'Dilbert' creator Scott Adams says he has aggressive prostate cancer
The creator of the comic strip satirizing office culture said he has the same type of cancer as former president Joe Biden — but may only have months left to live.
The creator of the comic strip satirizing office culture said he has the same type of cancer as former president Joe Biden — but may only have months left to live.
Diamond Select Toys shut down and more on Diamond layoffs
Heidi MacDonald on 05/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/diamond-select-toys-shut-down-and-more-on-diamond-layoffs/
UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP - ALLIANCE AND DIAMOND
Acquisitions of Alliance Game Distributors and Diamond Comic Distributors Close
Milton Griepp on May 16, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59575/under-new-ownership-alliance-diamond
COMIC EXECUTIVES, OTHERS, LAID OFF AT DIAMOND As Ad Populum Takes Control
Milton Griepp on May 19, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59578/comic-executives-others-laid-off-diamond
Rediscovered Thomas the Tank Engine Pilot Is Released
By Victor Mather
A version of this article appears in print on May 13, 2025, Section C, Page 5 of the New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/arts/television/thomas-friends-pilot-episode-ringo-starr.html
Thomas Nast – Good? Bad? Ugly?
D. D. Degg
May 18, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/05/18/thomas-nast-good-bad-ugly/
How Thomas Nast's Cartoons Transformed American Life And Culture
By Kaleena Fraga
May 15, 2025
https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-nast-cartoons
Jigsaw artist brands games firm woke for ordering him to remove St George's flag and other details [Mike Jupp]
LETTICE BROMOVSKY
12 May 2025 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14702073/Jigsaw-artist-games-woke-remove-St-Georges-flag.html
Artist says woke bosses ordered him to remove St George's flag from jigsaw puzzle [Mike Jupp]
Paul Sims,
11 May 2025
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/34902996/artist-woke-st-georges-flag-puzzles/
Keeping it Savage with "Grim" Jim Zub
Gary B The Casual Comic Guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zlueN3YtTw
May 17, 2025
Director Alex Boya Shares the Special Ingredients of His Cannes and Annecy Short, 'Bread Will Walk' [Canada]
Ramin Zahed
Pakistani Animated Feature 'The Glassworker' Heads to U.S. Theaters with Watermelon Pics
Animation Magazine
Mike Deodato On Not Getting Paid For Ironheart By Marvel Studios
Riri Williams' co-creator Mike Deodato talks about not getting paid for the Ironheart TV show by Marvel, and calls on Marvel to do better
18 May 2025
Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mike-deodato-not-paid-ironheart-marvel-studios/
Diamond Select Toys Shut Down As Part Of Ad Populum Purchase?
18 May 2025
Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/diamond-select-toys-shut-down-as-part-of-ad-populum-purchase/
["Sad to see the end of Diamond Comics as we knew it..."]
Paul Levitz
Paul Levitz's PostMay 17 2025
RIP Jackson 'Butch' Guice, June 27, 1961-May 1, 2025
Andrew Farago | May 19, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/rip-jackson-butch-guice-june-27-1961-may-1-2025/
Groth, Gary. 2025.
An Interview with Jonathan Lackman & Zachary J. Pinson [The Woman With Fifty Faces].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pbqzysw3b95et2ika36a2/Interview-with-Jon-Lackman-and-Zachary-J-Pinson.pdf
Groth, Gary. 2025.
An Interview with Carol Tyler [The Ephemerata].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8kxbczwnbbzbs5ai7qrop/Interview-with-Carol-Tyler.pdf
Groth, Conrad. 2025.
An Interview with Laura Pérez {Spain; ' Nocturnos'].
Fantagraphics Bookseller Newsletter (May): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/av5ix6lerxvi47oabgwhh/Interview-with-Laura-Perez_Final.pdf
Tommi Parrish Author Q+A [Australian trans cartoonist]
Eric Reynolds
Fantagraphics
May 15, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrXx9YK9lcI
MY LITTLE WARLORD and SHAZAM among new DC GO! webcomic title announcements
Taimur Dar on 05/19/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/new-dc-go-webcomic-titles-announced/
A new cyber-sci-fi epic from Fred Van Lente
word balloon
May 19 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZsuZYwkSOg
Daniel Kibblesmith Talks Darkwing Duck
The Comics Cube with Duy Tano
May 19, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiEKzz-sdgI
'Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' Stands on the Shoulders of Animation
Twenty years later, 'Revenge of the Sith' wouldn't have its legacy without the two 'Clone Wars' building on and improving the prequels.
By Justin Carter
io9 May 19, 2025 https://gizmodo.com/revenge-of-the-sith-20th-anniversary-clone-wars-animation-2000604026
Animation Studio Toei Wants to Use AI for Future Productions
In the next few years, anime made by Toei may be touched up by AI in some capacity.
