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Over this past weekend, during the 2026 Ringo Awards ceremony in Baltimore, Jim Lee received the Hero Initiative Lifetime Achievement Award. The honor recognizes a career spanning decades, from his influential work onX-MenandWildC.A.T.stoBatman: Hush, as well as his ascension to leadership at DC Comics.

Saturday morning cartoons were a marketing machine long before anyone used the phrase. In the 1950s, toy makers discovered that a thirty-second commercial could reach a million children at once, and in the 1980s deregulation turned entire shows into toy advertisements.

On the heels of their inclusion in the multi-publisher crossover event Epiphany Engine finally releasing, Black-owned independent publisher Konkret Comics is ready for a big weekend as the company prepares to showcase what’s next for its growing comic book universe. From the return of its flagship superhero to new publishing opportunities for independent creators, they…