Chiu-Tabet, Christopher. 2025. The Beat Digest 12/05/25: THE BEAUTY arrives on FX in January. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/digest-120525/
MacDonald, Heidi. 2025. What does Netflix buying Warner Bros mean for DC Comics? The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/what-does-netflix-buying-warner-bros-mean-for-dc-comics/
McGuire, Liam. 2025. The Best Comics of 2025. Comic Frontier (December 5): https://www.comicfrontier.com/p/best-comics-2025-list-marvel-dc
Gossett, Christian, Kris Simon, and David Hyde. 2025. Superfan Interview: Barbra Dillon of Fanbase Press. Superfan Podcast (December 5): https://spfanpodcast.substack.com/p/superfan-interview-barbra-dillon
Aquino, Jimmy. 2025. Thought Bubble Festival: Lucy Sullivan/Sarah Gordon/Paul Cornell! Comic News Insider (1678; December 3): https://www.comicnewsinsider.com/episodes/cni-1678 and https://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI1678.mp3
Aquino, Jimmy. 2025. Thought Bubble Festival: Avery Hill Special - Donya Todd/Katriona Chapman! Comic News Insider (1679; December 5): https://www.comicnewsinsider.com/episodes/cni-1679 and https://media.libsyn.com/media/cni/CNI1679.mp3
Thompson, Maggie. 2025. TURNING POINTS [157]. Scoop (December 4): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/turning-points-by-maggie-thompson-157/
Sheriff, Amanda. 2025. GoFundMe for Mike W. Barr's Medical Care, Scoop (December 1): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/gofundme-for-mike-w-barrs-medical-care/
Sheriff, Amanda. 2025. The Pacific Northwest in Comics Exhibit in Portland. Scoop (December 3): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/the-pacific-northwest-in-comics-exhibit-in-portland/
Cloos, Art and Alice Cloos (photo.). 2025. Convention Recap: Big Apple Comic Con Holiday Con. Scoop (December 1): https://www.overstreetaccess.com/convention-recap-big-apple-comic-con-holiday-con/
Johnston, Rich. 2025. Absolute Batman #14 Had Orders Of 200,000, #15 Has Orders Of 300,000. Bleeding Cool (December 4): https://bleedingcool.com/comics/absolute-batman-14-had-orders-of-200000-15-has-orders-of-300000/
Salkowitz, Rob. 2025. Prestigious European Comics Festival Canceled Following Boycotts [Angouleme]. Forbes (December 3): https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2025/12/03/prestigious-european-comics-festival-canceled-following-boycotts/
Daniels, Robert. 2025. 'Endless Cookie' Review: An Animated Family History [in print as Endless Cookie]. New York Times (December 5): C5. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/movies/endless-cookie-review.html
Yu, Brandon. 2025. '100 Nights of Hero' Review: A Feminist Fairy Tale [in print as 100 Nights of Hero]. New York Times (December 5): C7. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/movies/100-nights-of-hero-review.html
Barnes, Brooks. 2025. But Who Is the Snake in 'Zootopia 2'? Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De'Snake is based on him. New York Times (December 4): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/business/media/zootopia-2-snake-gary-goldman.html
Zuckerman, Esther. 2025. Fans Are Obsessed With This Celebrity Couple. They Star in 'Zootopia.' New York Times (December 5): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/movies/zootopia-fans-nick-wilde-judy-hopps.html
McGowan, Andrew. 2025. Ginnifer Goodwin on 'Zootopia 3' Hopes and the Judy-Nick Romance Debate: 'Without Question, These Characters Are Soulmates'. Variety (December 4): https://variety.com/2025/film/news/ginnifer-goodwin-zootopia-3-hopes-judy-nick-romance-1236598900/
Unknown. 2025. Dick Tracy items on display at Norman Firehouse Art Center. Norman Transcript (June 27): https://www.normantranscript.com/community/dick-tracy-items-on-display-at-norman-firehouse-art-center/article_45754084-1022-4996-a901-1a77aee8c070.html
