Embrace the Cringe: Archie Bongiovanni
'Leo Rising,' is the latest graphic novel from the Minneapolis-based queer and trans cartoonist. more...
YA Romance Goes Graphic
The romance genre continues to reign supreme, with one particular format growing in popularity: graphic novels for teens. more...
More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week on More To Come: cohosts Heidi and Kate discuss PW's Spring Preview issue; the GNCRT's new Outstanding Comics awards; Diamond's Chapter 7 bankruptcy and its impact on DSTLRY and micro-publishers; reported mass layoffs at Kindle Comics/ex-Comixology; fan responses to the shutdown of the Bato webtoon and manga piracy empire; Jim Lee's controversial praise of manga; Will Eisner publishing rights; Minneapolis; and Angouleme plans a new festival with respect and women.
Spring 2026 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
Our editors highlight the season’s hottest trends and most noteworthy titles for adult, middle grade, YA, and manga readers, including such authors as Riad Sattouf, Tillie Walden, Kwame Alexander, Maia Kobabe, Naoki Urasawa, Gengoroh Tagame, and Machiko Kyo. Plus, lists of selected graphic works focused on celebrity comics, devilish romance, and interviews with acclaimed cartoonists and publiishers. more...
Miss Opal Had Always Been There: PW Talks with Angélique Roché
The journalist and podcaster partnered with up-and-coming cartoonists Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe, and Bex Glendining to bring to life ‘First Freedom’ (Oni, Feb.), a kaleidoscopic graphic biography of educator and activist Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.” more...
Everything’s Closing In: PW Talks with Ezra Claytan Daniels
Horror emerges from central Florida’s swamps in Mama Came Callin’ (Morrow and HarperAlley, Feb.), as a young biracial woman named Kirah investigates the elusive costumed-killer Gator Man who terrorizes her. more...and more.
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The City Is in My Blood: PW Talks With Eric Drooker
With the 1992 publication of ‘Flood!,’ the graphic novelist kicked off an impressionistic trilogy about city life. The series recently came to a close with ‘Naked City,’ which adds dialogue to the mix to tell the interconnected stories of a musician and a painter seeking inspiration and chasing success.
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Everything’s Closing In: PW Talks with Ezra Claytan Daniels
Horror emerges from central Florida’s swamps in Mama Came Callin’ (Morrow and HarperAlley, Feb.), as a young biracial woman named Kirah investigates the elusive costumed-killer Gator Man who terrorizes her.
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Panel Mania: 'First Freedom: The Story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' by Angélique Roché, Alvin Epps, et al
Written by Angélique Roché with art by Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe, and Bex Glendining, 'First Freedom: The story of Opal Lee and Juneteenth' is an inspirational graphic biography the former teacher that worked for decades to make Juneteenth a national holiday.A 10-page excerpt.
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Miss Opal Had Always Been There: PW Talks with Angélique Roché
The journalist and podcaster partnered with up-and-coming cartoonists Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe, and Bex Glendining to bring to life ‘First Freedom’ (Oni, Feb.), a kaleidoscopic graphic biography of educator and activist Opal Lee, known as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth.”
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Embrace the Cringe: PW Talks with Archie Bongiovanni
In the latest from the Minneapolis-based queer and trans cartoonist, ‘Leo Rising’ (Abrams ComicArts, Jan.), three queer 20-somethings from “Squarebanks,” Alaska, push each other to find their respective paths.
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Oni Press Inks Distro Deal with PRH
Beginning in August, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will take over sales and distribution for the comics and graphic novel publisher’s frontlist and backlist trade books, as well as single issue comics, across all channels worldwide.
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A New Player Emerges on the International Graphic Novel Market
French publisher Morgen made a splash earlier this month with a global book deal for a graphic novel series from creators Ram V, Anand Radhakrishnan, and Evan Cagle, with Image Comics snagging English-language rights. President Sullivan Rouaud says Morgen is just getting started.
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Panel Mania: 'Wake Now in the Fire' by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo
'Wake Now in the Fire' by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo is a fictionalized graphic recreation of the banning of Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir 'Persepolis' from the Chicago School system and the passionate response from students, teachers and librarians in defense of the book. A 13-page excerpt.
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Tramps Like Us: PW Talks With Alice Darrow
In the artist’s graphic novel debut, ‘Tramps of the Apocalypse’ (Dark Horse, Jan.), a trio of extra sexy, super-violent women take on the testosterone-poisoned Lord Quest Ragnor in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
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It’s All Greek: PW Talks with Felicia Day
The actor’s first full-length original graphic novel, ‘The Lost Daughter of Sparta’ (Gallery, Mar.), drawn by Rowan MacColl, imagines an origin story for Philonoe, an obscure heroine from Greek mythology.
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