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April 2026

You cannot say the comic book industry is doing healthy and well when the largest entity, which is still Marvel, is struggling, bad. Their main tentpole characters, X-Men, Spider-Man, The Avengers, all are struggling to get over 80K copies, many of them not even close to that... That's a major problem..."

7th Lake Como (Italy) Comic Art Festival coming April 24-26 – Milwaukee Sentinel-Journal

The Marvel-DC crossovers are being put together into a Collected Edition – icv2

The tangled legal morass around Diamond Distributors remains a tangled morass – icv2

The warehouse holding the inventory that the various publishers all want back (since it was never paid for) is also now getting upset over the unpaid rent to house the stuff. Meanwhile the judge working on the case has a new ruling.

Interview with Jordi Lafebre – The Comics Journal

Looking at the sample artworks used in the interview, there is a fantastic use of backgrounds, simply head-and-shoulders above typical comic books.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie is a "megahit" but reviews are poor – NY Times

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie" bore the hallmarks of Hollywood’s "too big to fail" machinery. Hoping for another $1 billion hit, Universal began marketing the sequel in November, lining up a dizzying array of tie-ins (Lucky Charms cereal, McDonald’s Happy Meals, Old Spice deodorant) and building colossal castle-window advertisements in the United States, France, Spain and Chile..."

The Numbers says the movie has already gathered in some $372 million worldwide.

Mini Review: Jew Gangster by Joe Kubert, 2005, 142 Pages

This little hardcover graphic novel is a compact story of the development of a Jewish boy from the streets of New York City into an adult gangster, moving the youngster-then-man through moral choices that sometimes coincide with background family pressures.

More review Joe Kubert's Jew Gangster 2005

New Dave Sim pages for Diamond bankruptcy benefit comic – Bleedingcool

"The Dark Knight Returns" gets homage treatment in the Batman: The Animated Series – AOL.com

The tribute arrives in "Legends of the Dark Knight," the 19th episode of "The New Batman Adventures," a continuation of "Batman: The Animated Series"" In one of the segments, Carrie Kelley (Anndi McAfee) imagines herself as an older Batman's (Michael Ironside) Robin fighting against the Mutants gang of Gotham City. This is a direct homage to the original story from "The Dark Knight Returns."

"Superhero comics & movies aren't dead despite what trolls say, and DC architect Scott Snyder says Darkseid is a personification of anti-superhero trolls"

Story at Pop Verse

"Re-writing the superhero genre" with the HBO series superhero show Lanterns – Soap Central

The 2022 The Batman Silver Age Omnibus Volume 1 is getting a Volume 2 in 2026 – 13th Dimension

80th Anniversary of the National Cartoonist Society – National Cartoonist Society

Review of Manga’s First Century: How Creators and Fans Made Japanese Comics, 1905-1989 by Andrea Horbinski – History Today

Spider-Man/Superman crossover will have Spider-Gwen and Supergirl – Polygon

"Reinterpretation" of War of the Worlds coming from Titan – Comicsbeat

The superhero comic book coins – WFTV

Batman: Knightfall animated film to come out first at France's Annecy Animation Festival – MSN Superhero Hype

"Comics scholar wins Eisenhart Award" – Rochester Institute of Technology

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What's next at DC Comics? Panel at Emerald City Comic Con – Comicsbeat

The Comics Journal Magazine at 50 years of age – The Comics Journal

Comic Book Store closings – Bleedingcool

Marvel Comics movie prop sale – Maryam Hampton

Yoshiharu Tsuge has died – The Comics Journal

1937–2026 – a highly influential manga artist known for pioneering personal comic story telling using introspection and surreal elements.

Stars and Stripes newspaper ends Sunday special color comic strip section – Daily Cartoonist

Is James Bond... a joke? – UK Mail

The online digital comic wars

Story at Comics Beat

Interview with Apostolos Doxiadis – Lifo [Greek language]

Question: Your big successes were "Uncle Peter" and "Logicomix?"

Doxiadis: Commercially, if you mean, and internationally, etc., these were two works with the theme not so much of mathematics but of mathematicians as obsessive characters. This too began by chance. My good friend, the cartoonist Alekos Papadatos, asked me for an idea for a graphic novel that was "unusual," as he put it. I told him: the story of the attempt to base mathematics on strict logic. Since he is also crazy, he was enthusiastic...."

