PW's Best Books 2024: Adult Graphic Novels
PW's Comics editors and reviewers have chosen what they consider to be the five best adult graphic titles of 2024, among them Sole Otero's graphic novel 'Mothballs,' and our children's editors have chosen graphic novels in the middle grade and young adult categories.
Webcomics Fans Turn Book Buyers
Publishers continue to scour webcomics for tales and talent, finding that fans of online content buy books as mementos. more...
More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week: the winners (there’s a tie) of the 2024 PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll; plus the Year In Review featuring a look back at the rise of book bans, Artificial Intelligence in comics, sales of graphic novels and periodicals, new ventures and expansions, distribution and retailing, webcomics, lawsuits, conventions, and in memoriam.
‘Feeding Ghosts’ and ‘Victory Parade’ Top PW’s 2024 Graphic Novel Critics Poll
For the second year in a row, the top spot on PW’s annual graphic novel critics poll is shared by two titles: The debut graphic memoir 'Feeding Ghosts' by Tessa Hulls (MCD) and the graphic novel 'Victory Parade' by Leela Corman (Schocken). These powerful works, while distinctive in style, are remarkably similar in theme, with both delving into the inheritance of trauma across generations. more...
The Top 15 Comics Stories of 2024
We rounded up 10 of the most important and most read stories on the comics and graphic novel space we published this year, from big news to deep dives into how the sausage is made. more...
Comics Arts Los Angeles Is Back in Business
Comics Arts Los Angeles (CALA), a free local festival dedicated to promoting comics to the greater Los Angeles community, returns to the city on December 14 and 15 for the first time in five years. The event began in 2014 as a one-day show before expanding into its current form as a two-day affair. more...and more.
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‘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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Panel Mania: ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology,’ Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke
Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke, ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology’ uses the broad theme of sound as a platform to showcase an appealing and diverse group of South Asian comics creators. An 11-page excerpt.
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DC Launches Vertical-Scroll Webtoon Series, DC GO
DC Comics has launched DC GO, a new collection of vertical-scroll webtoons on its digital subscription service, DC Universe Infinite. The line includes new webtoons featuring DC characters and existing comics reformatted for continuous-scroll reading.
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DC Expands Its Compact Comics Line
DC will expand its DC Compact Comics line, which republishes “bestselling, new-reader-friendly titles” from the comics giant's backlist in a full-color, 5.5” x 8.5” trim size priced at $9.99, next year, adding 15 more titles.
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