More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week we scrutinize the Eisner nominations; check expanding job moves; recap manga sales and the rebound of comics and graphic novel retailers; salute librarians in the face of censorship; and cite comics contributions to the PW@150 commemorative issue.
How Comics Got to Now
A combination of factors helped comics establish a strong foothold in the book trade. more...
A Graphic Novel/Comics Timeline, 1997–2022
Notable moments in the evolution of comics and graphic novels. more...
Tokyopop Marks 25 Years: CEO Stu Levy Looks Back and Ahead
Founded 25 years ago by Stu Levy at a time when manga was a niche within a niche, Tokyopop brought manga—licensed book-format Japanese comics in English translation—to the mass market, bringing the category into bookstores, establishing a new comics format, and publishing comics for a wide range of audiences, especially girls and young women. more...
Archie Comics Navigates the Pandemic
In March 2020, New York State established an early Covid-19 lockdown zone in Westchester County, near the offices of Archie Comics. The world was about to change dramatically. But despite the pandemic, shutdowns, and supply chain problems, Archie Comics had one of its best years in 2021, its 80th anniversary year. more...and more.
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Seven Seas Staff Launches Effort to Form Union
Staff at independent manga publisher Seven Seas Entertainment have announced plans to seek to form a union in affiliation with the Communications Workers of America.
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Archie Comics Navigates the Pandemic
Despite the pandemic, shutdowns, and supply chain problems, Archie Comics had one of its best years in 2021, its 80th anniversary year.
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Panel Mania: Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator by Sofia Warren
In the summer of 2018, 'New Yorker' Cartoonist Sofia Warren emailed Julia Salazar, a young democratic socialist running for the New York state senate, a request to follow her around and create a nonfiction comics account of her campaign. The result is the graphic memoir 'Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator'. A 13-page excerpt.
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Tokyopop Marks 25 Years: CEO Stu Levy Looks Back and Ahead
Founded 25 years ago by Stu Levy at a time when manga was a niche within a niche, Tokyopop brought manga—Japanese book-format comics—to a new generation of young American fans, ushering in a new era in North American comics.
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Comics Retail Rebuilds, and Restocks
Booksellers discuss comics’ resurgence in 2021—and how strong sales were hindered by supply chain issues.
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Panel Mania: The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner
Filmmaker and comics artist James Spooner revisits his Afropunk teen years in his new graphic memoir 'The High Desert. Black. Punk. Nowhere,' to be published in May by Harper. A ten-page excerpt.
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Rich Johnson Joins Diamond Book Distributors
Comics and graphic novel publishing executive Rich Johnson has been named v-p, sales and business development at Diamond Book Distributors, the book trade division of Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Panel Mania: Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté
In Benoit Cohen and Christophe Chabouté’s new graphic novel 'Yellow Cab', Cohen decides to become a New York City cab driver, and we follow the long bureaucratic journey required to get a taxi license, and Cohen’s plunge into the wildly diverse experience of driving a taxi cab in New York City. An 11-page excerpt.
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How Comics Got to Now
A combination of factors helped comics and graphic novels establish a strong foothold in the book trade, writes ‘PW’ senior news editor and resident comics maestro Calvin Reid.
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A Graphic Novel/Comics Timeline, 1997–2022
A timeline of notable moments in the evolution of comics and graphic novels.
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