Sunday, February 26, 2023

NPR talks to Dan Santat

Dan Santat on his graphic novel 'A First Time For Everything'

A class trip to Europe helps an awkward boy through a challenging time of life. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Dan Santat about his new middle-grade graphic novel, "A First Time For Everything."

Scott Adams finds one defender

Musk defends 'Dilbert' creator, says media is 'racist against whites'

The Tesla and Twitter chief blasted media outlets for dropping Scott Adams's comic strip after the cartoonist's rant against Black people

SPX 2022 Programming videos on YouTube


Maia Kobabe is one of the most important young cartoonists working in comics today. Eir debut memoir, "Gender Queer," has inspired many readers as well as wound up on a number of short-sighted ban lists. Join Maia and moderator Alex Hoffman in a wide ranging discussion of eir career, books, and new projects.

All Writing is Autobiographical: What Writing Graphic Biographies Reveals About the Writer Comics biographies are a popular way of learning about important figures from history. However, how are the artists who write about them drawn to their subjects in the first place, and how are they changed by their experience of creating narratives about them? Moderator Robin Enrico leads a discussion with Andrew White, Barbara Stok, Aimée de Jong, and Carla Berrocal to find out.

Every writer draws from their real-life experiences to some degree. However, what choices must an artist make when fictionalizing their own real-life story? Moderator Jules Bakes joins Jarad Greene, Joris Bas Backer, Audra Stang and Coco Fox in finding out more.

The New Yorker cartoon has been around for almost 100 years - why is the artform so beloved? On this panel, which consists of some of the many new and diverse cartoonists that have been brought in, moderator Liza Donnelly examines the past and present world of New Yorker cartoonists with Lonnie Millsap, Sofia Warren and Sara Lautman.

The comics publisher Top Shelf was born at SPX 25 years ago. Now join moderator Leigh Walton and Top Shelf co-founder Chris Staros, along with artists Jeffrey Brown, Hannah Templer, Nate Powell, Jennifer Hayden and Jarod Rosello as they celebrate the milestone anniversary, reflect on Top Shelf's past and carve out its future!
Comics are a powerful medium for depicting the impacts of trauma. They can also be a tool in the process of healing from those impacts. What power do they hold as we process our pain and recover? Kayla E., Katherine Woodman-Maynard, Natalie Norris and Ariel Bordeaux discuss the role of memoir in healing from trauma with moderator Alice Santos.

In any medium, fashion is integral to character design. But it's arguably most important in comics, where time, space, era, status and more are often conveyed in a single panel. Explore how some of your fav illustrators choose which designs to weave in, and which to leave on the rack. Moderator Mae Weinstein (Founder of inklusion comics) is joined by Robyn Smith, Rebecca Mock, Dick Carroll and Lucie Bryon.

How do you craft a comic out of something that really happened? Where is the boundary between art and life? Ignatz Award-winning cartoonist Lauren Weinstein has grappled with these questions for 20 years, making comics about her life as a parent and most recently the lives of domestic violence survivors. In this talk with moderator Meg Lemke, she shows how to pick the stories that transcend the mundane: by keeping one's antenna up for serendipity.

A blazingly honest career-spanning conversation with Ho Che Anderson, who talks about making comics over the last 30 years, from his early erotic graphic novel, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," to, "Black Dogs," to the monumental Martin Luther King Jr. biography to the 1990s Milestone mini series to his latest multi-volume graphic novel, "Godhead." Anderson talks to Fantagraphics co-founder Gary Groth about the ups and downs, the rewards and setbacks of a life in comics.

Zines and minicomics exploded in the 1990s as copy shops proliferated across the country. With cheap, easy access to printing, artists and activists alike embraced the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) ethos. Moderator and zine expert Dr. Rachel Miller joins Ariel Bordeaux, Megan Kelso, Tom Hart and Jenny Zervakis, all of whom came up during the zine revolution of the 1990s, as they reflect back on how this radical era of self-publishing changed comics.

David Schilter is the co-publisher and editor of kuš, a revolutionary comics company located in Latvia. Moderator Rob Clough joins him and artists Lote Vilma, Matt Madden and Noah Van Sciver as they discuss their involvement with kuš and its international reach.

