AWA launches Artists for LA campaign in aid of wildfire victims
Christopher Chiu-Tabet on 01/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/artists-for-la/
TwoMorrows Publishing goes exclusive with Lunar
Heidi MacDonald on 01/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/twomorrows-publishing-goes-exclusive-with-lunar/
CRYPTOZOIC PARTNERS WITH PEANUTS WORLDWIDE
To Produce New Games and Trading Card Products
Posted by Jeffrey Dohm-Sanchez on January 30, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58737/cryptozoic-partners-peanuts-worldwide
EXCLUSIVE: MAD CAVE ANNOUNCES 'INDIGO,' FIRST TITLE IN NAKAMA PRESS IMPRINT
Award-Winning Graphic Novel from Hong Kong
Brigid Alverson on January 30, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58739/exclusive-mad-cave-announces-indigo-first-title-nakama-press-imprint
IDW REPORTS FISCAL Q4 AND YEAR LOSSES
PRH Informs of Diamond Receivables Risk
Posted by Milton Griepp on January 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58741/idw-reports-fiscal-q4-year-losses
UNSECURED CREDITORS' COMMITTEE APPOINTED For Diamond Chapter 11
Milton Griepp on January 31, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58743/unsecured-creditors-committee-appointed
Now Mad Cave Studios & Vault Comics Quit Diamond Comic Distributors
Rich Johnston
, 30 Jan 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/now-mad-cave-studios-vault-comics-quit-diamond-comic-distributors/
Titan Comics Joins Diamond Bankruptcy Committee of Unsecured Creditors
30 Jan 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/titan-comics-joins-diamond-bankruptcy-committee-of-unsecured-creditors/
IDW Report: Diamond Bankruptcy Leaves "Substantial Doubt" For Future
The auditor section of IDW's annual report expresses "substantial doubt" about its "ability to continue as a going concern" in wake of Diamond Bankruptcy.
30 Jan 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-report-diamond-bankruptcy-leaves-substantial-doubt-for-future/
Antarctic Puts Creator-Owned Comics On Hiatus Over Diamond Bankruptcy
28 Jan 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/antarctic-puts-creator-owned-comics-on-hiatus-over-diamond-bankruptcy/
Cosmic Lion Productions Propose Spam to Help With Diamond Bankruptcy
Rich Johnston
30 Jan 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cosmic-lion-lunar-penguin-random-house-diamond-bankruptcy/
Joe Shuster's family sues DC and Warner Bros over Superman rights
Heidi MacDonald on 01/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/joe-shusters-family-sues-dc-and-warner-bros-over-superman-rights/
Warner Bros.' Superman Rollout Threatened by Lawsuit Over International Rights
The estate of Superman co-creator Joseph Shuster accuses the studio of yearslong copyright infringement on several movies and TV shows that exploit the hero.
Winston Cho
January 31, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-superman-lawsuit-rights-1236123933/
Superman Creator's Estate Sues DC and Warner Bros. Over Foreign Copyrights Ahead of James Gunn Reboot
Gene Maddaus
Jan 31, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/superman-estate-sues-dc-comics-international-release-1236292842/
'Captain America: Brave New World' Shows Disney Can't Escape the Culture Wars
While the studio desperately tries to avoid politics, the stars of the upcoming 'Captain America' movie and 'Spider-Man' TV show are making waves by just barely slipping off message.
James Hibberd
January 31, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/disney-marvel-captain-america-brave-new-world-politics-1236122701/
From London To Angoulême, The Biggest Comic Book Festival In The West
30 Jan 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/from-london-to-angouleme-the-biggest-comic-book-festival-in-the-west/
Violée et licenciée : la double peine pour une salariée du festival d'Angoulême
24 janvier 2025
Lucie Servin https://www.humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/agressions-sexuelles/violee-et-licenciee-la-double-peine-pour-une-salariee-du-festival-dangouleme
Gros sous et mal-être : enquête sur un festival d'Angoulême en pleine dérive
24 janvier 2025
Lucie Servin
https://www.humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/bande-dessinee/gros-sous-et-mal-etre-enquete-sur-un-festival-dangouleme-en-pleine-derive
#Bondouxgate : après les révélations de l'Humanité, l'appel à faire du festival d'Angoulême « un bien commun »
À l'ouverture de la 52e édition du festival d'Angoulême, qui se déroulera tout le week-end, une vague de mobilisations suscite l'espoir d'un changement sur fond de lutte contre les violences sexistes et sexuelles.
Lucie Servin
29 janvier 2025
https://www.humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/bande-dessinee/angouleme-autrement-le-festival-est-un-bien-commun
Le festival de la BD d'Angoulême, "en pleine dérive", selon une enquête de l'Humanité Magazine
Clément Massé
24/01/2025
https://france3-regions.francetvinfo.fr/nouvelle-aquitaine/charente/angouleme/le-festival-de-la-bd-d-angouleme-en-pleine-derive-selon-une-enquete-de-l-humanite-dimanche-3097009.html
Netflix's THE SANDMAN adaptation to end with season 2
Taimur Dar on 01/31/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/netflix-the-sandman-season-2-canceled/
Neil Gaiman's 'The Sandman' to End With Season 2 at Netflix (EXCLUSIVE)
Jennifer Maas
Jan 31, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/the-sandman-canceled-neil-gaiman-netflix-season-2-1236287571/
'The Sandman' Ending With Season 2 at Netflix
The show's conclusion comes as creator Neil Gaiman is embroiled in allegations of sexual assault.
