Friday, December 29, 2023

WaPo's contract cartoonist Michael de Adder receives Order of Canada

Congratulations to Michael, and thanks to JTH Connor for the tip.

News and video are here:

'Incredibly honoured': Maritime cartoonist Michael de Adder appointed to the Order of Canada

CTVNewsAtlantic.ca Digital Coordinator

Dec. 29, 2023

https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/incredibly-honoured-maritime-cartoonist-michael-de-adder-appointed-to-the-order-of-canada-1.6704424

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/28/2023

Cavna and Betancourt Accept WaPo Buyout

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/28/cavna-and-betancourt-accept-wapo-buyout/

Hannah Good to edit comics pages & Daily Cartoonist adds to WaPo buyout news

Mike Rhode

December 28, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/12/hannah-good-to-edit-comics-pages-daily.html

Is This the Endgame for the Age of Heroes? [movies]

By Maya Phillips

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 31, 2023, Section AR, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: It's a Herculean Task to Keep Up in the Age of Heroes.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/movies/superhero-fatigue-marvel.html

After The Marvels and Aquaman 2, Can Deadpool 3 and Joker 2 Save Superhero Movies?

By David Crow | December 28, 2023

https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/the-marvels-aquaman-2-can-deadpool-3-save-superhero-movies

Zits Original Art Auction January 4, 2024

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/27/zits-original-art-auction-january-4-2024/

CAROL KALISH, A 'GREAT FORCE FOR THE COMICS INDUSTRY'

The Right Person in the Right Place at the Right Time

Brigid Alverson on December 27, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55902/carol-kalish-great-force-comics-industry

"Big Nemo" from "Electricomics" by Alan Moore and Colleen Doran

Colleen Doran

Apr 16, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu6W71yBk0U

Adam Zyglis Cartoon Riles Jewish Community

D. D. Degg

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/28/adam-zyglis-cartoon-riles-jewish-community/

Jewish community angry over Zyglis cartoon

Rabbi calls on Buffalo News to take swift action

By WBEN.com Newsroom

December 27 2023

https://www.audacy.com/wben/news/local/jewish-community-angry-over-zyglis-cartoon

Things I Thought Made Sense Just Don't Anymore [comics journalism]

Dec. 28, 2023

By Mira Jacob

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/opinion/love-rage-evolution-pandemic.html

The Ten Best Selling Comics In Comic Stores Of 2023

These are the top ten-selling comic books in comic book stores in 2023. As compiled by around 150 comic book shops and provided by ComicHub,

by Rich Johnston

27 Dec 2023

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/the-ten-best-selling-comics-in-comic-shops-of-2023/

'Birds of Prey,' 'Transformers,' 'I Am Stan' and More: Heat Vision's Best Comics of 2023

Borys Kit

December 27, 2023

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/the-best-comic-books-graphic-novels-2023-1235768943/

The Marvel Rundown: The Top 10 Best Marvel Comics of 2023

12/27/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-marvel-rundown-the-top-10-best-marvel-comics-of-2023/

Did The DC Universe Get COVID-19 After All? Marvel Comics Didn't…

It was already revealed in Fantastic Four that the Marvel Comics Universe, that they dodged the coronavirus pandemic. But what about DC?

27 Dec 2023

by Rich Johnston

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/did-the-dc-universe-get-covid-19-after-all-marvel-comics-didnt/

The Empire of the Tiny Onion

SKTCHDxTINYONION: Final Thoughts Heading Into 2024

James Tynion IV and David Harper

Dec 28, 2023

https://jamestynioniv.substack.com/p/sktchdxtinyonion-final-thoughts-heading

McClintock, Pamela. 2023.

You Never Saw My … Brilliant Star-Studded Marketing Blitz [Paw Patrol].

Hollywood Reporter (December 15, online December 28): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/brilliant-star-studded-paw-patrol-marketing-blitz-1235761807/

Couch, Aaron. 2023.

You Never Saw Our … 'Gen V' Comic-Con Panel.

