Monday, September 26, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 9/24-25/22

 

Is the print newspaper comics page in trouble?

By Michael Cavna

September 24, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/09/24/dilbert-scott-adams-lee-enterprises-newspapers/

 

Mary Kincaid – RIP [Contes Francais comic strip]

D. D. Degg

September 23, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/23/mary-kincaid-rip/

 

Mary E. Kincaid 1923 - 2022

Published by Ann Arbor News from Sep. 20 to Sep. 25, 2022.

https://obits.mlive.com/us/obituaries/annarbor/name/mary-kincaid-obituary?id=36555376#_ga=2.201942866.2143866366.1663866174-854798347.1632946476

BORN

 

Salem Media Signs Todd Schowalter as Editoonist

  Posted by D. D. Degg

September 23, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/09/23/salem-media-signs-todd-schowalter-as-editoonist/

 

Standardized tests are not indicative of potential [ "Frank and Ernest" letter]

Andrew Ryu

Washington Post September 24 2022 : A15

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/reader-critiques-too-much-queen-elizabeth-coverage/

 

Big kudos to the 'big lie' essay [Brodner letter]

Bob Latham

Washington Post September 24 2022 : A15

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/reader-critiques-too-much-queen-elizabeth-coverage/

 

This educational comic strip will be missed ["Flashbacks" letter]

Miranda Skelly Delmerico

Washington Post September 24 2022 : A15

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/23/reader-critiques-too-much-queen-elizabeth-coverage/

 

Spirited Away at 20: How Hayao Miyazaki's masterpiece united animation lovers worldwide

Hattie Lindert

AV Club September 24 2022

https://www.avclub.com/spirited-away-20th-anniversary-u-s-release-miyazaki-1849552277

 

Rob Liefeld Takes On The Thorny Topic Of… Rob Liefeld

September 23, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/rob-liefeld-takes-on-the-thorny-topic-of-rob-liefeld/

 

Comic Book Retailers React to Dark Horse Going Exclusive With PRH

 September 23, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/comic-book-retailers-react-to-dark-horse-going-exclusive-with-prh/

 

DC Comics Brings Back Foil Multi-Level Embossed Variant For 90s Rewind

September 23, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-brings-back-foil-multi-level-embossed-variant-for-90s-rewind/

 

McCay  Smolderen, Thierry and Jean-Philippe Bramanti London: Titan Books   2018

 

Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee   Loisel, Regis     Seattle: Fantagraphics            2022

 

September 7, 2022

Alex Ross Brings the Fantastic Four Back to Basics in 'Full Circle' Graphic Novel

Speaking to Marvel.com, Alex Ross unpacks 'Fantastic Four: Full Circle,' his approach to the Negative Zone, his Pop Era colors, and more.

by Meagan Damore

https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/fantastic-four-full-circle-graphic-novel-alex-ross-interview

 

Why Fantastic Four: Full Circle Is a Marvel Epic 25 Years in the Making

Ross reflects on his new graphic novel and how he would like to see the FF introduced into the MCU.

By Mike Avila

Sep 6, 2022

https://www.ign.com/articles/fantastic-four-full-circle-graphic-novel-alex-ross-interview-mcu

 

Quick Reviews returns: Dirty Pictures, Fantastic Four, Mickey Mouse, Space Boy, McCay, Aimee de Jongh, and Orner's Smahtguy

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog September 25, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/09/quick-reviews-returns-dirty-pictures.html

 

Todd McFarlane On Negotiating With DC Comics Over Spawn/Batman

September 24, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/todd-mcfarlane-on-negotiating-with-dc-comics-over-spawn-batman/

 

"It's Really Freeing": Matthew Rosenberg on Launching Ashcan Press on Substack

By David Harper

September 20, 2022

https://sktchd.com/interview/matthew-rosenberg-on-substack/

 

Emerald City Comic Con 2022: What's Your Go To Karaoke Song?

