Archive Page 2273
October 2026
Asterix in Japan – Actuabd
Asterix the Gaul ... has been translated into more than a hundred languages and local dialects...in Japan, a country widely recognized as one of the world's largest consumers of comic books, only the first three volumes of Asterix have been translated.
This almost seems like a joke...how can there be such neglect for one of the most famous French-language comic series... the reasons are complicated...
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Milestone Comics coming back to life at DC Comics – Bleeding Cool
Milo Manara interview – el Pais [Spanish]
Interview with French cartoonist Alfred – Leparatonnerre [French]
San Diego Comic-Con in... Malaga, Spain – Men's Health
The "scrapped" Ben Affleck Batman script described by Joe Manganiello – Variety
Referring to Affleck's comment on the Justice League movie shoot "I saw how not to make a movie like that.."
Smallville at 25 years – MSN The Wrap
The new organizers of the Angoulême International Comics Festival have a "significant legal victory" in court – Charente Libre [French]
The problem with adapting A Confederacy of Dunces to comics – Comicsbeat
Dan Quintana's glow-in-the-dark covers get cancelled, though not Batman and Supergirl – Bleedingcool
Amazing Spider-Man Tee Shirt, Mall October 2026
Man who died scuba diving and the sale of his 18,000-comic collection – Fox 13 Now
If you have a million bucks laying around with nothing pressing to do, you might be able to buy Darth Vader's lightsaber from Star Wars – Comic Book
Roundup of news: Women in Comics book, New Yorker cartoons from Paul Noth, Phoebe and Her Unicorn, Global Comics The Basics book, and more – Daily Cartoonist
Well, this certainly doesn't happen everyday with 1980's back issues of Superman – MSN Times of India
A UK collector who paid just £20 for a box of comics at a car boot sale discovered years later that it contained dozens of exceptionally rare Superman editions. After remaining forgotten in his loft, 47 copies of the 1988 comic 'This Island Bradman' sold for a combined £63,440, including buyer’s fees, at an auction in Surrey on November 4, 2025. The sale, conducted by Ewbank’s Auctions, nearly doubled the collection’s pre-sale estimate of £35,000, according to the auction house and its published results..."
DC's market share for third quarter: also Oni, Image, Marvel, Titan – ICV2
"Superheroes translate into every language" Vincent Zurzolo, president of Metropolis Collectibles and its sister company, ComicConnect – Cincinnati
Wednesday releases - 452 issues – Fresh Comics
Collector's 47 year mission to collect Amazing Spider-Man #1 to #1000 – MSN Men's Journal
Interview with Henrik Rydberg, CEO of GlobalComix – ICV2
DC Comics' situation inside the Skydance merger of Paramount and Warner Bros – Comicsbeat
DC Comics will now be under Josh Silverman, head of Skydance Products & Publishing, a division which merges the consumer products, licensing, and publishing divisions of WBD and Paramount. WBD’s consumer products head, Robert Oberschelp, will remain, reporting to Silverman..."
Hampton Virginia Comicon starts October 17 – Hoodline
Official web site – Hampton Comicon
Jim Lee at Comic Con NYC talks up the Absolute Batman animation project – Comicsbeat
January 2027 Marvel solicits – Bleedingcool
DC's Clayface presales are strong – Comic Book Movie News
"The shallow suffering of Garth Ennis" – The Comics Journal
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Original page October 9, 2026