simon Furman Plays With Some New Toys

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Mar 28, 2023

https://previewsworld.com/Article/267524-Astrobots-Interview-Simon-Furman-Plays-With-Some-New-Toys

 

Origins of Boom Studios With Ross Richie [2006 interview]

Word balloon Apr 10, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psXe5fxmc_s

 

'The Marvels' Trailer Sees Brie Larson Team With Teyonah Parris, Iman Vellani on a Mission That "Changes Everyone"

Aaron Couch

April 11, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-marvels-trailer-first-look-brie-larson-1235214127/ 

 

Rep. Webster Barnaby rebuked for attacks on transgender people [as X-Men, mutants]

Noah Hertz

West Volusa Beacon April 11, 2023

https://beacononlinenews.com/2023/04/11/rep-webster-barnaby-rebuked-for-attacks-on-transgender-people/

 

Jeremy Holt and Axel Alonso on "Gatsby"

By Chris Cole | April 10th, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/jeremy-holt-axel-alonso-gatsby/

 

Mickey Bars, Turkey Legs and the Obsession With Disney Food

Tejal Rao

    April 10, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/dining/disneyland-disney-world-restaurants-food.html

 

Draw a Pigeon Using Only His First Name | The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Apr 4, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxRc3Dc9GCA

 

X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years

 Mike Queen

Library of Congress' Headlines and Heroes Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print blog

April 11, 2023

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/04/x-men-60-uncanny-years/

 

HOME MOVIES [The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec]

KAREN MARTIN

 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, September 06, 2013

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2013%2F09%2F06&id=Ar03304&sk=EAAC41A6&viewMode=text

 

LITTLE ROCK ARTIST DRAWING ON COMIC-BOOK TALENT; CHRIS RAYMOND PUBLISHES THE FIRST IN WHAT HE HOPES WILL BE A SIX-ISSUE STORY LINE

SUSAN PIERCE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, June 17, 1994

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1994%2F06%2F17&id=Ar09900&sk=6AAB8126&viewMode=text

 

Captain America, Agent Carter team up tonight

MICHAEL STOREY

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 2D

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2016%2F01%2F19&id=Ar02200&sk=38B7CBED&viewMode=text

 

Mysteries solved: The truth about seamonkeys, X-ray glasses and other comic temptations

RON WOLFE

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE December 06, 2011, 27

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2011%2F12%2F06&id=Ar02704&sk=6D58B83F&viewMode=text

 

Books, graphic novels cover common ground [writers]

BY VAN JENSEN

 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, February 15, 2007, 37

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2007%2F02%2F15&id=Ar03701&sk=922EECE3&viewMode=text

 

COMIC ADVENTURES: Post-Modern Anxst, Stray Bullets, Strangers in Paradise, The X-Flies and Zero Zero represent the wide variety of subjects available in independent comics.

SUSAN PIERCE 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette August 16, 1996

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1996%2F08%2F16&id=Ar13900&sk=70BA27DD&viewMode=text

 

Old comic books could be gold mine

Robbie Moreland

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, January 26, 1992, 44

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1992%2F01%2F26&id=Ar04400&sk=AFA223D3&viewMode=image

 

Arkansas News in Brief [comic book sales mail fraud]

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, October 31, 1986,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1986%2F10%2F31&id=Ar06300&sk=3726F555&viewMode=text

 

Classy comics Classics Illustrated wasn't the average superhero comic book filled with 'characters zipping around in long underwear,' according to Bill Jones, a Little Rock author who has written a book about the series -- they were his 'gateway to the world of literature.'

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, November 29, 2001,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2001%2F11%2F29&id=Ar08800&sk=CD577F43&viewMode=text

 

Comics with class: Graphic novels and comic books are increasingly being used as teaching and journalistic tools

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette September 24, 2014, 4E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F09%2F24&id=Ar03704&sk=6D36570C&viewMode=text

 

Holy diploma, Batman — a college degree?

