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Milestone’s Black Comics Heroes Return in New Series

By Calvin Reid | 02/12/2021 @ 09:00AM

Milestone Media, the African American–owned publisher that created the celebrated Black superhero comics universe, will relaunch its publishing program later this month with the release of newly created original series in digital and print formats.
Panel Mania: Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight In Reconstruction Louisiana

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 02/03/2021 @ 12:00AM

'Monumental: Oscar Dunn and His Radical Fight in Reconstruction Louisiana' by Brian K. Mitchell is a graphic account of the life of Dunn, a New Orleans-born former slave, musician, carpenter, and grandmaster freemason, who rose to become the first African American state lieutenant governor and acting governor in the U.S. A 14-page excerpt.
A New Guide to the Black Comic Book Community

By Calvin Reid | 02/03/2021 @ 12:00AM

'The Access Guide to the Black Comic Book Community 2020-2021', is the first in a series of reference works that will showcase creators of color who released books in 2020 as well as industry institutions and events that spotlight their works.
Liang Launches Pop Culture Consultancy

By Calvin Reid | 02/02/2021 @ 12:00AM

Kuo-Yu Liang, a veteran comics and pop culture professional, has launched Ku Worldwide, a consultancy offering guidance and industry analysis designed to support firms serving the international pop culture market.
Panel Mania: Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale by Tim Fielder

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 01/20/2021 @ 12:00AM

Tim Fielder’s new graphic novel Infinitum: An Afrofuturist Tale is a meta-fictional tale of survival and an epic adventure that celebrates the presence of the Black man and Black woman in genre storytelling from the beginning of time until the end of the universe. A five-page excerpt.
Tapas Sees Big Gains for Digital Comics

By Rob Salkowitz | 01/20/2021 @ 12:00AM

Digital comics delivered via mobile devices are attracting impressive traffic and generating revenue for artists and publishers. Tapas, a small U.S.-based mobile comics startup, reported impressive recent growth, and announced plans to partner with traditional print publishers like Scholastic.
PW’s Most-Read Comics Stories of 2020

By Calvin Reid | 01/19/2021 @ 10:00PM

An Anti-racist graphic novel reading list, the impact of the pandemic on comics retail, the loss of comics conventions and festivals, and the rise in popularity of digital comics for the mobile generation are among the topics covered in PW's most-read comics stories of 2020
DC Comics Leaves Its Legacy Behind

By Rob Salkowitz | 01/06/2021 @ 12:00AM

The world’s #2 superhero comics publisher is undergoing a stress test. After several rounds of layoffs and controversial business decisions, comics fans, comics professionals, and retailers are speculating whether DC will choose to abandon comics publishing or the comics shop market entirely.
Panel Mania: I'm A Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De La Cruz

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 01/06/2021 @ 12:00AM

Sharon Lee De La Cruz’s 'I’m a Wild Seed' is a playfully illustrated graphic memoir that explores her personal experiences accepting life as an intersectional Puerto-Rican/Dominican queer Afro-Latina. This is a ten-page excerpt.
TKO Studios Expands to the Book Trade, Movies

By Calvin Reid | 01/06/2021 @ 12:00AM

TKO Studios, an independent comics publisher based in Los Angeles designed around an unusual business model offering graphic novels and serial comics, is expanding its program into the book trade and TV and film development.
Panel Mania: Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974 by Abbas, Jean-David Morvan and Rafael Ortiz

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 12/16/2020 @ 12:00AM

This unusual graphic book documents the historic 1974 heavyweight title fight between former champ Muhammad Ali, out to regain the title stripped from him for refusing army service, and then-champion George Foreman, held in Zaire (now, the Republic of the Congo) that became known as “The Rumble In the Jungle.” An 8-page excerpt.
A Wave Blue World Debuts New Model for Publishing Comics

By Brigid Alverson | 12/16/2020 @ 12:00AM

A Wave Blue World is an independent comics and graphic novel publisher with an unusual model.
‘Kent State’ On Top of PW’s 2020 Graphic Novel Critics Poll

By PW Staff | 12/16/2020 @ 12:00AM

Released during the 50th anniversary year of the 1970 tragedy, 'Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio' (Abrams ComicArts) by veteran comics journalist Derf Backderf garnered the most votes in PW’s annual Graphic Novel Critic’s Poll.
John Jennings Talks Speculative Fiction and the Debut of Megascope

By Calvin Reid | 12/02/2020 @ 12:00AM

Megascope, a new graphic imprint at Abrams ComicArts under the direction of John Jennings, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, will release its first title, 'After the Rain,' a graphic adaptation of a Nnedi Okorafor short story, in January 2021.
Panel Mania: House of El: Shadow Threat by Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadzki

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 12/02/2020 @ 12:00AM

Set in the years before Krypton’s destruction, 'House of El: Shadow Threat' by Claudia Gray and Eric Zawadzki, probes the social conflicts and class structures of Superman’s home planet as Kryptonians begin to face the dangers threatening the planet. This is a 14-page excerpt from the forthcoming graphic novel.
Panel Mania: Crossroads: I Live Where I Like: A Graphic History By Koni Benson, A.Trantraal, N.Trantraal, and A.E.Marais

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 11/18/2020 @ 11:00AM

‘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.
Panel Mania: The Disney Bros.: The Fabulous Story of Walt and Roy by Alex Nikolavitch and Felix Ruiz

Compiled by Calvin Reid | 11/04/2020 @ 12:00AM

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.
From Baby-Sitters to a Fairy-Tale Kingdom: PW Talks with Katy Farina

By Brigid Alverson | 11/03/2020 @ 05:00PM

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.
A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: PW Talks with Peter Bagge

By Brian Heater | 11/03/2020 @ 04:00PM

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.
2019 North American Comics Sales Rose 11%

By Calvin Reid | 10/30/2020 @ 12:00AM

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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