PW Comics World: More To Come

Heidi talks with Gemma Correll about her new memoir, 'Anxietyland', which chronicles her battle with severe anxiety in her trademark style. They also discuss her career, her most popular comic, and how to be a cartoonist on Instagram.

Major layoffs at Marvel and Disney and their potential AI connections; growth at Tiny Onion and GlobalComix; a new comics art festival for Brooklyn; a drop in young teen manga readers in Japan; indie comics Monstress and Niobe get animated adaptations; the return of superstar artists; and Stars and Stripes drops comic strips and gets backlash.

Live from the Metropolitan Pavilion in NYC, Calvin talks with Kendra Boileau, editor in chief of Penn State University Press and publisher of Graphic Mundi, its nonfiction comics imprint; Liz Frances, publisher of Street Noise Books; Rand Hoppe, executive director of the Jack Kirby Museum; and Charles Kochman, editor in chief of Abrams ComicArts.

Atom Freeman of Prana Direct Market Solutions joins Heidi to talk about the debut of 'Comics! The Magazine', a new print magazine that reaches comics readers in a new (yet old) way. He also discusses how Prana is developing sales charts for the entire industry.

Heidi visits the ComicsPRO annual retailer and publisher meeting, now that the press has been invited; announcements from ComicsPro; Kodansha's record-setting year in comic shops; Toyfair in the year of tariffs; a new Jack Kirby exhibit; and Seven Seas teams up with GlobalComix for all-you-can-read digital comics, and announces a Baihe imprint.

PW's Spring Previews issue; the GNCRT Outstanding Comics awards; Diamond's Chapter 7 bankruptcy and the effect on DSTLRY and micro-publishers; reported mass layoffs at Kindle Comics/ex-Comixology; fan responses to the shutdown of the Bato webtoon and manga piracy empire; Jim Lee's controversial praise of manga; Will Eisner; Minneapolis; and Angouleme plans a new festival with respect and women.

An interview with cartoonist and illustrator Tom Gaul, about science cartooning and his latest collection of cartoons, 'Physics for Cats'. Gauld's work has appeared in 'New Scientist' magazine as well as 'The Guardian', 'The New Yorker', and 'The New York Times.'

What’s coming in 2026, including the state of Marvel and DC, comics sales, indie comics, Webtoon, manga, a Chinese convention manga ban, and AI translation; plus, the Diamond aftermath, Universal Distribution, censorship, the relaunch of Vertigo, and new book projects.

A look back on the biggest stories in graphic novel and comics publishing in 2025, from the Diamond Distributors bankruptcy debacle to Batman’s absolute triumph. Plus graphic novel and comics sales, the Warner Bros. sale, Angoulême festival cancellation, AI controversy, convention update, startups and more.

The best graphic novels of the year from PW's annual Best Books 2025 list; ComicsPRO and its annual comics retailing report; update on the Angoulême crisis; a report on Baltimore Comic Con; news from Crunchyroll; the Frieren manga series goes on indefinite hiatus because of the health of the creative team; and More To Come announces a break from programming while we revamp our format.