Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/21/2025

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95

The Pulitzer-winning writer found his voice in comics that provided a sardonic and sarcastic takedown of authority and conventional wisdom. He was also a playwright and screenwriter.

By Ali Bahrampour

January 21, 2025

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

 

An Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007

By Alan Fern

International Journal of Comic Art blog January 21, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-evening-with-jules-feiffer-at-cosmos.html

 

Jules Feiffer, Famed Cartoonist and 'Carnal Knowledge' Screenwriter, Dies at 95

The Pulitzer Prize winner and Tony nominee started out with Will Eisner, and his work appeared in The Village Voice for decades.

Chris Koseluk

January 21, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jules-feiffer-dead-cartoonist-1236113743/

 

Jules Feiffer, Acerbic Cartoonist, Writer and Much Else, Dies at 95

By Andy Webster

Jan. 21, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/arts/jules-feiffer-dead.html

Jules Feiffer, legendary cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and illustrator, dead at 95
By Luke Cornelius, on 01/21/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/jules-feiffer-rip/

"Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95
Neda Ulaby
All Things Considered  January 21, 2025
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-2904918/phantom-tollbooth-illustrator-jules-feiffer-dies-at-95 and
https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/01/20250121_atc_phantom_tollbooth_illustrator_jules_feiffer_dies_at_95.mp3

 

TOKYOPOP ADDS $10,000 TO BINC MATCHING GIFTS For Los Angeles Fire Relief

  Milton Griepp on January 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58655/tokyopop-adds-10-000-binc-matching-gifts

 

PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING CARTOONIST CHARGED WITH CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Some AI-Generated

Milton Griepp on January 20, 2025

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/58654/pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoonist-charged-child-pornography

 

Comic Book Creator Arthur Nichols Dies At The Age Of 63

Comic book creator Arthur Nichols of Magnus Robot Fighter, Night Thrasher and The Ray had sadly died at the age of 63

 

21 Jan 2025 by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-creator-arthur-nichols-dies-at-the-age-of-63

 

Chad Townsend

["It is with a heavy heart I let people know, Comic artist Arthur Nichols passed away last night after a long battle with cancer."]

Jan 20, 2025

https://x.com/ChadTHX1138/status/1881455168908317023?mx=2

 

Professor Larissa Brown's graphic novel "Blake Laser" highlights representation, biracial identity

    Jasper Coleman

    Dec 2, 2024 https://www.coastreportonline.com/arts_and_culture/article_770f1f96-b0f9-11ef-ad4e-b3c9f19d5fe1.html

 

Why 'Weirdo' Is the Book Every Parent Should Read With Their Kids

The middle-grade graphic novel memoir shares important lessons for children.

By Ambreia Meadows-Fernandez

Published on December 5, 2024

https://www.parents.com/weirdo-book-kids-should-read-8754497

 

He wrote the history of Jews in comics. Now he's making Jewish comics history

At the annual JewCE con in Manhattan, Arie Kaplan, who exposed the industry's Jewish roots, discusses the rise of overtly Jewish characters and what an Oct. 7 comic might look like

By Jay Deitcher 4 December 2024

https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-wrote-the-history-of-jews-in-comics-now-hes-making-jewish-comics-history/

 

Empowering students through music, art and comic books [Mark Mindt].

by: Jordan DeSmet

Dec 4, 2024

https://www.keloland.com/news/local-news/empowering-students-through-music-art-and-comic-books/

 

Image Comics Reduce Discounts To Comic Book Stores Significantly

20 Jan 2025  by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-reduce-discounts-comic-book-stores-significantly/

 

Image Comics Says That No, They Are Not Talking To Diamond Comics

20 Jan 2025

 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-says-that-no-they-are-not-talking-to-diamond-comics/

 

How Many Comic Store Closures Will The Diamond Bankruptcy Cause?

How Many Comic Store Closures Will The Diamond Bankruptcy Cause? Atom! Freeman talks to Bleeding Cool about the industry's new challenges

Rich Johnston

20 Jan 2025

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/how-many-comic-store-closures-will-the-diamond-bankruptcy-cause/

 

IDW Defends New Logo as Surfing The Rogue Wave Backward In Sunglasses

Aub Driver VP Marketing at IDW defends its new logo in terms of "surfing the rogue wave backward in sunglasses"

20 Jan 2025

 Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/idw-defends-new-logo-surfing-rogue-wave-backward-sunglasses/

Reviews: The Legend of Kamui Vol. 1 (of 10)
Joe McCulloch | January 14, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/the-legend-of-kamui-vol-1-of-10/

Reviews: Drafted
Kristian Williams | January 21, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/drafted/