Join noise rock legend Thalia Zedek (E, Thalia Zedek Band, Come, Live Skull, UZI) and cartoonist/painter Leela Corman (Unterzakhn, We All Wish For Deadly Force "incredible human gut-punch" according to some) for an evening of music and comics joined together, to benefit Small Press Expo. Followed by a Q&A moderated by comics' secret weapon, the almighty Josh Bayer. Guaranteed to cleanse your eyes and ears.

Fabulism refers to a narrative style in which everything seems to make perfect sense until some kind of fantastic element is introduced. Moderator Rob Clough and panelists Daryl Seitchik, Rumi Hara, Gabrielle Bell and Kit Anderson explore the different ways they use absurd, fantastic, and dream imagery in their comics.

Moderator Alex Hoffman and fellow critics Rob Clough, Daniel Elkin and Jules Bakes host a special SPX edition of the podcast Enemies of the State, featuring special guest Megan Kelso, author of the new collection, "Who Will Make The Pancakes?" The panel explores in-depth questions regarding the comic, character design, and Kelso's fascination with history.

An insider look at what happens when Hollywood comes-a-knockin'. Join superstar Ronald Wimberly in conversation with Keith Knight about comics and Keith's television adaptation, Woke. The old man at the indie con breaks down his climb from obscure comic strip creator to obscure tv show creator.

Cartoonist Bianca Xunise (Six Chix, The Nib) and cartoonist & filmmaker James Spooner (Afro-Punk, The High Desert) engage in a wide ranging conversation.

In the long, storied tradition of political cartooning, most of its artists have been outsiders, commenting on the world of politics. With the rise of comics journalism, there are now cartoonists who have had the chance to report about politics and world events from the inside. Join moderator (and SPX Executive Director) Warren Bernard as he explores both perspectives with Ruben Bolling, Sofia Warren, Ally Shwed and Andy Warner.

Fukui Eiichi's Igaguri-Kun (1951-54) was one of the most popular and influential manga of the early post-World War II era. While helping to reignite a national craze for judo, it revolutionized both what was drawn in Japanese comics and how it was drawn, establishing for shonen manga an aesthetic and a moral raison d'être, seeding the genres of sports and martial arts manga, and pioneering the cinematic expressions that underwrote gekiga. Supporting the forthcoming English-language edition from Bubbles, this talk by translator and scholar Ryan Holmberg illuminates the alternative, post-Tezuka lineage that Igaguri-kun initiated in Japanese comics.

Nothing beautiful lasts forever, and after two decades of publishing a wide range of engaging, beautifully designed comics, boutique publishing juggernaut AdHouse Books is shutting down. Join moderator Andrew Neal, Sophie Goldstein, Kurt Ankeny, Max Huffman and the driving force behind AdHouse, Chris Pitzer, as they discuss what AdHouse has meant to them!

One of the most powerful things a cartoonist can do is not just create memorable characters, but also put them in situations that reveal their vulnerability and depict real intimacy between them. Moderator Dr. Craig Fisher explores this with Tommi Parrish, Elizabeth Pich, Katriona Chapman and Sophia Glock.

How do trans and non-binary cartoonists approach questions regarding gender identity in fantasy and fictional storytelling? Join moderator L.Nichols and panelists Andi Santagata, Bread Tarleton, Casey Nowak and Tommi Parrish as they discuss this and other issues with regard to storytelling.

Saturday, February 25, 2023

The Post drops Dilbert for cause

'Dilbert' dropped by The Post, other papers, after cartoonist's racist rant

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 2/24/23

'South Park' co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone

Doug Herzog and Jen Chaney

Basic! podcast February 22 2023:

https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS9lSUI4b0lnbw/episode/ZTMxMzlkNTQtNGViOS00MGJmLWFiMDktNWY1MjQ2OTQ3ZThj

 

South Park Creators: Comedy Central Tried to Kill Killing Kenny & More

On the Basic! podcast, South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone on Comedy Central trying to talk them out of always killing Kenny & more.

 22 Feb 2023  

by Ray Flook

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/south-park-creators-comedy-central-tried-to-kill-killing-kenny-more/

 

'South Park' Licensing Deal Sparks Lawsuit From Warner Bros. Discovery Against Paramount Global

The suit accuses Paramount of conspiring with a joint venture created by the show's creators to undermine a deal with WBD for the exclusive streaming rights to the series.

