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Manga the Week of 3/31/21

SEAN: March ain’t going out like a lamb when it comes to manga.

ASH: True, that!

SEAN: Airship has two print books; Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 14.5 and Mushoku Tensei 9.

Denpa’s website lists femme fatale: The Art of Shuzo Oshimi for next week. An artbook dedicated to the creator of Flowers of Evil, Blood on the Tracks and more.

They’ve also got The Girl with the Sanpaku Eyes 2 listed.

Ghost Ship has Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs 13.

No debuts from J-Novel Club, but we do get the 10th and final volume of The Combat Baker and Automaton Waitress. We also see Demon Lord, Retry! 6, The Epic Tale of Reincarnated Prince Herscherik 4, Holmes of Kyoto 4, My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered, No One in This Other World Stands a Chance Against Me! 4, and The White Cat’s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King’s Lap 4. Desu.

Kaiten Books has a 2nd volume of My Dad’s the Queen of All VTubers?!.

Debuting in print for Kodansha is Chasing After Aoi Koshiba (Kyou, Koshiba Aoi ni Aetara), a yuri manga from Ichijinsha’s Comic REX. It’s got the writer of Masamune-kun’s Revenge (ehh…) and the artist of Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (yay!). A girl hopes to meet up with her first love at a reunion.

ASH: Seems like it has potential.

MELINDA: Agreed.

Also in print: Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 6, Heaven’s Design Team 4, The Quintessential Quintuplets 13, and Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie 3.

Digitally we get two debuts. The first is She’s My Knight (Ikemen Kanojo to Heroine na Ore!?), which runs in Kodansha’s Palcy, and features a popular young man having to deal with falling in love with a girl more popular AND more manly than he is!

ANNA: This sounds amusing.

SEAN: We also get Those Snow-White Notes (Mashiro no Oto). This is a biggie, as it’s already 27 volumes in Japan. It’s multi-award winning, runs in Weekly Shonen Magazine, is by the author of Baby & Me and A Vampire and His Pleasant Companions, and is for the Shamisen what Chihayafuru is for Hyakunin Isshu. It also has an anime this spring!

MICHELLE: I’m super excited about this one!

ASH: I love shamisen so much.

MELINDA: Okay, I’m ready!

SEAN: And we get A Condition Called Love 7, Elegant Yokai Apartment Life 21, How Do You Do, Koharu? 2, I Want To Hold Aono-kun So Badly I Could Die 7, My Unique Skill Makes Me OP Even at Level 1 3, and Saint Young Men 11.

MICHELLE: I need to get caught up on several of these.

MELINDA: Same here.

SEAN: Seven Seas debuts two manga based on light novels they also have. Drugstore in Another World: The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist (Cheat Kusushi no Slow Life: Isekai ni Tsukurou Drugstore) runs in Takeshobo’s Web Comic Gamma Plus, and is about… well, the title.

ASH: So many titles these days are helpful like that, perhaps overly so.

SEAN: And there is also ROLL OVER AND DIE: I Will Fight for an Ordinary Life with My Love and Cursed Sword! (“Omae Gotoki ga Maou ni Kateru to Omou na” to Yuusha Party o Tsuihou Sareta node, Outo de Kimama ni Kurashitai), which runs in Micro Magazine’s Comic Ride, and combines yuri and gore-filled grimdark quite nicely.

Seven Seas also has the digital debut of four more Alice books, which focus on Elliot March and Tweedle Dee/Dum. If I recall correctly, the Twins books were the smuttiest in the series.

ANNA: No thank you!

SEAN: They’ve also got BL Metamorphosis 4, the third and final volume of Ghostly Things, High-Rise Invasion 17-18, Himouto! Umaru-chan Vol. G1 (also a final volume, sort of – it’s a one-shot continuation), the fifth and final volume of How to Treat Magical Beasts: Mine and Master’s Medical Journal, Made in Abyss 9, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid 10, and Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General 6.

MICHELLE: Someday I really will read BL Metamorphosis.

