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  • Will the Diamond Bankruptcy Change the Comics Business Forever?

    Publishers and comics shops continue to scramble to shift to other distributors and brace themselves for lost income following Diamond Comic Distributors’ Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in January. Meanwhile, the entire comics business is asking itself: What now?

  • Panel Mania: ‘The Girl Who Flew Away’ by Lee Dean

    The moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel, about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to make sense of the course of her life in 1970s America, is forthcoming from Iron Circus Comics in March.

  • Comics Classic ‘Billi 99’ Returns to Print After 34 Years

    The 1991 collaboration between Sarah Byam and the late comics artist Tim Sale has been reissued with the help of a crowdfunding campaign and San Diego–based indie publisher Clover Press. PW talked with Byam about returning to ‘Billi 99’ and working with Sale, who died in 2022.

  • Raccoon Hijinks: PW Talks with Alex Krokus

    In his second collection, Loud & Smart & in Color (Silver Sprocket, Feb.), the cartoonist and his signature animal avatar return with a collection that toggles between the absurd and the mundane—this time, in full color.

  • Dark Horse Media Downsizes

    Citing high overhead, changing market conditions, and external economic factors, the company said it was reducing staff as part of its efforts to streamline operations.

  • Cost Cuts Lower Losses at Comics Publisher IDW

    Across the board reductions helped ameliorate the graphic novel publisher's losses in fiscal 2024 by $3.5 million as sales remained basically flat at $26 million.

  • With L.A. Fires Subsiding, the Book Industry Sustains Action

    As Los Angeles first responders brought wildfires under control last week, those in literary circles persevered in delivering mutual aid and contributing to fundraisers.

  • Panel Mania: ‘Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832’ by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert

    This artfully fictionalized graphic history is based on the true story of a groundbreaking educator and a courageous class of Black girls 30 years before the Civil War. A ten-page excerpt.

  • Jules Feiffer—Author, Illustrator, Cartoonist, and More—Dies at 95

    The multitalented cartoonist and writer, known for a caustic wit that earned him an Academy Award, a Pulitzer Prize, and a place in the Comic Book Hall of Fame, died on January 17, just shy of his 96th birthday.

  • Panel Mania: 'Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure' by Matt Madden

    This savvy selection of short experimental comics is based on the concept of self-imposed creative restraints. An 11-page excerpt.

  • Diamond Comic Distributors Files for Bankruptcy

    The future of the comics distribution and graphic novel divisions at the company, which has been a linchpin in the distribution of comics to comics shops since its founding in 1982, is anything but certain. It owes its largest creditor, Penguin Random House, $9.2 million.

  • The Far Corners of This World: PW Talks with Mike Mignola

    The creator of Hellboy returns to comics on January 22 with the debut anthology volume in a series called Lands Unknown, published by a new Dark Horse Comics imprint, Curious Objects. Mignola spoke with PW about folklore, worldbuilding, and more.

  • Five Comics Business Storylines to Watch in 2025

    The coming year seems poised to usher in a turbulent, albeit potentially lucrative, era for many industries, and comics and graphic novel publishing is no different. Here are five storylines to keep an eye on.

  • Comics Arts Los Angeles Is Back in Business

    The independent comics festival, which runs December 14-15 this year, returns live and in-person to the City of Angels for the first time since 2019.

  • The Top 15 Comics Stories of 2024

    Another big year in the comics business saw traditional book publishers continue to increase their investment in the medium as publishers of all shapes and sizes doubled down on manga and webcomics in print.

  • ‘Feeding Ghosts’ and ‘Victory Parade’ Top PW’s 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll

    For the second year in a row, the top spot on our annual graphic novel critics poll is shared by two titles which, while distinctive in style, share remarkably similar themes, delving into the inheritance of trauma across generations and the fraught dynamics of mothers and daughters.

  • Panel Mania: ‘The Last Mermaid: Book 01’ by Derek Kirk Kim

    The cartoonist and filmmaker’s first graphic novel in more than a decade is a dazzling post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic.

  • Penguin Random House to Distribute Boom! Studios Following Acquisition

    Penguin Random House will distribute all titles published by Boom! Studios, which it acquired this August, starting next July, taking over distribution to the bookstore trade from Simon & Schuster and to the direct market from Diamond Comic Distributors.

  • Rebellion Taps into the U.K.’s Long Comics Heritage

    Rebellion Developments began life as a video game production studio, but over the past 25 years, it has become a force in the U.K. publishing industry, developing robust businesses around valuable IPs including Judge Dredd and Rogue Trooper.

  • 10 Must-Read Manga of 2024

    This year, established manga publishers jostled on the shelves with prestige graphic novel publishers, prose publishers venturing into comics, and more. The result was a great year for manga. Here are 10 titles you shouldn’t miss.

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