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Dark Horse Founder, CEO Mike Richardson Departs Richardson, who launched the indie comics publisher in 1986 and led it for 40 years, has been dismissed as Dark Horse faces uncertainty following its acquisition by Embracer Group, with both…

Dark Horse Founder, CEO Mike Richardson Departs

Panel Mania: 'Mama Came Callin’ ' by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre’s ‘Mama Came Callin’’ is a dark contemporary mystery about a young biracial woman set in the deep south and haunted by the racist legacy of Jim Crow. A 12-page…

Panel Mania: 'Mama Came Callin’ ' by Ezra Claytan Daniels and Camilla Sucre. A 12-page excerpt.

Media Do Agrees to Buy Seven Seas In a major purchase, Japan’s Media Do International is set to acquire Seven Seas Entertainment, one of the largest independently-owned manga publishers in the English-language market, for $80 million.

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More to Come 708: ComicsPro 2026 This week on More to Come, co-hosts Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons discuss Heidi's visit to the ComicsPRO annual retailer and publisher meeting, now that the press has been invited,…

More to Come 708: ComicsPro 2026

The City Is in My Blood: PW Talks With Eric Drooker With the 1992 publication of ‘Flood!,’ the graphic novelist kicked off an impressionistic trilogy about city life. The series recently came to a close with ‘Naked City,’ which adds dialogue to the…

The City Is in My Blood: PW Talks With Eric Drooker

At ComicsPRO 2026, the Comics Industry Proves Its Resilience Despite the chaos caused by Diamond Comic Distributors’ bankruptcy, sales to comics shops hit record highs last year thanks to an influx of new readers, enticing book publishers to find new ways to…

At ComicsPRO 2026, the Comics Industry Proves Its Resilience

More to Come 706: Tom Gauld Interview More to Come 706: Heidi talks to cartoonist Tom Gauld about his latest book "Physics for Cats", and how he learned to be so darned funny.

PW's More To Come Podcast is now on the PW YouTube Channel. MTC 706: An Interview with Cartoonist Tom Gauld

Anxietyland by Gemma Correll In her accessible and endearing first full-length graphic memoir, web cartoonist Correll (A Pug’s Guide to Life) cannily employs...

Anxietyland by Gemma Correll

Brazil Is What I Am: PW Talks with Marcello Quintanilha A disastrous fishing trip in 1950s Guanabara Bay tests the bond between friends in the Brazilian cartoonist’s ‘The Lights of Niterói’ (Fantagraphics, Mar.).

Brazil Is What I Am: PW Talks with Marcello Quintanilha

Miss Opal Had Always Been There: PW Talks with Angélique Roché The journalist and podcaster partnered with up-and-coming cartoonists Alvin Epps, Millicent Monroe, and Bex Glendining to bring to life ‘First Freedom’ (Oni, Feb.), a kaleidoscopic graphic biography…

Miss Opal Had Always Been There: PW Talks with Angélique Roché

Everything’s Closing In: PW Talks with Ezra Claytan Daniels Horror emerges from central Florida’s swamps in Mama Came Callin’ (Morrow and HarperAlley, Feb.), as a young biracial woman named Kirah investigates the elusive costumed-killer Gator Man who…

Everything’s Closing In: PW Talks with Ezra Claytan Daniels

Spring 2026 Preview: Young Adult Comics Love is in the air as romance dominates spring’s teen comics, alongside stories of characters pursuing such passions as music and skateboarding.

Spring 2026 Preview: Young Adult Comics

A Revolution in Comics: PW Talks with Gary Groth The publisher and cofounder of the Seattle-based independent press, which bills itself as “publisher of the world’s greatest cartoonists,” celebrates 50 years in business this year.

A Revolution in Comics: PW Talks with Gary Groth

Cover Artist: Tillie Walden To kick off our spring comics preview issue, we talk with the Eisner winner about her first graphic novel for adults, a queer love story set in 19th-century Vermont and one of our top picks of the…

Spring 2026 Comics & Graphic Novel Preview: PW Cover - Comics Artist: Tillie Walden

YA Romance Goes Graphic The romance genre continues to reign supreme, with one particular format growing in popularity: graphic novels for teens.

