More To Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week: Remembering Trina Robbins (1938-2024) and Mark Bright (1955-2024); Webtoon contract issues; turmoil at IDW; PW's Summer Reads; and a comic tops the banned books list.
Comics Shops' Favorite Handsells
Retailers share their favorite comics and graphic novel handsells. more...
Spring 2024 Graphic Novel Preview
Our third standalone graphic novels seasonal preview offers top 10 and longlist picks and much more. more...
Summer Reads: Adult Graphic Novels
Summer can’t come soon enough. Our comics reviews editors have combed through a mountain of forthcoming titles and chosen four books you’ll want to take along on vacation or stack next a cool drink in the back yard or at the local park. Among them: Noah Van Sciver’s autobiographical graphic novel ‘Maple Terrace.’
MoCCA 2024 Makes a Splash
The MoCCA Arts Fest 2024, an annual indie comics and graphic novels festival, was held this year on March 16-17, returning to the Metropolitan Pavilion on West 18th Street in Manhattan. This was the first show officially under the oversight of Arabelle Liepold, who last summer was appointed executive director of the Society of Illustrators, which organizes the annual event. The show featured extensive programming packed with such notable comics creators as Anita Kunz, Nate Powell, Jillian Tamaki, and Adrian Tomine, shown in this photo at the D&Q table with marketing manager Julia Pohl-Miranda. more...and more.
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Sales Dropped at Comics Shops in 2023, ComicsPRO Survey Finds
Sales fell at 69% of responding retailers in 2023 compared with 2022, with sales of new comics periodicals down at 73% of responding comic shops and graphic novel sales down at 65%.
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Panel Mania: 'Advocate' by Eddie Ahn
Eddie Ahn’s 'Advocate: A Graphic Memoir of Family, Community, and the Fight for Environmental Justice' is a thoughtful addition to the literature of immigration. A seven-page excerpt.
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Panel Mania: 'Fall Through' by Nate Powell
Nate Powell’s new graphic novel 'Fall Through' is a moving tribute to the musical power and community of 1990s punk rock. A nine-page excerpt.
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MoCCA 2024 Makes a Splash
This year's MoCCA Arts Fest, an annual indie comics and graphic novel festival held March 16-17, drew large and enthusiastic crowds to New York City's Metropolitan Pavilion.
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Panel Mania: 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' by Sam Nakahira
Sam Nakahira’s 'Ruth Asawa: An Artist Takes Shape' is a diligent and charmingly illustrated graphic biography chronicling the life and creative career of the celebrated Japanese American sculptor. A 10-page excerpt.
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Should Comics Keep It Direct?
Whatever the future holds, local comic shops thrive when they deliver what few bookstores can: a “third place” for fans.
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Comics Shop Retailers Share Their Favorite Handsells
Here’s what retailers across the country told us about the comics and graphic novels they’re handselling this spring.
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Six Signs You’re in a Comics Shop
Wonder where you’ve wandered into—and why there’s a looming statue of an Ewok? How are comics shops different from general bookstores? If you’re asking that question, you definitely haven’t browsed a comics shop before. Here are six hallmarks that set the specialty retailer apart.
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Show Me the Data: PW Talks with Katie Pryde
The owner of Portland, Ore.–based comics shop Books with Pictures is leading an industry-wide effort to improve the quality of comics metadata.
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The Boom in Middle Grade Novels Turned Comics
As the middle grade graphic novel category has grown in recent years, the number of graphic adaptations of middle grade books has exploded.
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