China's Communist Comic Books
How did the People's Republic of China cope with a literary canon filled with un-communist ideas? Comics called lianhuanhua were the answer, at least for a while.
Rebecca Scott | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 12 December 2024 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/chinas-communist-comic-books

'Moana 2' Crosses $1 Billion At Global Box Office
By Amid Amidi | 01/20/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/box-office-report/moana-2-crosses-1-billion-at-global-box-office-245145.html

'Out Of The Nest': A Challenging Production Turns Into A Thai-Chinese Animated Hit
By Kévin Giraud | 01/20/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/out-of-the-nest-a-challenging-production-turns-into-a-thai-chinese-animated-hit-244130.html

Family is a cult: Troy Nixey and Yo Kuri on their upcoming horror comic, Blood Magic Tales
Jean Marc Ah-Sen | January 21, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/family-is-a-cult-troy-nixey-and-yo-kuri-on-their-upcoming-horror-comic-blood-magic-tales/

'I won the Pulitzer Prize and I'm busking on a corner': 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning
Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform.
BY Zachary Petit
01-21-2025
https://www.fastcompany.com/91262247/i-won-the-pulitzer-prize-and-im-busking-on-a-corner-3-top-artists-on-the-uncertain-future-of-political-cartooning

Maryland Court Approves Diamond Debtor-in-Possession Refinancing
Jan 21, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5156

Creator of the Month: Steve Wands
1/13/25
https://awastudios.com/creator-of-the-month-steve-wands/

Selling Superman Documentary Review with Adam Schomer
wordballoon January 21 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTh06BJbbvQ

Pop Culture SquadCast - Live - Episode #075: With Special Guest Gene Ha
Jan 21 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co4Vugmw0UA

Revisiting "The Plot Against America"
I read and reread Philip Roth's book to try to understand the present, to make sense of what may happen.
By Navied Mahdavian
January 20, 2025
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-plot-against-america

 

Pardon Me While I ReWrite History by Daniel Boris

Spy vs Spy Inauguration by Daniel Boris

Some candid photos of Jules Feiffer in DC

 Here's some pictures I took at times he was visiting DC.

Thursday, Oct 12, 2006 - Library of Congress

 

 

Wednesday, November 1, 2006  - Library of Congress

 

 

Thursday, March 18, 2010 - Politics and Prose Bookstore

 

 

  Friday, September 12, 2014 - Politics and Prose Bookstore 

 

 

I'm sure I have more, but this is what Google Photos found tonight.

NPR: "Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95

"Phantom Tollbooth" illustrator Jules Feiffer dies at 95

Neda Ulaby

All Things Considered  January 21, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-2904918/phantom-tollbooth-illustrator-jules-feiffer-dies-at-95

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2025/01/20250121_atc_phantom_tollbooth_illustrator_jules_feiffer_dies_at_95.mp3

Satirical cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter Jules Feiffer has died at the age of 95. He was the illustrator of the children's classic "The Phantom Tollbooth."

Jules Feiffer dead, says WaPo

Jules Feiffer, cartoonist of acerbic wit and satire, dies at 95

The Pulitzer-winning writer found his voice in comics that provided a sardonic and sarcastic takedown of authority and conventional wisdom. He was also a playwright and screenwriter.

By Ali Bahrampour

January 21, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/01/21/jules-feiffer-cartoonist-humorist-pulitzer-dead/

 IJOCA ran this interview in print in Fall 2008, and it appears online for the first time now.

An Evening with Jules Feiffer at the Cosmos Club in 2007

By Alan Fern

International Journal of Comic Art blog January 21, 2025

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2025/01/an-evening-with-jules-feiffer-at-cosmos.html

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/20/2025

'Grand Theft Hamlet': The (Game) Play's the Thing [videogame animation]
By Alissa Wilkinson
A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 20, 2025, Section C, Page 6 of the New York edition with the headline: With 'Grand Theft Hamlet,' The Gameplay's the Thing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/movies/grand-theft-hamlet-review.html

Dueben, Alex. 2025.
Remembering John Cassaday, Dec. 14, 1971-Sept. 9, 2024.
TCJ (January 20): https://www.tcj.com/remembering-john-cassaday-dec-14-1971-sept-9-2024/

THE LAB PRESS unveils its entire Graphic Novel Slate for 2025


By Christian Angeles on 01/20/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-lab-press-unveils-its-entire-graphic-novel-slate-for-2025/

The Loyal Opposition
An essay about a Cartoon Controversy...
Lee Judge
Jan 20 2025
https://leejudge.substack.com/p/the-loyal-opposition

