 
After launching graphic novel lines at Andrews
McMeel and Lion Forge, Andrea Colvin has joined Hachette with big plans for
graphic novels at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. more
 
Black Girl Genius: Talking with Devin Grayson and Alitha
E. Martinez
The creators of Humanoids’ new graphic novel Omni: The Doctor Is In, a hybrid medical mystery/paranormal thriller, talk with PW about creating a contemporary black female genius superhero. more 
A Charming Tale for Fans of Japanese Folklore
There are animals occasionally born with great powers. Senzou the black fox is one of those—but he abused his strength until the Sun Goddess imprisoned him for his bad behavior. Three hundred years later, he's finally been released—but on one condition: he can't regain his powers until he successfully helps a tanuki cub named Manpachi become an assistant to the gods. (Sponsored) more 
Interview: PW Talks with Mark Russell
Comics writer Mark Russell talks with PW about writing the controversial graphic novel Second Coming, a satire about Jesus Christ returning to earth, this time with Earth's mightiest superhero as his roommate. more  
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Talks With Lawrence Wright Wright talks with PW about his new novel, a chillingly prescient, hair-raisingly plausible, geopolitical narrative constructed around a deadly pandemic that starts in Indonesia and invites an uncomfortable comparison to our dire contemporary moment. more 
Review: Keep Calm and Log On by Gillian “Gus”
Andrews
Disguised as a handbook for technophobic dummies, Andrews book is actually a lively guide to media literacy, online privacy, digital security, and online culture, that will be as useful to tech newbies as it will be to digital warriors. More 
Review: Of Mice and Minestrone: Hap and Leonard the
Early Years by Joe R. Lansdale
Five funny, gritty, insightful stories starring the Edgar award-winning Lansdale’s unlikely Texas private eye duo: the straight, white, and liberal Hap Collins and his partner Leonard Pine, a gay, black conservative.  
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons—discuss the recent spate of comics events canceled or postponed (among them Emerald City Comic Con, MoCCA Arts Fest, and WonderCon) due to the spread of the new coronavirus; plus Heidi reports on C2E2, including DC publisher Jim Lee after the departure of Dan DiDio, plus an interview with comics creator and novelist Joe Hill of the 'Locke and Key' and 'Heart Shaped Box' from C2E2. More   
DC’s new YA graphic novel The Oracle Code by Marieke
Nijkamp with art by Manuel Preitano updates the Batman legend of Barbara
Gordon, daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, who is
paralyzed after she becomes the victim of a gunshot wound. Reimagined by
Nijkamp, an autistic YA author and advocate for the disabled, Babs Gordon is
now a wheelchair-bound teenager struggling emotionally with her disability,
newly and reluctantly enrolled in Gotham City’s Arkham Center for
Independence to learn to adapt to her condition. But she’s also a world class
hacker who turns sleuth when she realizes something’s not quite right at the
facility when patients start disappearing. In this 13-page excerpt Babs
slowly comes out of her shell, trains using her wheelchair, and teams with a
patient whose brother is missing in an effort figure out what’s going on. The
Oracle Code was published this month by DC Graphic Novels for Young
Readers. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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PW talks to three African-American women
novelists, Rita Woods, Alaya Dawn Johnson, and Rachel Howzell Hall about
their recent books. more
Interview: PW Talks with Noah Van Sciver
Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver and Fantagraphics have teamed up to publish The Complete Works of Fante Bukowski, a hardcover compilation, and tongue-in-cheek tribute, to Van Sciver's fictional self-proclaimed literary genius. more 
'Second Coming: Vol. 1' Out March 10!
