Best Books 2025: Adult Graphic Novels
PW's graphic novels reviews editor picked six books we consider to be among the best graphic works published in 2025 for adults. Also check out our picks for middle grade and young adult.
Must-Read Manga of 2025
This year middle grade and YA manga continued to show strength and publishers embraced manga for adult readers as well. more...
More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week on More To Come: The MTC Preview. We take a look at what’s coming in 2026, including the state of Marvel and DC, comics sales, indie comics, Webtoon, manga, a Chinese convention manga ban, and AI translation; plus, the Diamond aftermath, Universal Distribution, censorship, the relaunch of Vertigo, and new book projects.
‘Do Admit’ and ‘Spent’ Top PW’s 2025 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
For the third consecutive year, it's a tie for the top spot on PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll, highlighting the breadth of this category. The acrobatic graphic history and, intermittently, memoir 'Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me' by Mimi Pond (Drawn & Quarterly) and the autofiction/social satire 'Spent' (Mariner) by Alison Bechdel each received a total of six votes from our panel of 14 critics. more...
Ablaze Publishing Buys NBM
The Portland, Ore.–based Ablaze has acquired the venerable graphic novel publisher’s nearly five-decade backlist, all current contracts, and its imprint brand, with NBM founder Terry Nantier staying on as a consultant and packager. more...
Fall 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
From spine-tingling monster tales to swoonworthy love stories, serious nonfiction and hard-hitting histories, our editors select the season’s most promising Adult, Middle Grade, YA, and Manga Titles. Plus we've got lists of selected great graphic works focused on food and cooking, monsters, movies, and interviews with acclaimed cartoonists. more...and more.
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Charles Soule Is Dancing with Devils
In his two forthcoming trade releases, Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell (Marvel, Feb.) and The Lucky Devils (Image, July), Charles Soule explores morality and ethical conundrums.
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Panel Mania: 'A Garden of Spheres' by Linnea Sterte
Linnea Sterte’s 'A Garden of Spheres' is a beautifully illustrated fantasy graphic work of epic storytelling. A nine-page excerpt.
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Digging Horror: PW Talks with Abbey Luck
In the California-based artist’s debut graphic novel, Pig Wife, a family contends with its legacies of abuse and isolation in a remote mining town.
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Kitchen Comics Confidential: PW Talks to Katriona Chapman
In her newest graphic novel, The Pass (Fantagraphics, Jan.), the Londoner delves into the lives of a chef-owner of an acclaimed restaurant, a sous chef, and a bartender as they navigate drama in and out of the kitchen.
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Panel Mania: 'Total THB Volume 1' by Paul Pope
Originally self-published in the 1990s, Paul Pope’s 'Total THB Vol. 1' is the first of three volumes reprinting and collecting Pope’s influential and playful sci-fi epic. A 10-page excerpt.
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‘Do Admit’ and ‘Spent’ Top PW’s 2025 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
For the third consecutive year, it's a tie for the top spot on PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll, highlighting the breadth of this category.
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Go Big: PW Talks to Adam Rose
In the LA-based comics writer and film script consultant’s newest graphic novel, Huge Detective (Titan Comics), Australia gets reimagined as a realm of giants, renamed as the sovereign nation of Brobdingnag.
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They Found Love in a Hateful Place: PW Talks with Ravi Teixeira
In the Cape Verdean–American creator’s first solo graphic novel, Heaven, West Virginia (Oni, Nov.), a young gay man returns to his rural hometown after the death of his homophobic father in order to face his childhood demons—and, in the process, finds love.
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‘Swat Kats’ Comic Book Breaks Kickstarter Record
The campaign to publish a comic inspired by the ‘90s-era animated series is the crowdfunding platform’s largest ever for a single-issue comic book, raising more than $700,000.
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Panel Mania: 'My Life in 24 Frames Per Second' by Rintaro
A graphic memoir about growing up in post-WWII Japan and the beginnings of the anime industry in the 1960s. A 12-page excerpt.
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