Saturday, December 03, 2022

Tom De Haven, who wrote a series of novels centered around comics and cartoonists and taught creative writing in the Department of English at VCU's College of Humanities and Sciences, appeared as himself on Sunday in the comic he grew up admiring.

By Mary Kate Brogan

VCU News Dec. 1, 2022

https://news.vcu.edu/article/2022/12/author-retired-vcu-english-professor-featured-in-dick-tracy-comic-this-sunday

Here I Dreamt I Was An Architect – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | December 2, 2022

https://www.tcj.com/here-i-dreamt-i-was-an-architect-this-weeks-links/

Book Review: Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature

reviewed by John A. Lent

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMIC ART BLOG December 2, 2022

https://ijoca.blogspot.com/2022/12/book-review-graphic-novels-and-comics.html

James Hodapp, ed. Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 285 pp. US $130.00. ISBN: 978-1-5013-7341-1. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/graphic-novels-and-comics-as-world-literature-9781501373428/

Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog December 02, 2022

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2022/12/wash-post-presumably-fires-bob-staake.html

Bob Staake

[After 29 years of illustrating the Style Invitational, The Washington Post has killed the weekly humor/wordplay contest.]

December 1 2022

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid022gamYAj7dZxwJAEFtdGAZsSqZYA6t9rrtzvwbYHWLaHQvYZJcgsf3NKsSyP5DSFyl&id=100030913586756

Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope named Cartoonist of the Year Museum of Australian Democracy a second time for his razor-sharp commentary

By Sally Pryor

Updated December 1 2022 - 1:13am, first published November 30 2022 -

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8003543/david-pope-defines-democracy-as-cartoonist-of-the-year/

Daniel Clowes Conversation

Noah Van Sciver

Nov 29, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmXf0c7byuY

Rick Louis & Lara Antal with Charlotte Greenbaum (November 16, 2022)[ Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars.]

GreenlightBookstore

Nov 22, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKwPYnmv6Z8

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

Politics and Prose Nov 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CEOpWeipv4

DAVE BAKER & NICOLE GOUX for FOREST HILLS BOOTLEG SOCIETY - Nov 2022 Graphic Novel Club Selection

Comix Experience Nov 30, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0GTgS1Mvs4

ISAAC LENKIEWICZ for ALCATOE AND THE TURNIP CHILD — November 2022 Kids' Club Selection

Comix Experience Nov 20, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4FWAMvRgUk

In Memoriam: Vic Carrabotta

Scoop December 2 2022

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1012?ArticleID=265428

Geoff Johns, Mikel Janín explore past and present in new 'Justice Society of America'

The return of the Golden Age of DC continues with the first JSA book in ten-plus years.

Chris Coplan

November 29, 2022

https://aiptcomics.com/2022/11/29/justice-society-of-america-return-qa/

Paul Cornell Debriefs Us On "The Completed Saucer Country"

By Kyle Welch | November 23rd, 2022

http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/saucer-country-interview/

Spacesuited Snoopy doll floats in zero-g on moon-bound Artemis 1 mission

By Robert Z. Pearlman

November 16 2022

https://www.space.com/snoopy-nasa-artemis-1-zero-g-indicator

Out With The Bang: Jason and The Art Of Silence

John McNamee

November 28, 2022

https://solrad.co/out-with-the-bang-jason-and-the-art-of-silence

Avery Hill Dreams Big for Graphic Novels

By Brigid Alverson

Nov 23, 2022

A version of this article appeared in the 11/28/2022 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: At 10, Avery Hill Dreams Big

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91006-avery-hill-dreams-big-for-graphic-novels.html

Interview avec David Sala Prix Landerneau BD 2022 pour Le Poids des Héros

2 décembre 2022

https://www.ligneclaire.info/david-sala-2022-270985.html

Attack on Titan Creator Hajime Isayama at Anime NYC

by Lynzee Loveridge, Nov 30th 2022

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2022-11-30/attack-on-titan-creator-hajime-isayama-at-anime-nyc/.192086

Manga Industry Survey: Over 20% of Artists Fear Bankruptcy Due to Japan's New Invoice System

2022-11-25 11:45 EST by Kim Morrissy

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2022-11-25/manga-industry-survey-over-20-percent-of-artists-fear-bankruptcy-due-to-japan-new-invoice-system/.192250

