PW Comics World: More To Come

A recap of the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con: Marvel shows out, DC goes All-In, new publishing ventures, Eisner award-winners, PW’s Book Buzz panel, the Con Daily, The Beat marks 20 years with Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, manga and webtoons, pricey food, Covid at the Con and, more.

In part 4 of More to Come's SDCC 2024 coverage, Calvin Reid talks with cartoonist Tim Fielder from the floor of Comic-Con and they talk about Fielder's new book, 'The Graphic History of Hip Hop', created with Afrofuturist scholar Walter Greason, signings and panels at the show, his new publishing venture, and more.

In part 3 of More to Come's SDCC 2024 coverage, Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald talks with comics writer Scott Snyder and artist Nick Dragotta about DC's new All In initiative coming this October, and Meg Lemke interviews comics creator Jordan Morris about his new YA graphic novel 'Youth Group', about teen exorcists.

In part 2 of More to Come's SDCC 2024 coverage, PW graphic novel reviews editor Meg Lemke talks with Katie Cook, comics creator of 'Nothing Special'; and interviews comics artist Joe Sutphin and Richard Adams's daughter Juliet Johnson about the graphic novel adaptation of 'Watership Down'.

In part 1 of More to Come's SDCC 2024 coverage, PW graphic novel reviews editor Meg Lemke talks with Eric Nakamura of Giant Robot about the upcoming book 'Giant Robot: 30 Years of Defining Asian American Pop-Culture'; and interviews Patrick Horvath, comics creator of the graphic novel 'Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees'.

A preview of the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, which runs from July 24-28; the 7% decline in 2023 comics and graphic novel sales; DC’s Absolute revamp and move to Discord; American Manga Award nominations; Omnibus Digital’s shut down, and AI art on Etsy.

PRH acquires Boom! Studios; Macmillan’s 23rd Street Books adult GN imprint, DC’s Absolute comics revamp, DSTLRY picks Diamond, Hollywood picks a D&Q graphic novel; Jim Lee gets paid, PW’s Fall Comics and Graphic Novel Preview, and Tapas Entertainment.

Writer Joe Casey talks about his new take (along with artist Sebastián Píriz) on Jonny Quest series to be published by Dynamite Comics and his career from Ben 10 to Blood Squad Seven, including the state of corporate comics, working for Image and more.

The coming Webtoon IPO and Blackstone’s $1B acquisition of Japan’s Infocom digital comics platform; job moves: Jamie Rich!; Japan Society, AnimeNYC launch the American Manga Awards; Marvel Rebrands, Get Jiro and Super Mutant Magic Academy go to Adult Swim; VanCAF controversy; AI trouble at DC; and the cost of a table in NYCC’s Artist Alley.

Calvin and PW graphic novels reviews editor Meg Lemke discuss John Vasquez Mejias’s ‘The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History,’ a dynamic, visually surreal history of violent Puerto Rican nationalist uprisings in the 1950s; and Anna Härmälä’s ‘Singlemothering,’ a funny yet reliable guide to the social and emotional challenges facing single moms.