March 30: PLUSHY PARTY w/ ERIN LISETTE at Fantom Comics

PLUSHY PARTY w/ ERIN LISETTE at Fantom Comics
>> Saturday, March 30th @ 3pm

Local artist and Fantom friend Erin Lisette is launching her new Baby Forest Spirit Plush from her Incomplete comics at Fantom Comics with a party! The plushies will be available for purchase that day along with a bunch of Erin's cool comics! Perks for showing up and buying Erin's stuff: FREE BOBA!

You heard that right, get one Erin's products get some free bubble tea catered from our friends from Spot Of Tea! It'll be first come, first served and supplies are limited!

March 23: SIGNALS Vol. 2 BOOK LAUNCH w/ NIKA! at Fantom Comics

SIGNALS Vol. 2 BOOK LAUNCH w/ NIKA!
>> Saturday, March 23rd @ 3pm

Local artist NIKA joins us in discussion once again for the Dark Horse print launch of SIGNALS volume 2!

Read the exciting conclusion to Mel Song's psychic adventures in the second volume of Signals, created by Nika and brought to print by Dark Horse and Tapas Entertainment!

Having barely escaped her first encounter with Ken, a powerful fellow psychic, Mel and her two friends must regroup and determine their next course of action to continue their search for the missing Julie. The smart thing to do would be to lay low, but caution has never been Mel's strong suit—especially when there is a case to be solved!

Buy a copy in-store or online: https://stores.comichub.com/fantom_comics/products/signals-volume-2

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 3/20/2024

Franka bewijst al vijftig jaar dat avontuur niet alleen voor mannen is [Henk Kuijpers]

Nienke Schipper

TROUW  March 19 2024: 12-13

 

One Of Disney's Latest 'Legends' Never Cared Much For Awards [Steve Ditko]

Rob Salkowitz

Mar 19, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/robsalkowitz/2024/03/19/one-of-disneys-latest-legends-would-have-hated-the-honor/

 

Steve Ditko is named a Disney Legend

Heidi MacDonald

 03/20/2024
https://www.comicsbeat.com/steve-ditko-is-named-a-disney-legend/

 

Mike Zagari of Marvel, DC and AMC Joins Start Up, The Lab Press
Mike Zagari of Marvel, Disney, DC Comics and AfterShock was most recently the head of AMC Networks Publishing has now joined The Lab Press.
Published Tue, 19 Mar 2024   by Rich Johnston
 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-zagari-of-marvel-dc-and-amc-joins-start-up-the-lab-press/

 

Marvel Studios Exec on Why It Took So Long to Embrace Netflix Shows

Marvel Studios head of streaming Brad Winderbaum on why it took so long for them to embrace Netflix's Marvel shows into the MCU timeline.

by Ray Flook

 18 Mar 2024 
https://bleedingcool.com/tv/marvel-studios-exec-on-why-it-took-so-long-to-embrace-netflix-shows/

 

'X-Men '97' Review: Disney+'s Series Strikes a Winning Balance Between Fond Nostalgia and Fresh Pizzazz

Angie Han

Picking up where the 1990s Saturday morning cartoon left off, the animated show finds the mutant superheroes trying to move forward in the absence of Professor X.

March 20, 2024

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/x-men-97-tv-review-1235854909/

 

Interview: Zoop launches equity crowdfunding campaign and here's why

Co-founder Jordan Plosky on raising capital, VC and Zoop's journey

Heidi MacDonald

03/20/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-crowdfunding-platform-zoop-joins-equity-crowdfunding/

 

Mickey Mouse Vs Savage Dragon From Image Comics In June

It looks like Mickey Mouse is back in June, not just in Uncanny Valley but in Savage Dragon #271, appearing on the cover.