ASH: You really should! It is wonderful.

MELINDA: I also need to read it!

SEAN: Two debuts for Yen On. The first is a spinoff. I Was a Bottom-Tier Bureaucrat for 1,500 Years, and the Demon King Made Me a Minister (Hira Yakunin Yatte 1500-nen, Maou no Chikara de Daijin ni Sare Chaimashita) features Beelzebub and her demonic crew from I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years having adventures of their own.

The other is Yokohama Station SF, the story of a boy who is allowed to search the giant subway terminal that the world of Japan has become. This looks pretty cool, actually.

MICHELLE: It looks super cool! I always love stories about exploring sprawling structures (like BLAME, for example).

ASH: I’m definitely picking this one up! It looks like it should help fill the SF hole left by Viz’s Haikasoru imprint being on hiatus.

MELINDA: This one sounds so interesting!

Also out next week: 86 ~Eighty-Six~ 7, new reprints of the 5th and 6th Haruhi Suzumiya novels, The Hero Is Overpowered But Overly Cautious 6, and Rascal Does Not Dream of Siscon Idol (the 4th in the series).

Yen Press has many manga debuts next week. We start with Can’t Stop Cursing You (Dareka o Norawazu ni Irarenai Kono Sekai de), a dark little horror title from Gangan Online. A curse detective uses their powers to track down killers.

ASH: I’m curious about this one.

MELINDA: This actually does sound like my kind of thing.

Goblin Slayer Side Story II: Dai Katana gets a manga version of its light novel. It runs in Square Enix’s Manga Up!.

Love and Heart (Koi to Shinzou) is a shoujo horror title from Hakusensha’s Manga Park. A college woman recovering from a breakup now finds she has a new roommate, who says he’s her old childhood friend. But… is he?

ANNA: I’m intrigued by the idea of shoujo horror.

MICHELLE: Yeah, this could be interesting.

ASH: Shoujo horror is one of my faves.

MELINDA: Ooooooooo.

SEAN: Love of Kill (Koroshi Ai) runs in Media Factory’s Comic Gene, and is about a pair of assassins engaging in… sigh… a deadly game of cat and mouse. (No, they’re not cats and mice, I just sighed at the cliche.) I’ve actually heard this is pretty cool.

ANNA: Sometimes I enjoy assassins!

ASH: Likewise!

MELINDA: Me too!

SEAN: Lastly, we see When a Magician’s Pupil Smiles (Mahou Tsukai no Deshi ga Warau Toki), a 3-in-1 omnibus collecting the entire manga. It ran in Shonen Gangan, and also seems to fall into the horror suspense theme Yen’s March debuts are falling into.

ASH: I tend to enjoy a fair amount of the subgenre, so I’m okay with the trend.

SEAN: In non-debuts, we get 86 ~Eighty-Six~’s second manga volume, Bungo Stray Dogs 18, Carole & Tuesday 2, Do You Love Your Mom? 4 (manga version), Fiancee of the Wizard 3, Im – Great Priest Imhotep 8, Kaiju Girl Caramelize 4, Karneval 11, Last Round Arthurs 2 (manga version), Lust Geass 3, Reborn As a Polar Bear 5, Strawberry Fields Once Again 2, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Ways of the Monster Nation 4, and The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions 2.

ASH: I am so far behind on my Yen reading!

SEAN: Oof. There is a lot there. Do you see favorites?

