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  • Sex, Costumes and Videotape: The Comics of Koren Shadmi

    Moody, thoughtful and rich in emotion and nuance, Koren Shadmi's comics combine gripping, surreal imagery with narrative scenarios that chronicle the vivid, alluring power of sex and the frustration and comedy of quirky relationships

  • Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010

    Reed Exhibitions plans to launch a new comics and pop culture convention, in April of 2010 at the McCormick Place convention facility in downtown Chicago and plans to move the New York Comic-con permanently to the fall in 2010.

  • Comics Briefly

    Reed Launches New Chicago Con; Moves NYCC to Fall 2010; Blutch Wins Angoulême Grand Prix; CBLDR at NYCC ; PWCW Editors at NYCC ; Way Hosts Fresh Ink Online; Whedon’s Dollhouse at NYCC; British Porn Laws Target Comics; MySpace Comics Layoffs; Graphic Novel Buyers Survey; Jerry Craft Children's Book; Murder of Abraham Lincoln Reprint ; and Unlovable Book Launch; Exhibition

  • February Comics Bestsellers

    The Last Straw, the newest volume in Jeff Kinney's Wimpy Kid Series takes the #1 spot followed by Naruto at #2 and the Azzarello/Bermejo Joker at #3

  • Funnies Business: The 2008 Retailers Survey

    Our columnist surveys comics specialty retailers on their sell-through on both periodicals and graphic novels.

  • First Second To Publish Scott McCloud

    First Second Books announced plans to publish two new books by acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud.

  • Why Hollywood Loves the Comics

    PWCW talks to film agent Scott Agostoni, director of the William Morris Agency's comics division, about the ongoing love affair between Hollywood and comics.

  • Jeff Smith’s Bone Saga Ends—Again

    Graphix, the Scholastic division focused on comics and graphic novels for children, released the ninth and final color volume of Jeff Smith’s epic fantasy adventure series Bone this month.

  • What a Girl Wants Is Often a Comic

    Jane Yolen to Publish Graphic Novel with Dark Horse as Publishers Weigh the Teen Girl Market for American Comics

  • Comics Briefly

  • The Best Comics You'll (Probably) Never Read

    Sam Thielman looks back at some of the great unfinished comcis projects of the past 30 years.

  • Layoffs at Diamond, DC Comics, Top Cow

    Several comics and graphic novel companies announced layoffs and cutbacks, among them Diamond Comics Distributors, DC Comics and California comics publisher Top Cow.

  • Graphic Sales Grow at Denver’s Tattered Cover

    Graphic novel sales at independent Denver bookseller the Tattered Cover's three stores are bigger than both Romance and philosophy sales.

  • Life in Comics# 11: What Women Want

    Do women need superheroes as role mdels? Should they? Our columnist looks at the debate currently raging.

  • Grant Morrison, Final Crisis, and the Superhero Genre

    In part 2 of an interview with acclaimed superhero comics writer Grant Morrison, PWCW talks about Morrison’s work on DC’s Final Crisis series, a new Batman series in the spring and new work to be published by Vertigo.

  • Living and Drawing in the Subway

    Youme Landowne, a white female artist, met Anthony Horton, a black homeless artist, on a subway platform and the result is Pitch Black, a childrens graphic novel.

  • Comics Briefly - 1/21/09

    Diamond Raises Order Minimums; Kyle Baker Comic Free Online; Golden Apple Comics Owner Interviewed; Satrapi and Ware Onstage; and Brevoort hosts "Take My Trade!"

  • NYCC Weathers Economic Storm

    Now in its fourth year, New York Comic-Con, scheduled for February 6—8, stands as the second biggest comics/pop culture expo in the U.S. and the fourth largest event in New York City (following the International Auto Show, the International Orchid Show and the New York City Marathon). This year's Comic-Con brings together a high-powered mix of cartoonists, publishers, movie companies, vi...

  • Metropolitan Books Publishes Waltz with Bashir—the Graphic Novel

    Metropolitan Books will publish a full-color graphic novel adaptation of Israeli director Ari Folman’s much acclaimed animated documentary, Waltz with Bashir, in February.

  • Grant Morrison, Batman and the Superhero Genre

    For more than 20 Years, the Scotish comics writer Grant Morrison has been regarded as one of the most original and inventive writers in the comics medium.

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