  19 Mar 2024  

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mickey-mouse-vs-savage-dragon-from-image-comics-in-june/

 

DC Reveals Where Superman Gets His Mani-Pedis From (Spoilers)

DC Comics reveal where Superman goes to get his Mani-Pedis from, in Wonder Woman #7, out tomorrow. (Spoilers)

18 Mar 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-reveals-where-superman-gets-his-mani-pedis-from-spoilers/

 

TINTIN-inspired uniform for European Championship tournament

Dean Simons

03/20/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/belgiums-soccer-team-unveils-tintin-inspired-uniform-for-european-championship-tournament/

 

CCIC Releases Report on U.K. Comics Biz

Mar 19, 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=4576

 

Comics Cultural Impact Collective Community Stakeholder Roundtable Report March 2024

https://www.publishersweekly.com/binary-data/NEWS_BRIEFS/attachment/000/004/4576-1.pdf

 

Alert Uganda – Jimmy Spire Ssentongo

Cartooning for Peace 20 March 2024

https://www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/soutiens/alert-uganda-jimmy-spire-ssentongo/

 

Türkiye: censors find cartoon criminally "obscene"

Mar 14, 2024 | News

Cartoonist Zehra Ömeroğlu placed at risk of imminent imprisonment over pandemic cartoon in LeMan magazine

https://cartoonistsrights.org/zehra-omeroglu-cartoon-found-obscene/

 

The Digital Download: Dark Horse, Omnibus, Marvel, and more

Cy Beltran

03/20/2024

https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-digital-download-dark-horse-omnibus-marvel-and-more/

 

Animation Guild Artists Transform Kids with Serious Illnesses into Superheroes

By Mercedes Milligan

March 19, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/animation-guild-artists-transform-kids-with-serious-illnesses-into-superheroes/

 

Los Hermanos Calavera Unveil the Secrets of 'Rey Mysterio vs. The Darkness' [Mexico]

By Ramin Zahed

March 19, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/los-hermanos-calavera-and-the-secrets-of-rey-mysterio-vs-the-darkness/

 

CSotD: Hearing what we want to believe. And I thought Canadians were so polite … [Rivers / Cam Cardow]

Mike Peterson

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/20/csotd-hearing-what-we-want-to-believe/

 

When the Line Gets Interesting: Tanioka Yasuji and Sugiura Shigeru

Natsume Fusanosuke | March 20, 2024

https://www.tcj.com/when-the-line-gets-interesting-tanioka-yasuji-and-sugiura-shigeru/

 

Comics Sure Are Expensive and Other Curmudgeonly Thoughts

 

Does this difference in price and presentation align with a hierarchy of comics?

Mike Baxter

From Cover to Cover Mar 20, 2024

https://www.fromcovertocover.com/comics-sure-are-expensive-and-other-curmudgeonly-thoughts/

 

Neil Gaiman's Dead Boy Detectives is getting the Netflix treatment

After The Sandman, the streaming platform expands its Neil Gaiman universe with another adaptation in April

Saloni Gajjar

AV Club March 20 2024

https://www.avclub.com/netflix-neil-gaiman-dead-boy-detectives-april-1851351488

 

Hollywood somehow thinks "live-action Popeye" is worth trying again

Having learned zero lessons from the Robert Altman version, Hollywood is ready to make another Popeye movie

Sam Barsanti

AV Club March 19 2024

https://www.avclub.com/live-action-popeye-movie-new-1851350149

 

X-Men '97 review: This is how you reboot a beloved TV show

Disney+'s revival of the classic Fox X-Men cartoon is smart, fun, and a little hokey in just the right ways

William Hughes

AV Club March 20 2024 https://www.avclub.com/x-men-97-review-tv-disney-plus-marvel-reboot-cartoon-1851347523

 

X-Men '97: What That Jean Grey Cliffhanger Means for the Show

Confused by the cliffhanger at the end of X-Men '97's second episode? We've got all the answers, straight from the classic '80s comics.

  By Joe George | March 20, 2024

https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/x-men-97-madelyne-prior-jean-grey-mr-sinister-inferno/

Jim Rugg's Substack
https://jimrugg.substack.com/

Tom King returns to the issue of Superman's self-grooming routine

Last seen in the 1970s, I would guess...

