Hayame Kawachi on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/square-enix-manga-now-available-book%e2%98%86walker-global-over-300-titles-launch-discounts-included/
IDW comics go digital on GlobalComix the same day as stores
Matias De la Piedra on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/idw-comics-globalcomix/
Dynamite's motion denied – but you can still buy their comics
Heidi MacDonald on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dynamites-motion-denied-but-you-can-still-buy-their-comics/
PATHS FORWARD FROM COMICSUITE: RMH Through Reseller, Pull List Add-On or Full POS
Milton Griepp on July 3, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59953/paths-forward-comicsuite
FANTAGRAPHICS CO-PUBLISHER ERIC REYNOLDS ON 'HOSTAGE INVENTORY' AND THE DIAMOND MESS
Rob Salkowitz
June 30, 2025 https://icv2.com/articles/columns/view/59926/fantagraphics-co-publisher-eric-reynolds-hostage-inventory-diamond-mess
Graphic Novel Review: DR. WERTHLESS is a perfect case of the road to Hell being paved with good intentions [Wetham parody].
Ricardo Serrano Denis on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/dr-werthless-review/
AX 2025 Interview: NOMELON NOLEMON on the unit's first live show overseas [anime music]
Ollie Kaplan on 07/03/2025 https://www.comicsbeat.com/ax-2025-interview-nomelon-nolemon-on-the-units-first-live-show-overseas/
Q & A with Whitney Gardner
By Amanda Ramirez
Jul 01, 2025
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/98138-q-a-with-whitney-gardner.html
Andrew Aiello, Tom Derby & Ben Davis Buy CGA After Diamond Bankruptcy
Andrew Aiello, Tom Derby and Ben Davis buy the Collectible Grading Authority (CGA) from Ad Populum, in the wake of the Diamond bankruptcy
by Rich Johnston
01 Jul 2025
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/andrew-aiello-tom-derby-ben-davis-buy-cga-after-diamond-bankruptcy/
Dynamite Owed A Million By Diamond, Can't Make Payroll Next Week
Dynamite is owed a million from Diamond, can't make payroll next week, and wants bankruptcy courts to hurry their decisions along
01 Jul 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/dynamite-owed-a-million-by-diamond-cant-make-payroll-next-week/
As Court Denies Dynamite Over Diamond, Comic Creators Rally Round; As the Bankruptcy Court denies Dynamite motion to expedite their hearing over payment issues in Diamond bankruptcy case, comic creators rally round to help.
03 Jul 2025 by Rich Johnston https://bleedingcool.com/comics/as-court-denies-dynamite-over-diamond-comic-creators-rally-round/
Ad Populum Can't Yet Deal Directly with Diamond Consignment Vendors
An Ad Populum exec says the company has been restricted from dealing directly with Diamond's consignment vendors, and must go through the bankruptcy estate.
by Rich Johnston
02 Jul 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/ad-populum-cant-yet-deal-directly-with-diamond-consignment-vendors/
Disney+ Hybrid Series 'Oswald the Lucky Rabbit' Casts Amy Sedaris & Young Stars
Animation Magazine July 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/disney-hybrid-oswald-the-lucky-rabbit-series-announces-kid-cast/
'Iyanu' Studio Lion Forge Inks First-Look Kids & YA Content Deal with Oware
Mercedes Milligan
July 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/iyanu-studio-lion-forge-inks-first-look-kids-ya-content-deal-with-oware/
The Beginning of a Brilliant Career (Book Excerpt)
By Bill Kroyer
July 2, 2025
https://www.animationmagazine.net/2025/07/the-beginning-of-a-brilliant-career-book-excerpt/
Bill Kroyer
Mr. In-Between: My Life in the Middle of the Animation Revolution.
CRC Press
https://www.mrinbetween.org/
Jim Shooter, Editor Who 'Saved the Comics Industry,' Dies at 73
He brought order and profits to Marvel in the 1980s and helped establish the genre as a popular-culture tent pole for decades to come.
Clay Risen
July 3, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/arts/jim-shooter-dead.html
Jim Shooter, Marvel EIC & Founder Of Valiant Has Died, Aged 73, RIP
Jim Shooter, writer of Superman, Secret Wars and Legion, Editor-In-Chief of Marvel, co-founder of Valiant, Defiant and Broadway has died, aged 73.
30 Jun 2025
by Rich Johnston
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/jim-shooter-marvel-eic-founder-of-valiant-has-died-aged-73-rip/
Reaction To The Death Of Jim Shooter, The Man Who Made Comics Grow Up
The comic book industy reacts to the death of Jim Shooter,at the age of 73, the man who made comics grow up
Rich Johnston
01 Jul 2025 https://bleedingcool.com/comics/reaction-to-the-death-of-jim-shooter-the-man-who-made-comics-grow-up/
In Memoriam: Jim Shooter
Amanda Sheriff
Scoop June 30, 2025 https://www.overstreetaccess.com/in-memoriam-jim-shooter/
Jim Starlin
[" My longtime friend, Jim Shooter, has passed away and already the internet trolls are picking away at his legacy. "]
July 1 2025
https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=24808553668733004&id=100000151434982&post_id=100000151434982_24808553668733004&rdid=aNpQs628x5SArqYS
NAKAMA PRESS TO PUBLISH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELS FROM HONG KONG: 'Cat Mask Boy' and 'A Little Step'
Brigid Alverson on July 2, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59948/nakama-press-publish-two-graphic-novels-hong-kong
GALAXYCON ACQUIRES THREE SHOWS From Incredible Conventions LLC
Milton Griepp on July 3, 2025
https://icv2.com/articles/news/view/59952/galaxycon-acquires-three-shows
Heritage Comic & Comic Art Auction Rises to $22.6M
Amanda Sheriff
Scoop July 1, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/heritage-comic-comic-art-auction-rises-to-22-6m/
June 30, 2025
Frank Frazetta's 'Famous Funnies' Buck Rogers Cover Art Soars Above $1 Million in Heritage's $22.6 Million Comic & Comic Art Auction
Action Comics No. 1 wrap smashes auction record for stand-alone cover
Steve Lansdale, Public Relations Specialist
https://www.ha.com/heritage-auctions-press-releases-and-news/frank-frazetta-s-famous-funnies-buck-rogers-cover-art-soars-above-1-million-in-heritage-s-22.6-million-comic-and-comic-art-auction.s
'The Old Guard 2' Review: Thurman vs. Theron
Uma Thurman joins the expanded cast in this sure-footed sequel to the action blockbuster about a team of immortal heroes.
