TODAY November 7, 2026
You got old comic books? When to get them priced – MSN Las Vegas News
Comics are usually sorted into eras, and age is a rough guide to scarcity. Books from the late 1930s through the 1950s are the rarest, since few were saved and paper was often thrown away. Silver Age books from the late 1950s into the 1970s come next, followed by Bronze Age issues from the early 1970s to the mid 1980s. Older doesn't automatically mean valuable, though..."
Interview with IDW Publishing CEO Davidi Jonas – Forbes
Interview with Tsumugi Yoshino (吉野紡) – Realsound
Funko sales are off – ICV2
Friday, November 6, 2026
Marvel's only release for Comics Giveaway Day will be a new Hulk #1 May 2027 – Comicsbeat
Looks like instead of distributing several promotional previews or specially produced giveaway comics, Marvel is giving away the entire Hulk first issue of a new ongoing series. On the other hand, Marvel will also sell variant-cover editions in blind bags.
Thirteen times comic book artists and writers put themselves into stories – 13th Dimension
It's been done a few times: Al Feldstein, Bill Gaines, Wally Wood, Joe Kubert, Irv Novick, Gene Colan, Ross Andru & Mike Esposito, Jack Abel, Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, Gardner Fox, Robert Kanigher, Gil kane, Gary Friedrich, Dick Ayers, John Severin, Roy Thomas, Curt Swan, Jim Aparo, Bob Haney and Murray Boltinoff – and more at the article.
Casting for new John Constantine movie – Daily Times PK
The Black Bat vs Batman legal battle of 1939 – Bleedingcool
"Caped Crusader" is cleaning up litter in London, paying other people's parking fines at hospitals, giving away some $46K in fuel, and more – Reading Eagle
Marvel's Wolverine game has "had a shaky debut, to say the least" – MSN Games Radar
...New financial results from Sony prove as much, showing that the Wolverine-inspired title has sold just 2.4 million copies in the few months since its release...
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Interview with Victor Dermo about the publication of the second volume of Diamond Little Boy – Actuabd [French]
...manga artist Victor Dermo, originally from Caen, began publishing the first chapters of his project online in 2016. He subsequently self-published the manga, which also received its first distribution in Japan through the BookWalker platform. In 2025, a new edition was published by Vega-Dupuis.
Interview with Achdé about the continuing adventures of Lucky Luke – Miklmayer [French]
Interview with Skai Campbell, AKA Skhoshbell – Broken Frontier
Interview with manga artist Daisuke Igarashi discussing Children of the Sea, Kamakura Bakeneko Club, and Japanese folklore – Journal du Japon [French]
Tracing Manga's history with Kobayashi Makoto – The Comics Journal
If there is one thing America needs to copy from Japan, it’s the mook. “Magazine Books” are special-issue magazine printed on great quality paper, usually with lots of color photos and illustrations. The publisher Kawade Shobō usually issues a mook showcasing the career of prominent cultural figures, like writers or manga artists, on a semi-monthly basis. They come with interviews, essays on the person’s works, a timeline of their career, and lots of interesting side pieces about the person..."
That's a good idea. Is there an American audience for it, though?
Thursday, November 5, 2026
Interview with Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz – Comicsbeat
So you wanna buy the Batmobile from Batman Returns (1992) - - guess what, there are rules to ownership – Modern Car Collector
The practical terms it lists are specific. The car may be exhibited as part of the owner’s permanent collection and at qualifying auto shows and similar public venues. With appropriate approvals, it may also appear at other venues, including museum exhibitions and charitable or nonprofit events. The lot description states that the Batmobile’s appearance has not been altered since production of Batman Returns. ...The car must remain stationary when exhibited to the public. It may not be leased to third parties..."
You can easily guess why Warners is laying in these rules. With someone presumably willing to spend millions (an estimated auction price of $5 to $7 million is what is claimed at Juliens Auction House for the coming November 23 event) means the car will be expected to burnish and polish the Batman character in the general public perception, to not detract from such an important, money-making intellectual property. A degraded Batmobile showing up in the news would be super-newsworthy (i.e., clickbait), but it would also cast Batman Inc. in a bad light. But a shiny, good looking Batmobile appearing at various publicity-soaked events will only be free promotion for Warners' big earning superhero property. And, Warners spent a lot of money on Batman Returns and this Batmobile build and probably doesn't want to see it turned into a cheap joke, or, at worst, junk.
Interview with Flavien Chervet — French graphic-novel writer – Blogdumoderateur [French]
DC Comics' marketshare blossomed last week to an amazing size – Bleedingcool
Wednesday, November 4, 2026
What's releasing today in comic shops – with 537 covers – Fresh Comics
Clayface at $87,086,546 million - - losing steam to turn a profit over production cost – The Numbers
Kat Kan "a tireless advocate for graphic novels in libraries for over 40 years" has died. – ICV2
Graphic novels were still in their infancy in 1983, when Kan began bringing them into libraries; Will Eisner's A Contract with God was published in 1978, and Art Spiegelman's Maus would not appear until 1986. Her "Graphically Speaking" column, which ran in the library magazine Voice of Youth Advocates from 1994 to 2019, was influential in getting libraries to acquire them, as librarians depend on professional reviews for guidance in building a collection..."
"DC Comics is changing Darkseid stuff and its gonna enrage Kriby purists" – Comicbook
Interview with Sandy King Carpenter, editor of Storm King Comics – Comic Watch
Audio interview with Charlie Stickey of White Ash line of comics – Podcasts Apple
Review: Harvey Pekar's THE QUITTER
Published By DC Comics in 2005, The Quitter is often called Pekar's most accessible and comprehensive work in a single volume.