Winston Cho

February 24, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/south-park-lawsuit-warner-bros-paramount-1235333707/ 

 

'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' - Autumn Durald Arkapaw

Carolyn Giardina,

Behind The Screen JAN 16, 2023

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/black-panther-wakanda-forever-autumn-durald-arkapaw/id1437952572?i=1000594671844

 

Anxiety Part II: I could die because my language comprehension sucks

William L Brown

Native Cpeaker Feb 24 2023

https://nativecpeaker.substack.com/p/anxiety-part-ii

 

LOST UNIVERSES: An Inside Look  [superheroes, interview]
Scoop February 24 2023

https://scoop.previewsworld.com/Home/4/1/73/1019?ArticleID=266891

 

More Than Returnability in Boom Studios Guarantee 2.023 at ComicsPRO

by Rich Johnston

23 Feb 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/more-than-returnability-in-boom-studios-guarantee-2-023-at-comicspro/

 

Boom Studios Slashes Variant Cover Numbers By 15% At ComicsPRO

23 Feb 2023 

by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/boom-studios-slashes-variant-cover-numbers-by-15-at-comicspro/

 

ComicsPRO 2023: Boom!'s triumphant return and expansive Kickstarter

Heidi MacDonald

02/24/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/comicspro-2023-booms-triumphant-return-and-expansive-kickstarter/

 

BOOM! EXPANDS RETURNABILITY, Shipping Rebates Begin in March

 Milton Griepp on February 23, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53401/boom-expands-returnability

 

Off Panel #389: Comics Pro with Filip Sablik [BOOM!]

David Harper

Feb 20, 2023

https://sktchd.libsyn.com/off-panel-389-comics-pro-with-filip-sablik

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sktchd/Filip_Sablik_2023.mp3

 

Bill Schanes Returns To Comics As Oni Press Publishing Consultant

by Rich Johnston

 23 Feb 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/bill-schanes-returns-to-comics-as-oni-press-publishing-consultant/

 

PEOPLE ON THE MOVE: PETER STERN NAMED MANAGING EDITOR OF BAD IDEA; Former Retailer Anthony Militano Promoted to Director of Data & Operations

 Brigid Alverson on February 23, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53397/people-move-peter-stern-named-managing-editor-bad-idea

 

ICV2 ANNOUNCES DIRECT MARKET 50TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT

Year-Long Editorial Event Looks at the Core of Comics Culture

  ICv2 February 24, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53404/icv2-announces-direct-market-50th-anniversary-event

 

COMICS DIRECT MARKET 50TH ANNIVERSARY

Past, Present, and Future, Brought to You by ICv2

 Milton Griepp on February 24, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53403/comics-direct-market-50th-anniversary

 

PHIL SEULING: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE DIRECT MARKET

And Pioneered the Modern Comic Con

 Jim McLauchlin on February 24, 2023 

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53402/phil-seuling-the-man-who-invented-direct-market

 

Scott Says Some Silly Stuff [ Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams, racism]

D. D. Degg

Daily Cartoonist February 23 2023

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/02/23/scott-says-some-silly-stuff/

 

Fully Unhinged 'Dilbert' Guy Tells White People to 'Get the Fuck Away' From Black People [Scott Adams, racism].

Justin Baragona

Feb. 23, 2023
https://www.thedailybeast.com/dilbert-cartoonist-scott-adams-tells-white-people-to-get-the-fuck-away-from-black-people

 

ComicsPRO 2023: Mad Cave to publish Winx, Asterix #40 and more announcements

Heidi MacDonald

02/24/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/comicspro-2023-mad-cave-to-publish-winx-asterix-40-and-more-announcements/

 

Explore the Mystery of Time in Richard McGuire's Here (1989)

Scott Cederlund

From Cover to Cover Feb 23, 2023

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/here-1989-richard-mcguire/

 

I'll Smash Another Cup – This Week's Links

Clark Burscough | February 24, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/ill-smash-another-cup-this-weeks-links/

 

Rocketship Entertainment's Tom Akel Talks Bringing Webcomics to Print

By Nicole Audrey Spector 

Feb 17, 2023

A version of this article appeared in the 02/20/2023 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Bringing Webcomics to Print

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/91577-rocketship-entertainment-s-tom-akel-talks-bringing-webcomics-to-print.html

 

Tyler Crook Reflects on the First Arc of "The Lonesome Hunters"

By Mark Tweedale | February 20th, 2023
  http://www.multiversitycomics.com/interviews/tyler-crook-the-lonesome-hunters-1/

 

Benjamin Morse details new Zoop campaign for 'We Are Scarlet Twilight'

The story channels swashbuckling heroes and some novel new ideas.

