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witch’s eggCartoonist: Donya ToddPublisher: Avery Hill Publishing / $19.99October 2025 Lightning and rainbow. The Witch’s Egg is a story of love and the devil, having sex with an angel, making a deal with a toad (and a snake, a rabbit, a crow…), and hiding an egg from a worm’s prophecy. It is both modern and ancient. It’s cute and surprisingly disturbing. Relics that symbolize death and rebirth are scattered around like a shrine. Donya Todd’s comics are very strange. Stop me if you’ve heard this before. A lonely witch (who is also a cat) summons and enchants an insect angel,…
This week: DC Comics rings the bell for its big fall event: DC KO. Additionally, Supergirl and Superman: Kryptonite Spectrum are two great books that bring some fun variety to the Man of Steel title. Note: The following review may contain spoilers. If you want a quick, spoiler-free buy/pass recommendation for the comic in question, check out the final verdict at the bottom of the article. DC KO #1 Screenplay: Scott SnyderArtist: Javier Fernandez with XermanicoColorist: Alejandro SanchezAuthor: Hassan Otuman Elaou It’s round 1 of DC KO #1 and I feel like tapping out. This is an apt way of…
Image is the country’s largest indie publisher, so it’s no surprise that the comic house has one of its biggest programs scheduled for this weekend’s New York Comic Con. On Wednesday, Image officials unveiled nearly a dozen panels featuring Image titles throughout the four days of NYCC.Things start bright early Thursday morning with a spotlight panel on The Ministry of Truth with James Tynion IV and Martin Simmons, as the pair recap the book’s past five years while teasing its immediate future.There will also be panels spotlighting creators like Todd McFarlane, J. Scott Campbell and Brian K. Vaughn, while Invincible,…
2025 marks the 75th anniversary of Charles M. Schulz’s legendary Peanuts comic strip, and Abrams ComicArts will release “The Essential Peanuts” by Mark Evanier (Glue, Kirby: King of Comics). This anthology collection includes some of the most important Peanuts strips, with commentary by Evanier, Schulz himself, and many others. The Essential Peanuts is a gorgeous coffee table book celebrating the 75th anniversary of Schulz’s beloved Peanuts comic strip, presented in a deluxe hardcover format with a slipcase and a portfolio of bonus features from Abrams ComicArts. The collection, which retails for $75, includes a foreword by Patrick McDonnell, a foreword…
boom! The studio announced that it has acquired the comic book rights to the 1985-88 animated TV series “Jems and the Holograms,” owned by Hasbro. In addition to releasing a new series in 2026, the publisher plans to reprint previous comics, with the first volume available for pre-order via Kickstarter in November. “I was part of the team that brought Jem and the Holograms back to comics in 2015, and I’m a big fan of our strategy,” said Michael Kelly, former vice president of global publishing for BOOM! publisher Hasbro and former vice president of global publishing for Studios and…
Via The Hollywood Reporter, Oni Press has announced that writer and artist Matt Kindt will be transferring the copyright to Flux House to the publisher. Flux, which Kindt founded in Dark Horse in 2022, plans to start selling new and old books through Oni in 2026. Additionally, the deal will give Oni’s parent company, Polarity, access to Kint’s books and help develop films, television, animation, video games and audio based on his work. Mind MGMT: New and improved artwork by Matt Kindt “I wanted to keep all my books in a safe place, so I needed someone to take good…
Grab your hat because NYCC is about to kick off. As the show gets bigger and bigger about branding, my inbox is flooded with pop-ups, demos, and invitations to walkthroughs. There isn’t enough time to sample them all. But a few notes before we get into the whirlpool: §This show starts with Retailer Day for professionals, press and retailers. There are 20 different 5-minute presentations from publishers and other entities. I’ll try to tweet some of it, but my heart might just crumble. I understand. So much to talk about! §Elsewhere, Marvel hits the streets with superhero scoops. Or what…
On the morning of Thursday, October 2, 2025, Kickstarter United announced via its GoFundMe page that a majority of its members voted to authorize a strike on September 26 after the crowdfunding platform and unionized employees were unable to reach a new contract agreement. The strike is the latest escalation in a months-long contract battle between Kickstarter and its unionized employees. New contract negotiations began in April 2025, with the previous three-year agreement between the crowdfunding platform and the union expiring in July. After choosing to assemble a union in 2020, Kickstarter United is now comprised of “59 community support…
Post Malone is taking him to the Big Apple. The beloved music sensation attends a scam courtesy of Ballcocomics, an indie comic publisher responsible for bringing the big rigs of the Post to the market. Vault is hosting the “Post Malone Big Rig” panel at the Jacob K. Habitz Center on Friday, October 10th from 5pm to 6pm as part of the New York Comics Confettiability. A press release from the Vault itself teases only the “special guests” of the panel, but the Popverse (owned by NYCC promoter Reedpop) has confirmed that the post-Malone Post is in fact one of…
Last year at New York Comic Con, IDW announced the launch of a new horror imprint titled IDW Dark. Ahead of this weekend’s NYCC, the publisher announced via new titles from The Line Smile, A Quiet Place, Operation: Iron Coffin, and Exercises at Buckingham Palace. Reportedly, after two movies and a third, Not So Amazing Smile wasn’t popular enough to get its own franchise. This new series takes place before the events of the original film. Smile: For Camera #1 Cover by Skylar Patridge Unleashing psychological supernatural horror in comic shops next February is Smile: Camera #1. From acclaimed horror…