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From the Archive: We talk to March trilogy artist Nate Powell about working with Rep. John Lewis and his book at an event in 2015 on the campus of SUNY Old Westbury in New York.
An Anti-Racist Graphic Novel Reading List
PW has compiled a list of graphic works on African American life and history. more...
Fall 2020 Graphic Novels
Crashing into an uncertain fall comes a heady mix of genres. more...
Walden, Takei, Telgemeier, Tamaki Win 2020 Eisner Awards
Tillie Walden’s 'Are You Listening?; (First Second) was awarded the 2020 Eisner Award for the Best New Graphic Novel, during an online version of the annual awards ceremony that was streamed the evening of July 24. more...
John Lewis, Heroic Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 80
Rep. John Lewis, the nonviolent political activist, key leader of the Civil Rights Movement, long-serving member of the House of Representatives, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Honor, and author of the March trilogy, a critically acclaimed graphic memoir series and the first graphic novel to be awarded a National Book Award, died July 17. more...and more.
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Panel Mania: Flamer by Mike Curato
In Mike Curato’s new young adult graphic novel Flamer, the reader is introduced to Aiden Navarro, a 14 year-old Catholic kid about to enter High School. In this 15-page excerpt Aiden introduces his family, his friends, and his frenemies, as well as his relationship to the Catholic church and the Boy Scouts, two institutions that exert an enormous influence—good and ill—over his life and the lives of other queer youth.
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Walden, Takei, Telgemeier, Tamaki Win 2020 Eisner Awards
Tillie Walden’s 'Are You Listening?' won the 2020 Eisner Award for the Best New Graphic Novel during an online version of the annual awards ceremony that was streamed the evening of July 24.
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Vortex247 Showcases African Digital Comics
Vortex247, a Lagos, Nigeria-based African-centric digital comics platform, is developing the next generation of talent and content aimed at the African continent’s rapidly-expanding mobile-digital consumer base.
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Fantasy, Power, and Magic: PW Talks with V.E. Schwab.
‘PW’ Talks with bestselling fantasy novelist V.E. Schwab about 'The Rebel Army', the final volume in her graphic novel trilogy 'Shades of Magic: The Steel Prince', which was published July 8.
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Panel Mania: Paying the Land by Joe Sacco
In his new book 'Paying the Land', acclaimed comics journalist Joe Sacco pays a visit the Dene and other Indigenous people in their vast and majestic homelands in Canada’s Northwest Territories near the arctic circle. In this 12-page excerpt Sacco talks with chief Dolphus Jumbo and learns about the terrible impact of Canada’s residential schools, and the pull between traditional life in the bush and the benefits and the severe social problems that come with modern life.
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2019 North American Comics Sales Hit Record $1.21 Billion
Combined sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in the U.S. and Canada hit their highest point yet in 2019, according to a joint estimate produced by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron.
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Comics Without Cons
With public gatherings on hold, comics publishers and creators and pop culture show organizers struggle.
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Panel Mania: Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Som
Transgender comics artist Bishakh Som’s 'Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir' is the story of a leap of faith: Som quits her job as an architect to work fulltime on a graphic novel. But it also evokes Som’s internal process of coming to terms with gender. This is a ten-page excerpt. The book will be published in August by Street Noise Books.
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A Cartoonist’s Life: PW Speaks with Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine's new graphic memoir 'The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist,' dissects authorial insecurity and self-doubt with a series of alternately hilarious and painful true-life anecdotes. The book will be published this month by D&Q.
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Abraham, Keller, Levitz Leave the CBLDF Board
In the wake of the resignation of former CBLDF executive director Charles Brownstein, Paul Levitz is retiring from the CBLDF board of directors and the board has accepted the resignations of board members Jeff Abraham and Katherine Keller.
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