Though partially a nostalgic reminisces about growing up in Cleveland and then decamping for New York, only to return again, Pekar also infuses the tale with a running theme of confused failure and determination to account for it and move on, only to return again to the same personal dilemmas in another episode from his personal history. The repetition isn't in the writing, which carries the tale forward with a variety of perspectives as Pekar questions himself and his view of his events with intelligence. The repetition is in the unexplained (to both Pekar and the reader) why the same destructive decisions were made over and over.
Though he can't explain it, Pekar doesn't leap to a convenient psychological explanation either, which, whether intended or not, Pekar has then made it possible for the reader to interact with the tale and to see and decide about what it means and why it is happening without some "official" social judgment hanging over the central character.
Haspiel's artwork services the story well, though a sameness pervades the geography he depicts, with streets and places seeming generic and not demonstrating the affection Pekar feels in his text for the locations. Since much of the tale is internal to Pekar's own thoughts, this isn't as big a handicap as it could have been. Still, it removes the ability of the visual story to bring Cleveland or New York to life as a character in the tale.
Perhaps the only truly significant flaw in the art is that in the early pages which is a narrative of Pekar brawling and fighting in the streets with other kids, the artwork lead me to believe I was looking at a young teen boy, only to discover through the text the kid throwing the punches is only six years old. Simply put, Pekar doesn't look six on those pages, this inappropriate depiction.
Pekar's story is heartfelt and full of his nostalgic warmth and friendliness towards men and women from his past, many of who are profiled quickly but with a sense of identity, which is a nice feat considering Pekar's own identity overwhelms and dominates this memoir. Unfortunately, this isn't the same way Pekar's own parents are shown, though early his mother and father are presented with a brief, sympathetic biography, but this unwinds later and they come across as caricatured cartoon figures, providing weak comedy or simply so thinly revealed they don't seem real.
Though the story is engaging, the narrative speed is flawed, because history jerks forward at times with only minimal explanation, as if either Pekar's own interest had waned, or the combined writing is cobbled together from a set of incomplete source documents. These problems with tone and speed could have been fixed by any editor at DC Comics because they only crop up in a handful of places. Instead it hangs like a a crude, jarring form of chapter break between stories.
November 3, 2026
Cat-Man Comics #12 goes to Auction – Bleedingcool
This 1942 issue has a Charles M. Quinlan editorial extolling the virtues of "Batman" like characters over "Superman" style characters, it also describes how the onset of war has impacted the comic book industry.
The issue in question is at auction at Heritage and is considered quite "scarce," that is, rated a seven on the "scarcity index."
After decades being absent, Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Swee’Pea will be in Macy’s 2026 Thanksgiving Parade – Dailycartoonist
‘Goltong’ Cartoonist Ha Seung-nam has died – Cineplay
Martial Arts Comics Master Was First Korean Full Member of Japanese Association.."
The "bronze age" roots to Mark Buckingham’s January variant cover for The Amazing Spider-Man #1007 – 13th Dimension
Singapore Comic-Con is expanding – Savepointgaming
Interview with Manga artist Genkidown (ゲンキダウン) – Realsound.jp [Japanese]
Talks about Saenai Jōshi to Omottara ("I Thought He Was an Unremarkable Boss"), a punk-rock comic featuring a seemingly ordinary middle-aged office worker. The artist discusses writing song lyrics before plotting the story, keeping it under 12 pages, and the influence of Motörhead.
There’s a certain demographic and I’m not going to say what it is but they have driven comic book sales into the ground wanting a softer look for the characters. That’s all imma say.
— Raphael’s Sai (@The4thTurtleNyC) November 2, 2026
Monday, November 2, 2026
Ryan Reynolds developing an Alpha Flight project? – Yahoo
"Star-Studded Harvey Awards Celebrate Batman..." – Publishers Weekly
Interview with Dutch cartoonist Aimée de Jongh discusses her new graphic novels Samir and Dessiner Lesbos – Agebd [French]
Batmobile gets pulled over in Canada for traffic violation: amateur Bat-film being made doesn't preclude road law – Jacarandafm
When Harlan Ellison wrote a Daredevil story for Marvel – /Film
Sunday, November 1, 2026
Shojo Comics' growing size – Nippon
Shōjo (少女) — young girl or adolescent girl.
Manga (漫画) — Japanese comics or graphic storytelling.
DC Comics back on top against Marvel for marketshare – Bleedingcool
Examing the work of Japanese manga artist Jirō Taniguchi through a major retrospective at Belgium's Fondation Folon. Jirō Taniguchi: Beyond A Distant Neighborhood – ActuaBD [French]
How DC Comics overtook Marvel with Absolute titles – Viking News
Saturday, October 31, 2026
Manga "is being read everywhere" – Smithsonian Mag
The 10-room exhibition, which includes more than 600 original illustrations, begins with a first-floor introduction to manga. Visitors become acquainted with the medium’s structure, history and two influential mangaka. Those are Fujio Akatsuka, the "King of Gag Manga," who helped push the medium into absurd, comedic realms, and Tetsuya Chiba, a storytelling master who explored themes of war and peace, economic insecurity, sports and social divisions, laying the groundwork for other mangaka to do the same..."
Art of Manga is at the Brooklyn Museum in New York City through January 31, 2027.
New Batman casting? it's getting closer says James Gunn – Los Angeles Times
Diamond Distributors: "...the fate of nearly $50 million of inventory at cost has now been settled" – ICV2
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