Chris Coplan

February 21, 2023

https://aiptcomics.com/2023/02/21/we-are-scarlet-twilight-qa/

 

AI-created images lose U.S. copyrights in test for new technology

By Blake Brittain

REUTERS February 22 2023
https://www.reuters.com/legal/ai-created-images-lose-us-copyrights-test-new-technology-2023-02-22/

 

Re: Zarya of the Dawn (Registration # VAu001480196) [letter on AI copyright]
Robert J. Kasunic

United States Copyright Office  February 21, 2023

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/klpygnkyrpg/AI%20COPYRIGHT%20decision.pdf

 

AI-Created Images Aren't Protected By Copyright Law According To U.S. Copyright Office

Matt Novak

FOIA reporter and founder of Paleofuture.com, writing news and opinion on every aspect of technology.

Feb 22, 2023, https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/22/ai-created-images-in-new-comic-book-arent-protected-by-copyright-law-according-to-us-copyright-office/

 

Joe Rocco

secretsaucestudio.myportfolio.com

https://www.instagram.com/roccoplanet/

 

Joe Rocco's Inner Child

The Stranger's Artist of the Week

Corianton Hale

Feb 20, 2023 

https://www.thestranger.com/visual-art/2023/02/20/78868818/joe-roccos-inner-child

 

NPD Books: Comics and Graphic Novels Slowing in the States

 Porter Anderson
February 22, 2023

https://publishingperspectives.com/2023/02/npd-books-comics-and-graphic-novels-slowing-in-the-states/

 

"Enjoy Whatever You're Working on Now and Get it Out There" – John-Paul Kamath on Self-Publishing and the Landmark Tenth Issue of 'London Horror Comic'

by Andy Oliver

February 22, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/john-paul-kamath-london-horro-comic/

 

BRIAN BOLLAND Tells Us All About Making JUDGE DREDD Comics As We Look at His ORIGINAL ART!

Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg

Cartoonist Kayfabe

 Feb 19, 2023

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

 

Retroflect: Wasteland – An Appreciation of DC's Forgotten 1980s Horror Anthology Series

by Andy Oliver

February 17, 2023

https://www.brokenfrontier.com/wasteland-dc-comics-ostrander-close-lloyd-freeman/

 

Next To Godliness: Gerber's Foolkiller and the Irony of Vigilante Purity

February 17, 2023  

by Martyn Pedler

https://www.thegutterreview.com/next-to-godliness-marvel-comics-foolkiller-and-the-irony-of-vigilante-purity/

 

Jay Jackson's Audacious Comics

Written during World War II, Bungleton Green and the Mystic Commandos offered its readers a science-fiction epic that imagined a future liberated from racism and inequality.

By Jeet Heer

The Nation  February 23 2023

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/jay-jackson-comics/

 

Jonathan Hickman and Bryan Hitch are teaming up for a new Ultimate Marvel comic; Ultimate Invasion will tell a new story about The Maker and Miles Morales, two key characters from the once-influential imprint.

By Christian Holub

EW.com February 22, 2023 

https://ew.com/books/jonathan-hickman-bryan-hitch-new-ultimate-marvel-comic/

 

Companies turning to manga to communicate with employees

By SHIN MATSUURA

Asahi Shimbun February 18, 2023

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14828362

 

Leiji Matsumoto, known for antiwar anime, space tales, dies

By MARI YAMAGUCHI
February 20, 2023

https://apnews.com/article/animation-and-comics-obituaries-tv-japan-tokyo-e74ddec2cc5d2f9cf50031cea5ed33ce

 

Leiji Matsumoto, famed for 'Space Battleship Yamato' anime, dies at 85

by Kathleen Benoza

Feb 20, 2023

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/02/20/national/leiji-matsumoto-obituary/

 

Leiji Matsumoto, the Japanese creator of Captain Harlock, has died

World star of Japanese comics, the artist had managed to revive his career by collaborating with the music group Daft Punk. He died on February 13, aged 85.

