Last Update: December 28, 2025
Crime comics and Charlie Biro and Bob Wood – Toronto Sun
During the 1940s and ’50s, true crime comics were ubiquitous on the newsstands of Canada and the U.S. Typically based on real-life crimes, the lurid four-colour ten-cent dreadfuls always concluded with the killer frying in the electric chair or ventilated by police bullets...Lev Gleason’s Crime Does Not Pay... At its peak, the comic sold about six million copies a month... Early issues sold around 200,000, with that figure climbing to 800,000 by the end of the Second World War."
The comics of 2026 – IGN
Steve Ditko "The John Galt of Comic Books" – MSN Reason
DC's January 7th comics are going on sale already, breaking "street date" – Bleedingcool
"Mark Millar may no longer be under contract with Netflix" – Bleedingcool
How Godzilla conquers – Bounding into Comics
Godzilla Minus One director Takashi Yamazaki says that rather than changing their entire identities in order to appeal to overseas markets, the key to success for any given piece of Japanese media is for its creators to do the complete opposite and instead focus their attentions squarely on their domestic audiences..."
Review: Harley Quinn and Zatanna go mano a mano in Harley Quinn vs. Zatanna #1
A list of Christmas-themed superhero comic books – CBR
Ablaze Publishing has acquired NBM Publishing in an asset sale – NBM Publishing
"Top comics for Christmas Eve buying" – Comicsbeat
Four Superhero Christmas Movies – Comicbook
"Once, the comic book Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards were one, known as the Kirby Awards, until they fell all out. Now they are back..". – Bleedingcool
The fight over who gets to own Warner Bros is turning into a proxy war about bigger issues – Daily Overview
At stake is not only control of iconic brands like HBO, Max, and DC, but also the balance of power between traditional Hollywood studios and tech-driven platforms. The way President Trump's son-in-law entered and then exited the Paramount camp has reshaped the contest, leaving Netflix's path clearer on paper but still shadowed by antitrust and political risk..."
DC Comics covers for March 2026 books – Scans Daily
"From Barbie to Labubu, adults find comfort in collectible figurines" – Le Monde
The craze for Funko Pop! and other Blind Box collectibles has continued to grow, driven by a generation of 'kidults,' adults who embrace their inner child, turning their homes into miniature pop culture museums. Caught between a search for identity, a significant budget and environmental contradictions, this new hobby has become a mainstream phenomenon..."
Inside the Disney Marketing machine – MarTech
The downside to the Disney genius for taking over an existing brand and then exploiting it is that over time they "Disneyfy" the product. Witness Pixar, which was bought in 2006 and was meant to revitalize the Disney animation studio, but the leap forward in creative tech for Disney was matched by Pixar being drawn into the Disney style, the most obvious being the all-Disney-Pixar production of Brave (2012). This film contains a lot of "Disney humor" which would have fit into any number of Disney hand-drawn animated films of the previous decades, but would have not fit into a pre-Disney-era Pixar film.
Disney’s real marketing genius is piggybacking on emotional real estate others already built, then amplifying and monetizing it. Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars were all created by someone else. Disney bought them, plugged them into its machine and licensed them aggressively. LEGO, Funko, Loungefly, Crocs, Build-A-Bear and Daniels Jewelers all market Disney — and pay for the privilege.."
Call for entries in cartooning for 2025 – National Cartoonists Society
Diamond Comic Distributors bankruptcy money ordered released to publishers – Bleedingcool
This year, for the first time since 2015, I’m not doing a "best graphic novels of the year" list. There are too many great works out there to read... – Forbes
Reviews for these titles from Rob Salkowitz:
The Weight by Melissa Mendes. UltraWild by Steve Mushin, Talking to My Father’s Ghost by Alex Krokus, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Anais Flogny, Parable of the Talents, adapted from the novel by Octavia Butler by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, More Weight: A Salem Story by Ben Wickey, Insectopolis by Peter Kuper, In the End We All Die by Tobias Aeschenbacher, Dr. Werthless by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell, and Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance, by Ben Passmore.
The best Catwoman covers? – MSN Screenrant
Good Grief: SONY buys majority share over PEANUTS – MSN Los Angeles Times
Hollywood apocalypse: – MSN Deadline
On paper, the proposals by Paramount Global and Netflix may appear to be routine corporate transactions... Any acquisition of WBD by one of these companies would cause measurable harm to competition, consumers, workers, regional economies, America's trade balance, and U.S. cultural influence abroad... Warner Bros Discovery is one of the last full-scale major studios, producing everything from theatrical films and TV, including kids' animation, global franchises, sports, nonfiction, and exports content at an industrial scale. Remove WBD from the market, and the ecosystem contracts immediately...."
