ECCC 2023: An Interview With Steenz About That Washington Post Gig
WaPo and others level up, drop stale DILBERT strip for fresh HEART OF THE CITY
Heart Lamarr is ready to meet new fans.
03/09/2023
Heart Lamarr is ready to meet new fans.
03/09/2023
Kami Garcia on 'Teen Titans: Robin' | Interview
March 7, 2023 by Brigid Alverson
https://goodcomicsforkids.slj.com/2023/03/07/kami-garcia-on-teen-titans-robin-interview/
Diamond Addresses ComicsPRO Criticism Over Reduced Shipping Fees
Diamond Comic Distributors announced it will reduce shipping charges to comic book stores by 40% by this summer. but not everyone was happy.
7 Mar 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-addresses-comicspro-criticism-over-reduced-shipping-fees/
Marvel Gives PRH Retailers Spider-Man Info Denied to Diamond Stores
Dan Slott and Mark Bagley introduce a brand-new hero in Spider-Man #7, and Marvel let PRH comic stores know in time to order more.
7 Mar 2023
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/marvel-to-spoil-new-character-revelation-on-cover-of-spider-man-7/
Rodney Barnes Brings the Sauce on Demons, Vampires, and Aliens!
Blake's Buzz 57; Mar 6 2023
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5jHVU2I8yw63WYrViA9TZ3
TOKYOPOP TO BRING NOIR CAESAR ENTERTAINMENT LINE TO MARKET
Three Manga-Inspired Graphic Novels this Summer
Milton Griepp on March 8, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53512/tokyopop-bring-noir-caesar-entertainment-line-market
Big Screen, Bigger Dreams: PW Talks with Sammy Harkham
By Chris Burkhalter
Mar 03, 2023
A version of this article appeared in the 03/06/2023 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Big Screen, Bigger Dreams
The Tradition of Training Images in Manga
Natsume Fusanosuke | March 8, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/the-tradition-of-training-images-in-manga/
"Manga ni okeru shūgyō imēji no denshō"
From Natsume Fusanosuke, Moro Shigeki, Li Baohua, Ochi Hiroko, Nomura Hideto, Yamada Setsuko, Karada no bunka: shūgyō to shintaizō (Culture of Bodies: Training and Images of Bodies). Goyō Shobō: 2012.
Rachel Smythe, Creator of Lore Olympus, on Gods and Humanity
Episode 99
6th March 2023
INTERVIEW: Kimiko Glenn gets nutty in new Disney animated series KIFF
The acclaimed actress chats about voicing an optimistic squirrel!
03/08/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-kimiko-glenn-disney-animated-series-kiff/
Walt Disney Animation Studios Production Workers Launch Union Drive With IATSE
Katie Kilkenny
The Animation Guild is seeking to organize nearly 80 production coordinators, production managers and production supervisors, even as Disney looks to disqualify certain job titles from the effort.
Max Fleischer SUPERMAN shorts get remastered Blu-ray release
03/08/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/max-fleischer-superman-remastered-blu-ray-announced/
Artist Spotlight: Ronald Searle
Jason Chatfield
March 3, 2023
https://www.jasonchatfield.com/blog/artist-spotlight-ronald-searle
The Age of Monsters begins in new INCREDIBLE HULK title from Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Nic Klein
This June the Jade Giant takes on Marvel's most gruesome monsters!
Taimur Dar
03/08/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/incredible-hulk-phillip-kennedy-johnson-nic-klein-announced/
Bologna 2023: Sakana Sakatsuki's 'Planetarium Ghost Travel' Wins BolognaRagazzi Award for Comics
Teri Tan
Mar 08, 2023
Wally Fawkes obituary
Political cartoonist and jazz clarinettist who, using the pen name Trog, created the Flook strip
George Melly
Guardian March 7 2023
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/07/wally-fawkes-obituary
Sony Pictures Classics Picks Up Randall Park's Feature Directorial Debut 'Shortcomings'
Anthony D'Alessandro
March 7, 2023
https://deadline.com/2023/03/randall-park-shortcomings-sony-pictures-classics-sundance-1235281378/
Obituary: Ian Falconer
By Shannon Maughan
Mar 08, 2023
Remembering Ian Falconer, the New Yorker Artist and Author of the "Olivia" Books
Falconer won a Caldecott medal in 2001 and contributed more than thirty New Yorker covers.
