Friday, December 02, 2022

Andrew S. Weiss — Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin - with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch

In Accidental Czar, Andrew S. Weiss, a former White House Russia expert, and Brian "Box" Brown show how Putin has successfully cast himself as a cunning, larger-than-life political mastermind--and how the rest of the world has played into the Kremlin's hands by treating him as one. They shatter all of these myths and expose the man behind the façade.


Andrew S. Weiss served in various policy roles at the National Security Council, the State Department and Pentagon during both Democratic and Republican administrations. He is currently the James Family Chair and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he oversees research on Russia, Ukraine, and the wider region. Weiss is in conversation with Amb. Marie Yovanovitch. Amb. Yovanovitch served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (2016-2019), the Republic of Armenia (2008-2011), and the Kyrgyz Republic (2005-2008) during the course of her 34 year career in the Foreign Service. Be Sure To Click SUBSCRIBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT83...

Seditious Grinch by Daniel Boris

Thursday, December 01, 2022

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/1/22

Off Panel #377: Popping and Unlocking with Tiffany Babb 

David Harper

Nov 29, 2022

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-377-popping-and-unlocking-with-tiffany-babb

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Tiffany_Babb.mp3

 

EXCLUSIVE: Celebrate 30 Years of Bane With Batman: One Bad Day's Williamson & Porter

By Gregg Katzman

CBR December 1 2022

https://www.cbr.com/exclusive-batman-one-bad-day-bane-joshua-williamson-howard-porter-interview/

 

DC PAYS TRIBUTE TO CARMINE INFANTINO With 400-Page 'Legends of DC' Collection

 by Brigid Alverson on November 30, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52765/dc-pays-tribute-carmine-infantino

 

R.I.P. ALINE KOMINSKY-CRUMB

Seminal Figure in American Comics

Brigid Alverson on November 30, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52768/r-i-p-aline-kominsky-crumb

 

High School Principal Keeps Gender Queer In School After Reading It

November 30, 2022

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/high-school-principal-keeps-gender-queer-in-school-after-reading-it/

Explicit graphic novel to stay put in Bow High School library [Gender Queer]

By Mark Hayward New Hampshire Union Leader Staff

Nov 28, 2022

https://www.unionleader.com/news/education/bow-high-school-library-to-keep-sexually-explicit-graphic-novel-gender-queer-most-challenged-book/article_50eee315-2c92-5ca2-9a6f-9ae0521fb284.html

 

August Sender: A new take on 'Gender Queer'

November 27 2022

https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/11/27/august-sender-a-new-take-on-gender-queer/

 

Dialogue Balloons: Cartoonists From Brazil

Jason Novak | December 1, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/dialogue-balloons-cartoonists-from-brazil/

 

In WRJ, the Center for Cartoon Studies says, "Let me explain…"

Eric Francis

Daybreak's Notion November 2022

https://bitter-meteoroid-729.notion.site/In-WRJ-the-Center-for-Cartoon-Studies-says-Let-me-explain-23ada77a4d5747489e85db65bef5edd2

 

EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Gorinson joins Oni Lion Forge as Publisher and President

Heidi MacDonald

12/01/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/hunter-gorinson-joins-oni-lion-forge-as-publisher-and-president/

 

Graphic Novelist Alison Bechdel reflects on the personal and political at UMC

by Lara Bradley

CU Independent  November 29, 2022

https://www.cuindependent.com/2022/11/29/alison-bechdel-umc-2022/

 

Letter: Choose better cartoons than Varvel's Pelosi drawing

Barbara Kuvshinoff

Nov 29, 2022

https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-choose-better-cartoons-than-varvel-s-pelosi-drawing/article_af6e1586-6b73-11ed-ba87-b7d867e95fd6.html

 

Letter: Varvel cartoon is offensive

Tammy Sherwood-Mongerson

Nov 27, 2022

https://buffalonews.com/opinion/letters/letter-varvel-cartoon-is-offensive/article_697f964e-6b73-11ed-8286-2310e7d09150.html

 

Letter: Don't stereotype 'climate refugees' [ Brent Brown's "The New Exotic"]

Andrew Paul

Mountain Xpress  November 21, 2022

https://mountainx.com/opinion/letter-dont-stereotype-climate-refugees/

 

Arthur Szyk Preserved 

Edited by Irvin Ungar and Samantha Lyons, PhD, with Allison Claire Chang

(Burlingame, CA: Historicana and Lewes, UK: D Giles Limited, 2022)

 

Book Review Essay: A Colonial Perspective on the Indonesia-Netherlands Comics Connection

by Rik Spanjers

International Journal Of Comic Art Blog December 1, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-essay-colonial-perspective.html

 

Ruud den Drijver. Indocomics: de 'katjangs' van de stripkunst. Amsterdam: Baltimore Publications, 2022.