By: Sean Gaffney

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December 2019 Highlights follow - plus our monthly Stocks Rising report - titles that we have gone back to the well to order more.. based on your preorders! Place preorders by reply or emailing the shop... or using our Preorder Form https://blog.mk1.co.nz/dec2019

HIGHLIGHTS: COMICS

INCOMING #1 $17.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190860

ANNIHILATION SCOURGE OMEGA #1 $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190877

CONAN SERPENT WAR #1 (OF 4) $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190892

2099 OMEGA #1 $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190942

DR STRANGE #1 $9.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190945

REVENGE OF COSMIC GHOST RIDER #1 (OF 5) $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190950

SYMBIOTE SPIDER-MAN ALIEN REALITY #1 (OF 5) $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190971

SPIDER-HAM #1 (OF 5) $9.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190981

STAR WARS RISE KYLO REN #1 (OF 4) $10.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191067

STAR WARS SAGA #1 $9.00 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191071

STAR WARS EMPIRE ASCENDANT #1 $11.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191072

YEAR OF THE VILLAIN HELL ARISEN #1 (OF 4) $10.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190463

HARLEY QUINN VILLAIN OF THE YEAR #1 $10.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190466

OCEAN MASTER YEAR OF THE VILLAIN #1 $10.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190468

LOW LOW WOODS #1 (OF 6) (MR) $9.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190469

DARK KNIGHT RETURNS THE GOLDEN CHILD #1 $11.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190471

SUICIDE SQUAD #1 $10.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190476

INFECTED DEATHBRINGER #1 $9.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190479

INFECTED THE COMMISSIONER #1 $9.00 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190480

TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE THE JUDAS CONTRACT #1 $11.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190482

WONDER WOMAN DEAD EARTH #1 (OF 4) (MR) $13.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190490

LUCY CLAIRE REDEMPTION #1 $9.00 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190033

PROJECT X-MAS #1 CVR A TOP SECRET (MR) $9.00 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190035

HELLBOY & THE BPRD THE SEVEN WIVES CLUB CVR A HUGHES $10.00 DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190340

DYING IS EASY #1 (OF 5) CVR A SIMMONDS $10.00 IDW PUBLISHING https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190712

WELLINGTON #1 (OF 5) CVR A KOWALSKI $9.00 IDW PUBLISHING https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190716

KILL LOCK #1 $9.00 IDW PUBLISHING https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190802

HIGHLIGHTS: Volumes, Books, Graphic Novels, Collected Editions

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE TP $49.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191107

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE SCREAM TP $29.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191108

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE MILES MORALES TP $29.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191109

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE LETHAL PROTECTORS TP $29.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191110

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE VS DEADPOOL TP $29.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191111

ABSOLUTE CARNAGE IMMORTAL HULK & OTHER TALES TP $29.90 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191112

SHADOW OF THE BATGIRL TP $29.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190493

DREAMING TP VOL 02 EMPTY SHELLS (MR) $34.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190657

HARLEEN HC (MR) $59.90 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190670

OVER MY DEAD BODY TP $29.90 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190056

SEA OF STARS TP VOL 01 $29.90 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190059

SONATA TP VOL 01 (MR) $39.90 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190065

UNEARTH TP VOL 01 (MR) $29.90 IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190071

STRANGER THINGS ZOMBIE BOYS VOL 01 $24.90 DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190311

LEGEND OF KORRA TP PART 03 RUINS OF EMPIRE $24.90 DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190364

BERSERK DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 04 (MR) $89.90 DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190398

CROW HACK SLASH TP VOL 01 $29.90 IDW PUBLISHING https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190812

NO LONGER HUMAN HC JUNJI ITO (MR) $59.90 VIZ MEDIA https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192289

MY HERO ACADEMIA GN VOL 22 $19.90 VIZ MEDIA https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192290

ONE PUNCH MAN GN VOL 18 $19.90 VIZ MEDIA https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192291

DRAGON BALL SUPER GN VOL 07 $19.90 VIZ MEDIA https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192292

TOKYO GHOUL RE GN VOL 14 $24.90 VIZ MEDIA https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192293

December Stocks Rising Report

This listing is a summary of comic titles that we have gone back to publisher to order more as your preorders roll in .. It’s a good indicator of what is hot and worthy of a second look. Check it out and let us know if you would like to climb onboard any of these..

AQUAMAN GIANT #2 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190486

BATWOMAN SUPERGIRL WORLDS FINEST GIANT #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190484

CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS GIANT #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190451

FLASH GIANT #2 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190485

SWAMP THING GIANT #2 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190448

WONDER WOMAN GIANT #2 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190450

-all the DC Giants are doing well - 100 pages for $10 bucks featurning new and reprints..

