Some Good News About Monthly Comics Sales In Comic Stores For 2025
11 Apr 2025
by Rich Johnston
Bankruptcy Court confirms that Alliance Entertainment, or AENT, has bought Diamond Comics at auction, but their lawsuit must be withdrawn
12 Apr 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/courts-confirm-aent-bought-diamond-comics-lawsuit-must-be-withdrawn/
Who Is DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN's Heather Glenn? Her Tangled Marvel Comics History, Explained
by Eric Diaz
Apr 10 2025
https://nerdist.com/article/daredevil-born-again-heather-glenn-marvel-comics-history-explained/
From Stan Mack: A Nightmare for These Times
The cartoonist offers a drawing in response to a guest essay.
April 11, 2025
A version of this article appears in print on April 12, 2025, Section A, Page 23 of the New York edition with the headline: From Stan Mack: A Nightmare for These Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/opinion/letters/stan-mack-cartoon.html
Alan Cumming Says 'Avengers: Doomsday' Got His X-Men Transformation Down to 90 Minutes: 'It Was Four and a Half Hours' to Become Nightcrawler for 'X2'
Zack Sharf
Apr 7, 2025
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/alan-cumming-avengers-doomsday-nightcrawler-transformation-1236362065/
A Graphic Memoir With the Volume Turned All the Way Up
In "Precious Rubbish," Kayla E. turns to midcentury children's comics to help tell her shattering story.
Sam Thielman
April 11, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/books/review/precious-rubbish-kayla-e.html
Famed cowboy cartoonist called Kerrville home [ Ace Reid, Cowpokes]
Lanza Teague
Kerrville Daily Times April 11 2025
https://dailytimes.com/columnists/famed-cowboy-cartoonist-called-kerrville-home/article_7a451b2b-324c-4ad3-b036-340c8ce21c8a.html
Steve Cook.
Comics & Music
Secret Oranges Apr 12, 2025
https://secretoranges.substack.com/p/comics-and-music
Interview: Fieldmouse Press talks tariffs and how to support small press operations
Ollie Kaplan on 04/11/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/interview-fieldmouse-press-talks-tariffs-and-how-to-support-small-press-operations/
Awesome(?) Con: In which I kick off this year's con season
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Apr 12, 2025
https://natesans.substack.com/p/awesome-con
Media & Memory: An Ode to Trash Culture and the Pack Rat [Helen of Wyndhorn]
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jan 24, 2025
https://natesans.substack.com/p/media-and-memory
Two Reviews - Hollywood: The Oral History and MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios
Old Hollywood, New Hollywood, and Marvel Studios
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Oct 10, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/two-reviews-hollywood-the-oral-history
Adventures in comic art: Part One of >1 - An introduction to "The Hobby"
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 11, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/adventures-in-comic-art
Further adventures in comic art: Part Two - the whys of it all
Nate Sans
Paper Gold Jun 25, 2024
https://natesans.substack.com/p/further-adventures-in-comic-art
John Peck, Underground Cartoonist Known as The Mad Peck, Dies at 82
Jeré Longman
A version of this article appears in print on April 11, 2025, Section B, Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: John Peck, 82, Underground Cartoonist Known as The Mad Peck, Dies
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/arts/john-peck-dead.html
Rare whisky and comic books are coming together with "Maltyverse"
Christopher Osburn
Fri, January 17, 2025
https://www.themanual.com/food-and-drink/whiskey-maltyverse/#dt-heading-where-can-i-buy-these-whiskeys
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/rare-whisky-comic-books-coming-182704217.html
Ladysmith resident plays key role in First Nation's graphic novel launch [Tchadas Leo; Xwémalhkwu - Hero Stories; Canada]
Duck Paterson Jan 18, 2025
https://www.ladysmithchronicle.com/community/ladysmith-resident-plays-key-role-in-first-nations-graphic-novel-launch-7735559
Cincinnati Mother-Daughter Duo Release Graphic Memoir that Navigates Post-Breakup Grief; What to Do When You Get Dumped takes readers through 1,582 days of grief, healing and even smashing a litter box.
By Mackenzie Manley
Jan 17, 2025
https://www.citybeat.com/arts/cincinnati-mother-daughter-duo-release-graphic-memoir-that-navigates-post-breakup-grief-18870687
A Mother, a Daughter, and a Graphic Memoir About Heartbreak; Cincinnati-based Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman partner as writer/illustrator on a real-life guide to healing, "What to Do When You Get Dumped."
Kelly Blewett
January 17, 2025
https://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/article/a-mother-a-daughter-and-a-graphic-memoir-about-heartbreak/
Jui Talukder
Website - https://www.dewmanna.com/
Offer high? Offer low? What's a buyer to do? [in print as Offer high or low? Strategies vary]
By Tom Peterson and Jui Talukder (ill.)