Sauer, Patrick. 2025. A Bold Finnish Artist Brought These Precious Little Hippopotamus-Like Trolls to the World 80 Years Ago [Moomins; Tove Jansson]. Smithsonian Magazine (n.d.): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-bold-finnish-artist-brought-these-precious-little-trolls-to-the-world-80-years-ago-180986897/
Galuppo, Mia. 2025. Alyssa Raimann will serve as vice president of Good Girl, which also has a Mariko Tamaki graphic novel adaptation in the works. [Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me]. Hollywood Reporter (June 27): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tommy-dorfman-production-banner-thriller-aesthetica-1236301466/
Eckerling, Debra L. 2025. "The Writer:" A Fun Supernatural Graphic Novel Infused with Judaism. Jewish Journal (June 27): https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/books/382469/the-writer-a-fun-supernatural-graphic-novel-infused-with-judaism/
Burscough, Clark. 2025. (Slight Return) — This Week's Links. TCJ (December 5): https://www.tcj.com/slight-return-this-weeks-links/
Unknown. 2025. New stamps celebrate six Canadian graphic novelists. Canada Post Magazine (November 20): https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/personal/perspectives/graphic-novelists-2025/
Browning, Sommer. 2025. Comics and Comedy: Francesca Lyn is a key figure in the local comics scene — writing, editing, teaching and even performing stand-up comedy on the side. Style Weekly (November 17). online at https://www.styleweekly.com/comics-and-comedy/
Jahn, Jennifer. 2025. Author and educator Kim Shearer combines love of teaching with graphic-novel writing. Northern Kentucky Tribune (November 30): https://nkytribune.com/2025/11/author-and-educator-kim-shearer-combines-love-of-teaching-with-graphic-novel-writing/
Cornell, Paul, Stuart Moore and Chris Ryall. 2025. The Magic of Marvel: How We Met the Avengers, Doctor Strange, Daredevil and Others; Paul Cornell, Stuart Moore and Chris Ryall Discuss How They Discovered Their Love For Marvel Comics. Literary Hub (November 25): https://lithub.com/the-magic-of-marvel-how-we-met-the-avengers-doctor-strange-daredevil-and-others/
Mouly, Françoise. 2025. A Romp Through Rea Irvin's Forgotten Sunday Funnies; Revisiting a comic strip by The New Yorker's first art editor [Ra Irvin's The Smythes]. New Yorker (November 25): https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/a-romp-through-rea-irvins-forgotten-sunday-funnies
Clements, Alexis. 2025. And Then What? The Road After "Success" in the Arts; Alexis Clements uses Alison Bechdel's new graphic novel "Spent" to meditate on the predicament of the creative artist today. Los Angeles Review of Books (November 29): https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/and-then-what-the-road-after-success-in-the-arts/
Vittorini, Fabio. 2025. From "Here" to Eternity. Space-time singularities between literature, graphic novel and cinema [Richard McGuire]. Comparatismi (10): 570–587. Online at https://doi.org/10.14672/20253133 and https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/3133 and https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/comparatismi/article/view/3133/2253
Sorondo, Alexander. 2025. Giant of the Attic: On the Majesty of Alan Moore. Metropolitan Review (November 25): https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/giant-of-the-attic
Vigneault, François. 2025. "You Laugh to Keep from Crying" — A Conversation with Pascal Girard and Cathon on Their New Comic Strip Collections 'Pastimes' and 'Fruit Salad' [Canada]. Broken Frontier (November 19):
https://www.brokenfrontier.com/a-conversation-with-pascal-girard-and-cathon/
Oliver, Andy. 2025. "I Wanted to Change the Narrative as I Believe Comic Art Deserves the Same Respect!" – Dominica Claribelle on Experimentation, Representing Southeast Asian Culture in Her Work, and Her Debut Graphic Novel 'Finding Home' [Indonesia]. Broken Frontier (December 3): https://www.brokenfrontier.com/dominica-claribelle-interview/
