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PW Comics World is Publishers Weekly's online outlet for coverage of news, feature stories, interviews and business reports on graphic novel and comics publishing. PW Comics World reports on the comics marketplace in both the general trade book market and in direct market comics shops. You can visit the archives of our old page from our time as the PW Comics Week weekly newsletter here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PW-Comics-Week/137304996309087

The Very Last Days of Diamond Comics - UPDATED
01/05/2026

The Very Last Days of Diamond Comics - UPDATED

Diamond Comics shut down for the final time on Wednesday, December 31st 2025, and it was eulogized in both images and words

10 Amazing Books That ‘Best Graphic Novels Of 2025’ Lists May Have Missed
12/29/2025

10 Amazing Books That ‘Best Graphic Novels Of 2025’ Lists May Have Missed

A few great graphic novels from 2025 that deserve a spotlight in a year when more celebrated creators are getting most of the attention.

Angoulême international comics festival canceled in the wake of publisher and artist boycotts
12/29/2025

Angoulême international comics festival canceled in the wake of publisher and artist boycotts

The 52nd edition of the Angouleme Comics Festival, one of the oldest international comics events, has been scrapped following mass protests against the organizers.

NYC Council approves JACK KIRBY WAY street
12/22/2025

NYC Council approves JACK KIRBY WAY street

After decades of effort, intersection of Essex and Delancey streets on the Lower East Side will be named Jack Kirby Way!

More to Come 704: The Year in Review
12/19/2025

More to Come 704: The Year in Review

This week on More to Come, cohosts Calvin Reid, Heidi 'The Beat' MacDonald, and Kate Fitzsimons 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 W...

12/18/2025

Ablaze Publishing Buys NBM

The Portland, Ore.–based Ablaze has acquired the venerable graphic novel publisher’s nearly five-decade backlist, all current contracts, and its imprint brand, with NBM founder Terry Nantier staying on as a consultant and packager.

Ablaze Acquires NBM
12/17/2025

Ablaze Acquires NBM

In Asset Sale, Nantier to Package

What Diamond’s Chapter 7 filing might mean
12/17/2025

What Diamond’s Chapter 7 filing might mean

What does Diamond's Chapter 7 filing mean for publishers? And what does a bankruptcy administrator do all day?

Diamond Bankruptcy Moves to Chapter 7
12/17/2025

Diamond Bankruptcy Moves to Chapter 7

After trying for nearly a year to restructure the company, the key comics and graphic novel distributor has filed for Chapter 7 and will now focus on selling off its assets.

Go Big: PW Talks to Adam Rose
12/15/2025

Go Big: PW Talks to Adam Rose

In the LA-based comics writer and film script consultant’s newest graphic novel, Huge Detective (Titan Comics), Australia gets reimagined as a realm of giants, renamed as the sovereign nation of Brobdingnag.

Panel Mania: 'Total THB Volume 1' by Paul Pope. A 10-page excerpt.
12/15/2025

Panel Mania: 'Total THB Volume 1' by Paul Pope. A 10-page excerpt.

Originally self-published in the 1990s, Paul Pope’s 'Total THB Vol. 1' is the first of three volumes reprinting and collecting Pope’s influential and playful sci-fi epic. A 10-page excerpt.

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