By Brandon Yu
A version of this article appears in print on July 3, 2025, Section C, Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: Another Immortal Joins the Mythology.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/movies/the-old-guard-2-review-charlize-theron.html
Charlize Theron's Injuries, Uma Thurman's Boundaries
In her return to action, Thurman is pitted against Theron in "The Old Guard 2." The two discuss the pains and pleasures of the genre.
By Robert Ito
July 3, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/movies/charlize-theron-uma-thurman-old-guard-2-interview.html
Convention Recap: Garden State Comic Fest
Scoop July 2, 2025
https://www.overstreetaccess.com/convention-recap-garden-state-comic-fest-4/
Contributed by collector and Overstreet Advisor Art Cloos
Photos by Alice Cloos
Review Show: Pixar's new film Elio [ Tom Sutcliffe interview]
Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi , Jason Solomons and Hettie Judah.
BBC Radio 4's Front Row June 19 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dpp1
Tim Key on his sleeper hit The Ballad of Wallis Island [As the Japanese art form, Manga, makes its presence felt at this year's Bradford Literature Festival, writer and comic specialist Paul Gravett who has curated the exhibition, Make Mine Manga, and Manga artist, Eira Richards, discuss the visual vocabulary of this distinctive art genre.]
BBC' Radio 4's Front Row July 1 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002f8my
Reviews: Red Night
Joe McCulloch | July 3, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/reviews/red-night/
Red Night
Hanawa Kazuichi, translated by Ryan Holmberg
Breakdown Press
Turkey Arrests Cartoonist for Drawing Moses and Mohammed – Updated
D. D. Degg
July 3, 2025 https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/01/turkey-arrests-cartoonists-for-drawing-of-moses-and-mohammed/
Cartoonists held in Turkey for depicting Mohammed and 'Musa'
The satirical magazine LeMan claimed it showed a random Muslim killed by Israel, and not the prophet that Islamic tradition bans depicting.
Canaan Lidor
(July 1, 2025 / JNS)
https://www.jns.org/cartoonists-held-in-turkey-for-depicting-mohammed-and-musa/
Erdogan says cartoon depicting prophets is 'vile provocation'
By Ece Toksabay
Reuters July 1, 2025 https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/turkey-says-cartoon-depicting-prophets-is-islamophobic-hate-crime-2025-07-01/
Clashes and arrests in Turkey over magazine cartoon allegedly depicting prophet Muhammad
Turkey police face demonstrators after prosecutor orders arrests at LeMan magazine, whose editor-in-chief denies allegation and says image has been deliberately misinterpreted
Agence France-Presse in Istanbul
Mon 30 Jun 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/istanbul-turkey-leman-magazine-alleged-prophet-muhammad-cartoon-protests-arrests
Turkiye detains four over cartoon allegedly depicting Abrahamic prophets
Al Jazeera 1 Jul 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/1/turkey-detains-four-over-cartoon-allegedly-depicting-abrahamic-prophets
Laurie Gambill Myers – RIP
D. D. Degg
July 2, 2025
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/07/02/laurie-gambill-meyers-rip/
'Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of Comics' exhibit now open at Comic-Con Museum
New exhibit celebrates 40 years of strips by local cartoonist Greg Evans and his co-writer and daughter Karen Evans
By David J. Bohnet
The San Diego Union-Tribune
July 1, 2025 https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/07/01/growing-up-luann-40-years-of-comics-exhibit-now-open-at-comic-con-museum/
San Marcos cartoonist focus of new Comic-Con Museum exhibit [Luann]
by Luis Monteagudo Jr. • Times of San Diego June 30, 2025,
https://timesofsandiego.com/arts/2025/06/30/san-marcos-cartoonist-focus-of-new-comic-con-museum-exhibit/
Jamie Lang Officially Takes The Reins At Cartoon Brew, An Introduction To The Site's New(ish) Owner By Jamie Lang | 07/01/2025https://www.cartoonbrew.com/site-news/cartoon-brew-jamie-lang-new-owner-248167.html
Cartoon Brew Is Changing Ownership, A Farewell From The Site's Co-Founder (Video)
Amid Amidi | 06/30/2025
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/site-news/cartoon-brew-is-changing-ownership-a-farewell-from-the-sites-co-founder-video-248145.html
I Sold Cartoon Brew. Here's What Happens Next.
Amid Amidi
Jun 30, 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMKvs6FmXAk
Maryland political cartoonist talks about state of his work after being let go by Sun [KAL]
Denise Koch
WJZ July 3, 2025 CBS Baltimore
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/photos-maryland-political-cartoonist-kevin-kallaugher-sun-baltimore/
Hot Dog and a Shake — This Week's Links
Clark Burscough | July 3, 2025
https://www.tcj.com/hot-dog-and-a-shake-this-weeks-links/