  Sep 14, 2022

SKTCHD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUZ8XBgrG0

 

Interview: Florentino Flórez Takes on the Unknown in 'Lovecraft Unknown: Kadath'

Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen

Sep 19, 2022

https://previewsworld.com/Article/264222-Interview-Florentino-Fl%C3%B3rez-Takes-on-the-Unknown-in-Lovecraft-Unknown-Kadath

 

Bart Beaty et Benjamin Woo, « From Mass Medium to Niche Medium: Advertising in American Comic Books, 1934–2014 », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 25 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6468 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6468

https://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6468

 

Kévin Le Bruchec, « Sur le rapport singulier à l'objet-livre des éditeurs alternatifs : le cas de The Hoochie Coochie », Comicalités [En ligne], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, mis en ligne le 01 février 2022, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6993 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6993

 

Sylvain Aquatias, « Les manifestations générationnelles de la passion bédéphilique : un traitement secondaire de l'enquête de 2011 sur le lectorat de bande dessinée », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 février 2022, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6760 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6760

 

Nicolas Labarre, « « Et zut pour ces quelques fleurs ! ». Entretien avec Jean-Pierre Mercier sur la bédéphilie », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 février 2022, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6806 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6806

 

Olivier Stucky, « Repenser l'album à l'ère du multimédia (1995-1998) : reconfigurer la bande-dessinée pour le CD-ROM », Comicalités [En ligne], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, mis en ligne le 15 février 2022, consulté le 25 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/7041 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.7041

 

Thierry Groensteen, « Une catégorie ambiguë : le « spécialiste » », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/5338 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.5338

 

Isabelle Licari-Guillaume, « "What is it with these Brits?": British culture and the "British Invasion" narrative seen through letter columns », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/5585 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.5585

 

Maaheen Ahmed, « Loving Comics in Neil the Horse Comics and Stories », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6300 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6300

 

Romain Becker, « Telling The Killing Joke: How Editorial Intent Co-constructs a Comic », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/5754 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.5754

 

Jessica Kohn, « Approche bédéphile ou approche professionnelle : comment définir le métier de dessinateur de bande dessinée ? », Comicalités [En ligne], Histoire et influence des pratiques bédéphiliques, mis en ligne le 01 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/6203 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.6203

 

Benoît Preteseille, "La bédéphilie comme aiguillon créatif : les années 1960 en France", Comicalités [Online], History and influence of bedephilia, Online since 01 April 2021, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/5909; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.5909

 

Jan Baetens, « Bande dessinée, formats, hors-champ : l'enseignement des blow books », Comicalités [En ligne], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, mis en ligne le 11 avril 2021, consulté le 26 septembre 2022. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/4996 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.4996

 

Jean-Paul Gabilliet and Nicolas Labarre, "Bédéphiles et fans : un amour structurant", Comicalités [Online], History and influence of bedephilia, Online since 01 April 2021, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/5139; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.5139

 

Nicolas Labarre, "Selling Horror: the early Warren comics magazines", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 01 March 2021, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/4793; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.4793

 

Christophe Meunier, "Échange de passe et lutte de places dans Max Winson de Jérémie Moreau", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 02 December 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2327; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2327

 

Denis Jallat and Yann Descamps, "Borders with Reality : the Playground and Fence in Branner's Bicot", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 10 November 2018, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3109; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3109

 

Antoine Marsac, "Des sportifs embarqués dans l'aventure en canoë", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 02 December 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2389; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2389

 

Kilian Mousset and Jean-Nicolas Renaud, "La sportivité des techniques corporelles d'un héros éminemment moderne : Rahan", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 02 December 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2276; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2276

 

Patrick Legros, "Les Pieds Nickelés et la petite reine", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 02 December 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2313; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2313

 

Laurent Grün, Vincent Marie and Michel Thiébaut, "De la violence au sport, du sport à la violence : une approche graphique chez Baru", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 02 December 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2345; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2345

 

