Last Update May 2, 2026
All the "Free Comic Book Day" titles being handed out – Comicbook
"Evangeline Lilly slams Disney" – Total Film
Has Absolute Batman's sales impacted the sales on other books? – Something
Profile of Scott Hanna – WFMZ
Is there "Superhero Fatigue"? – Nerdist
...few superhero movies have performed the same way they did in the late 2010s. But one person who doesn’t believe in superhero fatigue is DC Studios co-head Peter Safran. That’s the one who’s not James Gunn."
IMAX profits of 2026... not like 2025 – Hollywood Reporter MSN
Action film not doing so well: family films and horror on the upswing – Straits Times
25 years of "Free Comic Book Day" – Mercury News
Back-issue management, inventory and gaining new readers for comics – Comicsbeat
"46 Comic Shops With Free Comic Book Day 2026 - Events This Saturday" – Bleedingcool
New cover for second printing of Superman/Spider-Man crossover – Comicbookmovie
The best comic book stores in America? – AOL News
Strongest comic book market in The South? Knoxville – Knoxville News-Sentinel
Tucked into the foothills of the Appalachian and Smoky Mountains is a comic book market that’s far more active than most people would expect...."
Gerry Conway 1952–2026
Born Gerard Francis Conway
"..Influential comic book author who co-created dozens of characters for DC and Marvel, among them The Punisher, Ms. Marvel, Firestorm and Power Girl, and some of the most impactful Spider-Man stories ever published...." – MSN Hollywood Reporter
The prolific comic book writer who co-created characters such as the Punisher, Ms Marvel, Jason Todd and others – MSN Los Angeles Times
"A comics legend" – MSN Deadline Hollywood
James Gunn talks about Gerry Conway – Yahoo Coming Soon
Gerry Conway has died – Bleeding Cool
What did Scott Snyder expect with Absolute Batman? Not what happened – Bleeding Cool
Record-breaking sale of Pikachu Illustrator card for $16.5M by Logan Paul – MSN Hosted
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Interview with Frank Quitely – The Comics Journal
UK comics creator Barrie Tomlinson has died – Daily Cartoonist
Increasing popularity of "horror manga" – Publishers Weekly
Frank Stack has passed away
Interview with Frank Stack from 1995 – The Comics Journal
Obituary – Daily Cartoonist
Obituary April 2026 – Millard Family Chapels
Frank Stack, artist, cartoonist, educator, and pioneer of underground comics, passed away..."
About the graphic memoir Opioids & Organs by Arizona O’Neill coming in May – Montreal Gazette
See at Walmart April 2026
Record-breaking auction of Captain America memorabilia – Comicbook
The 2026 Marvel movie slate – MSN News
The new Barry Smith Art book featuring Marvel projects – Comicsbeat
The 46 Marvel comics coming in July – Bleedingcool
The 100+ April 22, 2026 comic book releases – Fresh Comics
The "pressure in adapting Asterix, one of Europe’s most iconic franchises" for Netflix – Cartoonbrew
Controversy around George Pratt art book project – Comicsbeat
Los Angeles Times Festival of Books awards Jaime Hernandez Best of the Year Award for Graphic Novel – Daily Cartoonist
The layoffs at Mad Cave – Bleedingcool
Ranking the 13 Batman "intercompany" crossovers – 13th Dimension
Batman + Green Hornet, Batman + Spider-Man, Batman + TMNT, etc.
So, how expensive exactly is Avengers Doomsday? – Comicbookmovie
On his YouTube show, John Campea said he's been told that Doomsday has a production budget of $400 million (we're not sure if this is factoring in reshoots costs), and that the studio plans to spend another $300 million on marketing..."
With this kind of spending, the term "billion dollar movie" has a specific meaning: it'll take that kind of box office to pay back the production for even making this movie, as movie theaters will keep (probably) around 50% of the gross ticket sales. Such a situation means to get back the projected $700 million spent on making and getting Avengers Doomsday out the door, Disney/Marvel will need numbers like $1.4 billion to turn the first dollar of profit..
"Avengers Doomsday" will turn out to be a horribly ironic title if this movie tanks.
"X-Men comic books even the fans avoid!" – Comicbook
‘Rogue Trooper’ animation movie version of ‘2000 AD’ comic book character – Deadline Hollywood
Like many of 2000 AD’s strips, Rogue Trooper comes with a very high-concept premise, which is that, in the future, soldiers will have their military skills and personalities transferred onto a microchip that can then be downloaded into a new host, human or otherwise. Which is how number 19, aka the Rogue Trooper (Aneurin Barnard), comes to find himself caught behind enemy lines with a very odd platoon: Gunnar (voiced by Jack Lowden), his rifle; Bagman (Reece Shearsmith), his backpack; and Helm (Daryl McCormack), his helmet. Comedy icon Ade Edmonson even has a cameo — as a pair of boots....."
1991 Justice League Europe Annual #2 – Scans Daily
Absolute Batman #19 leads the bestseller list – Bleedingcool
Well, it's Superman Day again – Oregon Live
Every April 18, fans celebrate Superman Day, marking the 1938 release of Action Comics No. 1 — the debut that introduced a new kind of hero and helped shape the superhero genre as we know it today. His first appearance had an original print run of about 130,000 copies, which sold out almost immediately, eventually reaching roughly 200,000 with a second printing in circulation. Earlier this year, a copy reportedly sold for an astonishing $15 million — not a bad investment for what had an original 10-cent cover price..."