Comic books take giant leap from fandom to course study at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia [Randy Duncan]

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 28

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F04%2F22&id=Ar02800&sk=390EDEC4&viewMode=text

 

DC Comics returns to the good stuff [animation]

CURTIS LANNING

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, April 26, 2019, 3E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2019%2F04%2F26&id=Ar05102&sk=FCD25E8F&viewMode=text

 

Surrogate makes a name for comics newcomer Venditti

BY VAN JENSEN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, September 26, 2006, 1

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2006%2F09%2F26&id=Ar02901&sk=15565DA1&viewMode=text

Ben Hatke's new book previewed at the Beat

PREVIEW: In REYNARD'S TALE, Ben Hatke pays tribute to the trickster fox

The illustrated prose book is due out from First Second Books next week.

Joe Grunenwald

04/11/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/reynards-tale-ben-hatke-preview-first-second/

LoC blogs on X-Men comic books

X-Men: 60 Uncanny Years

 Mike Queen

Library of Congress' Headlines and Heroes Newspapers, Comics and More Fine Print blog

April 11, 2023

https://blogs.loc.gov/headlinesandheroes/2023/04/x-men-60-uncanny-years/

NPR's 'Mad Magazine' cartoonist Al Jaffee has died at 102

'Mad Magazine' cartoonist Al Jaffee has died at 102

Elizabeth Blair

All Things Considered April 11, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/11/1169318328/mad-magazine-cartoonist-al-jaffee-has-died-at-102

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/04/20230411_atc_al_jaffe_obit.mp3 

Al Jaffee, the award-winning cartoonist, has died. He was 102. Jaffee developed some of Mad Magazine's most influential features, including the Fold-In and "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions."

Cavna on the great Al Jaffee

From Mad's Al Jaffee, a beautiful blend of intelligence and irreverence

Perspective by Michael Cavna

April 11, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/11/al-jaffee-mad-magazine/

Troy-Jeffrey Allen's 'Astrobots' Interview

'Astrobots' Interview: Simon Furman Plays With Some New Toys

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Mar 28, 2023

https://previewsworld.com/Article/267524-Astrobots-Interview-Simon-Furman-Plays-With-Some-New-Toys

Climate deniers are stooping to propaganda comic books now

Climate deniers ejected from teachers conference for deceptive comic book

At a meeting of science teachers, the CO2 Coalition handed out comic books depicting carbon as good for planet. They got kicked out.

By Maxine Joselow

April 11, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/04/11/co2-coalition-climate-denial/

The Post talks to Alan Menken about updating Disney musicals

Alan Menken talks adaptations of 'Aladdin' and 'The Little Mermaid'

By Thomas Floyd

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2023/04/10/alan-menken-aladdin-little-mermaid/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/10/2023

NEW ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS SET IN THE WORLD OF GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S 'WILD CARDS'

Two Tales of Mutants and Superheroes

 Brigid Alverson on April 7, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53803/new-original-graphic-novels-set-world-george-r-r-martins-wild-cards

 

C2E2 2023 PHOTOS – PART 1 - 2

Friday

 Dennis Viau on April 10, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53808/c2e2-2023-photos-part-1

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53807/c2e2-2023-photos-part-2

 

MICHAEL TIERNEY OF THE COMIC BOOK STORE ON CENSORSHIP BOARD WAITING FOR GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE

'It is the Store Clerk and the Librarian Caught in the Crosshairs'

ICv2 April 10, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/talk-back/view/53804/michael-tierney-the-comic-book-store-censorship-board-waiting-governors-signature

 

Rachel Pollack, Of Doom Patrol & Vertigo Tarot, Dies At 76

08 Apr 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rachel-pollack-of-doom-patrol-vertigo-tarot-dies-at-76/

 

Commentary: Princess Peach started out as a boring damsel in distress. Times have changed

TRACY BROWN

APRIL 6, 2023

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-04-06/super-mario-bros-princess-peach-feminine-damsel-distress

 

Review: 'Wahoo!' isn't quite right for mildly amusing, hectic 'Super Mario Bros. Movie'

BY KATIE WALSH

APRIL 4, 2023 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-04-04/super-mario-bros-movie-review-chris-pratt-voice

 

BookScan 2022 Notes: what was the best selling superhero graphic novel and more

Heidi MacDonald

04/10/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/bookscan-2022-what-was-the-best-selling-superhero-graphic-novel/

 

