Sweet pine o' mine! It's time to pick a tree. (Fifty of them, in fact.) Try to find all the sentient Tannenbaums.
Superman Museum founder Jim Hambrick's legacy endures
JEREMIAH HATCHER
PADUCAH SUN.COM
Dec 24, 2024
Jim Hambrick, founder of the Super Museum, dies at 70
Kat Byars
Southern Illinoisan / WPSD Dec 22, 2024
The Look that Freezes [John Leech]
V.S. Pritchett The New York Review of Books October 10, 1985 issue
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/10/10/the-look-that-freezes/
John Leech and the Victorian Scene
by Simon Houfe
Antique Collectors' Club (Suffolk), 265 pp., £22.50
Where is Sherman? Rosebuds Comic Strip
Sherman Burdette | Fox 59
Dec 23, 2024
https://fox59.com/morning-news/where-is-sherman/where-is-sherman-rosebuds-comic-strip/
Interview: Living Life In The Present With Cartoonist Liz Climo
By Chad Burdette
Comic Watch / The Comics Multiverse December 23, 2024
https://comic-watch.com/news/interview-living-life-in-the-present-with-cartoonist-liz-climo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnV_jj5gzd4
Ringling College explores the evolution of cartooning in Jack Davis exhibit
Marty Fugate
Sun, December 22, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ringling-college-explores-evolution-cartooning-090211900.html
This article originally appeared on Sarasota Herald-Tribune: Mad magazine artist highlighted in Ringling College exhibit
Ram V's comics highlight the power of human (and superhuman) connection
With The New Gods, Rare Flavours, Dawnrunner, The One Hand And The Six Fingers, and Detective Comics, Ram V had a banner year in comics.
By Oliver Sava | December 24, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/ram-v-comics-2024https://www.avclub.com/ram-v-comics-2024
Charles Schulz and the creative faith in the making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'
by Michael Cavna
December 24, 2024
https://www.ncronline.org/culture/charles-schulz-and-creative-faith-making-charlie-brown-christmas
Psychoanalyzing Calvin and Hobbes as a social critique and double autobiography
Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
The Times of Israel's The Blogs Dec 22, 2024,
A Grand Return: A Cracking Set Visit to 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl'
By Rich Johnson
December 23, 2024
This article was written for the
February '25 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 347).
The best comics of 2024, as chosen by TCJ contributors
The Editors | December 24, 2024
https://www.tcj.com/the-best-comics-of-2024-as-chosen-by-tcj-contributors/
Japanese V.O. Actor Taiki Matsuno, Dub Voice of SpongeBob, Dies Age 56
Animation Magazine July 1, 2024
Animation Art Director and Character Designer Philip J. Felix Dies, Age 61
By Ramin Zahed
March 2, 2024
Nancy MacKenzie, LatAm Spanish Voice of Marge Simpson, Dies Age 81
Animation Magazine
June 19, 2024
International Journal of Disney Studies - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2025
https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/ijds/1/1
Welcome to the International Journal of Disney Studies
Authors: Robyn Muir and Rebecca Rowe
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00001_2
Conservatives watch cartoons: The rise of Disney, the right and cultural criticism in the 1990s
By Alex Pinelli
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00002_1
Re-imaging empowered princesshood against the rise of the fourth-wave feminism: A thematic study of Disney's princess live-action remakes
By Caroline Yiqian Wang
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00003_1
'We're not quite there yet… but we will be': Identifying shifts in the Walt Disney Company's LGBTQ+ representation
By Matt Weaver
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00004_1
More
Making history at Disney Springs: Florida's past as themed tourism
By F. Evan Nooe
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00005_1
'To infinity and beyond'? A textual analysis of the representation of friendship between Buzz and Woody in Disney–Pixar's Toy Story films
Authors: Anita Jandaly and Sandra Chang-Kredl
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00007_1
Commentaries
The lasting impacts of The Walt Disney Company within and beyond the classroom: A case study
By Hannah Helm
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00008_7
Riley and representation: Challenging assumptions of generalizability in the Inside Out franchise
By Marissa Lammon
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00009_7
More
Book Reviews
Contemporary Disney Animation: Genre, Gender and Hollywood, Eve Benhamou (2022)
By Laura O'Flanagan
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00010_5
More
Staging a Comeback: Broadway, Hollywood, and the Disney Renaissance, Peter C. Kunze (2023)
By Matthew Ari Elfenbein
https://doi.org/10.1386/ijds_00011_5
More
Artist Rian Gonzales caught copying another's work in debate over referencing versus tracing
By Christian Angeles on 12/23/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/artist-rian-gonzales-caught-copying-anothers-work-in-debate-over-referencing-versus-tracing/
The Secret of Great Graphic Novel Adaptations
Eileen Gonzalez speaks to A. David Lewis—who adapted THE PROPHET by Kahlil Gibran into a graphic novel—about graphic novel adaptations.
