Archive Page 2259
February 2026
"Newspaper deathwatch" – Daily Cartoonist
Oni Press and Random House make deal – Comicsbeat
Legal fees and bank fees "wipe out" funds raised from Diamond's bankruptcy sales – Bleedingcool
The legal case continues through the courts..."
More stuff on racks
Keeping the Angoulême International comics festival alive – le Monde
The residents of Angoulême, in southwestern France, have their own way of referring to the event that livens up their city every last weekend of January. They do not call it a "festival," and certainly not the "FIBD" (the French acronym for the International Comic Book Festival), but more simply la bédé, the French slang term for a comic book..."
The Deadpool-Batman crossover "The World's Last Superhero Comics"– The Comics Journal
Last September’s Deadpool/Batman (Marvel Comics) and November’s Batman/Deadpool (DC Comics) are not only the publishers’ latest crossovers but their final superhero comics. The vanishing point of print superheroics..."
It's instructive to remember that The Comics Journal has been predicting the demise of superhero comics for a very, very long time.
Death of the Superheroes, 1979
The Comics Journal for many decades has had a fairly low threshold of pain when it comes to superheroes. This 1979 cover by Fujitake (for the interior fantasy-article by Steve Skeates) kind of sums up the frustration of the magazine with the most lucrative genre within the American comics medium.
Steve Skeates started in comics in 1965 as an assistant to Stan Lee at Marvel Comics. From there he quickly went into freelance writing and worked for nearly every major comic book publisher, such as: Marvel, DC Comics, Tower Comics, Charlton Comics, Gold Key, Archie, and Warren Publishing. He died on March 30, 2023 at the age of 80.
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Original page February 18, 2026