BATGIRL #41 YOTV ACETATE DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG190597

BATMAN #83 CARD STOCK VAR ED DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190474

BATMAN BEYOND #39 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190505

BATMAN BEYOND #39 VAR ED DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190506

-Batgirl and Batman variants are on the climb!

BERSERK DELUXE EDITION HC VOL 04 DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190398 The Berserk Manga preorders keep on climbing!

BLADE RUNNER 2019 #5 CVR A POPE (MR) TITAN COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT192112 New Story Arc - great jumping on point

CAPTAIN MARVEL #13 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT191027 The last Avenger storyline is grabbing new readers

CONAN SERPENT WAR #1 (OF 4) MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190892 It’s a Robert E Howard crossover story - more preorders are in for this series than the two Age of Conan preceeeding mini series.

CRONE #1 (OF 5) DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190258 Pick of the upcoming indie launches so far - in terms of preorders received..

FOLKLORDS #1 (OF 5) (3RD PTG) COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP198912

https://mark1.vendecommerce.com/search?q=folklords*&type=product Another Boom Studios hit! Plus Matt Kindt!

HACK SLASH 15TH ANNV CELEBRATION (ONE-SHOT) IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190048 Hack Slash - I just covered subscribers for this title - wrong move!

DARK KNIGHT RETURNS THE GOLDEN CHILD #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT198002 New Batman and New Frank Miller and New Rafael Grampá Art!

DEADPOOL #1 MARVEL COMICS https://mark1.vendecommerce.com/products/deadpool-1-2 New DEADPOOL creative team Kelly Thompson and Chris Bachalo

DR STRANGE #1 MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190945 New Series.. New Direction.. New Jump on point - SurgeonSupreme!

The first sell out of the Dawn of X launches - should have more first printings back soon - followed by 2nd printings!

FALLEN ANGELS #1 DX MARVEL COMICS https://mark1.vendecommerce.com/products/fallen-angels-1-dx

FALLEN ANGELS #2 DX MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190776

X-FORCE #2 DX MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190767

NEW MUTANTS #2 DX MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190758 Dialed back on the #2 issues for a few of the Dawn of X - shouldn’t have done that!

We have been selling the variants for each of the Harley Quinn & Poison Ivy series in pairs - cool connecting covers!

HARLEY QUINN & POISON IVY #3 (OF 6) DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190496

HARLEY QUINN & POISON IVY #4 (OF 6) DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190539

HELLBOY & THE BPRD THE SEVEN WIVES CLUB CVR A HUGHES DARK HORSE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190340 I’m a Hellboy fan so ordering more Hellboy comics makes me happy!

KILLADELPHIA #1 CVR A ALEXANDER (MR) IMAGE COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190042 Another Indie gem to watch - arrives this week

Money Shot on the up (was on last month’s list - so we still haven’t found our order maximum yet).

MONEY SHOT #1 (2ND PTG) (MR) VAULT COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP198506

MONEY SHOT #1 (2ND PTG) BLACK BAG BURNHAM VAR (MR) VAULT COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP198507

It’s easy to overlook a series launch in comics - some titles get drowned out - early preorder requests help !

SPACE RIDERS VORTEX OF DARKNESS #2 (MR) BLACK MASK COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/JUN191572

WELLINGTON #1 (OF 5) CVR A KOWALSKI IDW PUBLISHING https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190716

Sell outs for almost all of the TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE one shots - I’m ordering more from the back issue market.. https://mark1.vendecommerce.com/search?q=TALES%20FROM%20THE%20DARK%20MULTIVERSE*&type=product

TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE BATMAN KNIGHTFALL #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG190461

TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE DEATH OF SUPERMAN #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/AUG190462

TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE INFINITE CRISIS #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190469

TALES FROM THE DARK MULTIVERSE THE JUDAS CONTRACT #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190482

UNCANNY X-MEN #266 FACSIMILE EDITION MARVEL COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/SEP190926 Gambit’s first appearance gets the New Old Comic treatment!

