More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
The More to Come crew reunite after nearly a month of travels that included ALA in Philly and trips by Calvin to jury the inaugural BolognaRagazzi Comics Awards in Italy and by Heidi to Brussels and the Angoulême Comics Festival in France.
Surviving Violence: PW Talks with Joel Christian Gill
Gill's graphic memoir is the story of his triumph over a personal history of violence. more...
Spring 2020 Graphic Novels
New works from Derf Backderf, Leslie Stein, Joe Sacco and Adrian Tomine more...
Four Dead in Ohio: Derf Backderf On Kent State
Derf Backderf’s new graphic work, 'Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio', which will be published in April by Abrams ComicArts, is a meticulously researched, emotionally gripping account of the era-defining tragedy of its title. On May 4, 1970 four unarmed college students were shot and killed by the Ohio State National Guard on the campus of Kent State University. more...
Jerry Craft's Newbery Win Was an Unforeseeable Dream
After a long career that includes creating the pioneering syndicated black comics strip 'Mama’s Boyz', illustrating and often self-publishing over thirty books and graphic novels, and cofounding the annual Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, cartoonist Jerry Craft was awarded the 2020 Newbery Medal for his middle grade graphic novel ‘New Kid,’ the first graphic novel to receive the award. more...and more.
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SCAD Comics Forum Shows Students the Biz
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s sequential-art program keeps doing what it’s been doing for more than a quarter century: teaching its students how to break into the graphic novel and comics market.
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Panel Mania: Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada
'Banned Book Club' by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s. In this 11-page excerpt a naive and apolitical Hyun Sook meets the fearless student members of a book club that will eventually transform her life as a student and as a citizen. 'Banned Book Club' will be published this month by Iron Circus Comics.
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Showtime at the Apollo: PW Talks with James Otis Smith
Abrams ComicArts will release a trade paperback edition of Ted Fox's graphic nonfiction work 'Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater,' on February 25. The book's comics artist and designer discusses his role in creating the book.
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Is a New Publisher Called Bad Idea Actually Good For Comics?
Bad Idea is a newly launched comics publisher designed to revive monthly periodical comics and provide economic support to direct market comics shops. Beginning in May the house will publish a limited number of monthly serials by popular artists, sold exclusively via comics shops.
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Panel Mania: Big Black: Stand At Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane
'Big Black: Stand at Attica' by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Ameziane, is the memoir of Frank Smith, a prisoner negotiator during the Attica Prison revolt, and a grim history of one of the bloodiest rebellions in the history American prisons. This is a 15 page excerpt from the book which will be published this month by Archaia.
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Four Dead in Ohio: Derf Backderf On Kent State
Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel 'Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio', which will be published in April by Abrams ComicArts, is a meticulously researched, emotionally gripping account of the era-defining tragedy of its title.
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Surviving Violence: PW Talks with Joel Christian Gill
Joel Christian Gill's new graphic memoir 'Fights: One Boy's Triumph Over Violence' is the story of his arduous triumph over a personal history of violence, bullying and sexual abuse. The book will be published this month by Oni Press.
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Panel Mania: The PLAIN Janes by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg
'The PLAIN Janes' by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg is the story of teenage misfit artist Jane Beckels, who is forced to leave fictional Metro City—a clear stand-in for New York—after a terrorist attack. She bands together with a group of girls (also named Jane) in her new town to create an anonymous guerilla art collective: People Loving Art In Neighborhoods—The PLAIN Janes. This is an 11-page excerpt.
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PW’s Most-Read Comics Stories of 2019
The enormous popularity of Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man graphic novel series, trends in the changing U.S. comics and graphic novel retail landscape, and the growing popularity of manga and anime-influenced Japanese light novels, were among PW’s most-read stories about comics in 2019.
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Boom! Plans ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ Graphic Novel in 2020
Boom! Studios announced plans to publish Kurt Vonnegut’s classic sci-fi/antiwar novel 'Slaughterhouse-Five' as a graphic novel. It will be adapted by the writer Ryan North, artist Albert Monteys, and colorist Ricard Zaplana.
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