Sweet Shop, the newest digital comics marketplace, launches to the public today with new additions to its publisher line up including Kodansha, Titan, Dynamite, and Abrams Comics Arts.
Spider-Man: Homecoming director and Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts is reportedly set to helm the first in a new Star Wars movie trilogy written by Simon Kinberg, which will purportedly feature Rey Skywalker in a minor role.
Okay actually, we know this: Cryptocracy is a new book by Van Jenson and Pete woods coming out from Dark Horse in late June. It sounds like a juicy "secret society" comic dealing with The Nine Families, who manipulate whole societies from behind the scenes. When I first saw this promo, it reminded me of Matt Kindt who has a lengthy track record of these kinds of mysterious promos and spy-based work.
Marvel's at it with a new teaser campaign for something or someone named Mosaic. The teasers involve jigsaw puzzle pieces. The first one reference Alias, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos that introduced Jessica Jones to the world. The new piece seems to be about Spider-Man, and the name Mosaic would suggest a mash-up of some kind. Something never before seen in comcis, then.
I’m sitting here in my office in Chicago, thinking as to what I’m going to write about comics. I’ve been publishing comic books for over six months now, as the co-publisher at Z2 Comics. In that time I’ve met incredible artists, discussed stories and characters, gone through sleepless nights peppered with nightmares of cash flow, and had these brief, fleeting moments of joy as I held a new issue of a book we just made in my hands. I’m wondering how to describe that feeling, as it would be the core of this piece, and for some reason I’m having a hard time putting it together in my mind.
And then Prince died.
A group of 13 publishers have reached a settlement with the Diamond estate and Sparkle Pop to get their inventory back, and this Diamond business may finally be drawing to a close
Korean entertainment giant Kakao is shutting down Tapas, their North American webtoon platform, leaving creators and readers devastated and an uncertain future
Paramount has settled the lawsuits from 12 attorney generals and the WGA over its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, promising an independent editorial board for CNN and CBS News, and more.
Paulina Ganucheau and a host of artists will team up on Dynamite's We Bare Bears Christmas Special, which will mark the Cartoon Network series' first comic book.
Spider-Man: Homecoming director and Skeleton Crew co-creator Jon Watts is reportedly set to helm the first in a new Star Wars movie trilogy written by Simon Kinberg, which will purportedly feature Rey Skywalker in a minor role.
Mason Thames and Logan Kim will respectively voice Dick Grayson and Jason Todd in the animated movie, which also star Lee Pace and Steve Buscemi as the leaders of the Red Hood gang.
Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Salva Espin will pit X-Men: Evolution's version of the team against their '90s animated counterparts in January's one-shot X-Men '92: Incursions, set before 2015's Secret Wars.