Michel Matly, "Bande dessinée et transmission du sens", Comicalités [Online], Histoire et bande dessinée : territoires et récits, Online since 24 September 2015, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2065; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2065

 

Zoé Vangindertael, "La représentation muséale de l'auteur de bande dessinée : enjeux d'une dialectique entre l'artiste et l'artisan", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 06 April 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3431; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3431

 

Sylvie Dardaillon and Christophe Meunier, "La série Paul de Michel Rabagliati : récits d'espaces et de temps", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 17 April 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1566; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1566

 

Nicolas Rouvière, "Les figures paradoxales de l'Auteur dans Astérix", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 09 December 2014, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2092; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2092

 

Tatiana Blanco Cordón, "L'image de la femme dans les cómics femeninos des années 1960-1970 en Espagne : conflit identitaire ou schizophrénie de genre", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture within time and space, Online since 12 August 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1569; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1569

 

Sofiane Taouchichet, "Représentations auctoriales dans Excel Saga : figures, enjeux et métafiction", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 13 April 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3359; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3359

 

Camille Roelens, "Figure d'autorité, maître et disciple(s) : Hugo Pratt par Milo Manara", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 01 April 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3307; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3307

 

Benoît Crucifix, "Mémoire de la bande dessinée dans Au travail d'Olivier Josso Hamel", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 29 November 2017, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2415; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2415

 

Benjamin Caraco, "Devenir auteur de bande dessinée. Le cas des anciens élèves de l'atelier d'illustration de Strasbourg", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : media issues, Online since 12 December 2020, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/4646; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.4646

 

Benjamin Caraco, "La communication éditoriale : un outil de légitimation. Le cas de L'Association", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : media issues, Online since 28 September 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1707; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1707

 

Laurent Gerbier, "Le trait et la lettre. Apologie subjective du lettrage manuel", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : media issues, Online since 27 September 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1202; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1202

 

Nicolas Labarre, "Two Flashes. Entertainment, Adaptation : Flash Gordon as comic strip and serial", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : media issues, Online since 19 May 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/249; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.249

 

Xavier Guilbert, "La légitimation en devenir de la bande dessinée", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : media issues, Online since 17 May 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/181; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.181

 

Sylvain Aquatias, "Genre et légitimité dans l'édition de bande dessinée – partie 1", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : creation and representations, Online since 10 November 2018, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2639; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2639

 

Sylvain Aquatias, "Genre et légitimité dans l'édition de bande dessinée – partie 2", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : creation and representations, Online since 10 November 2018, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2677; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2677

 

Isabelle Antonutti, "Fumetto et fascisme : la naissance de la bande dessinée italienne", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture within time and space, Online since 04 March 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1306; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1306

 

Thierry Crépin, "L'adaptation des bandes dessinées américaines et italiennes en France dans les années 1930 et 1940", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture within time and space, Online since 13 February 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1366; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1366

 

Jean-Philippe Martin, "La théorie du 0 %. Petite étude critique de la critique en bande dessinée", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture within time and space, Online since 10 February 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/827; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.827

 

Côme Martin, "La première lecture de livre : de la manipulation matérielle de la page comme expérience unique", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 27 December 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3744; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3744

 

Agatha Mohring, "Mise en abyme de la matérialité de la bande dessinée dans Mensajes de Mariano Casas", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 21 December 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3776; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3776

 

Bounthavy Suvilay, "Parcours de lecture dans Dragon Ball Z Dokkan Battle", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 11 January 2020, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3876; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3876

 

Jean-Mathieu Méon, "Fragmenter, matérialiser.", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 21 December 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3711; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3711

 

Bounthavy Suvilay, "Entretien avec Nicole Rousmaniere, curatrice de l'exposition « The Citi Exhibition Manga マンガ »", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et culture matérielle, Online since 21 December 2019, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3722; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3722

 

Élise Awaïda Carton and Stéphane Carpentier, "Monde sportif et univers des super-héros de bandes dessinées", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 10 November 2018, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3127; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3127