In this collection of the popular comic from award-winning writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace, god commands Earth’s mightiest superhero, Sunstar, to accept Jesus as his roommate and teach him how to use power more forcefully. Jesus, shocked at the way humans have twisted his message, vows to straighten them out. Patton Oswalt calls is "A modern Life of Brian." (Sponsored) More 
Review: Grafity’s Wall by Ram V and Anand
Radhakrishnan
Set on the vibrant streets of Mumbai, India, this vivid graphic novel chronicles the lives of Grafity, a street artist, and his friends: his writer-buddy Chasma, Jay the drug dealer, and Saira, a frustrated aspiring actress, who falls for Chasma and his irresistible habit of giving beautifully written letters randomly to people on the street. more  
Interview:
The
Stringbags by Garth Ennis PW talks with acclaimed comics writer Garth Ennis about his new graphic novel, a carefully researched, fictional recreation of the heroic, real-life exploits of the men that flew British Fairey Swordfish biplanes, obsolete open-cockpit bombers, during WWII in missions against the Axis powers. more 
Interview: PW Talks with Liana Finck
PW Talks with New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck, author of Excuse Me: Cartoons, Complaints and Notes to Self, about being part of Pop-Up Magazine, a magazine produced live on stage with its editors acting as emcees and the artists and writers performing and narrating their work on stage. More 
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PW
Talks with John Moe PW talks with writer/podcaster John Moe about his own diagnosis as a “saddie,” how he has dealt with mental illness, and about The Hilarious World of Depression, his new book, and the title of his popular podcast, which is described as being “part stand-up comedy and part therapy.” more 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons—react to the departure of DC co-publisher Dan DiDio and look back over his often controversial 18-year tenure overseeing the DC universe, his impact on DC’s publishing program, and the broad trends in superhero comics publishing in a rapidly transforming North American comic book marketplace . More  
Everything is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao is a delightful graphic memoir that collects comics
from Baopu, Xiao’s monthly serialized webcomic, as well as new material. An
illustrator and cartoonist, Xiao was born in Tianjin, China and has lived in
the U.S. since 2006. Her comics capture her experiences as a young, queer
immigrant striving to understand the complexities of her new life even as she
grapples with the personal history that has brought her this far. In this
16-page excerpt, Xiao offers a series of thoughtful moments, sometimes comic,
often poignant and inspirational, that visually distill the power of
empathetic human connection. Everything is Beautiful, And I’m Not Afraid:
A Baopu Collection will be published in March by Andrews McMeel
Publishing. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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After a long career that includes creating the
pioneering syndicated black comics strip 'Mama’s Boyz', illustrating and
often self-publishing over thirty books and graphic novels, and cofounding
the annual Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem, cartoonist Jerry Craft was
awarded the 2020 Newbery Medal for his middle grade graphic novel New Kid,
the first graphic novel to receive the award. more
Interview: PW Talks to James Otis Smith
PW interviews comics artist and designer James Otis Smith about working with Ted Fox to create Showtime at the Apollo: The Epic Tale of Harlem’s Legendary Theater, a graphic version of Fox's definitive 1983 prose history. A trade paperback edition of the 2019 hardcover will be released February 25 by Abrams ComicArts. more 
Welcome to Keyhouse
Locke & Key tells the story of the Locke siblings as they seek safety in their ancestral home after their father’s murder. They soon discover that Keyhouse is a place of both wonder and fear, filled with dark doors and the magic keys that open them. Read the bestselling series before you stream the Netflix original series! (Sponsored) more 
Is a New Publisher Called Bad Idea Actually Good For
Comics?
Bad Idea is a newly launched comics publisher with an unusual plan designed to revive monthly periodical comics and provide economic support to direct market comics shops. The house to plans to publish a limited number of monthly serials—no book collections or digital comics—by popular artists, to be sold exclusively via select comics shops. more  
Review:
Odetta:
A Life in Music and Protest by Ian Zack A comprehensive biography of the women dubbed “the voice of the Civil Rights Movement.” Odetta’s powerful folk-driven vocal style combined influences from jazz, blues, and country with a commitment to social justice that made her one of the most influential American singers of the 1950s and 1960s. 
Review: Downfall by Inio Asano
A dark fictional excursion into the life of a self-absorbed manga artist struggling with conflicted desires; as Kaoru Fukazawa’s popularity and sales decline, he turns away from this wife and his art, spiraling downward emotionally and into the arms of a young woman, in the latest visionary manga from Asano. More 
Review:
Coffeeland:
One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug by Augustine
Sedgewick A compelling historical study of early 20th century El Salvador, its transformation into a coffee producing powerhouse and the degradation of the indigenous men and women driven to harvest and deliver the beans to an insatiable American coffee market. 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons—reunite after nearly a month of travels. Calvin recaps a trip to Philly for ALA Midwinter and Jerry Craft’s historic Newbery Award for his middle grade grahic novel New Kid. Heidi reviews her trip to a comics museum in Brussels, Belgium and to the Angoulême Comics Festival in France; and Calvin reviews his trip Bologna, Italy to jury the inaugural BolognaRagazzi Comics Award. Plus the cohosts discuss the launch of Bad Idea, DC's Generation One and trade book publishing at Marvel and Ten Speed Press. More  
Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ko
Hyung-Ju, and Ryan Estrada is the true story of Hyun Sook’s years as a South
Korean college student under the brutal military regime of the early 1980s.
