PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: SEAN BRICE TO SENIOR DIRECTOR OF SALES AT IDW
Also: Two New Hires at Microcosm
Brigid Alverson on June 7, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54301/people-move-sean-brice-senior-director-sales-idw
TCGPLAYER EXITING COMICS After Eight Months [distributor]
Milton Griepp on June 8, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/54306/tcgplayer-exiting-comics
TCGPLAYER TO LAUNCH COMICS THIS MONTH With Marvels and DCs
Milton Griepp on October 20, 2022
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52442/tcgplayer-launch-comics-this-month
TCGPLAYER ANNOUNCED AS PRESENTING SPONSOR FOR FCBD
E-Commerce Platform Recently Expanded to Include Comics
Brigid Alverson on January 24, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53144/tcgplayer-announced-presenting-sponsor-fcbd
Elemental' Steps Into the Ring as Major Box Office Test for Pixar
Carolyn Giardina
Hollywood Reporter (June 7, 2023 ).
online at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/elemental-pixar-major-box-office-test-1235509027/
Pete Docter: "I Don't Think of Pixar as Making Children's Programming"
As he prepares for the release of 'Elemental,' Pixar's chief creative officer looks back on his early influences and muses at the varying reactions of the studio's younger and older fans: "Kids and adults respond to different elements in our films."
Gary Baum
Hollywood Reporter (June 7 2023).
online at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/pixar-pete-docter-influences-studio-fan-reactions-1235508382/
'Doc McStuffins' Creator: Do Streamers Even Understand Kids TV?
Having quietly walked away from Netflix earlier this year, prolific preschool TV creator Chris Nee says digital platforms don't get the children's business — nor are they particularly interested in figuring it out.
Lacey Rose
Hollywood Reporter (June 7 2023).
online at https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/doc-mcstuffins-creator-streamers-kids-tv-1235508198/
Animated 'Bewitched,' Kids 'Wheel of Fortune' in the Works at Sony (Exclusive)
The studio is looking to its large IP library to develop programming aimed at younger viewers.
Rick Porter
June 8, 2023 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/bewitched-animated-show-sony-1235509925/
I Know Why Disney Is Fighting DeSantis [L.G.B.T.Q.]
By Sean Griffin
June 7, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/disney-ron-desantis.html
Bob Rice, Trailblazing Agent for Video Game Music, Dies at 79
Mike Barnes
He partnered with Journey on a 1982 game for Atari, then championed video game music as a creative and commercial art form as founder of Four Bars Intertainment.
June 8, 2023 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/music-news/bob-rice-dead-video-game-music-agent-1235510474/
I asked people for a favorite Black princess or superheroine. They struggled. [in print as may the Black Ariel be the first among many]
By Karen Attiah
Columnist
Washington Post June 8, 2023 ): A17.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/07/ariel-black-superheroines-princesses/
Batman Logo Remains Trademarked in EU
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/06/07/batman-logo-remains-trademarked-in-eu/
Pedro X. Molina Awarded 2023 Havel Prize
D. D. Degg
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/06/08/pedro-x-molina-awarded-2023-havel-prize/
Wizard Awards 1993
Joseph Quesada
Jan 20, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAkGqyzKBo
INTERVIEW: Rina Ayuyang's THE MAN IN THE MCINTOSH SUIT is a love letter to the Manong Generation
Intrigue follows a Filipino farm worker in pursuit of the American Dream
Nancy Powell
06/08/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-rina-ayuyang-the-man-in-the-mcintosh-suit/
Seven Seas brings Mojito's ENNEAD boys' love Webtoon series to print
Cat Randall
06/08/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/seven-seas-brings-mojitos-ennead-boys-love-webtoon-series-to-print/
An Excerpt from The Comics Journal #309: Annie Koyama Never Plans
Gary Groth | June 8, 2023 | 1 comment
https://www.tcj.com/an-excerpt-from-the-comics-journal-309-annie-koyama-never-plans/
How a designer's chairs made it onto the set of a Hollywood blockbuster [in print as How one designer's chairs made it into a Hollywood blockbuster; "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"]
By Christina Sturdivant Sani
Washington Post June 8, 2023: Local Living 5.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/06/08/furniture-set-design-wakanda-forever/
Talk Ottawa Interview with Canadian comic book artist Von Allan [2008]
James Hendricks / Talk Ottawa
VonAllan1 (Jun 6, 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8ADTEwBcI
The logo he deserves: DC Comics prevails in Batman trademark fight
The publisher registered the oval-shaped bat logo with the European Union in 1996.