YA Romance Goes Graphic

More to Come 707: Spring Comics and Graphic Novel Preview This week on More to Come, co-hosts Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons discuss PW's Spring Preview issue; the new GNCRT Outstanding Comics awards; Diamond's Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the…

More to Come 707: Spring Comics and Graphic Novel Preview

Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case - The Comics Journal About midway through The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, the new play by Lenny Schwartz that ran recently at the Daydream Theatre Company in Providence, Rhode Island, a group of the title characte...

Playing Dirty: The State of Florida Versus Mike Diana, a new drama about a notorious comic book obscenity case by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/playing-dirt...

Oni Press Inks Distro Deal with PRH Beginning in August, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will take over sales and distribution for the comics and graphic novel publisher’s frontlist and backlist trade books, as well as single…

Oni Press Inks Distro Deal with PRH

Retail Therapy, 'Fuck ICE' Edition: A conversation with Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books - The Comics Journal Zach Rabiroff speaks with the Minneapolis retailer about where he, and his community, find themselves now.

Retail Therapy, ‘Fuck ICE’ Edition: A conversation with Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books by Zach Rabiroff www.tcj.com/retail-thera...

How ‘Martyr Loser King’ by Saul Williams Got Made An inside look at the publication process for the poet and musician’s graphic novel.

How ‘Martyr Loser King’ by Saul Williams Got Made

With the great comics writers and artists who inspired #Superman!

Eisner Awards - Comic-Con International Judges Choose Inductees for 2026 Eisner Hall of Fame Comic-Con is pleased to announce that 19 individuals have been selected to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2026. These inductees include 8 deceased comics pioneers and 11 living persons. The deceased choices are Edwina Dumm, Oliver Harrington, Don Heck, […]

Very good news: Carol Tyler (The Ephemerata) and Héctor Germán Oesterheld (The Eternaut) are to be inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Awards Hall of Fame for 2026! https://ow.ly/zTmH50Y6Fln

Panel Mania: 'Wake Now in the Fire' by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo 'Wake Now in the Fire' by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo is a fictionalized graphic recreation of the banning of Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir 'Persepolis' from the Chicago School system…

Panel Mania: 'Wake Now in the Fire' by Jarrett Dapier and AJ Dungo

Tramps Like Us: PW Talks With Alice Darrow In the artist’s graphic novel debut, ‘Tramps of the Apocalypse’ (Dark Horse, Jan.), a trio of extra sexy, super-violent women take on the testosterone-poisoned Lord Quest Ragnor in a post-apocalyptic…

Tramps Like Us: PW Talks With Alice Darrow

ALA’s Inaugural Comics Awards Celebrate Fiction, Nonfiction, and Series The American Library Association’s Graphic Novels and Comics Round Table named its first-ever slate of Outstanding Comics Awards, with winners in the adult, YA, and children’s categories including…

ALA’s Inaugural Comics Awards Celebrate Fiction, Nonfiction, and Series

ReedPop responds to questions over relationship with ICE The convention organization came under scrutiny over sister company LexisNexis's work with ICE, prompting calls for a boycott and divestment.

ReedPop is feeling the heat over its sister company's relationship with ICE, declaring it does not share customer information with their parent.

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Street Noise: Five Years of Dissident Publishing PW checked in with publishing veteran Liz Frances about what's happening at Street Noise Books after more than five years of publishing politically relevant graphic nonfiction and memoirs.

Street Noise: Five Years of Dissident Publishing

A New Player Emerges on the International Graphic Novel Market French publisher Morgen made a splash earlier this month with a global book deal for a new graphic novel series from creators Ram V, Anand Radhakrishnan, and Evan Cagle, with Image Comics snagging…

A New Player Emerges on the International Graphic Novel Market

Spring 2026 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview From spine-tingling monster tales to swoonworthy love stories and hard-hitting histories, our editors select the season’s most promising adult, middle grade, YA, and manga titles.

Spring 2026 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview