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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.
Drawing Up Community for Comics in Libraries

By Ash Holland | 06/13/2025 @ 07:00PM

At a time when graphic novels by queer cartoonists and artists of color routinely top book ban lists, comics librarians are forging alliances with nonprofits, businesses, and artists to drive change and fight censorship on the community level.
The First ‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Beauty

By Chris Burkhalter | 06/11/2025 @ 10:00AM

The 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Panel Mania: ‘Everyone Sux But You’ by K. Wroten

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 06/11/2025 @ 08:00AM

The acclaimed cartoonist’s latest graphic novel offers a layered portrait of two queer teenage girls as they juggle the complexities around romantic attraction, grief, and going to school in a small town. A 14-page excerpt.
Struggling Together: PW Talks with Mike Curato

By Rob Kirby | 05/28/2025 @ 09:00AM

We spoke with the author of one of the most banned books in the country about his adult graphic novel debut, Gaysians, developing multiethnic characters, the freedom of writing without the burden of self-censorship, and more.
Panel Mania: ‘Spent: A Comic Novel’ by Alison Bechdel

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 05/28/2025 @ 08:00AM

The latest from one of America’s most beloved cartoonists is both a very funny fictionalized graphic memoir and a lively critique of consumer capitalism. A seven-page excerpt.
Comics That Call Readers to Action

by Cheryl Klein | 05/23/2025 @ 07:00PM

Here are six forthcoming comics and works of graphic nonfiction that rally readers to take a political stand.
Misery Loves Comics in Graphic Nonfiction About Grief

by Cheryl Klein | 05/23/2025 @ 07:00PM

A slate of upcoming comics and graphic memoirs offer solace to readers going through loss and mental health struggles.
PRH Cuts Ties with Diamond Comic Distributors

By Sophia Stewart | 05/22/2025 @ 11:00AM

Penguin Random House will end its distribution arrangement with Diamond Comic Distributors, effective June 25, following Ad Populum’s recent acquisition of the bankrupt Diamond’s comics distribution business. PRH is Diamond’s largest creditor, and is owed $9.2 million.
Diamond Comic Bankruptcy Leads to a Haze of Uncertainty

By Heidi MacDonald | 05/14/2025 @ 12:00PM

When Diamond Comic Distributors filed for bankruptcy in January, everyone in the comics world knew the industry was in for a shake-up. But no one could have predicted the battle royale that ensued. Now, publishers are left guessing at the best path forward.
Panel Mania: ‘Parable of the Talents’ by Octavia Butler, Adapted by Damian Duffy and John Jennings

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 05/14/2025 @ 09:00AM

The science fiction legend’s dystopian masterwork has been adapted into a timely graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings. A nine-page excerpt.

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