'Stomp! Stomp! Rhinos!' Becomes the First Lithuanian Preschool Toon to Get Worldwide Distribution
 Mercedes Milligan
January 17, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/01/stomp-stomp-rhinos-becomes-the-first-lithuanian-toon-to-get-worldwide-distribution/

NFB Animation Filmmaker Robert Verrall Dies Age 97 [Canada].
 Mercedes Milligan
January 17, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/01/nfb-animation-filmmaker-robert-verrall-dies-age-97/

A New AAEC Administration
D. D. Degg
January 20, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/20/a-new-aaec-administration/

Words, Images, & Worlds with Morgan B. Herron
Jason DeHart
Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJxScqP9_Fc

Words, Images, & Worlds with William Russell
Jason DeHart
 Jan 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CxjA8ghLb0

TERRY LaBAN for MENDEL THE MESS UP
Comix Experience
 Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLlQNYHTMKI

Jason Aaron and Mahmud Asrar introduce BUG WARS!
Andrew Sumner
Forbidden Planet TV
 Jan 20, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zderOQwlVE

Jason Aaron Talks Bug Wars, Scalped, Superheroes & More.
Let's Talk Comics 2
Jan 16 2025
https://imagecomics.com/podcasts/lets-talk-comics-ep-2-jason-aaron-on-bug-wars-more

The Pat Chat Plus: Jason Aaron's War on Bugs
Pat Loika
The Pat Chat Plus Jan 17, 2025
https://sites.libsyn.com/494968/the-pat-chat-plus-jason-aarons-war-on-bugs

'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids' Meets 'Conan The Barbarian' In Jason Aaron & Mahmud Asrar's 'Bug Wars' Comic
Josh Weiss
Jan 14, 2025,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshweiss/2025/01/14/honey-i-shrunk-the-kids-meets-conan-the-barbarian-in-jason-aaron--mahmud-asrars-bug-wars-comic/

Honey , I Shrunk The Kids Meets Game Of Thrones In Bug Wars
Jace -The Comic Source
 Jan 10, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEwZ15QO0pU

Absolute Batman: Year One with Scott Snyder
Jace -The Comic Source
 Jan 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rulz9S7UCQE

"A Huge Rebound": Retailers Share Their Thoughts on a "Much Busier" Year in Their Comic Shops
 David Harper
January 16, 2025
https://sktchd.com/longform/january-2025-retailer-feature/

Conversations with Artists 1 19 25
[David Cooper, Lalo Alcaraz, Steve Brodner, Eric Drooker, Peter Kuper, Marc Murphy, Jack Ohman, Jen Sorensen, Seth Tobocman, Sam Viviano. ]
Steve Brodner
 Jan 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfTDRmipP08

Nick Anderson from Pen Strokes
Jan 20, 2025
Best Cartoons from 2024
https://nickanderson.substack.com/p/best-cartoons-from-2024

Keith Giffen: The Interview [1988] pts 3.
Harry Broertjes
Interlac APA.
reprinted at https://glencadigan.substack.com/p/is-this-thing-on-xxii

Mordor in America. by Daniel Boris

RFK editorial cartoon award submissions still open

As they say,

There is still time to submit for the 2025 @RFKHumanRights Book & Journalism Awards! These prestigious awards honor work which embodies the values of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: advocating for justice, uplifting the powerless, and championing equality and opportunity for all.

I encourage all journalists and authors whose works were published in 2024—including student journalists—to submit!

Deadline: January 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET.

Application Link: https://rfkhumanrights.org/awards/book-and-journalism-awards/ 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/18-19/2025

 

Live at the People's March DC

A recording from Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome's live video

Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome

Seeing Things Jan 18, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/live-at-the-peoples-march-dc

 

Live @ the People's March, DC

A recording from Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome's live video

Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome

Seeing Things Jan 18, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/live-the-peoples-march-dc

 

Live-Drawing The People's March with Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome

Washington DC, two days before Trump's inauguration

Liza Donnelly and Kate Woodsome

Seeing Things Jan 18, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/live-drawing-the-peoples-march-with

 

Visual Reportage: The People's March in photos and video

Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things Jan 19, 2025

https://lizadonnelly.substack.com/p/visual-reportage

 

André Lima Araújo

 Why Comics?

CASTRUM LUSITANIA  Jan 18, 2025

https://andrelimaaraujo.substack.com/p/why-comics

 

AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 309: Inside Charles Soule and Ryan Browne's 'The Lucky Devils'

David Brooke and Nathan Simmons

January 12, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/12/aipt-comics-podcast-ep-309-charles-soule-ryan-browne/

 

X-Men Monday #281 – Alison Sealy-Smith Talks Voicing Storm in 'X-Men '97' and 'What If…?'

