CXC this weekend: a panel, a presentation, a signing, and two days at my booth — swing by and catch me on the Copra Tour!

Frank Castle

George Michael and friend 🕶️🚕💔

Michonne from The Walking Dead

COPRA R8 is out! Thank you forever: Kat, O, Adam, Jason, Tucker, Tom, the stores, the festivals, the podcasts, Image, Bergen, Squad fans, art comic enthusiasts. You stuck with me for a decade plus, fifty issues of the most loving revenge comics. My appreciation for your attention knows no bounds.

Rose City ComicCon! Met old friends and new readers, signed books and sold art, finally put faces to internet names; my return to Portland was a gas. I am nothing if not terrible at remembering to take pics of these interactions, so here’s a Batman sketch instead.

Stan Sakai’s USAGI YOJIMBO

Dr. Jacoby, as played by Russ Tamblyn, from the hit television series Twin Peaks, created by Mark Frost & David Lynch.

RanXerox • Tanino Liberatore design

Sam Kieth. Wolverine. What other topics of conversation do you even need

AZBAT 🌹 🙏 🌹

Ogami Ittō & Daigorō from Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima's masterpiece LONE WOLF & CUB.

Warlock • Bill Sienkiewicz design

Sept. 4 – COPRA ROUND 8 marks the end of MICHEL FIFFE’s long-running, idiosyncratic superhero series. Fiffe will be signing the new collection at Floating World before Rose City Comiccon, as well as the super limited edition subscriber variants of Copra 46-49!

This conversation sums it all up. The switchblade line always gets me. Xaime ‘98. From Penny Century 5.

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Ororo, fan of Gary Panter

Hailing from Hell’s Kitchen

My Dr. Fate page from Legion of Super-Heroes 9, black & white version ✨🤟✨

DEATHSTROKE the Terminator • George Pérez design

COPRA Round 8 Book Plates, exclusive thru @goshcomics.bsky.social

Jack Kirby’s GALACTUS

World’s Fittest

When asked about why X-Men is so popular, these creators credit the feeing of being an outsider, wanting to belong, acceptance, family. No one credits “crazy shit happening to beautiful people”. Or as a good friend once put it “people with zero body fat sitting around complaining.” That counts!

The DEATH of COPRA collection is coming: 176 pgs of everything from psychedelic bloodsport to escaping existential cul-de-sacs while avoiding your face being chopped off and getting fired. So say we all! Image Comics will be putting this swan song on comic book shelves SEPT 3.

The fact that this exists is beautiful & deeply humbling. @nonoathbreaker.bsky.social poured his heart into this project, and tho it’s impossible for me not to be biased, I urge you to take a look at his curatorial efforts. A mighty thread honoring its contributors. Take a bow, Josh, you deserve it.

Joe's Pick: Copra #50 from @imagecomics.com by @michelfiffe.bsky.social ! COPRA proves its creative dominance once again as it rides off into the sunset for its 50th and landmark final issue. #comics #comicbooks #podcast #NCBD #Copra #ImageComics #MichelFiffe #SuicideSquad #seriesfinale

Alright, it's my birthday, and coincidentally, the final issue of Copra is coming out, so figured I'd do a reread of the entire series by @michelfiffe.bsky.social

For COPRA 50 (out today!) I inked & colored both Luke McDonnell and John K Snyder lll PLUS a variant by David Lafuente — I am mighty fortunate to get to go out in this style. Thank you all.

The marathon that felt like a sprint.

I’ll be seeing you in just a few days! Come find me at Indie Island, Table 1176, plus a couple of awesome panels throughout the weekend. HeroesCon or BUST

My cartoon in this week’s @newyorker.com

In "Doonesbury," Andy Lippincott died 35 years ago, on May 24, 1990. Andy was not only the first openly gay character in newspaper comics but also the first one to die of AIDS. Here is that strip and the ensuing sequence:

When you think you’re a Dan Spiegle / Crossfire connoisseur but then come across this rare beauty and realize you never knew anything at all.

This week sees the release of a massive collection from DC that (finally!) reprints my Dr. Fate run with Keith Giffen, Shawn McManus, and several other artistic titans. I wrote an introduction for the book and you can read it over at my website. www.jmdematteis.com/2025/05/the-...

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Seriously, the man who drew Suicide Squad vs Apokolips, John K Goddamn Snyder the Third

You’re telling me I get to ink and color the dude who drew Janus Directive GTFO 🔥John K Snyder III pin-up in COPRA 50🔥

COPRA 50 is coming out 6/18 in shops worldwide from Image. BUT ALSO: I’m publishing signed/numbered Copra Press versions! Limited quantities, secure a copy on Etsy* Last time I’ll look excitedly out the window, waiting for COPRA to be delivered, then shipped right back out the door by yours truly!

Speaking of 50th issues, which is your favorite? Here’s mine: Love & Rockets by the Hernandez Bros — talk about a North Star — plus a few others. (Also THANK YOU ALL for the incredible outpouring of kind words regarding COPRA 50! I’m still reeling.)

It took 1,366 pages plus 80 covers plus dozens of illustrations to get to this moment: I just now finished COPRA 50. Surreal doesn’t begin to describe the feeling.

Without TOM ORZECHOWSKI, you don't have the total package pop-culture influencing phenomenon that is most immediately called "Claremont and Byrne's X-MEN". A less-skilled letterer, or a letterer whose style was not compatible with the art, would have hurt this series. Lettering is an artform.

I don’t think I ever posted this COPRA piece I did a few years ago, but with Death of COPRA by @michelfiffe.bsky.social wrapping up this week it seemed an appropriate time to show it

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Got to say hello to @michelfiffe.bsky.social at Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase. He’s the artist who got me excited about using colored pencils via his psychedelic hyperviolent tribute to Bronze Age comics! Convo on my podcast

The last DEATH of COPRA chapter is out today! In this psychedelic fight issue, in this ✨dayglo deathzone✨ we’ve come to adore, THE WORD IS WAR (And hey, these came out really nice. Sharp cardstock covers, crisp ink lines and poppy colors… the works. You’ll love it.)

"...OOPS" by David Mazzucchelli

Are you interested in DIY comics? Then do I have the book to recommend you! Check out my review of @michelfiffe.bsky.social's CREATING COPRA in this week's newsletter. spikestonehand.com/2025/04/25/i...

My pal @georgeoconnor.bsky.social is drawing all the members of the X-men so I thought I'd draw all the members of the Legion of Super Heroes! This guy is called Sun Kid ( I think).