PW Comics World: More To Come

Cartoonist Tessa Hulls was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for the graphic memoir ‘Feeding Ghosts’; More To Come has returned to the Apple podcast app and to Spotify; more graphic book prizes; Diamond drama; tariff terror; toxic fandom; the Brooklyn Independent Comics Showcase; and the strange story of Safehaven.

Calvin interviews the curator, Carlo Quispe, and artists from 'Historietas: Latinx Comix as Alternative Histories: From the Bronx to the Lower East Side', a gallery exhibition of comics by seven artists organized by ABC No Rio 45 and ‘World War 3 Illustrated,’ and presented at the Clemente Cultural Center. Calvin talks with Quispe, Sandy Jimenez, and Sharon De La Cruz about their backgrounds and the comics they create.

Publishing news on IDW/Webtoon, Manga Mavericks, and Hiveworks; a distribution roundup on PanelFly, Diamond update, AMP, and Mad Cave; Free Comic Book Day on May 3; a sales chart news roundup; a Frank Quitely auction controversy, and what’s up with Comics Journalism.

An interview with comics writer James Tynion IV about his new comic 'Exquisite Corpses' created with artist Michael Walsh, coming out from Image comics in May, as well as video games, comics and his career.

Alliance Entertainment appears to win the battle for Diamond Comics Distributors; it looks like no tariffs on books; Heidi recaps her trip to WonderCon and Calvin reports on the L’Alliance Comic Arts Fest; Boom! hires Andy Schmidt as EIC; Studio Ghibli and AI; plus AnimeCon chaos in Ohio.

Interviews with comics creators Ellen Lindner, Matt Madden, Boum, Melissa Chan & Badicauo at the 2025 SI MoCCA Arts Festival.

Alliance Entertainment’s acquisition of Diamond Comic Distributors; the SI MoCCA Festival report; a new partnership between Square Enix and PRH to promote manga; the release of British cartoonist R.E. Burke from detention by ICE; the removal of comics about women astronauts from the NASA website; and censorship of three graphic novels in Pennsylvania; plus an interview with Bill Kartalopoulos by Meg Lemke at SI MoCCA.

Interviews with comics creators Mattie Lubchansky, Tom Kaczynski, John Vazquez Mejias and Chloé Wary as well as Gina Gagliano at the 2025 SI MoCCA Arts Festival.

PW’s annual feature on comics retailing, in addition the latest news on the Diamond bankruptcy; plus this weekend’s MoCCA Art Festival is now called SI MoCCA Fest; whether Comic Cons are becoming general pop culture fairs; ICE detains a British comics artist; publishing Batman; creators criticize Marvel’s contracts; and new documentaries on Jack Kirby and Stan Lee are coming.

An interview with cartoonist Jamar Nicholas, writer and artist of the new graphic novel ‘Leon: Worst Friends Forever’ (with color by Bonaio Rosado), the latest volume of his middle grade series about Leon, a young black superhero, his family and friends, and his adventures at home and at school.