There’s a weird sales dip that happens with Bendis titles - they start off strong, but we see a taill off from about the 5th issue then preorders jump up again by the tenth - normally as Bendis’s long view plans start to coalesce - or it could be it takes that long for news to spread to his less frequent store visitor fan base.. who knows - but YJ preorders are on the climb as are his Super titles..

YOUNG JUSTICE #11 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190609

SUPERMAN #18 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190580 - Super Status Quo change!

NEW YEARS EVIL #1 DC COMICS https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT190481 Year of the Villain DC one shot connected - pretty cool cover - here next week!

Jan 2020 Preorder Form is up https://blog.mk1.co.nz/JAN2020

#comics #coming soon #mk1 December 2019

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Continuing with our wide-ranging survey of creators from every end of the business on what happened and what’s coming. A lot of people who responded e this year talked about the development of a new distribution system or channel for comics as being a big story for 2019. It seem there is a lot of dissatisfaction with how comics are sold these days, no duh. What do you think? Is there a savior on the horizon? You can check out the other parts of the survey here.

Kwanza Osajyefo, writer

2019 Projects: H1 Comics from Humanoids and WHITE, the sequel to BLACK

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? The growth of the graphic novels among titles that don’t perform as well in the direct market.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Comic distribution becoming more multi-channel along with the direct market

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Figuring out what is going on in Paper Girls

Who inspired you in 2018? Everyone, I think so many of our peers have been operating on ten this year. I think the flood of comics content into the mainstream has really gotten us fired up, not to get our work into other mediums but to imagine on a larger scale.

Tony Shenton. Sales rep and consultant

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? The death of Stan Lee

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? The ongoing legal battle Cody Pikrodt has started vs. small presses and creators

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Not a guilty pleasure at all: RUN from Abrams.

Gary Tyrrell, Blogger

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? Spike Trotman. She’s tearing up the industry with Iron Circus, and she’ll be launching a YA imprint — she’s making it so a lot of future superstars have a place to start their careers.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Raina Telgemeier’s next book will have an initial print run of one million. That’s mindbending.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Perp walks of high federal officials and Trump family members. So many perp walks.

Who inspired you in 2018? Pat Race — he and his team have put together something extraordinarily special in the Alaska Robotics Comics Camp, and it’s creating new relationships and creative networks among comics creators at all stages of their careers. The future will remember it as equivalent to the Algonquin Round Table.

Mariah McCourt, Creator

2019 Projects: STITCHED #3 and a new series for AHOY! comics

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? That comics are for everyone, stories matter, and so does representation.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Hopefully more focus on amazing creators, the diversity of content, and the continuing impact and relevancy of the medium.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? No guilty pleasures here, I’m looking forward to seeing all the new books in the works!

Joe Field, Retailer

2019 Projects: A new space to expand Flying Colors for events and sales

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? There was no one biggest story in comics. It was a thousand shards of glass rather than just one big picture window.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Cruise to the Edge, a prog rock themed cruise in February. No cell phones, no worries, just some great people having a peace party at sea.

Who inspired you in 2018? My wife Libby continues to be my inspiration. We celebrate our 40th anniversary in late February (so good then, even better now). The non-profit work she does in helping women with crisis pregnancies while also managing Flying Colors’ back office and reveling in her role as a grandmother is so inspiring to me.

Amy Chu, writer

2019 Projects: Summit (Lion Forge), Sea Sirens with Janet Lee (Viking Press), Pros & Cons (Dark Horse)

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? Kid’s graphic novels are $$$ – Dave Pilkey 3 million print run for his fifth Dog Man book; Raina Telgemeier 1 million for Guts

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Kid’s graphic novels

Glenn Hauman, publisher at ComicMix, designated victim of “They Keep Killing Glenn”

2019 Projects: What 2019 projects am I working on that I can talk about? More omnibus editions for GrimJack, Soulsearchers & Company, and Deadbeats, and new… oh, dammit, I can’t talk about that yet. Arrgh.