Chris Hassan

January 13, 2025

https://aiptcomics.com/2025/01/13/x-men-monday-281-alison-sealy-smith-talks-voicing-storm-in-x-men-97-and-what-if/

 

Antarctic Press' Ben Dunn On The Diamond Bankruptcy Announcement

 

Antarctic Press' Ben Dunn talks about the impact of the Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy announcement on smaller publishers.

 17 Jan 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/antarctic-press-ben-dunn-on-the-diamond-bankruptcy-announcement/

 

Will Diamond's Bankruptcy Process Go After Comic Shops' Debts?

 

How much will the court's bankruptcy process for Diamond Comic Distributors demand of their comic book shops over possible debts?

, 17 Jan 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/will-diamond-bankruptcy-process-go-after-comic-shop-debt/

 

What Does Diamond Comic Distributors Owe Marvel?

Marvel Comics is now very interested in Diamond Comic Distributors' bankruptcy... is it more than just the money owed to Disney?

17 Jan 2025

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/what-does-diamond-comic-distributors-owe-marvel/

 

The Top Thirty Companies That Diamond Owes Money To

The top thirty companies Diamond owed money to when it went bankrupt, from Penguin to Bandai, Todd McFarlane to Hasbro, Funko to Udon

by Rich Johnston

 15 Jan 2025

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-top-thirty-companies-that-diamond-owes-money-to/

 

A Darrin Bell Update

D. D. Degg

: January 18, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/17/a-darrin-bell-update/

 

DMZ America Podcast Ep 189: Darrin Bell Arrested for Child Porn

Ted Rall and Scott Stantis

DMZ America Podcast

 Jan 17, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKarzJQjdJ4

 

Darrin Bell, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, appears in court Friday

KCRA Jan 17, 2025

https://www.kcra.com/article/darrin-bell-pulitzer-prize-cartoonist-court/63462287

Lee Anne Denyer

 

Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Darrin Bell arrested for AI child porn, Sacramento sheriff says

KCRA Jan 16, 2025

https://www.kcra.com/article/darrin-bell-cartoonist-arrested-child-porn-sacramento/63444918

By David Groves

 

THE DCU RIGHT NOW WITH MARK WAID

wordballoon

 Jan 16, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2x3g-6suvw

 

Words, Images, & Worlds with Josh Tierney

Jason DeHart

 Jan 18, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvDBkp4iKYg

 

Distribution: Connecting Comics and Readers

Neil Brideau

CXC Festival

 Jan 18, 2025

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

 

Ryan North ushers in a new age of Victor von Doom at Marvel Comics

Our interview with North includes a preview of his new series, One World Under Doom.

By Oliver Sava  |  January 17, 2025

https://www.avclub.com/one-world-under-doom-marvel-comics-ryan-north-interview

 

Waarom Kuifje ontbreekt in de duurste expo ooit over Belgische strips

Geert De Weyer

De Morgen 7 oktober 2024

https://www.demorgen.be/tv-cultuur/het-stripmuseum-eert-belgische-striphelden-maar-kuifje-lag-dwars~becd5cc75/

 

Neil Gaiman has responded to sexual misconduct allegations

Elizabeth Blair

January 14, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5259516/neil-gaiman-response-sexual-misconduct-allegations

 

Wigmore J, Ahmed B, Joaquino G, Jaibeeh Barah E, Upal Z, Boring T, et al. (2025) Are adverse childhood experiences scores associated with heroism or villainy? A quantitative observational study of Marvel and DC Cinematic Universe characters. PLoS ONE 20 (1; January 15, 2025 ): e0315268. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0315268 and https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0315268

 

'It's Jimmy himself. Pass the word.' [ Michael Ramirez letter]

Nick Glakas,

 

Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/

 

You've given him the business. Now give us the business. [Scott Adams, "Dilbert" letter]

Jim Stahl,

Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/

 

Ned Riddle obituary [ "Mr. Tweedy"]

Dallas Morning News from Oct. 16 to Oct. 19, 2003.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/ned-riddle-obituary?pid=1483415

 

SHOW AND TELL-Lacordaire Academy budding artist, Joseph Vassar of Montclair, introduces his grandfather, Ned Riddle, syndicated cartoonist of "Mr. Tweedy," to his kindergarten classmates [photo]

20010125 (The Montclair Times)

 

'Mr. Tweedy' never aged-and some fans haven't forgotten him

Mary Ficklen

19930221 (Abilene Reporter News)

 

Mr. Tweedy is now history

19881021 (Hartford Courant).

