Archive Page 2265
May 2026
The best selling manga titles of 2026? – Comicbook
The manga that has been on a break since October 2025, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, has emerged as the best-selling manga of 2026 so far..."
Movie tie-in stuff at Wal-Mart.
MandaLorian and Grogu has made a worldwide haul of $187,907,933 million since release, and was #1 in box office last weekend (as expected for the first Star Wars movie in seven years) but has dropped to #3 on the second weekend (which attests to the overall superhero and Disney-franchise "fatigue" plaguing any new projects from the subdivisions within the House of Mouse.)
Larry Stark has died – The Comics Journal
EC publisher Bill Gaines... received many letters from fans (soon to be christened "E.C. Fan-Addicts"), but Larry was different — here was a college age reader who reviewed and critiqued E.C. stories with the same seriousness and consideration he would give to great literature. Larry remembered that "soon I was writing a letter of criticism to every issue in the EC armoire, and soon Bill gave me a free lifetime subscription to everything he published." There was one caveat: Larry was to continue reviewing every single story in every single issue...."
Deal made to bring Gold Key comic properties to Image – Bleedingcool
"Cartoon network is dying" – MSN Clownfish
Dark Horse co-founder plans "pop culture" museum with emphasis on comics for Milwaukee – Oregonlive
I’m going to build it around comics, but it’s also going to be around film, toys and pop culture," Richardson said. "I have a big sports collection, and that might go in there as we expand."
I wonder if it'll have a few copies of APA-5 in it.
461 comic book covers this week, and how can you even look at them all without going blind?
New Wednesday release books from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, IDW, etc – Fresh Comics
461 covers for the Wednesday releases are on the Fresh Comics page for May 27. This is an incredible number of books. When I walk down the wall of "new releases" at my local comic book store, there isn't anything like 461 covers to parse, but what is there is still too much to scan effectively. I look for something that's indefinable to stand-out to me besides the logos of particular books I already follow. It might be how a piece of artwork is handled, or if there's some sort of subtle drawing skill on display. Artists and cover designers have a huge challenge to just be detectable amid an avalanche of artwork like 461 covers in one week.
For the comic book buyer, to be effective shopping this way, you need to look at the prospective books one-by-one and examine it in a kind of mental vacuum that means ignoring the other books around the title you've set your eyes on, even if its for just a split-second. Trying to do that with this number of covers would be an exhausting process and probably impossible. Instead you scan through the covers and stop when something tugs on your brain to pause and peer a little longer.
Speaking from experience, I tend to "go blind" before I've reached the end of the wall of new releases. I then wander around looking at what's new on the graphic novel shelves and then dig around in the back issue boxes. Then I make one more sweep of the "new releases," ignoring the stuff I saw before and trying to pay attention to what got missed. It isn't much of a system but I'm aware that there's an army of comic book artists trying to get my attention, and it is easy to overlook something that's good.
But with this high number of covers, even a concerted effort can't make a survey in the space of, say, twenty or thirty minutes. Cover artists, you have my sympathy.
Superhero tie-ins were more prevalent about ten years ago when the superhero movie-ascendency was in full bloom, but they're still around, though fewer in number.
Frank Sinatra as... the Joker? – AOL.com
Lawyers, comic books and crossovers – Comicbookmovie
For the second time, Cat Rescue comic book store burglarized – MSN KTLA
They didn't steal cats, they stole comics.
Official web site of the store – Cats and Comics Rescue
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All the comic book based projects in the works at Netflix – Whats On Netflix
Dark Horse closing flagship store at Universal CityWalk, also stores in Milwaukie and Beaverton, Oregon – TS The Street
"Sometimes these movies make more money in merchandise than at the box office" – Deadline Hollywood – Disney's 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' has made the lowest box office opening in Star Wars movie history.
Valiant Comics coming titles list – Bleedingcool
Coming August Marvel Book Covers – Comicsbeat
How do comics publishers keep momentum going for an established series that is putting out new collections? – Publishers Weekly
Marvel has special Fantastic Four anniversary issues coming in August – 13th Dimension
Will feature art from Jack Kirby, John Buscema, John Byrne and Steve Epting "in a new way"
John Lent has died – International Journal of Comic Art – Lent is known for promoting comics scholarship internationally, especially research into Asian, African, Latin American, and non-U.S. comic art traditions long before comics studies became common in academia.
John was a few months shy of his 90th birthday, and remained productive up until his accident. He had two more books essentially finished and the upcoming issue of IJOCA largely completed..."
Dark Horse book list for September – Bleedingcool
April Circana Bookscan Comic Book Sales charts – icv2
MCM (Movies, Comics & Media) London Comic Con starts – Bleeding Cool
Superman, Spider-Man and Soccer
Story at en.as.com
Cat cartoons by Lithuanian illustrator Herta Burbe – AOL.com
Mark Waid and Chris Samnee together again doing Batman & Robin: Year One – Dynamic Duos – Comicbookmovie
Get into the Public Domain archives that are online at Graphic Chatter
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Original page June 14, 2026