More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week Heidi talks with Dan Gearino, author of 'Comic Shop: The Retail Mavericks Who Gave Us a New Geek Culture,' a history of the direct sales market and survey of contemporary comics shops and comics retail.
Miami Book Fair 2017: Books Bewitched by Witchcraft
Molly Ostertag’s fantasy graphic novel, 'Witch Boy', is the story of a boy who wants to be a witch. more...
Comics Shops vs Bookstores in the Race to Sell Graphic Novels
A new wave of comics fans look for new comics and new places to buy them., more...
Spinning from Ice to Love: 'PW' Talks with Tillie Walden
Tillie Walden’s new graphic memoir, 'Spinning', recounts her 12 years as a competitive figure skater, as well as her decision (and the emotional process it required) to reveal that she is gay. After retiring from competitive skating, she attended the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, Vermont and she’s swiftly become a prolific and award-winning cartoonist. more...
Ulli Lust On Visualizing the Third Reich
Austrian cartoonist Ulli Lust burst onto the U.S. comics scene in 2013 with her acclaimed graphic memoir, 'Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life', a PW Best Book of 2013. She’s back with a new graphic novel, ‘Voices in the Dark’, an adaptation of Marcel Beyer’s 1995 novel ‘The Karnau Tapes’, which is focused on the family of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s notorious minister of propaganda. more...and more.
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Comics Shops Fight Bookstores In the Race to Sell Graphic Novels
At a time when American comics and graphic novels have never been more popular, the way these works are purchased is being transformed by a new wave of consumers.
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NYCC 2017: Manga Sales Continue to Rise
U.S. manga sales continue to grow thanks to the popularity of such series as Pokeman, Legend of Zelda, Fairy Tail, My Hero Academia and others.
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New York Comic Con 2017: All Our Coverage
Publishers Weekly has all the news about and from New York Comic Con 2017—including daily updates, podcasts and more. We have exclusive interviews, photos and all the rest of the action from the beginning of the show until the end, all collected right here.
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NYCC 2017 Kids' Comics: Don’t Throw Out That Spinner Rack!
This year’s slate of New York Comic Con announcements included both graphic novels and periodical comics aimed at children and teens.
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New York Comic Con 2017 Sells Record 200,000 Tickets
New York Comic Con attracted a record crowd of 200,000 to the Javits Convention Center and a variety of venues around New York City, including the New York Public Library, for a week of presentations and events celebrating comics, graphic novels and a wide range of popular culture.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2017
New York Comic Con 2017, held October 5-8 at the Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, attracted a record number of attendees. Publishers Weekly was on hand to bring back images of the artists, publishers and fans attending the annual celebration of comics, graphic novels and popular culture.
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NYCC 2017: As Graphic Novels Grow In Trade, Comics Shops Struggle
At this year's New York Comic Con, ICv2 presented its annual findings on the graphic novel marketplace, which see book format comics growing but periodical sales declining.
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Jane Eyre Moves to Brooklyn in Boom’s Graphic Novel Adaptation
Screenwriter and 'Crazy Ex-girlfriend' executive producer Aline Brosh McKenna has adapted Charlotte Brontë's classic as a contemporary graphic novel.
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Politics Take Center Stage at the Small Press Expo 2017
This year's Small Press Expo served as a platform for the indie comics community to respond to issues of politics, race, and gender; celebrate Annie Koyama and 10 years of Koyama Press, and hail the works of newcomers Emil Ferris and Tillie Walden.
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Humanoids Adds Graphic Novel Lines for Kids and Adults
European graphic novel publisher Humanoids is adding Humanoids Kids, a new line of graphic novels for children and young adults, and Slice of Life, a new line of books focused on a variety of material aimed at older readers.
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