More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week Heidi talks with Mark Doyle, editorial director of Originals at IDW, about the upcoming launch of nine new titles and discusses what it's like to start a line from scratch and more about the secrets of editing comics.
How Comics Got to Now
A combination of factors helped comics establish a strong foothold in the book trade. more...
A Graphic Novel/Comics Timeline, 1997–2022
Notable moments in the evolution of comics and graphic novels. more...
Comics Retail Rebuilds, and Restocks
At the beginning of 2021, the comics retail sector was surrounded by uncertainty. Now, on the second anniversary of global shutdowns due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the market has shifted tremendously yet again. By the look of 2021 sales figures in both the direct market and the book market, comics and graphic novels came back in a major way. more...
Manga Is Booming
Words like “explosive growth” and “unprecedented” are now commonly used to describe sales in the current manga marketplace. But supply chain problems—including limited printer capacity, and paper shortages—are creating headaches for publishers big and small. more...and more.
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Comics Retail Rebuilds, and Restocks
Booksellers discuss comics’ resurgence in 2021—and how strong sales were hindered by supply chain issues.
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Panel Mania: The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere. by James Spooner
Filmmaker and comics artist James Spooner revisits his Afropunk teen years in his new graphic memoir 'The High Desert. Black. Punk. Nowhere,' to be published in May by Harper. A ten-page excerpt.
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Rich Johnson Joins Diamond Book Distributors
Comics and graphic novel publishing executive Rich Johnson has been named v-p, sales and business development at Diamond Book Distributors, the book trade division of Diamond Comics Distributors.
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Panel Mania: Yellow Cab by Benoît Cohen and Christophe Chabouté
In Benoit Cohen and Christophe Chabouté’s new graphic novel 'Yellow Cab', Cohen decides to become a New York City cab driver, and we follow the long bureaucratic journey required to get a taxi license, and Cohen’s plunge into the wildly diverse experience of driving a taxi cab in New York City. An 11-page excerpt.
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How Comics Got to Now
A combination of factors helped comics and graphic novels establish a strong foothold in the book trade, writes ‘PW’ senior news editor and resident comics maestro Calvin Reid.
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A Graphic Novel/Comics Timeline, 1997–2022
A timeline of notable moments in the evolution of comics and graphic novels.
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New Graphic Novel, Comics Initiatives at Charlamagne Tha God's S&S Imprint
Media entrepreneur and popular radio host Charlamagne Tha God's S&S imprint, Black Privilege Publishing, will develop new lines of graphic novels and, in partnership with AWA Studios, new comic book series as well.
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Panel Mania: The Junction by Norm Konyu
Norm Konyu’s unsettling new graphic novel 'The Junction' is the story of Lucas Jones, an 11 year-old who one day disappears along with his father, only to return 12 years later—seemingly unchanged and still 11 years-old—without the father, who remains missing. A 10-page excerpt.
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MoCCA Art Fest Returns to New Venue, Big Crowds
The MoCCA Art Fest, an indie comics and graphic novel festival held April 2-3, returned after a two year hiatus due to the pandemic, attracting nearly 6,000 fans to a new venue in Manhattan.
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Panel Mania: The Winds of Numa Sera by Morgan Rosenblum and Jonny Handler
'The Winds of Numa Sera', by Morgan Rosenblum and Jonny Handler, is an ambitious and luxuriously illustrated fantasy graphic novel of epic proportions. It's the story of an empire and its sovereignty over a vast and restless assemblage of conquered lands, an empire vulnerable to foreign enemies and to conspiracies within the royal court. A 10-page excerpt.
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