Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/22/22

NEW FANDOM SURVEY OFFERS MARKETING INSIGHTS BUT LEAVES OPEN QUESTIONS

 Rob Salkowitz on November 21, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/52703/new-fandom-survey-offers-marketing-insights-leaves-open-questions

 

J-NOVEL CLUB INKS DEAL WITH YEN PRESS To Print and Distribute Manga and Light Novels

 Brigid Alverson on November 21, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52697/j-novel-club-inks-deal-yen-press

 

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: PROMOTIONS AT TFAW AND DARK HORSE

Morales, O'Neil Move Up to VP

  by Brigid Alverson on November 21, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52701/people-move-promotions-tfaw-dark-horse

 

Iger's Sudden Return to Disney Shocks a Discontented Kingdom

By Brooks Barnes, Benjamin Mullin and James B. Stewart

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 22, 2022, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Disney Chief Lost Trust After Series of Missteps

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/business/media/disney-bob-iger.html

 

9 changes Disney fans want returning CEO Bob Iger to make at parks

Disney die-hards cheered Iger's return. Now they're demanding changes.

By Hannah Sampson

November 21, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/11/21/disney-parks-iger-chapek-ceo/

Elon Musk taunts Donald Trump with sexy Milo Manara drawing

Heidi MacDonald

11/21/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/elon-musk-donald-trump-milo-manara-comic/

 

Milo Manara claps back at Elon Musk

Heidi MacDonald

11/22/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/milo-manara-claps-back-at-elon-musk/

 

How Leonardo's "Monstrous" Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature

"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression.

  by Elaine Velie

Hyperallergic November 21 2022

https://hyperallergic.com/781595/how-leonardo-da-vinci-monstrous-drawings-inspired-modern-caricature/

 

Crankshaft Comic Strip Joins Andrews McMeel Syndication

https://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/crankshaft-comic-strip-joins-andrews-mcmeel-syndication/

Kathy Hilliard

Andrews McMeel Universal (November 17, 2022)

 

Book review: The Mud and the Mirth; Marine Cartoonists in World War I by Cord Scott

reviewed by James Willetts

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG

November 22, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/11/book-review-mud-and-mirth-marine.html

 

Cord Scott. The Mud and the Mirth; Marine Cartoonists in World War I. Quantico, Virginia: Marine Corps University Press, 2022. https://www.usmcu.edu/Outreach/Marine-Corps-University-Press/Books-by-topic/MCUP-Titles-A-Z/The-Mud-and-the-Mirth/and https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/The Mud and the Mirth_web_1.pdf

 

Milestones: Minot native pens book on WWI Marine cartoonists

https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2022/11/milestones-minot-native-pens-book-on-wwi-marine-cartoonists/

Nov 21, 2022

 

Books We Love 2022: Comics and Graphic Novels

NPR

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#tags=comics+%26+graphic+novels&view=list&year=2022

 

How I Got Through My Miscarriages

Reading Diane Noomin's feminist comics allowed me to feel the full range of my own grief.

By Agatha French

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 27, 2022, Page 18 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: 'Baby Talk: A Tale of 4 Miscarriages'.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/magazine/miscarriage-grief.html

 

Hail to the Queen: Angela Bassett on 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'

By Dave Itzkoff

Nov. 22, 2022, 5:00 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/22/movies/angela-bassett-black-panther-wakanda-forever.html

 

100 Notable Books of 2022 [Ducks by Beaton]

The New York Times Book Review Nov. 22, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/22/books/notable-books.html

 

AWA Studios announces creative council with Hudlin, Straczynski, Kosinski, more

The newly-formed council will help AWA Studios guide their comics projects and more.

Heidi MacDonald

11/22/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/awa-studios-announces-creative-council-with-hudlin-straczynski-kosinski-more/

 

Comings and Goings: Dark Horse/TFAW, 555 Media, Oni, Archie

Your latest update on new hires and promotions in the world of comics.

