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and this week… we’ve got history in the making:

• A monumental new partnership: Kodansha is coming to GlobalComix!
• The GC Toons 2025 Summer Slate has wrapped, and we’re celebrating the creators who made it unforgettable
• My Top 3 Picks from the Summer Slate, guaranteed to pull you in from panel one
• Indie hit Falling Awake crosses 1 million page reads....

We’re thrilled to share some truly game-changing news with our community: Kodansha, one of the world’s most renowned and influential manga publishers, is partnering with GlobalComix and launching on August 21st, 2025.

Kodansha has been at the forefront of manga storytelling for decades, shaping the medium with unforgettable series and characters. Now, those stories will live right alongside your other favorite comics, manga, and toons on GlobalComix.

Two Big Release Waves

The first wave of Kodansha content will arrive on August 21, bringing over 500 books to GlobalComix. Just one week later, on August 27, we’ll launch the second wave – more than 5,500...

Our Creator Interviews for Creator Appreciation Month welcomes Opal Lines, an illustrator and shojosei mangaka from New York City. A rising star in the indie manga space, Opal's newest one-shot Frambuesa Soda was recently published with Euromanga Academy's Chronicles Manga Magazine. 

Far from just manga, Opal Lines has worked on numerous western comic titles, such as Monster High: New Scaremester, My Little Pony: Endless Summer, and done webinars and demonstrations for industry powerhouses like Wacom and Graphixly, a distributor for Clip Studio Paint (Celsys).

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