Comics Research Bibliography 2018 print edition volumes and ebook available for order

Over 1200 pages long with more than 9,000 new entries, this is a bibliography of articles and books on all aspects of comic and cartoon art including comic books, comic strips, cartoons, animation, editorial cartoons, newly updated as of the end of 2018. It is based on the format used by John Lent in his ten-volume bibliography. Both the two volume print and the single file electronic book include tens of thousands of citations with links to information on comic book movies, the Charlie Hebdo massacre, the Danish Islam cartoon controversy and other topical matters. In the e-book, many citations are hot-linked to the web publication for ease of use.

Here's part of a sample entry (the * indicates a new entry for this edition):

                        DC Comics / National Periodical Publications

  Adegoke, Yinka. 2010. Warner Bros moving some DC Comics jobs to Hollywood. Reuters (September 21): http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100921/media_nm/us_timewarner_dccomics_2

  Atchinson, Lee. 2003. DC's Marketing Doyenne: Patty Jeres. Sequential Tart (January)

  Bolle, Sonja. 1985. DC's 50th anniversary celebrates old favorites and new ideas. Publishers Weekly 228(Dec 6):40.

  Borsellino, Mary. 2007. Interview with a DC Editor: Jeanine Schaefer. Sequential Tart (October 1): http://www.sequentialtart.com/article.php?id=705

  Brady, Matt. 2006. Dan Didio, A 2006 Look Back [DC Comics]. Newsarama (December 13): http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Didio/Didio1.html

  Brady, Matt. 2008. SDCC 08: From Paul Levitz's Point of View [DC Comics]. Newsarama (August 11): http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080811-SDCC08-Levitz.html

  *Campbell, Josie. 2012. "American Idol's" Chris Daughtry Partners With DC's We Can Be Heroes Charity. Comic Book Resources (May 31): http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=38926

  Cavna, Michael. 2010. Comic-Con 2010: DC's Dan Didio talks Superman, Wonder Woman & why he loves fan interaction. Washington Post Comic Riffs blog (July 22):

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/comic-riffs/2010/07/comic-con_dan_didio.html

To order the books:

Volume 1 covers Comic Books and Comic Strips in the United States. $45 at http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2018-print-edition-volume-1/paperback/product-23928067.html

Volume 2 covers Volume 2 covers Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons in the United States, as well as Canada, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia & Oceania, Central & South America and the Caribbean. $27 at http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2018-print-edition-volume-2/paperback/product-23928108.html

The ebookis a DRM-free PDF with all 1200 pages. $15 at http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2018-print-edition/ebook/product-23928323.html

Table of Contents (highlights only)

 

 

VOLUME 1

Introduction                                                                                                                  v

United States

1.    Comic Books and Strips                                                                                 002

2.    Comic Books                                                                                                   015

·         BUSINESS ASPECTS - Publishers, Companies                                023

·         BUSINESS ASPECTS -            Distribution, Sales                                        062

·         COMIC BOOK MAKERS AND THEIR WORKS                                      140

·         CHARACTERS AND TITLES                                                                 337

3.    Comic Strips                                                                                                   540

·         CHARACTERS AND TITLES                                                                 547

·         Cartoonists                                                                                          618

3a. Web Comics, webcomics                                                                         673

 

VOLUME 2

4.     Animation, Caricature, and Gag and Political Cartoons                            682

4a. Comic Art                                                                                                 683

4b. Gag, Illustrative, Magazine Cartoons                                                    695

·         New Yorker magazine                                                                 696

4c. Animation                                                                                                 755

·         Animators and Their Works                                                        765

·         Characters and Titles                                                                  778

·         Companies, Networks, and Studios                                           884

4d. Caricature                                                                                                            894

4e. Political Cartoons                                                                                                904

·         Feiffer, Jules                                                                          918

Canada                                                                                                                        965

Global & Europe                                                                                                         984

·         Danish Islamic Cartoons - Religion & Censorship Controversy           985

·         Charlie Hebdo massacre                                                                          1011

·         Belgium                                                                                                    1029

·         France                                                                                                       1040

·         Great Britain                                                                                            1079

