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Panel Mania: Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich
Elizabeth Pich’s new graphic novel is the story of Fungirl, her roommate/ex-girlfriend, and the roommate’s overly nice boyfriend, as they stumble through an illuminating series of grimly funny interpersonal calamities. An eight-page excerpt.
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The Historical Panorama of American Comics: PW Talks with Jeremy Dauber
Jeremy Dauber's 'American Comics: A History' is a lively historical survey of the American comics medium across 150 years of literary and commercial development. The book will be published this month.
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Image Comics Moves to Hold Union Vote
Image Comics has declined a request by union organizers to voluntarily recognize Comic Book Workers United, an effort to unionize the independent comics publisher, and has moved to hold a vote to determine whether the CBWU will represent eligible Image staff.
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Mariko Tamaki Debuts New LGBTQ+ Graphic Novel Imprint
Surely Books, a new LGBTQ+ focused imprint at Abrams ComicArts curated by Mariko Tamaki, will release its first graphic novel this month.
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Panel Mania: Lifetime Passes by Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre
Terry Blas and Claudia Aguirre’s new graphic novel 'Lifetime Passes' introduces the reader to 16 year-old Jackie Chavez, a teen wrestling with a tough family situation—her parents have been deported—and her friends, a collection of mostly bad apples looking out only for themselves. A seven-page excerpt.
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Image Comics Staff Launches Effort to Unionize
In an unprecedented effort at labor organizing in the comics industry, a group of 10 staffers at Image Comics, a major independent comics publisher, have announced plans to launch a union.
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Crowdfunding a Publishing House: PW Talks with Spike Trotman
Spike Trotman, comics creator, writer, and founder of Iron Circus Comics, has led the way in using crowdfunding as part of a scalable publishing business model that can support unique titles within the comics shop and trade book markets.
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Panel Mania: Weeaboo by Alissa Sallah
Alissa Sallah’s debut graphic novel 'Weeaboo'—a term that refers to a non-Japanese person who is obsessed with Japanese culture—is an engaging portrait of three high school friends about to graduate and struggling with the full-range of familiar teen academic, social, and personal challenges. A 10-page excerpt.
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V.E. Schwab’s New Graphic Novel Returns to her Villains Series
PW talks with acclaimed fantasy author V.E. Schwab about her new graphic novel 'ExtraOrdinary,' and returning to her epic Villains prose series.
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Photo Mania: New York Comic Con 2021
After a year’s hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, New York Comic Con returned to New York City's Javits Convention October 7-10, and welcomed back thousands of fans to the newly expanded convention center.
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Back in Business: 150,000 Attend New York Comic Con 2021
New York Comic Con returned to the Javits Convention October 7-10, welcoming back tens of thousands of fans to the newly expanded convention center.
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Panel Mania: The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
Originally published in 2010, Arsenal Pulp will publish a new edition of 'The 500 Years of Indigenous Resistance Comic Book: Revised and Expanded,' written and drawn by Gord Hill, who has added nearly 60 pages of new material. This seven-page excerpt is the story of the 1990 Oka Crisis, a 77-day armed standoff in the Mohawk territories of the Kahnawake and Kanesatake near Montreal.
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Chu, Illidge, Noles Join the CBLDF Board
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has added comics writer Amy Chu, editor Joseph Illidge, and fan fixture Pam Noles to its board of directors.
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Welcome to the Crisis Zone: PW Talks with Simon Hanselmann
First published as an Instagram webcomic, Simon Hanselmann's 'Crisis Zone', has been collected into a nearly 300-page graphic novel out now from Fantagraphics. The book won the 2021 Eisner award for webcomics.
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Education Pros Return to NYCC
At least one tradition is coming back intact to this year’s New York Comic Con: NYCC Professional Day will be held on Thursday, October 7.
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New York Comic Con Is Back
The pop culture show will return to the Javits Center in a scaled-down form in October.
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New Universes for Young Readers: Close-up on Wonderbound
The new comics and graphic novels imprint from Vault Comics aims to deliver fantasy, sci-fi, and horror stories to middle grade and tween readers. (Sponsored)
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Panel Mania: Discipline by Dash Shaw
Told through letters exchanged between two young Quaker siblings in 1863, Dash Shaw’s new graphic novel portrays the dilemma facing a devotely pacifist Quaker family when their teenage son leaves and enlists in the Union Army against his family’s wishes and moral precepts. A seven-page excerpt.
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New DC Comics Are Coming to Webtoon
Mobile comics platform Webtoon is teaming up with DC to produce digital comics series set in the DC superhero universe.
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Panel Mania: Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings 1980-2020 by Jaime Hernandez
Jaime Hernandez's 'Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings' is a tribute to classic women’s wrestling. It’s a collection of retro-inspired illustrations of fictional female wrestlers from the 1960s-1970s era, depicted in imaginary wrestling magazines from the period. A five-page excerpt.