The New York Comic Con cometh, so reveals and news are starting to spice up. But in this week’s edition of Comics Disassembled — where I highlight ten things I liked or didn’t like from the week of comics — we’re starting with a new project from a personal favorite.

It’s Tillie Time (Redux)

You get a lot of emails in my line of work. It can be hard to keep up. But when you’re deciding which emails to click on immediately and which ones to save for later, having a subject line that promises something new from cartoonist Tillie Walden is a great way to guarantee the former. It could be literally anything and I’d be all the way onboard, simply because Walden is one of the true greats of this time. But her upcoming graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly sounds a lot more than just anything.

It’s called Charity & Sylvia, and it sounds like a project that’s near and dear to Walden’s heart. It’s about an “openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont,” and it’s a true story that takes place over 44 years as the world changes around the titular couple, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake. It’s all built from archives of their writing, as Walden dove into the research to tell the story of this couple and their journey during an unforgiving time for them.

Little details from D&Q’s solicit for the book underline the artistic promise of this project, namely Charity’s “elegant letters” famed for the “swoopy and evocative penmanship” she brings to them. I’m just imagining how Walden will incorporate that into the visuals of the book, and the mind races at the potential of how that will affect her page design and overall approach. Needless to say, I’m feeling this. It’s coming in May 2026, and it’s one of my most anticipated releases of the year already.

WEBTOON, Making Deals

It seems as if WEBTOON is in its empire building phase, as it followed its major deals with Marvel and IDW this year with a new one with BOOM! Studios. It seems the house from Penguin Random House will be taking its talents to the vertical scroll, with a quartet of smart choices in Something is Killing the Children, Wynd, Fence, and Lumberjanes all making the move WEBTOON’s way. Each will be adapted into that massively popular, mobile-centric format, which will potentially introduce these titles to a whole new audience. At some point. No date was announced. It’s happening, but we do not know when.

I have to say: They kind of nailed it with those picks. Each of those titles fits the WEBTOON audience quite well, and I could see this being the type of deal that ends up being mutually beneficial, with readers discovering these titles in the vertical scroll before picking them up in print. If that seems unlikely, please turn your attention to an already existing deal between PRH and WEBTOON, in which Inklore publishes the print versions of Rachel Smythe’s WEBTOON series Lore Olympus and makes a mint in doing so. It works both ways.

My main question is how these deals work for the creators involved. BOOM!’s deal has long been generously labeled as “creator-owned” even if it isn’t that really. SiKtC and Wynd writer James Tynion IV shared quotes for the press release, so I have to imagine they’re not being left behind here. But it’s one of those details that’s left out but is still important. On the surface it just seems like a situation where two big companies benefit from the efforts of the creatives. Hopefully it’s more than that, but I suspect getting someone to go on the record about that would be rather difficult. TBD.