Works from European comic masters head to auction, Humanoids’ financial situation deteriorates, and the new A1Deadline smashes its funding goal. Read more in Post Rendered’s news roundup for October 2025.
A1 and Deadline relaunch as A1Deadline
British comic magazines A1 and Deadline launched their joint revival Kickstarter campaign earlier this month, funding the project in under three hours. The premier issue will feature eighty pages of content from both original contributors and new talent, including Jamie Hewlett, Garry Leach, and Chloe Maveal. The issue will also be available digitally, and there is a specific tier available for retail stores. A1Deadline is scheduled to launch in February 2026.
Heritage Auctions’ International Comic Art Auction Headlined by Métal Hurlant No. 2 Cover Art
Heritage Auctions’ International Comic Art Auction saw pieces from Enrico Marini, Richard Corben, Jean Giraud and more up for auction from October 25-26th. The headlining piece, Phillippe Druillet’s cover for Métal Hurlant No. 2, sold for $162, 500. Several works from Paolo Serpieri were also featured in the auction, with Druuna sketches selling for $1562 and $275.
Humanoids Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Back in July, we shared Bleeding Cool’s report that Les Humanoids had entered liquidation in France. Now, it appears that the US branch of the company has filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy.
The Street reported, “Humanoids had originally filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in January. Its debts, however, have forced the company to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. In the filing, Humanoids showed less than $50,000 in assets and between $10 million and $50 million in liabilities.”
There has been no official communication with subscribers regarding this development, but a newsletter sent on October 29, 2025 stated that issue #3 would be arriving mid-November.
Post Rendered Recommends: Ego in the Shell
SuperRare hosted Emi Kusano’s Ego in the Shell exhibition at their Offline Gallery in New York earlier this month, an official collaboration with Kodansha’s Ghost in the Shell property. The exhibition featured twelve AI generated artworks, and is described as, “referencing the world of the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell and interwoven with fragments of the artist’s own facial data, treated as an impersonal material like paint. Inhabiting their cybernetic bodies, these figures exude a sense of drama, sorrow, and intimacy in their quiet, everyday moments.”
You can read more about the exhibition here.