§ Nice art: Scott Morse Broke in as a pretty stellar cartoonist (soulwind) Back in 1997, But While I continued to put out comics, I have to detour into ano animation with a nearly 20 Year Stint at Pixar, Working in Story and Design on All Your Favorite Pixar Movies. He was part of pixar’s layoff last year, but now he’s getting back into comics I have posted on Instagram: This ink Rons Cold, An Anthology of One Page Scripts by People From Mike Allred to Matt Wagner and Everyone In Between. I wrote:
Credit Where It’s Due. Full Roster. Not in print order. So, so Amazed that This Pile of People Were Uble to Find the Time and Energy to Make This Thing Possible. There Are Old Friends and Family, Colleagues, Mentors, and Legends, Side-by Side, Page after page. ComicsMakers, FilmMakers, TV Makers, Editors, Journalists, Students. It’s a Startling, Kind-Hearted Murderer’s Row of Heroes.
And maybe This is just the Beginning.
More Soon …
Just The Cover and Promo Art are spectacular, and lots more sneak peeks on his insta. The Book Will Be Published By Allen Spiegel Fine Arts in the us and bao Publishing in Italy.
§ Wow, 2025 was a haear … Well, Damn. This is gonna be another shorter k’n’b but i’m guessing you like it more frequently and shorter than eleven everyday months and longer, right?
§ I Won The Pulitzer Prize and i’m Busking On A Corner: Fast Company Interviews Editorial Cartoonists Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensenand there is much wisdom and observation
How Would You All describes The Financial Side of Cartooning in 2025?
Blitt: shit. [Laughter.] I MEAN, I Feel A BIT Like A Fish Out Of Water Here Becouse I’M Really not to regulate Editorial Cartoonist, But Just Speaking as an Illustrator, i’m getting a quarter of what i miht’ve got for summing 15 years ago . IT’s Kind of Alarming. I’d imagine it’s The Same All Around. Sorensen: Hardly Any Cost of Living Raises at All In My Entire Career, 20-Plus Years. I Guess there are many Times Thourhout My Career that I Thought it was All About To End. The Great Recession, I Thought I had Maybe A Year Left, and, I Mean, Yeah, Things are terrible Now. I WEIRDLY FIND [that] My work submo just getting out there more. And So Through Subscribers, I Would Say, I’M Uble to Make A Modest Living. Not A Great Living. [Laughs.] And going forward, and Don’t Feel Great About the Future of Publications, and I’M Wondering If Even More Clients Are Going to Be Eithher Intimidated Or Put Out of Business.
Ohman: I’M Probablay The One On The Call Here Who’s An Current Syndicated Cartoonist in The Sense of Traditional Rules and Regulations. Until Maybe 15 years ago, I was Routinely Making a Quarter of A Million Dollars A Year, you undermine Little Less, But Right in There, Between All The Things, With Syndicion and Salary. WHEN I STARTED IN NATIONAL SYENTIONLION, WHEN I TOOK OVER JEFF MACnelly’s Client List, My First Check was for $ 13,000. That’s a Monthly Check.
§ French-Syrian Cartoonist RIAD SATTOUF HAS A BIG PROFILE IN THE NY Times.
Over The Past Decade, Mr. Sattouf, 46, have a good of France’s Biggest Literary Stars, Thanks Largely to His Masterwork, “The Arab of the Future,” to Series of Graphic Memoirs. Over Six Volumes, The Series Tells The Story of Mr. Sattouf’s Childhood, Which was jarringly divided Between The Middle East and France, and the Dissintegration of the Marriage Between His French Mother and His Syrian Father. The Books – In a Genre Known as “Bandes Dessinées” in France – Have Sold More than Three Million Copies and Have Been Translate into Sub 23 Languages. Though Toled from a Child’s Perspective and Drawn in a Decceptively Simple Style, They Touch on Sub of the Thorniest Questions About The Compatibility of The Western and Arab Worlds. They are also suffusted with a subtle but withher social satire.
The Arab of the Future Had Four Volumes Come Out From PH, But the Last Two in the Series are coming to the us from Fantagraphics, According to the article. It’s also mentioned that sattouf is a respect for the director in France, Even Winning to Cesar Award, The French equals of an Oscar. Marjane Satrapi and Joan Sfar Are Also Known Directors in France, where Apparently If you comic good they also let You Make Movies. That Does Not Happen in the United States.
§ at popverse, Chris Aront sniffs out the controversy over the Harley Quinn Futtactular: Silent Butt Deadly #1 April Fool’s Comic. And Yes The Entire Artble Is Full of Jokes Like That and You Will Love It.