Eileen Gonzalez Nov 15, 2024 https://bookriot.com/the-secret-of-great-graphic-novel-adaptations/
Hundreds of free comics offered at city libraries
15 November 2024
Steve Jones
BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgj7w6edpwpo
Wayne Horne – RIP
D. D. Degg December 22, 2024
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/22/wayne-horne-rip/
Wayne Horne Obituary
Published by Legacy Remembers on Dec. 22, 2024.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/legacyremembers/wayne-horne-obituary?id=57072828
Alexandra Bowman Signs with Cagle Cartoons
D. D. Degg
December 22, 2024
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/22/alexandra-bowman-signs-with-cagle-cartoons/
'Creature Commandos' Renewed for Second Season at Max
The James Gunn-created animated series is the first release in the new DC Universe.
Rick Porter
December 23, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/creature-commandos-renewed-season-2-max-1236092964/
Horror Comics and Religion
Essays on Framing the Monstrous and the Divine
Edited by Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead. Series Editor Matthew Brake
2025
McFarland
https://mcfarlandbooks.com/product/horror-comics-and-religion/
Foreword: The Spirit Hidden Within the Grid—Clay McLeod Chapman 1
Introduction: Gaps and Frames—Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead 5
Part One: The Classics
Justice through the Resurrection of the Dead: Moral Theology and Eschatology in EC Comics—Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. 19
Holy Horror: DC Comics' the Spectre as Theodic Monster—Brandon Dean 38
Capitalism as a Religion: Political Theology and Alan Moore's From Hell—Jon Greenaway 54
"The Power of Sequential Art Compels You!": Exorcism in Comics—John McGuire and Adam Possamai 70
Religion and Racial Horror: Comics Voodoo in the Golden Age—Yvonne Chireau 87
Part Two: To Hell and Back
Children of God: Divine Abuse and the Devil in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman—Lucinda Holdsworth 109
"Violent persons must always be disobeyed": René Girard in Conversation with Ghost Rider: The War for Heaven—Neal Foster 126
The Mother, the Daughter, and the Wholly Monster: Personhood in Monstress—Emily FitzGerald 141
Part Three: Beyond Marvel and DC
"But you are dead": Life-Death Ambiguation in Yukito Ayatsuji and Hiro Kiyohara's Another and Revelation 3:1–6—Kai Akagi 161
Nothing Is What It Seems, No One Is Who They Are: The Problem of "Religion" in the Work of Junji Ito—Douglas E. Cowan 177
TNT and the Myths He Bu(r)sts: Analyzing the Subversive Portrayal of Tantriks in City of Sorrows—Debaditya Mukhopadhyay 196
Part Four: Breaking the Frames
Mingling the Sacred and the Abject in The Devil is a Handsome Man's "The Case of the Cryers"—Ayanni C.H. Cooper 213
Gideon Falls: Cosmic Horror in a Gnostic Cosmos—Vasileios M. Meletiadis 231
"But three days later, my brother came from the woods": (Un)Divine Horror in Emily Carroll's Through the Woods—Brianna Anderson 251
Avant-Garde Anime & Manga Creator Yōji Kuri Dies Age 96
Animation Magazine
December 20, 2024
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/avant-garde-anime-manga-creator-yoji-kuri-dies-age-96/
Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi Discusses the Stop-Motion Magic of His Oscar-Shortlisted 'Bottle George'
Ramin Zahed
December 20, 2024
In Memoriam: Remembering the Many Animation & VFX Greats We Lost This Year
Ramin Zahed
December 21, 2024
"Make a Thing, Make it Now" Multimedia Art and the Experimental, Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo in Conversation
Lonnie Garcia and Yugo Limbo | December 23, 2024 |
All the Best Christmas Political Cartoons! Cagle and McKee! Caglecast!
