Welcome back to The Rundown, our daily breakdown on comic news stories we missed from the previous day. Have a link to share? Email our team at rundown@multiversitycomics.com.
In case you missed it, French cartoonist Emmanuel Guibert won the Grand Prix at this year’s Angoulême International Comics Festival, and Mad Cave Studios announced “Stargazer,” a sci-fi coming-of-age comic set to debut this May. We also have exclusive previews of next week’s “Ant-Man” #1 and “Archie & Friends: Winter Wonderland.”
– Sean Ellis and John Gebbia’s webcomic “Dose!” is becoming a print ongoing at indie publisher It’s Alive. Newsarama has more on the transition, including a three-page preview of the first issue. For the uninitiated, “Dose!” imagines a world where superheroes have existed since the Silver Age, and “super powers are mundane, kaiju walk the streets, and cybernetic enhancement surgery is just a phone call away – if you have the cubits to pay for it, that is.”
– The Bluestockings Comic Festival will return on July 18, 2020 and be held at Kickstarter HQ in Brooklyn. Free and open to the public, Bluestockings is “designed to celebrate and showcase comics by queer and trans creators.” You can learn more about the festival over at The Beat.
– Comicraft co-founder John Roshell has launched a new font company, Swell Type. Roshell announced the news and premiered Swell Type’s first font on Twitter.
– Star Wars Twitter has a new mysterious project to obsess about, now that The Mandalorian and the Skywalker Saga are done. ABC correspondent Clayton Sandell revealed that the countdown is on to Project Luminous, which we’ll apparently learn more about on February 24.
– And finally, Alita: Battle Angel took home the award for Best Animated Character at this year’s Visual Effects Society Awards, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