Rick Porter
January 31, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/neil-gaiman-sandman-ending-netflix-season-2-1236124022/
Jules Ruled: Paul Merklein remembers Jules Feiffer
By Paul Merklein
January 31, 2025
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2025/01/jules-ruled-paul-merklein-remembers.html
The agonies and ecstasies of New York City, rendered in vibrant color
In her debut graphic memoir, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City," Kay Sohini examines the lasting appeal of the Big Apple.
Review by Tahneer Oksman
January 29, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/01/29/kay-sohini-beautiful-ridiculous-city-review/
Ask the Archivist: How January 10, 1926, Changed Hearst's Sunday Comics Forever
January 31, 2025
By Alex Garcia
https://comicskingdom.com/trending/blog/2025/01/31/ask-the-archivist-how-january-10-1926-changed-hearsts-sunday-comics-forever
Jules Feiffer and Autistic America
R.C. Harvey
The Comics Journal #190 (September 1996): 113-121.
online January 31, 2025 at https://www.tcj.com/jules-feiffer-and-autistic-america/
New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Podcast
Episode 189 - Stephen Nadler And The New Yorker Cartoon Exhibition
January 29, 2025 • Vin Coca, Beth Lawler, Paul Nesja, Nicole Chrolavicius • Season 4 • Episode 189
https://cartooncaptioncontestpodcast.buzzsprout.com/1719352/episodes/16529579-episode-189-stephen-nadler-and-the-new-yorker-cartoon-exhibition
The Daily Heller: 'New Yorker' Covers, Illuminated [Françoise Mouly interview]
By Steven Heller
January 30 2025
The Daily Heller
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-new-yorker-covers-illuminated/
5 new comics to read in February, including Godzilla's U.S. tour
Plus, a YA memoir, a museum heist, and a starry new Zatanna series.
By Oliver Sava | January 31, 2025
https://www.avclub.com/new-comics-february-2025-godzilla-zatanna
'Common Side Effects' Creators Joe Bennett And Steve Hely On Bringing Their Quirky Thriller To Adult Swim
Tara Bennett | 01/29/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/series/common-side-effects-creators-joseph-bennett-and-steve-hely-on-bringing-their-quirky-thriller-to-adult-swim-245383.html
'Common Side Effects' Review: Adult Swim's Animated Conspiracy Thriller About Big Pharma Is a Whole Vibe
Angie Han
January 31, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/common-side-effects-review-adult-swim-1236120712/
Review: In 'Common Side Effects,' It's Fungus vs. Them
A weird, deadpan animated thriller finds a new timeliness in ancient medicine.
By James Poniewozik
Jan. 30, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/arts/television/common-side-effects-review.html
Words, Images, & Worlds with Michael Trachiotis [Once Upon a Time in San Francisco]
Jason DeHart
Jan 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BkCepyYFwM
Matthew Rosenberg Catching Up
Word balloon
Jan 29, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVojc9h0iyI
Dan DiDio Defends The Earth
Word balloon
Jan 30, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFHtrXHgBSw
Cartoonist's Cartoonists: Influences of Matt Golding [Australian editorial cartoonist]
Alan Gardner
January 31, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/31/cartoonists-cartoonists-influences-of-matt-golding/
People are just realizing famous singer voiced iconic Peanuts character Sally
Most people will recognise Sally Brown from the comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schulz as the character is so recognisable, but you may not know who voiced her back in the '80s
Katie-Ann Gupwell
JAN 27 2025
https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/people-just-realising-famous-singer-934072
This Whimsical Museum In Santa Rosa Is Like Stepping Into Your Favorite Sunday Comic Strip [Schulz Museum]
Lyam Lavigne
January 27, 2025
https://familydestinationsguide.com/whimsical-museum-santa-rosa-ca/
Why the 'Peanuts' Characters Still Thrive 25 Years After the Last Original Comic Strip Was Published
Alice George
January 3, 2025
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-the-peanuts-characters-still-thrive-25-years-after-the-last-original-comic-strip-was-published-180985766/
John Erwin, Voice Actor in 'He-Man' and 'Archie' Cartoons, Dies at 88
Mike Barnes
January 31, 2025
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/john-erwin-he-man-archie-voice-actor-1236123692/
AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 312: Rick Remender's 'The Seasons': A whimsical, dark, and personal exploration
David Brooke
AIPT Comics podcast January 29, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/29/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-312-rick-remenders/
Bustin' Out Dead or Alive – This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | January 31, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/bustin-out-dead-or-alive-this-weeks-links/
Off Panel #484: You Can't Pick Your Hits with Kyle Higgins
Jan 27 2025
https://sktchd.libsyn.com/offpanel484-you-cant-pick-your-hits-with-kyle-higgins
An appreciation for Black comic book artists; DJ Big Phill leads the way
Rob Taylor Jr. - Courier Staff Writer
January 27, 2025
https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2025/01/27/an-appreciation-for-black-comic-book-artists/
