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Anime’s billion-dollar boom is exposing a growing divide between studios that can invest in their productions and those struggling to reward the people who make them. Fujitsu Ryota, programming advisor for the Tokyo International Film Festival’s Animation section, says stronger compensation and the willingness to shoulder financial risks could determine which companies thrive.

Penguin Random House is taking the next step in fully integrating Boom Studios into its operations. At the New York Comic Con Retailer Day today, Boom Studios announced that “starting with January 2027 releases, all Boom Studios titles will be solicited as a new imprint of the division Random House Worlds. On PRH Self-Service, Boom…

BOOM! Studios has been doing a hell of a job bringing the Clive Barker-created Hellraiser franchise back to life this year, first announcing that three classic Clive BarkerHellraiser comic books are coming back to shelves. And then they announced five all-new one-shots set in the world of Hellraiser… but even that was just the beginning.

For the manga business, 2025 must have seemed like a bad case of deja vu. After a steady period of dizzying growth in the North American market between 2020 and 2022, during which the Japanese-originating genre had become the dominant sales driver for comics and graphic novels, the segment had entered a three-year stretch of…