On the other hand:
Superman Day is really about Supergirl – Bleeding Cool
Stealing-spree with man accused of absconding with $34,000 of Legos – UK Independent
"...by swapping the plastic bricks for dried pasta."
DC's July comic book release list – Comicsbeat
"Marvel Massacre" as layoffs hit Disney and includes film and television production, publishing, franchise operations, finance and legal – Yahoo News Finance
The "Marvel Massacre" – New York Post MSN
One of the hardest-hit areas will be the visual development unit at Marvel Studios, the award-winning team responsible for shaping the signature look of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The group — made up of illustrators, character designers and other creative specialists — played a key role in defining blockbuster titles such as "The Avengers," "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Daredevil."
IDW promotes their Summer release slate: TMNT, Sonic, Godzilla, Hello Kitty, others – Comicbook
Superman‘s David Corenswet is making a football pic for Paramount – Deadline
Obit of famed international cartoonist Hermann Huppen – The Comics Journal
Huppen was an autodidact who found comics by chance. Born in 1938 in Bévercé, a village in the Ardennes close to the Belgian-German border, he was trained for industrial decoration. He employed those talents at Brussels' Expo '58 (the source of that city's well-known Atomium monument). He also worked briefly in Manhattan and Montréal. But, when he returned to Belgium, Hermann settled down.
His various works include: Bernard Prince, Comanche, and Jeremiah – "Considered a master of European comics realism."
After 23 year, Marvel Sales head David Gabriel is out – Comicsbeat
Today's DC and Marvel releases – Fresh Comics
52 Marvel and 49 DC Comics come out today. Covers at the link.
Comic book exhibits "come alive" at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum – Ever After
In Columbus, Ohio - official web site for the museum
"Box office rebound" at theaters – Variety MSN
Another copy of Action Comics #1, is headed to auction – Comicbook – the auction will happen at Heritage Auctions
The Diamond Distributors ongoing legal morass: it's still a morass – Comicsbeat
How about DC puts out an omnibus of The Amazing World of DC Comics? – 13th Dimension
New Superman game wants to "break the gaming curse" – Polygon
Preview art for Superman-Spider-Man crossover – icv2
Sam Kieth Obit – The Comics Journal
....He was a rabid fan of certain artists," said Scott Dunbier of his longtime friend. "The top five artists that he loved, we talked about a lot: Frank Frazetta, Bernie Wrightson, Vaughn Bodē, Jeffrey Catherine Jones, Robert Crumb, and Arthur Suydam. He loved Arthur Suydam's work, especially his Mudwog comics in Heavy Metal. He loved the portfolio that Arthur did. He loved Crumb. Sam looks almost like a cross between Frazetta and Crumb to me a lot of the time. It's kind of funny how he could make those styles work and integrate them so beautifully..."
"The Case Against Free Comic Book Day" – Bleedingcool
The complaint seems to be that not only has the day stopped bringing in new customers but has morphed into a "customer appreciation day" with free comic books being handed out, meanwhile it is getting more and more complicated as there are now two different competing events, the original "Free Comic Book Day" and "Comics Giveaway Day."
I assumed the publishers sent out the free comic books based on what the stores had ordered, and the publishers were paying for them. I mean, if giving away free comics was such a great thing, wouldn't the publishers be supporting it more? I was ignorant and wrong..."
The return of the "superstar artists" with DC's Absolute Line – Hollywood Reporter
The return of the artist as superstar "is good for the business, it is good for the artform," he [Jim Lee] says. Key to the rising artists phenomenon is the runaway success of DC's Absolute line. Launched towards the end of 2024, the line led by Absolute Batman, Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Superman, reinterpreted characters and origins in a truly sweeping way. Unlike other so-called "relaunches" that DC or Marvel have done, this one has reinvigorated publishers and retailers alike, unexpectedly brought in new readers, and created name artists who can turn a simple three hour signing into a caffeinated, we're-still-signing-at-midnight mania, as Dragotta and Johnson did late last year in an Oakland, Calif. comic shop. Or have hundreds upon hundreds line up in a shop in Spain, as Jimenez did in February. And they are now capitalizing on that newfound mainstream recognition..."
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Hugo Pratt and how his wartime experiences influenced Corto Maltese and other comics – NY Times
Pratt’s own life was as eventful as any of Corto’s stories. His father, Rolando Pratt, was a Fascist by marriage: His father-in-law, a pedicurist named Eugenio Genero, had been among the first Venetians to join Mussolini’s Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, in 1919. Eugenio was proud of his role as an early supporter of Mussolini, and of his Axis connections, which he used to find work for Rolando, who had no family of his own. "The Fascist brotherhood was like a new family to him," Pratt said of Rolando. The cartoonist’s favorite relative was his uncle Ruggero, a sailor, an anarchist, a bit of a creep and an early model for Corto..."
The article is a great overview of Hugo Pratt's life and the events that impacted him (such as being forced into Mussolini's army and the world of anti-fascism Pratt dwelled in from both Europe and in Brazil), plus an introduction of a sort to the new publishing of CORTO MALTESE: Fable of Venice and Other Adventures from Fantagraphics.
Matt Baker's romance comic books – Bleedingcool
Wednesday's new comics covers and reactions – AITP Comics
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