September 10, 2025
From spine-tingling monster tales to swoonworthy love stories and hard-hitting histories, our editors select the season’s most promising adult, YA, middle grade, and manga titles. more 
Veteran comics stars Bill Griffith, Mimi Pond, and Joe Sacco headline a season of rabble-rousing politics and genre escapism. more
Action manga dominates this season, from sword-and-sorcery fantasies to gritty crime dramas and mysteries. more
Romance, magic, and mystery from top comics talents like Trung Le Nguyen, Mariko Tamaki, and Ngozi Ukazu, plus plenty of promising debuts, make for an exciting season. more
Tried-and-true themes of navigating friendships and crushes lead fall’s middle grade lineup, along with inventive early reader fare by Shannon Hale, Peter McCarty, Iasmin Omar Ata, and Brenna Thummler. more
Immortal Lilith has been banished from her home, a dimensional plane suspiciously similar to the idea of Hell. Posing as a model on Earth, Lilith’s been preying on humans - until she meets Penelope, a sweet bookstore owner with a tome that may hold the secret to Lilith’s return home. If the mismatched pair doesn’t fall in love first! From Vault Comics! (Sponsored) More
The new publisher, which launches its inaugural list this fall, wants to more efficiently bring print editions of Japanese manga, Korean webcomics, and Asian light novels to English-language markets worldwide. more
Calvin Reid, Heidi MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons recap Anime NYC 2025, weigh in on the winners of the American Manga Awards, give an update on new developments around the Diamond bankruptcy, and more.
Calvin talks to Denpa Books publisher Ed Chavez (pictured) about editing classic and indie manga, and Kate chats with with Haga and Kang Jiyoun, creators of the hit BL webtoon series King’s Maker. more
Armitage, best known for his star turn in the Hobbit films, looks at a decades-old murder’s impact on a small English village not unlike his own hometown in his thrilling second novel, The Cut (Pegasus Crime, Sept.). more
The author of The Weight, a family saga in the tradition of Steinbeck, discusses family and farm life as inspiration, the way serialization changes the shape of a narrative, and more. more
From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology, edited by Latinx scholar Frederick Luis Aldama and children’s book author Angela Sánchez, is a big-hearted anthology of Latinx comics celebrating food, sports, and the persistent influence of both in Latinx culture and identity. The stories offer complex memories of family and home cooking as well as the rambunctious spectacle of lucha libre wrestling. In this 12-page excerpt from the story “Elotera,” the creator tells the tale of his Mexican-American father’s 1950s childhood and the shame of being ridiculed in school for his poor English and for the food he brought from home. From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology, edited by Frederick Luis Aldama and Angela Sánchez, is out now from Mad Creek Books.
‘Cannon’ by Lee LaiThis subtle yet searing graphic novel from Eisner and Lambda award winner Lai follows Lucy, a quiet, cagey, and hyper-responsible Montrealer who divides her summer between restaurant work and caring for her ailing grandfather. Lai’s embrace of her characters’ vulnerability makes for a satisfying emotional feast. more
‘Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me’ by Mimi PondOne of modern history’s most flamboyantly dysfunctional families comes to gossipy life in this irresistible biography from Pond, whose witty art, drawn in inky blue, imbues the characters with personality. It’s an off-kilter trip through the 20th century that readers won’t want to miss. more
In this edifying graphic biography, Musk is portrayed as a space race–obsessed “longtermist... a logic that inevitably leads to an indifference to current global issues.” It’s a disturbing allegation that Musk has forsaken his own humanity as he’s chased power in the guise of innovation. more
Orlesky’s darkly romantic debut, first serialized online, conjures a gritty Weird West where centaurs gallop across the American frontier and sphinxes take out bounties. Pulled off with attention-demanding originality, this cross-genre epic will rope in fans of historical fiction and romantasy that doesn’t guarantee a happily ever after. more
The messy personal, creative, and business tensions that shy young filmmaker George Lucas battled to complete the first Star Wars movie get wrangled by Hopman and storyboard artist Roche into a similarly rousing quest narrative. This is pop culture history of the first order. more
- IPG’s New Direct Market Terms: Responding to turbulence in the distribution world as the Diamond bankruptcy proceedings continue, Independent Publishers Group has signed a handful of independent comics publishers and announced new direct market terms.
- Diamond Strikes Back: The bankrupt distributor has filed countersuits against the comics publishers whose products it holds on consignment, weeks after a judge ruled that Diamond could not liquidate its inventory, in hopes of still selling off the goods, Bleeding Cool reports.
- Warner Bros. Takes AI Firm to Court: The conglomerate, whose subsidiaries include DC Comics, Cartoon Network, and more, is suing the image and video generator Midjourney for using Warner Bros imagery to train its AI model, per CNET.
- Censoring Manga: Anime News Network considers how “soft censorship” from publishers is affecting manga in the U.S.
- The Rise of ‘Weekly Shōnen Jump’: The New Yorker looks at how the Japanese magazine, home to such series as Naruto and One Piece, became a manga powerhouse.
- Why Anime Is Everywhere: The New York Times explores how Japanese animation took over American pop culture.
- NYCC Show Floor Preview: The Beat takes a peek at the show floor map for New York Comic Con 2025—and is surprised to find that the DC booth appears to be returning for the first time in 13 years.
- Superman Sequel Moves Ahead: The sequel to James Gunn’s Superman, titled Man of Tomorrow, is set to fly into theaters in July 2027, reports Variety.
- Comic-Con Africa Returns: The AP reports from Johannesburg, where tens of thousands of South African comics fans and cosplayers celebrated the sixth edition of Comic-Con Africa.
- Rick and Morty Say Goodbye: The Rick and Morty comic book series at Oni Press will conclude in December, per Bleeding Cool.
- Marvel x Star Wars Comic Hits the Web: The 2015 Marvel Comics series following Luke, Leia, and Han Solo in the aftermath of the first Star Wars film is now available on Webtoon, per Collider.
- Dick Tracy Gets a Second Life: Clover Press has launched a BackerKit campaign to reprint Chester Gould’s Dick Tracy in new deluxe editions, collecting every comic strip from 1941 to 1944 in four volumes.
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