 

["Saddened to hear of the passing of Turtel Onli, founding father of the Black Age of Comics movement and creator/author of comic book projects NOG, Malcolm10, and others"]

Rob Stull

Rob Stull's Post January 19 2025

https://www.facebook.com/770728938/posts/10163151749943939/

 

Often overlooked, Turtel Onli, an advocate for Black artists in comics, has a new exhibition in Café Logan

By Christopher Borrelli | Chicago Tribune

March 5, 2024

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2024/03/05/turtel-onli-advocate-black-artists-comics/

 

The Making of David Lynch's comic strip, The Angriest Dog in the World

Dan Barton,  01/19/2025

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-making-of-david-lynchs-comic-strip-the-angriest-dog-in-the-world/

 

Political cartoons in a second Trump administration

Mike Luckovich, political cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, advances American democracy in his own 'minor' way

Rob Tornoe | for E&P Magazine

January 16, 2025 https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/political-cartoons-in-a-second-trump-administration,253783

 

Charles Rozanski

["I am still processing the news of Diamond Comic Distributors entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy."]

Charles Rozanski's Post Jan 15 2025

https://www.facebook.com/chuckrozanski/posts/10229542445198694

 

'Marvel Snap' Digital Game Goes Dark in U.S. Due to TikTok Ban Bill

The Marvel Comics digital game counts Nuverse as its publisher, which like TikTok is owned by the Chinese conglomerate ByteDance.

Alex Weprin

January 19, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/marvel-snap-game-shuts-down-tiktok-ban-1236112793/

 

Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok

The superhero card battler got Thanos-snapped out of Apple and Google's stores because its publisher is owned by ByteDance.

By Richard Lawler,

The Verge Jan 19, 2025,

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/19/24347034/marvel-snap-banned-tiktok-bytedance

 

"We will no longer be publishing political cartoons"

D. D. Degg

January 19, 2025

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/01/19/we-will-no-longer-be-publishing-political-cartoons/

 

A message to our readers, from the publisher: [Lee Judge political cartoon; censorship].

Dave Cuddihy,

    Latrobe Bulletin   Jan 18, 2025

    https://www.latrobebulletinnews.com/news/local/a-message-to-our-readers-from-the-publisher/article_30bc1e32-d529-11ef-9cfd-43282dd307ab.html

 

Robert Verrall, Oscar-Nominated Animation Pioneer, Dies at 97

He worked at the National Film Board of Canada from 1945 to 1986 in animation, documentary and fiction films.

Etan Vlessing

January 17, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/robert-verrall-dead-canadian-animation-film-pioneer-1236112403/

 

So You Want To Open A Comic Store In Your Future?

So You Want to Open A Comic Store In Your Future? Rod Lamberti of Rodman Comics in Ankeny, Iowa takes us through the ups and downs.

  19 Jan 2025

by Rod Lamberti

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/so-you-want-to-open-a-comic-store-in-your-future/

That darn Michael Ramirez and Scott Adams

'It's Jimmy himself. Pass the word.' [ Michael Ramirez letter]

Nick Glakas, Bethesda

Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/

My compliments to Michael Ramirez for his spectacular Jan. 10 editorial cartoon, "A life of service," on the death of Jimmy Carter. It immediately brought to mind another great editorial cartoon, by the legendary Bill Mauldin in 1969 for the Chicago Sun-Times.

I received that cartoon in a letter from my father while I was serving aboard a D-Day-era LST in the Mekong Delta. My father, his four brothers, three brothers-in-law and two cousins, all Washington boys, had served when Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded the D-Day landing on June 6, 1944. The cartoon, commemorating Eisenhower's death in 1969, showed a row of marble crosses at a military cemetery with the caption "It's Ike himself. Pass the word." It brought tears to my eyes then and brings tears to my eyes now. Two cartoonists, 56 years apart, recognizing the deaths of two American presidents in two simple but memorable political cartoons.

You've given him the business. Now give us the business. [ Scott Adams, "Dilbert" letter]

Jim Stahl, Orange Village, Ohio

Washington Post January 18 2025: A15.

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/17/carter-funeral-medal-honor-polyamory-trump/

In this season of pardons, both by President Joe Biden and by soon-to-be President Donald Trump, might The Post consider one for Scott Adams, creator of "Dilbert"?

As reprehensible as Adams's comments in the real world might have been, his comments on life at the office in the comic strip world were one of the best things on those pages. Please let Dilbert, Wally and Pointy-Haired Boss return!

NPR on Gaiman allegations

Neil Gaiman has responded to sexual misconduct allegations

Elizabeth Blair

January 14, 2025

https://www.npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-5259516/neil-gaiman-response-sexual-misconduct-allegations

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