More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
From the MTC Archive: an interview from February 2019 with Annie Koyama, beloved and innovative publisher of the award-winning, indie graphic novel house Koyama Press, about her career and her plans to shut down the press by 2021.
Comics vs. Coronavirus: Following Up with Comics Retailers
Comics retailers talk to PW about how the pandemic has forced the shutdown of their businesses. more...
Spring 2020 Graphic Novels
New works from Maximilian Uriate, Leslie Stein, Joe Sacco and Adrian Tomine more...
CCI Plans Virtual Comic-Con @ Home 2020
The traditional San Diego Comic-Con 2020 has been canceled due to the pandemic, but its organizer, Comic-Con International, announced plans for Comic-Con @ Home 2020, an online event that apparently will replace it. Dates and other info are still to come.
BINC, Comicbook United Raise $950K for Comics Retailers
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, in partnership with the newly created Comicbook United Fund, have raised more than $950,000 to be used to support comic shop retailers struggling to survive during the pandemic lockdown. more...and more.
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Comics for a Mobile Generation
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought huge swaths of the publishing industry to a halt, but one channel remains open and thriving: mobile webcomics.
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Panel Mania: Weathering With You Vol. 1 by Makoto Shinkai and Wataru Kubota
'Weathering With You' Vol.1 by Makoto Shinkai with art by Wataru Kobuta is the story of a teenage boy who runs away from his small island home to the big city of Tokyo, where he meets a mysterious young woman who seems to be able to control the weather. This is a 10-page excerpt from the forthcoming manga.
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BINC, Comicbook United Raise $950K for Comics Retailers
The Book Industry Charitable Foundation, in partnership with the newly created Comicbook United Fund, have raised more than $950,000 to be used to support comic shop retailers struggling to survive during the pandemic lockdown.
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Panel Mania: Cuisine Chinoise: Tales of Food and Life by Zao Dao
Chinese cartoonist Zao Dao makes her North American debut with 'Cuisine Chinoise: Tales of Food and Life', a collection of food-themed short stories inspired by Chinese folklore to be published by Dark Horse. In this 11-page excerpt two mysterious and hungry visitors arrive at restaurant desperate for customers.
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Superman Smashes the Klan: Superman and Me by Gene Luen Yang
In this essay-afterword to the graphic novel 'Superman Smashes the Klan' by Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru, Yang uses his childhood love of Superman—and his personal experience of racism—to deliver a history of the Ku Klux Klan, the rise of white supremacy in the U.S., and the role the 1940s Superman radio show played in fighting bigotry.
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Panel Mania: Giant by Mikaël
Set in 1930s depression-era New York City, 'Giant' by Mikaël, follows the story of a massive, laconic Irish immigrant with a deep secret as he works high above Manhattan on the construction site of the new Rockefeller Center. A ten page excerpt.
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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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