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IDW gets in on the blind-box with a HELLO KITTY AND FRIENDS mystery box
IDW and Sanrio's Hello Kitty mystery box packs a graphic novel, keychain figurine, and trading cards—with Kuromi and Cinnamoroll to chase. June 2027.
Ollie Kaplan
21 hours ago2 min read


GODZILLA STOMP! picture book crashes fairy tales
Katherine Locke and Nikolas Ilic's Godzilla Stomp! is out now from Penguin Young Readers, dropping Godzilla into a fairy-tale village.
Ollie Kaplan
Oct 132 min read


NYCC ‘26: CAPTAIN MARVEL gets a new ongoing from G. Willow Wilson and Rachael Stott
Marvel announces a new Captain Marvel ongoing by G. Willow Wilson and Rachael Stott at NYCC 2026. Carol Danvers is grounded—and going back up in May 2027.
Ollie Kaplan
Oct 112 min read


NYCC '26: Yen Press announces a dozen new acquisitions
Yen Press came to New York Comic Con 2026 with a dozen new licenses — and the haul runs from a light novel legend to a Spice and Wolf spinoff to a historical romance from a rising manga star.
Ollie Kaplan
Oct 105 min read


NYCC ‘26: Grant Morrison takes the license to thrill, with new JAMES BOND comic
The Sunbreaker six-parter marks Ian Fleming Publications' new comics partnership with IDW Publishing.
Ollie Kaplan
Oct 91 min read


Marvel and WEBTOON launch a new Marvel Comics app
Marvel and WEBTOON unveil the new Marvel Comics app: 35,000+ comics, Pull List, two tiers from $9.99/month, and a NYCC preview October 8–11, 2026.
Ollie Kaplan
Oct 54 min read


Like trans people IRL, Marvel’s trans characters have already been here
Just like trans people IRL, the trans characters of Marvel have been here (and aren’t going anywhere) Recently, rumors have circulated that Gwen Stacy, AKA Spider-Gwen, is depicted as trans in the recent summer sequel Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. As previously discussed, it is unlikely that Gwen was intended to be textually trans. Nevertheless, a trans superhero in the Marvel multiverse can indeed be considered a more-than-probable proposition. In fact, there already

Avery Kaplan
Oct 17 min read


Bendis and Gaydos reunite on new JESSICA JONES: ALIAS series
Twenty-five years after they first cracked open Marvel's street-level noir with Alias, Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos are bringing Jessica Jones back for another case — and this time, for the fan-favorite character’s 25th anniversary, it's personal. Jessica Jones: Alias, a five-issue limited series from the original creative team, launches this December from Marvel Comics. The news broke earlier today via Entertainment Weekly, alongside first-look art from returning
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 242 min read


Review: NARROW ROOMS is a manhwa you feel in your teeth
Content warning: This review discusses sexual harassment, stalking, and trauma responses in detail. Choi Sungmin's Narrow Rooms — originally serialized as a webtoon in Korean, translated into English by Janet Hong, and collected by Drawn & Quarterly — is a manhwa that stays with you long after you've read it. Narrow Rooms follows Daye, a high school student whose art director is sexually harassing her — leaving her gifts, sending unwanted messages, and physically cornering he
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 186 min read


Preview: Titan Manga revives mecha classic BREAK BLADE for 20th anniversary
Titan Manga is marking two decades of Break Blade with a new English-language edition, kicking off with Break Blade Vol. 1 by creator Yunosuke Yoshinaga, on sale December 15, 2026, for $12.99. The series needs little introduction for mecha fans — its blend of magic-powered Golems and political warfare spawned an anime film hexalogy and a follow-up TV adaptation, cementing it as a genre touchstone since its Japanese debut. But for the uninitiated, Yoshinaga's manga ran from 20
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 152 min read


Frankenstein's Monster becomes a gothic Sherlock Holmes in PROMETHEUS GRAFT: THE SLAYINGS AT DEATH’S END
Oni Press is sending Mary Shelley's most famous creation to a Romanian castle to solve a murder. Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death's End #1, from writer George Northy (Yuletide, EC's Shiver SuspenStories) and Eisner-nominated artist Caitlin Yarsky (Dead Teenagers, Black Hammer), reimagines Frankenstein's monster as a gentleman detective — decades removed from his creation, scars faded, and reinvented as "Europe's most formidable mind." The premise leans hard into genre
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 142 min read