The Most Controversial Comic Strip Moments In History

By S. Flannagan/April 9, 2023

https://www.grunge.com/1250528/controversial-comic-strip-moments-history/

 

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's cartoon maestro, dies at 102

He was Mad magazine's longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans

By Ali Bahrampour

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/10/mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-dead/

 

Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102

By Neil Genzlinger

April 10, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/10/arts/al-jaffee-dead.html

 

Al Jaffee, Trailblazing 'Mad' Magazine Cartoonist, Dies at 102

Aaron Couch

April 10, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/al-jaffe-dead-mad-magazine-1235370593/

 

Apr 10 2023

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode thirty | Declan Shalvey, part two

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/my-joints-are-almost-frozen

 

"It's Like Putting Together A Puzzle": An Interview With Daria Tessler

Jacob Grubman | April 10, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/the-reality-for-me-has-been-that-its-gotten-progressively-harder-an-interview-with-daria-tessler/

Al Jaffee photos from his 2011 DC book talk

I thought I had more since I've seen him several times. This is from Dec 15 2011, when he was signing his biography. I'll bet I recorded audio of this if anyone's interested in hearing it.

 

MAD magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee and Mary-Lou Weisman signing their book at the DCJCC:













Al Jaffee's bookplate that he uses instead of signing due to a tremor.


Al Jaffee's bookplate that he uses instead of signing the biography Al Jaffee's Mad Life (by Mary-Lou Weisman).

The great Al Jaffee is gone

Al Jaffee, Mad magazine's cartoon maestro, dies at 102

He was Mad magazine's longest-serving contributor and proudly helped corrupt the minds of generations of young Americans

By Ali Bahrampour

April 10, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/04/10/mad-cartoonist-al-jaffee-dead/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 4/8-9/2023

Graphic Novel Riffs on Literary Classics

Bea Wolf is a sugar-hyped, nap-deprived, battle-ready child; Mulysses is a mule.

By Sarah Boxer

A version of this article appears in print on April 9, 2023, Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Classics Rock.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/books/review/bea-wolf-zach-weinersmith-boulet-mulysses-oyvind-torseter.html

 

In 1993 'Super Mario Bros.' Bombed; in 2023, It's a Hit With a New Generation

By Darryn King

A version of this article appears in print on April 8, 2023, Section C, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: It Bombed in 1993. For a New Generation, It's a Hit..

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/movies/super-mario-bros-bob-hoskins-1993.html

 

 

'The Super Mario Bros. Movie': It's-a meh!

Stephen Thompson, Ronald Young Jr., Amil Niazi, and Daisy Rosario

Pop Culture Happy Hour April 7, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167459038/the-super-mario-bros-movie-its-a-meh  and https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2023/04/20230407_pchh_84396ea1-1af4-4a79-b53b-3e9ab631ae68.mp3 and https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1167459038

 

Princess Peach powers up from distressed damsel to wartime general [in print as Princess Peach has powered up from damsel in distress to wartime general]

Gene Park

Washington Post April 7, 2023 : C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2023/04/07/super-mario-bros-princess-peach/

 

Box Office: 'Super Mario Bros.' Heading for Record $195M U.S. Opening, $368M Globally

The movie is on course to score the second-best start of all time for an animated pic at the domestic box office and the biggest worldwide. Elsewhere, Ben Affleck's drama 'Air' is picking up steam.

Pamela McClintock

April 8, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/super-mario-bros-movie-box-office-1235369036/

 

It's your 'Destiny': Pat Shand Discusses a new Kickstarter, his Iron Man Novel, and More

David Brooke

September 19, 2016

https://aiptcomics.com/2016/09/19/its-your-destiny-pat-shand-discusses-a-new-kickstarter-his-iron-man-novel-and-more/

 

Dan Abnett reveals new 'Groot' miniseries details and a love of Marvel cosmic

The writer's breaks down the wonderful Marvel cosmic world he's built for the Guardians member Groot.

David Brooke

April 3, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/03/dan-abnett-groot-2023-marvel-qa/

 

Charles Schulz drew his famous Peanuts comics in this hidden cabin in the Bay Area

Photo of Tessa McLean

Tessa McLean, SFGATE

Oct. 14, 2021

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/rent-Charles-Schulz-house-on-airbnb-bay-area-16530057.php

 

Want This Snoopy T-Shirt? You'll Have to Pay in Blood.

