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§ Documentary film Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was nominated this week for the Peabody Award in the Documentary category. The film, chronicling the 78-year old Maus creator’s life, was released in theaters and on PBS last year, and nominated alongside Come See Me in the Good Light, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, No Other Land, Pee-wee as Himself, and many more. Other nominees at this year’s awards include Andor in the Entertainment category, and Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur in Children’s/Youth. The winners will be announced on Thursday, April 23, and be awarded at a ceremony on Sunday, May 31.
§ Via IGN, Oni Press announced The Art of The Toys that Made Us, a crowdfunded artbook for the Nacelle Company’s documentary series of the same name. The show, which ran on Netflix from 2017 to 2019, and is set to return for two new seasons, explores the history of toy lines like LEGO, He-Man, Transformers, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The campaign will include Nacelleverse: Year Zero, a collection of the comics from Oni based on the various properties acquired by Nacelle. You can sign up to the Kickstarter page here.
Fear Agent Compendium cover art by Tony Moore
§ Image will rerelease Fear Agent — Rick Remender, Tony Moore, Jerome Opeña et al.’s pulpy 2005-2011 sci-fi series — as a single paperback volume. It will arrive in comic book stores on May 20, and bookstores on June 16. The publisher also shared J.G. Jones and Phil Bram‘s Dust Bowl-themed noir series Dust to Dust will be collected in paperback, on May 27 (at comics shops) and June 23 (bookstores). The eight-issue series began in December 2024, and will conclude on April 29.
§ Via io9, IDW revealed Karim Diané, who plays Klingon medical student Jay-Den Kraag on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, will contribute a story about his character to the upcoming Pride Month special Star Trek Celebrations. Jay-Den, who was the first canonically queer Klingon, will be featured alongside his human love interest Kyle Jokovich (Dale Whibley) in a story titled “Klingons Don’t Flirt,” illustrated by Andrew Drilon and Katherine Shuda. The special will be released on May 27, with pre-orders closing on April 20. The first Starfleet Academy comic, Lost Contact, will begin beforehand on April 15.
§ Bloody Disgusting reports the uncut Tales from the Crypt is heading to Shudder. The HBO horror anthology, which was based on the EC Comics series of the same name, and ran from 1989 to 1996, has never had a streaming home due to licensing issues – until now. Season one will be added on Friday, May 1, and another season will be added every subsequent Friday.
§ In casting news, Netflix announced guest stars for Wednesday season three will include Lena Headey, Andrew McCarthy (St. Elmo’s Fire), and James Lance (Ted Lasso). No details were provided on their roles, but season three, which will also add Eva Green and Winona Ryder to the cast, will premiere sometime next year. Over at Apple, Tom Pelphrey (Task) has joined Liminal, the film based on Telepaths, in an undisclosed role, while Kevin Bacon has been cast as the protagonist’s father in Hulu’s Southern Bastards pilot (which Reinaldo Martin Green will now direct.)
§ In TTRPG news, Dark Horse will release a hardcover edition of the Our Brilliant Ruin TRPG Rulebook on September 15. The game, created by Studio Hermitage, was adapted by Cullen Bunn and Christopher Mitten into last year’s comic Horror at Crane Mansion. Meanwhile, a BackerKit page was launched for DIE: Metadungeon, a new expansion for the game based on Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans‘s comic, due out in 2028. The pre-order campaign ends May 1. You can check out every previous DIE release at publisher Rowan, Rook and Decard’s website in the meantime.
§ Finally, Netflix shared a poster for My Two Cents (Italian: Due Spicci), the latest animated series from cartoonist Zerocalcare (Michele Rech), releasing Wednesday, May 27. The show will follow Zero and the Armadillo as they struggle to run a small business. You can watch a trailer for the show here, though bear in mind it doesn’t have English subtitles. Zerocalcare’s first two Netflix series, Tear Along the Dotted Line (2021) and This World Can’t Tear Me Down (2023), are available to stream now.
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