Time Bomb Debuts Explosive New Imprints
Two new imprints projected to double the U.K. comics mainstay’s annual trade paperback output, more...New Distribution Collective for Indie Comics Creators
A new comics distribution collective aims to lower the barrier to entry to the comics market for indie creators. more...More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week on More to Come: Calvin interviews Sue Jeong Ka, a conceptual visual artist and activist, about 'Explicit!!!, a exhibition of work challenging book censorship in the prison system, social erasure, and gendered surveillance. Her work has a special focus on the suppression of manga in the prisons and in public schools.Drawing Up Community for Comics in Libraries
Comics librarians partner with nonprofits and retailers to support patrons and artists in this challenging era. Libraries are an active hub within the community, a safe place and common ground for people to come together, says Guy A. Sims of the Free Library of Philadelphia. A key force in this shift is graphic novels. more...The U.K.’s Graphic Novel Boom Comes Stateside
Since the late 1980s, creators from the U.K. have played a major role in shaping the American comics industry. And today, British publishers of comics and graphic novels are making a bigger splash than ever in the U.S. market, racking up levels of critical acclaim and commercial success. more...Summer Reads: Adult Graphic Novels
Our editors picked a list of four cool graphic novels that will help you make it through the hot summer season to come, among them, Alison Bechdel's hilarious new graphic novel 'Spent.' Check out all of them.and more.
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Panel Mania: ‘Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business’ by Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter
This stylishly reimagined crime melodrama brings Chandler’s hardboiled private eye Philip Marlowe and his 1940s Los Angeles demimonde vividly to life. An11-page excerpt.
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New Distribution Collective Promises Oasis for Indie Comics Creators
Power Pulp bills itself as an innovative, author-led organization aiming to lower the barrier to entry to the comics and graphic novel market for indie creators.
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Time Bomb Debuts Two Explosive New Imprints
In a move projected to double the U.K. comics mainstay’s annual trade paperback output, Time Bomb has announced that codirectors Steve Tanner and David West will each launch his own imprint.
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Drawing Up Community for Comics in Libraries
Comics librarians are partnering with nonprofits and retailers to support patrons and artists in this challenging era.
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The First ‘TCAF on Ice’ Was a Beauty
The 2025 Toronto Comic Arts Festival mounted its biggest weekend since before the pandemic, overcoming logistical and geopolitical uncertainty to draw an estimated 28,000 attendees June 6–8 to the former home of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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Panel Mania: ‘Everyone Sux But You’ by K. Wroten
The acclaimed cartoonist’s latest graphic novel offers a layered portrait of two queer teenage girls as they juggle the complexities around romantic attraction, grief, and going to school in a small town. A 14-page excerpt.
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Struggling Together: PW Talks with Mike Curato
We spoke with the author of one of the most banned books in the country about his adult graphic novel debut, Gaysians, developing multiethnic characters, the freedom of writing without the burden of self-censorship, and more.
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Panel Mania: ‘Spent: A Comic Novel’ by Alison Bechdel
The latest from one of America’s most beloved cartoonists is both a very funny fictionalized graphic memoir and a lively critique of consumer capitalism. A seven-page excerpt.
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Misery Loves Comics in Graphic Nonfiction About Grief
A slate of upcoming comics and graphic memoirs offer solace to readers going through loss and mental health struggles.
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Comics That Call Readers to Action
Here are six forthcoming comics and works of graphic nonfiction that rally readers to take a political stand.
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