SDCC ‘26: Yen Press announces four new titles
Ahead of the Yen Press Industry Panel at San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 24, 2026, four new titles were announced across social media.
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 132 min read


Preview: David Hine & Shaky Kane dig in for BULLETPROOF COFFIN: GIANT! CEASE TO EXIST at Oni Press
Reader, prepare to cease to exist. Oni Press, the Eisner- and Harvey-winning publisher that's been breaking comics conventions since 1997, has announced the return of one of indie comics' most gloriously deranged experiments: Bulletproof Coffin: Giant! Cease to Exist. The 72-page one-shot reunites original creators David Hine (co-creator of Spider-Man: Noir) and Shaky Kane (Man from Maybe, The Beef) for a fresh dose of surreal superheroics, hitting comic shops and bookstores
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 112 min read


Z2 Comics is reviving Johnny Cash's self-funded 1976 comic book
Hello, I'm Johnny Cash gets a 50th-anniversary edition with new covers by Chip Kidd and Tim Bradstreet, plus fresh interviews. It will arrive on Local Comic Shop Day.
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 82 min read


MangaPlaza hits 1 million members, kicks off celebration with free points
MangaPlaza, the global manga platform run by Osaka-based NTT Solmare Corporation, has crossed the 1 million member mark and is celebrating the milestone with a sitewide points-back promotion running from September 1, 2026, to September 30. MangaPlaza is a project of NTT Solmare, which has run the platform's sister site, Comic C'moA, in the Japanese and broader Asian market for more than two decades. Launched in North America in March 2022, the platform has grown its catalog t
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 72 min read


A truck full of floppies crashed into the woods — somehow it became commentary on the “state of modern comics”
IDW Publishing confirmed this week that a delivery truck carrying a stack of upcoming releases was involved in an accident, scattering comics across a wooded roadside and pushing several high-profile titles past their original street date. "A truck carrying our comics was in an accident," the publisher wrote in a post on Bluesky. "No one was hurt, but the comics." The line did a lot of work — grim enough to acknowledge real wreckage, dry enough to signal that the publisher kn
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 42 min read


Weightlifting takes center stage in RAISE THE BAR
It seems like sports comics are everywhere these days. Dial Books for Young Readers is betting the next breakout hit comes from the weight room, instead of on the soccer field or in the hockey rink. Raise the Bar, the graphic novel debut from Chilean animator Fernanda Frick H., hit shelves August 25, 2026, retailing at $14.99. The weightlifting graphic novel for young readers (ages 8-12) follows Sam Sanchez, a girl with no coach and no proper equipment who's nonetheless certa
Ollie Kaplan
Sep 32 min read


ADHD ALIEN creator Pina Varnel brings viral webcomic to the page this September
The ADHD Alien has been quietly narrating the neurodivergent experience across social media since 2019. But this September, Pina Varnel’s viral sensation is finally returning to the page. Feeling Like an ADHD Alien, the debut graphic novel from Varnel, hits shelves September 15 — and it's set to be less "webcomic collection" and more Varnel finally letting Kiki, her alien stand-in, take up a whole book's worth of space. Varnel didn't set out to build an audience. According to
Ollie Kaplan
Aug 282 min read


Anime NYC '26: Dark Horse Manga announces three new releases, including its first-ever VAMPIRE HUNTER D comic
Dark Horse Comics used its Anime NYC 2026 panel at the Javits Center on Friday, August 21, 2026, to unveil three new titles for manga fans—two manga volumes and, notably, the publisher's first-ever original comic series set in the Vampire Hunter D universe. The headliner is Vampire Hunter D: Fortress of Blood, a four-issue miniseries breaking from the franchise's usual manga-adaptation format to tell an original story in single-issue comic form. Alongside it, Dark Horse confi
Ollie Kaplan
Aug 233 min read


Anime NYC '26: Manga Mavericks Books announces MIDNIGHT ROBOT and ARAI-KUN & HARUMA-SENPAI
Manga Mavericks Books used its panel at Anime NYC 2026 to unveil two new manga licenses, plus a restoration project digging up lost color art from a decades-old shoujo classic. During its panel, Manga Mavericks announced Midnight Robot, an alt-sci-fi action series from Yohei Sajita, and Arai-kun & Haruma-senpai, a boys' love slice-of-life romance from Akahachi. The publisher also revealed it's restoring never-before-collected color pages from The Sword of Paros for the series
Ollie Kaplan
Aug 223 min read
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