§ Fine Art: Three-time Eisner Award Winner Bandette Paul Tobin (Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, Plants vs. Zombies) and Colleen Coover (Heartland, Banana Sunday) comes back from dark horse Bandette Volume 5: BD Belgique’s Wedding. The world’s greatest teenage thief, Bandette, commits a series of crimes in this feature-length digital comic from Tobin and Coover, which collects issues 19-22 from July 2025 set. Mixologyrecently launched by the creators, with print editions also launched by Dark Horse along the way. Basically this is a charming and adorable series and I’m glad it continues!
Bandet takes her city by storm, breaking hearts and stealing masterpieces alongside an eccentric cast of colleagues and enemies. When a mysterious new villain (known only as “The Voice”) debuts, Bandette is determined to stop them! But the voices always seemed to be one step ahead, so Bandette decided it was time to bring in reinforcements. Summoning friends and foes alike, Bandette and the team discover that the key to destroying the sound is locked on the other side of the altar, and it’s time to prepare for BD Belgique’s wedding.
§ This will most likely be the last Kibbles of the year, and we’re doing this just to include these best-of lists. Yesterday’s 50 Comics of the Yearbut other media outlets have also been struggling to read.
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BONUS: Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Comics Stories of 2024
This year’s list is a little short. In the past few years I think Jamie Cowell compiled a list of the best; and tirelessly Clark Burscow TCJ promises a longer Best Of list. But to my shock, the COMICS store’s listing is only 3 1/2 (Newsarama is only 1/2 the size of the comics website). Surely there are more, but Google’s poor search doesn’t show them? Or is that all? I did not include YouTube or TikTok rankings. I think final cut go through charles burns Has appeared on the most lists. Some people hate this book, but I think it’s Charles Burns who is the best at what he does – disturbing teen horror.
Regardless, there are a lot of great books on all of these lists – the SlashFilm list even includes indie marvels “King Warrior” by Zhu Huahua I forgot to put this on The Beat’s list, so consider it #51.
§ The most common option is Olivier Schlaven’s On Sunday, if you want to know what a Joycean portrait of a man lost in thought would look like, new yorker There are excerpts:
§ Bonus bonus: San Jose Public Library’s most popular borrowing times in 2024 Checklist Above is “Dog Man”, below is “Dog Man” and “Coward”. New Dogman Sold 234,478 units in the first week; The latest Wimpy Kid (Hot Mess) has been sold 559,035 copies.
§ Speaking of wimpy kids, Jeff Kinney Interviewed boston.com As he traveled around and sold thousands of books. I know Wimpy Kid is not a comic, but Kinney is a cartoonist at heart and we embrace him!
Jeff Kinney: Well, as a cartoonist, it was my desire to create comics, but I wasn’t able to do that. I know, play me the smallest violin in the world. [laughs] But that’s what I want to do. when i grew up i read washington post. Every day there’s some comic that I enjoy reading and I’m pretty sure that’s where I want to be, and I think I have the comedic talent to do it. I think my joke writing is strong, but I know I’m not a good artist. If you look at Schultz and Watson and many others, they’re also fine artists – like you know Burke Braid and Gary Trudeau. I don’t think Gary Larson is really a good artist, but his art style does suit his style of humor.
So let me get to the point. I wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist. This didn’t work out for me. I tried for about three years. Then I had the idea to embed comics into a diary format. I worked on this for eight years. I really take my time. I wrote the idea for four years and the first draft of the manuscript for another four years before I was finally ready to show it to someone. So I spent a long time developing it. I know this is going to be my piece, you know, win or lose, it’s going to be the best I can do. I feel very lucky that it worked
§ D&Q launches 30th anniversary collection of 90s/00s magazine Giant Robot, one of Asia’s most influential magazines, and co-founder Eric Nakamura Interviewed:
In 1994, Nakamura started a magazine, Giant Robot, a DIY effort with the help of friends, who contributed articles and helped piece together an initial set of issues. “I looked at other magazines and thought, wow, I don’t have the budget, but I can make a magazine as thick as a magazine,” he recalls. “It was just an idea to make things bold and thick. I think the first Giant Robot was 68 pages. That was actually quite impressive. As these homemade magazines became more popular in the mid-1990s, Giant Robot The image also grew. Early on, copies appeared on the shelves of Tower Records: “They could take you international because there were towers overseas.” He speculated that the towers might be the only ones to be found in Japan. A place for robots. The magazines themselves were increasing in both production value (from photocopied black and white pages to beautiful full color pages) and range of content. Giant Robot’s focus on Asian and Asian American pop culture and punk rock attitudes was unique even among the many independent publications that emerged during the same era.
