The Weekly Debrief- May 10th, 2024
But until we meet again, read about the goings and comings in the comic journalism realm, a poetry comic by Hagai Palvesky and Danielle Taphenel, and some thoughts on Lynda Barry, Grant Morrison, and Neil Gaiman. And John Oliver.
It’s week 2 of this soft-launch experiment. There may or may not be a post next week. We’ll have to see.
On Comics Journalism
At Popverse, one editor leaves as another one rises from the ranks. And it's time to say goodbye to another long-running comic site.
Tiffany Babb
Chris Arrant
Multiversity Staff
“After 15 years, this will be the final month that Multiversity Comics will be in active operations. This decision was not made lightly, and has been a result of months of conversations with our editorial team.”
For Your Eyes or Ears
John Oliver discusses the effort to ban books at public libraries and includes clips of Maia Kobabe talking about their great book Gender Queer.
Manga
Tezuka Osamu, the father of modern Japanese manga, created this political cartoon opposing the US war in Vietnam for the January 29, 1967 edition of Akahata (Red Flag), the newspaper of the Japan Communist Party. [@Edo_Granpa's tweet shows Tezuka at a JCP meeting] https://t.co/4ON8lmDIIz pic.twitter.com/5LT59Qh9qb
— Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸 (@mrjeffu) May 3, 2024
The Funny Pages
New poetry comic, written by me and gorgeously drawn by @treelet.bsky.social (one of my faves). One of my favorite things I’ve written. It’s a love poem, after a manner of speaking.
— Hagai Palevsky (he/him) (@dialhforhagai.bsky.social) May 4, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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The variant cover I did for UNCLE SCROOGE #1, gorgeously colored by @KikinhoJ . I think I've never drew him before, and took me a couple of attempts to get the likeness, but it was a really fun one to do. Thanks for the confidence you put on me, @Disney pic.twitter.com/4NgRnGvRUm
— PepeLarraz (@PepeLarraz) May 2, 2024
I'm told the first next thing from @StipanMorian & I will be announced this week! Yee!! pic.twitter.com/aIMN2qySai
— Deniz Camp (@DenizCamp) May 6, 2024
Interviews
Alex Zalben
Use your translation service of choice (I just use the built-in Safari translator) to read this interesting response from a publisher to a French website. "From the hat of this one, your journalist says "A beautiful album, delicately staged [...] but which has a taste of déjà vu... This "already-seen", I found it hard and unfair. And this is what we remember because the journalist ultimately does not say much about the content in the body of the article."- Thierry Joor
Deanna Destito
Reviews & Features
Lindsay Pereira
“To say that it is aimed at people who create, or those interested in creating something, is arguably to miss the point.”- Lindsay Pereira on What It Is.
Gizmodo
“Beyond a feeling of contemporary cool that had defined the Claremont era of the franchise, mutant stories that still reflected these heroes less inwardly as superheroes, but people of the modern world, it was also important to them that X-Men felt less like a superhero comic, and more like a sci-fi epic, something that resonates in New X-Men’s eventual approach to things like the Sentinels or its grasp on the Shi’ar Empire, but also how it divided mutant culture as something distinct from humanity, on both a societal and evolutionary level.”.— James Whitbrook on Morrison’s X-Men manifesto.
Heidi MacDonald
“In 1982 dystopian superheroes who take over the world was a radical new approach. In 2024, that’s Tuesday, or whenever the new season of The Boys comes out.”-- Heidi MacDonald on the relative quiet around the return of Miracleman.
Current Mood
Always remember, kids.
— Evan Dorkin (@evandorkin.bsky.social) May 4, 2024 at 5:42 AM
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