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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • ‘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.

  • 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.

  • Comics Still Ruled at New York Comic Con 2024

    Despite fewer comics companies exhibiting than ever before, comics still stood out amid an ever more pop culture–focused show, with new players hitting the scene, beloved brands getting a refresh, and newcomers emerging from the wings.

  • Marvel Comics Debuts Premier Collection at NYCC's Retailer Day

    Marvel Premier Collection, a new line of trade paperbacks aimed at providing an accessible entry point for comics newcomers, will launch in February with classic works by Frank Miller and Ta-Nehesi Coates. The line was announced at the first-ever Retailer Day at this year's New York Comic Con.

  • A Look Inside the Global Webcomics Business

    Kim Hyung Joo, head of webtoons at leading digital publishing platform Munpia, discusses the growth of the billion-dollar Korean webcomic business.

  • Bobby Curnow Joins IDW as Editor-in-Chief

    Curnow has returned to IDW to replace Jamie S. Rich, who left the company last year in a stream of departures and layoffs during a turbulent period for the comics publisher. Andy Khouri will also join IDW as senior editor, leading the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics line.

  • Inklore, Tiny Onion to Copublish Three New Series by James Tynion IV

    The imprint of Random House Worlds, which launched last year, has partnered with Tynion’s independent production house to publish three original graphic novel series by Tynion as part of a 12-book deal.

  • Silver Sprocket, at 15, Turns to Its Community for Support

    Creators including Michael Deforge, Lemony Snicket, and Tillie Walden have partnered with the independent San Francisco–based comics publisher and comics shop Silver Sprocket on one-of-a-kind prints to support a new fundraising effort.

  • Panel Mania: ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ by David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson

    David Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson’s new graphic novel ‘Big Jim and the White Boy’ is an imaginative retelling, in comics, of Mark Twain’s ‘Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.’ An 11-page excerpt.

  • Desert Island Comics Raises $80,000 in Two Days to Stay Open

    The Brooklyn, N.Y.–based indie comics shop launched a GoFundMe on October 6 in an effort to remain in its location for another three years. It exceeded its $79,200 goal in two days.

  • Desert Island Comics Launches Fundraiser to Avoid Closure

    A beloved mainstay of New York City’s alternative and underground comics scenes since 2008, Gabe Fowler's Desert Island Comics seeks $79,200 to keep from getting priced out of its longtime storefront in Williamsburg by year’s end.

  • Lena Atanassova Named Editor-in-Chief of Tokyopop

    Most recently brand editor at the publisher’s LoveLove imprint, Atanassova will lead the full editorial team at the fast-growing manga publisher, overseeing acquisitions and production as it continues to expand its editorial purview.

  • Panel Mania: 'Mothballs' by Sole Otero

    Sole Otero’s new graphic novel is a multigenerational saga of female disenfranchisement and despair.

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