PW's Best Books 2024: Adult Graphic Novels
PW's Comics editors and reviewers have chosen what they consider to be the five best adult graphic titles of 2024, among them Maurice Vellekoop's graphic memoir 'I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together,' and our children's editors have chosen graphic novels in the middle grade and young adult categories.
A Gastronome’s Guide to Graphic Novels
Food goes graphic, just in time for Thanksgiving menu planning. more...
More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week: Kendra Boileau, publisher of Penn State's Graphic Mundi comics imrpint, talks with Meg about how an academic book series on graphic medicine morphed into a trade imprint publishing global voices; editing nonfiction comics at a scholarly institution; plus key titles and forthcoming releases
Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Fiction, Poetry & Comics
PW's editors have chosen a long list of great books, including graphic novels and graphic nonfiction, suitable for the upcoming holiday season. more...
DC Expands Its Compact Comics Line
DC will expand its DC Compact Comics line, which republishes “bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles” from the comics giant's backlist in a full-color, 5.5” x 8.5” trim size priced at $9.99, next year, adding 15 more titles. more...
Fall 2024 Comics & Graphic Novel Preview
Comics reviews editor Meg Lemke and manga specialist Shaenon K. Garrity scoured hundreds of submissions to select fall’s most notable titles.There’s top 10 and longlist picks in the adult, middle grade, young adult, and manga categories, plus an early reader roundup There’s also a profile of Charles Burns and much more. more...and more.
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DC Launches Vertical-Scroll Webtoon Series, DC GO
DC Comics has launched DC GO, a new collection of vertical-scroll webtoons on its digital subscription service, DC Universe Infinite. The line includes new webtoons featuring DC characters and existing comics reformatted for continuous-scroll reading.
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DC Expands Its Compact Comics Line
DC will expand its DC Compact Comics line, which republishes “bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles” from the comics giant's backlist in a full-color, 5.5” x 8.5” trim size priced at $9.99, next year, adding 15 more titles.
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A Gastronome’s Guide to Graphic Novels
Just in time for Thanksgiving menu planning: a list for the culinarily curious among us looking to crack open a visually stimulating read alongside a cold one at the end of the day.
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Panel Mania: ‘Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It’ by Tara Booth
Tara Booth’s new graphic memoir is an eccentric and colorful psychological self-portrait with dazzling visual impact and an engaging and idiosyncratic sense of humor. A ten-page excerpt.
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‘The Fellini’s 8½ of Comics’: PW Talks with Kevin Eastman, David Avallone, and Ben Bishop
The team behind Drawing Blood, the new graphic novel series from Image Comics, which follows the rapid rise and fall of the cocreator of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles–like superhero team, discusses collaborating, comics history, and more.
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Comics Sales Soften, but Still Surpass Pre-Pandemic Levels
This year's ICv2 Insider Talks found that while comics sales were down 7% from the “Covid peak” of 2022—with manga, once the primary driver for comics growth, seeing the largest drop—they're still holding strong, with 2023 sales up 67% above 2019.
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Comics Still Ruled at New York Comic Con 2024
Despite fewer comics companies exhibiting than ever before, comics still stood out amid an ever more pop culture–focused show, with new players hitting the scene, beloved brands getting a refresh, and newcomers emerging from the wings.
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Marvel Comics Debuts Premier Collection at NYCC's Retailer Day
Marvel Premier Collection, a new line of trade paperbacks aimed at providing an accessible entry point for comics newcomers, will launch in February with classic works by Frank Miller and Ta-Nehesi Coates. The line was announced at the first-ever Retailer Day at this year's New York Comic Con.
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A Look Inside the Global Webcomics Business
Kim Hyung Joo, head of webtoons at leading digital publishing platform Munpia, discusses the growth of the billion-dollar Korean webcomic business.
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Bobby Curnow Joins IDW as Editor-in-Chief
Curnow has returned to IDW to replace Jamie S. Rich, who left the company last year in a stream of departures and layoffs during a turbulent period for the comics publisher. Andy Khouri will also join IDW as senior editor, leading the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics line.
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