Withstanding the Heat: Denis Kitchen On Comics, Curiosity, and Censorship

by Chloe Maveal

November 22, 2022

https://www.thegutterreview.com/withstanding-the-heat-talking-censorship-and-comics-with-denis-kitchen/

Caretaker Blues and the Critic vs the Artist [Andrea Natalie, Wimmen's Comix, graphic medicine]

Edward Dorey

Synapsis November 18 2022

https://medicalhealthhumanities.com/2022/11/18/caretaker-blues-and-the-critic-vs-the-artist/

Heartstopper author Alice Oseman: 'If you don't have sex and romance, you feel like you haven't achieved'

Lucy Knight

19 Nov 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/19/alice-oseman-author-heartstopper-sex-romance-asexuality

Heartstopper review – possibly the loveliest show on TV

Rebecca Nicholson

22 Apr 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/22/heartstopper-review-alice-oseman-netflix-tv-drama

No drugs, booze, sex or swearing: will Heartstopper rewrite the young love rulebook?

Rachel Aroesti

18 Mar 2022

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/mar/18/no-drugs-booze-sex-or-swearing-will-heartstopper-rewrite-the-young-love-rulebook

Dr. IndigiNerd on Creating the World's Only Native Comic Book Shop

by Tai Gooden

Nov 28 2022

https://nerdist.com/article/red-planet-books-and-comics-shop-owner-dr-indiginerd-interview-native-indigenous-books/

Comics in the Anthropocene: Graphic Narratives of Apocalypse, Regeneration and Warning

Małgorzata Olsza

Text Matters: A Journal of Literature, Theory and Culture No. 12 (2022): The Ecological Future /

http://www.czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/textmatters/article/view/15305

https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.03

Multi-Histories: Creative and Narrative Plurality in Graphic Novels Exploring Indigenous Histories

Pfunzo Sidogi

Junctures No. 22 (2022): multi-

Published: Nov 13, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34074/junc.22069

https://junctures.org/index.php/junctures/article/view/431

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules' Review: Oh, Brother

By Calum Marsh

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 2, 2022, Section C, Page 8 of the New York edition with the headline: Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/movies/diary-of-a-wimpy-kid-rodrick-rules-review.html

Tributes pour in for legendary Andy Capp cartoonist Roger Mahoney who died aged 89

Sean Garnett

29 Nov 2022

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tributes-pour-legendary-andy-capp-28614075

Is 'Wednesday' creepy, kooky, mysterious or ooky enough? [Addams Family]

Glen Weldon and Ella Cerón

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 28, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/10/1135768062/is-wednesday-creepy-kooky-mysterious-or-ooky-enough

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/11/20221128_pchh_827a0c44-36a5-4b7e-af95-690b9b8d9497.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1135768062

Does 'Disenchanted' find the fairy tale magic?

Linda Holmes and Cyrena Touros

Pop Culture Happy Hour November 30, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/29/1139668805/does-disenchanted-find-the-fairy-tale-magic

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/11/20221130_pchh_07ee3ffb-aedb-477d-ac7e-0b43b7c57cb1.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1139668805

'Strange World' journeys to the center of an animated earth

Stephen Thompson and Ronald Young Jr.

Pop Culture Happy Hour December 1, 2022

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/11/1136107713/strange-world-journeys-to-the-center-of-an-animated-earth

https://play.podtrac.com/npr-510282/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/pchh/2022/12/20221201_pchh_cf63229a-1fe1-419d-871f-c34023d12dec.mp3

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1136107713

Friday, December 02, 2022

Wash Post presumably fires Bob Staake, as it ends longtime reader favorite Style Invitational contest

or, more accurately, “Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.”

by Mike Rhode (updated 12/3 with comments from Bob)

Bob Staake has been illustrating the Style Invitational contest for well over a decade... actually it's been for three of them. Buried in this story about firing the Post's dance critic (another loss as the paper tries to shrink to greatness, AGAIN) is this nugget, "The paper has also eliminated its weekly Style Invitational humor contest, which involved ending the contract of former longtime Post editor and current contributor Pat Myers." Meyers wrote a column herself as well. And Bob wrote in correcting my headline (which is fair - I wrote it to get attention to the grievous loss of yet more cartooning), noting, "I wasn’t “fired,” the Post simply cancelled a humor column that I illustrated. They didn’t cancel ME. It seems to me the more apropos headline would be 'Wash Post cancels weekly Style Invitational contest illustrated for 29 years by Bob Staake.' No matter how you look at it that’s a Hell of a run and all good things must come to an end." Bob is completely accurate, and we regret the misleading headline, but as they say in the news biz, "if it bleeds, it leads."

