Thursday, December 23, 2021
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/22/21
EMBRACER GROUP ACQUIRING DARK HORSE
Days After Announcement of Asmodee Acquisition
Posted by Milton Griepp on December 21, 2021
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50031/embracer-group-acquiring-dark-horse
Dark Horse Media Acquired by the Embracer Group
By Calvin Reid
Dec 22, 2021
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: CO-FOUNDER WERNER IS NEW EIC OF SOURCE POINT PRESS; Also: Heavy Metal Promotes Two, Hires Editor for Virus Imprint
by Brigid Alverson on December 21, 2021
Comings and Goings: Cotton to AWA; Source Point's new EIC
Josh Werner will take over as EIC at Source Point
Heidi MacDonald
12/22/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/comings-and-goings-cotton-to-awa-source-points-new-eic/
Under Cover: Marvel By Design—The Index and Art Credits
by Alex Jay
Tenth Letter of the Alphabet blog
December 20, 2021
http://alphabettenthletter.blogspot.com/2021/12/under-cover-marvel-by-designthe-index.html
Mitchell, Jack B. 1952.
Smilin' Jack's People.
Chicago Tribune (May 21)
Mitchell, Jack B. 1951.
'Smilin' Jack' Is His Baby: Dauntless Fly Boy's Life Parallels That of Artist Zack Mosley.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat (August 15)
Keith J. Taylor – RIP
by D. D. Degg
December 21, 2021
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/12/21/keith-j-taylor-rip/
Artist and illustrator extraordinaire
Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest December 21, 2021
https://www.oakpark.com/2021/12/21/keith-taylor-72/
R.I.P., Keith J. Taylor
Charlie Meyerson
Chicago Public Square 12/16/2021
https://www.chicagopublicsquare.com/2021/12/rip-keith-j-taylor-seems-high-to-me.html
INTERVIEW: Skottie Young takes a trip back to the mother-fluffin' world of I HATE FAIRYLAND
Taimur Dar
12/22/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-skottie-young-returns-i-hate-fairyland/
Islands In The Stream: 20 Years With Michel Rabagliati's Paul
Mardou | December 22, 2021
https://www.tcj.com/islands-in-the-stream-20-years-with-michel-rabagliatis-paul/
Jack Kirby & Stan Lee's Fantastic Four with Dean Haspiel!
Shah Emami
Wit's End 108. December 15 2021
Wit's End 109. Wallace Wood with Ho Che Anderson (Godhead, King, The Resurrectionists)
Shah Emami
December 22 2021
"Floating Desk" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
December 21, 2021 by Lawrence Wood
https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/floating-desk-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/
Anatomy of a Cartoon: Moby-Dick
December 15, 2021 by Phil Witte and Rex Hesner
https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/anatomy-of-a-cartoon-moby-dick/
The King's Man director Matthew Vaughn on history and Huston
The Kingsmen prequel recalls classic adventure films
Heidi MacDonald
12/21/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-kings-men-matthew-vaughan/
The 2021 Behind the Lines cartoon exhibition sets out to prove one thing: you just can't predict the future [Australia]
By Antoinette Radford
14 Dec 2021
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-12-14/2021-behind-the-lines-political-cartoon-exhibition/100697826
December 14 2021
Behind the Lines - The Year in Political Cartoons looks back satirically at 2021 [Australia]
Ron Cerabona
Highlights of Behind the Lines 2021
Museum of Australian Democracy blog 9 Dec 2021
https://www.moadoph.gov.au/blog/highlights-of-behind-the-lines-2021/#
Kevin Necessary named president of national organization, talks about state of editorial cartoonists
Brooks Sutherland
Cincinnati Enquirer
It's an endangered species: Save Kar-toon-us A-mer-i-kan-us!
Jim Hightower
Hightower Lowdown
December 1, 2021
https://hightowerlowdown.org/article/its-an-endangered-species-save-kar-toon-us-a-mer-i-kan-us/
'Sing 2' may be an utterly unnecessary sequel, but who can resist singing animals?