Africa                                                                                                                          1146

Middle East                                                                                                                 1155

Asia                                                                                                                             1168

·         India                                                                                                         1176

·         Japan                                                                                                        1183

Australia and Oceania                                                                                               1232

Central and South America                                                                                      1241

Caribbean                                                                                                                   1249

 

Comics Research Bibliography 2022 edition NOW IN PRINT

Due to widespread demand*, the Comics Research Bibliography 2022 edition is now available in print in 2 books. It's still available digitally for free at https://archive.org/details/crb-2022-final-edition but if you want a hard copy, you can buy it for 50 cents over the printing cost (just so I get a count of copies purchased).

Vol. 1 American comic books and strips - https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-a-lent-and-mike-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2022-print-edition-vol-1/paperback/product-dv68kn.html

Vol. 2 American gag, animated, and political cartoons and World coverage. - https://www.lulu.com/shop/john-a-lent-and-mike-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2022-print-edition-vol-2/paperback/product-kp56yk.html

Mike Rhode

*actually that of my co-author who wanted a print copy

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 1/18/23

Rhode, Michael and John A. Lent. 2023. Comics Research Bibliography 2022 E-book Edition. Arlington, VA: ComicsDC. Online at https://archive.org/details/crb-2022-final-edition

 

Comics Research Bibliography 1996-2009 Website Compilation Edition.

Mike Rhode and John Bullough.

Arlington, VA: ComicsDC. 2023.Online at https://archive.org/details/comics-research-bibliography-1996-2009-final

Mike Medney, CEO Of Heavy Metal Magazine, Quits

Mike Medney was made CEO of Heavy Metal Magazine in 2019 when he bought into the compoany. But now, he's out.

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January 17, 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-medney-ceo-of-heavy-metal-magazine-quits/

 

Two More Comic Stores Close, Three More Comic Stores Open

Comic stores keep opening, and closing. Bleeding Cool tries to keep on top of such changes in the retail community.

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 January 17, 2023

by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/two-more-comic-stores-close-three-more-comic-stores-open/

 

Dreamers & Make-Believers, A New Inclusive Comic Shop In Baltimore

A new comic book store and coffee shop has opened in Baltimore, Maryland, with an emphasis on inclusion and representation.

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 January 17, 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dreamers-make-believers-a-new-inclusive-comic-shop-in-baltimore/

 

Webtoon to Adapt Web Novels for 2023 Webcomic Slate

Jan 18, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=4058

 

$40,000 Of Comics & Cards Stolen From Canadian Comic Store

Wizard's Comics and Collectibles of Garneau, Edmonton, Canada was broken into yesterday morning.

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January 17, 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/40000-of-comics-cards-stolen-from-canadian-comic-store/

 

Our Best Writer of 2022, Chip Zdarsky, Sheds Some Light on His Year in Gotham and Beyond

By Brian Salvatore, Ramon Piña, James Dowling and Jaina Hill | January 3rd, 2023

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/chip-zdarsky-2022-best-writer/

 

Looney Tunes ring in Year of the Rabbit with BUGS BUNNY BUILDERS Lunar New Year short

Kicks off a Looney-Filled Animated Year for the Emmy Award-winning "Wascally" Rabbit

Taimur Dar

01/18/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/looney-tunes-bugs-bunny-builders-lunar-new-year-short/

 

UK graphic novels have bumper 2022 as Oseman, Miura and Smart take the lead

Overall graphic novel sales continue to rise and the Kids category's revenue intake reportedly jumps 167% in 2022

Dean Simons

01/18/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/uk-graphic-novels-have-bumper-2022-as-oseman-miura-and-smart-take-the-lead/

 

Justin Roiland Domestic Violence Charges Met With Silence From TV Partners

Adult Swim, Hulu and 20th TV did not comment on the charges facing the 'Rick and Morty' co-creator. Roiland's attorney claims his case "is on course to be dismissed"; a pre-trial hearing is set for April 27.

