Pivoting from Comics, to Graphic Novels
When the pandemic hit, everything changed. For the better.
The Indirect Market March 27 2023
https://theindirectmarket.substack.com/p/pivoting-from-comics-to-graphic-novels
X-Men Monday #197 – Gerry Duggan Talks 'X-Men', 'Invincible Iron Man', and 'Uncanny Avengers'
March 27, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/27/x-men-monday-197-gerry-duggan-x-men-iron/
AIPT Comics Podcast episode 215: Ryan North talks the new and exciting in 'Fantastic Four' and 'Danger and Other Unknown Risks'
David Brooke and Nathan Simmons
March 26, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/26/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-215-ryan-north/
China Box Office: Makoto Shinkai's Anime Hit 'Suzume' Soars With $50M Opening
Japanese anime is earning more than ever in China, while U.S. superhero films are fumbling.
Patrick Brzeski
March 26, 2023
ICV2 INTERVIEW: RENATO FRANCHI ON CMON'S MOVE INTO COMICS
With 'Zombicide,' Dan Abnett on 'Twilight Imperium,' and More
Brigid Alverson on March 24, 2023 https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53681/icv2-interview-renato-franchi-cmons-move-into-comics
With courage and conviction: Jason Landsel talks 'By Water: The Felix Manz Story'
The first of three debut GNs debuts next week, March 21.
March 14, 2023
https://aiptcomics.com/2023/03/14/by-water-jason-landsel-qa/
INTERVIEW: Screenwriter Jase Ricci and producer/co-director Sam Liu explore Lovecraftian horror in BATMAN: THE DOOM THAT CAME TO GOTHAM
The Caped Crusader enters the mouth of madness in the latest DC animated film!
03/27/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-jace-ricci-sam-liu-batman-the-doom-that-came-to-gotham/
Considering Life on the Autism Spectrum Through Making an Auto/Biographical Comic
Assunta Alegiani (Berlin)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/alegiani/
Killing the Colorist? Künstlerische Arbeitsteilung im Produktionsprozess von Batman: The Killing Joke1
Helene L. Bongers (Berlin)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/bongers
Aging in/with Comics: Processes of Selection and Reflection
Lucia Cedeira Serantes (London, Ontario) and Nicole K. Dalmer (Hamilton, Ontario)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/serantes/dalmer and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_serantes_dalmer.pdf
Narrative des Erinnerns und Vergessens in Alzheimer-Comics
Naomi Lobnig (Wien)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/lobnig/ and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_lobnig.pdf
Grafische Erzählungen als Generationenporträt
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff im Gespräch mit Charlotte Müller über ihren Comic Ein Haus mit vielen Fenstern. Gesammelte Lebensgeschichten (2022)
Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff (Berlin), Charlotte Müller (Berlin)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/kr%C3%BCger-f%C3%BCrhoff/m%C3%BCller/ and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_kr%C3%BCger-f%C3%BCrhoff_mueller.pdf
The Boys intersektional und multimedial betrachtet
Age und Gender als machtkonstituierende Kategorien in Comicreihe und Serie1
Ruth Gehrmann (Mainz) und Lisa Brau-Weglinski (Mainz)
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/gehrmann/brau-weglinski and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure9/pdfs/closure9_gehrmann_brau-weglinski.pdf
Erinnerung (auf-)zeichnen: Biografische Graphic Novels lassen Opfer des NS-Regimes zu Wort kommen
Überleben in Dachau, Die Geschichte von Francine R. – Widerstand und Deportation und Bald sind wir wieder zu Hause rezensiert von Frank Kaltofen
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/kaltofen
Ein Handbuch, das seinen Namen verdient
Handbuch Polnische Comickulturen nach 1989 rezensiert von Bernd Dolle-Weinkauff
Closure (9 March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/dolle-weinkauff
From ›Comics‹ to ›Graphic Novels‹? The Journey is the Reward!
Dreaming the Graphic Novel. The Novelization of Comics reviewed by Kerstin Howaldt
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/howaldt
Messlatte mit Mic Drop: Chris Gavalers detailbesessene Bestandsaufnahme der Erzähl- und Bildtheorie des Comics
The Comics Form: The Art of Sequenced Images rezensiert von Lukas R. A. Wilde
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/wilde
Vor dem Vergessen gerettet
Rebirth of the English Comic Strip. A Kaleidoscope 1847-1870 rezensiert von Ole Frahm
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/frahm
Den Holocaust erinnern, erzählen und zeichnen: Ein Sammelband zu Holocaustcomics Beyond MAUS
Beyond MAUS. The Legacy of Holocaust Comics rezensiert von Deborah Fallis
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/fallis
Eigenlogik oder mediale Interdependenz?
Der Comic als Form. Bildsprache, Ästhetik, Narration rezensiert von Mara Stuhlfauth-Trabert und Florian Trabert
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/stuhlfauth-trabert/trabert
Auf den Punkt gebracht.
Kusama. Eine Graphic Novel rezensiert von Barbara M. Eggert
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/eggert
Wie kann ein postkolonialer Comic aussehen?
Widerstand. Drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun rezensiert von Robin Frisch
Closure (9; March 2023): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure9/frisch
Non-Narrative Comics: About this Issue
Cord-Christian Casper and Kerstin Howaldt
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/about and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_editorial_en.pdf
Nicht-narrative Comics: Über diese Ausgabe
Cord-Christian Casper and Kerstin Howaldt
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_editorial_de.pdf and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_baetens.pdf
Nonnarrative or Noncomics? (with some notes on Holz by Olivier Deprez and Roby Comblain)
Jan Baetens (Leuven)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/baetens and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_baetens.pdf
Closure
Gareth A Hopkins (Great Dunmow)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/hopkins1 and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_hopkins1.pdf
Process Comic
Gareth A Hopkins (Great Dunmow)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/hopkins2 and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data//img/closure8/Closure8_hopkins2.pdf
Waiting (2018) for the ›Good Life‹ with Adriana Lozano [Columbia]
Andrea Aramburú Villavisencio (Cambridge)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/arambur%C3%BA-villavisencio and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_aramburu-villavisencio.pdf
Quasi-Figuren: Im Grenzbereich der Körperlichkeit
Thierry Groensteen
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/groensteen and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_groensteen.pdf
Comics, Non-Narrativity, Non-Eventfulness: Three Examples From Brazil
Benjamim Picado (Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil), João Senna (Bahia Federal University, Bahia State, Brazil), Greice Schneider (Sergipe Federal University, Sergipe State, Brazil)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de//closure8/Picado_Senna_Schneider and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_picado_senna_schneider.pdf
Graphic Storytelling: Teaching Experience and Utility
Darren C. Fisher (Melbourne/Victoria)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/fisher and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_fisher.pdf
Never Judge a Book by Its Cover? Picturing the Interculturally Challenged Self in the Japanese Journals of European Comics Artists Dirk Schwieger, Inga Steinmetz, and Igort1
Barbara M. Eggert (Linz)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/eggert and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/Closure8_eggert.pdf
Rhetoric of Images: Emblematic Structures and Craig Thompson's Habibi
Julia Ingold (Bamberg)
Closure 8 (2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/ingold and https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/data/img/closure8/closure8_ingold.pdf
Comics and Archives: A Handy and Helpful Guide
Comics & Archive reviewed by Lynn L. Wolff
Closure (8; 2021): https://www.closure.uni-kiel.de/closure8/wolff
Comics & Archive
Felix Giesa and Anna Stemmann (Eds.)
Berlin: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag, 2021
Luci Gutiérrez's "Rise and Shine"
The artist discusses the first rays of spring sunlight, and the pleasures and challenges of routine. [Spain]
By Françoise Mouly
March 27, 2023
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cover-story/2023-04-03
27/3 Seaguy Week! Captain Lotharius
Grant Morrison.
Xanaduum March 27 2023 https://grantmorrison.substack.com/p/273-seaguy-week-captain-lotharius
Interview: Souls Go To 'Etheres' from Source Point Press [writer Anas Abdulhak]
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
PREVIEWSworld Mar 21, 2023
https://previewsworld.com/Article/266168-Interview-Souls-Go-To-Etheres-from-Source-Point-Press
Philippines 40th National Book Awards finalists announced
With this year's awards, the "Graphic Literature" category has been renamed "Graphic Novels and Comics" and split into two linguistic categories (English and Filipino).
Dean Simons
03/27/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/philippines-40th-national-book-awards-finalists-announced/
"Curbside dining in New York" [gag cartoon process]
Jason Chatfield
New York Cartoons #25, March 27 2023
https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/p/25-curbside-dining-in-new-york-1f2
A Sociocultural Oral History of Tits & Clits
Edward Dorey | March 27, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/a-sociocultural-oral-history-of-tits-clits/
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode twenty-eight | Meghan Fitzmartin, part two
Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan
March 27 2023
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/its-our-lot-in-life
Passion Project: 'Tinkersons' creator sticks with what he loves [Bill Bettwy]
Rachel Foor
Altoona Mirror Mar 27, 2023
https://www.altoonamirror.com/news/local-news/2023/03/passion-project/
Much-Anticipated Afrofuturism Exhibit Featuring Marvel's 'Black Panther' Suit Opens At NMAAHC
Matt Blitz