By Kristen Page-Kirby
Freelance writer
Washington Post December 21 2021
"It Can Be a Wild Story, but Everything Has to Feel Real." A Conversation With Graphic Novelist Rutu Modan
The Author of Tunnels Talks to Jason Lutes
Via Drawn & Quarterly
By Literary Hub
December 22, 2021
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim on the Symbolism of Trees and the Power of Black and White Illustration
The Author of The Waiting Speaks With Alexander Chee
Via Drawn & Quarterly
By Alexander Chee
December 13, 2021
Congratulations, Dr. Kay Clopton!
Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Blog December 22, 2021 / Caitlin McGurk /
https://library.osu.edu/site/cartoons/2021/12/22/congratulations-dr-kay-clopton/
Michael Keaton Joining 'Batgirl'
The actor is already reprising the role of Batman for the first time in 30 years in 'The Flash.'
Borys Kit, Aaron Couch
December 22, 2021
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/michael-keaton-batgirl-batman-1235034943/
Giannalberto Bendazzi, Pioneering Animation Historian, Dies At 75
By Alex Dudok de Wit | 12/17/2021
Remembrance of Giannalberto Bendazzi (1946-2021)
John A. Lent
International Journal of Comic Art blog December 22, 2021
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2021/12/remembrance-of-giannalberto-bendazzi.html
Book Review: The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and their Publics, ed. by Woo and Stoll
Reviewed by Matthew J. Costello
International Journal of Comic Art blog December 22, 2021
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2021/12/book-review-comics-world-comic-books.html
The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and their Publics. Edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2021.
Comics and Cartoons in the National Gallery of Art (and CVS)
by Mike Rhode
ComicsDC blog December 22, 2021
https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2021/12/comics-and-cartoons-in-national-gallery.html
Film Review: Bob Spit – We Do Not Like People by Cesar Cabral
Reviewed by Pedro Moura
International Journal of Comic Art blog December 23, 2021
https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2021/12/film-review-bob-spit-we-do-not-like.html
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Comics and Cartoons in the National Gallery of Art (and CVS)
There's some cartoons and comic books that are on display in excellent temporary exhibits at the National Gallery of Art. In their Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya exhibit, which looks at a technique used to simulate washes in etchings or engravings, Rowlandson and Gillray are represented with famous pieces:
And then, in the truly excellent exhibit on photography, The New Woman Behind the Camera, an issue of True Comics (July 1944) is on display with other publications about photography, telling the story about a photojournalist:
and then, just for fun, around town, you can find Dave Coverly art for the Bark Box company. This is from a CVS in Arlington, although I think he's no longer working for the pet toy company.
The Post reviews Sing 2 cartoon
'Sing 2' may be an utterly unnecessary sequel, but who can resist singing animals?
Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "...in the headlights"
From DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -
"...in the headlights"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3352
Yep, that's right, kiddies. You heard right — they actually looked us
right in the face and said they didn't see it coming. Cripes,
everybody else and their dog saw it coming; it was on the TV and the
papers and the Internet for weeks, months. Same with Delta.
Really — the leaders of the most powerful nation on Earth, with a
metric buttload of information and resources at their disposal, didn't
see the latest'n'greatest Covid variant coming? Y'mean, they couldn't
get hold of somebody at the WHO, the CDC, the NIH, the Salk Institute
who actually knew a thing or two about virology who could've thrown
them a heads-up? If there's nothing else Anthony Fauci ever did that
was worth a yard sign, this was it.
So, they didn't see it coming? Uh huh. I'm thinking there's something
else that bunch isn't going to see coming, either.