Wilyan, Kevin and Dany Muhammad (trans.). 2025. Interview With Comic Paradise Organisers at Comipara 5 [Indonesia]. KAORI Nusantara / Indonesian Anime Times (December 4): https://www.kaorinusantara.or.id/english/27623/interview-with-comic-paradise-organisers-at-comipara-5
Wilyan, Kevin and Eriq Affandi (trans.). 2024. Has Comiket Changed Post Pandemic? Interview with Comic Market's Organizer. KAORI Nusantara / Indonesian Anime Times (August 26): https://www.kaorinusantara.or.id/english/22338/comiket-post-pandemic-interview
Brooke, David. 2025. Benjamin Percy brings brutality and brokenness to his new 'Punisher' ongoing in 2026. AIPT (December 2): https://aiptcomics.com/2025/12/02/benjamin-percy-punisher-2026/
Harkham, Sammy. 2025. R. Crumb and George DiCaprio Talk Autoerotic Asphyxiation, Astral Projection, and Acid Trips; The pair sit down to discuss the glory days of underground comics—and a new show of Crumb's work at David Zwirner in Los Angeles. Cultured Magazine (November 24): https://www.culturedmag.com/article/2025/11/24/art-robert-crumb-george-dicaprio-david-zwirner/
Buhle, Paul . 2025. Conversations with Underground Comix Kingpin Dennis Kitchen; For Milwaukeeans with a long memory—really anyone in Wisconsin looking back fondly on the counterculture era—Denis Kitchen may be recalled as an almost cosmic force. Shepherd Express (December 3): https://shepherdexpress.com/culture/milwaukee-history/conversations-with-underground-comix-kingpin-dennis-kitchen/
Smith, Suzette. 2025. How Making Nonfiction Comics Changed My Mind; Shay Mirk and Eleri Harris have created the only primer on ethical comics reporting. Portland Mercury (November 13): https://www.portlandmercury.com/Comics/2025/11/13/48120960/how-making-nonfiction-comics-changed-my-mind
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Greg Weisman & Nate Cosby on Holiday Sleuthing in the GARGOYLES WINTER SPECIAL 2025! Freak Sugar (December 2): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-greg-weisman-nate-cosby-on-holiday-sleuthing-in-the-gargoyles-winter-special-2025/
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Olivia Cuartero-Briggs on Magic & Teen Drama in FATE: THE WINX SAGA: DARK DESTINY. Freak Sugar (November 14): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-olivia-cuartero-briggs-on-magic-teen-drama-in-fate-the-winx-saga-dark-destiny/
Keith, Jed W. 2025. Interview: Luciano Vecchio on Giving the X-Man His Due in MARVEL'S VOICES: ICEMAN [gay character]. Freak Sugar (November 14): https://www.freaksugar.com/interview-luciano-vecchio-on-giving-the-x-man-his-due-in-marvels-voices-iceman/
Schindel, Dan. 2025. Before Wonder Woman, There Was Fantomah; Fletcher Hanks, a cantankerous cartoonist who was active only from 1939 to '41, left behind a complex legacy and bizarre body of work. A new book offers clues about his enigmatic life. Hyperallergic (November 10): https://hyperallergic.com/before-wonder-woman-there-was-fletcher-hanks-fantomah/
Decker, Robert. 2025. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power, by Michelle Bumatay [book review]. French Forum 49 (1): 186-188. online at https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/frf.2025.a975504 and https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/article/975504
Bumatay, Michelle. 2025. On Black Bandes Dessinées and Transcolonial Power. Columbus: Ohio State University Press
Hernon, Matthew. 2025.Shigeru Mizuki and His World of Yokai: A look back at the life and times of one of Japan's most revered manga artists. Tokyo Weekender (November 30): https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/anime-and-manga/shigeru-mizuki-and-his-world-of-yokai/