 

Cristian Castelo, November 29th, 2022 [on AGE OF ANTHOLOGY]

New York Comics & Picture-story Symposium 346

Nov 29, 2022

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

 

Aline Kominsky-Crumb, feminist underground cartoonist, dies at 74

Her autobiographical, raunchy and darkly absurd comics in the 1970s made her a feminist heroine to a generation of women

By Michael S. Rosenwald

December 1, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/01/aline-kominsky-crumb-feminist-underground-cartoonist-dies-74/

The Post's latest former-Lily comic

I struggle to afford gifts. But I know my friendships don't depend on them.

I'm reminding myself that my most valued relationships aren't dependent on my financial offerings

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/30/22

Book review: Comics and Nation. Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland

International Journal Of Comic Art Blog November 30, 2022

reviewed by John A. Lent

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/11/book-review-comics-and-nation-power-pop.html

 

Ewa Stańczyk. Comics and Nation. Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in Poland. Columbus:  The Ohio State University Press, 2022.

 

Book review: Dirty Pictures by Brian Doherty

International Journal Of Comic Art Blog November 30, 2022

reviewed by John A. Lent

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/11/book-review-dirty-pictures-by-brian.html

 

Comic Watch Interview With Axel Alonso, AWA Chief Creative Officer

By Chad Burdette

November 22, 2022

https://comic-watch.com/news/comic-watch-interview-with-axel-alonso-awa-chief-creative-officer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPU_SGly7gA

 

Ronald L. Schwartz 1932 - 2022 OBITUARY [ Cartoon Art Museum cofounder ]

San Jose Mercury News from Nov. 13 to Nov. 16 , 2022.

https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/mercurynews/name/ronald-schwartz-obituary?id=37384892

 

Gallery Vidourle Prix. 2022.

[La #galerievidourleprix est fermée en raison du décès d'Aline Kominsky Crumb.]

Galerie VP November 30 2022

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0aUbWny3euVWECAi78oer2j7pmh65VC4WjSE6VKAugeeifWUK33w7zFisKDm5mqj3l&id=100063443366330

 

RIP Aline Kominsky–Crumb

Comics has lost another giant.

Heidi MacDonald 11/30/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/rip-aline-kominsky-crumb/

 

To Charles Schulz on his would-be 100th birthday

Terri Libenson 

Terri Libenson's blog November 25, 2022

https://terrilibenson.com/2022/11/to-charles-schulz-on-his-would-be-100th-birthday/

 

Straight Shooters: A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders' statements, in their own words

Johnny Damm

In These Times 46 11; December 2022

 

Episode 9: Sophie-chan [Arab-Canadian cartoonist]

Left Brain vs. Right Brain with Stu Levy

November 17 2022

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-9-sophie-chan/id1614478426?i=1000586540432

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-left-brain-vs-right-brain-94176289/episode/episode-9-sophie-chan-104746571/

 

"Medi-Cal Was Outlawed Yesterday": Dori Seda and the Reverberations of Reaganomics

Edward Dorey | November 30, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/medi-cal-was-outlawed-yesterday-dori-seda-and-the-reverberations-of-reaganomics/

 

New Publisher Signs Exclusive Contract With Diamond For Distribution to the Book Channel [ Black Panel Press]

Brigid Alverson on November 29, 2022

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52752/new-publisher-signs-exclusive-contract-diamond

 

Diamond Improving Online Retailer Tools And Reveals Logistics Stats

Brigid Alverson on November 29, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52756/diamond-improving-online-retailer-tools

 

Online Fundraiser Set Up For Peter David

'Hulk' Writer Has Medical Problems, Suffered Series of Strokes

Brigid Alverson on November 29, 2022 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/52757/online-fundraiser-set-up-peter-david

 

Peter David suffers multiple strokes, currently hospitalized

A GoFundMe has been launched to raise funds to cover David's hospital bills and more.