Richard Donner on why he made 'Superman' (1978) & the movie's connection to François Truffaut's 'Jules & Jim' (1962):
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Profile of DC/Marvel comics artist David Nakayama – KHNL Honolulu
You've got comic books, could they be worth millions of dollars? – KXAN Austin
Generally speaking, if you have millions of comics they might be worth millions of dollars.
Free Comic Book Day vs Comics Giveaway Day
The new Comics Giveaway Day has been trademarked by Penguin Random House and is now competing with the traditional Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) with both events being held simultaneously next on May 2, 2026. Canadian distributor Universal Distribution acquired the rights/brand to the long running FCBD which was originally created by comics retailer Joe Field in 2001. The first FCBD was in 2002, and the rights were eventually controlled by Diamond Comic Distributors. The bankruptcy of Diamond led to Universal Distribution gaining rights ownership, and because of the classic corporate "inability to come to an agreement" Penguin Random House has created its own controlled competing holiday.
The 22 Comics for the Comics Giveaway Day - titles from Boom, IDW, Dark Horse & Marvel – Bleedingcool
Diamond's Chapter 7 bankruptcy
Story at Publishers Weekly
Apparently, Diamond lost the backing of banks keeping them afloat while working through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which is a method to restructure a company and get it back into action paying off creditors and eventually emerging from court protection again as a normally functioning company.
Chapter 7 means the current Diamond leadership must sell off the remaining assets of the company in a complete process of liquidation. Meanwhile, there are court actions by publishers trying to get back the (generally unpaid for) consignment stock Diamond holds in their warehouses.
What those assets actually are and who owns them will be determined by the bankruptcy court...
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Dan dos Santos new Marvel comics artbook – Superherohype
What could happen from Diamond's Chapter 7 bankruptcy? – Comicsbeat
I’m told that under a Chapter 7 the goal will be to liquidate all assets as quickly as possible. While publishers were trying to get their inventory back via the mediation process this was taking a long time and the asking price was higher than expected. Under Chapter 7 they might be able to buy it back at a much lower price..."
The March 2026 "Hidden Gem" variant covers – 13th Dimension
The March 2026 Marvel books – Bleedingcool
Well, here it is: Diamond files to convert their bankruptcy to Chapter 7 – Comicsbeat
Books With Pictures comic shop in Portland describes climbing out of financial difficulties – The Comics Journal
Portland, Oregon is a comics town, and it could be fairly said that every generation of Portlanders gets the comic shop it deserves..."
"Kids are into comics again" – MSN BBC
...manager Chris Ball, who has worked at the store for nearly 30 years, reports another crowd getting stuck into the pages – a "healthy wave" of young people. At first, that may not seem surprising. After all, children were once the target audience for the format ... yet the fresh engagement has been enough for Mr Ball to take notice. Underpinned by a market offering "a comic for everybody", he puts the fresh business down, in part, to the superhero movie boom..."
Are your superhero comics worth anything? – MSN WGN News
More stories in the wake of the $9 million dollar sell of a copy of Superman #1 recently.
New magazine launch in 2026 to be concentrated on comic books – Bleedingcool
Comics! The Magazine is the latest attempt to do a new Wizard Magazine, being published by former retailer Atom! Freeman of Prama Direct Market Solutions, formerly of Valiant Entertainment, ComicHub and Bad Idea Comics, with former retailer Joseph Keatinge of Moonray, PopGun Rekcah and writer for Marvel, DC and Skybound, as its Editor-In-Chief..."
Presumably the publication will have a strong web presence and social media outreach.
The characters Scarlett Johansson "might" play in Batman II – Gizmodo
Webtoon program to boost creator viability on their platform
Story at Forbes and at Daily Cartoonist
As webtoons have gone from a niche to an important part of the comics industry in North America, there remains a power curve: a few breakout successes with media deals, merchandise and printed collections; a middle tier of titles doing well enough that creators can focus on them full time; and a vast “long tail” of work still in search of an audience at scale..."
Burning comic books in 1954 – Lexington Herald leader
It’s surprising how willingly kids stop reading bad comics when they realize what it’s doing to them," 12-year-old Richard Chadwell, vice president of his seventh grade’s Civics In Action Club, told a visiting newspaper reporter. "They show you 50 pictures on how to commit a crime and only one showing it doesn’t pay," added 12-year-old Jean McAdams..."
"The Depressed Hunter" coming in 2026 for the Moebius Library – Comicsbeat
What would have been: the Cancelled Angoulême Comic Art Festival for 2026 – Bleedingcool
Comic Con India announces event in 2026 announced for coastal city of Kochi – Deccan Chronicle [Map of Kochi, India]
Rare Spider-Man book "found under a bed" auctions for approx. $15,000 USD – MSN UK Daily Express
The haul, listed as the Alan McCulloch collection, included rare and possibly unique issues that went for over £200,000 when they sold at a series of auctions at Stanley Gibbons Baldwin's auction house during November and December, with Spider-Man #1 fetching £11070 alone...."
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