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Panel Mania: ‘Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832’ by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert
This artfully fictionalized graphic history is based on the true story of a groundbreaking educator and a courageous class of Black girls 30 years before the Civil War. A ten-page excerpt.
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Jules Feiffer—Author, Illustrator, Cartoonist, and More—Dies at 95
The multitalented cartoonist and writer, known for a caustic wit that earned him an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a place in the Comic Book Hall of Fame, died on January 17, just shy of his 96th birthday.
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The Far Corners of This World: PW Talks with Mike Mignola
The creator of Hellboy returns to comics on January 22 with the debut anthology volume in a series called Lands Unknown, published by a new Dark Horse Comics imprint, Curious Objects. Mignola spoke with PW about folklore, worldbuilding, and more.
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Panel Mania: 'Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure' by Matt Madden
This savvy selection of short experimental comics is based on the concept of self-imposed creative restraints. An 11-page excerpt.
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Diamond Comic Distributors Files for Bankruptcy
The future of the comics distribution and graphic novel divisions at the company, which has been a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since its founding in 1982, is anything but certain. It owes its largest creditor, Penguin Random House, $9.2 million.
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Five Comics Business Storylines to Watch in 2025
The coming year seems poised to usher in a turbulent, albeit potentially lucrative, era for many industries, and comics and graphic novel publishing is no different. Here are five storylines to keep an eye on.
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Comics Arts Los Angeles Is Back in Business
The independent comics festival, which runs December 14-15 this year, returns live and in-person to the City of Angels for the first time since 2019.
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The Top 15 Comics Stories of 2024
Another big year in the comics business saw traditional book publishers continue to increase their investment in the medium as publishers of all shapes and sizes doubled down on manga and webcomics in print.
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‘Feeding Ghosts’ and ‘Victory Parade’ Top PW’s 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
For the second year in a row, the top spot on our annual graphic novel critics poll is shared by two titles which, while distinctive in style, share remarkably similar themes, delving into the inheritance of trauma across generations and the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters.
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Panel Mania: ‘The Last Mermaid: Book 01’ by Derek Kirk Kim
The cartoonist and filmmaker’s first graphic novel in more than a decade is a dazzling post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic.
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Penguin Random House to Distribute Boom! Studios Following Acquisition
Penguin Random House will distribute all titles published by Boom! Studios, which it acquired this August, starting next July, taking over distribution to the bookstore trade from Simon & Schuster and to the direct market from Diamond Comic Distributors.
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Rebellion Taps into the U.K.’s Long Comics Heritage
Rebellion Developments began life as a video game production studio, but over the past 25 years, it has become a force in the U.K. publishing industry, developing robust businesses around valuable IPs including Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper.
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10 Must-Read Manga of 2024
This year, established manga publishers jostled on the shelves with prestige graphic novel publishers, prose publishers venturing into comics, and more. The result was a great year for manga. Here are 10 titles you shouldn’t miss.
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Panel Mania: ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology,’ Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke
Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke, ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology’ uses the broad theme of sound as a platform to showcase an appealing and diverse group of South Asian comics creators. An 11-page excerpt.
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DC Launches Vertical-Scroll Webtoon Series, DC GO
DC Comics has launched DC GO, a new collection of vertical-scroll webtoons on its digital subscription service, DC Universe Infinite. The line includes new webtoons featuring DC characters and existing comics reformatted for continuous-scroll reading.
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DC Expands Its Compact Comics Line
DC will expand its DC Compact Comics line, which republishes “bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles” from the comics giant's backlist in a full-color, 5.5” x 8.5” trim size priced at $9.99, next year, adding 15 more titles.
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A Gastronome’s Guide to Graphic Novels
Just in time for Thanksgiving menu planning: a list for the culinarily curious among us looking to crack open a visually stimulating read alongside a cold one at the end of the day.
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Panel Mania: ‘Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It’ by Tara Booth
Tara Booth’s new graphic memoir is an eccentric and colorful psychological self-portrait with dazzling visual impact and an engaging and idiosyncratic sense of humor. A ten-page excerpt.
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‘The Fellini’s 8½ of Comics’: PW Talks with Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, and Ben Bishop
The team behind Drawing Blood, the new graphic novel series from Image Comics, which follows the rapid rise and fall of the cocreator of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles–like superhero team, discusses collaborating, comics history, and more.
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Comics Sales Soften, but Still Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels
This year's ICv2 Insider Talks found that while comics sales were down 7% from the “Covid peak” of 2022—with manga, once the primary driver for comics growth, seeing the largest drop—they're still holding strong, with 2023 sales up 67% above 2019.
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