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"Kamala Harris, in interview, says administration did not anticipate
Omicron variant", Noah Bierman at the Los Angeles Times 12.17.2021
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-12-17/kamala-harris-in-interview-says-administration-did-not-anticipate-omicron-variant
"Fauci Contradicts VP Harris Comments, Says Scientists 'Warned About
COVID-19 Variants'", Alexandra Kashirina at Sputnik International
12.19.2021
https://sputniknews.com/20211219/fauci-contradicts-vp-harris-comments-says-scientists-warned-about-covid-19-variants-1091654507.html
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
"...in the headlights"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3352
Yep, that's right, kiddies. You heard right — they actually looked us
right in the face and said they didn't see it coming. Cripes,
everybody else and their dog saw it coming; it was on the TV and the
papers and the Internet for weeks, months. Same with Delta.
Really — the leaders of the most powerful nation on Earth, with a
metric buttload of information and resources at their disposal, didn't
see the latest'n'greatest Covid variant coming? Y'mean, they couldn't
get hold of somebody at the WHO, the CDC, the NIH, the Salk Institute
who actually knew a thing or two about virology who could've thrown
them a heads-up? If there's nothing else Anthony Fauci ever did that
was worth a yard sign, this was it.
So, they didn't see it coming? Uh huh. I'm thinking there's something
else that bunch isn't going to see coming, either.
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"Kamala Harris, in interview, says administration did not anticipate
Omicron variant", Noah Bierman at the Los Angeles Times 12.17.2021
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-12-17/kamala-harris-in-interview-says-administration-did-not-anticipate-omicron-variant
"Fauci Contradicts VP Harris Comments, Says Scientists 'Warned About
COVID-19 Variants'", Alexandra Kashirina at Sputnik International
12.19.2021
https://sputniknews.com/20211219/fauci-contradicts-vp-harris-comments-says-scientists-warned-about-covid-19-variants-1091654507.html
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
and follow me on Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@flugennock
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/21/21
C2E2 PHOTOS - PART 3 Friday, Continued
Posted by Jennifer Sanchez-Dohm on December 20, 2021
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/50022/c2e2-photos-part-3
Cartoonist using artwork to inform Valley Latino community on COVID-19 vaccine [Lalo Alcaraz]
By Graciela Moreno
KFSN October 28, 2021
https://abc30.com/lalo-alcaraz-artwork-covid-vaccine/11178155/
Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz Teams Up with the State of California to Boost COVID-19 Vaccination Among Latinos
Uploaded 12/20/2021
TOP FIVE COMICS BUSINESS STORIES OF 2021
Column by Rob Salkowitz
December 21, 2021
https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/50026/top-five-comics-business-stories-2021
How the Supreme Court Could Shake Up Disney's Spider-Man Plans [creators rights]
William Morris Endeavor, SAG-AFTRA and a bunch of comic book heirs are quietly backing a petition to the high court — one that could be a real game-changer.
Eriq Gardner
December 20, 2021
80 years later, remembering together [Red and Rover letter]
Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom
Washington Post December 18 2021, p. A17
Tom Holland is still a Spider-Man fan at heart [in print as Tom Holland still has the bug]
By David Betancourt
Washington Post December 18, 2021 C1, 2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2021/12/16/tom-holland-spider-man-no-way-home/
'Spider-Man: No Way Home' post-credits scenes, explained
By David Betancourt
Washington Post December 19, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2021/12/19/spiderman-post-credits-no-way-home-doctor-strange/
'Spider-Man: No Way Home': All the Box Office Records Broken
The Sony and Marvel movie grossed a staggering $600.8 million in its worldwide debut, good for third place on the all-time list — and that despite the ongoing pandemic.
Pamela McClintock
December 20, 2021
Manga in Libraries: Social-Emotional Learning
Jillian Rudes et. al.
Dec 16, 2021
Manga in Libraries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VXkBfn0SWo
Interview + Cover Reveal: Christina Diaz Gonzales & Gabriela Epstein on INVISIBLE
Avery Kaplan
12/21/2021
"We're Not Doing Books To Make Our Living.": A Dungeon Interview With Lewis Trondheim
Alex Dueben | December 21, 2021
Dark Horse acquired by gaming company Embracer
The deal will go through in 2022
Heidi MacDonald
12/21/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/dark-horse-acquired-by-gaming-company-embracer/
Dark Horse Comics Sold to Gaming Giant Embracer Group
Aaron Couch
December 21, 2021
'Raya and the Last Dragon' Leads 2022 Annie Awards Feature Nominations
'Encanto,' 'Luca,' 'The Mitchells vs. The Machines' are among the contenders.