I want kids to know what it’s like to pick up a cool magazine in a cool record store and read about cool things. So cool! I know kids have cool stuff like webcomics and cucumber salads now, but one day they’ll be my age and hope they have cool stuff like webcomics. this is life.
§ Well, speaking of popular stuff, Matt Alter Unveiling the looming Sony/Kadokawa deal, Same thing The huge value of animation IP can be better explained than a very huge thing:
Sony’s stylish consumer electronics redefined technology as a form of fashion in the 20th century, before the company pivoted to global content distribution in the 21st century. Kadokawa is a Japanese entertainment empire that produces best-selling novels, manga, and anime series. They pioneered the now ubiquitous “media mix” marketing strategy to create blockbuster franchises, using books to attract movie audiences and vice versa. Read it first and then watch it? Or watch it first and then read it? This was Kadokawa’s famous slogan in the 1970s. We’re at a similar crossroads with a (still possible) merger, read about it now and watch what happens later. But one thing is absolutely clear: This is the most interesting thing to happen to the Japanese content industry in a long time — especially given the continued thirst for Japanese content overseas. So let me explain why this is important and what impact these two companies joining forces could have.
§ Will there be a Goon movie? Well, director Deadpool. Tim Miller Was asked this question at CCXP. He has long been enthusiastic about this project. like many people Directors who had dream projects that never came to fruitionwhen asked about it, expressed a vague hope that maybe one day he could do it:
Miller, in particular, provided insight into one comic book adaptation that’s often been delayed for years, “Villains.” The first hints of an adaptation appeared in 2008, eventually evolving into a successful $400,000 Kickstarter campaign in 2012. However, the filmmakers remained optimistic during the panel discussion: “I will never give up on the Goon movie…I will make it.”
As a result, the headlines on movie news websites were given new topics. A Goon movie would be pretty cool, though.
§ You know what’s not as cool as what we’ve been talking about? I’m sorry to say it stars Kraven the Hunter Aaron Taylor Johnson’s Torn abdominal muscles. The film is out today, but has already been tagged “The horrific bomb will destroy Sony’s Spider-Man program forever.”
According to Variety , “Kraven the Hunter” may gross between $13 million and $15 million in its domestic theaters during its opening weekend, a dismal result for a film with a $110 million budget. This number is also surprisingly low for a movie based on a comic book. The opening may even be lower than Spider-Man, another entry in Sony’s Spider-Verse, which opened to $15.3 million in February but received rave reviews, some of which called it the worst comic book ever Movie. According to The Wrap, citing anonymous sources from Sony insiders and top talent agents, the studio is shifting its focus from the Spider-Man spin-off universe to the upcoming Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland.
another report To put it more bluntly A devastating live report that will inspire pity in anyone who attended the panel:
A surprise panel for Sony Pictures’ latest non-Spider-Man Marvel movie, Kraven the Hunter, screened to rows of empty seats at Brazil’s prestigious Comic-Con Experience (CCXP) on Sunday, according to an attendee. There are no celebrities and not that many fans. Superheroes are met with silence where there should be hype. A half-empty display of a $110 million antihero movie at one of the world’s biggest pop culture events reflects the growing profile of Sony’s Marvel series outside of the mainline Spider-Man movie starring Tom Holland. decline. While “Venom: The Last Dance” opened on more than 4,000 movie screens in October, “Kraven the Hunter” will premiere this Friday on just 3,000 screens — a massive 25% decrease. Showing waning confidence in Sony’s failed Marvel experiment.
The experiment failed. I’m telling you, you should make that Vulture movie.
§ Yet comic book movies—even those based on more obscure comics—continue to find an audience. Typical example: “Two Guns”, starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzo Washington, Adapted from comics Steven Grant and Mateusz Santoloco. The movie is leaving Netflix at the end of this month, but after some time A surprising hit and run.
Back in October, Netflix subscribers helped turn things around by welcoming Mark Wahlberg and Denzo Washington’s buddy cop actioner Two Guns with open arms. The film quickly shot into the top ten on streaming charts, returning to the public eye more than a decade after its theatrical release. However, if you still need to watch the comic adaptation, you’ll want to rush to the platform as soon as possible, because December 31st will be the last day you can watch 2 Guns on Netflix. If you’re a fan of Boom!’s original comic series! In the studio, you’ll want to see how filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur brings the story from page to screen in this explosive film.
although I don’t think that’s the comic-to-movie process; Occasionally, very engaging movies do get made, and comics continue to sell well. Well done everyone.