By Callie Holtermann and Madison Malone Kircher

April 7, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/style/snoopy-red-cross-t-shirt.html

 

Conflicting accounts of the monarch butterflies [Mark Trail letter]

Sue Otwell, Silver Spring

Washington Post April 8 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/07/birds-dc-region-monarchs-trappers-vietnam/

 

How will Marvel Studios bounce back from its wave of bad news? [in print as Marvel Studios is down but far from out; MCU]

David Betancourt

Washington Post April 7, 2023  : C1-2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/06/marvel-studios-ant-man-wasp-quantumania/

 

Jerry Craft drew a positive Black story. Then the calls for a ban began.

The celebrated author of "New Kid," a graphic novel aimed at young readers, was caught off guard when his books started showing up on lists of inappropriate material.

By Michael Cavna

April 15, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/04/08/jerry-craft-new-kid-school-trip-book-ban/

 

Making Sense of the Mess [Rutu Modan]

New York Review of Books Newsletter April 8 2023

https://email.nybooks.com/t/y-e-padiz-tiitsyhky-v/

 

2023 Will Eisner Hall of Fame inductees announced

Inductees include 11 deceased comics pioneers and 4 living creators

Taimur Dar

04/07/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/2023-will-eisner-hall-of-fame-inductees-announced/

 

Mike Machlan, Longtime Inker and Infinity, Inc. Co-Creator, Passes Away

By Brian Cronin

CBR April 7 2023

https://www.cbr.com/mike-machlan-infinity-inc-obituary/

 

Jim Strahle – RIP [panel cartoonist]

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/07/jim-strahle-rip/

 

James Byron Strahle (October 24, 1948 - January 31, 2023) Obituary 

Poway-Bernardo Mortuary (April 2023?): https://www.powaybernardomortuary.net/obituary/james-strahleary

 

Rachel Pollack passes away at age 77

Heidi MacDonald

04/07/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/rachel-pollack-passes-away-at-age-77/

 

Rachel Pollack, trans activist and comic book writer, dies aged 77

 

Pollack, who created the first mainstream transgender superhero, Kate Godwin, had been fighting Hodgkin's lymphoma

David Barnett

Sat 8 Apr 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/08/rachel-pollack-trans-activist-and-comic-book-writer-dies-aged-77

 

AIPT Comics Podcast episode 216: On 'The Mare' and Graphic Mundi with Seth Martel and Kendra Boileau

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

April 2, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/04/02/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-216-the-mare/

 

Jones, Les. 2023.

B is for Brian Biggs.

CC. Contemporary Collage Magazine 19

 

Fans mourning as comics stores set to shut doors

Nyssa Kruse

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saturday, June 27, 2020, 3B

Online at http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2020%2F06%2F27&id=Ar02001&sk=BCC6BD01&viewMode=text

 

Comic Book Features Benton Writer's Story [Libby Singleton]

Susan Pierce,

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, February 24, 1995,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1995%2F02%2F24&id=Ar08500&sk=43EB42B6&viewMode=text

 

Black lawman a star in France  [Lucky Luke]

BILL BOWDEN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Monday, March 08, 2021, 7B

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2021%2F03%2F08&id=Ar02301&sk=D69D882C&viewMode=text

 

Goon's creator draws fun from comic book efforts

VAN JENSEN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, November 29, 2005,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2005%2F11%2F29&id=Ar02901&sk=79B03E57&viewMode=text

 

Drawing on the future Dramatic changes coming for comics artists and fans

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, September 07, 2014, 1E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F09%2F07&id=Ar04901&sk=4DE82B13&viewMode=text

 

Artist gets novel-y graphic [Dusty Higgins]

CHRIS HEADY

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, July 14, 2015, 1E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2015%2F07%2F14&id=Ar04701&sk=5C6EBC9D&viewMode=text

 

Comics on film: It ain't all Avengers and Batman

CURTIS LANNING

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, June 21, 2019, 6E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2019%2F06%2F21&id=Ar05603&sk=EE04B918&viewMode=text

 

Monticello teen publishes Christian comic book [Joseph Crossett, Cross Press Comics Magazine]