Hollywood Reporter (December 15, online December 28): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/the-boys-gen-v-comic-con-panel-1235761894/

Best TV Episodes of 2023 [Bob's Burgers; Carol & the End of the World; Extraordinary]

By James Poniewozik, Mike Hale and Margaret Lyons

A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 27, 2023, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: (Some of) the Best TV Episodes of 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/arts/television/best-tv-episodes-of-2023.html

Across the Moominverse: Small books bearing great burdens, the Moomins contain the whole arsenal of Western literature.

Frances Wilson

New York Review of Books January 18, 2024

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2024/01/18/across-the-moominverse-tove-jansson/

Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words

by Boel Westin, translated from the Swedish by Silvester Mazzarella

Minnesota University Press, 523 pp., $29.95 (to be published in the US in March)

COMICS AND GRAPHIC MEDICINE AS A THIRD SPACE FOR THE HEALTH HUMANITIES

Susan Squier

Chapter 9, from Routledge Companion to the Health Humanities, eds. Paul Crawford, Brian Brown, and Andrea Charise.

Routledge 2020

online at https://www.academia.edu/43265079/9_COMICS_AND_GRAPHIC_MEDICINE_AS_A_THIRD_SPACE_FOR_THE_HEALTH_HUMANITIES

Comics as a Nexus of Cultures

Essays on the Interplay of Media, Disciplines and International Perspectives

Edited by

MARK BERNINGER, JOCHEN ECKE and GIDEON H ABERKORN

McFarland, 2010

1.Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Jochen Ecke

2.The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies? . . . .. . . . . . .21

Andreas Rauscher

3.From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redeﬁning Superheroes in Post–9/11 Hollywood . . . . . . . . .33

Dan A. Hassler-Forest

4."Picture This": Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet . . . . . . .45

Jonas Engelmann

5.Novel-Based Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .60

Paul Ferstl

6.In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism . . .70

Dirk Vanderbeke

INTERNATIONAL

7.The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition . . . . . .85

Michel Hardy-Vallée

8.The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel's Karl Comics . . . . .99

Sandra Martina Schwab

9.Cultural Speciﬁcs of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie . . . . . .108

Anne Hoyer

10.Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy . . . . . .116

Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert

11.Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics . . . .. . . . . . . . .127

Georg Drennig

12.

2000AD: Understanding the "British Invasion" of American Comics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .140

Ben Little

13.Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153

Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood

14.A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164

Meral Özçınar

15.From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero . . . . . . . . .175

Suchitra Mathur

16.The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga . . . . . . .187

Holger Briel

17.

Kawaii vs. Rorikon:The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .211

Dinah Zank

18.Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground . .. . . . . . . . . . . .223

Paul M. Malone

19.Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies . . . . . .237

Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn

20.Workshop II: Comics in School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .245

Mark Berninger

21.Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies—Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' "A Midsummer Night's Dream" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .253

Mark Berninger

22.Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies— Ang Lee's The Hulk (USA 2003) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .265

Andreas Rauscher

23.Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching . . .. . . . . . . . . . .274

Christina Sanchez

This Arlington librarian is pushing back against book bans

By Clarence Williams

December 27, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/27/diane-kresh-librarian-arlington-book-bans/

free to read link: https://wapo.st/41FSG0P

Thursday, December 28, 2023

KAL's animated card for the Hay-Adams Hotel

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/fNy4YMbZuv5ckCHb/?mibextid=I6gGtw

Arlington's head librarian Diane Kresh profiled in WaPo

This Arlington librarian is pushing back against book bans

By Clarence Williams

December 27, 2023

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/27/diane-kresh-librarian-arlington-book-bans/

free to read link: https://wapo.st/41FSG0P

Jan 5: Upcoming exhibition at Dwightmess Comics & Cartooning gallery in Silver Spring

Upcoming Illustration Exhibition, "Devour Hour" Features Bizarre Drawings & Paintings of Corcoran Graduate Nami Oshiro ::::

We are proud to announce our first exhibition of 2024, "Devour Hour," a selection of color paintings and black & white ink drawings by emerging Washington, D.C. area-based artist Nami Oshiro!

