More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week Heidi interviews comics editor and creator Andy Schmidt, founder of ComicsExperience, an online school for comics creators, and ONS, a comics printing company for small publishers, about teaching comics creation and the current state of the comics industry under pandemic.
Diamond Comic Halts Payments to Publishers
Diamond Comic Distributors announced that it will not pay publishers and other vendors this week. more...
Spring 2020 Graphic Novels
New works from Maximilian Uriate, Leslie Stein, Joe Sacco and Adrian Tomine more...
Comics vs. Coronavirus: Following Up with Comics Retailers
PW’s annual comics retailer survey was published just as the virus began to disrupt the U.S. comics and book marketplace. However, since the feature was published, the pandemic has hit the country head on, forcing many comics and book retailers to close, at least temporarily. PW was able to speak with several retailers interviewed earlier for the comics retail survey. more...
A Look Inside the 21st-Century Comics Shop
Comics retailers are embracing new titles, welcoming new readers, and shifting to a curatorial approach to stocking. Our interviews were conducted prior to news of the spread of the new coronavirus in the U.S., and at that time, the comics retailers surveyed were optimistic about 2020. more...and more.
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Panel Mania: Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry by Julian Peters
Published by Plough Publishing to mark the celebration of National Poetry Month in April, 'Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry' by Julian Peters offers a series of delightful, often moving, visual recreations of classic poems. In this 10-page excerpt Peters recreates Seamus Heaney’s 'The Given Note', and Dylan Thomas’s 'The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower.'
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Comics vs. Coronavirus: Following Up with Comics Retailers
PW’s annual comics retailer survey was published just as the virus began to disrupt the U.S. comics and book marketplace. However, since the feature was published, the pandemic has hit the country head on, forcing many comics and book retailers to close, at least temporarily.
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Diamond Comic Halts Payments to Publishers
Diamond Comic Distributors, the largest distributor of comics in North America, announced that it will not pay publishers and other vendors this week.
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A Look Inside the 21st-Century Comics Shop
Comics retailers are embracing new titles, welcoming new readers, and shifting to a curatorial approach to stocking.
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Colvin Ramps Up Graphic Novels at LBYR
After launching graphic novel lines at Andrews McMeel and Lion Forge, Andrea Colvin has joined Hachette with big plans for graphic novels at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
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Black Girl Genius: Talking with Devin Grayson and Alitha Martinez
The creators of Humanoids’ new graphic novel ‘Omni: The Doctor Is In’, a hybrid medical mystery/paranormal thriller, talk with PW about creating a contemporary black female genius superhero.
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The Second Coming of ‘Second Coming’: PW Talks with Mark Russell
PW talks to comics writer Mark Russell about his controversial graphic novel 'Second Coming' (with art by Richard Pace), the story of Jesus Christ returning to earth, this time with Earth's mightiest superhero as his roommate. The trade paperback collection was published this month by Ahoy Comics.
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Panel Mania: The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp and Manuel Preitano
DC’s new YA graphic novel 'The Oracle Code' by Marieke Nijkamp with art by Manuel Preitano updates the Batman legend of Barbara Gordon, daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, who is paralyzed after a gunshot wound. Now she’s a wheelchair-bound teen hacker enrolled in a special school for the disabled where students are missing. This is a 13-page excerpt.
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Panel Mania: Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid by Yao Xiao
'Everything is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection' by Yao Xiao is delightful and poetic graphic memoir by a China-born, queer, immigrant illustrator and cartoonist who has lived in the U.S since 2006. This is a 16 page excerpt. The book will be published in March by Andews McMeel.
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The End of Fante Bukowski: PW talks with Noah Van Sciver
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver and Fantagraphics have teamed up to publish 'The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski', a hardcover compilation, and tongue-in-cheek tribute, to the self-proclaimed literary genius.
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