Although the campus has erupted in violent student protests against the
government, Hyun Sook, an apolitical freshman enthralled with literature and
books, is uninvolved and fearful of her mother who disapproves of the
protests and is dubious about her being in college at all. She is thrilled to
meet the handsome editor of the school’s student newspaper, who invites her
to join his student reading club. But instead of discussing Moby Dick
in a cafe, Hyun Sook finds herself, and her fearless pro-democracy book club
classmates, forced into hiding under threat of arrest or worse by a repressive
government at war with the freedom to read almost anything. Hyun Sook’s
irresistible memoir conveys her political (and social) awakening with equal
measures of hilarity and comedy alongside moments of sheer terror as her eyes
are opened to the brutal nature of the regime. In this 11-page excerpt Hyun
Sook meets the members of the Banned Book Club who will transform her life as
a student and as a citizen. Banned Book Club was published this month
by Iron Circus Comics. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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Nearly 50 years ago the country was rocked by
two violent events roughly a year apart. Two new graphic works examine those
events and their consequences. Our lead story is a profile of Derf Backderf
and his new graphic novel Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio. Scroll down
for a 15-page excerpt from Big Black: Stand at Attica by the late
Frank “Big Black” Smith, a memoir by a survivor of the Attica Prison
Rebellion. more
Profile:
The
City We Became by N.K. Jemisin PW talks with acclaimed science fiction novelist N. K. Jemisin about living in New York, the city’s multicultural character, how the city is changing, and how New York’s essential character is reflected in her new novel The City We Became, the first book in a new trilogy. more 
'I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912'
Check out this thrilling graphic novel adaptation of Lauren Tarshis's bestselling I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912! Perfect for fans of graphic novels or the I Survived chapter book series, this graphic novel combines historical facts with high-action storytelling that's sure to keep any reader turning the pages. (Sponsored) more 
Profile:
It's
Not All Downhill From Here by Terry McMillan Novelist Terry McMillan has published It’s Not All Downhill From Here, her 12th novel, and talks to PW about getting older and continuing to take on life and writing with energy and style. “Aging is a beautiful thing, if you do it right,” she says. more  
Review:
Banned
Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, Hyung-Ju Ko This irresistible YA graphic memoir pulls off an exceptional feat: It tells the true story of a group of Korean college students in 1983 and their perilous pursuit of illicit books in defiance of a violently repressive state regime, and does so with equal measures of lively social comedy and serious political threat. 
Review: Menopause: A Comic Treatment edited by MK
Czerwiec.
A frank, informative and often funny anthology collecting a range of artists, from stars like Lynda Barry, Roberta Gregory and Ellen Forney to new comers, trans and genderqueer creators, and medical professionals, including the editor MK Czerwiec. More 
Review:
The
Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo PW Talks with Nghi Vo about The Empress of Salt and Fortune, her new and adventurous feminist fantasy novel set in imperial China. more 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week on More to Come, Calvin interviews comics creator Dean Haspiel about The Red Hook, his original Brooklyn-inspired superhero series, its launch as a Webtoon digital series, and in print by Image Comics; and the print release of Red Hook: War Cry’ vol. 2, and Star Cross, the new Red Hook installment on Webtoon. Plus, a new Star Gazing with graphic novel reviews editor Meg Lemke on Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth & Améziane; and Goblin Girl by Moa Romanova. More  
Big Black: Stand at Attica by
Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and art by Améziane, is the memoir
of Frank Smith, a prisoner-negotiator during the Attica prison revolt, and a
grim history of one of the bloodiest rebellions in the history of American
prisons. More than 1200 Attica inmates took control of the prison in
September 1971 and took 42 guards hostage, denounced the facility's brutal
conditions and called for more humane treatment of prisoners. On September
13, 1971 New York governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered hundreds of armed state
troopers to retake the facility by force in a brutal invasion that resulted
in the deaths of 29 prisoners and 10 guards. Over the course of the assault,
state troopers killed unarmed prisoners and hostages alike, and in the
immediate aftermath, prisoners, among them Frank Smith, were viciously beaten
for days on end. Although the events at Attica forced the state to change
prison practices, the uprising has come to invoke the legacy of mass
incarceration, a scourge that has devastated communities of color. A man of
intelligence and character, Smith (who died in 2004) was respected by inmates
and guards. He survived sadistic reprisals at the hands of state troopers
(though he suffered the effects of his torture for years afterwards) to be
released and went on to serve as an advocate and counselor for prisoners and
former inmates. This is a 15-page excerpt from Big Black: Stand at Attica,
which will be published this month by Archaia. Click the image above to
view the full excerpt.