In her art, Oshiro uses storytelling informed by her Ryukyan background and her upbringing in California and Florida as a Jehovah's Witness to craft ambiguous, unsettling narratives with a doomsday tinge. Additionally, these lyrical and sometimes humorous narratives are given voice through her self-published comics, which meditate on her family heritage and relationship to Japanese culture as an Okinawan.

Oshiro earned her Bachelor's of Fine Art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2012, and has exhibited her work in the region widely, including Foundry Gallery (DC), Workhorse Arts Center (VA), Rhizome DC, Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery (DC), and Art Enables (DC). She was awarded an Arts Bank Grant by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2023 and also teaches comics.

Additional Info: Copies of Oshiro's minicomics "Mama's Epilogue" & "Fart Stories" will be for sale during the exhibition.

"Devour Hour" | January 5 - January 31, 2024
DWIGHTMESS Cartooning & Comic Arts
805 Silver Spring Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910 [entrance on Ripley Street]

******Opening Reception: Friday, Jan. 5, 7-9pm
Light refreshments & beverages served; Artist will be present.
Gallery Hours: By Event & Appointment. Contact adam@dwightmess.com to schedule a viewing.

Oshiro will be the Featured Artist in the January edition of our newsletter :: Subscribe at http://thegraffobroadsheet.substack.com

See more about Oshiro: http://namioshiro.com

******Hope to see you at our first opening for 2024!!

Third Eye Comics Annapolis is hiring

Hey Third Eye Faithful!

We are looking to hire TWO more team members for our new addition to Third Eye Annapolis, THIRD EYE

EMAIL YOUR RESUME TO HIRING@THIRDEYECOMICS.COM IF INTERESTED IN ANY OF THE POSITIONS ABOVE!

PLEASE STATE THE LOCATION YOU ARE INTERESTED AT WORKING AT IN THE SUBJECT OF YOUR EMAIL!

Interested in positions at other locations? Click here to stay up to date with which locations are currently hiring!

POSITION INFO!

PART-TIME SALES ASSOCIATE: 25-30 HOURS PER WEEK

FULL-TIME SALES ASSOCIATE: 40 HOURS PER WEEK

FOR INFO ON HEALTH CARE, EMPLOYEE DISCOUNT, RETIREMENT BENEFITS, PAYRATE & MORE, PLEASE INQUIRE WHEN SUBMITTING YOUR RESUME TO HIRING@THIRDEYECOMICS.COM

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR!

Solid availability for 8-10 hour shifts!
Friendly & outgoing - great people skills are a must! :)
Excited to learn new things & great at asking questions!
Organizational skills for task-related work
Retail experience or service industry experience (waiting tables, bartending, etc) is a plus, but not required!

AND, FOR THE EXTRA CREDIT!

BONUS POINTS - not essential, but please let us know if these apply! :)

PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Tabletop games & other items we'd normally sell at Third Eye Games!
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: Music! Two of these positions will be for our department that works a lot with vinyl records, and an enthusiasm for good tunes will come in handy!
PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE: General knowledge of other products we carry, like comic books, graphic novels, manga, and more!

We know Third Eye carries a TON of stuff, and it's hard to know everything about everything we carry, so don't feel intimidated by that - just let us know the stuff we do carry that you really love the most! :)

If you have already submitted your resume prior, please do so again, as we get many resumes daily, and it's always good to have a fresh one handy!

Interested? Please email your resume to hiring@thirdeyecomics.com

Beyond Comics really, really wants subscribers to buy the books they ordered

They sent this message out to their entire email list today. I don't actually subscribe from them though. While I'm pointing out their use of a blast email to everyone, this is a serious problem for small businesses like comic book stores that operate on thin margins. If you've ordered it, pay for it and don't ghost your store.

Please Catch-up on your Subscriptions at Beyond Comics!

A Message for Our Delinquent Subscribers!

It is the end of another amazing year here at Beyond Comics.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your support for our small business, and as always, we greatly appreciate your patronage and friendship.

However, as often happens, some of our customers end up falling behind in their subscription purchases. This year we are utilizing all our available contact methods to make sure everyone has had the opportunity to catch up on their subscriptions, so they do not miss the comics they wanted.

For those of you who fell behind, please make the time to visit our store to catch up on the comics we have ordered and held for you prior to the end of the year as we will be doing a major purge of delinquent subs at that point.

If you are unable to make it into the store, you may pay for your comics online (with the login info you were provided when you signed up) at:

https://customer.comichub.com/

If for any reason you are not able to make it in, please contact us directly.

Frederick: (301) 668-8202

Gaithersburg: (301) 216-0007

If you are one of the majority of our customers who is caught up then please disregard this message.

Thank you,

Beyond Comics

Hannah Good to edit comics pages & Daily Cartoonist adds to WaPo buyout news

Michael Cavna tells me that Hannah Good is staying at the Post and will be taking over David Betancourt's comics page editing duties. She's been good for the WaPo's cartoon journalism this past year, so I'm very glad she's staying.

Here's her Post page info:

Hannah Good

Washington, D.C.

Education: Western Kentucky University, BA in English

Hannah Good is a Designer curating comics journalism and illustrated reporting with teams around the newsroom. She's also an illustrator and comic artist who has worked with HarperCollins Publishers, Apple TV+, Barnes and Noble and the BLINK art festival. Previously, she was an Opportunity Fellow on the Next Generation Audience Development team focused on comics and a social producer and comics editor for The Lily. Before joining The Post, she was a social media producer at Washingtonian Magazine. She's a proud graduate of Western Kentucky University, where she was editor-in-chief of the Talisman magazine.

In the meantime, DD Degg has dug deeper into the WaPo's latest "shrinking to greatness" moment so I don't have to.

But for the record, of the Style and Metro staff, my current tally of departures is: Cavna, Betancourt, exhibit reviewer Marc Fisher, media reporter Paul Farhi, theater critic Peter Marks and Metro's John Kelly and Courtland Milloy. Editors Jeff Leen, Sydney Trent and Lynda Robinson are going. Hank Stuever is staying as an editor for Style. As I've noted to a few people, owner Jeff Bezos could literally pay everyone in America to write for the paper without really noticing.

Updated: My friend Lisa's colleague Ann Maloney is also leaving the Food section.

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/27/2023

CBS updates its iconic "Season's Greetings" animation [R.O. Blechman]

Anthony Mason

CBS Mornings

Dec 23, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQZMIyGEz60

WB Live With Paul Jenkins

wordballoon Decenber 27 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3_6_AQMk-g

Knights and Ninjas: Using History to Design to Your Characters with Chris Schweitzer

CXC Festival

Dec 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u80vyqUuDE

#144: Ryan Cady and Andrea Mutti - Haunt You To The End

Justin Soderberg

Capes and Tights

Dec 27, 2023 Capes and Tights Podcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT8F4_y4fzA

Joshua Williamson presents DUKE issue one! [G.I. Joe]

Joshua Williamson

Forbidden Planet TV

Dec 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXosYz0stic

Dave Gibbons' Christmas Day Message 2023!

Andrew Sumne

Forbidden Planet TV

Dec 25, 2023

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

Life Studied Episode 5: What should this look like?

Mike Hawthorne

Nov 9, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7W0x2fSIjQ

Batman 140 Digital inking demo

Mike Hawthorne

Dec 27, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4nWtqw5kVw

ICV2 INTERVIEW: LARRY CHARET OF LARRY'S COMIC BOOK STORE

Early Chicago Comics Retailer, Co-Founder of Chicago Comicon

Brigid Alverson on December 27, 2023

https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/55895/icv2-interview-larry-charet-larrys-comic-book-store

CSotD: Corrections, Clarifications & Road Apples [honesty in editorial cartoons]

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2023/12/27/csotd-corrections-clarifications-road-apples/

Jerry Buckley cartoon donated to Library of Congress

December 27, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/12/jerry-buckley-cartoon-donated-to.html

DC Round-Up: The 10 Best DC Comics of 2023

Beat Staff

12/26/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/dc-round-up-the-10-best-dc-comics-of-2023/

Tilting at Windmills #296: We're One Success Away From Saving Comics

What can reverse the decline of the periodical?