 

Philippe Willems, "Rhétorique texte/image, minimalisme et jeux de perspective : l'héritage de Cham", Comicalités [Online], Histoire et bande dessinée : territoires et récits, Online since 18 April 2014, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1964; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1964

 

Frédéric Paques, "La bande dessinée en Belgique francophone au XIXe siècle", Comicalités [Online], Histoire et bande dessinée : territoires et récits, Online since 10 February 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/716; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.716

 

Pascal Lefèvre, "The construction of national and foreign identities in French and Belgian postwar comics (1939-1970)", Comicalités [Online], Histoire et bande dessinée : territoires et récits, Online since 11 May 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/875; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.875

 

Valérie Morisson, "Histoire, histoires… Blood Upon the Rose de Gerry Hunt et Louis Riel. A Comic Strip Biography de Chester Brown", Comicalités [Online], Histoire et bande dessinée : territoires et récits, Online since 10 October 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/603; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.603

 

Catherine Mao, "L'artiste de bande dessinée et son miroir : l'autoportrait détourné", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 28 September 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1702; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1702

 

Hélène Martinelli, "Représenter l'auteur dans le livre auto-illustré au début du XXe siècle : Jean Bruller, Josef Váchal, Bruno Schulz et Alfred Kubin", Comicalités [Online], Représenter l'auteur de bandes dessinées, Online since 28 September 2013, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1680; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1680

 

Erwin Dejasse, "Sacralisation et légitimation. Les hors-textes de la revue L'Éprouvette : fragments d'une Histoire discriminante", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 27 September 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1093; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1093

 

Julien Baudry, "Saint-Ogan et les grands enfants : la place de l'œuvre d'Alain Saint-Ogan dans le discours historique de la SOCERLID", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 10 February 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/578; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.578

 

Xavier Guilbert, "Le manga et son histoire vus de France : entre idées reçues et approximations", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 10 February 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/733; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.733

 

Christophe Dony, "The rewriting ethos of the Vertigo imprint: critical perspectives on memory-making and canon formation in the American comics field", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 18 April 2014, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/1918; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.1918

 

Frank-Michel Gorgeard, "Le classique en bande dessinée", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 06 July 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/296; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.296

 

Thierry Crépin, "Le Grand Prix de l'image française, une existence éphémère", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 16 May 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/217; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.217

 

Sylvain Lesage, "L'impossible seconde vie ? Le poids des standards éditoriaux et la résistance de la bande dessinée franco-belge au format de poche", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 16 May 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/221; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.221

 

Harry Morgan, "Y'a-t-il un canon des littératures dessinées ?", Comicalités [Online], Comics : an art without memory?, Online since 05 October 2011, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/620; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.620

 

Pascal Robert, "Professeure Moustache contre les médias", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : creation and representations, Online since 02 September 2015, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/2111; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.2111

 

Marine Lopata, "Le journal humoristique El Papus (1973-1986). Contre-culture et transgression pendant la transition démocratique espagnole", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : creation and representations, Online since 11 May 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/988; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.988

 

Roger Sabin, "Wokker. Notes on a Surrealist comic strip", Comicalités [Online], Graphic culture : creation and representations, Online since 11 May 2012, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/918; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.918

 

Frédéric Ducarme, "Are nekketsu shōnen manga sports manga?", Comicalités [Online], Bande dessinée et sport : stylisation, émancipation, contestation d'un univers normé ?, Online since 17 November 2018, connection on 26 September 2022. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/comicalites/3194; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/comicalites.3194

Sunday, September 25, 2022

3rd Eye Comics: Meet creators Kami Garcia, Alys Arden & Isaac Goodhart this Saturday!



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Third Eye Faithful, get ready for a magical signing so good we had to do it twice! Writer KAMI GARCIA is joining us along with two talented creators, ALYS ARDEN & ISSAC GOODHART for our DC Double Feature Signing! And you've got two chances to see them on SATURDAY 10/1/22!