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? The passing of Stan Lee. We all knew it was going to happen someday, and yet… we all thought we might get a pass on this one, you know?

And speaking of Marvel greats leaving: Bendis at DC.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? The All-New, All-Different Stan Lee 2.0!

And the bankruptcy of projects intended to get money from C*****gate people.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? The resolution of certain legal proceedings.

Thomas Ragon, Publisher

2019 Projects:

Roman Muradov’s next book “The Adventures of Munich in Marcel Duchamp”.

Thierry Smolderen & Alexandre Clérisse’s (whose “Atom Empire” & “Diabolik Summer” are translated or about to be by IDW) next graphic Novel : “Une année sans Cthulhu” (A year without Cthulhu).

After Glenn Gould, Sandrine Revel’s book about Canadian painter Tom Thomson Two major sets of exhibitions, in chronological order : Blutch has several exhibitions throughout 2019 in Strasbourg, and we’re working on a monograph to be released early March. Joann Sfar will be exhibited at the Basel Cartoon Museum and Lucerne festival “Fumetto”.

Ron Wimberly’s “Prince of Cats” French edition.

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? Ron Wimberly’s LAAB #0 ; The French authors collective movement to obtain better social and economic conditions from both publishers and government.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Borja Gonzalez having a worldwide success with his THE BLACK HOLES.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Discovering new excellent restaurants thanks to my job. Discovering new great bookstores thanks to my job.

Who inspired you in 2018? Blutch and Joann Sfar are always inspiring me, in many ways.

Nat Gertler, writer/publisher

2019 Projects: While my 2019 writing projects are for other people to announce, my first publishing project of the new year reflects on the 90th anniversary of the Great Depression by reprinting a book of cartoons by the great Otto Soglow, done during the depression.

Preview pages below.

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? The triumph of diversity against anti-diversity forces.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Good comics. It’s always good comics, and there are always good comics for the story to be about. All the industry games mean nothing without that.

Christian Beranek, Writer

2019 projects: Kelci Crawford and I will be wrapping up Validation and then moving forward with Tiny Unicorn. (See below) Also writing loads of prose stories.

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? Black Panther. I wish its box office success translated into more sales, however. We have to find a way to turn film audiences onto the source material.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? A massive wave of quality comics bringing in new readers.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? Any time taken away from writing. I want to work as much as possible but know you need breaks. I plan on reading more books in the Foundation series. Looking forward to that show.

Who inspired you in 2018? Tony DiGerolamo. The guy is a writing machine and really understands the mechanics of storytelling. More companies should consider hiring him.

Sanika Phawde, Cartoonist

2019 Projects: My biggest project scheduled to be completed in 2019 is my newest graphic novel. The project is still untitled but it presents an autofiction story about the journey of learning to love myself, and learning to accept my body and sexuality, as a freshly adult immigrant in New York city .

The story communicates through mix-media drawings on location, memoir comics, sketchbook pages, illustrated poetry, and even a few instances of fold-out paper architecture.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? I am really looking forward to going back home to Mumbai after a year, and eating a Nescafe flavoured ice cream sandwich in the winter heat with my best friend, while sitting on the wall that keeps the Arabian sea out of the city.

Who inspired you in 2018? Julian Glander, Jaron Braxton, Veronica Lawlor, Nora Krug, Robert Sikoryak, Brian Rea, Alex Norris, Lizzo, Melissa Guerrero (practices activism through food), Janelle Monae

Christopher Butcher, TCAF Artistic Director & VIZ Media Editorial Consultant

2019 Projects: TCAF 2019 is gearing up and it’s going to have one of the strongest and most diverse guest lists in our history. It’s going to be a pretty amazing year to be there, whether you love kids comics, YA comics, Adult comics, North American or International Comics. We’re pretty hyped!

