August 12, 2026
Amid a post-Comixology landscape, both longstanding comics publishers and upstart digital retailers are carving out new approaches to producing, selling, and finding readers for online comics. more 
Fantagraphics, Drawn & Quarterly, and other comics publishers have been fighting with the distributor’s new owners for a year to get back their warehouse inventory. New court documents show an agreement has finally been reached. more
Five small publishers, including Manga Mavericks Books and Red String Manga, are joining forces to “help people power through the challenges” of the manga industry, says Manga Mavericks CEO Varun Gupta. more
Dark Horse Workers United is considering legal and collective action after management at the comics publisher allegedly changed senior editors’ job descriptions in ways that disqualify them from the bargaining unit, which it voluntarily recognized in June. more
The writer and artist discusses his debut graphic novel The Nightingales (Avid Reader, out now), about one family’s experience with the AIDS crisis, loosely based on his own life. more
In 1993, DC’s Vertigo imprint redefined mature-readers comics with bold, genre-pushing stories that were bizarre, beautiful, transgressive, and terrifying. Now, DC Vertigo returns with new collected editions on sale this October: Bleeding Hearts Vol. 1: Out-Break, End of Life Vol. 1: Whats Wrongdog?, and The Peril of the Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery. (Sponsored) More
This week on More to Come, co-hosts Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald, Christian Holub and Kate Fitzsimons discuss discuss Heidi's experiences at SDCC 2026, and news from the con including the leaked Eisner Awards; threats of closing Hall H; new licensed comics at Dark Horse and Marvel; the Independent Manga Alliance; and the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts. more
The new associate publisher of Scholastic’s comics imprint, Graphix, came up through the ranks, and is excited about having a hand in the latest installment of a childhood fave. more
Entries in the popular category this spring include notable talents such as Graham Annable, Drew Daywalt, Dan Santat, Kelly Thompson, and Lewis Trondheim. more
On the heels of the success of John Byrne’s newest X-Men story, the editorial director of Abrams ComicsArts discusses making comics that the Big Two can’t and his vision for the publisher’s growing comics division. more
A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis by Meera Subramanian and artist Danica Novgorodoff offers a youth-focused graphic guide to the science of climate change and a call to the power of environmental activism. Told through biographical profiles of the coauthors and of four young American climate activists, the book uses their diverse backgrounds (the parents are from Mexico, Columbia, Bangladesh, and India) to highlight the growing severity of climate crises around the globe. Novgorodoff’s crisp, charmingly rendered illustrations capture the wide-ranging communities affected, the science used to monitor ecological disaster, and spotlight the call for environmental justice.
In this 10-page excerpt, we’re introduced to Subramanian’s background, her work as an environmental journalist, and to the science documenting climate change. A Better World Is Possible: Global Youth Confront the Climate Crisis by Meera Subramanian and Danica Novgorodoff is out now from First Second Books.
‘Like Swimmers’ by Dash ShawAn uncanny pandemic-era mystery unfolds among a community of artists, outcasts, and academics in Richmond, Va., in the mesmerizing, surreal latest from Ignatz winner Shaw (Blurry). Kenzie smells trouble when her younger brother Howie—a tattoo artist who she “sort of raised” and worries was never toughened up by the outside world—lands a job teaching cartooning at Virginia Commonwealth University’s art museum. As Kenzie searches for answers, Shaw imbues the pandemic’s inertia with the smoky musk of detective fiction—and something stranger. In this Rashomon-like whodunit, the truth grows hazier as the clues accumulate. Art comics fans will find that Shaw’s kaleidoscopic story lingers long after its delirious close. more
Eisner nominee Sattin (the Unico series) and tokitokoro (the Jeff the Land Shark series) unspool an addictive cyberpunk noir. Butch detective Lynx Takuma and her cybernetically enhanced talking cat, Skua, patrol New Borealis, a snowy city flooded with designer drugs and futuristic implants. Fans of sci-fi worldbuilding will relish Sattin’s ability to populate New Borealis with offbeat characters and concepts, including talking animals, deadly celestial beings, bizarre body-horror monsters, and a winsome mortician. Tokitokoro brings the setting to life with flair and draws appealing characters involved in sharp, dynamic action. more
In this frank yet hopeful graphic novel treatise on surviving sexual assault from Malle (So Long Sad Love), a young woman named Clémence—lovingly described by her friends as “always angry”—worries she’s being consumed by rage in the wake of her sexual assault. At the urging of her psychiatrist, Clémence joins group therapy with other survivors of assault to process her rape and her anger at the justice system. Malle’s charming loose-lined character designs work in tandem with fast-paced dialogue to create a sense of urgency in the character-driven storyline. The translation by the Jensen sisters nicely captures the tonality of Malle’s native French. more
America’s sordid history of human experimentation rises from the dead in this unsettling Eisner-nominated horror thriller from Barnes (Killadelphia) and Italian comics artist Bonetti (Night of the Living Dead). A suspicious suicide at condemned Crownsville State Hospital, a real Jim Crow–era psychiatric facility in Maryland, abruptly intersects three men’s lives. The photorealistic comics have a scratchy overlay of cross-hatching inks that intensify the creep factor, and the grotesque art is genuinely frightening. The trio unveil devastating truths that trigger an undead reckoning. Fans of the Bitter Root series will dig this socially conscious gothic noir. more
Cyberpunk noir meets Cronenbergian body horror in this grim but inventive visit to a “post-trauma world” from musician Hoffman (Wag) and artist Ponticelli (Unknown Soldier). In a gritty, Blade Runner–esque New York City, someone is murdering sex workers in the “Blacklight District.” Hannover, a fatherly police detective, is on the case—and so is Vin, or Snow White (made-up like a sobby goth version of the princess), a sex worker with prosthetic limbs who works at a “freaky place” brothel that specializes in servicing fetishes for unusual bodies. Though some readers may be turned off by the sexualized violence, horror hounds with a sci-fi bent will dig this. more
- Star Wars Meets Marvel: Two of Disney’s biggest franchises will collide for the first time ever in a new crossover comic written by Kevin Smith, reports Entertainment Weekly.
- Mike Mignola Returns to Hell: The Hellboy creator is writing a two-issue miniseries in which his iconic hero attends a funeral for Satan, per Gizmodo.
- Archie’s Legal Battles Continue: As Archie Comics co-owner Jon Goldwater continues to fight with Raven Capital Management over debts and IP ownership, a new court filing shows that a foreclosure auction has been delayed for now, according to the Beat.
- Rosario Dawson’s Cameo Cut: The actress, who played Claire Temple on Netflix’s Marvel shows, says she was set to reprise her role in Spider-Man: Brand New Day alongside Jon Bernthal, but her scene was removed, via the Hollywood Reporter.
- Rob Liefeld Cancels Memoir, for Now: The Image Comics cofounder says he was inspired by Mick Jagger to hold off on his tell-all until “right before I die,” per PopVerse.
- Nikki Becomes a Halloween Icon: The female lead of Obsession, originally played by Inde Navarrette, will be a character at this year’s Halloween Horror Nights in Universal Studios Hollywood, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
- Ted White Dies at 88: The Comics Journal remembers the science-fiction writer, magazine editor, music critic, and comics critic as an early trailblazer in fan communities.
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