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Joel Christian Gill's new graphic memoir Fights:
One Boy's Triumph Over Violence is the story of his arduous triumph over
a personal history of violence, bullying and sexual abuse. The book will be
published this month by Oni Press. more
Profile:
Oak
Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West by Lauren Redniss
A National Book Award nominee and the recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant,” Lauren Redniss follows her unpredictable creative instincts when producing her unusual works of visual reportage. Her new work is her latest example of visual nonfiction. more 
Butler's Classic Work Now a Graphic Novel
From the bestselling team behind Kindred comes a graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. The story portrays a dystopian future, where America is marred by environmental and economic crises that create social chaos. What begins as a fight for survival leads to a startling vision of humanity—and the birth of a new faith. (Sponsored) more 
Review:
The
City We Became by N.K. Jemisin The acclaimed sci-fi novelist’s new work is set in a sentient and vibrantly multicultural New York City that is under attack from an alien force. The city gestates five distinctive avatars, with powers and personalities that mirror the character of each borough, that organize themselves to protect the city from invasion. more  
Review:
Dragon
Hoops by Gene Luen Yang Best known as an acclaimed comics artist, Yang also taught for years at an Oakland Catholic high school with a powerhouse basketball team. Though more comics nerd than sports fan, Yang decides to follow the school’s highly touted team for an entire season, profiling each player and their coaches, while examining his own growing delight in, and embrace of, the game of basketball and its history. 
Interview:
Officer
Clemmons: A Memoir by François S. Clemmons PW talks with Clemmons, a gay African-American man, who played Officer Clemmons on PBS’s Mister Roger’s Neighborhood TV show for 25 years. He discusses his early life, Rogers, religious faith, and the pain of being forced to hide his sexuality. More 
Review: Swing Kings: The Inside Story of Baseball’s
Home Run Revolution
Jared Diamond gives a lively account of the explosion of home runs in contemporary Major League Baseball—spotlighting the influence of a new generation of hitting coaches and his own amateur efforts in an annual media game—and the long, mesmerizing history of baseball power hitting.  
Win a Kent
State ARC!
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This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week on More to Come, Calvin interviews writer Cecil Castellucci and artist Jim Rugg about their pioneering YA graphic novel The PLAIN Janes, the story of a teen girl guerilla art collective. Now released in a complete edition, the book originally came out from DC’s now-defunct Minx line of YA graphic novels in 2007. The new hardcover edition of The PLAIN Janes combines the original two volumes with a previously unpublished third volume, and will be released this month by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. More  
Originally published in 2007, The PLAIN Janes by Cecil
Castellucci and Jim Rugg is the story of teenage misfit artist Jane Beckels,
who is forced to leave fictional Metro City—a clear stand-in for New
York—after a terrorist attack. Her parents move to the suburbs for safety.
Jane hates her new suburban town until she meets a group of also
not-so-popular high school girls also named Jane (Theater Jane, Brain Jayne,
and Polly Jane, the girl jock). They band together to create an anonymous
guerilla art collective: People Loving Art In Neighborhoods—The PLAIN Janes.
The new hardcover edition combines the original two volumes with a third
previously unpublished volume. In this 11-page excerpt from the new section,
the girls are now distracted by their imminent graduation from high school.
They have also been forced to trade their previously exciting and
unsanctioned guerilla art attacks for nice but lackluster city-approved
projects in the park. The PLAIN Janes was published this month by
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Click the image above to view the
full excerpt.
