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Diamond Comic Distributors Has a Buyer. Now What?
After two months of intense speculation, the comics business finally has an answer to its biggest question of late: the bankrupt Diamond Comic Distributors is slated for acquisition by Alliance Entertainment, a new player in the sector.
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Panel Mania: ‘Aya: Face the Music’ by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
The latest volume in Abouet and Oubrerie’s graphic novel series about a savvy teenage girl’s adventures in 1980s Côte d’Ivoire finds its protagonist, Aya, in college, where she gets caught in a campus protest turned violent. A 7-page excerpt.
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Plausible Motives: PW Talks with Margie and Matt Kindt
A 70-year-old woman, her great-nephew, and a mysterious pair of armchairs take an action-filled trip to Paris in the graphic novel murder mystery Gilt Frame (Dark Horse, Mar.), the first-ever collaboration by the mother-son duo.
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2025 SI MoCCA Fest Mixes Celebration with Politics
The environment at this year’s bustling Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival felt celebratory and welcoming in spite of the looming shadow of increasingly fraught global politics.
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Joseph Montagne Promoted to Publisher at Abrams ComicArts
Montagne, who previously served as associate publisher, joined ComicArts when it was established in 2023. In his new role, he'll focus on growing the division's presence in the graphic novel, manga, and comic book market.
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Panel Mania: ‘Galaxy of Madness’ by Magdalene Visaggio and Michael Avon Oeming
This brainy sci-fi adventure thriller from Mad Cave Studios is full of lively banter and richly illustrated mysteries. A 7-page excerpt.
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Redwood, Flower, Weeping Willow: PW Talks with Ricky Lima
Lima pulls back the curtain on his latest comics collaboration, Undergrowth, and how working in publishing prepared him to release a book of his own.
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‘Strange Bedfellows’ Marvel and Fantagraphics Team Up for New Archival Line
Marvel is once again partnering with Fantagraphics Books, the Seattle-based independent publisher and longtime bastion of, well, everything that Marvel is not. Their new Lost Marvels line will cover Marvel’s lesser known and previously unreprinted material from the late 1960s through the mid ’80s.
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Now Try This: 7 Titles Comics Retailers Love to Handsell
Booksellers share their favorite new graphic novels they’ve convinced picky fans to sample.
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Stronger Together: Retailers Turn to ComicsPRO
ComicsPRO president Joe Murray talks to PW about how the national organization provides resources for direct market specialty stores, as the industry faces disruption in distribution.
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If You Build It, Comic Book Fans Will Come
Comics shop owners shore up customer loyalty with events, clubs, and personalized service, helping small shops thrive in hard times.
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Panel Mania: ‘Life Drawing’ by Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez’s new graphic novel is a generational update on the lives of his fictional punk rock duo Maggie and Hopey from the original Locas and Love and Rockets comics series. A ten-page excerpt.
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At ComicsPRO 2025, the Comics Business Looks for Solutions
With Diamond Comic Distributors in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings and sales of comics periodicals flying unexpectedly high, things looked very different at this year’s conference for direct market comics retailers.
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Will the Diamond Bankruptcy Change the Comics Business Forever?
Publishers and comics shops continue to scramble to shift to other distributors and brace themselves for lost income following Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January. Meanwhile, the entire comics business is asking itself: What now?
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Panel Mania: ‘The Girl Who Flew Away’ by Lee Dean
The moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel, about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to make sense of the course of her life in 1970s America, is forthcoming from Iron Circus Comics in March.
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Comics Classic ‘Billi 99’ Returns to Print After 34 Years
The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022.
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Raccoon Hijinks: PW Talks with Alex Krokus
In his second collection, Loud & Smart & in Color (Silver Sprocket, Feb.), the cartoonist and his signature animal avatar return with a collection that toggles between the absurd and the mundane—this time, in full color.
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Dark Horse Media Downsizes
Citing high overhead, changing market conditions, and external economic factors, the company said it was reducing staff as part of its efforts to streamline operations.
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Cost Cuts Lower Losses at Comics Publisher IDW
Across the board reductions helped ameliorate the graphic novel publisher's losses in fiscal 2024 by $3.5 million as sales remained basically flat at $26 million.
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With L.A. Fires Subsiding, the Book Industry Sustains Action
As Los Angeles first responders brought wildfires under control last week, those in literary circles persevered in delivering mutual aid and contributing to fundraisers.
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