Carolyn Giardina
December 21, 2021
Instagram's Favorite New Yorker Cartoons of 2021
As the year winds down, I'm noticing that I encountered several topics that we touched upon in our most popular cartoons. This is all quite suspicious.
By Colin Stokes
December 14, 2021
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2021-in-review/the-most-popular-instagram-cartoons-of-2021
I Watched 'Encanto' With My Dad. It Brought Him Back Home.
By Laura Zornosa
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 20, 2021, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Bringing My Dad Back Home to Colombia.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/15/movies/encanto-disney.html
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
More on ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ from The Post
Tom Holland is still a Spider-Man fan at heart [in print as Tom Holland still has the bug]
That darn Red and Rover
80 years later, remembering together [Red and Rover letter]
Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom, Alexandria
Washington Post December 18 2021, p. A17
Jean Mackintosh Goldstrom, Alexandria
Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/20/21
INTERVIEW: Mike Richardson talks CLOAKED, his latest Dark Horse Comics series
Joe Grunenwald
12/20/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/mike-richardson-cloaked-interview/
Tuono Pettinato: Super Cartoonist, Super Friend [Italy]
Valerio Stivé | December 20, 2021
https://www.tcj.com/tuono-pettinato-super-cartoonist-super-friend/
Frank Castle has a new mission and logo in prestige limited series
The Punisher becomes the warlord of The Hand!
Taimur Dar
12/20/2021
https://www.comicsbeat.com/franke-castle-punisher-new-mission-logo-limited-series-announced/
Christoph Niemann's "Give Us a Clue"
The artist discusses "think, doodle, repeat," and other strategies for generating ideas.
By Françoise Mouly
December 20, 2021
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/cover-story-2021-12-27
History's Headlines: Dennis the Menace in the Christmas City [comic book]
Frank Whelan
Dec 18, 2021
Torchy, Patty-Jo and the Indispensable Jackie Ormes
December 19, 2021 by popeyesmith
https://panelsandprose.com/2021/12/19/torchy-patty-jo-and-the-indispensable-jackie-ormes/
The Unsung Black Heroes [8-page color comics section syndicated by the Smith-Mann company]
December 12, 2021 by popeyesmith
https://panelsandprose.com/2021/12/12/the-unsung-black-heroes/
The Watchdog: For decades, a comic book showing Texas history in the most racist ways was given to Texas students
By Dave Lieber The Dallas Morning News
Denton Record-Chronicle, Dec 19, 2021
AAEC President: Jen Steps Down, Kevin Steps Up
by D. D. Degg
December 20, 2021
http://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2021/12/20/aaec-president-jen-steps-down-kevin-steps-up/
Jen Sorensen looks back at 2021
A Letter from the President
December 19th, 2021
https://editorialcartoonists.com/a-letter-from-the-president-5/
Mississippi Stories: Paige Braddock
by Marshall Ramsey
Mississippi Today
December 19, 2021
https://mississippitoday.org/2021/12/19/mississippi-stories-paige-braddock/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyoZGSoD0BM
Sandman: A Dream Within A Dream
Artist P. Craig Russell talks about the creation of his new illustration that relates to both Edgar Allan Poe and The Sandman.
WAYNE ALAN HAROLD PRODUCTIONS LLC
December 20 2021
https://www.waynealanharold.com/watch/sandman-a-dream-within-a-dream
When Pop Culture Raids Art—and the Reverse
The Met's show on Walt Disney and French decorative arts, and the Cooper Hewitt's on the modernist poster designer E. McKnight Kauffer reveal the power of influence.
By Peter Schjeldahl
Published in the print edition of the December 27, 2021, issue, with the headline "Pleasure Principles."
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/12/27/when-pop-culture-raids-art-and-the-reverse
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