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Lucy Knisley’s forthcoming title, Go to
Sleep (I Miss You), is about her experiences as a new mom, but for her
next book, she turns her life into fiction. more
Interview:
Glass
Town by Isabel Greenberg PW Talks to Greenberg about her new graphic novel Glass Town, an imaginative recreation of the childhood imaginary worlds created by the four Brontë children (Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne) after the deaths of their two elder siblings in 1825. Using Brontë quotes and what little is actually known about their childhood, Greenberg has created a lyrical invocation of the Brontës’ 19th century world of books and youthful imagination. more 
Interview: PW Talks with Danny Fingeroth About
Stan Lee
We talk with longtime Marvel editor Danny Fingeroth about his new biography, “a loving and sharp-eyed account of the life and career” of Stan Lee, a legendary pop culture figure, author, comic book industry showman and renowned former chairman of Marvel Comics. More  
Review:
Otherwise
Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation by Chris Paige
In this imaginative work on transgender experience and religious faith, Paige offers provocative examinations of the Bible’s accounts of eunuchs, Jesus’s celibacy, and even Joseph and his many-colored “genderqueer” coat, in a series of expansive scriptural readings focused on transgender people and their relationship to God. 
Review:
The
Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge This semi-autobiographical collection of satirical vignettes is the first major work in English by Tsuge, a legendary master of literary Japanese manga. Set in the 1980s, it’s a collection of dark, albeit quietly comical, accounts of Tsuge’s efforts to give up drawing comics—the only thing he’s good at according to his long-suffering wife—and his frustrating attempts to make a living selling all kinds of mostly unsellable stuff. More 
Review: The Housing Lark by Sam Selvon
Set in 1960s London, this lively comic novel offers a vivid cast of poor, hardworking West Indian men and women, scrambling to make a living and find decent housing in the virulently racist slum rental market of the time. The unlikely crew bands together to find a house, only to discover the gap between their dreams and social reality. 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
Recorded live at the 2019 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus comics fest in Ohio, Calvin Reid interviews cartoonist and clinical nurse, MK Czerwiec, editor of the ‘Graphic Medicine Manifesto’, a graphic medicine comics anthology, and the graphic memoir 'Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371’ (PSU Press); cartoonist Tom Tomorrow, creator of 'This Modern Life,' and the late comics writer, editor and historian Tom Spurgeon, executive director Cartoon Crossroads Columbus. More  
In Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann’s lively young adult
graphic novel Go With the Flow, high school sophomores Abby, Brit, and
Christine, welcome Sasha, a new student, and bond in anticipation of a new
school year. But when Sasha gets her period (yes, she’s wearing white jeans)
and can’t find a single sanitary pad or tampon in any of the (usually) empty
restroom dispensers, their year takes a different turn. To make matters worse,
their complaints about the lack of pads are dismissed by indifferent school
administrators—now they’re really pissed off. Why, the girls ask, does such a
simple but crucial female health product receive so little regard? In this
11-page excerpt, the four friends decide to organize their high school and
their community to make sure the issues around menstruation and female health
are no longer ignored. Go With the Flow is co-written by Williams and
Schneeman (with art by Williams) and will be published in January by First
Second. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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Henry Barajas’ Latinx memoir and graphic
biography of his social activist great-grandfather, La Voz de M.A.Y.O.:
Tata Rambo with art by J. Gonzo, will be published this month by Image
Comics. more
Manga, Novels, Anime, Games Mingle at Anime NYC 2019
The third Anime NYC 2019, held at the Javits Center November 15-17, expanded to fill the entire 410,000 square foot main exhibition floor of the convention center, with booths from anime, game, and manga companies as well as vendors selling all kinds of Asian pop-related merchandise. more 
Profile:
Consider
This by Chuck Palahniuk PW talks with novelist Chuck Palahniuk, who has a new book, a new publisher, and—after suffering financial losses in the wake of an embezzlement scheme by the accountant of his former literary agency—a new agent. He talks about moving on from the set back with a series of new books and other new writing projects. More  
Mysterious Strangers: New Mysteries & Thrillers
2019–2020
Five new novels, all by first-time authors, aim to lure readers with stories of suspense, betrayal, and humanity’s dark side. more 
Review: Inappropriate by Gabrielle Bell
Acclaimed cartoonist Gabrielle Bell explores the pitfalls of modern urban life in a series of fanciful short comics stories featuring her unique blend of the mundane and the wryly fantastic. More 
Review: Believe Me: How Trusting Women Can Change the
World edited by Jessica Valenti and Jaclyn Friedman
