Archive Page 2258
February 2026
Quite a headline
"This May, Marvel Comics celebrates Free Comic Book Day Comics Giveaway Day with previews of Armageddon, Amazing Spider-Man #1000, the return of Doctor Doom, and more" – Comicbookmovie
New Disney theme parks boss Josh D'Amaro takes over from Bob Iger – Reuters
"Saving Marvel," interview with Peter Cuneo, Chairman of Marvel Entertainment (1997–2003) – Polygon
Marvel was hit especially hard when the comic book speculator market collapsed in 1993, which ultimately saw nine out of every ten comic book shops close. The early 1990s enjoyed great comic book sales and it was the first time comics began to be recognized as a valuable art form. However, publishers took advantage of this by launching new comics with limited-edition covers and other gimmicks. Sales were strong for a while, but eventually collapsed, nearly killing the entire industry. Coming into Marvel, Cuneo he knew his job wasn’t about interfering with the comics...."
The phrase "...the early 1990s enjoyed great comic book sales and it was the first time comics began to be recognized as a valuable art form" isn't really accurate but the article does give a pretty good overview of the collecting industry in that era and forward.
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Joshua Williamson interview – AIPT Comics
"Ten hottest comics of the week" – Bleedingcool
Angoulême International Comics Festival
"Parasitic behavior” and the lawsuits around the cancelled, the replacement version, and the 2026 Angoulême International Comics Festival – Daily Cartoonist
What's happening to the Angoulême International Comics Festival – Comicsbeat
Earlier this month a newly reformed Association for the Development of Comics in Angoulême (ADBDA) announced a call for an alternative organiser to develop and organise a brand new comics festival in the town. This call followed the collapse of the 53 year old institution in late 2025 following author and publisher boycotts against controversial organiser 9e Art+, who had been reinstated by the Association FIBD despite widespread opposition..."
The "war" over the origin story of Wonder Woman – Bleedingcool
I've heard far more radical revision origin stories for Diana Prince.
Obituary of Sal Buscema – The Comics Journal
Because he worked on so many different Marvel titles, Buscema eventually had a hand in creating a number of well-known Marvel characters. Buscema and Steve Englehart created the Defenders super-team in 1972, adding Valkyrie to the group with the fourth issue. With writer Roy Thomas, he co-created the Squadron Sinister and the supervillain Llyra for the Sub-Mariner title. With Steve Gerber, who succeeded Englehart on The Defenders, Buscema co-created Starhawk. In 1976, Buscema co-created Graviton in The Avengers #158 with writer/editor Jim Shooter. During his long tenure on The Incredible Hulk, Buscema, collaborating with writer Bill Mantlo, co-created the U-Foes and the Soviet Super-Soldiers. Buscema later described his run on the Hulk from 1970 to 1985 as, "probably one of the most enjoyable experiences of my career. The fact that the Hulk is my all-time favorite character might be a contributing factor. I never tired of the character. Every story was a new challenge...."
Bill Schanes buys Bud Plant's Bud’s Art Books – Down the Tubes
Impact of the Amazon layoffs – Comicsbeat "...the remaining Comixology staff may have been among them."
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Walmart Display January 15, 2026
The Future of Will Eisner's work
Get out your wallet: Will Eisner copyrights are coming up for sale – NY Times
The Times story claims that the sell-off includes Eisner' graphic novels, his books for kids, the books he made on how to make comic books, and probably his most famous work of all The Spirit, the 1940's superhero that Eisner revived from time to time, including a 72 page The Spirit Returns which was done in 1996 and never published.
As Yahoo reported in 2025:
Will Eisner is known as the father of the graphic novel for his 1978 publication A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories. The milestone in sequential art was deeply personal, written a few years after Will lost his young daughter to leukemia, and it was instrumental in shaping the medium.
Christina Hodson is writing Batman: The Brave and the Bold film – MSN Moviefied
Hodson also wrote Birds of Prey, The Flash, and Bumblebee.
2026's action film slate – Yahoo News
The "15 most-anticipated" action movies discussed, such as : Good Luck - Have Fun - Don’t Die, Spider-Man Brand New Day, The Bluff, Supergirl, Masters of the Universe, The Odyssey, Avengers: Doomsday and others.
