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More to Come 711: Marvel and Boom layoffs This week on More to Come, co-hosts Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons and guest host Christian Holub of PW's newsletter The Fanatic discuss the major layoffs at Marvel and Disney and their...

More to Come 711: Marvel and Boom layoffs. Co-hosts Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald, Kate Fitzsimons and guest host Christian Holub of PW's The Fanatic newsletter discuss the news in graphic novel and comics publishing.

TokyoPop Makes Crowdfunding Offer Through what is called a Regulation Crowdfunding offer, the manga publisher hopes to raise as much as $1.2 million to help fund its attempt to become a $50 million company by 2030.

TokyoPop Makes Crowdfunding Offer

Panel Mania: 'Punk'n Heads' by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux Dave Baker and Nicole Goux’s new graphic novel Punk'n Heads showcases a cranky set of 20-something roommates with a horror-punk band and their messy search for love, self-identity, and reconciliation.

Panel Mania: 'Punk'n Heads' by Dave Baker and Nicole Goux. A 6-page excerpt.

‘Mom’s Cancer’ at 20: PW Speaks with Brian Fies Two decades after its original release, the cartoonist’s 2006 graphic novel has returned to shelves in an expanded anniversary edition, chronicling his family’s experience while his mother underwent...

‘Mom’s Cancer’ at 20: PW Speaks with Brian Fies

Wild Signal Founders Explain Their Vision for Making Independent Art Cartoonist Ronald Wimberly and former Cartoon Network executive Mike Rauch are teaming up to help artists take risks and make sustainable passion projects.

Wild Signal Founders Explain Their Vision for Making Independent Art

2026 SI MoCCA Arts Festival Brings Politics to the Page PW was on the scene at this year’s festival, which took place against a background of protest marches and a missile war.

2026 SI MoCCA Arts Festival Brings Politics to the Page

More to Come 710: Interviews at the MoCCA Art Fest 2026 This week on More to Come, Calvin visits the MoCCA Art Fest, organized by the Society of Illustrators. Live from the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC, Calvin talks with Kendra Boileau, editor in chief of…

More to Come 710: Interviews at the MoCCA Art Fest 2026: Kendra Boileau of Graphic Mundi, Liz Frances of Street Noise Books; Rand Hoppe of the Jack Kirby Museum; and Charles Kochman of Abrams ComicArts.

Brooklyn to Get Its Own Comic Convention This Fall The Brooklyn Expo of Comics, supported by industry leaders such as James Tynion IV and Bryce Gold, offers bodega-themed branding and a promise to spotlight New York’s comics talent. Its inaugural…

Brooklyn to Get Its Own Comic Convention This Fall

Anna Haifisch holds a copy of her graphic novel ‘Ready America’ at the Fantagraphics table at the MoCCA Art Fest over the weekend. The indie comics fest is organized by the Society of Illustrators. #mocca2026 photo: C.Reid

Acclaimed cartoonist Ben Passmore holds a copy of his imaginative graphic work ‘Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance’ at the MoCCA Art Fest on Sunday. #mocca2026 photo; C.Reid

Street Noise Books publisher Liz Frances (r) alongside Morgan Boecher author of the new graphic novel ‘Chicken Heart’ at MoCCA Arts Fest. #mocca2026 Photo: C.Reid

The MoCCA Art Fest is back!! #mocca2026

TokyoPop Launches Educational Imprint TokyoPop, the publisher known for introducing manga to the North American market, has announced a new comics and children’s book imprint.

TokyoPop Launches Educational Imprint

GlobalComix Closes $13 Million Funding Round, Names New CEO Following an infusion of capital, the digital comics platform has appointed Henrik Rydberg to the helm and acquired AI publishing startup INKR as it looks to make inroads into both English and…

GlobalComix Closes $13 Million Funding Round, Names New CEO

PRH Completes Integration of Boom! Studios The comics publisher has become part of the Random House Worlds group at Penguin Random House, which acquired Boom! in 2024. Under the restructuring, Boom! publisher Michael Kelly joins the Random…

PRH Completes Integration of Boom! Studios

Panel Mania: ‘The Woodchipper’ by Joe Ollmann In his new graphic collection ‘The WoodChipper,’ cartoonist Joe Ollmann offers short stories focused on ordinary people facing a series of calamitous situations and the inadvertent hilarity that…

Panel Mania: ‘The Woodchipper’ by Joe Ollmann. In his new graphic collection Ollmann offers short stories focused on ordinary people facing a series of calamitous situations and the inadvertent hilarity that follows. A 9-page excerpt.

Taking the Temperature of Global Comics at the London Book Fair A promised “Comic Space” at the fair never quite materialized, but the show floor still had plenty to reveal about the state of graphic storytelling, from buzzy book deals and crowdfunding campaigns…

Taking the Temperature of Global Comics at the London Book Fair buff.ly/8aG4yXc

New IDW Imprint Aims to Give Crime Comics Their Due Spurred by readers’ taste for “true crime and cult stories” and the success of its recently launched horror imprint, IDW Crime will launch in May with Seven Wives #1, the first in a comics trilogy…

New IDW Imprint Aims to Give Crime Comics Their Due

Cracking Jokes: PW Talks with Morgan Boecher Boecher’s graphic novel debut, Chicken Heart (Street Noise, out now), explores the intersections of grief and humor in the story of a pre-transition standup comedian who goes to a queer commune…

Cracking Jokes: PW Talks with Morgan Boecher

More to Come 709: Atom Freeman Interview This week on More to Come, Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald talks with Atom Freeman of Prana Direct Market Solutions about the debut of 'Comics! The Magazine', a new print magazine that reaches comics…

More to Come 709: Atom Freeman Interview

Panel Mania: 'Bronze Faces' by Shobo, Shof, and Alexandre Tefenkgi In 'Bronze Faces' by Shobo, Shof, and Alexandre Tefenkgi, a trio of young Nigerians hatch a scheme to steal historic works of African art looted by the British and return them to their homeland. An…

Panel Mania: 'Bronze Faces' by Shobo, Shof, and Alexandre Tefenkgi. A trio of young Nigerians hatch a scheme to steal historic works of African art looted by the British and return them to their homeland. An 8-page excerpt.

Calling All Martians: PW talks with Deniz Camp The Ringo-nominated comics writer scripts DC’s psychological detective series Absolute Martian Manhunter with creative layouts that “force readers to untangle layers of reality,” per PW’s review.

Calling All Martians: PW talks with Deniz Camp

Comics Shop Tok Comics retailers are stepping out from behind the counter and in front of the camera as business booms

Comics Shop Tok

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