By Françoise Mouly
March 7, 2023
How Marvel's Silver Surfer Met a Rock Guitar God
Joe Satriani's Surfing With The Alien album featured Marvel's Silver Surfer on its front cover. The legendary guitarist tells us how that came about.
By Tony Sokol | March 8, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/how-marvel-silver-surfer-met-rock-guitar-god/
Ep. 88: Under Ninja Vol. 1, by Kengo Hanazawa
February 24, 2023
https://www.mangasplaining.com/blog/ep-88-under-ninja-vol-1-by-kengo-hanazawa/
"March of Intellect" Cartoons (1828–29) [UK]
Public Domain Review ca. March 2023
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/march-of-the-intellect
My Claremont Year- February 2023
Days of Future Past establishes the story that Claremont told in Uncanny X-Men but it takes him a few years to realize that.
Scott Cederlund
Mar 8, 2023
https://www.fromcovertocover.com/my-claremont-year-february-2023/?ref=from-cover-to-cover-newsletter
Framing [in] Comics and Cartoons: Essays on Aesthetics, History, and Mediality
Johannes C.P. Schmid and Christian A. Bachmann (eds.)
Berlin: Christian A. Bachmann Verlag 2021
http://www.christian-bachmann.de/b_bn9.html
Johannes C.P. SCHMID/Christian A. BACHMANN
Framing [in] Comics: A Preface
Christina MEYER
»Enclosures for Looking«? Medial, Material, and Aesthetic Frames|Framings
Sebastian BARTOSCH
How To Not Freeze the Frames of Mediality: Looking Back at Old Comic Books
Lukas R.A. WILDE
Falling in Line: Framing 9/11 and the »War on Terror« in Editorial Cartoons
Johannes C.P. SCHMID
Framing Documentary Comics: Considering Prologues
Astrid BÖGER
»Things Are Different Now«: Re-Framing Australian Identity in Pat Grant's Blue
Roger SABIN
Framing pre-1914 British Comics
Christian A. BACHMANN
Panoptical Spaces: Cross-sections in Nineteenth-Century Visual Satire and Early Comics
Jeff Thoss
»Through the Proscenium Arch of the Comic Panel«: Intermedial Frames in Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland
Tobias YU-KIENER
Musée du Louvre: When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Three Problems With the Graphic Novel Le Ciel au-dessus du Louvre
Monika SCHMITZ-EMANS
Museum Comics: Drawn Reflections on Images and Image-Spaces, Framings and Transgressions
This June the Jade Giant takes on Marvel's most gruesome monsters!
To commemorate Herb Block's legacy, the Foundation awards the annual Herblock Prize for excellence in editorial cartooning. The Foundation created the Herblock Prize in 2004 to encourage editorial cartooning as an essential tool for preserving the rights of the American people through freedom of speech and the right of expression. Presented each spring at the Library of Congress, the prize is awarded by The Herb Block Foundation for distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous standard set by Herblock and is judged by a panel of outside experts.
Although the judges for the Herblock Prize always had a finalist chosen for the award, the finalist was not announced until the year 2011. The finalist in 2011 was Ann Telnaes for her portfolio of animated editorial cartoons. In 2012, The Herb Block Foundation announced that past, present, and future finalists of the Herblock Prize would receive a $5,000 after-tax award.
The winner receives a tax free $15,000 cash prize as well as a sterling silver Tiffany trophy.
As of May 2022, the Herblock Prize winner will now receive a tax free $20,000 cash award and the finalist will receive tax free $7,500 cash award.
In Memoriam: Dina Norlund (1995 – 2023) [Norway]
Oni Press Newsletter March 7 2023
Cartoonist Dina Norlund has died of cancer: The Norwegian cartoonist was only 27 years old.
03/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/cartoonist-dina-norlund-has-died-of-cancer/
Serieskaper Dina Norlund er død
27. feb. 2023
https://www.abcnyheter.no/nyheter/norge/2023/02/27/195906468/serieskaper-dina-norlund-er-dod
Up Close/ Krazy Kat / By Walker Mimms
A new volume of George Herriman's 'Krazy & lgnatz' strips enthralls and delights.
New York Times Book Review March 5 2023: 22-23
Scott Adams Returns With New Strip, Dilbert Reborn, Now With F-Words
A video showing Scott Adam's drawing the first two strips for his new strip, Dilbert Reborn, can be seen on his private livestream.