Joe Grunenwald

11/30/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/peter-david-suffers-multiple-strokes-currently-hospitalized/

 

An Interview with Keiler Roberts

Autobiographix November 30 2022

https://autobiographix.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-keiler-roberts

 

Q&A with Jillian Tamaki, Author of Boundless

Nov. 22 2022

Emily Donaldson

https://carolshieldsprizeforfiction.com/blog/interview-with-jillian-tamaki

 

Darrin Bell Takes Candorville to King Features

D. D. Degg

November 30, 2022

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/11/30/darrin-bell-takes-candorville-to-king-features/

 

November 29, 2022 by Gil Roth

Episode 516 – Drew Friedman

Virtual Memories Show 516:

Drew Friedman

http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-516-drew-friedman

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_516_-_Drew_Friedman.mp3

 

AnimeNYC 2022: Winners and Losers from TurtleMe to Cosplay

Marion Pena

11/29/2022 

https://www.comicsbeat.com/animenyc-2022-winners-and-losers-from-turtleme-to-cosplay/

 

'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' Is Proof of the MCU's Latest Streaming Concept

The second Marvel Studios Special Presentation, after 'Werewolf by Night,' solidifies the format as the MCU's Swiss army knife

By Daniel Chin Nov 25, 2022,

https://www.theringer.com/marvel-cinematic-universe/2022/11/25/23474976/guardians-of-the-galaxy-holiday-special-marvel-studios-special-presentation

 

Disney Expands Partnership With Japan's Kodansha to Release More Anime Originals (Exclusive)

The deal was unveiled Wednesday in Singapore, where Disney has gathered global media and regional partners for its annual APAC Content Showcase.

Patrick Brzeski

November 29, 2022

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/disney-expands-partnership-with-japans-kodansha-to-release-more-anime-originals-exclusive-1235271990/

 

Making "Millaray Huichalaf" in Movements & Moments

Kaiya Smith Blackburn

November 28, 2022

https://drawnandquarterly.com/news/making-millaray-huichalaf-in-movements-moments/

 

Tom Devlin on the rise of Drawn and Quarterly, and Graphic Novels

Nigel Beale

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIw6i3N6WeU

 

In Conversation with William Kentridge

November 30, 2022  Jordan Riefe

https://www.artandobject.com/news/conversation-william-kentridge

 

Fan Phenomena: Disney (Book)

Edited by Sabrina Mittermeier

Intellect

2023

https://www.intellectbooks.com/fan-phenomena-disney

 

Part 1: Diversity and the Disney Princess

 

Frozen Fever: Fan Fashion, Costumes, and Revisions of Elsa and Anna Designs – Nicole Lamerichs

 

'Let It Go!': Child Fans, Song, and the Frozen Franchise – Ryan Bunch 

 

"Dream Big, Princess": Disney's Princess Fandom as a Trans-generational, Feminist Fan Space – Tracey Mollet 

 

That's (Not) My Princess: Representation, Race, and (Anti-)Fan Activism – Christina Wurst 

 

Panel Discussion: The Live Action Mulan (2020) and Disney's Approach to Racial Diversity – Michelle Anya Anjirbag, Bertha Chin & Jingan Young 

 

Interlude: Representation, Censorship and Disney+

 

"Please don't censor Hamilton!": Disney+, Social Media Fandom, and Censorship – Olympia Kiriakou 

 

Musings of a Queer Disney Fan – Sabrina Mittermeier 

 

Part 2: The Disney Theme Parks and Their Fans

Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks' Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures – Rebecca Williams 

 

To Act Like a Kid or Not to Act Like a Kid: Disneybounding in the Parks – Rebecca Rowe 

 

Fan Appreciation: Victoria Wade 

 

Friends Just Around the Riverbend: Performing Intimacy and Authenticity in Disney Park Character Meets – Victoria Pettersen Lantz 

 

Fan Appreciation: Shawn Rosell

 

Haunted Waters: The Elimination of Liveness in Disney's Rivers of Light – Tom Robson 

 

From Mickey Waffles to Vegan Samosas: Evolving Disney Food Fandoms – Jennifer A. Kokai 

 

The Traveling Disney Bear 'Duffy' and His Surprising Popularity in Japan – Katharina Hülsmann & Timo Thelen 

 

        Fan Appreciaton: Chris Nilghe

 

Part 3: The Brand and its Fans – How Disney Responds to Fandom and Monetizes Fan Labor 

 

Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust: Disney's Participatory Publics – Amber L. Hutchins 

 

Disney's Social Media Moms – Kylie Torres 

 

Fitting Inside the Mouse House – Disney's Experiential Media Aesthetics – Chris Comerford 

 

Disney Publishing and the Saturation of the Imaginative Market – Michelle Anya Anjirbag 

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Elon Musk's FashFone™ by PhoneX"

from DC's anarchist cartoonist Mike Flugennock -

"Elon Musk's FashFone™ by PhoneX"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3548

After Elon Musk bought Twitter, declared it a "free speech zone", 
started letting all the fascists back in and shutting down the Left, 
there was some understandable online rioting this week, and the 
predictable calls from America's boutique anarchist media to join an 
exodus to Mastodon. Oh, how I laughed.