Third Eye College Park: 11AM-1PM


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Quick Reviews returns: Dirty Pictures, Fantastic Four, Mickey Mouse, Space Boy, McCay, Aimee de Jongh, and Orner's Smahtguy

 ...at least that's what I think I used to headline short review columns.

I caught covid for the first time this past week, probably at work where other people did, and I had just been transferred to the home office from a satellite one where I was one of two people showing up daily. I'm fine, that's fine, the disease is endemic now, and we've got vaccines to make sure most of us don't suffer badly from it, just like I haven't.

But it did mean that I ended up with some free time - at least 5 days in which I had to skip the events I had this weekend, which included a poker game, 2 comic book signings at Fantom Comics, a Pixar Inside Out exhibit preview at the Children's Museum, and a story-telling party. Instead I've been reading some of the graphic novels that came my way.


Dirty Pictures: How an Underground Network of Nerds, Feminists, Misfits,Geniuses, Bikers, Potheads, Printers, Intellectuals, and Art School Rebels Revolutionized Art and Invented Comix
by Brian Doherty, Abrams, 2022 - This isn't a graphic novel. Instead it's a dense history with no pictures which is why I haven't finished reading it yet. Reason magazine editor Doherty's produced a readable, comprehensive history of who knew who, who was sleeping with who, and who was drawing with who, why, and when. This is not for the uninitiated, as it has no images and assumes a familiarity with the field that's a step beyond basic. As such, I'm enjoying it and learning from it, but at times it reads like a Who's Who of underground comix - that's not a bad thing, especially as the cartoonists themselves either died young or are dying now (Diane Noomin within the past month). It does mean that it can be a bit of a struggle to keep people straight, or honestly to pick it up again after putting it down. I've been trying to read a chapter at a time, no more or less, which works for me, but I'm not a major fan of the undergrounds in spite of being dedicated to comics history. If you're similarly dedicated, you should buy this.

Fantastic Four: Full Circle by Alex Ross, Abrams, 2022 - I got a pdf of this from the publisher (who's been very kind about sending me material), and then was gifted a copy by my buddies at Big Planet Comics so it was clear the universe was telling me to read it. I also love the classic FF. Ross' hyper-realistic paintings have set a standard in superhero depiction for a couple of decades now, but he hasn't done a comic book in years. This time, he did it all including the writing, but not as a painted book. The story leaps off a plot point from FF #51, a Kirby-Lee story in which (here's the Kirby part) a minor character succeeds in copying the Thing's body exactly, fooling Mr. Fantastic into taking him into the Negative Zone, and then sacrificing himself to save Reed Richards. At 64 pages, this is exactly a story that could have been an FF annual in the 1960s. Ross's art is competent, being redolent of Kirby without descending into pastiche (Ross draws a photo-collage rather than making one as Kirby was doing at the time), and is steeped in FF history with respect. (Except for an unnecessary gag about Reed and Sue having sex, and Sue running out naked when the Baxter Building is breached by the negative zone, but hey, it's not 1968 anymore). The plot makes no more or less sense than Lee's ever did, and the hyperbole is cut back for modern audiences. I enjoyed this just fine, but it's a loving salute to a long-gone era. Although Ross does explain Captain Marvel / Rick Jones' nega bands which swapped their bodies in and out of the negative zone in the 1970s for longtime fans. As the first original comic book published by Abrams via licensing from Marvel, I'm sure it was a smart choice due to Ross's fans, but I don't think it'll bring any readers over to the FF.*