By Pauline Croquet

February 20, 2023  https://www.lemonde.fr/en/obituaries/article/2023/02/20/leiji-matsumoto-the-japanese-creator-of-captain-harlock-has-died_6016590_15.html

 

Leiji Matsumoto surfs the floating world

BY TIM HORNYAK

SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES Apr 2, 2017

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/04/02/arts/leiji-matsumoto-surfs-floating-world/

 

Pig Gourd: the meaning of Tezuka's playing around with form

An Essay by Natsume Fusanosuke

Jon HoltTeppei Fukuda  (trans.)

Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 12 Feb 2023

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21504857.2023.2170438

https://doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2023.2170438

 

Reviews: W the Whore

Helen Chazan | February 21, 2023

https://www.tcj.com/reviews/w-the-whore/

 

W the Whore

Anke Feuchtenberger & Katrin de Vries, translated by Mark Nevins

New York Review Comics

 

The Daily Heller: In Turkey, Gürbüz's Art Responds to the Tragedy

By Steven Heller

February 15, 2023 

 The Daily Heller

https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-in-turkey-gurbuz/

 

Meet the African comic book heroes taking the world by storm [Marguerite Abouet]

Radio France Internationale (RFI) 19/02/2023
  Ollia Horton

 https://www.rfi.fr/en/culture/20230219-meet-the-african-comic-book-heroes-taking-the-world-by-storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxMxuKw4J34

 

Meet a Local Children's GN Writer: A Chat with Megan Wagner Lloyd

by Mike Rhode

ComicsDC blog February 24, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/02/meet-local-childrens-gn-writer-chatwMeganWagnerLloyd.html


The Entire Timeline of THE WALKING DEAD and Its Upcoming Spinoffs, Explained

by Tai Gooden

Feb 14 2023

https://nerdist.com/article/the-walking-dead-and-upcoming-spinoffs-entire-timeline-explained-by-season/

 

Two Caldecott Medal-Winning Illustrators Tell Their Own Stories

Dan Santat and the late Jerry Pinkney draw from life (literally) in their memoirs for young readers.

By David Small

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 26, 2023, Page 18 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: Life Drawing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/24/books/review/jerry-pinkney-dan-santat-graphic-memoirs.html

 

How I Became a Real New Yorker

By Pepita Sandwich

February 24, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/how-i-became-a-real-new-yorker

 

The Grinch Returns in First-Ever Sequel

By Sally Lodge

Feb 23, 2023

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-book-news/article/91604-the-grinch-returns-in-first-ever-sequel.html

 

DC Drama 'Dead Boy Detectives' Moves to Netflix From HBO Max (Exclusive)

Sources say the Greg Berlanti-produced drama didn't fit with the new chapter of content being spearheaded by DC executives James Gunn and Peter Safran.

Lesley Goldberg

February 24, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dead-boy-detectives-moves-netflix-from-hbo-max-1235318785/

 

Major Anime Series Available to Watch for Free, From NARUTO to SAILOR MOON

by Rotem Rusak

Feb 21 2023

https://nerdist.com/article/major-anime-series-available-to-stream-watch-for-free-on-youtube-from-viz-media-naruto-sailor-moon-death-note-and-more/

 

Jessica. 2020.

Let's meet Abby, Author of the "Cool Tokyo Guide".

Arigato Japan (December 23): https://arigatojapan.co.jp/lets-meet-abby-author-of-the-cool-tokyo-guide/

 

Mirestrand-Johansson, Ida. 2023.

Interview with Abby Denson, comic book artist and author.

Arigato Japan (February 4)): https://arigatojapan.co.jp/interview-with-abby-denson-comic-book-artist-and-author/

 

Persons, Dan. 2023.

"Zoom and Bored" Transports the Road Runner and Coyote to a Realm of Funhouse Physics.

Tor.com (February 22): https://www.tor.com/2023/02/22/zoom-and-bored-transports-the-road-runner-and-coyote-to-a-realm-of-funhouse-physics/