Three foot life size inflatable Spider-Man @ Walmart

Profile of cartoonist Rick Friday – Creston News

Spider-Woman Omnibus coming – 13th Dimension

Spider-Man gets killed again – MSN CBR

Penguin Random House completes addition of Boom! Studios into Random House after purchase in 2024 – Publishers Weekly

"Comic sales explosion" at Image – Bleedingcool

Roy Thomas to be at Lexington South Carolina Comic and Toy Convention – Lexington Herald Leader

At the London Book Fair "...could comics serve as a savior of print for an audience seeking eyeball-grabbing visuals, as well as words?" – Publishers Weekly

Roundup of comics news: DC K.O. trades, BOOM! Studios layoffs, Frank Miller and TMNT – Comicbook Club Live

How "live selling" boosts sales – Business Insider

Brian K. Vaughan and Dune – Newsweek MSN

Brian Doherty has died: wrote books on pop culture and underground comics and the Burning Man festival. – NY Times

Mr. Doherty produced an eclectic body of work that had as a common thread his fascination with how bands of outsiders on the cultural and intellectual fringes infiltrate the mainstream. He was especially interested in movements with no central authority. Besides libertarianism, he wrote books about 1960s underground comics and the Burning Man hippie-art-tech festival in the Nevada desert..."

Chuck Dixon profile – MSN Just the News

"Todd McFarlane changed comic book history with these comic book covers" – Comicbook

Lego releases Tintin Destination Moon rocket ship model – Gamespot

And Amazon is already selling it

Is there an end to the Absolute Comics story lines? Apparently nope – Inde News

Remembering the "legend of Sam Kieth" – Bleedingcool

Death of The Maxx creator Sam Kieth – MSN Variety

Born on January 11, 1963, Kieth began his career in comics at the age of 17, publishing his first work with Comico. He worked on numerous projects, including "Wolverine" in Marvel Comics Presents and "The Hulk." In 1993, he created a series exploring themes of identity and reality for Image Comics titled "The Maxx," which was later adapted into an animated series for MTV's "Liquid Television" and became globally recognized. Kieth's work on the series also led to a line of action figures produced by Todd McFarlane.

Sam Kieth,my old friend since 16 and comic art genius has passed away.
He was instrumental in bringing me to DC and changing the course of my career. He also introduced me to my wife ( a cute little blond he described her as)and changed the course of my life
God rest his soul.
— Kelley Jones (@kelleyjonesart) March 22, 2026

Frank Miller draws Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's #300 cover – Gizmodo

"Incredible transformation" of She-Hulk - building a Jennifer Walters from scratch – MSN Daily Motion Video

Titan Comics' June slate "lots of Conan" – Bleedingcool

Marvel's May 2026 slate of books – Bleedingcool

Gene Luen Yang and why "the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles matter again"

Story at Esquire Magazine

Tatjana Wood Obituary – The Comics Journal

More about Tatjana Wood

The new Spider-Man trailer

No wonder he's depressed!

Digital comics platform GlobalComix gets new investment money while posting 20% month-to-month audience increases – Forbes

Just when things seemed to be quieting down in the multibillion dollar digital comics space, GlobalComix today announced a series of big moves fueled by an infusion of $13 million in new capital..."

In the Facebook bio Backderf writes "...in Tatjana's time, floppy comics were printed on shitty newsprint. The printing was garbage. The color resolution was low..."

I don't want to directly rebut Backderf's statements, afterall its just a lead up to praising Tatjana Wood's work, which is quite worthy of praise.

Comic Book Coloring

Rather, I want to address the corollary: how the distance of time, along with a misplaced self-assurance born of 21st-century printing and digital technologies (and perhaps the spirit of the age itself), leads many people to spurn the look of old newsprint comic books. But how many 21st-century “recolored” reprints of those books are actually inferior to the original “shitty” newsprint versions? Too many.

More about Comic Book Coloring on Newsprint

Richard Fairgray profile – CBC.CA

Using comic books in nursing education – BC Campus

Graphic designer Orijit Sen and the comic book world of reading in India – MSN The Print

Sen reflected on comic subcultures in the 1990s, sharing personal anecdotes from his own journey as a comic creator....."

Superman #75 "Death of Superman" original art coming up to auction – Freep

Comics Connect Auction schedule

Examinging the IDW profit margins "...the decrease in royalty expenses, and decrease in creative costs as a percentage of revenue..." – Bleedingcool

Okay, so what character is Scarlett Johansson playing in the Batman II movie? – MSN Bam Pop

Autumn books list from Titan Comics – Comicsbeat

Spider-Man: Brand New Day to get five-weekend theatrical window in 2026 – Comicbookmovie

Over million views of video of child in India discovering father's old comics collection in trunk – Timeslife

North Yorkshire with a lifelong passion for comic books is set to sell his collection - anticipating a return of more than £62k. – Yorkshire Live

The four bids for replacing the Angoulême Comic Art Festival in 2027 – Bleedin' Cool

Sale of British comics collection returned a huge six-figure sum – MSN UK Chronicle

...over 40,000 comics, 20,000 pieces of original artwork, nearly 900 bound publisher volumes and a vast amount of memorabilia..."