More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week disturbing news of more layoffs at DC Comics, and retailer Brian Hibbs’ grim outlook on DC’s future in the direct market; plus the release of ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ on HBO Max in December; and the launch of Webtoon Studios.
From Baby-Sitters to a Fairy-Tale Kingdom: PW Talks with Katy Farina
PW Talks with Katy Farina about her new graphic novel. more...
An Anti-Racist Graphic Novel Reading List
PW has compiled a list of graphic works on African American life and history. more...
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: PW Talks with Peter Bagge
This month cartoonist Peter Bagge returns to his indie comics roots and to Buddy Bradley, one of his most enduring characters, when Fantagraphics publishes 'The Complete Hate', a three-volume collection of Bagge’s fictional chronicle of the gruff, politically incorrect, heading nowhere fast, New Jersey slacker. more...
Best Books 2020: Adult Graphic Novels
PW's comics editors have chosen the five graphic works that they consider to be among the best adult graphic books of the year. Among the books chosen is Jim Terry's powerful graphic memoir 'Come Home, Indio.' In addition, PW's children and young adult editors have also chosen five graphic novels for middle grade and YA readers.and more.
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Panel Mania: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History By Koni Benson, A.Trantraal, N.Trantraal, and A.E.Marais
‘Crossroads: I live where I Like: A Graphic History’ is a thoroughly researched, stylishly illustrated graphic history of the courageous South African women who fought the apartheid government’s destruction of informal housing settlements such as Crossroads in 1970s Cape Town. In this 8-page excerpt the women of Crossroads stage a play about defending their homes from government demolition.
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Panel Mania: The Disney Bros.: The Fabulous Story of Walt and Roy by Alex Nikolavitch and Felix Ruiz
Alex Nikolavitch and Felix Ruiz’s ‘The Disney Bros.: The Fabulous Story of Walt and Roy’ is a probing portrait of the creative genius of Walt Disney and the role his brother Roy played in managing the money and restraining Walt’s worse tendencies. In this 11-page excerpt, Walt and Roy face a strike by Disney Studios.
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From Baby-Sitters to a Fairy-Tale Kingdom: PW Talks with Katy Farina
After adapting the first two novels in Ann Martin's Baby-Sitters Littlle Sister series into graphic novels, cartoonist Katy Farina has just released 'Song of the Court,' her own original graphic novel.
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A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: PW Talks with Peter Bagge
This month, cartoonist Peter Bagge returns to his indie comics roots and to Buddy Bradley, one of his most enduring characters, when Fantagraphics publishes 'The Complete Hate', a three-volume collection of Bagge’s fictional chronicle of the gruff, heading nowhere fast 1990s slacker.
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2019 North American Comics Sales Rose 11%
Combined sales of graphic novels and comics periodicals reached $1.21 billion in North America in 2019, a new record, according to a joint estimate by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron.
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Panel Mania: Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 1: Dune by Frank Herbert
'Dune', Frank Herbert’s 1965 global bestseller and landmark epic science-fiction novel, has been adapted into a graphic novel. In this nine-page excerpt, the novel’s key character Paul Atreides and his family members prepare to travel to, and take control of, the planet Arrakis, the only source of “The Spice,” a rare and valuable substance that extends life and human capabilities.
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Post-Pandemic Comics: IDW’s New Publisher Looks Ahead
PW talks with newly appointed executives, IDW publisher Nachie Marsham and IDW v-p of sales Blake Kobashigawa, about adapting to a comics and graphic novel marketplace that has been reshaped by the pandemic.
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PSU Press Launches Graphic Mundi Imprint
Penn State University Press will launch Graphic Mundi, a new nonfiction graphic imprint, in spring 2021. The new imprint will build on the press’s Graphic Medicine series and expand beyond healthcare into social justice, the environment, and human rights.
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Panel Mania: Naturalist: A Graphic Adaptation by Edward O. Wilson, adapted by Jim Ottaviani and C.M. Butzer
Science-comics writer Jim Ottaviani and artist C.M. Butzer team with the celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson to turn 'Naturalist', his 1994 memoir, into an equally delightful and engrossing graphic work. In this 13-page excerpt Wilson, in love and recently engaged, nevertheless heads to New Guinea in 1954 to study his specialty, ants, alone and without high tech devices.
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DC to Launch DC Universe Infinite Comics Subscription Service
DC Comics announced that DC Universe, a video on demand streaming service offering DC films, TV shows, comics, and online community, will be transformed into a digital comics subscription service in January 2021.
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