Daryl Cagle and Rick McKee
Caglecast 53 (Dec 23, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwov9OL4ybI
A 'Bluey' movie is coming to theaters [in print as TV's 'Bluey' will romp into theaters in 2027]
By Samantha Chery
Washington Post December 18, 2024: C2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/17/bluey-movie-disney-bbc/
How Marvel turned 'What If …?' into a cozy holiday special [in print as Marvel's hypothetical holiday anthology]
Herb Scribner
Washington Post December 23, 2024: C1-2.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/2024/12/22/marvel-what-if-mcu-loki-schedule/
Weaving Folklore and Heroism: An Interview with Ben and Max Berkowitz on The Writer
Mike Szymanski
Dec 17, 2024
https://previewsworld.com/Article/279261-Weaving-Folklore-and-Heroism-An-Interview-with-Ben-and-Max-Berkowitz-on-The-Writer
'Lion King' Prequel Falls Prey to 'Sonic' at the Box Office
Brooks Barnes
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2024, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: 'Lion King' Falls Prey to 'Sonic' at the Box Office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/business/sonic-mufasa-lion-king-box-office.html
Lin-Manuel Miranda on 'Mufasa' and the Secret to a Disney Hit
Sarah Bahr
A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 23, 2024, Section C, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Lin-Manuel Miranda On the Songs of 'Mufasa'.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/22/arts/music/lin-manuel-miranda-mufasa.html
Mufasa stares Disney's "live-action" problem in the face
Disney rules over all the light touches, and even the uncanny valley where light can never reach.
By Jacob Oller | December 23, 2024
https://www.avclub.com/mufasa-the-lion-king-disney-live-action-problem-faces
Animation Guild Ratifies Contract With Studios and Streamers
A little more than three quarters of voting members opted to accept the three-year deal.
Rick Porter
December 23, 2024
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/animation-guild-ratifies-2024-27-contract-1236092993/
Washington Post December 18, 2024: C2
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/17/bluey-movie-disney-bbc/
The Beat's 22 Best Manga of 2024
By Beat Staff on 12/21/2024 https://www.comicsbeat.com/the-beats-22-best-manga-of-2024/
'The Critics Respond' (2024) – A Comic Strip by Walter Scott
Walter Scott
20 December 2024
From the November 2024 issue of ArtReview – get your copy.
https://artreview.com/the-critics-respond-2024-a-comic-strip-by-walter-scott/
How To Build The Perfect Snowman [Bob Eckstein]
FOX Weather Dec 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xOG85_nLJc
Cartoonist Hilary Campbell Featured in New Book
December 21, 2024
https://sonomasun.com/2024/12/21/cartoonist-hilary-campbell-featured-in-new-book/
"A Writer Who Draws." On the Life and Creative Legacy of Saul Steinberg
Liana Finck Remembers the Innovative Work of the Iconic "New Yorker" Cartoonist
Via New York Review Books
By Liana Finck
December 18, 2024
https://lithub.com/a-writer-who-draws-on-the-life-and-creative-legacy-of-saul-steinberg/
Maria Bakalova on Creature Commandos, Playing Princess Ilana & Her Love for James Gunn's DCU
C.M. Ramsburg
CBR Presents
Dec 20, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3oT31PETa8
Michael Moorcock's Winter Solstice 2024
Andrew Sumner
Forbidden Planet TV
Dec 20, 2024 Conversations with Andrew Sumner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw6vZICEis
Words, Images, & Worlds: Matt Madden Returns!
