More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald talks with Tea Fougner, editorial director of comics at King Features, about her career, syndicated digital comics, finding new comics voices and the revival and redesign of the venerable Mark Trail comics strip by Jules Rivera.
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...
Canada’s Indigenous Comics Artists Redress History
Published by Canada's Highwater Press in 2019, ‘This Place: 150 Years Retold’ is an anthology of 10 graphic stories produced by a group of acclaimed indigenous comics creators as part of a national effort to retell the painful history of Canada’s indigenous people. PW talked with the creators when the book was released in 2019. more...
PSU Press Launches Graphic Mundi Imprint
The Penn State University Press will launch Graphic Mundi, a new fiction and nonfiction graphic imprint, in spring 2021. The new imprint will build on the press’s Graphic Medicine series, but expands the subject matter to include graphic works on the environment, human rights, and social justice as well as health and medicine. more...and more.
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PSU Press Launches Graphic Mundi Imprint
Penn State University Press will launch Graphic Mundi, a new nonfiction graphic imprint, in spring 2021. The new imprint will build on the press’s Graphic Medicine series and expand beyond healthcare into social justice, the environment, and human rights.
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Panel Mania: Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Edward O. Wilson, adapted by Jim Ottaviani and C.M. Butzer
Science-comics writer Jim Ottaviani and artist C.M. Butzer team with the celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson to turn 'Naturalist', his 1994 memoir, into an equally delightful and engrossing graphic work. In this 13-page excerpt Wilson, in love and recently engaged, nevertheless heads to New Guinea in 1954 to study his specialty, ants, alone and without high tech devices.
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DC to Launch DC Universe Infinite Comics Subscription Service
DC Comics announced that DC Universe, a video on demand streaming service offering DC films, TV shows, comics, and online community, will be transformed into a digital comics subscription service in January 2021.
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Panel Mania: My Broken Mariko by Waka Hirako
In Waka Hirako’s 'My Broken Mariko,' Tomoyo, a young professional woman, is shocked to learn that Mariko, her closest friend, has committed suicide. But Tomoyo also knows Mariko’s father has abused her since she was a child. In this 8-page excerpt, Tomoyo decides to she avenge the unnecessary death of her friend by stealing Mariko’s ashes from her abusive father.
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Bird in Hollywood: PW Talks with Dave Chisholm
In a release marking the centennial of the birth of jazz alto saxophonist and bebop cocreator Charlie "Bird" Parker, this month cartoonist and trumpeter Dave Chisholm will publish 'Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker In California,' a graphic biography that recounts Parker's stay in Los Angeles during the late 1940s.
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Panel Mania: Blade Runner 2019: Off World Vol. 2 by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, and Andres Guinaldo
In this 10-page excerpt from 'Blade Runner 2019: Off World Vol. 2' by Michael Green, Mike Johnson, and Andres Guinaldo, the graphic novel sequel to Ridley Scott’s acclaimed 1982 dystopian sci-fi film, Blade Runner Ash Ashina has been tracked down by another ruthless Blade Runner looking for a child Ashina rescued seven years earlier. 'Blade Runner 2019: Off World Vol. 2' will be published this month by Titan Comics.
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Dark Horse to Publish, Distribute Print Editions of Comixology Originals
Comixology Originals, Amazon’s digital-first original comics publishing platform, has reached an agreement with Dark Horse Comics to publish and distribute print editions of four new Comixology Original graphic novels. The four titles will be released in Spring 2021.
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A Virtual Reality Check for Publishing
Are publishers ready for VR gaming prime time?
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Race and Representation: Relaunching Asterix in America
Papercutz has launched a new American edition of Asterix, one of the bestselling comics in the world, but there’s a problem: the popular French classic makes use of stereotypical caricatures of African characters that have long been considered offensive to many people.
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Panel Mania: Chasin' The Bird: Charlie Parker in California by Dave Chisholm with Peter Markowski
Dave Chisholm’s stellar graphic biography, 'Chasin’ The Bird: Charlie Parker in California', is a superbly crafted and imaginative record of a legendary two-year period beginning in 1945 during which bebop innovator Charlie Parker traveled to California. In this 6-page excerpt the great tenor saxophonist John Coltrane tells the story of the first time he met Parker.
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