Last Update June 14, 2026
Barrie Tomlinson 1938–2026 – UK The Times
UK comics editor, writer and innovator known for Roy of the Rovers, 2000 AD, Battle, the weekly horror comic Scream!, among others.
The new Spider-Woman – Bleedingcool
What held the top on the comic book sales charts for May
Story at Comicsbeat
"The everlasting allure of the American comic book"
Story at Washington Post
They are ridiculous. They are addictively great. Comic books, of the superhero variety, are 100% American. Compare the thin comic book to Europe’s graphic novels, and they come off looking flimsy, infantile. Compare the American comic to Japanese Manga and they appear innocent in their fixation with heroism; they hark back to a departed American age..."
The Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum in Connecticut – Family Destination
Tucked away in Cheshire, this museum is a love letter to pop culture, animation, and the kind of nostalgia that hits you right in the feels..."
The comic strips by Marjane Satrapi for Le Monde – Le Monde
"Gideon Brimingham is a one-man comic book band" – Time Free Press
The DCU is setting up its reboot of Wonder Woman – Comicbookmovie
The role of comic books in the invention of America – Orange County Register
Exhibit Inventing America: The Comic Book Revolution at the Skirball Cultural Center, 701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Los Angeles
A lot of that’s because the industry was founded in New York City, which was a major center of immigration," Reed says. "The comics companies that were sort of low-end publishing coming out of pulp and broadsheets were an industry founded largely by immigrants, by Jewish Americans.
"And if you were a young Jewish American in New York City, and you had artistic aspirations as Jack Kirby did, if you wanted to work in the arts, the comic book was there.
"The kids in the Lower East Side [where Kirby was born] weren’t necessarily attending fine art programs or going to art schools," Reed says. "They weren’t necessarily able to jump straight to commercial illustration. So to work in comic books was a way to express your creativity and also provide for your family."
Underground comics, Don Donahue, and getting them printed – The Comics Journal
Fantagraphics racks up 50 year anniversary – KUOW
If there is a "house style" at Fantagraphics, it seems to be somewhere in the team's counterculture beginnings, their appreciation for art, and their disdain for the status quo..."
44th year of the Charlotte NC HeroesCon – Charlotte Observer
Beginning Friday and going until Sunday, HeroesCon attendees will get the chance to meet prolific comic book writer and artist John Romita Jr., get a look at an original copy of Superman’s first issue from 1938 in Action Comics, or show off their cosplay."
At the door of the Hot Topic mall store "Truth, justice, whatever" June 9, 2026
The Rolling Stones rock group is doing a promo with Marvel Comics – Broadway World
Hopefully they're not donating blood for the project, like some other bands.
The "definitive Batman" - Adam West – Early Game MSN
Marjane Satrapi's Defiance – The Atlantic
Marjane Satrapi obit: The French-Iranian known for her graphic novel Persepolis – UK The Guardian
Marjane Satrapi 1969–2026 – Vogue
An outpouring of grief filled my social media feeds at the sudden death, last week, of Marjane Satrapi, the 56-year-old French-Iranian author, artist, filmmaker, and activist, best known for her comic book memoir-slash-novel, Persepolis.
...Arriving in the United States in the wake of 9/11, Persepolis shattered common preconceptions about Iran, bringing the country’s complex history and the humanity of its people vividly alive for readers.
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Lee Lai's graphic novel Cannon has won the 2026 Doug Wright Award for best comic book – CBC CA
The award are named for Canadian cartoonist Doug Wright.
The Dark Horse Comics Union gets recognition – Comicsbeat
The weeks best selling comics: Batman over Spidey – Bleedingcool
Jim Fitzpatrick Cap'n America murals going up on auction – Irish Times
Scary Movie leads weekend box office; Masters of the Universe opens with $4.4 million in previews. They expect $30 million to $35 million for the weekend haul up against the production cost of estimated $200 million – Variety
Predictions of a $55 million opening for Supergirl – MSN Deadline Hollywood
Related: "Milly Alcock’s ‘punk rock’ Supergirl takes flight as DC bets big on the Woman of Tomorrow" Washington Post
It's gotten pretty easy to bet against superhero movies, too many have failed in the last years. A tragic irony will be that Hollywood, seeing the money being made from the earlier superhero films, have moved forward to blow all the profits on those movies on sequels and reboots that don't make money but just cost money.
But Supergirl is only marginally a sequel (to 2025's Superman), and though there was an earlier Supergirl movie (1984), there's no resounding footprint of expectation for what's coming when Supergirl relases on June 26.
But... going by the trailers, this James Gunn superhero movie leans hard on "attitude" and this Supergirl (though directed by someone else) is still in the wheelhouse of that approach. If the film can deliver with a legit story to back up the swagger, that'd be a nice way for DC to break out of the string of losers they've been shipping to the screen.
The talk of "superhero fatigue" that crops up when super-movies are gliding to subpar earnings (or just crashing and burning) seems to correspond to superhero films that are thin on story and use the same tricks and plot elements of earlier films. The criticism that keeps getting heaped on James Gunn is "what, another Guardians of the Galaxy rip-off?"
In his defence, Gunn handles team dynamics in films well. He is able to marshall a lot of characters in a story and keep them distinct instead of blurring together. He should be ideal for superhero-team movies (which is what the 2025 Superman really was), but somehow that poor DCU film was overmade and a little stupid. Maybe Supergirl will be different.