By Katie Kilkenny, Rick Porter

January 17, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/justin-roiland-domestic-violence-charges-hulu-adult-swim-20th-tv-1235299052/

 

R.I.P. JASON PEARSON

Interior and Cover Artist for 'Legion of Super-Heroes,' 'Astonishing X-Men,' Creator-Owned Work

by Brigid Alverson on January 17, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53087/r-i-p-jason-pearson

 

TAPAS PARENT RAISES NEARLY $1B FROM SAUDI ARABIA, SINGAPORE SOVEREIGN FUNDS To Fund Growth Pre-IPO

Brigid Alverson on January 17, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53090/tapas-parent-raises-nearly-1b-saudi-arabia-singapore-sovereign-funds

 

Disney Says Investor Seeking Board Seat 'Does Not Understand' Company

By Brooks Barnes

A version of this article appears in print on Jan. 18, 2023, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: Disney C.E.O. Rebuffs Investor Seeking Board Seat, Saying He 'Does Not Understand' Company

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/business/disney-proxy-battle.html

 

Big Bang Comics [Ireland store]

Zach Rabiroff | January 18, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/big-bang-comics/

 

An Interview with David Lasky
Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey
Autobiographix January 18 2023
https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-david-lasky

 

Nick Drnaso

by Paul Morton

Full Stop January 17, 2023

https://www.full-stop.net/2023/01/17/interviews/paul-morton/nick-drnaso/

 

Report: Webtoon creators four times as likely to be depressed [Korean web comics]

Long hours and low pay are taking a toll

Heidi MacDonald

01/18/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/report-webtoon-creators-four-times-as-likely-to-be-depressed/

 

Rafer Roberts and Mike Norton jam out with THE ROCK GODS OF JACKSON, TENNESSEE graphic novel

A story about rock and roll and mutated pig monsters available this June!

Taimur Dar

01/18/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-rock-gods-of-jackson-tennessee-graphic-novel-dark-horse-announced/

 

Breaking in as a Graphic Novelist – Part 1

Ben O'Grady

 January 10, 2023

https://indiecomixdispatch.com/news/breaking-in-as-a-graphic-novelist-part-1/

From 50-75% of Comixology staff let go in Amazon layoffs

Former Comixology veteran paints bleak picture of the digital comics service in the wake of today's layoffs

Dean Simons 01/18/2023 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/from-50-75-of-comixology-staff-let-go-in-amazon-layoffs/

 

Marvel's AXE: Judgment Day – A Complete Guide to Avengers vs. X-Men vs. Eternals

Marvel pit the Avengers against the Eternals against the X-Men in Judgment Day, and it ended up being one of the best comics crossovers of all time!

Jim Dandeneau | January 18, 2023

https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/marvel-axe-judgment-day-complete-guide-to-avengers-x-men-eternals/ 

 

AI Is Stealing Your Property

D. D. Degg

January 18 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/01/18/ai-is-stealing-your-property/

 

Overlords at the Easel [AI, artificial intelligence]

Ted Rall 01/18/23

https://whowhatwhy.org/cartoon/overlords-at-the-easel/

 

Spring 2023 Comics & Graphic Novels Announcements

By Jonathan Segura,

Jan 13, 2023

A version of this article appeared in the 01/16/2023 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Comics & Graphic Novels Announcements

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/new-titles/adult-announcements/article/91296-spring-2023-comics-graphic-novels-announcements.html

 

Teaching from the Cloud: PW Talks with Adam Bessie

By Cheryl Klein

Jan 13, 2023

A version of this article appeared in the 01/16/2023 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Teaching from the Cloud

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/91277-teaching-from-the-cloud-pw-talks-with-adam-bessie.html

 

Never Gonna Give You Up: PW Talks with MariNaomi

By Rob Kirby 

Jan 18, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/91266-never-gonna-give-you-up-pw-talks-with-marinaomi.html

 

 

Follow the Comics Research Bibliography on Facebook

As an experiment, I've started a Facebook page for The Comics Research Bibliography, which is at http://homepages.rpi.edu/~bulloj/comxbib.html but hasn't been updated for years.