6 Mar 2023
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/scott-adams-returns-with-new-strip-dilbert-reborn-now-with-f-words/
ECCC'S DEBUT IN SEATTLE'S NEW CONVENTION CENTER SETS THE STAGE FOR THE SHOW'S RE-EMERGENCE AS A WEST COAST POWERHOUSE [Emerald City Comic Con]
Rob Salkowitz on March 6, 2023
Diamond announces 40% reduction in freight charges
The shipping cost reduction, announced at ComicsPRO, will take place over the course of the next five months.
03/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-announces-40-reduction-in-freight-charges/
The Indirect Market: Diamond's Reduced Shipping is Too Little, Too Late
...and possibly even worrying.
Brandon Schatz & Danica LeBlanc
03/07/2023
https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-indirect-market-diamonds-reduced-shipping-is-too-little-too-late/
Hi, we're John Lees and Adam Cahoon, writer and artist of The Nasty, a horror comedy releasing on April 5th from Vault Comics, and we're here to talk about comics, telling stories, the joy of horror, and video nasties. AMA!
John Lees and Adam Cahoon
I Am A, where the mundane becomes fascinating and the outrageous suddenly seems normal.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/11ei8qv/hi_were_john_lees_and_adam_cahoon_writer_and/
Interview with Declan Shalvey, Creator of Image Comics Old Dog and Time Before Time
Feb 28, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdPKVjHT4Bw
Interview with Jason Douglas | Ringo Nominated Writer | Parallel | Source Point Press
Feb 7, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTFSJMTpf9s
Dean Haspiel's Latest Covid Cop
March 6 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXXi7rVBSzk
March 7, 2023 by Gil Roth
Episode 529 – Dean Haspiel
http://chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-529-dean-haspiel
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/virtualmemories/Episode_529_-_Dean_Haspiel.mp3
Vs Dean Haspiel, round 2
George O'Connor and Reilly Brown
Hypothetical Island Podcast March 7 2023
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0rBMxPVXn1sDUzjGZPVWAR
Gary Varvel Keynotes GOP Dinner
Daily Cartoonist March 7 2023
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/03/07/gary-varvel-keynotes-gop-dinner/
Jon Bernthal Returning as The Punisher for 'Daredevil: Born Again'
Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio are already on board to reprise their characters from the Netflix version of the show.
By Borys Kit, Aaron Couch
March 7, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-born-again-casts-jon-bernthal-punisher-1235342229/
Bruce Vaughn Returns to Disney as Co-Lead of Imagineering Division
The exec is back as chief creative officer alongside Barbara Bouza, president of Walt Disney Imagineering.
Caitlin Huston
March 7, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/bruce-vaughn-disney-imagineering-1235342911/
Arlington Reads Launches New Author Series, 'Get Graphic'
Published on March 06, 2023
Behind Spotify's Growing DC Comics Audioverse
Even as the tech giant gets more selective about its big swing originals, the company — like the rest of Hollywood — is leaning into franchises, and Harley Quinn fits the bill.
J. Clara Chan
March 7, 2023
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/spotify-dc-comics-harley-quinn-joker-1235343386/
Conservatives Gary McCoy and Rivers – Drawing Amongst Liberals
Caglecast March 7 2023
https://darylcagle.com/2023/03/07/conservatives-gary-mccoy-and-rivers-drawing-amongst-liberals/
https://podcast.cagle.com/caglecast/caglecast_s01_e08_conservative_mccoy_and_rivers.mp4
'My Neighbour Totoro' Dominates Olivier Award Nominations
By Alex Marshall
A version of this article appears in print on March 1, 2023, Section C, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: 'My Neighbour Totoro' Leads Olivier Nominations.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/theater/oliver-noimnations-2023.html
Interview: Mark Russell on NOT ALL ROBOTS, Toxic Masculinity, & Self-Worth
Jed W. Keith
Feb 28, 2023
http://www.freaksugar.com/interview-mark-russell-on-not-all-robots-toxic-masculinity-self-worth/
Brian Michael Bendis Tells All About His Role in Failed Spider-Man Musical
The comics author and co-creator of Miles Morales offers an exclusive first look at his new autobiographical graphic novel 'Fortune and Glory: The Musical!' which tells the tale of his time on the notorious 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' Broadway musical.
Borys Kit
March 6, 2023
Reviews: I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future
Tim Hayes | March 1, 2023
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/i-am-the-law-how-judge-dredd-predicted-our-future/
Mark Ruffalo Reveals Hulk's Original Role in Avengers: Infinity War Climax
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo changed their Hulk plans while shooting Avengers: Infinity War. For Mark Ruffalo, that's the magic of Marvel movie-making.
