Joe Sacco Asks Why History Repeats Itself
Cartoonist Joe Sacco documents a riot in India and investigates the stories people tell themselves about political and sectarian violence. more...
Return ‘Flight’: PW Talks with Kazu Kibuishi
This fall, Random House’s Inklore will reissue the influential Flight anthology series edited by cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi. more...
More to Come, the PW Comics World Podcast
This week on More To Come: Cohosts Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald, Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and Meg Lemke recap our coverage San Diego Comic-Con 2025 with first-hand reports from Heidi and Meg, including the artists, publishers, show floor events, parties, and panels at the show. Plus we salute this year’s Eisner Award winners including our own Heidi MacDonald, editor in chief of the Beat, which received the Eisner for Best Comics-Related Journalism.
SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence
Comics reclaimed their spot in the Comic-Con pecking order at this year’s event, held July 23–27 at the San Diego Convention Center. While ongoing uncertainty and upheaval in Hollywood meant fewer movie stars made the trek to Hall H, comics sales surged at this year’s event, with multiple publishers reporting they had one of their best Comic-Cons ever. more...
Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
Tessa Hulls’ Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con. more...
Fall 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview
From spine-tingling monster tales to swoonworthy love stories, serious nonfiction and hard-hitting histories, our editors select the season’s most promising Adult, Middle Grade, YA, and Manga Titles. Plus we've got lists of selected great graphic works focused on food and cooking, monsters, movies, and interviews with acclaimed cartoonists. more...and more.
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SDCC 2025: Comics Reclaim the Spotlight in Hollywood’s Absence
At this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, held July 23–27, comics took back their top spot in the Con’s pecking order thanks in part to fewer movie stars visiting Hall H.
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Panel Mania: ‘Meat Eaters’ by Meredith McClaren
This grisly teen drama about a college town full of horrific shape-shifting monsters hiding in plain sight delivers brisk, comic banter alongside bold, stylized linework.
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Paging ‘Dr. Werthless’: PW Talks with Harold Schechter and Eric Powell
The duo takes on the famed psychiatrist and anti-comics crusader Fredric Wertham in their new graphic novel, which offers a multifaceted portrait of a complex man who claimed that reading comics led to violence.
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Hulls, Sacco, Yang Take Home 2025 Eisner Awards
Tessa Hulls’s Feeding Ghosts, Joe Sacco’s The War on Gaza, and Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham’s Lunar New Year Love Story won big at the 37th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, held July 25 at San Diego Comic-Con.
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Publishers Await Answers on Inventory Tied Up in Diamond Bankruptcy
Six months after Diamond Comic Distributors’ January 15 bankruptcy filing, the inventory of 128 publishers is still in limbo, pending a court decision on whether Diamond will be allowed to liquidate the comics, graphic novels, and other merchandise in its warehouse—some of which was being held on consignment per now-defunct distribution agreements.
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Return ‘Flight’: PW Talks with Kazu Kibuishi
This fall, Random House’s Inklore will reissue the influential Flight anthology series edited by Kibuishi, who discussed the process of bringing out the new editions and how his own impressions of the series have changed over the years.
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Panel Mania: ‘Spectrum’ by Rick Quinn and Dave Chisholm
This hallucinatory graphic novel offers a mystical alternative history of American popular music and the social conflict around it—as well as a mind-bending tribute to the transcendent power of song. An 11-page excerpt.
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Can Neon Ichiban Breathe New Life into Digital Comics?
Comixology veterans David Steinberger and Chip Mosher aim to shake up the world of digital comics again with a new platform adding to the technological innovations of their comics publishing house, Dstlry.
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HarperCollins Acquires Crunchyroll’s Publishing Operations in France, Germany
HarperCollins Publishers has announced that it will acquire the manga publishing operations of global anime brand Crunchyroll in France and Germany. The purchase marks HarperCollins’s latest expansion in the manga market.
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Panel Mania: ‘Raymond Chandler’s Trouble Is My Business’ by Arvind Ethan David, Ilias Kyriazis, and Cris Peter
This stylishly reimagined crime melodrama brings Chandler’s hardboiled private eye Philip Marlowe and his 1940s Los Angeles demimonde vividly to life. An11-page excerpt.
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