Francis Rothbart! The Tale Of A Fastidious Feral

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San Diego Comic-Con have announced the nominees for the 2023 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, honoring the best comics of 2022. Image and DC Comics received the most nominations, with Image earning 20 (plus six shared) for various titles, and DC receiving 11 (plus five shared), including three each for “The Human Target” and “Nightwing.” Among the charges against Woodruff from his former students: making a painting of Donald Trump from Woodruff’s own feces, and then using the school scanner to make a scan…and asking students to clear up the machine after him. This painting definitely exists:Parker: The Martini Edition—Last Call, by Richard Stark, Darwyn Cooke, Ed Brubaker, and Sean Phillips (IDW) As a openly gay man in my late sixties, I have been called ‘faggot’ more times than I would choose to remember, and seen too many die too young during the AIDs epidemic. Tom King, Batman: Killing Time, Batman: One Bad Day, Gotham City: Year One, The Human Target, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow(DC); Love Everlasting (Image) Geneviève Castrée: Complete Works,by Geneviève Castrée, translation by Phil Elverum and Aleshia Jensen (Drawn & Quarterly)

Marvel Comics received nine nominations (plus three shared), including two each in the Short Story, Single Issue, and Continued Series categories. Dark Horse had nine (plus two shared), led by two for Jeff Lemire’s Mazebook Dark Horse Direct Edition (Best Graphic Album–Reprint, Best Publication Design). Other projects with more than two nominations are The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night, by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda (Best Graphic Album–New, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist, Best Letterer; Abrams), and Joe Hill’s Rain by David M. Booher and Zoe Thorogood (Best Adaptation from Another Medium, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist, Best Cover Artist; Syzygy/Image). Over 20 titles had 2 nominations. The nominations are for works published between 1st January and 31st December 2022 and were chosen by a blue-ribbon panel of judges. Eligible voters – professionals in the industry – have until 9th June to cast their ballots.Come Over Come Over, It’s So Magic, and My Perfect Life, by Lynda Barry, edited by Peggy Burns (Drawn & Quarterly) In the days following the announcement, as a deeper understanding of the book and perspectives revealed by those who worked with Woodruff have come to light, Popverse has been talking with various individuals involved with the Francis Rothbart nominations. On Tuesday, we highlighted the criticism of the book and its author, along with statements from both Fantagraphics and Woodruff. Now, we provide a rare inside look at how this book came to the Eisner Awards judges' attention, how it was nominated, and the general reaction the judges have had following the nomination announcement from the perspective of someone in the proverbial "room where it happened."

How Comics Travel: Publication, Translation, Radical Literacies, by Katherine Kelp-Stebbins (Ohio State University Press)Francis Rothbart!is an allegory of an outsider child, who is orphaned in the wild as a toddler. He is different, trying in vain to be accepted by the local townspeople. He is an avatar of innocence, devoid of savagery, attempting to survive. His ethnic origins refer toTheJungle Book’s Mowgli, but Woodruff wanted his character’s personality to appear more gender fluid, with a feminine side. With all his attempts to fit in, his mother-figure is stoned to death by a gang of intolerant thugs; and in the ending sequences, the townsfolk come after him with pitchforks and torches. I really cannot overstate this: every single shred of critique aimed at Thomas Woodruff is long overdue. He abused and ruined the careers of fellow creatives for little reason beyond fear they could reveal the long shadow of his inadequacies for two decades. A few days of him receiving justifiable call outs concerning a consistent pattern of harmful behavior and Pat Brosseau , Batman: The Knight, Wonder Woman: The Villainy of Our Fears (DC): Creepshow, Dark Ride, I Hate This Place, Skybound Presents: Afterschool (Image Skybound) Diana Sousa, Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins; The Mighty Nein Origins: Yasha Nydoorin; The Mighty Nein Origins: Fjord Stone; The Mighty Nein Origins: Caleb Widogast (Dark Horse) But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust, edited by Charlotte Schallié (University of Toronto Press)