Comics and Graphic Novel News | Publishers Weekly

Browse archive by date:

[ { "months" : [ "00" ], "year" : "0000" }, { "months" : [ "08", "09" ], "year" : 1998 }, { "months" : [ "05" ], "year" : 1999 }, { "months" : [ "06", "11" ], "year" : 2001 }, { "months" : [ "06", "07", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2002 }, { "months" : [ "01", "03", "04", "07", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2003 }, { "months" : [ "06", "09", "10" ], "year" : 2004 }, { "months" : [ "04", "08", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2005 }, { "months" : [ "02", "03", "06", "08", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2006 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "06", "07", "09", "11" ], "year" : 2007 }, { "months" : [ "03", "05", "06", "07", "09", "10" ], "year" : 2008 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "04", "06", "07", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2009 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2010 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2011 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2012 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2013 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2014 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2015 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2016 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2017 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2018 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2019 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2020 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2021 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2022 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2023 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08", "09", "10", "11", "12" ], "year" : 2024 }, { "months" : [ "01", "02", "03", "04", "05", "06", "07", "08" ], "year" : 2025 } ]

DC Comics Sees An ‘Absolute’ Success

By Susana Polo | 08/27/2025 @ 02:00PM

The comics giant has three new books featuring familiar superheroes on the shelves this month—but the origin stories within are anything but familiar. DC executive editor Chris Conroy explains why the publisher’s Absolute Universe has struck a chord.
Corto Maltese Sets Sail at Fantagraphics

By Dean Simons | 08/27/2025 @ 01:30PM

U.S. comics fans will soon be able to experience the adventures of Hugo Pratt’s iconic seafarer like never before thanks to a new publishing program at Fantagraphics, which aims to make the entire Corto Maltese series available across six deluxe full-color hardcover editions.
Panel Mania: ‘Second Shift’ by Kit Anderson

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 08/27/2025 @ 10:00AM

This dream-like science fiction tale captures the slowly disorienting mental states of workers on a faraway planet. A 12-page excerpt.
Emotional Autobiography: PW Talks with Diane DiMassa

By Rob Kirby | 08/27/2025 @ 09:00AM

The cartoonist revisits her 30-year-old oeuvre and legendary character Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist, whose rage-filled adventures are collected in a new book from New York Review Comics.
2025 American Manga Award Winners Announced

By Eva Baron | 08/22/2025 @ 10:00AM

Kodansha and Square Enix each took home two of the night’s six awards, which were launched last year to honor outstanding achievements in the world of Japanese comics. The ceremony, held August 21, coincided with the first day of this year’s Anime NYC convention in New York.
Diamond Bankruptcy Hearing Heats Up

By Jim Milliot | 08/19/2025 @ 11:00AM

As the bankruptcy hearing over the fate of the remaining assets of Diamond Comic Distributors unfolded this month, the court approved the sale of Diamond UK and blocked a bid by Diamond to sell the publishers’ inventory it holds rather than return it.
Panel Mania: ‘Everything Sucks: Kings of Nothing’ by Michael Sweater

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 08/13/2025 @ 12:00PM

This graphic collection captures the antics of a very funny crew of shiftless stoners determined to avoid responsibilities of any kind.
Freedom Fighting and History Writing: PW Talks with Rob Edwards

By Wyatt Erchak | 08/13/2025 @ 12:00PM

In his new graphic novel, Defiant (Legion M/Stranger, out now), the Captain America: Brave New World screenwriter tells the little-known story of Robert Smalls, who escaped slavery in 1862 and went on to become a U.S. Congressman.
SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence

By Heidi MacDonald | 07/30/2025 @ 02:00PM

At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, held July 23–27, comics took back their top spot in the Con’s pecking order thanks in part to fewer movie stars visiting Hall H.
Panel Mania: ‘Meat Eaters’ by Meredith McClaren

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 07/30/2025 @ 11:00AM

This grisly teen drama about a college town full of horrific shape-shifting monsters hiding in plain sight delivers brisk, comic banter alongside bold, stylized linework.
Paging ‘Dr. Werthless’: PW Talks with Harold Schechter and Eric Powell

By Brigid Alverson | 07/30/2025 @ 10:00AM

The duo takes on the famed psychiatrist and anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham in their new graphic novel, which offers a multifaceted portrait of a complex man who claimed that reading comics led to violence.
Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards

By Sam Spratford | 07/28/2025 @ 10:00AM

Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.
Publishers Await Answers on Inventory Tied Up in Diamond Bankruptcy

By Sam Spratford | 07/16/2025 @ 02:00PM

Six months after Diamond Comic Distributors’ January 15 bankruptcy filing, the inventory of 128 publishers is still in limbo, pending a court decision on whether Diamond will be allowed to liquidate the comics, graphic novels, and other merchandise in its warehouse—some of which was being held on consignment per now-defunct distribution agreements.
Can Neon Ichiban Breathe New Life into Digital Comics?

By Dean Simons | 07/16/2025 @ 12:00PM

Comixology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher aim to shake up the world of digital comics again with a new platform adding to the technological innovations of their comics publishing house, Dstlry.
Panel Mania: ‘Spectrum’ by Rick Quinn and Dave Chisholm

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 07/16/2025 @ 12:00PM

This hallucinatory graphic novel offers a mystical alternative history of American popular music and the social conflict around it—as well as a mind-bending tribute to the transcendent power of song. An 11-page excerpt.
Return ‘Flight’: PW Talks with Kazu Kibuishi

By Tobias Carroll | 07/16/2025 @ 12:00PM

This fall, Random House’s Inklore will reissue the influential Flight anthology series edited by Kibuishi, who discussed the process of bringing out the new editions and how his own impressions of the series have changed over the years.
HarperCollins Acquires Crunchyroll’s Publishing Operations in France, Germany

By Sophia Stewart | 07/16/2025 @ 10:45AM

HarperCollins Publishers has announced that it will acquire the manga publishing operations of global anime brand Crunchyroll in France and Germany. The purchase marks HarperCollins’s latest expansion in the manga market.
New Distribution Collective Promises Oasis for Indie Comics Creators

By Sam Spratford | 06/25/2025 @ 12:00PM

Power Pulp bills itself as an innovative, author-led organization aiming to lower the barrier to entry to the comics and graphic novel market for indie creators.
Panel Mania: ‘Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business’ by Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 06/25/2025 @ 12:00PM

This stylishly reimagined crime melodrama brings Chandler’s hardboiled private eye Philip Marlowe and his 1940s Los Angeles demimonde vividly to life. An11-page excerpt.
Time Bomb Debuts Two Explosive New Imprints

By Sam Spratford | 06/15/2025 @ 02:00PM

In a move projected to double the U.K. comics mainstay’s annual trade paperback output, Time Bomb has announced that codirectors Steve Tanner and David West will each launch his own imprint.

Page | Next

1 - 20 of 3356