More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week Calvin talks with Joe Sacco about this new book, ‘Paying the Land,’ an immersive examination of the history of Indigenous People in Canada’s Northwest Territories and a new generation of indigenous leaders grapple with fracking and mining interests over control of native land.
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...
PW Talks with Spike Trotman
Founded by artist and writer Spike Trotman in 2007, Iron Circus Comics is a small indie graphic novel publishing house based in Chicago. PW talked with Trotman about how she is dealing with publishing during the Covid-19 pandemic. more...
ShortBox: Good Comics Come in Small Packages
The U.K.-based ShortBox is a one-of-a-kind small press that publishes a carefully curated collection of minicomics and sends them out into the world as part of a mail-order box. The comics are commissioned, published, and sent out by Zainab Akhtar, the writer behind the Eisner Award-nominated comics blog 'Comics and Cola.' more...and more.
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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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Ten Speed to Publish Graphic History of Black Panther Party
Comics writer David Walker is teaming with artist Marcus Kwame Anderson on 'The Black Panther Party: A Graphic History,' which will be published by Ten Speed Press in January 2021.
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Brownstein Resigns From CBLDF Following Renewed Allegations
Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund since 2002, has resigned from his position effective immediately following the resurfacing of allegations of sexual assault.
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ShortBox: Good Comics Come in Small Packages
ShortBox is a one-of-a-kind small press that publishes a carefully curated collection of minicomics and sends them out into the world as part of a mail-order box.
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Panel Mania: Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics by Tom Scioli
In the new graphic biography, 'Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics', comics artist and biographer Tom Scioli pays tribute to Kirby, arguably the greatest superhero comic book artist of all time. In this 11-page excerpt Scioli depicts Kirby’s life on the Lower East Side and the beginnings of his interest in becoming a cartoonist and comic book artist.
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An Anti-Racist Graphic Novel Reading List
In tribute to the memory of George Floyd, who died at the hands of the Minneapolis police, and in support of the worldwide outcry over his death, the 'PW' comics editors have compiled a list of graphic titles about African American life and history.
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