The latest release from About Comics comes from me being too eager to find a book for Pride. When I found this series of 1940s-'50s cartoons about two women who lived and traveled together, I thought I might've uncovered hidden mid-century lesbians in mainstream papers...

About Comics may be ridiculously tiny and insignificant even within the context of comics, but at least it is owned by me rather than being a mere spare thumb of some bloated media conglomerate too big to stand up for itself. At the moment, this feels the better place to be.

Lucky for me, there aren't any About Comics completists out there that I know of, or I'd feel guilty about this book. It's not going to be available for sale. It has three-page samples from a couple dozen books, and I hope to give out the 2 dozen copies at the Souvenir trade show in Vegas next month

If you want to learn to publish comics the About Comics way, this is your chance!

I just noticed that Amazon has Panel One: Comic Book Scripts by Top Writers, at 32% off cover. (And if you're wondering, no, this does not reduce the amount the amount that About Comics or the contributors make off of this.) Good deal!

One thing about focusing on the museum and historic site market is that my books get to end up in interesting places. They've restored the old Bush Family Home (yes, those Bushes) to its 1950s glory... and offer these books displaying 1950s culture!

If you've been amazed by the dozens of books of Catholic cartoons that About Comics has reissued, well, here's hte lowdown on how Catholic cartoon booklets became A Thing in the 1950s.

Lulu is running a 15% discount with codeword FIREWORKS15, making it an excellent time to order the About Comics books offered through them -- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Comics Strip, and Teddy Roosevelt: His Career in Cartoons.

This does not impact About Comics directly at all. We had no books on consignment. Diamond's debt to use in under $3K. We'll be fine. Others, not so much, I suspect. Best wishes to all publishers and retailers struggling through this.

I've just released TEDDY ROOSEVELT: HIS CAREER IN CARTOONS, a biography with over 600 contemporary cartoons about this president, warrior, adventurer, and power broker! How'd I pull that off? Easy! I reprint a 1910 book, then add 50+ cartoons to continue it until T.R.'s death in 1919.

Happy Pride! I’m dissatisfied that while About Comics does work with gay, trans, bi, enby, etc creators, we’ve got no real Pride books. Much of that comes from being a reprint publisher. But I thought I’d found some forgotten usable 1950s content. I was wrong. More on this later this year.

I should note that Peter leaves behind him a body of work impressive in scope and quality, a large body of fans, a choice group of loved ones, and apparently large medical bills. Only the latter should be made to disappear.

Peter David's wife is reporting that he passed away last night. A versatile writer of comics and prose who adapted well to many characters, he had been having severe health issues for a while. I am glad that he was around, and wish the best to those who knew him.

15% off on Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1926 comic strip from Anita Loos's famous novel, when you order by Friday and use the discount code CONTENTCREATOR15 Why wait? Order now!

Party Line Comics, collecting 1950s phone politeness strips by Dik Brown, which a few months ago we released in a comic book format through IndyPlanet, is now available in a very thin (it only has 30 pages of strips) squarebound format through Amazon for a couple bucks more.

Hey, it's a The Comics Journal review of Party Line Comics! Available at IndyPlanet.com

Diane Duane (writer of About Comics' The Misadventures of Prince Ivan, among many, many works) has lost her husband, novelist Peter Morwood. Funeral expenses are about to hit. Now would be a good time for you to buy some of her works (great bargains in ebook bundles.) ebooks.direct

As the publisher of more books of cartoons about American Catholicism than anyone else, About Comics congratulates Leo XIV on his new gig. May he lead with wisdom.

Trying to work out the table display for an upcoming convention (museum store people, not a comics-centric event), trying to highlight books they’ll find interesting and deserving. Problem is… I find them all interesting and deserving. That’s why I publish them!

About Comics was, to the best of my knowledge, the second comics publisher to offer blank-cover variants (years after Image did the first with Gen-13 v2 #1.) Done on 24 Hour Comics and the TPB of The Factor, they were to give contributors something special to sell at cons.

About Comics is proud of the projects that talented and successful folks have brought to us. This is true even in cases where, for whatever reason, a planned project doesn't end up happening; it was an honor that @stephenrbissette.bsky.social wanted this to be an About Comics project.