Pittsburgh exhibit chronicles one man's love of Black comics art
90.5 WESA | By Bill O'Driscoll
WESA Arts Newsletter
January 9, 2025
https://www.wesa.fm/arts-culture/2025-01-09/pittsburgh-phillip-thompson-black-comic-books
Cartoonist Chris Ware invites readers inside his personal sketchbooks
Ware discussed his latest book, Acme Novelty Datebook: Volume Three, on Bookends with Mattea Roach
CBC Books Jan 29, 2025
https://www.cbc.ca/books/bookends/cartoonist-chris-ware-invites-readers-inside-his-personal-sketchbooks-1.7442872
Empire and Popular Arts: A Note on Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's "Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States"
by Dylan Davis, Paul Buhle and Paul Peart-Smith
(Jan 01, 2025)
2025, Volume 76, Issue 08 (January 2025)
https://monthlyreview.org/2025/01/01/empire-and-popular-arts/
Handmade Histories: An Analysis of Australian Comics Procured from Zine Fairs, Comics Fairs and Market Days and Published in 2022
Ronnie Scott, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Gabriel Clark, Meg O'Shea, and Patrick Grant
Media International Australia January 24, 2025
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/1329878X241299145
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1329878X241299145
https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241299145
Hero Stories: How an Island First Nation's stories became a graphic novel
Managing editor Tchadas Leo shares how 'Xwémalhkwu' came to be for Homalco people
Duck Paterson
Parksville Qualicum Beach News Jan 26, 2025
https://www.pqbnews.com/news/hero-stories-how-an-island-first-nations-stories-became-a-graphic-novel-7782245
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City review – New York state of mind
Kay Sohini's account of leaving Kolkata and sadness behind to build a life in the Big Apple is a stirring tribute to the place that saved her
Rachel Cooke
27 Jan 2025
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/27/this-beautiful-ridiculous-city-kay-sohini-review-a-young-womans-blues-melt-away
Charise, Andrea. The Comic Research Abstract: Graphic Medicine as Interdisciplinary Health Research (Example: Intergenerational Storytelling). Journal of Medical Humanities (January 24 2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-025-09931-y and https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-025-09931-y
Black Panel Press Needs Your Help: Andrew Benteau Interview [Canada].
Henry Chamberlain
January 29, 2025
https://comicsgrinder.com/2025/01/29/black-panel-press-needs-your-help-andrew-benteau-interview/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ZGYU0SfZs
Fabricius, Charlotte J. (2025). 'A place for everyone who gets it':: Instacartooning as Feminist Activism [Instagram, Mary Catherine Starr, aka @momlife_comics]. Kvinder, Køn & Forskning, 37(2), 16. https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v37i2.143850 and https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/143850 and https://tidsskrift.dk/KKF/article/view/143850/195579
Wonder Woman and Pygmalion: A new war commences
Part two of a three-part series exploring an essential aspect of Wonder Woman's story and lineage.
Ryan Perry
January 29, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/29/wonder-woman-essay-part-two/
Building A Better World: Rob Williams and Arthur Wyatt on 'Judge Dredd,' reform, and relevance
'Judge Dredd: A Better World' – An interview uncovering a dystopian vision rooted in today's realities.
David Brooke
January 29, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/29/judge-dredd-a-better-world-rob-williams/
Riding the rails of horror: Olivia Cuartero Briggs talks 'Kill Train' #1
In this exclusive interview, Olivia Cuartero Briggs reveals how her haunting dream inspired new comic series 'Kill Train' out this week.
David Brooke
January 30, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/30/olivia-cuartero-briggs-kill-train/
'Strange on the Range Zine' an interview with the editor of Wyoming's premier comics project
'Comics are a mechanism for connection, they share deeply personal experiences.' – Ella Bishop-Heil
Colin Moon
January 30, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/30/strange-on-the-range-zine-interview-wyomings-premier-comics-project/
TMNT Tuesday #1 – Editor Andy Khouri answers your burning questions
David Brooke
January 28, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/28/tmnt-tuesday-1-andy-khouri/
X-Men Monday #283 – Eve L. Ewing Talks 'Exceptional X-Men'
Chris Hassan
January 27, 2025
https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/27/x-men-monday-eve-ewing-exceptional-x-men-2/
'Dog Man' Review: Best Friends Forever
Ben Kenigsberg
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 31, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: For Man and Man's Best Friend, an Even Closer Bond.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/29/movies/dog-man-review.html
'Dog Man' is a pretty good movie, in addition to being a very good boy
[in print as A very good boy in a pretty good animated movie]
Review by Chris Klimek
Washington Post (January 31, 2025): Weekend 23.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2025/01/30/dog-man-dav-pilkey-movie-review/
