The Duck One

Film Preveiw: The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn

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Original page July 28, 2021

600 million copy world sales

One Piece Manga hits 600 million in sales – Game Rant

...with almost 3 decades of consistent serialization. With all the massive success that the series has been enjoying, the One Piece series has just broken a new record that no other manga will ever come close to. It has been officially confirmed that One Piece has hit over 600 million copies in circulation all over the world, and in doing so, it crushes any other anime and manga series worldwide..."

For Comparison: total American comic book sales over the last three decades estimated at $27 billion = 4.5 billion copies (of "floppies" ) sold. That, however, isn't a true picture of copies sold, rather just an equivalent, because it doesn't factor that the total $27 billion number includes periodicals + graphic novels + some digital.

Call for entries in cartooning for 2025 – National Cartoonists Society

Angoulême International Comics Festival’s 2026 show not happening – Comicsbeat

A World of Only Digital Comic Books

Batman and Deadpool crossover variant covers – Yardbarker

Deadpool/Batman #1 Published by Marvel release date September 17, 2025.
Batman/Deadpool #1 Published by DC release sate November 19, 2025.

"Once a colossus that stalked across theatre screens and earned billions upon billions of dollars in box office, the American superhero movie has now reached a point where years of failed big-budget offerings and being pecked at by maligning critics who call them "junk," or even "not movies at all" (so has said Martin Scorsese*) the genre is now running into a hard wall of growing indifference."

Are Superhero Movies Dying? – Graphic Chatter

Jack Kirby exhibition at Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles – Orange County Register

The rooms of the exhibition are full of vibrant color and include all manner of treasures, including a variety of original artwork; a wall of comics featuring the first appearances of Kirby-created characters; a room depicting the evolution of his explosive style and much more..."

The Skirball Cultural Center web site page on the Kirby exhibit – May 1, 2025 thru March 1, 2026

The intense legal world of comic book pioneer Victor Fox, his many companies, the Blue Beetle origin, and an insight into the early comic book publishing system – The Comics Journal

Batman 1989, Captain America New World Order and how Hollywood knifed itself in the back

Long-time veteran comics writer Bill Barr facing significant medical issues – Comicbookmovie

...Barr is most famous for his DC work including Batman and the Outsiders, Green Arrow, Camelot 3000, Doc Savage and more. He also wrote for Marvel including Marvel Team-Up, Amazing Spider-Man, Captain America, Star Wars, Star Trek and more..."

Top Earning Superhero Films of all time - list of 137 titles

Wendy and Richard Pini donate $500K to Columbia University for an endowment to "acquire, preserve, and make available comics and cartoons for study and teaching" – CBR MSN - March 2, 2025

Remembering the No Pants edict of the New 52

Diamond files for bankruptcy protection