I've done a print / ebook version which I plan to update, but that takes a lot of time. You can find that at  http://www.lulu.com/shop/michael-rhode/comics-research-bibliography-2012-print-edition/ebook/product-18792651.html

This will be a timely site to update citations for an international bibliography of comic books, comic strips, animation, caricature, cartoons, webcomics etc.

The Grand Comics Database at http://www.comics.org is planning on adding bibliography, but I think they'll take a few years to catch up.

I'd appreciate any feedback.

Comics Research Bibliography new 2024 Facebook page

Comics Research Bibliography 2024 FB page

 https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555263475365

Ok, perhaps foolishly, I'm trying this again to get citations about comics and cartoons out to a wider world besides my blog and the annual compilation. The old page is still disabled by Facebook btw. Welcome aboard for 2024.

Speaking of the annual compilation -

Comics Research Bibliography 2023 E-book Edition

Mike Rhode; John A. Lent; Tony R. Rose

Arlington, VA: ComicsDC.

Online at https://archive.org/details/crb-2023-ebook-edition-final-v.-1.0 or

https://www.academia.edu/112376882/Comics_Research_Bibliography_2022_E_book_Edition#

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 8/5-6/2023

Next Issue Podcast | Creator Spotlight | KILL YOUR DARLINGS | KLC Press

Next Issue Podcast July 28 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JurReez8c

 

Comic Book Club: Jamie Rotante, Vin Lovallo, Ethan S. Parker And Griffin Sheridan [ "Kill Your Darlings";  Bite-Sized Archie]

ComicBookClub

Aug 1, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGhxAEUg5Jo

 

The Kill Your Darlings Team

wordballoon August 4 2023

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

 

Talking indie comics publishing LIVE! [Kill Your Darlings]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ1CxB-n5Y

Aug 3, 2023  The Elseworlds Exchange - A Comic Book Culture Podcast

 

Image Comics Pulls Bookstore Sales From Diamond To Simon & Schuster

Rich Johnston

 4 Aug 2023

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/image-comics-pull-bookstore-sales-from-diamond-to-simon-schuster/

 

John Floyd, Comic Book Inker, Dies At 61. RIP.

John Floyd, the inker best known for working with Barry Windsor-Smith, has died at the age of 61, after suffering from pancreatic cancer.

 04 Aug 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/john-floyd-comic-book-inker-dies-at-61-rip/

 

Jim Adcock – RIP [editorial cartoonist]

D. D. Degg      

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/08/04/jim-adcock-rip/

 

James Adcock (June 12, 1948 - July 19, 2023) Obituary

https://www.burbagefuneralhome.com/obituary/james-adcock

 

Jim Adcock: From publisher to painter, shaping Ocean Pines for three decades

Friday, July 7, 2023

https://oceanpines.org/web/pages/news_content?announcementId=1956&backURL=/opa-news

 

Woo, Benjamin. 2008. "An Age-Old Problem: Problematics of Comic-Book Historiography." https://www.researchgate.net/publication/351035138_An_Age-Old_Problem_Problematics_of_Comic-Book_Historiography

 

Berndt, Jaqueline (ed.). 2010.

Comics Worlds and the World of Comics: Towards Scholarship on a Global Scale

(series Global Manga Studies, vol. 1)

International Manga Research Center, Kyoto Seika University, 2010

Online at https://www.academia.edu/660784/Researching_comics_on_a_global_scale

 

Introduction:

attempts at cross-cultural comics studies 1

Jaqueline BERNDT

 

PART I: Examining Manga/Comics Studies

Challenges to international comics studies in the context of globalization 15

Thierry GROENSTEEN

 

2: Cultural recognition of comics and comics studies: comments on Thierry

Groensteen's keynote lecture 27

MORITA Naoko

 

3: Pictotext and panels: commonalities and differences in manga, comics, and BD  37

NATSUME Fukanosuke

 

4: Manga truisms: on the insularity of Japanese manga discourse 53

ODAGIRI Hiroshi

 

5: Manga/comics studies from the perspective of science fiction research: genre, transmedia, and transnationalism  67

Shige (CJ) SUZUKI

 

6: Researching comics on a global scale 85

Pascal LEFÈVRE

 

 

PART II: Authorships and Readerships in Manga/Comics  97

 

