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Jeremy Fascaldo As an experienced cartoonist and a cartoonist trying to learn more about the industry, the publishers I was familiar with growing up were Scholastic Graphix publications via Jeff Smith’s Bone. On Thursday, I attended the “Graphics: 20 Years of Children’s Comics” panel discussion at New York Comic Con in a sort of full-circle moment. The panel discussion was moderated by Publishers Weekly editor Meg Lemke and featured creators Samuel Sattin (Unico: Awakening, Unico: Hunted), Laura Terry (Adorable Empire), Cassandra Kalin (The New Girl), Cristina Diaz Gonzalez (Invisible), and Mol Melos (Snowlands). The panelists talked about their creative processes,…
On Friday at New York Comic-Con, Marvel Comics’ X-Men panel revealed Shadow of Tomorrow, the next era of mutantkind storytelling, including multiple limited series and ongoing series debuting in 2026. The X-Men panel included Vice Presidents and Editors-in-Chief Nick Lowe and Tom Brevoort, Editor-in-Chief CB Cebulski, and Creators Jed McKay, Ryan Stegman, Ashley Allen, Eve L. Ewing, and Ben Percy. Stefano Caselli’s promotional images for Shadow of Tomorrow gave attendees a preview of what was to come. This art will be used as the cover for a currently unreleased X-Men title. As part of the Shadow of Tomorrow era, three…
DC kicked off day two of New York Comic Con with a Gotham City panel discussion about all things Batman. Moderated by DC Group Editor Rob Levin, the panel discussion began with the announcement of “Sirens: Love Hurts,” a four-issue DC Black Label miniseries by writer Tini Howard and artist Babs Tarr coming this February. The creative team described the series as focusing on a group of four female friends (Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Catwoman, and Black Canary) and the stresses of their adult lives as they investigate a serial killer. This is a book for all “true crime girls”.…
yen Press and Tapas Entertainment have announced the expansion of their existing partnership, this time with the aim of publishing popular light novels from the Yen On imprint. The first wave of titles to be released this month include The Eminence in Shadow, Overlord, Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, The Summer When Hikaru Died, and That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime. The first five “episodes” of each are free, and new episodes are released daily. Readers can pay to unlock new chapters or wait for free access. Following the first wave of light novels, more titles…
Peacemaker concluded its second (and possibly final…?) season last night, featuring the DC Universe’s first appearance of Checkmate, the spy-cum-superhero organization from the comics. Checkmate co-creator Paul Kupperberg is apparently a fan of Peacemaker. Because he reacted in near real time on Facebook, sharing a screenshot from the show with the caption, “Wait! What?!” In this episode, Checkmate is introduced as a group founded by the 11th Street Kids, a team of ARGUS expatriates and superheroes Peacemakers. This reveal occurred near the end of the episode, and while many friends and fans commented that they had foreseen it coming, Kupperberg…
The Spider-Man and His Venomous Friends panel at New York Comic Con 2025 got a lot of cheers as all the new Spidey and Venomy announcements were made. Marvel Comics Vice President and Editor-in-Chief Nick Lowe, Senior Editor Jordan D. White, Editor-in-Chief CB Cebulski, and writers Al Ewing, Joe Kelly, Stephanie Phillips, and Charles Soule all joined in on the host mic, spinning layers of web. The team behind the Webslinger book series has revealed what’s next for Spidey and his friends with a first look at the new Amazing Spider-Man comics series, All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider, and a number…
Image credit: Image Comics Inspired by the one-shot special, which tells the story over 55 cards, I thought it might be a belated time to check out W. Maxwell Prince’s popular comic. In this first issue, we are introduced to a child named Byron who buys ice cream from the title character and walks home alone. Here, the slightly creepy tone turns into full-blown horror, and we learn why Byron was alone in the neighborhood. Across town, a woman had reported a frightening incident involving her cat to the police. Eventually, the cop stumbles upon Byron’s horrifying secret and gets…
At New York Comic Con on Thursday, Onipress announced a new horror limited series that will debut in January. Spirit of the Shadows is a five-part story co-written by Daniel Ziegler and Nick Canetti, with Canetti also providing art. Spirit of the Shadows follows Eric Leroux, the ghost of a mortal musician whose greatest loves were Melody and a woman named Katrina. After his untimely death, he turned into something unrecognizable. Here is the full synopsis: Once upon a time, Eric Leroux was a mortal musician who selflessly dedicated himself to his music and his true love, Katrina. . .…
Image credit: IDW I’m not a big fan of the prequels. Many of them fall into the trap of over-explaining events for which we know the outcome, and we don’t need everything to be fleshed out to understand the ending of the story. Therefore, I approached Event Horizon: Dark Descent #1 with some trepidation. A prequel to the intense sci-fi horror movie “Event Horizon,” one of director Paul W.S. Anderson’s only decent films. In the movie, the Event Horizon, an experimentally powered ship that was originally designed to drill holes in space to travel vast distances, disappears on its maiden…
The Big Two officially spoke out against the use of AI in comics at New York Comic Con. Following DC President, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer Jim Lee’s keynote address at Wednesday’s retail presentation, Marvel Editor-in-Chief CB Cebulski strongly opposed the use of AI in comics. “Yes, we have never used AI,” Cebulski said in response to a fan who asked if Marvel would be vocal about the growing intrusion of generative AI in the creative arts. “They’ve really gone to great lengths to detect AI…We’ve never used AI, we never will, and we have no intention of condoning AI…