Feminist activists Valenti and Friedman collect essays focused on the #MeToo era’s radical notion: stories of sexual abuse told by women are true, so believe them. Contributors include Moira Donegan, creator of the notorious Shitty Media Men list, and, Slate editor Dahlia Lithwick on Christine Blasey Ford and Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week on More to Come Calvin Reid interviews Bill Campbell, founder/publisher of Rosarium Publishing and an author in his own right. They discuss Rosarium's list of graphic novels and science fiction, and its diverse list of authors; and Campbell's efforts writing Baaaad Muthaz (with art by David Brame), a new graphic novel inspired by 1970s black American pop culture; as well as the issues facing black publishers in independent publishing. More  
Dan Goldman and George Schall’s new graphic novel Chasing
Echoes is a comically driven story about a Jewish-American family’s
search for their pre-Holocaust roots in the old country. The
multigenerational family tour group makes a long-planned albeit unlikely trip
back to Poland in an effort to find the family’s mill, lost in the wake of
WWII Nazis victimization. In this 10-page excerpt we meet the unwieldy,
indeed, dysfunctional clan, among them uncle Jack, who is leading the effort
to find his father’s mill, and his niece Malka, academic, family archivist,
unemployed single mom, and an emotional mess; along with the rest of the
family they arrive in Poland at a time when issues around creeping fascism
and intolerance once again make headlines in the U.S. and Europe. Chasing
Echoes by Dan Goldman and George Schall will be published by Humanoids
this month. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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John Jennings and Damian Duffy have adapted
Octavia Butler’s presciently dystopian novel 'Parable of the Sower' into a
graphic novel. more
Best Books 2019: Adult Graphic Novels
Here they are: The five graphic books considered by PW’s comics editors to be among the Best Books of 2019. They include Mira Jacob’s Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations (that’s Jacob on the cover); plus PW’s children’s editors have chosen five works of graphic fiction and nonfiction for the middle-grade and young adult Best Books lists. More 
Celebrate 35 Years of Rare and Iconic Imagery
This deluxe limited edition of 'Transformers: A Visual History' comes packaged in a beautiful collector’s box with an exclusive variant cover design and five gorgeous, frame-ready prints showcasing art from across the franchise! The book features packaging artwork, animation models, video game designs, comic pages, and production artwork from all six Paramount live-action films! (Sponsored) more 
Review: Sunspot Jungle: Vol. One Edited by Bill
Campbell
The first of a two-volume 1,000-page “SFF mixtape” anthology (each volume has 50 stories) collecting a mind-blowing, supremely diverse selection of global contemporary speculative fiction. Edited by Rosarium publisher/author Bill Campbell, the initial volume collects authors from Lebanon, Senegal, Canada, and Ethiopia, writing everything from steampunk adventure to techno–thrillers and fairy tales. More  
Interview:
The
Lost Future of Pepperharrow by Natasha Pulley PW talks with Natasha Pulley about The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, a sequel to her acclaimed historical fantasy novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street. The book's Victorian-era queer couple—watchmaker Thaniel Steepleton and clairvoyant Japanese clockmaker Keita Mori—are now set in a steampunk vision of 19th century Tokyo. Pulley talks about her research into Japanese language and culture, and into Victorian-era gay life. more 
Review:
Nancy
by Olivia Jaimes Not only have Nancy, Sluggo, and Aunt Fritzi—the beloved characters of Ernie Bushmiller’s venerable 80-year old comic strip—been revived in Olivia Jaimes’ now-viral reinvention of Bushmiller’s classic, but now they’re lit! in Jaimes’ version, the Nancy crew serve as a delightfully hip parody of the millennial obsession with social media, technology and internet memes. More 
Review:
The
Magic of Marie Laveau by Denise Alvarado Alvarado, an anthropologist and folklore specialist, has produced a meticulously researched account of the remarkable life of Marie Laveau, voo doo Queen of 19th century New Orleans. Using legal documents, oral testimony, and voo doo practice, Alvarado documents the life of Laveau, a free Catholic woman of color, and her key role in New Orleans’s mix of Creole voo doo religion, African religious practice, and Hoodoo magic culture. 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week on More to Come Calvin Reid interviews acclaimed comics writers Brian Michael Bendis and David F. Walker about their careers, their long-standing friendship, and the hardcover publication of ‘Naomi’ (with art by Jamal Campbell), a new book from DC and Bendis’s Wonder Comics teen imprint, that will launch a new superhero in the DC universe. More  
Set in Little, Rock, Arkansas in 1946, Jensen and Powell’s
riveting new graphic novel Two Dead is a vivid example of fiction
grounded in the brutal historical realities of race, politics, and crime
during the period. Based on research by Jensen, a former crime reporter, the
graphic novel is the story of Gideon Kemp, a returning WWII veteran and
trained law enforcement officer, secretly recruited to the police force by
the city’s mayor in an effort to put an end to the sadistic, violent tenure
of the longtime Police Chief Baily. A delusional racist, warped and haunted
by an incident from his past, Baily is, nevertheless, obsessed with
destroying the lunatic Mafia chief running the local crime scene—by any means
necessary. In this 10-page excerpt we also meet two African American
brothers—Jacob, a war hero who runs the local unofficial black police force,
and Esau, who works for the demented crime boss—in a gripping fictional evocation
of the lurid and violent social landscape of the 1940s racist American south.
