The Ooze Panel · Oct 27, 2026
Kickstarter favorite White Ash Comics moves to IDW, AHOY, Curt Pires and Goats Flying Press launch crowdfunded books, DC's Gotham by Daylight goes live on WEBTOON, Manta opens to indie creators as Tapas winds down, LINE Manga adds AI story chats, and Taiwan's Golden Comic Awards honor Richard Metson.
DC's new vertical-scroll horror series premiered on WEBTOON on October 19, starring Duke Thomas (Signal) in a Gotham where night never comes. It is written by Mike Birchall, creator of Everything is Fine, with art by Jeannine A. Halley, and new episodes arrive every Tuesday.
Starting November 16, the Manta webtoon app will let independent comic and novel creators publish their own series in a separate section. Manta is also helping readers who unlocked episodes on Tapas, which closes on March 31, 2027, rebuild those libraries on Manta.
White Ash Comics, the Charles Stickney and Conor Hughes fantasy-romance series that raised over a million dollars across 28 Kickstarter campaigns, is getting its own imprint at IDW. Remastered issues reach comic shops for the first time, with an ongoing White Ash series starting in April and The Game following in June.
Writer Eric Palicki and artist Giulia Lalli are crowdfunding Dragonproof, an 80-page standalone graphic novel from AHOY Comics. It follows a young woman who finds a wounded dragon with military markings in the Pacific Northwest woods and ends up trying to free other captive dragons.
Curt Pires is teaming with artists Alex Diotto and Luca Casalanguida on The Objectivist, a 140-page graphic novel about a vigilante whose war on corruption starts to fall apart. The plan is a hardcover through Kickstarter plus a digital edition on the Neon Ichiban platform, with covers by Jae Lee.
Goats Flying Press is crowdfunding a 96-page hardcover anthology starring a skeleton adventurer and his ghostly butler. Joe Atalla writes all five linked stories, with art from Juni Ba, Jesse Lonergan, Dimitrios Pantazis, Armand Bodnar and Atalla himself.
Japan's LINE Manga launched byUs, an AI feature that lets readers chat with comic characters and spin fan-style stories, after it first ran on NAVER WEBTOON in Korea. LINE says every featured series is approved by its author, and some authors wrote official story openings for it.
This week's roundup of comiXology deals at Amazon notes a DC Clayface sale through November 2 and a DC villains and Halloween sale through November 1. Dark Horse's Cyberpunk 2077 comics and its Millarworld line are discounted too.
Veteran Taiwanese cartoonist Richard Metson received the Special Contribution Award at the 17th Golden Comic Awards for more than 40 years of work. His Twin Crowns: Little Prince and Princess Saga also won the Grand Prize, and Wu Kuan-xiong was named Best New Talent.
The Boston Comics Arts Foundation's Picture + Panel series pairs graphic novelists Maria Hoey and Leah Hayes for an in-person talk on November 2 in Somerville, Massachusetts. They will discuss identity, reinvention and how their work in comics, music and illustration shapes it.
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