Archive Page 2257
January 2026
Pattinson's Batman II: Scarlett Johansson and Sebastian Stan is going to be Two-Face – Forbes
Reports of Johansson’s casting don’t confirm a specific role, but considering Stan is playing Dent, I am guessing she’s portraying Harvey wife Gilda Dent, who plays a significant role in the best-selling comic book story arc The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sales. The comic story is among the potential influences for the movie’s plot..."
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The 1942 Wonder Woman #1 Facsimile Edition will be in Golden Age size – 13th Dimension
Jim Lee talks about the "harsh truth" in Manga vs American comic books – Inde News
In the top fifty comic sales for 2025, Marvel only has seven titles – MSN Bounding into Comics
Their bestselling title was the Wolverine-Batman crossover.
Interview with Tessa Hulls, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for graphic novel autobiography Feeding Ghosts – The Comics Journal
Disney's new "science comic book" line – Comicsbeat
Independent Publishers Group (IPG) enters the "chaos" following the collapse of Diamond – Publishers Weekly
[CEO Joe Matthews] ... said that distribution for small publishers has become more difficult in recent years. As book prices fail to keep up with rising costs, small distributors have been forced to consolidate and drop low-cost formats, including mass market paperbacks and floppy comics. The economics of floppy comics make that format untenable for IPG to carry, Matthews explained..."
Muskegon Michigan Museum of Art prepares for comic book art exhibit – Wood Gand Rapids "60 years of original comic book artwork in POW! The Art of Comics. "
How many comic book businesses were killed by the Diamond bankruptcy? – Comicsbeat
Swamp Thing "37 year saga" to conclude – CBR
20 years of Marvel’s most infamous event – Comicsbeat
Marvel celebrates the anniversary of the original Civil War crossover with Civil War: Unmasked, a five-issue series by Christos Gage, Edgar Salazar, and colorist Morry Hollowell.
Who liked, and still likes, ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’? Warner Bros. Execs Pam Abdy And Michael De Luca – Boundingintocomics
The "audience was wrong" is the battle cry of Hollywood producers since the industry began.
The "Nicolas Cage Action Comics #1" goes for $15 million - the new record – MSN Nerdable
It was stolen from Cage in 2011, eventually got tracked to a California storage unit, Cage sold it for $2.2 million (he paid $150K for it back in the 1990s) after recovering it, and has this month gone for $15 million - - officially, and easily, the highest price paid (yet) for a comic book. There's going to be a whole new slew of media stories about finding forgotten comics under beds and in attics "that could be worth millions."
Glenn Head Interview – The Comics Journal
Of all the cartoonists emerging during the 1980s, Glenn Head seemed to be the one most closely channeling the frenetic zeitgeist found on the pages of some of his beloved comics of the underground era. Read today, his early, wild, "true life" stories chronicling the New York he was living in at the time are a reminder that the city could be a scary place indeed..."
Is Artgerm an AI artist? Stanley Lau has to keep proving that he's not A.I. to new readers – Bleedingcool
AnimeJapan 2026 "biggest show ever" – Comicsbeat
Denis Kitchen – MSN Boing Boing
Article about Kitchen (probably most famous for his graphic memoirs Maus) with some bio on his history, plus talking about his book Conversations with Denis Kitchen. Also, there is a documentary coming titled Oddly Compelling: The Denis Kitchen Story.
"Comic creators clashed in private channels over the success and impact of Absolute Batman and its universe" – Bleeding Cool
Legal case ends between 17 comic artists and Cadence Comic Art – Comicsbeat
Profile of cartoonist Barbara Brandon Croft – EUR Web
"A farewell to 3D Comics" – The Comics Journal
Retro Hot Picks for 1973 Marvel and DC Comics – 13th Dimension
Scott Adams, cartoonist for Dilbert, has died – MSN Los Angeles Times
IDW announces female GI Joe Scarlett's Strike Force: then cancels it – Bleedingcool
With no official PR, and the book's writer forbidden from doing interviews, the cancellation of Scarlett's Strike Force looks less like a matter of financial performance and more like a self-fulfilling prophecy...."
Psychology: want people in public spaces to behave better? Add Batman – Science Alert
A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present – and not for the reasons you might assume. It may sound like a full-throated attempt to score an Ig Nobel Prize, but the study is actually an intriguing exploration of what inspires people towards prosocial behavior..."
Unfortunately the experiment doesn't mention a "control" experiment to reinforce the outcomes they saw with the Batman suit in a public space. For example, other superheroes or, as they surmise, anything unexpected that might break the "zoning" attitude of people on the subway.
Absolute Batman rules holiday sales – MSN Bounding into Comics
Brian Hibbs discusses Diamond's bankruptcy and implosion – Graphic Policy - 41 minute audio
Batman's girlfriend learns his secret identity the funny way – Superherohype
The decline and fall of newspaper comic strips – The Comics Journal
The article picks on Beetle Bailey and makes apologia for Peanuts but is really an overview of how newspaper comic strips reached a zenith of American focus and then waned and slid out of view (mostly).