Stephen generously drew several pieces to encourage the release of the About Comics Salimba collection with its all-new prose story. Published in 2010 (when About actually owned Salimba), the book is now out of print and the Salimba rights in the hands of co-creator @paulchadwick.bsky.social

Trade Rating: THE DALGODA OMNIBUS revives a forgotten ’80s sci-fi gem The Dalgoda Omnibus is an excellent restoration of these comics, which are among the best sci-fi stories of the 1980s.

Jeopardy host Ken Jennings and The Long Winters frontman John Roderick got copies of Party Line Comics and chat about it (admittedly, not having read it yet) for four minutes starting at 1:17:10 on this week's Omnibus podcast. www.omnibusproject.com/episodes/gen...

Ah, spam! "[Our] financial hardship program specializes in helping Thousand Oaks companies in the comic book publishing industry consolidate your debt into a no-interest program." 1. Not based in TO for over 15 years. 2. The handful of historic TO-based publishers is too few for a business base.

Tonight's (and last night's) reads: closing out The Dalgoda Omnibus (About Comics) with Flesh & Bones #2-4 and The Hero of the Tale. This was such a fun series with great, smiling highs and dramatic lows, with some hearty laughs. Highly recommended! #dalgoda @aboutcomics.com

Just released a video explaining how THE WOLF, which we've issued a reprint book of, evolved from the single-panel series at left to the very different daily strip at right.

About Comics published its first comic in 1998. So we've survived in comics publishing longer than Tundra, Tekno, CrossGen, Virgin, Liquid, Broadway, and Defiant combined. Just imagine how many millions of investment dollars we must've burned through to keep going this long!

JUST RELEASED: In the 1950s, Hagar The Horrible creator Dik Browne drew a series of comics about proper etiquette when using a "party line" phone. Never before collected, now you can get all 30 in this one-shot! Orderable at www.indyplanet.com/party-line-c...

Hey retailers worldwide! Because About Comics products are print-on-demand, direct wholesale orders from us are printed locally to you, no tariffs involved! BTW, before he was the original Thunderbolts writer, Kurt Busiek worked with artist James Fry on another original villians-as-heroes series!

On Jan Strnad (@janstrnad.bsky.social) and Dennis Fujitake's DALGODA, an old favourite newly reprinted by @nat.gertler.com at About Comics fourrealities.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

For whoever was asking if The Dagloda Omnibus was going to be available through bookshop.org (the online bookstore where the profit supports your local indy bookstore)... it's there now!

If you're looking to add some Black history to your comics reading this month, why not try some Bootsie? Here's two books by Ollie Harrington, the greatest cartoonist of the Black weeklies. (War Years has more of a historic sense, but Big '50s has better reproduction for much of it.)

With none of the comics sites picking up the press release, you social media folks here and on Facebook managed to push the book into the top 8000 on Amazon... which may not sound like much, but that's a solid start for a small publisher. Thanks, and keep spreading the word!

Just out: THE DALGODA OMNIBUS! Jan Strnad & Dennis Fujitake's beloved dog-from-space series collected for the first time. This B&W volume has over 300 pages of comics storytelling, plus extras. Not going through Diamond, but we'll take wholesale orders directly. Amazon: amazon.com/dp/1949996824

In the face of reports like this, I should know that About Comics will be fine. Diamond‘s existing debt to us is under $3000, and the direct market has been a small portion of our business in recent years. It does mean some upcoming projects will not be going to the direct market, but solely online.

Latest episode of the About Comics video series Comics Show and Tell with Nat Gertler looks at a once successful, generally forgotten syndicated US strip that had a Black and a white title character, starting in the 1920s.

In the wake of Diamond Comic Distribuors filing bankruptcy, About Comics will be find. The accounts receivable is merelu in the low four figures. Direct market sales are a small fraction of our sales. Sincere best wishes to fellow publishers navigating these choppy seas.

Hey there, Blueskyers! About Comics may not (well, is not) the most famous publisher going, but we put out some worthwhile stuff - not just new and (mostly) comics reprints, but comics how-to books and interesting historic items. Here's just a few examples.