2026 Eisner Awards nominations announced with DC leading
DC tops this year’s Eisner nominations, outpacing the competition with a commanding lead across multiple categories.
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"A monthly Black Mirror" is the best way I can describe Assorted Crisis Events, an ongoing sci-fi anthology series from Image Comics that has thrills, chills, and has a lot to say about modern life in each issue. Assorted Crisis Events began in March 2025 and is written by Deniz Camp, drawn by Eric Zawadzki, colored by Jordie Bellaire, lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, and designed by Tom Muller and Wesley Griffith. It has released five issues so far, so fittingly, I am giving you five reasons why you should love this ambitious new series and get on board immediately. 1. It's Like Black Mirror on the Page As I mentioned, Assorted Crisis Events is like a monthly episode of Black Mirror in comic form. Each issue is a new story, exploring new characters on a modern world that is facing "crisis events." What are the crises? Time is slipping, causing
Looking Ahead to San Diego Comic-Con 2026 #SDCC #SDCC2026 #ComicCon
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In November 2019, not long before a pandemic-induced industry shutdown, writer Rodney Barnes vaulted onto center stage with Killadelphia—his wildly imaginative “Dracula meets The Wire” horror series. Interweaving American history with supernatural terror, the series went on to earn two Eisner Award nominations, underscoring how short the leap can be from the American project’s historical—and ongoing—failures to otherworldly nightmares. What feels like a lifetime later, Barnes has turned his lens on Maryland’s Crownsville Hospital Center, a Jim Crow–era “Hospital for the Negro Insane” notorious for its segregation, overcrowding, and rumors of unethical, nonconsensual patient research. For Barnes, whose grandmother was a nurse at Crownsville, the subject hits close to home. “Crownsville is the supernatural mystery tale I’ve been dying to tell,” he said in a statement from his publisher, Oni Press. “From a childhood haunt born in a place of pain, it’s my cathartic effort I’m thankful to share with