By Joe George | March 7, 2023
'Hendrix' Interview: Requiem For A Rock God!
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Feb 28, 2023
https://previewsworld.com/Article/267087-Hendrix-Interview-Requiem-For-A-Rock-God
Interview by Troy-Jeffrey Allen
Feb 28, 2023
https://previewsworld.com/Article/267087-Hendrix-Interview-Requiem-For-A-Rock-God
Published on March 06, 2023
Arlington Public Library's long-running signature author talk program Arlington Reads turns the page to the next chapter with "Get Graphic."
The year-long series features a diverse lineup of five award-winning and New York Times bestselling graphic novel authors: Alison Bechdel (Mar. 9), Jerry Craft (Apr. 27), Gene Luen Yang (May 4), Art Spiegelman (Sep. 21) and Liana Finck (Oct. 19).
"The program brings together people to talk about books and the important topics of our time," said Library Director Diane Kresh.
These authors focus on a character's experiences intersected with social commentary, history, identity and self-discovery, using the graphic novel format to challenge our societal norms and invite us to discover uncomfortable truths and new ways of seeing.
Alison Bechdel - Thursday, March 9, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Library Director Diane Kresh will lead a conversation with Alison Bechdel, author of "Fun Home." Bechdel will share insights about her long career as an American cartoonist.
In Bechdel's autobiography, the author and cartoonist combines two genres — comics and memoir — to illustrate a lush and intimate story about a daughter trying to understand her father through the common and unspoken bond of their homosexuality.
Arlington Reads attendees (virtual and in-person) will have the chance to win a free pair of tickets, courtesy of Studio Theatre, to attend a live performance of the musical adaptation of Fun Home later this year.
Jerry Craft - Thursday, April 27, 6 - 8 p.m.
Library Division Chief Peter Petruski will interview Jerry Craft and discuss his graphic novel "New Kid" which tells the story of a young black child who tries to fit in at a new private school that is lacking in diversity. Craft's heartbreakingly accurate middle-grade tale is a coming-of-age story layered with race, class and the quest for self-identity.
Gene Luen Yang - Thursday, May 4, 6 - 8 p.m.
Librarian Jennifer Santure will interview Gene Luen Yang. Yang takes on prejudices toward Asian Americans in his action-packed, modern fable "American Born Chinese," which tells the story of Jin Wang who moves to a new neighborhood with his family only to discover that he is the only Chinese-American student at his new school. "American Born Chinese" was adapted into a Disney+ show, scheduled for release this year.
"Get Graphic" continues in September as it invites audiences to better understand the horrors of the Holocaust, survival and to re-imagine the world from a women's perspective.
Art Spiegelman – Thursday, Sep. 21, 2023
In "Maus," world-renowned illustrator and graphic novelist Art Spiegelman interviews his father about his chilling experiences as a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor drawing Jews as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Spiegelman blends the stories of the author's trying relationship with his aging father and a horrifying tale of Auschwitz, as seen through his father's eyes. An astonishing account of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies and a story of survival and the legacy of trauma.
Liana Finck – Thursday, Oct. 19
Liana Finck's graphic novel "Let There Be Light" is both a work of biblical interpretation in comic book format and reimagines the world from a woman's perspective. Finck retells the Book of Genesis starring a woman as God and proves that old stories can live forever, whether as ancient scripture or as a series of profound and enchanting cartoons looking for humanity.
For all programs, Graphic Novels will be available for purchase during the event, courtesy of One More Page Books. The conversation will be followed by an audience Q&A and book signing. The free events will be livestreamed and available as a recording for 30 days on Arlington County's YouTube channel; RSVP to receive the online link.
Since its inception in 2006, Arlington Reads has featured both national and international fiction and nonfiction authors and cultural icons, such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Wendell Berry, Katherine Boo, Matthew Desmond, Anthony Doerr, Richard Ford, Roxane Gay, Colum McCann, Tim O'Brien, Ann Patchett, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Elizabeth Strout, Zadie Smith and Colson Whitehead.
Arlington Reads is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Friends of the Arlington Public Library.
Steve Ditko, comic book artist
The Awesome Shannon Wheeler Newsletter March 4 2023
https://shannonwheeler.substack.com/p/steve-ditko
The Sandman: Neil Gaiman Pitches Perfect Delirium Fancasting Idea
With so much fancasting going on, Neil Gaiman may have come up with the perfect way to decide who will play Delirium in Netflix's The Sandman.
