Archive Page 2245
July 2025
In October, here comes Speed Racer: Tales from the Road – Bleedingcool
Superman at $337 million worldwide – The Numbers
More accusations at Diamond over "stolen inventory" – Bleedingcool
Was the canned DC film "Swamp Thing"? – Bounding into Comics
Mystery at the coming San Diego Comic-Con – Comicsbeat
Art Spiegelman to get Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Cartoonists Society
Story at National Cartoonists
DC's October book list – Bleedingcool
"It's a 'new day' at DC" - "fast-tracking" Wonder Woman and more in wake of Superman movie debut – Variety
But did Gunn, who took the reins of DC with Safran in 2022 and also wrote and produced the film, pull off a franchise jump-start? The refrain heard on the Warner Bros. lot in Burbank and around Hollywood was "Good enough," accompanied by a sigh of relief as Gunn’s movie lifted off to $220 million worldwide, ushering in a 10-year vision for DC...."
Warner Bros. Discovery stock jumped 2.4%, from $11.73 at the close of July 11 to $12.01 by the end of the day on July 14. Wall Street analyst Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities calls the film’s performance "very impressive domestically and a huge boost for the franchise given some worries coming in." He adds: "The international is a mixed, but overall an A- weekend for ‘Superman.’"
Chris Nolan's Odyssey film has already sold out its opening, and its more than a year from a premiere – FOX2 Detroit
Comic book publishers versus Diamond Distributors – Bleedingcool
Here comes FF to theaters and Disney's last shot at a "big" film this summer season – Deadline
... Fantastic Four: First Steps, which tracking has comfortably between $100M-$110M on July 25. I kept hearing "Oh, Disney is nervous," but the stats look good: With $13M presales as of Monday, Fantastic Four is pacing ahead of the presales for Thunderbolts ($74.3M) and Captain America: Brave New World ($88.8M 3-day) and 20% behind Superman ($125M)...."
July 15, 2025: "I saw Jurassic [World Rebirth], and I enjoyed it quite a bit, I think it's a very good Jurassic movie. But, there was something that really annoyed me, it was kind of distracting, you could sort of see that they're in front of a green screen... I don't know how in this day and age, with all the technology, that that would possibly be the case. It reminded me a little bit of... the Hitchcock classic The Birds... the green screen then, you know, it's so obvious. Every time they ride in a car, you can tell there's no real background. At times you can see they're standing there, against a beautiful landscape, you can see their feet are in real sand, but the background is totally fake. This was occasionally the case with Jurassic [World Rebirth]" - Rich Lowry at National Review audio podcast #790.
Jurassick Punk Roidbirth art by starving artist KUDZUPOSTER
Superman wants another $55 million this weekend – MSN Variety
Superman at $314,483,685 worldwide – The-Numbers
Conan and Mike Mignola at San Diego Comic-Con 2025 – Bleedingcool
Arnold Schwarzenegger provides scene out of the unmade ‘King Conan’ script – Boundingintocomics - To motivate the unmade film's writer Director John Milius who is fighting canver.
"Superman is political" – Comicsbeat
Iggy Pop and the Superman Soundtrack – Gamesradar
Indian cartoonist Hemant Malviya "...sought interim protection from arrest..." with India's Supreme Court, but got turned down. – Daily Cartoonist
Malviya is charged over cartoon criticizing gov't with "...a deliberate and malicious act intended to provoke and insult."
Update: cartoonist Hemant Malviya is granted protection from arrest.
Sales model shows comic and graphic novel sales up 4.0% over 2023 – icv2
...we used that data to build a model of sales for the entire comic store channel using comparisons developed during periods in which ComicHub and Diamond reporting overlapped. Since Diamond stopped reporting sell-in indexes which could be used to develop sales estimates for individual titles, we’ve used percentage changes in ComicHub sales, adjusted for changes in the number of stores reporting, to estimate trends for the overall market."
