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  • Panel Mania: LaGuardia By Nnedi Okorafor, Tana Ford, and James Devlin

    In this engaging graphic novel, Nebula Award winning sci-fi author Okorafor wittily turns New York City’s LaGuardia Airport into LaGuardia Interplanetary Airport and into a pointed allegorical indictment of the U.S.’s current bigoted anti-immigrant policies. 'LaGuardia' by Nnedi Okorafor and artists Tana Ford and James Devlin will be published in July by Dark Horse/Berger Books.

  • Ted Adams to Launch Clover Press

    IDW cofounders Ted Adams and Robbie Robbins are teaming up to launch Clover Press, a new publishing house that will release prose works, graphic novels, art books, and other works.

  • A Great Time for Manga Fans

    More diverse content and the growth of streaming anime are driving manga sales.

  • Panel Mania: BTTM FDRS by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

    Written by Ezra Claytan Daniels ('Upgrade Soul') and drawn by Ben Passmore ('Your Black Friend'), 'BTTM FDRS' is a savvy, albeit grisly, comic urban monster story for the social media generation. This is a 10-page excerpt from 'BTTM FDRS' which will be published in June by Fantagraphics.

  • Street Noise Books Readies a New Line of Nonfiction Graphic Books

    Street Noise Books, a new independent publishing house specializing in graphic memoir and illustrated nonfiction for young adults, will publish its first list in January 2020.

  • TCAF 2019 Hails Manga Stars; PW Talks with Oni's James Lucas Jones

    The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, an international show of indie comics and graphic novels, was held May 11 and 12 at the Toronto Reference Library, and honored acclaimed manga artists Junji Ito and Hiromi Takashima; PW also interviewed Oni Press publisher James Lucas Jones about the recent merger with Lion Forge.

  • Photo Mania: Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2019

    The Toronto Comic Arts Festival 2019, organized by an innovative partnership between the Toronto Public Library and Toronto’s The Beguiling comics store, was held May 11-12 at the Toronto Reference Library. PW was on hand to bring back images of the artists, publishers and fans at TCAF 2019.

  • Lion Forge, Oni Press Merge Under Polarity Pop Culture Brand

    Indie comics publishers Lion Forge and Oni Press will merge under the majority ownership of Polarity, a newly formed media entertainment entity launched by Lion Forge cofounder Dave Steward II in 2018.

  • 2018 North American Comics Sales Rise to $1.09 Billion

    Led by sales of the graphic novel format, total sales of graphic novels and periodical comics in the U.S. and Canada were approximately $1.09 billion in 2018, according to a joint estimate by trade news sites ICv2 and Comichron.

  • Castellucci to Publish Graphic Memoir ‘Girl on Film’ in November

    Noted YA novelist and comics writer Cecil Castellucci will team with Boom! Studios to publish Girl on Film, a graphic memoir, in November 2019

  • Canada’s Indigenous Comics Artists Redress History

    In this Q&A, PW talks with a number of creators from 'This Place: 150 Years Retold,' an anthology of graphic stories that retell the troubled history of Canada’s indigenous people, which will be published this month by Highwater Press.

  • Panel Mania: The Silent Invasion: The Great Fear by Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock

    Filtered through the lens of period anti-communist witch hunts, alien flying saucers, and loopy cult conspiracies, The Silent Invasion is a byzantine sci-fi mystery/thriller that stylishly recreates 1950s middle class America in all its kooky, paranoid glory. In this 13-page preview, dogged reporter Matt Sinkage is on the run from mysterious forces, determined to uncover the truth about an alien invasion he believes is getting ever closer to the White House.

  • What We Know About 2018 Graphic Novel Sales

    It was a good year for comics, and the graphic novel market in 2018 was dominated by one category: kids'; and that category was dominated by just one series: Dav Pilkey's Dog Man.

  • Panel Mania: Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten

    Kelsey Wroten’s new graphic novel 'Cannonball' is by turns a satirical social portrait of a queer, binge-drinking, abrasively ambitious young writer and a hilarious meditation on artistic purity and self-delusion. This is a 10-page excerpt from the graphic novel, which will be published by Uncivilized Books this month.

  • MariNaomi Shines a Light on Diverse Cartoonists

    In 2014 cartoonist MariNaomi launched, and continues to maintain, the Cartoonists of Color database and the Queer Cartoonists database, two DIY online resources on diversity that offer contact information on a total of more than 2,000 cartoonists.

  • MoCCA Arts Fest 2019 Attracts Big Crowd of Indie Fans

    The MoCCA Arts Festival, an annual indie and self-published comics and graphic novels show organized by the Society of Illustrators, attracted another big crowd to the Metropolitan West Event space in Manhattan April 6-7.

  • Photo Mania: MoCCA Arts Festival 2019

    The MoCCA Arts Festival, an annual show of Indie and self-published comics and graphic novels organized by the Society of Illustrators, attracted another impressive crowd to the Metropolitan West event space on West 46th Street where the event was held this past weekend April 6-7. 'Publishers Weekly' was there to bring back images of the artists and events during the weekend show.

  • A Decade of Graphic Novels from Abrams ComicArts

    Launched in 2009 under the guidance of editorial director Charles Kochman, Abrams Comic Arts will celebrate its 10th anniversary this week with plans for an exhibition and reception at the Society of Illustrators to be held later this month.

  • Panel Mania: Superman Action Comics Vol. 1: Invisible Mafia by Brian Michael Bendis

    Acclaimed superhero writer Brian Michael Bendis takes over the writing of Superman in this excerpt from 'Action Comics Vol. 1: Invisible Mafia,' a lively new adventure by the Man of Steel.

  • Giving Cannabis a Clear Name: PW Talks to Box Brown

    In his newest work of graphic nonfiction, cartoonist Box Brown turns to the history and cultural impact of marijuana in 'Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America,' which was published April 2 by First Second.

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