Heidi MacDonald

11/22/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/comings-and-goings-dark-horse-tfaw-555-media-oni-archie/

 

Cartoonists honor 'Peanuts' creator in Saturday funny pages

By MARK KENNEDY - AP Entertainment Writer

November 22 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/22/comics-to-pay-tribute-on-charles-schulz-centennial/

 

Best Graphic Novels 2022 | SLJ Best Books

by Shelley M. Diaz, Andrew Eliopulos, Thomas Maluck, Alea Perez, Carla Riemer

Nov 21, 2022

https://www.slj.com/story/reviews/best-graphic-novels-2022-slj-best-books

 

CHIPCLASS 3: Scripting

Chip Zdarsky

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDncn1C65Ao

 

The Nerd Kit acquires Comicker Press

The Nerd Kit has announced it has acquired Comicker and its imprints Comicker Digital and Comicker Press.

Heidi MacDonald

11/22/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-nerd-kit-acquires-comicker-press/

 

AnimeNYC 2022: More Manga, Big Plans for the Future

By Brigid Alverson 

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/90987-animenyc-2022-more-manga-big-plans-for-the-future.html

 

Movie Alert: 'My Father's Dragon'

By Gilcy Aquino 

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-industry-news/article/90994-movie-alert-my-father-s-dragon.html

 

An Appreciation of Kevin O'Neill, 1953-2022

David Roach | November 22, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/an-appreciation-of-kevin-oneill-1953-to-2022/

 

AWA Studios Enlists Top Creatives to Shepherd Content Derived From Graphic Novels

Cynthia Littleton

Nov 21, 2022  

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/kosinski-hudlin-kalogridis-hurwitz-straczynski-awa-studios-1235438160/

 

Interview: Daniel Kraus on the Mythical, Arresting World of TROJAN

Jed W. Keith

Nov 18, 2022

http://www.freaksugar.com/interview-daniel-kraus-on-the-mythical-arresting-world-of-trojan/

 

"Climbing Wall Bed" Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood

November 21, 2022 by Lawrence Wood

https://www.cartoonstock.com/blog/climbing-wall-bed-caption-contest-commentary-with-lawrence-wood/

 

How Los Bros Hernandez Stayed Punk for 40 Years with their Epic Comic-Book Saga, Love and Rockets

They were part of the '80s revolution with The Dark Knight Returns and Watchmen, but without the big payday.

By Abraham Riesman

November 1, 2022

https://www.gq.com/story/love-and-rockets-hernandez-brothers

 

Axel Alonso returns to talk AWA's The Resistance Universe: The Origins TPB

TLDR Comic Book Club November 16 2022

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/axel-alonso-returns-to-talk-awas-the-resistance/id1542312503?i=1000586370624

 

This Local Designer's Furniture Appears In 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'

Tamika Smith

Rebecca Cooper

https://dcist.com/story/22/11/22/black-panther-wakanda-forever-uses-artwork-dc-area-furniture-designer/

 

The Life-Changing Moment w/ Kate Gavino, James Spooner, Gengoroh Tagame, and Malaka Gharib

Calvin Reid

Brooklyn Book Festival

Nov 10, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts3zrx5lua8

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Interesting local tie to Black Panther movie

NPR's top comics list is out


 Books We Love 2022: Comics and Graphic Novels
NPR

Gharib and Orner are both formerly local.

Leonardo caricature now owned by National Gallery of Art

How Leonardo's "Monstrous" Drawings Inspired Modern Caricature

"Grotesque Head of an Old Woman," recently acquired by the National Gallery of Art, is one of several studies by Leonardo exploring exaggerated facial expression.

The Post on Disney theme parks as Iger returns

9 changes Disney fans want returning CEO Bob Iger to make at parks

Disney die-hards cheered Iger's return. Now they're demanding changes.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/21/22

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever': Where the Sequel's Box Office Drop Ranks in the MCU Universe

Ryan Coogler's sequel declined 63 percent in its second weekend at the domestic box office, a pandemic-era best for a Marvel Studios title.

Pamela McClintock

November 20, 2022 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/black-panther-wakanda-forever-box-office-drop-1235266607/

 

Behind the Themes of 'Wakanda Forever'

Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira and more actors look at the larger issues at play in Ryan Coogler's sequel.

