Wednesday, December 25, 2024

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/24/2024

Superman Museum founder Jim Hambrick's legacy endures

JEREMIAH HATCHER

PADUCAH SUN.COM

    Dec 24, 2024

    https://www.paducahsun.com/news/superman-museum-founder-jim-hambrick-s-legacy-endures/article_67af816c-09bd-5630-8961-69e497a1d974.html

 

Jim Hambrick, founder of the Super Museum, dies at 70

Kat Byars

    Southern Illinoisan / WPSD Dec 22, 2024

    https://thesouthern.com/news/jim-hambrick-founder-of-the-super-museum-dies-at-70/article_49956132-e17d-5c42-9477-a825cc66b991.html

 

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,

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/psychoanalyzing-calvin-and-hobbes-as-a-social-critique-and-double-autobiography/

 

A Grand Return: A Cracking Set Visit to 'Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl'

By Rich Johnson

December 23, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/a-grand-return-a-set-visit-to-wallace-gromit-vengeance-most-fowl/

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

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/07/japanese-v-o-actor-taiki-matsuno-dub-voice-of-spongebob-dies-age-56/

 

Animation Art Director and Character Designer Philip J. Felix Dies, Age 61

By Ramin Zahed

March 2, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/03/animation-art-director-and-character-designer-philip-j-felix-dies-age-61/

 

Nancy MacKenzie, LatAm Spanish Voice of Marge Simpson, Dies Age 81

 Animation Magazine

June 19, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/06/nancy-mackenzie-latam-spanish-voice-of-marge-simpson-dies-age-81/

 

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

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Cavna on 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

Charles Schulz and the creative faith in the making of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/23/2024

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

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/dice-tsutsumi-discusses-the-stop-motion-magic-of-his-oscar-shortlisted-bottle-george/

 

In Memoriam: Remembering the Many Animation & VFX Greats We Lost This Year

Ramin Zahed

December 21, 2024

https://www.animationmagazine.net/2024/12/in-memoriam-remembering-the-many-animation-vfx-greats-we-lost-last-year/

 

"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 |

https://www.tcj.com/make-a-thing-make-it-now-multimedia-art-and-the-experimental-lonnie-garcia-and-yugo-limbo-in-conversation/

 

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/



Monday, December 23, 2024

WaPo on What If...? 3

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/

WaPo on Bluey movie

A 'Bluey' movie is coming to theaters [in print as TV's 'Bluey' will romp into theaters in 2027]

Washington Post December 18, 2024: C2

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2024/12/17/bluey-movie-disney-bbc/

Comics Research Bibliography citations update, 12/21-22/2024

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

https://www.foxnews.com/media/virginia-mother-declares-victory-school-system-quietly-removes-x-rated-lgbtq-graphic-novel

 

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

https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2024/11/13/not-comic-books-graphic-novels-elevate-english-studies-at-geneva-high-school/

 

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  

https://whatsupnewp.com/2024/11/yacht-club-introduces-sour-grapes-soda-based-on-comic-strip-from-cartoonist-tim-jones/

 

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

https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/at-comic-convention-cosplay-cultivates-comfort-community

 

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPdgXFY95FY

Saturday, December 21, 2024

Jack Ohman's done with Bezos' WaPo

Read his thoughts at his newsletter -

The United States of Billionaires

Maybe it wasn't this bad back then, but it's terrible now.