PATTY WOOTEN, Pine Bluff Commercial

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Saturday, May 31, 1997

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1997%2F05%2F31&id=Ar03700&sk=B1B70304&viewMode=text

 

Comic book characters suit up in alternate duds [costumes, fashion]

Ron Wolfe

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, September 07, 2014, 6E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2014%2F09%2F07&id=Ar05406&sk=1BF8297E&viewMode=text

 

Comic book creator stays independent [Nate Powell]

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, February 26, 2002,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2002%2F02%2F26&id=Ar03302&sk=185ACC7E&viewMode=text

 

Force fed [Force Majeure; Michael Tierney]

Ron Wolfe

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, May 16, 2002,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2002%2F05%2F16&id=Ar03704&sk=25759CCD&viewMode=text

 

Holy hard times! [comic book industry sales]

JENNIFER CHRISTMAN,

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, June 27, 1997,

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F1997%2F06%2F27&id=Ar07300&sk=181992F8&viewMode=text

 

Woman of STEEL. Hillary Clinton: Presidential candidate, secretary of state, comic book superheroine [Political Power]

RON WOLFE

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Tuesday, July 05, 2011, 1

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2011%2F07%2F05&id=Ar02301&sk=9B7338AA&viewMode=text

 

Pow! Whap! Faboom! A movie critic's return to the comic book universe

PIERS MARCHANT

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Friday, April 23, 2021, 1E

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2021%2F04%2F23&id=Ar06808&sk=35D8DDBC&viewMode=text

 

As Spider-Man swings through theaters, shop owners are hoping interest will have comic book fans back in the stores.

BY RON WOLFE and ELLIS WIDNER

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Thursday, May 16, 2002

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2002%2F05%2F16&id=Ar03700&sk=ADB3DB88&viewMode=text

 

The loneliness of Superman

PHILIP MARTIN

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Sunday, November 10, 2019, 1H

http://digital.olivesoftware.com/olive/apa/ardemocrat/sharedview.article.aspx?href=ARDEMOCRAT%2F2019%2F11%2F10&id=Ar13800&sk=F9BD9073&viewMode=text

 

Chatting with Sam Kidlet: "I wanted to go big for charity, and my first thought was Galactus"

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog April 9, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/04/chatting-with-sam-kidlet-i-wanted-to-go.html

 

A Red Cross Snoopy shirt is going viral on TikTok and driving people to donate blood

April 7, 2023,

By Brahmjot Kaur

https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/red-cross-snoopy-shirt-drives-blood-donations-tiktok-rcna78749

 

Is this the first animated cartoon?

David Tristan   

WHTM Apr 6, 2023

https://www.abc27.com/news/entertainment/is-this-the-first-animated-cartoon/

 

Roy Paul Nelson / Los Angeles Times.

The Humor Strips Are Taking Over.

Honolulu Star-Bulletin April 23, 1973.

online at https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/09/csotd-while-waiting-for-cbs-and-billy-ireland/

 

Donald Bremner / Los Angeles Times.

The Artists Speak: Humor Is A Must

Honolulu Star-Bulletin April 23, 1973.

online at https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/04/09/csotd-while-waiting-for-cbs-and-billy-ireland/

 

How to rig an election — with deadly, racist consequences [animation]

By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson

April 3, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/03/tom-hanks-jeffery-robinson-1876-election-jim-crow/

Animation on the 1876 election steal

How to rig an election — with deadly, racist consequences [animation]

By Tom Hanks and Jeffery Robinson

April 3, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/03/tom-hanks-jeffery-robinson-1876-election-jim-crow/

Tom Hanks, an actor, filmmaker and author, and Jeffery Robinson, founder and executive director of "The Who We Are Project," collaborated on the new animated documentary "How to Rig an Election: The Racist History of the 1876 Presidential Contest."

Dana Jeri Maier's new Substack list Skipping to the Fun Parts

https://danajeri.substack.com/?r=3tf3m&utm_campaign=pub&utm_medium=web

Josh Kramer's newest Asian travel comic is online

Floating Lantern Festival

A new autobio comic about Thailand!

https://joshkramer.substack.com/p/floating-lantern-festival