Kevin Maguire posted unpublished pages from his time on the Justice League 3000 title "...from which I was inexplicably fired" – Bleedingcool
Year after year I can travel through various grocery store chains and still find Archie comic books, yet DC, Marvel, et al., cannot make that penetration into the one retail operation that nearly everyone uses.
Superman at $220,021,735 worldwide – The-Numbers
Jurassic World: Rebirth at $532,699,420 worldwide – Box Office Mojo
The responses over the arrests of LeMan magazine cartoonists in Turkey for depicting Moses and Mohammed – Daily Cartoonist
"Filipino komiks will rule the world" – PhilStar Life
More Diamond Distributors drama
"...sealed transcripts from previous court hearings .... have now been unsealed, and they make for riveting reading" – Bleedingcool
Superman release weekend "soars to $122 million" – MSN Variety
Combined with International earnings, Superman is at $217 million, so far. Related: The top earning super hero movies list (139 entries with box office earnings)
...Krypto stole the whole show"
Remarks seen in social media
DC plans big event in 2035 for the copyright change in status for Batman and Superman – Bleedingcool
The ShortBox Comics Fair – Shortbox Comics Fair
...innovative digital comics fair debuting all-new comics from independent artists around the world. Annually, October 1-31st."
ShortBox Comics Fair is an all-digital, online only comics fair ..."
Superman start piles up $21 million in Thursday shows – MSN Deadline Hollywood
Oh, and audiences love it at 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.... Gunn and Safran and all of Warner Bros can rest easy after the cynics that have been out there going back to the first trailer in the December, for that’s the best RT audience score ever for a Superman movie, even better than Richard Donner’s 1978 original movie (86%). Take that, trolls...."
Yes, but will it last? A lot of reviews have been "I'm disappointed" but the heavy waves of positive word of mouth from ticket-buyers can overcome that. We'll find out over the next couple of weeks, until FF smashes into the theaters and grabs all the entertainment news.
Classic Filipino comics being brought back by the Vibal Foundation’s Grafika imprint – BWorldonline
The article goes over some of the history of older Filipino comics and also says this:
... they are also working to republish Kabalbalan ni Kenkoy by Tony Velasquez, the country’s first comic strip, originally published in 1929."
The Lois Lane-Margot Kidder tragedy – UK Daily Mail
TwoMorrows Publishing files objection to liquidation of stock at Diamond Comic Distributors Chapter 11 bankruptcy – Bleedingcool
Kazakhstan Comic Con Astana 2025 draws 75,000 – Astana Times
Profile of comic book artist Dave Wachter – PGH City Paper
Presales for Superman hits $20 million – Comicbookmovie
Remembering Dave Stevens – Downthetubes
Superman Reviews starting to roll out
"James Gunn’s lively reboot of the OG Superman" searching for a kinder world, and he brought his dog – Deadline Hollywood
"An energized reboot" – MSN Variety
"Fun and goofy" reimagining of Superman from James Gunn – Houston Chronicle
FYI: First appearance of Krypto was in Adventure Comics #210, March 1955. Character of Krypto the Superdog was created by Otto Binder and Curt Swan.
It's July and Marvel and DC are facing off in theaters
Story at WLWT
Jurassic Park Rebirth piles up $322 million world wide start to run – The Numbers
Layoffs come to Image Comics – Bleedingcool
Jurassic Park Rebirth clobbers competition at box office
Story at Bloomberg
...Jurassic World Rebirth, the latest installment of the Universal Pictures dinosaur franchise, scored the top spot in theaters over the five-day Fourth of July holiday, grossing $147.3 million in the US and Canada despite middling reviews from critics.....international theaters brought in an additional $171 million..."
Is there a new, other, Captain America from Marvel Comics? – comicbook
Mac Martin Anderson sentenced to prison for $1.2 million in unreported (to IRS) sales of Stan Lee memorabilia – Los Angeles Times
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Original page August 1, 2025