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After Controversy, 2016 Grand Prix for Comics Goes to Hermann
The Belgian cartoonist won the lifetime achievement award at a festival in France this week. Usually a cause for celebration, the award was shrouded in controversy this year after its lengthy initial list of nominees featured only men.
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15 Righteous Comics About Rock 'N' Roll
Comics are particularly well-suited to capture the audicious image and aura of Rock ’n’ Roll. Here are 15 comics about both real and fictional bands, fans, gigs, and jams.
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Diamond Book Rides Strong 2015 Comics Market
Describing 2015 as the second best year in its history, Diamond Book Distributors reports consumer interest in graphic novels continues to grow driven by demand for such popular series as Saga, Walking Dead, My Little Pony and the first two volumes of March.
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Viz Expands at Walmart, Gets Into Best Buy
The manga publisher and anime distributor has reached an agreement to expand its offerings in Walmart and, for the first time, sell its titles at Best Buy.
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From Publisher to Artist: Drawn and Quarterly Founder Chris Oliveros’s ‘The Envelope Manufacturer’
After 25 years running Drawn and Quarterly, publisher and founder Chris Oliveros retired to write and draw his own graphic novel; 'The Envelope Manufacturer' will be published in January.
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Cartoonists Boycott French Award Over All-Male Nominee List
An all-male list of nominees for the France's Grand Prix d’Angoulême has sparked outrage and a boycott.
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‘The Sculptor’ Tops PW’s 10th Annual Graphic Novel Critics Poll
Scott McCloud's novel about a sculptor grappling with fame, love and mortality topped the PW 10th annual graphic novel critics poll.
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From the Fringes to the Mainstream: Ten Years of Growth In Graphic Novel Publishing
To mark this exciting decade in graphic novel publishing, PW invited seven publishing professionals to reflect on the growth of the last ten years and to peer into the future of graphic novel publishing.
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Publishers Weekly’s Top Comics Stories of 2015
These are the ten most popular stories about graphic novels and comics published on publishersweekly.com in 2015.
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Dark Horse to Publish Graphic Versions of Neil Gaiman Short Stories
The graphic adaptations of 'How to Talk to Girls at Parties,' with art by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon, and 'Troll Bridge,' with art by Colleen Doran, will be released in 2016.
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John Allison Goes to College in ‘Giant Days’
Allison’s new series about young women off to college looks to repeat the success of another Boom! Studios series.
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12 Great Comics On Presidential Politics
With the 2016 U.S. presidential election less than a year away, here are 12 comics about modern presidential (or at least vice-presidential) politics, covering workaday minutia all the way through Machiavellian schemes.
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Philly’s Locust Moon Store Closes; Returns as Comics Press
Philly’s Locust Moon comics store will close but continue its publishing program and its annual comics festival.
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Is Subscription the Future for Digital Comics?
The subscription model is changing how consumers get music, movies and TV shows, and now a number of services are trying the model on digital comics.
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Sales Grow for No Starch Press’ STM ‘Manga Guides’
Produced in the form of Japanese comics, the guides appeal to students and teachers looking for a novel approach to learning science, technology and math.
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iTunes Terms and Conditions: The Graphic Novel
Robert Sikoryak hit a cultural sweet spot when he adapted the complete text of an Apple legal document into a graphic novel.
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Google Play Books Adds New Comics Features
In Google's first upgrade to the comics category in the Google Play Store, the company has added functionality that, among other things, allows readers to use landscape scrolling and to access personal recommendations.
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Jennifer Hayden Tells 'The Story of My Tits'
Jennifer Hayden's graphic memoir, 'The Story of My Tits', is not just a history of surviving breast cancer, it's the story of her life.
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Small Format Comics Make a Splash at Comic Arts Brooklyn
Daniel Clowes didn't finish his new graphic novel in time for Comic Arts Brooklyn, but everyone came away happy any way. The weekend small press show also offered appearances by Jillian Tamaki, Charles Burns, Yumi Sakugawa, Andrea Tsurumi, and Denis Kitchen.