Last Update June 23, 2026
The Webslinger apparently has an alternative income source – Comicsbeat
Promo for Spider-Man Brand New Day movie coming July 31st reveals Peter Parker's upscale living conditions.
The upscale nature of Peter Parker’s pad was immediately spotted on social media – it even has its own washer/dryer, a luxury that ordinary New Yorkers in their 400 sq foot rent controlled hobbit holes can only dream of. It has high ceilings, tons of exposed brick, hard wood floors and even lots of light!... I would move in here in a heartbeat. Checking Zillow, I found a comparable apartment in BedStuy renting for $5495 – actually a pretty good deal..."
Charity donation drive to help with funeral costs for former Heavy Metal Magazine and Comics Journal editor Ted White – Go Fund Me
Anti-Putin Russian caricaturist Robert Kuzovkov AKA Semyon Skrepetsky shot dead
Story at UPI Press MSN
The things you may not know about the Batman movie of 1989 – 13th Dimension
Spider-Man hoodie and Helluva Boss Blitz & Stolas shirt at a Virginia Mall, June 2026
What happens when your shop has a lot of copies of Absolute Batman but the competing store in town doesn't? – Bleeding Cool
Still, this week made up for it, for us at least. Absolute Batman is the bestselling comic here in the store. People love it, and so do I.Absolute Batmanis the magnet that now brings in the most customers. But this week, it brought even more, and I saw lots of new faces, and sales are even higher than I expected. By 1 pm, I do what I tell myself never to do: I check the store sales, even though I should be focusing on the customers. My curiosity got the better of me, and two hours into opening, the sales total is already around the average for a total Absolute Batman Wednesday.
More people I have never seen before are coming in, even those who had abandoned their pull box through us. This is a perfect time for an awkward conversation. Finally, some customers tell me that another store not too far away was unlucky enough not to receive their full shipment for Wednesday, and that they did not have any copies ofAbsolute Batman at all... "
"Alex Ross is a monumental figure in the comic book medium" and he has "big plans for comicon" – ScreenRant
Review: Disclosure Day – Director Steven Spielberg has a lot of serious thoughts about UFOs and the spacemen who ride them, and has made quite a few films that already pay attention to the subject in a thoughtful way. But in Disclosure Day Spielberg goes "all the way" and makes a direct apepal to the audience in the form of star Emily Blunt looking straight across the "4th wall" and telling the popcorn eaters to "listen."
More about Disclosure Day, 2026
"Marvel relics" auction has Killmonger’s full Black Panther "Golden Jaguar" suit – Comicbook
Starting bid is $50K – Heritage Auctions
John Byrne comes back to X-Men – MSN Hollywood Reporter
Superman's "golden age roots" are featured in new series – Mary Sue
Lance Footer "legally blind" superhero artist at Charlotte Heroes Concention – North Carolina Post and Courier
The September books coming from Marvel – Bleeding Cool
Trenchcoat and Schwarzenegger arms for Absolute Batgirl – BleedingCool
A José Luis García-López Artist’s Edition book coming next year – Comicsbeat
You can now buy Wolverine's jacket and claws from X-Men United – Comicbook
That is, Hugh Jackman's outfit from the film. It is starting off at $50K - Heritage Auction
The "evil Superman" suit from Superman III (1983) is also up for auction
How one underground comic book took over a generation – Right Livin'
And landed on lunchboxes.
USA Today and Marvel team-up for digital access on an archive of comic books – MSN USA Today
USA TODAY and Marvel Comics have partnered to provide USA TODAY’s PLAY digital entertainment hub with access to the most popular comic-book characters in the Marvel universe. PLAY will be the exclusive home for the new vertically formatted “Spider-Man TODAY” Infinity Comic series, which runs for 48 weeks beginning June 16 – with new issues dropping every Wednesday. Readers also will be able to dig into 1,000 curated archival Marvel comics ranging from old-school classics to modern favorites..."
Marjane Satrapi 1969–2026 Obituary – The Comics Journal
Marjane Satrapi (Marjan Ebrahimi), whose death at 56 was announced June 4, was a highly atypical artist. Her incredible life embraced numerous cultures, languages and traumas. At 12, she was cowering in a basement while bombs fell; at 39, she was on a Hollywood red carpet. Her character was shaped early on by war and repression but it also owed a lot to her lonely adolescence..."
"DC's bets big on"the girl in the shadow of Superman" – News 24
Deniz Camp gets exclusive writing deal at DC Comics – Bleeding Cool
"I think we all agree Marvel Comics is struggling a bit right now" – Comics Beat
The coming book The DC Art of Michael Turner – IGN
Boxoffice "a decent weekend for theaters"
Story at The Numbers
Masters of the Universe drops 71% from first weekend, and now at $86.1 million for the world take. That's terrible news (money-wise) for a film reportedly costing $200 million to make. With another $100 million (guess) spent on marketing, to break-even, the film needs to earn approximately $600 million world wide (since theaters usually keep 50% of of ticket money). Intended as a blockbuster summer film, the He-Man live action film appears to be tanking.
The opening week for the Steven Spielberg movie Disclosure Day pulled $92.8 million worldwide, and that's a strong start for film that cost $200 million for both film and marketing, which means the hurdle to leap over is $400 million (that is, anything past the 50% mark is probably profit) - which is possible based on Disclosure Day's strong start. This has been called "Grandpa Spielberg's return to his roots" but not the Spielberg Retirement Film since he has a remake of Steve McQueen's 1968 Bullitt on his schedule.
Barrie Tomlinson 1938–2026 – UK The Times
UK comics editor, writer and innovator known for Roy of the Rovers, 2000 AD, Battle, the weekly horror comic Scream!, among others.
