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October 23, 2021

The Multiple Spidermen of Empire Magazine

The new Empire Magazine cover tie-ins to the Spider-Man No Way Home film

Empire Magazine COver Multiple Spidermen

Alternative cover of multiple-Spider-Men "illustrated exclusively for Empire by Murugiah"

Empire Spider-Man Tom Holland


Neil Gaiman interviewLondon Evening Standard


New Popeye hardcover collectionPreviewsworld


Comic Book Sales Numbers

Getting numbers for sales of comic books is getting harder and harder. On the other hand there's this chart at Wikipedia

Sales of Comic Book Collections

More info: Comichron July 2021 Estimates

Previous info removed: There ARE numbers to account for current sales (previous article says the info isn't available. That was incorrect.).

Reversing the trend:

American comic book publishers are again trying to break into the manga format ("Superman's First Manga Lands In Japan"Comicbook) in a successful, money-making way. Sequential storytelling can fit just about any format, and it behooves American publishers to go where the audience is.

Related:

For a pre-Diamond breakup 2019 primer on sales and monopolies at Comic Book Herald

"PrintWatch: No More Second Printings From Image Comics"Bleeding Cool

"The great book shortage of 2021, explained - Demand for books is way up this year. Supplies are way, way down"Vox


In praise of Drawn and Quarterly

There is arguably no better place in North America for an independent, literary graphic novel publisher to be based than Montreal. Sure, it is a sizeable market with a foot in the English and French languages, but Quebec’s biggest city also has a deeprooted appreciation of comics as an artform and, like the rest of the Francophone world, an understanding that bandes dessinées aren’t just for les enfants.

That culture is part of the reason why Montreal-based Drawn & Quarterly (D&Q) has built itself up, in the 31 years since its founding by then-23-year-old cartoonist Chris Oliveros, as one of the globe’s most respected alternative comics publishers.

Story at The Bookseller


The Batman and the Kilmer suit

...doing an early screen test, Pattinson had to wear Val Kilmer’s rubber Batsuit "

Pattinson talks up The Batman at DC Fandome, October 2021


Batzman 114 Cover by Kudzu

Apologies to Batman #114 / DC Comics and Spinal Tap.


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Original page October 28, 2021