Evan Nicole Brown

November 19, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/black-panther-wakanda-forever-cast-1235265473/

 

 The Heartache and Hope of 'Wakanda Forever': Why Ryan Coogler Put the Focus on Chadwick Boseman's Favorite Character

By Aaron Couch, Borys Kit       

November 21, 2022

    A version of this story first appeared in the Nov. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.

    https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/wakanda-forever-how-ryan-coogler-crated-black-panther-1235265311/

 

The Comic Book Creator Credits Of Black Panther: Welcome To Wakanda

November 20, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-comic-book-creator-credits-of-black-panther-welcome-to-wakanda/

 

How 'The Walking Dead' changed the course of the TV revolution

By Mary McNamara

Nov. 20, 2022  

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-11-20/the-walking-dead-took-the-television-revolution-to-a-whole-new-omigod-what-is-that-level

 

'Walking' and talking: An oral history of 'The Walking Dead'

By Michael Ordoña 

Nov. 18, 2022  

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-11-18/the-walking-dead-finale-oral-history-cast

 

Chris Hardwick's 'Talking Dead' walks off with zombie fans

By Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times

March 30, 2013

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-xpm-2013-mar-30-la-et-st-talking-dead-walking-dead-amc-20130330-story.html

 

COLISEUM OF COMICS ACQUIRES THREE GAME STORES

Two to Rebrand, One to Close

Brigid Alverson on November 20, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52688/coliseum-comics-acquires-three-game-storesICV2

 

INTERVIEW: SKYBOUND'S GARIMA SHARMA

The Company's Tabletop Game Pivot, the Market, and What's Coming Up [webcomics]

 Milton Griepp on November 21, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52689/icv2-interview-skybounds-garima-sharma

 

Rikke Platz Cortsen  (2010).

Post-modern Joker: Semiotics, Interpretation and Identity in Arkham Asylum .

Critical Engagements: A Journal of Criticism and Theory, III  (1), 31-50.

online at https://www.academia.edu/91312155/Post_modern_Joker_Semiotics_Interpretation_and_Identity_in_em_Arkham_Asylum_em_

 

INTERVIEW: Sean Von Gorman and Jeffrey Burandt discuss the mystery of GHOST PLANET

The graphic novel is "Lost in Space meets Last of Us"

Deanna Destito

11/21/2022

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-sean-von-gorman-jeffrey-burandt-ghost-planet-preview/

 

'What will I spend the money on? Pens': the winner of our graphic short story prize 2022

Rachel Cooke

@msrachelcooke

Sun 20 Nov 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/20/observer-faber-graphic-short-story-prize-winner-rebecca-jones-midnight-feast

 

David Duchovny Spills on His Graphic Novel Kepler

Late Night with Seth Meyers 

Nov 18, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zwNuNKFqw4

 

Drew Friedman's Maverix and Lunatix: Icons of Underground Comix: "A masterpiece, a treasure, an encyclopedia"

John Kelly | November 21, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/drew-friedmans-maverix-and-lunatix-icons-of-underground-comix-a-masterpiece-a-treasure-an-encyclopedia/

 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: First Drafts

By Andy Babbitz

November 18, 2022

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-first-drafts

 

Watchmen and From Hell creator Alan Moore on Illuminations: 'I wanted to exorcise my negative thoughts about comics'

Séamas O'Reilly

Irish Independent October 11 2022

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/watchmen-and-from-hell-creator-alan-moore-on-illuminations-i-wanted-to-exorcise-my-negative-thoughts-about-comics-42058598.html

 

Séamas O'Reilly

Nov 18 2022

https://seamas.medium.com/fantasy-must-be-sharper-an-interview-with-alan-moore-883d4b8196aa

Fantasy Must Be Sharper: An Interview With Alan Moore

 

IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode ten | Tyler Boss, part two

Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan

November 21 2022

https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/by-rebel-spies

 

System of Comics [Thierry Groensteen]