The new Spider-Woman – Bleedingcool
What held the top on the comic book sales charts for May
Story at Comicsbeat
"The everlasting allure of the American comic book"
Story at Washington Post
They are ridiculous. They are addictively great. Comic books, of the superhero variety, are 100% American. Compare the thin comic book to Europe’s graphic novels, and they come off looking flimsy, infantile. Compare the American comic to Japanese Manga and they appear innocent in their fixation with heroism; they hark back to a departed American age..."
The Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum in Connecticut – Family Destination
Tucked away in Cheshire, this museum is a love letter to pop culture, animation, and the kind of nostalgia that hits you right in the feels..."
The comic strips by Marjane Satrapi for Le Monde – Le Monde
"Gideon Brimingham is a one-man comic book band" – Time Free Press
The DCU is setting up its reboot of Wonder Woman – Comicbookmovie
The role of comic books in the invention of America – Orange County Register
Exhibit Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution at the Skirball Cultural Center, 701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles
A lot of that’s because the industry was founded in New York City, which was a major center of immigration," Reed says. "The comics companies that were sort of low-end publishing coming out of pulp and broadsheets were an industry founded largely by immigrants, by Jewish Americans.
"And if you were a young Jewish American in New York City, and you had artistic aspirations as Jack Kirby did, if you wanted to work in the arts, the comic book was there.
"The kids in the Lower East Side [where Kirby was born] weren’t necessarily attending fine art programs or going to art schools," Reed says. "They weren’t necessarily able to jump straight to commercial illustration. So to work in comic books was a way to express your creativity and also provide for your family."
Underground comics, Don Donahue, and getting them printed – The Comics Journal
Fantagraphics racks up 50 year anniversary – KUOW
If there is a "house style" at Fantagraphics, it seems to be somewhere in the team's counterculture beginnings, their appreciation for art, and their disdain for the status quo..."
44th year of the Charlotte NC HeroesCon – Charlotte Observer
Beginning Friday and going until Sunday, HeroesCon attendees will get the chance to meet prolific comic book writer and artist John Romita Jr., get a look at an original copy of Superman’s first issue from 1938 in Action Comics, or show off their cosplay."
At the door of the Hot Topic mall store "Truth, justice, whatever" June 9, 2026
The Rolling Stones rock group is doing a promo with Marvel Comics – Broadway World
Hopefully they're not donating blood for the project, like some other bands.
The "definitive Batman" - Adam West – Early Game MSN
Marjane Satrapi's Defiance – The Atlantic
Marjane Satrapi obit: The French-Iranian known for her graphic novel Persepolis – UK The Guardian
Marjane Satrapi 1969–2026 – Vogue
An outpouring of grief filled my social media feeds at the sudden death, last week, of Marjane Satrapi, the 56-year-old French-Iranian author, artist, filmmaker, and activist, best known for her comic book memoir-slash-novel, Persepolis.
...Arriving in the United States in the wake of 9/11, Persepolis shattered common preconceptions about Iran, bringing the country’s complex history and the humanity of its people vividly alive for readers.
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Lee Lai's graphic novel Cannon has won the 2026 Doug Wright Award for best comic book – CBC CA
The award are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright.
The Dark Horse Comics Union gets recognition – Comicsbeat
The weeks best selling comics: Batman over Spidey – Bleedingcool
Jim Fitzpatrick Cap'n America murals going up on auction – Irish Times
Scary Movie leads weekend box office; Masters of the Universe opens with $4.4 million in previews. They expect $30 million to $35 million for the weekend haul up against the production cost of estimated $200 million – Variety
Predictions of a $55 million opening for Supergirl – MSN Deadline Hollywood
Related: "Milly Alcock’s ‘punk rock’ Supergirl takes flight as DC bets big on the Woman of Tomorrow" Washington Post
It's gotten pretty easy to bet against superhero movies, too many have failed in the last years. A tragic irony will be that Hollywood, seeing the money being made from the earlier superhero films, have moved forward to blow all the profits on those movies on sequels and reboots that don't make money but just cost money.
But Supergirl is only marginally a sequel (to 2025's Superman), and though there was an earlier Supergirl movie (1984), there's no resounding footprint of expectation for what's coming when Supergirl relases on June 26.
But... going by the trailers, this James Gunn superhero movie leans hard on "attitude" and this Supergirl (though directed by someone else) is still in the wheelhouse of that approach. If the film can deliver with a legit story to back up the swagger, that'd be a nice way for DC to break out of the string of losers they've been shipping to the screen.
The talk of "superhero fatigue" that crops up when super-movies are gliding to subpar earnings (or just crashing and burning) seems to correspond to superhero films that are thin on story and use the same tricks and plot elements of earlier films. The criticism that keeps getting heaped on James Gunn is "what, another Guardians of the Galaxy rip-off?"
In his defence, Gunn handles team dynamics in films well. He is able to marshall a lot of characters in a story and keep them distinct instead of blurring together. He should be ideal for superhero-team movies (which is what the 2025 Superman really was), but somehow that poor DCU film was overmade and a little stupid. Maybe Supergirl will be different.
Why does Manga dominate traditional comic books? Its the delivery method for the stories! – Amazon S3 Comicstorian
You got to live long enough to get past the video ads and the sponsorship type stuff at the start, but the analysis of the "why" provides an interesting take.
The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is getting closer to the opening date – MSN New York Post
Its vast collection stretches across more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space, showcasing over 1,200 treasures selected from a founding collection of more than 40,000 works..."
Archie Comics and Shaquille O'Neal doing comic books together – MSN Variety
The "unusual 40th anniversary for Dark Horse Comics" – The Comics Journal
"Union Demands and Financial Troubles" — This article examines some of the major changes affecting the various branches of Dark Horse, such as publishing, retail stores, and other miscellaneous stuff, but particularly the effort of employees to unionize.
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