7: How creators depict creating manga: mangaka manga as  authenticating discourse  99

SAIKA Tadahiro

 

8: Fieldwork in aesthetics: on comics' social legitimacy 111

Thomas BECKER

 

9: Dōjinshi research as a site of opportunity for manga studies 125

Nele NOPPE

 

10: Theorizing comics/manga genre as a productive forum: yaoi and beyond  145

MIZOGUCHI Akiko

 

11: When a 'male' reads shōjo manga 171

ITŌ Kimio

 

12: BD in young girl-oriented magazines in France 179

INOMATA Noriko

 

13: Drawing the ideal modern woman: Ms. Lee Wai-Chung and her Mr. 13-Dot  193

Wendy WONG

 

PART III: Manga/Comics as Media of Historical Memory  201

 

14: Lest we forget: the importance of history in Singapore and Malaysia comics studies 203

LIM Cheng Tju

 

15: War comics beyond the battlefield: Anne Frank's transnational transnational representation in sequential art  217

Kees RIBBENS

 

16: Barefoot Gen and 'A-bomb literature': re-recollecting the nuclear Experience  233

KAWAGUCHI Takayuki

 

 

17: How emotions work: the politics of vision in Nakazawa Keiji's Barefoot Gen  245

KAJIYA Kenji

 

18: Manga Bomb: between the lines of Barefoot Gen 263

Thomas LAMARRE

 

Afterword:

intentions and methods behind my proposal for remakes of Barefoot Gen abroad  309

YOSHIMURA Kazuma

 

Colorado's Time Warp Comics Has $14,000 Of Comics Stolen In Break-In

5 Aug 2023

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/colorados-time-warp-comics-has-14000-of-comics-stolen-in-break-in/

 

Why Ms. Marvel Airing Tonight on ABC Means More Than You May Realize

5 Aug 2023 

by Ray Flook

 https://bleedingcool.com/tv/why-ms-marvel-airing-tonight-on-abc-means-more-than-you-may-realize/

 

Walter Simonson

" Deeply saddened to learn that Allen Spiegel has caught the last train out."

August 5 2023

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=9823576171017989&set=a.121257911249912

 

Fifty Years Later, Walter Simonson Gives Dan Jurgens His Comic Back; Walter Simonson had a tale to tell on Facebook about, three handmade comics that showed up at Marvel in 1975. 

05 Aug 2023  by Rich Johnston 

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/fifty-years-later-walter-simonson-gives-dan-jurgens-his-comic-back/

 

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a new local comic book publishing company

Kevin Woolridge gears up for a busy fall when Heavy Sweater Comics releases locally made comics

Elizabeth Whitten · CBC News August 6 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/kevin-woolridge-heavy-sweater-comics-1.6922297

 

Around the Writers' Table: With two New Yorker cartoonists [Mick Stevens and Paul Karasik]

Kate Feiffer

Martha Vineyard's Times August 2, 2023

https://www.mvtimes.com/2023/08/02/around-writers-table-two-new-yorker-cartoonists/

 

Mike Thompson: Half-seriously now ... In defense of Donald Trump

A look at political cartoonists who forego criticizing former President Donald Trump and their reasons for doing so.  [Dick Wright, Gary Varvel]

By Mike Thompson

August 4, 2023

https://www.startribune.com/mike-thompson-half-seriously-now-in-defense-of-donald-trump/600294977/

 

AFS Cinema Celebrates Max Fleischer, the Man Who Made Betty Boop Boop-Oop-a-Doop

The animation revolution created by the cartoon pioneer reappraised in the Fleischer Studios Legacy

By Richard Whittaker, Fri., Aug. 4, 2023

A version of this article appeared in print on August 4, 2023 with the headline: The Man Who Made Betty Boop

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/2023-08-04/afs-cinema-celebrates-max-fleischer-the-man-who-made-betty-boop-boop-oop-a-doop/

 

Who was the target demographic? [Michael Ramirez letter]

Heather J. Lynch,

Washington Post August 5 2023: A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/04/readers-reactions-critique-pickleball-anna-leigh-waters/