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Panel Mania: Lifetime Passes by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 11/03/2021 @ 12:00AM

Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre’s new graphic novel 'Lifetime Passes' introduces the reader to 16 year-old Jackie Chavez, a teen wrestling with a tough family situation—her parents have been deported—and her friends, a collection of mostly bad apples looking out only for themselves. A seven-page excerpt.
Image Comics Staff Launches Effort to Unionize

By Calvin Reid | 11/02/2021 @ 11:00AM

In an unprecedented effort at labor organizing in the comics industry, a group of 10 staffers at Image Comics, a major independent comics publisher, have announced plans to launch a union.
Crowdfunding a Publishing House: PW Talks with Spike Trotman

By Rob Salkowitz | 10/20/2021 @ 12:00AM

Spike Trotman, comics creator, writer, and founder of Iron Circus Comics, has led the way in using crowdfunding as part of a scalable publishing business model that can support unique titles within the comics shop and trade book markets.
Panel Mania: Weeaboo by Alissa Sallah

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 10/20/2021 @ 12:00AM

Alissa Sallah’s debut graphic novel 'Weeaboo'—a term that refers to a non-Japanese person who is obsessed with Japanese culture—is an engaging portrait of three high school friends about to graduate and struggling with the full-range of familiar teen academic, social, and personal challenges. A 10-page excerpt.
V.E. Schwab’s New Graphic Novel Returns to her Villains Series

By Brigid Alverson | 10/20/2021 @ 12:00AM

PW talks with acclaimed fantasy author V.E. Schwab about her new graphic novel 'ExtraOrdinary,' and returning to her epic Villains prose series.
Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2021

By PW Staff | 10/19/2021 @ 12:00AM

After a year’s hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New York Comic Con returned to New York City's Javits Convention October 7-10, and welcomed back thousands of fans to the newly expanded convention center.
Back in Business: 150,000 Attend New York Comic Con 2021

By Calvin Reid | 10/12/2021 @ 12:00AM

New York Comic Con returned to the Javits Convention October 7-10, welcoming back tens of thousands of fans to the newly expanded convention center.
Panel Mania: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 10/06/2021 @ 12:00AM

Originally published in 2010, Arsenal Pulp will publish a new edition of 'The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded,' written and drawn by Gord Hill, who has added nearly 60 pages of new material. This seven-page excerpt is the story of the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 77-day armed standoff in the Mohawk territories of the Kahnawake and Kanesatake near Montreal.
Chu, Illidge, Noles Join the CBLDF Board

By Calvin Reid | 10/06/2021 @ 12:00AM

The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has added comics writer Amy Chu, editor Joseph Illidge, and fan fixture Pam Noles to its board of directors.
Welcome to the Crisis Zone: PW Talks with Simon Hanselmann

By Brian Heater | 09/15/2021 @ 12:00AM

First published as an Instagram webcomic, Simon Hanselmann's 'Crisis Zone', has been collected into a nearly 300-page graphic novel out now from Fantagraphics. The book won the 2021 Eisner award for webcomics.
Education Pros Return to NYCC

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/10/2021 @ 07:00PM

At least one tradition is coming back intact to this year’s New York Comic Con: NYCC Professional Day will be held on Thursday, October 7.
New York Comic Con Is Back

By Heidi MacDonald | 09/10/2021 @ 07:00PM

The pop culture show will return to the Javits Center in a scaled-down form in October.
New Universes for Young Readers: Close-up on Wonderbound

| 09/07/2021 @ 12:00AM

The new comics and graphic novels imprint from Vault Comics aims to deliver fantasy, sci-fi, and horror stories to middle grade and tween readers. (Sponsored)
Panel Mania: Discipline by Dash Shaw

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 09/01/2021 @ 12:00AM

Told through letters exchanged between two young Quaker siblings in 1863, Dash Shaw’s new graphic novel portrays the dilemma facing a devotely pacifist Quaker family when their teenage son leaves and enlists in the Union Army against his family’s wishes and moral precepts. A seven-page excerpt.
New DC Comics Are Coming to Webtoon

By Calvin Reid | 08/18/2021 @ 09:00AM

Mobile comics platform Webtoon is teaming up with DC to produce digital comics series set in the DC superhero universe.
Panel Mania: Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings 1980-2020 by Jaime Hernandez

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 08/18/2021 @ 12:00AM

Jaime Hernandez's 'Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings' is a tribute to classic women’s wrestling. It’s a collection of retro-inspired illustrations of fictional female wrestlers from the 1960s-1970s era, depicted in imaginary wrestling magazines from the period. A five-page excerpt.
Lutkus Named President of Diamond Book Distributors

By Calvin Reid | 08/10/2021 @ 12:00AM

Diamond Book Distributors, the trade book distribution division of Diamond Comic Distributors, has named Tony Lutkus as its new president, effective August 16.
Tabletop Game Makers Crowdfund New Projects

By Nicole Audrey Spector | 08/06/2021 @ 07:00PM

Tabletop game makers embrace crowdfunding to launch new projects.
Panel Mania: RUN: Book One by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin with art by L. Fury and Nate Powell

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 08/04/2021 @ 12:00AM

A sequel to the late John Lewis' acclaimed March trilogy, 'RUN' invokes a new phase in the movement’s struggle against Jim Crow segregation, and for Black voting rights, and depicts new challenges to the Civil Rights movement and to young Lewis’s leadership of SNCC. An eight-page excerpt.
Korean Comics Gain Popularity in North America

By Brigid Alverson | 08/04/2021 @ 12:00AM

Manhwa—the Korean term for comics—released by such publishers as Drawn & Quarterly, Iron Circus Comics, and Yen Press are attracting new fans, receiving literary awards, and raising the profile of Korean comics in English in North America.

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