Claire Hennessy

The Global Novel: a literature podcast 10/30/2022

https://www.theglobalnovel.com/podcast/episode/7c4b9cd8/system-of-comics

https://podcasts.usrfiles.com/proxy/11581756-system-of-comics.mp3

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

 

Translating System of Comics [Bart Beaty and Nick Nguyen]

Claire Hennessy

The Global Novel: a literature podcast 11/15/2022

https://www.theglobalnovel.com/podcast/episode/7ba7e7f5/translating-system-of-comics

https://podcasts.usrfiles.com/proxy/11673347-translating-system-of-comics.mp3

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

 

Inside the Disney Board's Decision to Swap Bobs

Kim Masters

November 21, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/inside-disney-decision-to-rehire-iger-1235267844/ 

 

IJOCA Vol. 24, No. 1 Spring/Summer 2022

 

Editor's Notes

John A. Lent

1

Ishinomori Shōtarō: Teaching the Art of the Manga Panel

Ramie Tateishi

8

More or Less Hearing: Representations of Deafness in Marvel Comics

S. Leigh Ann Cowan

35

Satire in the Wake of "Woke": A South African's Woes

Compiled by John A. Lent

82

Comics as Resources of Meaning in a Prevention Campaign for Covid-19 in Mexico: Susana Distancia and Escuadrón de la salud [Health Squad]

Citlaly Aguilar Campos

107

Kaiser, King, and Caricature: Franz Joseph in British Cartoons, 1848-1916

Richard Scully and Mathew Paterson

126

"Who Is This Gallant Girl of Greatness?" A Chat with Brian Biggs about My Hero

Mike Rhode

159

Vilma Vargas, Female Political Cartoonist: A Rarity in South America

John A. Lent with Geisa Fernandes

182

The Names and the Nameless -- People Who Make Up the City: A Reading of Harsho Mohan Chattoraj's Kolkata Kaleidoscope

Abinsha Joseph and Smita Jha

207

"Not on Your Tintype": The Emperor of Japan as Depicted by William Gropper

Paul Bevan

223

Poetry Comics as Artifact: The Visual Poetics of Sprawl

Felix Cheong

245

Cliff Dwellers in Hogan's Alley: R. F. Outcault and the Ashcan School

Michelle Ann Abate

255

Pride, Pain, and Punishment: Cacofonix as a Model of Resilience in The Adventures of Asterix

Lisa Mansfield, Jessica Stanhope, and Philip Weinstein

287

Metafiction and Ecuadorian Graphic Novel: The Case of El ejército de los tiburones martillo (2019)

by Fabián Patinho

Alvaro Alemán and Eduardo Villacís

310

Qahera: The Webcomic, Not the City: Reception and Popularity

Hayat Bedaiwi

327

Discussing The Art of Living with Grant Snider

Mike Rhode

340

It's Like You're There: Experiencing Sounds, Giongo, and Gitaigo in Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san

Kay K. Clopton

368

An Essay

We Are Nothing

Michel Matly

385

Early Chinese Portrayals in Western Political Cartoons from the Mid-19th Century

Harry Jiandang Tan

399

Unique Beijing Comics Coffee House and Its First Exhibition: A Picture Story and Mini-Catalogue

Xu Ying

434

Mobility of Monstrous Mermaids in Manga

Patrick Ijima-Washburn

448

Similarities and Differences Between Mexican Friki Culture and Geek Culture in the United States

Nadiezhda Palestina Camacho Quiroz

480

Comic Art Academic Monograph Publishers

compiled by Mike Rhode

499

Maia Kobabe in Conversation: Banned Books, Queer Stories, and Gender Queer: A Memoir

Kathleen Breitenbach

510

Contemporary Rebellion in Tsutsui Testuya's Yokokuhan

Motoko Tanaka

533

The Manhua Specialized Press in China: 40 Years of Reform and Opening Up

Laetitia Rapuzzi

549

Introducing SG Cartoon Resource Hub, a New Site for Exploring Singapore Cartooning