Two Dead by Van Jensen and Nate Powell (the artist for March, John
Lewis’s acclaimed Civil Rights graphic memoir) will be published by Gallery
13 this month. Click the image above to view the full excerpt.
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Eleanor Davis’s new graphic novel 'The Hard
Tomorrow' is a milestone work of fiction that weaves together themes from her
life including the birth of a child, the death of a family member, and the
embrace of political confrontation and protest. more
U.S. Comics Publishers Tap a Rich Vein of Eurocomics
More U.S. trade book publishers than ever are licensing Franco-Belgian, Italian, Spanish, and northern European comics and offering new frontlist titles and archival collections of fiction and nonfiction in English translations. More 
The Rise and Fall
of Rod Serling The Twilight Man is a graphic novel biography that follows Hollywood revolutionary Rod Serling's rise to fame and descent into his own personal Twilight Zone. Before he became the master of science fiction, Rod Serling was just a writer who had to fight to make his voice heard. In doing so, he pushed the television industry to the edge of glory—and himself to the edge of sanity. (Sponsored) more 
Holiday Gift Guide 2019: Fiction
Known names (The Second Sleep by Robert Harris), newbies (Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin), and voices from many cultures (Urusei Yatsura by Rumiko Takahashi) are featured in this sparkling collection of wide ranging potential literary gifts for the upcoming holiday season. More  
Interview: PW Talks with K.M. Szpara
PW talks with the author of the novel Docile. Set in a near future America where the ultrarich can buy sexual slaves and the high-tech drugs that turn them into sexual submissives, this queer dystopian novel offers plenty of kinky gay sex in a sharply written and disturbing examination of power and consent. more 
Review: Maria M. by Gilbert Hernandez
One half of the acclaimed Hernandez brothers (Love and Rockets) graphic novel master storytellers, Gilbert offers an unforgettable portrait of Maria, a beguiling Latin American immigrant in the 1950s, with an irresistible attraction to bad men, complicated sexual liasons, and extreme violence. More 
F-Bomb Squad: Self-Help Books 2019–2020
New and veteran self-help authors offer a shelf of new titles with advice on sex (All the F*cking Mistakes by Gigi Engle), careers (The Middle Finger Project by Ash Ambirge), anger (Unfuck Your Anger and Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith G. Harper), and other issues, all accompanied by a cascade of strategically delivered F-Bombs. more 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons—recap their experiences at NYCC 2019, including events at New York Public Library, attendance, security, food, and, inevitably, inadequate restrooms, at Javits. Also The Harvey Awards and programming, including the ICv2 Insider Talks panel on “Comics in the Age of Streaming,” and the cohosts examine questions about “5G," a rumored dramatic revamp of the DC Universe’s iconic characters and timeline. More  
First published in English in 2011, this new edition of The
Drops of God by Tadashi Agi (a pseudonym for sibling creators Shin and
Yuko Kibayashi) with artwork by Shu Okimoto, will be released in a digital
edition by Comixology Originals. It’s the story of a rivalry between Kanzaki
Shizuku, the only son of a renowned wine critic who has recently passed away,
and Toomine Issei, a mysterious young star wine critic, as both seek to reap
the legacy of the deceased critic. An international manga bestseller, The
Drops of God is often credited with spurring wine sales in the regions it
has been published. In this 12-page excerpt Miyabi, a young female sommelier
(or wine expert), who has botched the pouring of a rare and expensive wine,
is rescued by Kanzaki’s dazzling skills as a sommelier. The first 11 volumes
of The Drops of God will be published digitally this month by Comixology
Originals. The pages of this excerpt are displayed in a vertical scroll but
remember once you are on a page, Japanese manga panels and the word balloons
must be read from right to left. Click the image above to view the full
excerpt.