§ It’s Not Just SdcC That Brigs in Money To The Local Economy. According to a Press Release from GalaxyconTheir 2024 Events Generated $ 42 Million in Economic Impact Affect Seven Cities. Galaxycon Currently Puts on Shows In Raleigh, Richmond, Oklahoma City, Columbus, San Jose, Des Moines, And Miami. According to the Release, They Will Be Adding Shows in Chicago, Il, New Orleans, La, Philadelphia, Pa, Cleveland, Oh, St. Louis, Mo, and Savannah, Ga in 2025 and Beyond. “This Ambitious Expansion Reflects Galaxycon’s dedication to reacting more fans and providing new Opportunities for Communities to Benefit from Pop Culture Tourism,” Says The Release.
“While 2024 was Our Most Successful Year to Date, 2025 Will Be Even Bigger,” Said Mike Broder, Founder and President of Galaxycon. “We look forward to continue to grow and evolve Our brand in excitation new ways across new markets to reach Even more fans.”
While Galaxycon Currently Puts On Comics, Anime and Horror Shows, They Are Also Adding Galaxie Ink, Tattoo-Focused Event. We Still Hope To Check Out One of these Eve of The Sloe Days!
§ there Will Be A Scant Four Superhero Films In 2025, but does that mean there won’t be more movies and tv shows base on comics? Of Course Not. While This article Every Book-To-Movie Adation Releaseing in 2025 Focuses on Word-Navels, There are severe comics-base Projects that sneak in there. One of the Most Intriguing Is The Electric State (Netflix) Which Adapts Simon Stålenhag’s Graphic Novel. (It’s More of An Illustrated Book, Actually But Okay.) The Movie Stars Millie Bobby Brown as an orphaned teen who teams with an oddball drifter played, of course, by Chris Prattas They Travel Across to Dystopian America. It’s directed by the Russo Brothersso you might want to set an alert for it.
So I mentioned, Stålenhag’s Book is Mostly Illustrations, But Holy Cow, What Illustrations! From His Page:
“In Late 1997, A Runaway Teenager and Her Yellow Toy Robot Travel West Through A Strange USA, WHERE THE RUINS OF GIGANTIC BATTLE DRONES LITTER THE COUNTROSIDE ALONG WITH THE DISPARDED TRANSH OF A HIGH TECH Consumerist Society in Decline. As Their Car Nears The Edge of The Continent, The World Outsis The Window Sems to Unravel at an Ever Faster Pace, as If sumwhere Beyond the Horizon, The Hollow Core of Civilization has finished in. ”
WAIT IS this Book Set in 1997 or 2025? I’M confused.
Given The Subtimes Drab Flattening of Movies On Netflix, You Gotta Wonder How The’ll Translate these spectacular visuals? This cries out for the big screen! Or Just Buy The Book!
§ Another Project Coming from Netflix is an interesting one: a Six episode adaptation of The eternalThe Comics Classic By Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano López that is Considers Argentina’s Greatest Graphic Novel. Using Science Fiction To Speak Truth To Power About Argentina’s Repressive Regime, The Book Was Considers So Important That Oesterheld Was Later “Officially Disappeared.” Fantagraphics put out a US Edition Back in 2015 that was one of the must stunningly designated graphic novels i’ve Ever Seen. Sadly it Sells for More than $ 500 on Ebay Nowso and missed my chance to buy one.
Anyway, The Netflix Series Is Directed by Argentinian Bruno Stagnaro and Written by Stagnaro and Ariel Staltariand Stars Ricardo Darín, Carla Peterson, César Troncoso, Andrea Pietra, Ariel Staltari, Marcelo Subiotto, Claudio Martínez Bel, Orianna Cárdenas and Mora Fisz.
“For Me, the eternal representatives My Father Bringing Me The Comics Every Week,” Said Stagnaro at a Presser When the Project was announced. “I Believe it was One of the First Things I Read in ItS Entirey in My Life, At The Age of 10, and it had Profound Impact on My Way of Underestanding Fiction Made in My Country.”
The logline:
In the eternal 1969, The Great World Powers Have Forsken South America to Alien Invaders, and Pov Character Juan Salvo, Along with His Friend Professor Favalli, Metalworker Franco, and Neighbor Susanna, Join The Resistance In Buenos Aires Will not eat to their aid. Through The Lense of These Timeless Characters, The Politically Prescient Creators Ask Readers to Considers the Implications of Global Domination by The “Great Powers” Before It’s Too Late.
The Show debuts in April.
§ Another Classic Series Will Not Be Returning to Netflix: Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Will only have on Season. That was kind of the plan for the anime adaptation of the millennial icon, as creator Bryan Lee O’Malley Wrote on X:
“It’s Been One Year Since Scott Pilgrim Takes Off Came Out. It was honor to work with all of the cast & Staff Around the world. It was like behavior to symphony orchestra every day. From the moment [co-writer BenDavid Grabinski] Sparked the idea, The Project Felt Like A One of a Kind Miracle. Anyway, We were recently reported that the show Will not return. As you know, we only intended One Season, and street in a lot of favor to make it happen, so Making More Would Have Been Nearly Impossible. Still, I know the subm of you have been holding out Hope. “
Hope doesn’t more, fans!
