Neale Barnholden

After 36 Years, DC Comics To Publish Rick Veitch's Final Swamp Thing After 36 years, DC Comics has confirmed that they will publish Rick Veitch's final four issues of Swamp Thing in 2026

Part of my secret origins as a comics scholar was a paper I wrote in late grad school about medievalism in this abortive Swamp Thing arc, so it's pretty neat to find out that it will be published. Very sad that Michael Zulli didn't live to see it.

Wire Mother by Isabel J. Kim Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

ive been on-and-off trying to write a story about AI for a couple of years, and I think i finally cracked it with WIRE MOTHER, which is out in @clarkesworldmagazine.com (tw in the post below).

also hey, this issue is stacked??

clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_10_25/

Hey thanks for the compliment! If my book has any real effect I hope it's this, even more than the case studies.

Six unconventional courses for curious minds From K-pop and comedy to climate change policy and cancer-fighting nutrition, these six cool courses at the U of A offer something for everyone.

My forthcoming television course (Broadcasting to Screen Cultures) got a lovely write-up in the university newsletter!

www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/202...

IIRC Joel found the master tapes for K01 and K02 and released them digitally during the first Kickstarter campaign—so it's likely all existing copies are descended from those!

I wish I'd had this when I wrote my book—transcript of a Korean War-era Soviet news article. It's very sensationalistic but they do have a point about the weirdly violent chewing gum cards (later to culminate in, of course, MARS ATTACKS).

I've got a title already! "Let Those Laugh Who Win"

Phil LaMarr and Bill Morrison announcing the 2025 Eisner Awards in San Diego

I didn't win but the nomination was an honour and it was lovely to attend the Eisners in San Diego! Where else am I gonna hear Eddie Campbell read my name?!

got a new bookstand for convenient perusal of key texts

Jeff Lemire, Mariko Tamaki and Sarah Leavitt among Canadian finalists for 2025 Eisner Awards | CBC Books The U.S.-based awards celebrate comic book and graphic novel creators worldwide.

I am (accurately) named as a Canadian finalist for an Eisner! Great company on this list as this nomination continues to blow my mind.

The 2025 Eisner Awards Nominations Have Been Announced The 2025 Eisner Awards Nominations Have Been Announced...

My book FROM GUM WRAPPERS TO RICHIE RICH has been nominated for an Eisner Award! What an honour!

I just noticed that the DC Universe Infinite app version of MAD Magazine #122 uses the "RFK" version of the cover—the one that was never circulated due to Kennedy's murder. I believe the original cover was only recovered later. This couldn't possibly be by accident. But... why?

The record label for Long John Baldry's 1966 single "Unseen Hands".

I've always had a soft spot for this song, from the megaflop West End Robin Hood musical TWANG!!—both because it's way better than Long John Baldry's biggest hit "Let The Heartaches Begin" but also because at the end he does a laugh which foreshadows his performance as Dr Robotnik in the 90s.

Today at 7 PM GMT, I'm guesting on the excellent Centuries of Sound radio/podcast, talking with the great James Errington about the music, popular and otherwise, of 1942!

I imagine her as saying "We've got work to do" to Coffee Crisp

Comics & Memes x Culture Text with Neale Barnholden — Witch, Please

ICMYI! I returned to Hannah and Marcelle's podcast to talk memes, comics, and Richie Rich!

www.ohwitchplease.ca/all-episodes...

There's a scene in the live-action 1964 Tintin movie TINTIN ET LES ORANGES BLEUES where Captain Haddock is sitting in front of a portrait of Sir Francis Haddock, and it's painted to look like an Hergé drawing—I wonder if this inspired the caricature gag at the beginning of Spielberg's TINTIN.

I finally got to see Y2K (2024)—I quite like Kyle Mooney’s work but this felt like a huge misfire. The big picture problem is that the premise (Y2K… uh, happens) is so goofy that the movie’s attempts to be serious don’t even reach I.e. The World’s End. Much preferred the silly, stupid, gory moments.

Hey that's great to hear! Not sure if I mentioned in the episode but all credit to Dr. Pamela Dalziel for introducing me to the concept. I've found it really useful, and I hope it's insightful for you as well!

Material Girls A scholarly podcast about pop culture hosted by Hannah McGregor and Marcelle Kosman, produced by Witch, Please Productions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

After years away, I return to the world of Marcelle and Hannah podcasting as a guest! *mumble mumble* current events, surprisingly, come up but the episode is mostly about my book chapter on Richie Rich and What It All Means!

pod.link/979059619/ep...

A photograph of the spines of the following books: The House on the Borderland, Famous Men Who Never Lived, Cowboy Angels, An Infamous Army, The Heads of Cerberus, Red Harvest, The Virginian, Far Arden, After London, and Living Alone.

This term's assigned reading!

It must be really weird when it's an idea that other people are coming up with later—I think in his memoirs Kenny Loggins emphasizes that they really weren't thinking of it as a genre at the time, even though he's very positive about the whole thing in general.

The front cover of Nintendo Power #66, November 1994, with a cover showing a computer generated image of Donkey Kong

Looking through some boxes and forgot I had a copy of this pivotal issue (#66, November 1994); this is the first "advanced computer modelling" cover of Nintendo's in-house magazine. From this point on, they're going to sideline the idea of visualizing games using other techniques such as cartooning.

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This whole album is GI Joe in-character raps, and this one is particularly good.

Book Review: From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics reviewed by Brian Flota, Humanities Librarian and Associate Professor, James Madison University Libraries Neale Barnholden. From Gum Wrap...

My book's first legitimate review! Very exciting and flattering!

My book about materiality and comics has... materialized! Wonderful to hold this in my hands at last. And the graph looks pretty snazzy too!

From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wr...

My forthcoming book is on a sale! A good deal in my opinion, and still hundreds of times more than the gum on the cover! www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/F/From...

A catalogue listing for the book "From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics" from the University Press of Mississippi" by Neale Barnholden.

It's really happening! My book about cheap comics is coming this summer.

Spending all week indexing my book. it's tough work but there's a lot of fun juxtapositions. For example "Iron Man" directly follows "Iran-Contra"