PW Comics World: More To Come

Heidi interviews writer and comics journalist Jason Sacks, co-author of 'American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990's', which chronicles the rise and fall of comics in the 90's, from new companies such as Image, Malibu and Valiant, to the massive sales of such events as 'The Death of Superman' to the crash in revenues and sales after the comic collectors boom came to an end.

Dark Horse and other comics publishers attract Chinese and other investors; continuing repercussions of 'Batman Damned'; Grant Morrison's Green Lantern, Disney adds streaming; and PW's Best Books of 2018.

New comics publishing ventures including Bill Jemas's new 'Writers, Artists and Artisans", young readers imprints at Vault Comics, and the first list from Random House Graphic; DC decides to rename Dick Grayson; Luke Cage and Iron Fist on Netflix coming to an end; plus, the unexpected audience for Eddie/Venom, the couple Marvel has been teasing for a while but probably never expected to be embraced quite like this.

Calvin interviews writer Alex de Campi and artist Victor Santos about their new graphic novel, 'Bad Girls: Six Million Dollars, Twelve Hours to Get Out of Cuba,' a thriller set in a casino in Havana, Cuba New Year's Eve 1958, as three unlikely women band together to get out of Cuba with a lot of money as Fidel Castro takes power.

The NYCC recap: the cohosts offer analysis and personal experience of such topics as Anime Fest @ NYCC, Brian Michael Bendis and Wonder Comics; Humanoids new superhero line; the return of the Harvey Awards; controversy around 'Batman Damned', parties, events and more.

In Part 4 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews Spanish comics artist Ana Miralles, co-creator of 'In Search of the Unicorn' and 'Djinn' ; and Kate Fitzsimons does short interviews with comics creators Art Baltazar, Terry Doddson, Adriana Mello, David Petersen and Greg Pak.

In Part 3 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews comics creator Carolyn Nowak about her graphic novel 'Girl Town'. Heidi interviews writer Joe Casey and artist Benjamin Marra about their upcoming graphic novel 'Jesus Freak', which is about the actual Jesus, from Image Comics

In Part 2 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews editor Karen Berger and writer Joel Rose about 'Hungry Ghosts' a collection of horror comics by the late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain. Heidi interviews Polish comics artist Joanna Karpowicz of 'Sour Apple' and comics creator Luke Pearson of the 'Hilda' series

In Part 1 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews Milton Griepp, CEO of ICV2.com about the state of the graphic novel market, and Gina Gagliano, the publishing director of Random House Graphic, about the new graphic novel imprint.

New York Comic Con 2018 preview; Keystone Comic Con underperforms; controversy around Bastien Vives's disturbing 'Petit Paul,' Abrams ComicArts' new Megascope Imprint, and Star Gazing with Meg Lemke .

SPX 2018; controversy over SPX's Amazon sponsorship and the Amazon/Comixology backlash; reexamining R. Crumb from today's perspective; Black Label, 'Batman Damned' and naked Batman; and an interview from SPX with Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock, co-creators of the classic graphic novel 'The Silent Invasion'.

Calvin interviews Shelly Bond, founding editor of Black Crown, IDW's new imprint, and former executive editor at DC's Vertigo imprint. They discuss Black Crown, as well as her career in comics publishing.

CBLDF and SPX start a legal fund for defamation lawsuit defendants; new Comicsgate controversy; remembering the late comics creators Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich; Milton Griepp's ICv2 White Paper cancelled by NYCC, and Star Gazing.

Animation director Aminder Dhaliwal ('Woman World'), SF novelist Cory Doctorow ('In Real Life'), and SF novelist Nalo Hopkinson ('Sandman: House of Whispers') talk about their decision to make comics in this panel from SDCC 2018, moderated by More to Come's Calvin Reid.

Con report and interviews from Flamecon 2018, the LGBT comic con; comics creator and publisher Cody Pickrodt sues indie creators for defamation for MeToo accusations; and an update on Comicsgate and recent PW comics features

Heidi interviews comics creator Fred Van Lente ('Incredible Hercules', 'Action Philosophers') about 'The Con Artist', his new mystery novel set at a comics convention that is suspiciously similar to San Diego Comic-Con; the phenomenon of the comics convention; and his other work including 'Action Presidents'.

Adventure Zone tops the NYT Trade Bestsellers List; 'Sandman Universe' debuts; Fantastic Four returns; Walmart and Target exclusive comics; James Gunn off 'Guardians of the Galaxy'; the new Harvey Awards; and upcoming FlameCon

Calvin moderates a panel on crowdfunding, discussing its ethics and evolution with panelists Kel McDonald (Sorcery 101), Josh O’Neil (Beehive Press), attorney Jeff Trexler, and Camilla Zhang (Kickstarter)

Heidi and Calvin recap their time at and reactions to Comic-Con 2018 and the crew also discusses the shutdown of Koyama Press as well as Bongo Comics;Ted Adams stepping down from CEO of IDW; and yet another WorldCon/Hugo Awards controversy.

Heidi interviews writer and podcaster Clint McElroy and artist Carey Pietsch of 'The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins'; while Calvin interviews comic creator Scott Snyder at San Diego Comic-Con 2018.