Mickey Mouse: Zombie Coffee by Regis Loisel, Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2022 - For years, Fantagraphics has been publishing the adult Disney material that has appeared in the European market. Greg Bennett of Big Planet Comics Bethesda makes a point of keeping me up on it. Loisel first made his mark with a bawdy retelling of Peter Pan - now many years later, he's doing licensed work. This story replicates the feel of Floyd Gottfredson's adventurous Mickey with simulated comic strips set during the Depression. Mouseton is seeing a real-estate speculator trying to buy up a bunch of lower middle class homes to build a golf course, and Mickey, Minnie, Horace, and Clarabelle are in the front of the resistance while Goofy, Pluto, and Donald make minor appearances. The two main villains are the traditional lawyer Sylvester and Pegleg Pete, often seen in the early comic strips. Like the previous book, the story doesn't make a lot of sense and you just need to go along and enjoy the madcap corny and violent story for what it is. The mind-control agents, such as the zombie coffee and 25-cent hamburgers, are typical of the days of the comics in which someone would build a 5-story robot to knock over a convenience store for $25. Loisel did a good job in capturing the feel of the 1930s strip, and I recommend this to those who like the early adventurous goofball Mickey.

Stephen McCranie's Space Boy Volume 13 by Stephen McCranie, Dark Horse, 2022 - I've been enjoying these manga-influenced webcomics collections since the middle of the pandemic when someone at Fantom Comics recommended them to me. It's an American reworking of Astro Boy for the most part, but as will happen with longer-running strips, it's become something of its own too, although this issue returns to a Pinocchio-plot point that can't really be avoided without the book becoming a horror novel. One definitely can't start with this issue, which opens in the middle of a murder investigation and leads to more injuries via exploding roboot, but his art is very assured by this point and I'm enjoying the unfolding of the story in chunks, rather than reading it on the web.

McCay by Thierry Smolderen and Jean-Philippe Bramanti, London: Titan Books, 2018 - somebody recommended this recently and while I don't remember who it was, I respected them enough to pick up a copy. A French work, written by a distinguished historian and comics writer, this is an alternate biography of the ground-breaking cartoonist Winsor McCay, and proposes that he can turn himself into a fourth-dimension (not time) where a version of Slumberland can be built from his dreams. Silas, McCay's pen-name for some strips, is a real person with the same ability, who's an anarcho-Communist determined to kill people he thinks deserve it. The story makes no sense at all, just like McCay's own works, but is lovely - Bramanti wisely doesn't try to emulate McCay and uses a much sparer, yet still lush style. It's a fun read and homage to a master cartoonist.

Aimee de Jongh was at SPX last weekend, and spoke at the Library of Congress about her newest book, which led me to seek her out at the SelfMade Hero table and buy all 3 that she had at the show. 

Blossoms in Autumn, words by Zidrou and art by Aimée de Jongh, translated by Matt Madden - a slice of life story about two older (I wrote elderly until I realized the man is only 2 years older than I am) people - a laid-off furniture mover and a cheese store owner who meet each other, and fall in love. It's not a major work, but a perfectly good read and a pleasant couple to spend an hour with.

The Return of the Honey Buzzard,
by Aimée de Jongh, translated by Michele Hutchison - this one was a bit more confusing because there's some magic realism going on in this and it takes a while to clue into it. On the other hand, it's been made into a movie, so perhaps I was just slow to pick up on the plot. Simon is about to lose his inherited bookstore, and won't go along with any of his wife's suggestions to sell and save what they can, when he witnesses the second suicide of someone around him. In his confusion, he meets a Lolita-like young woman (girl? her age is hard to tell) who needs assistance with school projects, we see the true story behind the first suicide, and begin to wonder if he'll make it to the end of the book. Oh, and the honey buzzard's return is a nature metaphor, not something you need to be watching out for in the corner of your eye.

Days of Sand by Aimée de Jongh, 2022 - her current book, researched here in DC, is off all things for a Dutch cartoonist to do, a story of the 1930s American dustbowl environmental disaster in Oklahoma, told through the lens (hah!) of a Farm Security Administration photographer from New York City. As she noted at the Library of Congress, this story is generally completely unknown in Europe, and largely forgotten here in America except by Steinbeck and Springsteen fans. de Jongh uses real government photos to lead into each chapter, and it's a moving account of a photographer 'going native' as it used to be phrased and becoming more sympathetic to the subjects of his camera than to his employers. The art is fantastic. The story is fine. The main character... a bit under-developed with daddy issues. Still, I'd recommend picking this up.

Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner, 2022 - I really liked this book. I didn't particularly expect to because it's a partial biography of a gay former-Congressman (by one of his former staffers) and I don't usually read political biographies, although I've been interested in gay cartoonists since moving to DC in 1983 and discovering that such a thing existed at all in the pages of the Washington Blade (back in print but no comics) and the Lambda Rising bookstore (long-closed but a new gay bookstore just opened this year). I was sheltered in 1970s New Jersey, sometimes for the good, and others not [full disclosure: I'm not gay, but didn't meet out people until I arrived at GWU].  Anyway, Orner was signing his book this summer at Solid State Books on H Street, I went, along with many of his former Hill colleagues, and was very impressed by the book. It took me a while to sit down and read it ... it's still a political biography... but it's well-worth reading to see how America has changed from those 1970s and how people like Barney Frank shepherded that change, sometimes by not leading from the front. I recommend this - enough that I interviewed the cartoonist a shamefully long time ago.

That's it for today - let me know if you want to see my trying to get my writing chops back with more.

Still to come - an hour and a half long interview with Eric Orner that's taking me a ridiculously long time to edit.  In my defense, I've been moving an archive for work all summer and it wears one out. This photo is part of the post-move, pre-rebuilding state of it last week, pre-covid. Sigh.

*9/26 - Rodrigo Baeza sent me a note about this comics' history with permission to reprint it -

I read an Alex Ross interview today (from Back Issue #118; February 2020), which happens to be related to the Fantastic Four book you read. In the interview, Ross relates that he decided (on his own initiative, without being asked by Marvel) to prepare a Fantastic Four pitch in early 2017, back when the title was in limbo and in anticipation of Marvel clearing up the rights' situation with Fox Studios.

He came up with a drawing style inspired by two sources: one was a British "Fantastic Four" album from the late '60s that was recolored in "bizarre Day-Glo colors", and the other was the work of Spanish artist ACO on a Nick Fury miniseries done with James Robinson (some of that art can be seen here: https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/james-robinson-aco/aco-sterankos-the-hell-out-of-nick-fury-with-james/). The idea was to "translate Kirby's work into a '60s pop-art graphic", combined with Ross's realistic rendering. He also decided to base Reed and Sue on the likenesses of two actors from the "Land of the Giants" TV show (Gary Conway and Deanna Lund), and use the logo of the "Fantastic Voyage" movie as inspiration for a new element.

The pitch he presented to Marvel (via editor Tom Brevoort) was mostly focused on the visual elements (with no storylines defined), with the hopes that this would not only lead to a comic-book series (with guest artists like Bill Sienkiewicz and Steve Rude, and maybe Mark Waid as a writer developing Ross's concepts) but that this visual redesign be used in future movies as well (Ross makes the complaint that too many elements of the Marvel movies are based on the Ultimate comics versions rather than the Jack Kirby comics).

Marvel unsurprisingly didn't go for the pitch, getting Dan Slott to write the comic instead. But from what I can see, Ross eventually ended up using all of this conceptual work in the "Full Circle" graphic novel that has now been published by Abrams (even the logo inspired by "Fantastic Voyage").


Saturday, September 24, 2022

Local part-time cartoonist Sarah Boxer reviews photo exhibits

Sarah's multi-talented and it was a pleasure to see her at SPX this weekend. I'm looking forward to reading this.

The Photographic Search for True West

In two new shows, Robert Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe take different approaches to a land of loss.

That darn “Frank and Ernest”, Brodner and Flashbacks

Standardized tests are not indicative of potential [ "Frank and Ernest" letter]

Andrew Ryu

Big kudos to the 'big lie' essay [Brodner]

Bob Latham

This educational comic strip will be missed ["Flashbacks"]

Cavna on the slow strangulation of the newspaper comic strip