Newspaper comics’ decline began with size reduction during the second World War. Newsprint was rationed and recycling was encouraged. With few exceptions, former full-page Sunday strips went to half or third pages. Some newspapers, like the St. Louis, Missouri Post-Dispatch, reduced their Sunday comic-strips to fourth, fifth and sixth pages; they chopped and stacked panels and crammed as many features as one page could hold. Daily comics, once published in five or six-column widths, halved that luxurious size as their hold on the public waned. In the first half of the 20th century, comics were a selling point of newspapers. All age groups and social classes read and enjoyed them. The acquisition of Blondie or Dick Tracy in your local paper was ballyhooed. Hefty Sunday papers were wrapped in their color comics section; its arrival made a grand thud on doorsteps. Comics made a difference. Adults read them with glee; kids laid wall-eyed on their living-room floors, pages spread open as they took in the color and imagery..."
I’m old enough to remember the impact of Sunday comic strips in newspapers. As a kid, I lived outside of America part of the time, and the newspaper world still held a great deal of sway “out there”—a power that had already begun evaporating back in the States.
There was a clear difference I could observe once I returned to the U.S. In American homes overseas, I often saw Sunday newspaper pages spread across living-room floors and kitchen tables, with kids and adults luxuriously consuming the whole package, inky page by page.
Television at the time was spotty and only partially filled with American and English-language programming. Radio was mostly in foreign languages, with the exception of Armed Forces Radio, which offered a kind of “mini” digest of American broadcasting with limited daily airtime.
The point of this comparison is that those two mammoth institutions of absorption—TV and radio (the internet did not yet exist)—were truncated competitors to newspapers in these foreign places. This made newspapers (and magazines) far more potent and desirable sources of news and entertainment for a willing and ready audience.
One of the very specific features of newspaper comic strips (in this world outside the USA) that appealed across the entire household—unlike, say, comic books—was that they were considered socially approved entertainment. This was something comic books barely enjoyed, keeping them relegated to a kind of twilight zone of acceptability and disapproval depending on the household. Newspapers, however, did not carry that stigma.
Jem And The Holograms comic book series from IDW Publishing getting collection in the DC "Compact" book size – Bleedingcool
The IDW comic book series series was based on the 1985 – 1988 animated TV cartoon and was made up of 26 issues and 5 specials.
A joint collaboration by Hasbro, Marvel Productions and Sunbow Productions, the same team responsible for G.I. Joe and Transformers, it has become part of the Hasbro line of properties..."
"Burt Ward's’s 13 Grooviest Moments" as Robin the Boy Wonder in the Batman TV Show – 13th Dimension
‘Ultimate Endgame’ blind bags leads to retailer refunds due to damage – MSN Bounding into Comics
Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) in south Delhi has large comic and 'zine exhibit that's "hands on" – Moneycontrol
The first section of ‘please touch gently (zines, comics, ephemera)’ is on comic books and graphic novels. Titled ‘We the People, Birds and Beasts, Deities and Demons…, it is curated by Bharath Murthy and tells a story of Indian comics. ‘Chacha Chaudhry’ by Pran to Satyajit Ray’s storyboards for ‘Pather Panchali’ are featured alongside Diamond Comics’ Film Chitrakatha with actual dialogue and still photos from Bollywood movies as well as cartoon strips by masters like Abu Abraham and south films director G. Aravindan. This section alone has works by dozens of practitioners and publications that were the stuff of popular culture in their time — and could easily be seen as the stuff of history and art history today..."
Jim Lee and Bob Layton in Seoul, Korea – Korea Times
Lee reflected on the global reach of comics, noting that while American comics have long enjoyed strong followings in Europe and South America, Asia, and particularly Korea, has only recently seen significant growth. Over the past two to three years, he's seen a big increase in interest, especially among younger readers — many fans in Asia were not yet born when much of his most famous work was first published.... Bob Layton, who was also in attendance. Layton, known for his work on Iron Man, has been a regular at DCC, cultivating the local comic community and using it as an informal training ground. "This is the one place they can buy," said Layton, who was also in attendance, referring to the scarcity of American comic book retail spaces in Korea.
Rea Irvin (1881–1972) and the The Smythes comic strip – The Comics Journal
Rea Irvin was the first art editor at The New Yorker magazine and is responsible for the"look " of the magazine. He created the magazine's monocle-wearing mascot “Eustace Tilley” who appeared on the first New Yorker cover in 1925 and periodically thereafter. Irvin also designed the magazine’s distinctive typeface (called the “Irvin type”). "The Smythes" Sunday comic strip ran from June 15, 1930 to October 25, 1936.
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Original page February 3, 2026