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Old law on comic books that could theoretically get many a comic shop owner arrested, has been repealed in California – KCRA Sacramento
Pattinson's Batman II: Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan is going to be Two-Face – Forbes
Reports of Johansson’s casting don’t confirm a specific role, but considering Stan is playing Dent, I am guessing she’s portraying Harvey wife Gilda Dent, who plays a significant role in the best-selling comic book story arc The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sales. The comic story is among the potential influences for the movie’s plot..."
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The 1942 Wonder Woman #1 Facsimile Edition will be in Golden Age size – 13th Dimension
Jim Lee talks about the "harsh truth" in Manga vs American comic books – Inde News
In the top fifty comic sales for 2025, Marvel only has seven titles – MSN Bounding into Comics
Their bestselling title was the Wolverine-Batman crossover.
Interview with Tessa Hulls, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for graphic novel autobiography Feeding Ghosts – The Comics Journal
Disney's new "science comic book" line – Comicsbeat
Independent Publishers Group (IPG) enters the "chaos" following the collapse of Diamond – Publishers Weekly
[CEO Joe Matthews] ... said that distribution for small publishers has become more difficult in recent years. As book prices fail to keep up with rising costs, small distributors have been forced to consolidate and drop low-cost formats, including mass market paperbacks and floppy comics. The economics of floppy comics make that format untenable for IPG to carry, Matthews explained..."
Muskegon Michigan Museum of Art prepares for comic book art exhibit – Wood Gand Rapids "60 years of original comic book artwork in POW! The Art of Comics. "
How many comic book businesses were killed by the Diamond bankruptcy? – Comicsbeat
Swamp Thing "37 year saga" to conclude – CBR
20 years of Marvel’s most infamous event – Comicsbeat
Marvel celebrates the anniversary of the original Civil War crossover with Civil War: Unmasked, a five-issue series by Christos Gage, Edgar Salazar, and colorist Morry Hollowell.
Who liked, and still likes, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’? Warner Bros. Execs Pam Abdy And Michael De Luca – Boundingintocomics
The "audience was wrong" is the battle cry of Hollywood producers since the industry began.
The "Nicolas Cage Action Comics #1" goes for $15 million - the new record – MSN Nerdable
It was stolen from Cage in 2011, eventually got tracked to a California storage unit, Cage sold it for $2.2 million (he paid $150K for it back in the 1990s) after recovering it, and has this month gone for $15 million - - officially, and easily, the highest price paid (yet) for a comic book. There's going to be a whole new slew of media stories about finding forgotten comics under beds and in attics "that could be worth millions."
Glenn Head Interview – The Comics Journal
Of all the cartoonists emerging during the 1980s, Glenn Head seemed to be the one most closely channeling the frenetic zeitgeist found on the pages of some of his beloved comics of the underground era. Read today, his early, wild, "true life" stories chronicling the New York he was living in at the time are a reminder that the city could be a scary place indeed..."
Is Artgerm an AI artist? Stanley Lau has to keep proving that he's not A.I. to new readers – Bleedingcool
AnimeJapan 2026 "biggest show ever" – Comicsbeat
Denis Kitchen – MSN Boing Boing
Article about Kitchen (probably most famous for his graphic memoirs Maus) with some bio on his history, plus talking about his book Conversations with Denis Kitchen. Also, there is a documentary coming titled Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story.
"Comic creators clashed in private channels over the success and impact of Absolute Batman and its universe" – Bleeding Cool
Legal case ends between 17 comic artists and Cadence Comic Art – Comicsbeat
Profile of cartoonist Barbara Brandon Croft – EUR Web
"A farewell to 3D Comics" – The Comics Journal
Retro Hot Picks for 1973 Marvel and DC Comics – 13th Dimension
Scott Adams, cartoonist for Dilbert, has died – MSN Los Angeles Times
IDW announces female GI Joe Scarlett's Strike Force: then cancels it – Bleedingcool
With no official PR, and the book's writer forbidden from doing interviews, the cancellation of Scarlett's Strike Force looks less like a matter of financial performance and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy...."
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Original page February 18, 2026