PW Comics World: More To Come

A look at 2018 graphic novel sales; movie news on ‘Avengers: Endgame,’ 'Shazam,’ 'Hellboy' and other comics movies and TV news; MariNaomi’s Database of Diversity; comics news from AWA and Kodansha; and the 2019 comics awards season.

Interviews with comics creators Keith Knight, James Romberger, Kelsey Wroten and Liza Donnelly at the 2019 MoCCA Arts Festival as well as this month's Star Gazing feature with PW Graphic Novel Reviews Editor Meg Lemke highlighting great upcoming graphic novels.

Kate interviews Eisner Award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis about his new books 'Action Comics: Invisible Mafia' and 'Superman: The Unity Saga: Phantom Earth' for DC Comics; as well as his new young adult-themed line Wonder Comics; and his thoughts on writing Superman and superheroes.

Emerald City Comic Con & C2E2; Viz Originals launches; Artists Writers and Artisans opens; plus the full MTC crew finally gets to discuss 'Captain Marvel'

Interviews with comics artist Alison Sampson of 'Winnebago Graveyard' about her work on 'Hit-Girl', comics writer David F. Walker about writing 'The Life of Frederick Douglass' and launching Solid Comix, and Emerald Comics Disto founder Anne Bean at Emerald City Comic Con 2019

The 'Captain Marvel' movie and its worldwide financial success; a peek at 'Shazam' and its longtime rivalry with Marvel's Captain Marvel; Netflix's new slate of original animation; First Second's socially responsible World Citizen Comics line; comics for young readers from Marvel and DC; and ReedPop adds new shows in Florida and Africa.

An interview with cartoonist Jerry Craft about his new graphic novel 'New Kid', out from Harper Collins, his first graphic novel from a major publisher. Craft was the creator of the long-running syndicated comic strip 'Mama's Boyz', is a well-known self-publisher and has created or illustrated over thirty graphic novels, children's books and middle grade novels. He is the cofounder of the Black Comic Book Festival, which is held annually at the Schomburg Center Library in Harlem.

Drama at the ComicsPro annual meeting; PW's annual Comics Retail feature; a new CEO at IDW; Black Panther wins three Oscars; Heidi talks Captain Marvel with the New York Times; the MeToo movement takes on anime voice actor Victor Mignona; plus PW graphic novel review editor Meg Lemke's Star Gazing feature on great new graphic novels.

An interview with novelist and first-time comics creator Mira Jacob about the forthcoming publication of her new book 'Good Talk: A Memoir In Conversations,' a graphic memoir that began with awkward but illuminating questions from her six-year old mixed-race son about race, identity, and family relations in an era of divisive American politics.

Spike Trotman, founder of comics publisher Iron Circus; Black Comics Expo 2019; troubles at Patreon; the initial guest list for TCAF; the nominees for the 2019 Dwayne McDuffie awards; a new installment of Meg Lemke's Star Gazing feature, highlighting great new graphic novels; and much, much more.

An interview with comics publisher Annie Koyama, founder of the award-winning Koyama Press. Koyama announced last year that she will be shutting down the company in 2021 to focus on patronage.

Calvin visits the ALA Midwinter meeting in Seattle; Angouleme International Comics Festival 2019; layoffs at DC Comics; St. Marks Comics closes; ALA interviews with Joel Christian Gill and librarian Amie Wright. Plus, the launch of The Fanatic, a new comics and pop culture newsletter from PW.

An interview with writer Ben Coleman, co-creator of 'The Long Con', a post-apocalyptic humor comic about the society that develops inside a comic-con that survives a disaster.

The problems facing the comics direct market business model, as targeted by comics retailer and pundit Brian Hibbs; the top-selling comics of 2018, comics artist Nick Drnaso in the 'New Yorker', and the top comics stories at PW of 2018.

An interview with writer and comics publisher Tze Chun, cofounder of the new comics publisher TKO Studios, about its business model, its list of titles, and his vision of today's graphic novel market.

A look at notable upcoming 2019 graphic novels and predictions; the recent movies 'Aquaman' and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'; plus Mattel's troubles as they lose the DC Comics action figure license.

We look back over the past year at the biggest news events in comics and graphic novel publishing, film, TV and streaming media, and comics convention culture.

Changes in the leadership of IDW and Valiant, layoffs at Lion Forge, sexual abuse allegations against comics creator Eric Esquivel of 'Border Town', new comics publisher TKO Studios, the 2018 PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll, and a big manga update

Saying goodbye to Stan Lee; Abrams ComicArts cancels its controversial suicide bomber graphic novel; convention reports on Comic Arts Brooklyn and AnimeNYC 2018; plus an update on the Black Label imprint of DC Comics.

Recorded live at AnimeNYC, Calvin interviews Kinokuniya manga and graphics novel buyer Terrence Irvins about co-sponsoring AnimeNYC and competing with Animefest@NYCC; and at Comic Arts Brooklyn, Heidi interviews David Sandlin, creator of the '76 Manifestations of American Destiny' exhibition, and comics creator Frank Santoro; Calvin interviews Hartley Lin (aka Ethan Rilly), creator of 'Young Frances'; and Heidi interviews Kriota Willberg of the artist self-care book 'Draw Stronger'.