DC Reveals Where Superman Gets His Mani-Pedis From (Spoilers)

DC Comics reveal where Superman goes to get his Mani-Pedis from, in Wonder Woman #7, out tomorrow. (Spoilers)

18 Mar 2024 

by Rich Johnston

 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dc-reveals-where-superman-gets-his-mani-pedis-from-spoilers/

2024 Herblock Prize winner is Stever Brodner and finalist Pedro Molina

2024 Herblock Prize winner is Stever Brodner and finalist Pedro Molina

 

WASHINGTON, DC, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 – Steve Brodner has been named the winner of the 2024 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Steve Brodner has been a leading satiric artist for the last 40 years. His goal during this time was to find an outlet for various forms of political and social commentary in the world of independent, freelance art.

 

His work has appeared in most major publications in the US. He has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Nation, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harper's, The Atlantic, GQ, etc. His work currently appears regularly in The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and The Nation. It also appears daily at stevebrodner.substack.com and weekly in thenation.com.

 

Brodner has covered over 50 stories as a journalist, including 16 national political conventions, the US farm crisis, a profile of life along the Mexican border, guns in Philadelphia, and climbing Mt. Fuji. The Naked Campaign, his 32 short films for NewYorker.com, documented the 2008 presidential year. In 2008 he was the subject of a major career retrospective, Raw Nerve, the first for a living artist, at the Norman Rockwell Museum.

 

Over 30 years he has won numerous awards from the Society of Illustrators, Art Directors Club, the Society of Publication Designers, the Society of Newspaper Designers, American Illustration, and Communication Arts. In 2000 he won the Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and has been the recipient of two Reuben Awards from The National Cartoonists Society. He received a Gold medal for Editorial work by the Society of Illustrators and was the finalist of the 2018 Herblock Prize.

 

His career retrospective: Freedom Fries (2004) and the story of the Covid years in the US: Living and Dying in America (2022) were both published by Fantagraphics Books. Brodner has kept a regular schedule of lecturing and is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York

 

The Herblock Prize is awarded annually by The Herb Block Foundation for "distinguished examples of editorial cartooning that exemplify the courageous independent standard set by Herblock." The winner receives a $20,000 net cash prize and a sterling silver Tiffany trophy. Steve Brodner will receive the Prize on June 4th in a ceremony held at the Library of Congress. The Honorable Stephen Breyer, retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S, will deliver the annual Herblock Lecture at the awards ceremony.

 

Judges for this year's contest included Ann Telnaes, winner of the 2023 Herblock Prize and Jen Sorensen, winner of the Herblock Prize 2014. They stated "Brodner's work is unflinching, driven by a strong moral compass and imbued with a powerful sense of compassion. As the quote from Herblock engraved on the trophy reads, "Political cartoons, unlike sundials, do not show the brightest hours. They often show the darkest ones, in the hope of helping us move on to brighter times." Steve Brodner embodies this ideal: a singular, courageous voice who through the use of his artistic and writing abilities, spotlights inequities and injustices in the world. His portfolio offers a mixture between traditional print media and the new opportunities that social media provides cartoonists. In a time of rising autocratic voices and governments, Steve's work reminds us of the important role editorial cartooning has in a free press and democracies."

 

The Herblock finalist for 2024 is Pedro Molina. He will receive a $7,500 net cash prize. The judges said "Threatened by the regime in his native Nicaragua, Pedro Molina has proven himself a master cartoonist in the United States, where he chose to exile himself. Bringing an immigrant's point of view, he depicts anti-immigrant rhetoric as toxic to the United States." Molina says he wants to "alert US citizens of authoritarian behaviors that I have already seen and experienced as a citizen in Latin America for them to not fall into those same traps, such as the manipulation of religion, the control of the Judicial System by a single person, the violence, the populism and the search for common "enemies" from outside our borders."

 

The Herb Block Foundation seeks to further the recognition and support of editorial cartooning: www.HerbblockFoundation.org.    

 

Sarah Alex

Co-President

The Herb Block Foundation

Putin's Kind of Guy by Daniel Boris

March 21: Thundercats Signing w/ writer & cover artist DECLAN SHALVEY 7PM-8PM!

Meet the writer of 2024's red hot THUNDERCATS revival at THIRD EYE ANNAPOLIS!

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