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In his new graphic novel 'Heroes in Crisis',
Eisner Award-winning comics writer Tom King examines the impact of PTSD on
the emotional lives of battle-weary superheroes. more
Interview:
Stargazing
by Jen Wang After two acclaimed graphic novels for teens, Wang’s first work for middle grade readers is Inspired by her own childhood. Wang’s presents the story of two young girls from two very different Chinese American families. Christine Hong’s conservative household is focused on achievement and study, while her new friend Moon, raised by a single mom, is cocky and quick to fight. Their budding friendship is soon tested by a frightening new development. More 
For Britain's #1 Spy, It's Payback Time!
Jimmy Regent has got it all: intrigue, adventure, a license to shoot whomever he likes, and beautiful women falling at his feet. But now there’s a price to pay for his romantic conquests, the results of which have come calling in the worst possible way. That's Not Current raves, “…crazy, beautiful…another Garth Ennis winner!” (Sponsored) more 
Review:
Jay-Z:
Made in America by Michael Eric Dyson An acclaimed academic and cultural critic (he’s written more than 20 books) once dubbed “the Hip Hop Intellectual,” Dyson focuses his critical lens on Hip Hop’s megastar poet-mogul in this astute cultural biography. More  
Different Isn’t a Threat: PW Talks with Nnedi Okorafor
PW talks with acclaimed sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor about her new graphic novel LaGuardia, a witty allegorical response to U.S. anti-immigrant policy, that turns New York City’s LaGuardia Airport into LaGuardia Interplanetary Airport, tying the desperate movement of refugees around the globe with that of alien refugees fleeing across the galaxy. more 
Murder He Wrote:
PW
Talks with Howard Mittelmark PW talks with Mittlemark about his new comic crime novel Written Out. Just when it looks like he’s hit rock bottom—an ill-considered affair discovered by his wife started his downward spiral—hapless former New York book editor Roger Olivetti, now broke and homeless, hooks up with an old friend who persuades him to put her ailing elderly mother out of her misery for a fee. Dark and funny hijinks ensue in this lampoon of New York book publishing. More 
Review: Invisible Kingdom,Vol. 1 by G. Willow
Wilson and Christian Ward
In this new graphic novel, celebrated novelist and comics writer G. Willow Wilson, follows the motley crew of the cargo space ship Sundog in their rebellion against Lux, a future-society megacorporation that controls pretty much everything. Artist Ward’s vivid and detailed artwork combines with Wilson’s imaginative world building and hardboiled dialogue and in an epic science fiction saga. 
This Week on the More to Come Podcast
This week the More to Come crew—Calvin Reid, Heidi “The Beat” MacDonald and Kate Fitzsimons— discuss major leadership change and reorganization at Diamond Comics Distributors, the dominant U.S. comics distributor; preview New York Comic Con 2019; hail groundbreaking cartoonist Lynda Barry who received a MacArthur Genius Grant; lament the closure of IDW’s Black Crown imprint; and examine Japan’s global crackdown on manga piracy. More  
Best known for lavish and immersive theater productions, Cynthia
Von Buhler also works in the comics medium, creating graphic works that also
explore her fascination with secret societies, sensuality, power, and the
hunger for freedom. As praised for her paintings, illustration work, and
writing (she’s the author of multiple children’s books, as well as a
playwright) as she is for her imaginative events, she’s also the author of
two previous graphic novels, as well as the producer of The Illuminati Ball:
An Immersive Theater Event slated to be held at a “secret temple” in New York
City October 4. This 13-page excerpt from The Illuminati Ball, a
graphic novel tie-in to the Theater-Event, introduces the reader to a world
of lavish fantasy and to the 18th century roots of the Illuminati Ball. The
book will be published by Titan Comics this month. Click the image above
to view the full excerpt.
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