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'Comics Will Break Your Heart': PW Talks with Faith Erin Hicks
We spoke with Eisner Award-winning comics artist Faith Erin Hicks about her first YA prose novel, 'Comics Will Break Your Heart,' which is named after a quote by legendary superhero artist Jack Kirby.
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Comics Is a Market in Transition
Retailers are struggling to adapt to changes among comics consumers and publishers.
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Panel Mania: A Fire Story by Brian Fies
'A Fire Story' is an unflinching work of graphic nonfiction detailing the experiences of cartoonist Brian Fies, his family and their neighbors just before and in the aftermath of a devastating Northern California wildfire that destroyed their homes and all their possessions in late 2017. 'A Fire Story' will be published by Abrams ComicArts in March.
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The Fanatic Is Coming
The Fanatic, a new biweekly newsletter offering a curated selection of PW's coverage of graphic novels and pop culture, will launch this Wednesday. The Fanatic will run on the first and the third Wednesday of each month.
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Trotman’s Iron Circus Celebrates ‘Strange and Amazing’ Comics
Founded by cartoonist/publisher and crowdfunding diva SpikeTrotman to self-publish her early graphic novels, Iron Circus Comics has grown into a full-service queer-friendly small press specializing in publishing original comics works by an impressive range of young artists.
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Z2 Comics Finds Niche in Graphic Novels and Music
In 2017, the small indie graphic novel house based in New York published a graphic novel about a down-and-out music producer that included a soundtrack. Since then, the publisher has released a series of graphic novels based on music and the bands that produce it.
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Denpa Books Debuts with Eclectic Indie Manga List
Denpa Books, a new indie manga publisher specializing in an eclectic list of titles for grown-up readers, debuted at AnimeNYC in late 2018, and has announced several new titles coming in 2019.
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PW’s Most-Read Comics Stories of 2018
The announcement of the final year of Check, Please!, Ngozi Ukazu’s LGBTQ hockey webcomic and graphic novel, PW’s annual comics retailers survey, and Abrams ComicArts’ cancellation of a controversial graphic novel were among PW’s most-read comics stories in 2018.
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Kupperman’s ‘All The Answers’ Wins PW’s Annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll
Michael Kupperman’s poignant family memoir 'All The Answers' (Gallery 13) has won PW’s 2018 Graphic Novel Critics Poll.
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Chris Ryall Returns to IDW Publishing
Ryall, who left IDW earlier this year, has been named president, publisher, and chief creative officer of the comics and graphic novel publisher. Former IDW president and publisher Greg Goldstein is stepping down.
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Stan Lee’s Enduring Legacy At Marvel Comics
The outpouring of tributes to the late, great comics writer, editor, and former chairman of Marvel Comics was a fitting coda to a long and influential career. And his passing is felt most intensely at the publishing house he led.
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Layoffs at Lion Forge
St. Louis independent graphic novel publisher Lion Forge has announced a restructuring of the company that includes eliminating 12 positions.
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Abrams Cancels Controversial 'Suicide Bomber' Graphic Novel
Abrams will cancel the planned May 2019 publication of a graphic novel on its ComicsArts list, 'A Suicide Bomber Sits in the Library,' following criticism on social media and elsewhere.
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Anime NYC 2018 Attracts 36,000 Fans to Javits Center
More than 36,000 fans attended Anime NYC 2018, an annual convention focused on anime, manga and Asian pop culture held at the Javits Convention Center, launched last year by Leftfield Media.
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Photo Mania: Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018
Comic Arts Brooklyn, the annual Brookyn indie and self-published comics and graphic novel festival, returned the campus of Pratt Institute with a new schedule (this year's show is on a Sunday), and a boost in the number of exhibitors. PW was on hand to bring back images of artists and fans at this year's show.
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Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018 Returns to Pratt Campus
Comic Arts Brooklyn 2018 returned to the Pratt Institute campus with a lineup of indie and self-published cartoonists that included such artists as Julie Doucette, Hartley Lin, Jane Mai, Al Columbia, Olivier Schrauwen, Ariel Schrag, and Mark Newgarden.
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Ayuyang Talks Disco, Growing Up Filipino In the 1970’s
PW talks with Rina Ayuyang, an artist and the publisher of Yam Books, about her new graphic memoir, 'Blame This on the Boogie,' a look back at her love of musicals, disco and growing in an immigrant Filipino family in the 1970s.
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Chinese Investment Firm Takes Stake in Dark Horse
A major investment stake from Chinese media firm Vanguard Visionary Associates will be used to fund publishing projects at Dark Horse in addition to creating a development fund for film projects based on Dark Horse comics properties
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Selling Graphic Novels In a Changing American Marketplace
Over the last five years, the North American graphic novel market has welcomed a wave of new readers. At NYCC 2018, a group of comics professionals focused on identifying some of the consumer and cultural trends driving this growth.
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The Lumberjanes’ First Original Graphic Novel Debuts
'The Infernal Compass' by Lilah Sturges and polterink, is the first original graphic novel in Boom! Studios' popular Lumberjanes series and focuses on the budding queer romance between campers Molly and Mal.