Charlamagne Tha God's graphic novel. Illuminati, actually by Bryan Edward Hill, Denys Cowan and Bill Sienkiewicz, is coming from AWA to comic book stores in their rapidly-reduced June 2026 solicits and solicitations… though it's actually coming out in mid-July, just in time for San Diego Comic-Con… Charlamagne Tha God is an American radio host, television personality, […]
AWA has kept its Free Comic Book Day 2026 cards close to its chest, but with FOC upon us, it is revealed as a preview of the second of their Ultimate Oz Universe titles, Volume 2, Into The Outerlands, with Fred Van Lente replacing Cullen Bunn, co-written with Larry King and drawn by Mike Deodato […]
Bleeding Cool previously reported that Diamond Comic Distributors Inc., the debtor in the Diamond Comics bankruptcy case, was moving from Chapter 11 to Chapter 7 bankruptcy. It appears that the millions raised from selling parts of the company to Ad Populum, Universal Distribution and the managers of Diamond UK, will be wiped out by legal […]
Comic book creator David Aja posts to social media, "Recently I did a cover and when I saw interiors there was plenty of AI (covers are done before final art). Artist has denied it, publisher has denied it, but you cannot lie to me with this crap, I can obviously recognize AI art because it […]
New Free Comic Book Day titles have been announced from Ablaze, Archie, Dynamite, AMP, Udon and Keenspot ahead of May 2nd 2026. Which also means that Stitch is getting two titles, Free Comic Book Day from Dynamite and Comics Giveaway Day from TokyoPop on the same day… as is Conan, from Ablaze and Titan. And […]
Bleeding Cool previously reported that Futurific Studios, a production company founded by wife of the son of Rupert Murdoch, Kathryn Murdoch was to publish comics through Axel Alonso's comic book publisher, AWA which is partially funded by Rupert's son and Kathryn's husband, James Murdoch. Then that she would start writing them as well. And now, in […]
This year, Free Comic Book Day is scheduled for the 2nd of May, organised by Universal Distribution in collaboration with Lunar Distribution, and followed by Comics Giveaway Day, hosted by Penguin Random House on the same day. However, they wouldn't work with Universal, so it's a different name, organisation, method, timing, and price of distribution. […]
When he is not editing books for AWA or co-writing their comics with Rupert Murdoch's daughter-in-law, Kathryn Murdoch, Michael Coast is writing his own comics through AWA as well. And in AWA's full March 2026 solicits and solicitations, it's the only comic they are publishing for March 2026. Pick Up, an incel murder mystery one-shot. […]
After long discussions over the last two weeks, here's a timeline of Free Comic Book Day from concept to clusterf-ck to maybe pulling something out of the fire for the first Saturday in May 2026, the second of May. With two versions of Free Comic Book Day happening on the same day with different publishers […]
Penguin Random House, despite pressure from comic book publishers they distribute, did not come to terms with the new owners of Free Comic Book Day, unlike Lunar Distribution. And so the Penguin Random House distributed publishers will not be part of Free Comic Book Day. Instead, they will be part of the very first Comics […]
Mind MGMT/Fort Psycho by Matt Kindt and Brian Hurtt sees Matt Kindt move his line of creator-owned comics, Flux House, from Dark Horse Comics to Oni Press for Free Comic Book Day this year, part of the deal between new FCBD owners Universal Distribution and Lunar Distribution. Previously, a number of titles had been listed […]
Bleeding Cool wondered where AWA had gone in their January 2026 solicits and solicitations. Well, it seems they were just taking a month off and are back in February 2026 solicits and solicitations, more from James Murdoch and Kathryn Murdoch's Protopias graphic novels from Futurific Studios, With Black Moon Ritual, an Aftrofuturist science fiction graphic […]
Bleeding Cool noted that Titan Comics was issuing its own Free Comic Book Day titles for May 2026, with Gun Honey Doubles Down #0 by Charles Ardai and Ace Continuado and Conan: Tides Of The Tyrant King #0 by Jim Zub and Jesus Marino. Well there are more. Universal Distribution may have bought the rights […]
It's a question I have been asking without a response. There are no solicitations from AWA Studios listed in Lunar Distribution's January 2026 catalogue, and I can get no response from the publisher via email or on social media. They still seem to be very active, just not responsive. But where are AWA in 2o26? […]
AWA brings Charlamagne The God's comic book series Illuminati to an end in the AWA November 2025 solicits and solicitations, nothing more than that one issue, from Bryan Edward Hill, Denys Cowan, Bill Sienkiewicz and Marco Lesko. Here's a look inside that final fifth issue… as well as the solicitation and promotion for the finale. […]
Well, this is a new way to break into comics. Be the wife of the son of one of the most prominent media billionaires in the world, Rupert Murdoch. Whose son, pushed out of Succession over his less strigently conservative views, James Murdoch, has invested heavily in Axel Alonso's comic book publisher, AWA. Bleeding Cool […]
Cullen Bunn, Larry King and Mike Deodato are creating the Ultimate Oz Universe from AWA in November, starting with the first volume, The Lost Lands, with an introduction and musical elements to the graphic novel by Sir Elton John. All part of AWA's October 2025 solicits and solicitations, including the Gaya one-shot by Kathryn Murdoch, […]
A few comic book retailers have asked me exactly which distributor is distributing which comic book publishers in the USA into the direct market of comic book stores, right now. Well, as it stands, there are currently five major bodies representing the most comic book publishers: Diamond, Penguin Random House, Lunar, Lunar Via Massive Indies, […]
As previously crowdfunded, Ronda Rousey and Mike Deodato have a new graphic novel from AWA in their September 2025 solicits (though out in October), Expecting The Unexpected, with a hitman known as Mom, who hides guns in a fake baby bump… as well as more from Illuminatui and They Choose Violence. EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED GN […]
In a letter to retailers and publishers, Diamond Comic Distributors has announced the cancellation of the print catalogue, which has been a mainstay of the direct market for over thirty years. But it will still be available as a now-free digital version through the PDF publisher Joomag which already hoists the Marvel Digital Previews every […]