Jason DeHart
Dec 21, 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1a8dbYVAvk
Brian Anderson Talks Bringing the World of Dog Eat Doug Into Graphic Novels
By Brian Cronin
CBR Dec 19 2024
https://www.cbr.com/brian-anderson-talks-bringing-the-world-of-dog-eat-doug-into-graphic-novels/
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred eighteen | Gerry Duggan Returns, part two
Dec 20, 2024
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/you-got-a-lot-of-carbon-scoring-here
Animator Spotlight: Rod Scribner
Vincent Alexander | 12/20/2024
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/animator-spotlight/animator-spotlight-rod-scribner-244595.html
AIPT Comics Podcast Episode 305: Rediscovering humanity in the cosmos: Ram V on bringing heart to 'The New Gods'
David Brooke and Nathan Simmons
December 15, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/15/aipt-comics-podcast-episode-305-ram-v/
X-Men Monday #278 – Steve Foxe Talks 'Timeslide'
Chris Hassan
December 9, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/09/x-men-monday-278-steve-foxe-timeslide/
AIPT's Best Comics of 2024: Part 1
Chris Coplan, Keigen Rea, David Brooke, David Canham, Collier Jennings, Rory Wilding, Crooker and Austin Manchester
December 17, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/17/aipts-best-comics-of-2024-part-1/
AIPT's Best Comics of 2024: Part 2
Chris Coplan, David Brooke, Andrew Isidoro, Vish, Michael Guerrero, Marvel Maximus and Keigen Rea
December 19, 2024
https://aiptcomics.com/2024/12/19/aipts-best-comics-of-2024-part-2/
Merrily Harpur – RIP
D. D. Degg December 20, 2024
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/12/20/merrily-harpur-rip/
Merrily Harpur, cartoonist who lampooned townies with rural pretensions and researched big cat sightings
Telegraph
19 December 2024
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/12/19/merrily-harpur-cartoons-big-cats-obituary/
Merrily Harpur
Bridport Life and Times November 30, 2011
http://www.bridportlife.co.uk/people/merrily-harpur/
Virginia mother declares 'victory' after school system quietly removes 'X-rated' LGBTQ graphic novel
'Queer: A Graphic Novel' was allegedly removed for using 'outdated terminology'
By Nikolas Lanum
Fox News November 14, 2024
Charles M. Schulz Museum exhibit honors Snoopy and his Beagle Scouts
Dan Taylor
The Press Democrat
November 13, 2024 https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/entertainment/peanuts-charles-schulz-snoopy/
Alex Zalben
Graphic Novel Bio Of Elon Musk Likely Won't Get English Publication Because Of "Legal Consequences,"
Comic Book Club News For November 13, 2024 https://comicbookclublive.com/2024/11/13/graphic-novel-bio-of-elon-musk-likely-wont-get-english-publication-because-of-legal-consequences-dcs-compact-comics-line-expands-dark-horse-publishing-tomb-raider-collection-comic-book-clu/
Not comic books: Graphic novels elevate English studies at Geneva High School
Illustrated stories, classics provide deeper understanding of complicated topics
By Brenda Schory
November 13, 2024
Yacht Club introduces 'Sour Grapes' soda based on comic strip from cartoonist Tim Jones
Local cartoonist and WUN contributor gets his own soda!
by Ken Abrams November 12, 2024
New King County public health comic series explains 'forever chemicals'
It's part of a campaign to protect families from PFAS
By Seattle Child December 2024
https://www.seattleschild.com/seattle-king-county-health-department-forever-chemical-comic-series/
Camber, Amy. 2024.
How can we reduce exposure to PFAS? A comic strip explains, parts 1-3.
Public Health Insider (November 12, 19, 26): https://publichealthinsider.com/2024/11/12/what-are-pfas-and-why-are-they-harmful-a-comic-strip-explains/ ; https://publichealthinsider.com/2024/11/19/how-can-we-reduce-exposure-to-pfas-a-comic-strip-explains-part-2/ ; https://publichealthinsider.com/2024/11/26/what-can-we-do-to-limit-pfas-a-comic-explains-part-3/
Alisa M. Libby
Celebrating Trans Awareness Week with Simmons Undergraduate, Journalist, and Comics Fan [Tristie-Mattea Ortiz].
Simmons University News November 13, 2024
https://www.simmons.edu/news/trans-awareness-week-simmons-undergrad-journalist-comics-fan
A Chapel Street "Universe" Cultivates Community [comic book store]
Tristie-Mattea Ortiz
Arts Council of Greater New Haven July 31st, 2024
https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/a-chapel-street-universe-cultivates-community
In Milford, "Alternate Universe" Keeps Comics Cool [comic book store]
Tristie-Mattea Ortiz
Arts Council of Greater New Haven August 14th, 2024
https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/in-milford-alternate-universe-keeps-comics-cool
At Comic Convention, Cosplay Creates Community
Tristie-Mattea Ortiz
Arts Council of Greater New Haven September 14th, 2024
Off Panel #478: It's the End of the Year (As We Know It) with Brandon Burpee
David Harper
December 16, 2024
https://sktchd.com/podcast/off-panel-478-its-the-end-of-the-year-as-we-know-it-with-brandon-burpee/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/sktchd/Brandon_Burpee_2024.mp3
The SKTCHD AWRDS: The Comics of 2024
David Harper
December 20, 2024
https://sktchd.com/column/the-sktchd-awrds-the-comics-of-2024/
Unleashing The Epic World Of Conan The Barbarian With Jim Zub
Fortress Comics
Dec 18, 2024