CT Lim

576

Anime as Witnessing--"Violet Evergarden" and the Trauma of Memory

Barbara Greene

579

Goodbye, Bob (and thanks for all your words about pictures!): A Far Too Brief Appreciation of the Life and Times of Robert C. Harvey, Comics' Premiere Pundit

Daniel F. Yezbick

597

Defining the Graphic Novel

Jakob Dittmar

608

An Essay

Odd Taxi, Animal Farm, and Satirical Distance

Brent Allison

623

Long Answers to Simple Questions: An Interview with Ben Hatke

Jason DeHart

631

Meet Sergio Peçanha, Washington Post Visual Essayist

Mike Rhode

638

A Chat with Ted Anderson: "I Work in My Head"

Mike Rhode

645

 

 

Book Reviews

Superheroes and Excess, an Oxymoron: A Review Essay - Eric Berlatsky

653

Jeremy Dauber. American Comics: A History, by Charles Henebry and Lee Williams, p.661.

Catriona MacLeod. Invisible Presence: The Representation of Women in French-Language Comics, by María Márquez López, p.662.

Nancy Pedri. A Concise Dictionary of Comics, by John A. Lent, p.666

Felix Cheong and Eko. In the Year of the Virus, Felix Cheong and Arif Rafhan. Sprawl: A Graphic Novel, by Cheng Tju Lim, p.668.

Rich Johnson. The Amazing Spider-Man: Web-Slinger, Hero, Icon, by Chris York, p.670.

Damien MacDonald. Anatomy of Comics: Famous Originals of Narrative Art, by Cord A. Scott, p.672.

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins. How Comics Travel, by Kenneth Oravetz, p.676.

Terence McSweeney. Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, by Jason D. DeHart, p.678.

Mark McKinney. Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics, by Elke Defever, p.680.

Jim Lee and Paul Mounts. The Uncanny X-Men Trading Cards: The Complete Series, by Cord A. Scott, p.682.

Norah Lucía Serrano, ed. Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis, by Elke Defever, p.687.

 

 

Exhibition Reviews

A Review Essay

Chicago: Center of the Comics Universe, by José Alaniz, p.691.

A Review Essay

Good Humor, Bitter Irony, by Tony Wei Ling, p.709.

Festival report

European Comics Festivals Return to Angoulême and Haarlem, by

Barbara Postema, p.717.

A Review Essay

Fumetto Opens Up Again in 2022, But Underwhelms, by Wim

Lockefeer, p.731.

A Review Essay

Curator's Notes on "Icons of American Animation," the Exhibition,

by Robert Lemieux, p.740

Curator's Notes on "Jim Morin: Drawing and Painting," An Exhibition of Political Cartoon Drawings and Landscape Paintings, by Martha H. Kennedy, p.751.

R. Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, and Sophie Crumb: Sauve qui peut! (Run for Your Life), by Gerald Heng, p.753.

"Painting with Light: Festival of International Films on Art." National Gallery Singapore. July 1, 2022. Suenne Megan Tan, executive director, by John A. Lent, p.764.

Monday, November 21, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/19-20/22

 

MUTTS November Newshletter November 18, 2022

A Note From Patrick: November 2022

https://mutts.com/blogs/news/a-note-from-patrick-november-2022

 

November 20, 2022

2022 Stanley Awards recipients

Australian Cartoonists Association

https://cartoonists.org.au/blog/2022/11/20/stanley-awards-2022

 

The Comics That Made Them with Cliff Chiang

By David Harper

November 17, 2022

https://sktchd.com/interview/the-comics-that-made-them-with-cliff-chiang/

 

'Love and Rockets,' a Series that Helped Redefine Comics, Turns 40

By Robert Ito

Nov. 19, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/19/books/love-and-rockets-hernandez-bros.html

 

A comedy of errors in the comics [letter]

Cormac Kaplan,

Washington Post November 19 2022 : A15

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/11/18/reader-critiques-ukraine-dan-cox-polls-climate-change/

 

Australian Cartoonists' Association

Website -  https://cartoonists.org.au/

Issuu page - https://issuu.com/australiancartoonists