One of Staake's last illos

Staake has created an illustration for the contest which has run in color in the Style section (NOT the magazine which they also killed this week) since 1992 (or 1994) and has conservatively probably done 1500 cartoons for it over the thirty years. When he wrote to us here in 2009, he also noted that he'd been working for the Post for 25 years at that time, which puts him starting doing work for them in 1984. You can find ComicsDC's coverage of him here and it goes across multiple pages. At one point when I mentioned him, out of the blue, he sent me a drawing of WWMRD (what would Mike Rhode do?) which hangs over my dining room table. When he was in town for the National Book Festival, after doing the poster for them, I interviewed him for "Illustrator Bob Staake on Dark Humor, New Yorker Covers, and Analog Art in a Digital World," Aug. 28, 2014, http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/books/2014/08/28/illustrator-bob-staake-on-dark-humor-new-yorker-covers-and-analog-art-in-a-digital-world/ and it was reprinted in the International Journal of Comic Art.

Empress Meyers writes of him, "To Bob Staake, Gene's and then my visual partner since 1994 — way longer than either of us. Over the decades while Bob gained wide renown as a New Yorker cover artist and bestselling children's book author and illustrator, Bob continued to send a cartoon to the Invite, as "really the only steady job I've ever had." Bob and I have met in person only once — he lives on Cape Cod — but every week we're the Invite version of the Kramdens, bickering and threatening to send each other to the moon, but aww we make up."

The end of this contest is probably the last vestige of all the Miami Herald staff and innovations that actually made the Post a must-read for many years beginning in the 1980s as the Watergate sheen was beginning to wear off. I've never entered the Invitational, but I know many people who have, and am sure the complaints about this have started. Personally, I'll miss seeing Staake's cartoon.

I used to compile a list of cartoonists appearing in local publications back when it was worth doing. Here's one from 2007, of which barely any of the publications still exist, and only Matt Wuerker at Politico is really soldiering on.

Cartoonists in Washington, DC area newspapers as of late May 2007

Washington Post
-Tom Toles - editorial cartoonist (semi-daily)
-Richard Thompson - Richard's Poor Almanac (Saturdays); Cul de Sac strip (Sunday's Magazine), illustrations for Joel Achenbach's Rough Draft column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Rob Shepperson, Tim Grajek - illustrations for Sunday's Business section
-Nick Galifianakis - cartoons for ex-wife Carolyn Hax's Tell Me About It advice column.
-Bob Staake - cartoons for Style Invitational contest (Sunday)
-Patrick M. Reynolds - Flashback comic strip; unique Washington version (Sunday comics)
-Eric Shansby - illustrations for Gene Weingarten's Below the Beltway column (Sunday's Magazine)
-Christopher Gash; Christopher Neimen - spot illos especially on Sunday
-Michael Cavna - editorial cartoons in Arts section, extremely irregularly
-Julie Zhu - Montgomery Blair High School student cartoonist for Extra Credit column in local Extra sections
-Saturday box of syndicated editorial cartoons
-Turkish cartoonist Selcuk Demirel illustrations in Book World, semi-regularly

Of the Post people, 15 years later Richard's dead, we gained Ann Telnaes as an online animated political cartoonist, Toles was replaced by Michael de Adder (on contract from Canada, and they're running his piece too small and in b&w on the opinion page), the Saturday box of 4 political cartoonists is still there, Nick Galifianakis continues to illustrate Carolyn Hax's column albeit from an undisclosed location that's not Northern VA, Reynold's retired his Flashbacks strip this fall, and Cavna and Dave Betancourt cover comics stories but far less than they did when their Comic Riffs blog existed. And the Post has 2 pages of comics daily, down from 3, and printed microscopically, and 1 section of Sunday comics, instead of 2. Awww, get the hell off my lawn already.

Updated: Friend of ComicsDC, cartoonist Clay Jones pointed out that Staake had posted about this on his FB page.

Sedition Conviction by Daniel Boris

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

Politics and Prose

Nov 21, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CEOpWeipv4

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.

PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9...

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

Perspective by Sólveig Eva Magnúsdóttir

November 27, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2022/11/27/i-struggle-afford-gifts-i-know-my-friendships-dont-depend-them/

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

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