Washington Post April 13 2025: EZ 18-19
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/12/offer-high-offer-low-whats-buyer-do/
4 new graphic novels to fill your spring days with color and mystery
Prepare to rethink ancient myths, explore the depths of the human mind and do more in these new books by Anders Nilsen, María Medem, Jason Novak and Rachel Ang. [in print as Four graphic novels filled with color, myth and mystery]
Kay Sohini
Washington Post April 13, 2025: B8.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/03/29/new-graphic-novels-medem-nilsen/
A perfect Sunday with... Simon Furman [comic book writer; Transformers; UK]
Cavan Scott
The Cavletter Apr 13, 2025
https://www.cavletter.com/a-perfect-sunday-with-simon-furman/
Brad Holland, 81, Dies; His Subversive Art Reinvented Illustration
His stark and stunning work for Playboy, The New York Times and Manhattan's underground papers heralded a new era of conceptual illustration.
By Penelope Green
April 13, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/arts/brad-holland-dead.html
In His Own Words: Carlos Ezquerra on his Early Judge Dredd designs
John Freeman on April 11, 2025 https://downthetubes.net/in-his-own-words-carlos-ezquerra-on-his-early-judge-dredd-designs/
Alliance Appears to Win Its Bid for Diamond Comic Distributors
By Jim Milliot
Apr 11, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/97551-alliance-appears-to-win-its-bid-for-diamond-distributors.html
Bob Mankoff draws on cartoonist career for A&S Maxwell Alumni Keynote
By Eliana Rosen
Daily Orange April 10 2025
https://dailyorange.com/2025/04/bob-mankoff-draws-on-cartoonist-keynote-speaker/
Cartoonist Duane Abel honored by University of Akron
Apr 10, 2025
https://freepressstandard.com/2025/04/10/cartoonist-duane-abel-honored-by-university-of-akron/
Cartoonist Mark Knight brings light relief to Trump's 'Liberation'
The iconic Statue of Liberty is America's great symbol of freedom and opportunity but Mark Knight's cartoon imagines the US and Lady Liberty transformed by Donald Trump's 'Liberation' tariffs
Mark Knight
Kids News April 6, 2025
https://www.kidsnews.com.au/explainers/cartoonist-mark-knight-brings-light-relief-to-trumps-liberation/news-story/43af0d08c53718f5ab6854b265d088f7
Trump Trade War: 115 Funny Political Cartoons on Global Economy Crash!
Caglecast 65
Apr 13, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN-dDCAB4wo
IDEAS DON'T BLEED episode one hundred thirty-four | Amy Chu, part one
Apr 13, 2025
https://ashcanpress.substack.com/p/what-is-that
The 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards Are Gonna be EPIC | Den of Otaku
Daniel Kurland
Den of Otaku
Apr 8, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjP6uU3NzE
Kapow! Police dressed as Batman and Robin arrest two in gambling sting.
London's Metropolitan Police knew they had to get creative to tackle the illegal gambling operations targeting tourists in the city. Enter the caped crusaders.
Vivian Ho
April 12, 2025
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/12/batman-robin-undercover-police-london/
Get good [Zits letter]
Gordon O.F. Johnson, Alexandria
Washington Post April 12 2025: A17.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/11/hands-off-musk-soros-zits-cartoon/
Get smart [Six Chix letter]
Joan Wetmore, Neavitt, Maryland
Washington Post April 12 2025: A17.
online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/04/11/hands-off-musk-soros-zits-cartoon/
10 Questions with Rozalia Finkelstein, cartoonist behind 'West End Girls' at Alexandria City High School
By James Cullum
April 10, 2025
https://www.alxnow.com/2025/04/10/10-questions-with-rozalia-finkelstein-cartoonist-behind-west-end-girls-at-alexandria-city-high-school/
Kitz 'n' Katz
2025
by Bob Laughlin (Author), Patrick McDonnell (Introduction)
Smallbug Press
The Marvel Comics Covers of Jack Kirby Volume 1, 1961-1964
John Lind (Editor), Vincent Iadevaia (Editor)
Dark Horse Books, 2025
Parks and Rec actor to take over voicing The Simpsons' Jimbo Jones (exclusive)
Mo Collins will take over the character from Pamela Hayden, who retired from the show last year.
By Wesley Stenzel
April 11, 2025 https://ew.com/the-simpsons-jimbo-jones-new-voice-mo-collins-exclusive-11713212
"It's a Big Swing": Tiny Onion's Director of Communications Jazzlyn Stone on Bringing Exquisite Corpses to Life — and Market
David Harper
April 10, 2025
https://sktchd.com/interview/jazzlyn-stone-exquisite-corpses-interview/
Manga Babies: An Interview w/ David Harper about Manga and where to start
Badr Milligan,
The Short Box: A Comic Book Talk Show March 26, 2025 • Season 10 • Episode 452
https://www.theshortboxpodcast.com/281000/episodes/16856857-manga-babies-an-interview-w-david-harper-about-manga-and-where-to-start