4 Mar 2023
by Ray Flook
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/the-sandman-neil-gaiman-pitches-perfect-delirium-fancasting-idea/
ICV2 INTERVIEW: MATT LEHMAN AND DAN PALOMARES OF COMICOPIA
Retailers Talk About Ordering and Selling Manga
Brigid Alverson on March 3, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53482/icv2-interview-matt-lehman-dan-palomares-comicopia
SUCCESSFUL MANGA RETAILING IN A 'COMIC BOOKSTORE'
We Profile Boston's Comicopia
Milton Griepp on March 13, 2015
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/31078/successful-manga-retailing-comic-bookstore
COMICSPRO HOLDS ELECTION, Elects New Board Members
Milton Griepp on March 3, 2023
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/53480/comicspro-holds-election
Incel Supernova: From a Single Comic Strip to the End of the Universe with Scott Adams
Abhay Khosla | March 6, 2023
The following essay was originally published in The Comics Journal #306 (Summer-Fall 2020).
The Scott Adams controversy shows how pollsters are leveraging white racial insecurity, says columnist
Philip Bump
Day 6 (March 3, 2023): https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-14-day-6/clip/15970022-the-scott-adams-controversy-shows-pollsters-leveraging-white
Cartoonists criticize 'Dilbert' creator over racist remarks
By MARK KENNEDY
Associated Press March 5 2023
https://apnews.com/article/dilbert-scott-adams-cartoonists-respond-109cb1a6dea03e931e2e6e3814bc743a
The bewildering descent of Scott Adams and 'Dilbert'
'I shook the box intentionally,' Scott Adams told The Post about the comments that prompted newspapers to drop his comic strip
By Michael Cavna and Samantha Chery
Washington Post
March 6, 2023
https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2023/03/06/scott-adams-dilbert-cartoon-controversy/
Mattel Will Form Its Own Publishing Imprint
By Karen Raugust
Mar 06, 2023
Alamogordo Proud It is All About the Fashion Spotlight Alamogordo Artisan Linda Swenson [Katy Keene]
Chris Edwards
AlamogordoTownNews.com March 2 2023
Comics Retailers Navigate a New Normal
By David Harper
Mar 03, 2023
A version of this article appeared in the 03/06/2023 issue of Publishers Weekly under the headline: Comics Retailers Navigate a New Normal
King Features hires former AMU exec John Glynn
Alan Gardner
Daily Cartoonist March 6 2023
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/03/06/king-features-hires-former-amu-exec-john-glynn/
"Pizza With All the X-Tras": The Story Behind the X-Men x Pizza Hut Promotion, 30 Years Later [licensing]
By David Harper
February 28, 2023
Arrowverse co-creator Marc Guggenheim laments James Gunn's apathy toward The CW's superhero shows
One of the architects of the Crisis On Infinite Earths adaptation says it hasn't led to any other gigs
Sam Barsanti
AV Club March 6 2023
https://www.avclub.com/arrowverse-marc-guggenheim-apathy-james-gunn-1850194720
NO GOOD DEED... [Arrowverse tv shows]
LegalDispatch 0.47
Marc Guggenheim
Feb 3 2023
https://marcguggenheim.substack.com/p/no-good-deed
Arrowverse Co-Creator Breaks Silence on DC Snub
Arrowverse producer and co-creator Marc Guggenheim knows that the DC live-action universe spearheaded by James Gunn is moving on without him. And he's not happy about it.
By Joe George | March 6, 2023
https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/arrowverse-co-creator-breaks-silence-on-dc-snub/
The Dead and the Dying in The Human Target #12
The Human Target #12 is about saying goodbye without letting go.
Scott Cederlund
From Cover to Cover March 3, 2023
https://www.fromcovertocover.com/human-target-12-by-tom-king-and-greg-smallwood/
If anlitar serietecknare för att skapa en mer jämställd HLR-affisch [Moa Romanova; Sweden; CPR educational poster]
Sak & Liv 6 mars, 2023
Gunnar Loxdal
https://sakochliv.se/?p=77814?temp_key=Yj6i1GoRMVFtLDI
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode twenty-five | Frank Barbiere, part one
Matthew Rosenberg, Ethan S. Parker, and Griffin Sheridan
Mar 6 2023
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/yes-sir