Why does Manga dominate traditional comic books? Its the delivery method for the stories! – Amazon S3 Comicstorian
You got to live long enough to get past the video ads and the sponsorship type stuff at the start, but the analysis of the "why" provides an interesting take.
The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art is getting closer to the opening date – MSN New York Post
Its vast collection stretches across more than 100,000 square feet of gallery space, showcasing over 1,200 treasures selected from a founding collection of more than 40,000 works..."
Archie Comics and Shaquille O'Neal doing comic books together – MSN Variety
The "unusual 40th anniversary for Dark Horse Comics" – The Comics Journal
"Union Demands and Financial Troubles" — This article examines some of the major changes affecting the various branches of Dark Horse, such as publishing, retail stores, and other miscellaneous stuff, but particularly the effort of employees to unionize.
DC Art of Michael Turner book at Kickstarter – Comics Beat
....a deluxe hardcover collecting the DC Comics artwork of the late comic creator. The 9” x 12” deluxe hardcover edition from Clover and Aspen will collect much of Turner’s DC comics work in one comprehensive, oversized volume, including his interpretations of iconic DC Super Heroes Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, the Justice League, and many more."
May 30, 2026, grocery store "The Official Comic Book of Summer"
Wednesday Comics Releases - Covers of 371 comic books – Freshcomics
The new Oni Press Archie comics – Comicsbeat
Hollywood headlines: Pattinson works out for Batman body! – Variety
[they said] ...You didn't work out at all.' I worked out every f**ing day..."
The new Archie and Sabrina comics – People
Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications, Inc are teaming up for the new books, out this fall in time for the comics’ 85th anniversary..."
Wonder Woman Mattel Barbie Signature, Barnes and Noble
World's largest Wonder Woman collection? – MSN UPI Press
Guinness World Records announced Cedartown resident Aleshia Wiley's collection of memorabilia, including comic books, Funko Pop figurines, action figures, specialty toys and branded merchandise, officially took the title with 1,581 items..."
Deaf Academy charity competition has comic book project winning first place – UK Yahoo News
Princess Anne of UK was with the business students at the Deaf Academy in Exmouth for awards for a comic book that explores being deaf while merged with a story line based on Jack and the Bean Stalk.
Cleveland - "the home of heroes" – IGN
New York City is famously the birthplace of comics .... [but] the truth is that from the earliest days of comics, there was another significant location: Cleveland, Ohio. It’s where Superman is really from, and it’s also the origin point for Miles Morales, Jessica Jones, Black Lightning, American Splendor, Emmie & Friends, and many other characters, series, and creators. This is a history that’s world-famous in Cleveland, but fairly unknown everywhere else; now, however, a new 4,000-square-foot exhibition at Cleveland’s renowned Maltz Museum is dedicated to exploring and celebrating this colorful backstory..."
Quick Review: Spider-Noir: Ben Reilly (Nic Cage) is the investigator who gets embroiled in a case involving a beautiful, exotic woman (Li Jun Li as lounge singer Cat Hardy). This intersects in mysterious ways with a corrupt crook-boss (Brendan Gleeson as the cruel Silvermane) and all of it is laid out in a 1930's background of Depression-era city squalor.
The upside on Spider-Noir is that it has an interesting take on the "private detective who can't meet his bills" story plus the twist that he is secretly a superhero, though one who has tried to bury that identity due to a tragic backstory.
The "noir" in the title is a legit way to describe the overall packaging of the show. In the first episode we get glimpses of what's already happened to our main character, and then the dangerous workings of the criminals. We watch a competing detective (Cameron Britton as Donegal) who can't see the danger-signals like our hero Reilly (and us) can. There's also some clear-cut superhero activity but draped with a sense of urgency to keep such things underwraps and out of the view of the general public.
This just adds more tension into the life of our hero who has a loyal but complaining secretary working for him who hasn't been paid for a very long time (Karen Rodriguez as Janet Ruiz). Plus, he can't stop thinking about his own tragic past while a list is growing of people who either want him dead or at least badly mangled. Cage provides a voice-over narration in sections of the tale that is helpful and is an old staple of noir films of the black-and-white Hollywood past, and there's an argument that the black and white version of Spider-Noir is more dramatic and pleasing than the color version that is also provided via streaming as an alternative.
The downside on this tale is the abundant CGI background work and the failure to establish a 1930's era completely. The dialogue and conversation is 2026, not 1932+, and there's the same old drab color palette that haunts modern film in general (presumably to better hide how the CGI is merged into the presence of the real humans being photographed).
There's an obvious (Sony) Marvel Comics sensibility to the proceedings, which isn't a plus or a negative, and as far as the first episode is concerned, there's a lot of great visuals provided. The writers sometimes have a nice piece of dialogue but in general the story works to fill us in on our character "types" and to push the plot forward without bogging down on anything, maybe out of a concern that a hero wearing a big and thick overcoat just looks too sedentary compared to our usual expectations for muscular men and women in tights.
Is Spider-Noir "real noir"? So far, it's certainly a nicely done comic book superhero version of noir, which means it reduces down the superhero aspects and fits it together with the somewhat cliché noir look and attitude. Nic Cage has his own way of making a character work onscreen, and that actually has no problem folding into the usual noir detective mold smoothly. Whether the writers have the gumption to carry on through with noir detective ethics is a question for later episodes.
"Stop going to comic-cons" says Mike Mayhew – Bleedingcool
Mayhew was the artist on books like Amazing Spider-Man, Mystique, Fantastic Four, Star Wars, Batman, Justice League, Vampirella.
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