By Brian Hibbs

12/27/2023

https://www.comicsbeat.com/tilting-at-windmills-296-were-one-success-away-from-saving-comics/

Edmonton comic creator makes the CBC Books list for Best Canadian Comics of 2023

The Cree folklore-inspired graphic novel Bad Medicine also made the long list for Canada Reads 2024.

Ishita Verma · CBC News Dec 25, 2023

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-comic-cbc-books-1.7066812

Sousa, Erin. 2023.

Bad Medicine by Edmonton's Christopher Twin makes it to CBC Books' list of best comics.

CBC News Edmonton AM (December): https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-comic-cbc-books-1.7066812

Marvel opens 2nd 'What If...?' season with episode in almost entirely Mohawk language

Ava Pukatch

All Things Considered December 27, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221890957/marvel-opens-2nd-what-if-season-with-episode-in-almost-entirely-mohawk-language

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/12/20231227_atc_marvel_native_american.mp3

WaPo loses all writers about comics as Cavna and Betancourt depart

Mike Rhode

December 27, 2023

https://comicsdc.blogspot.com/2023/12/wapo-loses-all-writers-about-comics.html

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

WaPo loses all writers about comics as Cavna and Betancourt depart

Michael Cavna just confirmed to me that both he and David Betancourt are taking the Post buyout offer, and there will be no specialists on comics on the staff now.

Here's their staff bio pages before they disappear.

Michael Cavna

Washington, D.C.

Covering visual culture and storytelling: comedy/satire, graphic and comic art/illustration and animation.

Education: University of California, San Diego, Literature/Writing

Writer-artist-recovering-syndicated-cartoonist Michael Cavna is a man of many hyphenates. His articles on visual artists and comic art/illustration have been honored by the Sigma Delta Chi Awards, the National Headliner Awards and the international Harvey Awards. Cavna is creator of The Post's Comic Riffs online column, which has twice been named the best newspaper blog in the country by the Society for Features Journalism. A San Francisco native and University of California at San Diego graduate, Cavna wrote the main text for the Eisner Award-nominated anthology book "Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's." Cavna's "Wise Up" cartoon launched the viral #Draw4Atena campaign in 2015 on behalf of jailed Iranian artist Atena Farghadani. He is also emcee and co-programmer of the Library of Congress/National Book Festival's Graphic Novel Pavilion. "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz once told Cavna at a black-tie awards dinner: "You do funny things"; to this day, he does not know for sure whether Schulz was referring to Cavna's syndicated comic "Warped" (Andrews McMeel) or to his tragically askew cummerbund.

Honors and Awards: National Headliner Award, writing/illustration, 2017, 2019 & 2021 ; Ink Bottle Award, Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, 2023; Eisner Award finalist, journalism, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2021; Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi Award, audio/visual storytelling, 2018; Society for Features Journalism awards, Arts/feature coverage and commentary, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 & 2021; Harvey Awards finalist, biography/journalism, 2012

Professional Affiliations: Society for Features Journalism, National Society of Newspaper Columnists

Books by Michael Cavna:

"Team Cul de Sac: Cartoonists Draw the Line at Parkinson's" (text)

David Betancourt

Washington, D.C.

Reporter focusing on comic book culture

Education: Radford University, BA in media studies

David Betancourt writes about all aspects of comic book culture for The Washington Post's Comic Riffs blog.

Honors and Awards: Two-time Eisner Award nominee

Languages spoken in addition to English: Spanish

More to Come (as a 'competitor' says, on a day when I haven't driven 600 miles)

Marvel opens 2nd 'What If...?' season with episode in almost entirely Mohawk language

Ava Pukatch

All Things Considered December 27, 2023

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221890957/marvel-opens-2nd-what-if-season-with-episode-in-almost-entirely-mohawk-language

https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2023/12/20231227_atc_marvel_native_american.mp3

Season Two of Marvel's animated series What If...? introduces us to Kahhori, a Mohawk woman who goes on a quest to discover her power. The episode takes place almost entirely in the Mohawk language.