So, late last week, Apple and Google finally got off their goddamn 
duffs and declared that Twitter would be shut out of the Google Play 
and Apple App stores if the enabling of fascist hate speech and 
harassment was allowed to continue. Musk, at his very Muskmost, 
announced that he would develop his own brand of smartphone whose App 
Shoppe would allow Twitter.

...which basically leaves Gab and Parler in a spot, when you think 
about it. Now, you don't have to go to some seedy, fringey fascist 
social-media site to spew your shit; you can just go to Twitter.

Sometimes these gags draw themselves.

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"Elon Musk says he'll create an 'alternative' smartphone if Twitter is 
kicked out of the Apple App Store", Kali Hays at Business Insider, 
11.25.2022
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/elon-musk-twitter-make-his-own-phone-apple-app-store-2022-11?op=1

"Elon Says He'll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform 
Twitter", Jody Serrano at Gizmodo, 11.25.2022
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-alternative-phone-apple-google-ban-twitter-1849822836

"This Is America #177: Fediverse Grows as Musk Tanks Twitter; 
Far-Right Beaten Back from Eugene to Penn State", It's Going Down 
podcast 11.13.2022
https://itsgoingdown.org/this-is-america-177/
_________________________________________________________________
Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

Trump Reinstated on Twitter by Daniel Boris


 

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 11/29/22

Cartoonist Steve Nease and the evolving art of ruffling feathers (aka The art of ruffling feathers | Interview w/ political cartoonist Steve Nease )
Jay Pugazhenthi

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

https://oakvillenews.org/oakville-community-news/steve-nease-on-cartooning/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy9WrRX73yk

 

 Hail to 'Krazy Kat'

Fred Miller

East Liverpool Review  Nov 28, 2022

https://www.reviewonline.com/news/local-news/2022/11/hail-to-krazy-kat/

 

Texas history column: Tex Avery among key early pioneers of animation industry

By Ken Bridges

Special to the Amarillo Globe-News

 November 27 2022

https://www.amarillo.com/story/lifestyle/2022/11/27/bridges-tex-avery-among-key-early-pioneers-of-animation-industry/69671152007/

 

DC Comics To Introduce New Ukrainian Superhero, Core

November 27, 2022

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-comics-to-introduce-new-ukrainian-superhero-core/

 

Martin Barker obituary

Rosie Barker

Mon 28 Nov 2022 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/nov/28/martin-barker-obituary

 

The Unpacking Peanuts Charles M. Schulz 100th Birthday Spectacular!

Jimmy Gownley, Michael Cohen, Harold Buchholz

Unpacking Peanuts 11/22/2022

https://www.unpackingpeanuts.com/podcast/episode/1d7a5fad/the-unpacking-peanuts-charles-m-schulz-100th-birthday-spectacular

https://podcasts.usrfiles.com/proxy/Birthday_Party_Auphonic_v686wwj.mp3

 

This Al Hirschfeld drawing found for just $9.75 in a New York thrift shop could now sell for $50,000; The work depicts cast members from the original production of 'The King and I'

Nov. 11, 2022

Charles Passy

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-al-hirschfeld-drawing-found-for-just-9-75-in-a-new-york-thrift-shop-could-now-sell-for-50-000-11668199410

 

Top 10 Manga of 2022

by Brigid Alverson, Robin Brenner, Johanna Draper Carlson, and Renee Scott
Nov 23, 2022

https://www.slj.com/story/slj-top-10-manga-2022


Licensing Hotline: November 2022

By Karen Raugust
Nov 29, 2022

Tuesday, November 29, 2022

Compleating Cul de Sac 2nd ed (2022) ebook debuts for Giving Tuesday

 


Today is giving day throughout the country and we want to raise money for Team Cul de Sac today. To donate please Click This Link! As you know, Richard Thompson died of Parkinson's disease and his friends have worked to raise money for the Fox Foundation's efforts to defeat the disease.

We would also like to give back to you! We have just finished Compleating Cul de Sac 2022 edition. If you donate at least $10 using the link above, we will send you a PDF of the new book.  Remember Click This Link to donate and receive a gift pdf of the book. This offer will continue after Giving Tuesday. We hope to have the print version available by the first week of December

As we receive confirmation of your donation we will send the link to the Google drive file to you. Please remember this is a volunteer effort so these links will probably be sent in the evenings.

Your donation is tax-deductible and 88 cents of every dollar goes to Parkinson's research. To learn about how your donation will be matched today up to 4 million dollars,  please visit HERE! And share this post!