By Justin Carter
io9 May 18, 2025
https://gizmodo.com/animation-studio-toei-wants-to-use-ai-for-future-productions-2000603817
Diamond Staff Laid Off in Post-Acquisition Restructuring
May 19, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/newsbrief/index.html?record=5373
Sentry co-creator Rick Veitch calls Marvel "the House of Stolen Ideas" after his stake in the character overlooked for past 25 years - including in Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts* movie
Features by Joshua Lapin-Bertone, Contributing writer
Additional contributions by Chris Arrant
Apr 29 2025 Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-comics-marvel-studios-thunderbolts-the-sentry-creators-creator-paul-jenkins-rick-veitch-cast-aside
Marvel's X-Men comics are broken, says Deadpool creator Rob Liefeld, but he knows who can fix them (No, it's not him)
Graeme McMillan, Editor
May 19 2025 Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-rob-liefeld-marvel-xmen-scott-snyder-broken-podcast-robservations
Short Lived British Comics: Marvel UK's "Lady Lovely Locks and the Pixietails"
By John Freeman
downthetubes May 18, 2025
https://downthetubes.net/short-lived-british-comics-marvel-uks-lady-lovely-locks-and-the-pixietails/
In Memoriam: Comic Artist Mario Capaldi
John Freeman
downthetubes on 6th July 2004.
https://downthetubes.net/british-comics-reference/in-memoriam-comic-artist-mario-capaldi/
'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2' Delayed a Year to 2027
Paramount is also delaying the release of 'The Legend of Aang: The Last Airbender' to later in 2026.
Ryan Gajewski
May 16, 2025 https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem-2-delays-release-1236219433/
Ann Telnaes, Liza Donnelly: cartoonistes, Américaines et en colère
À Morges, la Maison du dessin de presse frappe fort en exposant ces deux dessinatrices de presse qui comptent. Rencontre sans tabou.
Florence Millioud
17.05.2025, https://www.24heures.ch/maison-du-dessin-de-presse-deux-voix-americaines-qui-comptent-369000634305
Ann Telnaes, Liza Donnelly: cartoonistes, Américaines et en colère
À Morges, la Maison du dessin de presse frappe fort en exposant ces deux dessinatrices de presse qui comptent. Rencontre sans tabou.
Florence Millioud
17.05.2025, https://www.24heures.ch/maison-du-dessin-de-presse-deux-voix-americaines-qui-comptent-369000634305
Andrew Farago | May 19, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/rip-jackson-butch-guice-june-27-1961-may-1-2025/
Time flies when you're stuck in a tin can.
Washington Post May 18, 202: F6.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2025/05/16/international-flight-emotions-comic/
free to read link: https://wapo.st/44K103s
Watching my daughter with her grandfather brings age into sharp focus.
Washington Post May 18, 202: FA18.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/interactive/2025/when-timelines-cross/
free to read link: https://wapo.st/4mmdwMP
I just saw the show yesterday. Here's info from the Phillips Gallery on it. Relevant quotes are
In the 1960s, Mucha’s distinctive style found new life in the vibrant poster art of the counterculture movement—becoming a trademark of psychedelic rock posters and album covers, influencing iconic bands like the Grateful Dead and The Rolling Stones—as well as comic books, Japanese manga, and murals.
Mucha’s visual language also made a lasting impact on Japanese manga, where his stylized forms can be seen in the work of artists such as Hideko Mizuno, one of the first successful “shojo manga (girls’ comics)” artists in Japan, and others. Underscoring his enduring influence, the exhibition will pair classic Mucha works with contemporary examples they inspired, from the cover of a 1969 album for Diana Ross & The Supremes to Joe Quesada’s comic book illustrations.
Not mentioned therein is Mucha's work on designing Krokodil, a comics magazine in the late 19th century. Here's photos of that and the people that adapted his style.
Two prints by Barry Windsor-Smith
Clara M. Lovett, Chevy Chase
Michael Ramirez hit a new low with his May 9 editorial cartoon, "An American pope," depicting the newly elected pope garbed in stars and stripes.
Did Ramirez intend to celebrate with American Catholics? Does he understand how offensive his cartoon is to non-Catholic Christians struggling against Christian nationalism? Does he recognize what his cartoon signals to millions of Americans who do not happen to be Christian and who depend on the separation of church and state to protect their rights?
Anne Schwartz, Washington
Presumably, The Post includes "Prickly City" on its comics page to be inclusive of various political opinions. But the May 5 comic depicting an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent throwing one of the strip's characters into a van was deeply offensive.
The Trump administration has admitted to sending at least one person to El Salvador in error but seems to be doing everything in its power to resist bringing him home. The upshot is that anyone (not just those who are undocumented) is at risk of being sent to a maximum-security prison overseas without recourse. Please reconsider your inclusion of this strip in The Post.
His opening theme for the groundbreaking sitcom "All in the Family" also became part of the American musical canon.