Montagne Named Publisher at Abrams ComicArts
Montagne will focus on growing the division's presence in the graphic novel, manga, and comic book market. more...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. more...More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week: PW’s annual feature on comics retailing,latest news on the Diamond bankruptcy; this weekend’s MoCCA Art Festival is now called SI MoCCA Fest; are Comic Cons becoming general pop culture fairs; ICE detains a British comics artist; publishing Batman; creators slam Marvel’s contracts; and new documentaries on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee coming,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. Independent creators sold zines, prints, minicomics, and merch shoulder-to-shoulder with small and mid-sized publishers including Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, New York Review Comics, Silver Sprocket, and Uncivilized Press. more...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. Periodical comics made the leap from convenience store spinner racks to trade paperback collections at bookstore chains in the 1980s. Today, comics can be found wherever books are sold. more...Spring 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
Our intrepid comics correspondents, Meg Lemke and Shaenon K. Garrity, are back with another scintillating preview of the season’s most anticipated graphic novels and nonfiction, including works for adults, young adults, and children, as well as new manga. more...and more.
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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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‘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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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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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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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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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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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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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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