Molly Quell / June 7, 2023
https://www.courthousenews.com/the-logo-he-deserves-dc-comics-prevails-in-batman-trademark-fight/
Batman wins EU trademark dispute with Italian designer
By Foo Yun Chee
June 7, 2023
https://www.reuters.com/business/batman-wins-eu-trademark-dispute-with-italian-designer-2023-06-07/
How my childhood eating disorder still affects my body image
This is a mindset I want to escape for myself, but more so for how it affects my daughter.
Perspective by Shelley Couvillion
June 4, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/04/how-my-childhood-eating-disorder-still-affects-my-body-image/
Optimize your dating life with our incredibly ugly and expensive headset
By Edith Pritchett
Editorial cartoonist
June 8, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/08/edith-pritchett-cartoon-apple-vision-pro/
The Trump store's new prison merch — and other charts
By Edith Pritchett
Editorial cartoonist
April 6, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/06/edith-pritchett-cartoons-trump-indictment-charts/
A (creative) history of people getting triggered by beer
By Edith Pritchett
Editorial cartoonist
April 13, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/13/edith-pritchett-cartoon-bud-light-beer-timeline/
David Sedaris to Publish His First Book for Children [Toon Books]
By Emma Kantor
Jun 08, 2023
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/92497-just-announced-pretty-ugly-by-david-sedaris-and-ian-falconer.html
Escape from Dude Culture: PW Talks with Mattie Lubchansky
By Rob Kirby
Jun 07, 2023
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/92485-escape-from-dude-culture-pw-talks-with-mattie-lubchansky.html
Talk Ottawa Interview with Canadian comic book artist Von Allan [2008]
James Hendricks / Talk Ottawa
VonAllan1 (Jun 6, 2023)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS8ADTEwBcI
The heist at the end of the world... Ed Brisson details his apocalyptic crime comic, Sins of the Salton Sea
By Will Salmon
Newsarama June 5 2023
https://www.gamesradar.com/the-heist-at-the-end-of-the-world-ed-brisson-details-his-apocalyptic-crime-comic-sins-of-the-salton-sea/
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Will Make Us Respect Cliffhangers Again
Emmet Asher-Perrin
Mon Jun 5, 2023
https://www.tor.com/2023/06/05/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse-review/
Across the Spider-Verse Ignores Spider-Punk's Weird History With Prowler and Spider-Man
By Joe George | June 8, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/across-the-spider-verse-spider-punk-weird-history-prowler-spider-man/
American Born Chinese On Disney+ Is A Love Letter To Asian American Kids
by Michelle Yang
June 5, 2023
https://www.romper.com/entertainment/american-born-chinese-disney-plus-interview
PW Comics World: More To Come
More to Come 568: Interview Time Machine 2: Flashback Harder [Jillian Tamaki, Stephen Graham Jones, James Tynion IV, Owen White, Sophie Labelle, and Molly Ostertag]
Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons
on 05/29/2023
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/podcasts/index.html?channel=2&podcast=1259
'Poetry' Editor-in-Chief Adrian Matejka Looks to the Future [graphic novel Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century]
Alex Dueben May 24, 2023
https://themillions.com/2023/05/poetry-editor-in-chief-adrian-matejka-looks-to-the-future.html
A Look Inside Nimona's Long Road to Release
Studio closedowns, LGBTQ skepticism, and now a Netflix revival—io9 looks at the history of Nimona, complete with some exclusive test footage.
Linda Codega
April 11, 2022
https://gizmodo.com/a-look-inside-nimonas-long-road-to-release-1848777375
Nimona To Be Released by Newly Established Annapurna Animation
The webcomic-turned-Netflix film by Nathan Stevenson will be the flagship animation release for the video game company.
Linda Codega
December 1, 2022
https://gizmodo.com/nimona-nd-stevenson-annapurna-animation-netflix-stray-1849840613
Jonathan Shapiro (Zapiro) - editorial cartoonist.
Stephen Sackur
HARDtalk June 7 2023
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001mr5v/hardtalk-jonathan-shapiro-zapiro-editorial-cartoonist?s=03
Cora Jackson-Fossett, Managing Editor
Los Angeles Sentinel June 8, 2023
David G. Brown Celebrates Two Decades as L.A. Sentinel Cartoonist
https://lasentinel.net/david-g-brown-celebrates-two-decades-as-l-a-sentinel-cartoonist.html