On the VIZ side of things, though there’s a ton still to be announced, several of the series I’ve had a hand in are starting or continuing into 2019. Look out for the YA LGBTQ series “That Blue Sky Feeling” to get its 2nd and 3rd and final volume next year, the amazing/disturbing BEASTARS will start next year (like if Zootopia were a little more food-chain accurate?), and the recently-debuted gorgeous SF title Ran and The Grey World will start to turn some heads.

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? That’s tough. The industry is so fragmented at this point, that stories that were huge in one area barely made a ripple in others. Straddling graphic novel publishing, manga publishing, and with a toe still in superhero publishing, it’s amazing the times people would pull me aside and ask “So what was that about, exactly? All I saw was the hashtag…”

So… yeah I dunno. I think the biggest ‘story’ probably wasn’t written, but it was about the continued evolution of this industry as it happened. The house-cleaning and secret-revealing that needed to happen, some of the editorial attitudes around projects looking pretty terrible when exposed to the light of day, the continued vertical integration in licensed properties, all of it points to a maturing industry, which is both good and bad. More professionalism, but less room for the sort of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants stuff that made comics very, very exciting about 10 years ago.

I think most folks involved will take ‘professionalism’ any day of the week though!

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? Pogs, baby! POGS!

No but seriously, I have no idea. There’s so much up in the air right now, 2019 is going to be bumpy for sure.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? If it’s not hurting anyone, then there’s no point in feeling guilty about pleasure. Enjoy yourselves, it’s tough out there. 🙂

Who inspired you in 2018? My husband, Andrew Woodrow-Butcher, who was enormously patient and supportive while I took risks and traveled around the world, all while working 60 hours a week making sure Canadian schools and libraries have the best comic collections in the world, re-opening the world’s first kids comic book store (Little Island Comics!), sending Canadians to comic festivals around the world, and of course, programming a big part of TCAF. He’s a constant inspiration to me, I’m lucky to have him.

Ben Towle, Cartoonist

2019 Projects: The main project I’ve been working on in 2018 is a non-fiction graphic novel for the new imprint Dead Reckoning, which specializes in comics about things historical and/or military-related.

The book’s called Four Fisted Tales and it’s a collection of real-life stories about animals used in combat.

Here’s a sample page:

And here’s an in-progress rough:

I’m also continuing to work on–albeit a lot more slowly–my book In the Weeds about cooking and playing rock music in the 1990’s. It’s my first foray into the great comics tradition of “funny animals” characters. Here’s an in-progress rough from that:

It probably seems like I’ve disappeared since Oyster War came out a few years back, but I’ve been hard at work on TWO books, I promise!

What was the biggest story in comics in 2018? That’s gotta be the announcement of not one, but TWO, forthcoming books from Raina Telgemeier. When the most highly-read and most popular cartoonist in North America announces a book, it’s a big flippin’ deal. TWO books in the same year is bonkers news.

What will be the biggest story in comics in 2019? OK…Well, it’s only a big story for ME, but I’m really excited about the upcoming D&Q Little Lulu reprint series. These are some of the best comics ever made and it’s going to be great to see them get the D&Q treatment starting in 2019.

What guilty pleasure (of any kind) are you looking forward to in 2019? I’m a huge Star Trek nerd and so I’m super-excited about whatever’s brewing with this new Picard show. Supposedly starting in 2019!

The Beat's Annual Creator Survey Part 4: with art from new projects by Amy Chu, Janet Lee, Roman Muradov, Otto Soglow, Ben Towle and more Continuing with our wide-ranging survey of creators from every end of the business on what happened and what's coming.

#2019 creator survey #Amy Chu #Andrea Purcell #ben towle #Christian Beranek #Christopher Butcher #Gary Tyrrell #glenn hauman #joe field #Kwanza Osajyefo #mariah mccourt #nat gertler #Sanika Phawde #thomas ragon #tony shenton #upcoming comics

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