Original Druuna and Cave Girl art sells at auction, a new Modesty Blaise retrospective is in the works, and the Heavy Metal Library launches on Kickstarter. Read more in Post Rendered’s news roundup for November 2025.
Fumettomania Factory starting work on a Modesty Blaise retrospective
DownTheTubes reported that Fumettomania Factory APS will be conducting an in-depth study and retrospective of Peter O’Donnell and Jim Holdaway’s Modesty Blaise, and is asking for “articles, interviews, analyses, and new stories or illustrations” from the community to help with their study.
Created in 1963 as a newspaper strip, the series quickly gained notoriety and was adapted into several other forms of media. It debuted in the London Evening Standard but found a place in newspapers around the world, being translated into several languages. Titan has published a complete omnibus series of the strip.
Heavy Metal Library hits Kickstarter with new Druuna omnibus
A new Druuna omnibus launched this month in French, Italian, and English (via Kickstarter).
The French edition is published by Glenat while the Italian edition is published by Lo Scarabeo. Heavy Metal announced that they would be publishing the English edition of the omnibus as part of their new Heavy Metal Library, which we noted Comic Beat’s report on back in July.
The Heavy Metal Library Kickstarter includes four books, each with their own retail and Kickstarter editions. A hardcover collecting cover art from the magazine’s five decades of publication leads the project, featuring more than 300 artworks across 350 pages. Tamburini and Liberatore’s RanXerox will feature 180 pages of content, while Malka and Giménez’s Segment comes in at 160 pages. The Druuna omnibus features 672 pages (seemingly a few more than the Italian and French editions, though the exact differences are not yet known). The Kickstarter currently sits at over 1.1 million USD with nearly two weeks to go.
To commemorate the omnibus, Marco Turini released a special portfolio dedicated to Druuna at Lucca Comics & Games earlier this year.
Bob Powell and Paolo Serpieri pages sell at Heritage Auctions
Works from both Bob Powell and Paolo Serpieri were featured in Heritage Auctions’ Comic Art Signature Auctions on November 23, 2025. Highlights include original art from the seven-page Cave Girl story featured in Thun’da, King of the Congo #5 (1953). The set sold for $8750 USD, and were described as being in very good condition. The original page 11 of Serpieri’s Morbus Gravis (1985) sold for $750 USD, and was described as being in excellent condition.
Post Rendered Recommends: Lake Como Comic Art Festival VIP Tickets
The Lake Como Comic Art Festival 2026 will take place in April next year. Described as a “unique and curated event,” the Lake Como Comic Art Festival “steers clear of media celebrities, cosplay events, and unrelated commercial vendors. These elements are great in other settings, but here, our focus is solely on the art of comics. We’ve noticed that many conventions have become overwhelmingly large, hindering meaningful interactions between fans and creators.”
Previous attendees of the convention received emails earlier this month notifying them of the VIP package. This year’s VIP pass includes:
- Conan Art Portfolio by Liam Sharp with original remarque
- Access to the Friday Night Opening Reception
- Special 2026 Variant Covers (full list announced soon)
- Guaranteed access to limited-run items before the general public
- 2026 Lake Como Fine Art Portfolio & Swag Bag
You can purchase tickets for the Lake Como Comic Art Festival from the festival’s homepage. Sharp also returned to Spawn: The Dark Ages this month.