Stigliano, Giovanni. 2025. KUCHiXO Interview: Exploring the Frontiers of Comics Beyond Storytelling [Taiwan]. Asian Movie Pulse (December 4): https://asianmoviepulse.com/2025/12/kuchixo-interview/
Nelson, Samantha. 2025. Batman writer Scott Snyder would drop everything to bring American Vampire to the screen. Polygon (November 28): https://www.polygon.com/batman-scott-snyder-american-vampire-tv-show-adaptation/
Deverell, Richard D. 2025. "This isn't a mudhole… It's an operating table.": The Second Comics Code and the Direct Market, 1980-1989." Mise au point (21; December 5): http://journals.openedition.org/map/8205 and https://doi.org/10.4000/154x6
Kirtley, Clare, Christopher Murray, Phillip B. Vaughan, and Benjamin W. Tatler. 2025. Coming Up Next: The Extent of the Perceptual Window in Comic Reading. Cognitive Science, 49 (November 19): e70142. online at https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70142 and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.70142
Beers Fägersten, Kristy. 2025. Unsolicited: Dick Pics and Interactional Omissions as Visualized in Swedish Comic Art. Sexuality & Culture (November 16): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5 ; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5 ; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12119-025-10475-5.pdf
Rascoe, Ayesha. 2025. 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees' is Patrick Horvath's gruesome graphic novel. NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday (November 16): https://www.npr.org/2025/11/16/nx-s1-5602889/beneath-the-trees-where-nobody-sees-is-patrick-horvaths-gruesome-graphic-novel ; https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2025/11/20251116_wesun_beneath_the_tress_where_nobody_sees_is_patrick_horvath_s_gruesome_graphic_novel.mp3 ; https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5602889
Chumko, André. 2025. Kim Anderson's art of chaos, colour and coping [New Zealand; disability]. [Wellington, New Zealand] Post (June 29): https://www.thepost.co.nz/culture/360736429/kim-andersons-art-chaos-colour-and-coping
Capoccia, Noemi. 2025. Superman and Dante meet in Florence in new graphic novel signed by Nucci and Celoni [Italy]. Finestre sull' Art (June 29): https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/books/superman-and-dante-meet-in-florence-in-new-graphic-novel-signed-by-nucci-and-celoni
Grimaldi, Lennie. 2025. UB Recalls Schmoo-Mania, 'Walrus-Like Critters Devoted To Fulfilling All Human Needs' [Li'l Abner]. Only in Bridgeport (June 28): https://onlyinbridgeport.com/wordpress/ub-recalls-schmoo-mania-walrus-like-critters-devoted-to-fulfilling-all-human-needs/
JamesXRMan. 2025. "ALAMU: Diary of a Street Lagosian" Is the Bold New Motion Comic Redefining African Urban Drama [Nigeria]. Comic Book Movie (June 28): https://comicbookmovie.com/comics/alamu-diary-of-a-street-lagosian-is-the-bold-new-motion-comic-redefining-african-urban-drama-a221348
Arish. 2025. Make Your Own Graphic Novel Online – No Design Skills Needed [artificial intelligence]. Art (June ?): https://vocal.media/art/make-your-own-graphic-novel-online-no-design-skills-needed
Burlingame, Russ. 2025. Absolute Batman #1 goes back for a blockbuster tenth printing. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/absolute-batman-1-goes-back-for-a-blockbuster-tenth-printing/
Baxi, Steve. 2025. Trade Rating: Out Of Alcatraz is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to say. The Beat (December 5): https://www.comicsbeat.com/trade-rating-out-of-alcatraz-is-a-prison-escape-thriller-with-something-powerful-to-say/
Blumenthal, Ralph. 2025. Arthur Szyk: Spotlight Returns to a Forgotten 'Soldier in Art' [in print as In the Past, Finding a Parable for the Present]. New York Times (December 5): C10-11. Online at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/arts/design/arthur-szyk-museum-of-jewish-heritage.html
