PW Comics World: More To Come

A look at notable upcoming 2019 graphic novels and predictions; the recent movies 'Aquaman' and 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'; plus Mattel's troubles as they lose the DC Comics action figure license.

We look back over the past year at the biggest news events in comics and graphic novel publishing, film, TV and streaming media, and comics convention culture.

Changes in the leadership of IDW and Valiant, layoffs at Lion Forge, sexual abuse allegations against comics creator Eric Esquivel of 'Border Town', new comics publisher TKO Studios, the 2018 PW Graphic Novel Critics Poll, and a big manga update

Saying goodbye to Stan Lee; Abrams ComicArts cancels its controversial suicide bomber graphic novel; convention reports on Comic Arts Brooklyn and AnimeNYC 2018; plus an update on the Black Label imprint of DC Comics.

Recorded live at AnimeNYC, Calvin interviews Kinokuniya manga and graphics novel buyer Terrence Irvins about co-sponsoring AnimeNYC and competing with Animefest@NYCC; and at Comic Arts Brooklyn, Heidi interviews David Sandlin, creator of the '76 Manifestations of American Destiny' exhibition, and comics creator Frank Santoro; Calvin interviews Hartley Lin (aka Ethan Rilly), creator of 'Young Frances'; and Heidi interviews Kriota Willberg of the artist self-care book 'Draw Stronger'.

Heidi interviews writer and comics journalist Jason Sacks, co-author of 'American Comic Book Chronicles: The 1990's', which chronicles the rise and fall of comics in the 90's, from new companies such as Image, Malibu and Valiant, to the massive sales of such events as 'The Death of Superman' to the crash in revenues and sales after the comic collectors boom came to an end.

Dark Horse and other comics publishers attract Chinese and other investors; continuing repercussions of 'Batman Damned'; Grant Morrison's Green Lantern, Disney adds streaming; and PW's Best Books of 2018.

New comics publishing ventures including Bill Jemas's new 'Writers, Artists and Artisans", young readers imprints at Vault Comics, and the first list from Random House Graphic; DC decides to rename Dick Grayson; Luke Cage and Iron Fist on Netflix coming to an end; plus, the unexpected audience for Eddie/Venom, the couple Marvel has been teasing for a while but probably never expected to be embraced quite like this.

Calvin interviews writer Alex de Campi and artist Victor Santos about their new graphic novel, 'Bad Girls: Six Million Dollars, Twelve Hours to Get Out of Cuba,' a thriller set in a casino in Havana, Cuba New Year's Eve 1958, as three unlikely women band together to get out of Cuba with a lot of money as Fidel Castro takes power.

The NYCC recap: the cohosts offer analysis and personal experience of such topics as Anime Fest @ NYCC, Brian Michael Bendis and Wonder Comics; Humanoids new superhero line; the return of the Harvey Awards; controversy around 'Batman Damned', parties, events and more.

In Part 4 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews Spanish comics artist Ana Miralles, co-creator of 'In Search of the Unicorn' and 'Djinn' ; and Kate Fitzsimons does short interviews with comics creators Art Baltazar, Terry Doddson, Adriana Mello, David Petersen and Greg Pak.

In Part 3 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews comics creator Carolyn Nowak about her graphic novel 'Girl Town'. Heidi interviews writer Joe Casey and artist Benjamin Marra about their upcoming graphic novel 'Jesus Freak', which is about the actual Jesus, from Image Comics

In Part 2 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews editor Karen Berger and writer Joel Rose about 'Hungry Ghosts' a collection of horror comics by the late chef and writer Anthony Bourdain. Heidi interviews Polish comics artist Joanna Karpowicz of 'Sour Apple' and comics creator Luke Pearson of the 'Hilda' series

In Part 1 of More To Come's NYCC 2018 coverage, Calvin Reid interviews Milton Griepp, CEO of ICV2.com about the state of the graphic novel market, and Gina Gagliano, the publishing director of Random House Graphic, about the new graphic novel imprint.

New York Comic Con 2018 preview; Keystone Comic Con underperforms; controversy around Bastien Vives's disturbing 'Petit Paul,' Abrams ComicArts' new Megascope Imprint, and Star Gazing with Meg Lemke .

SPX 2018; controversy over SPX's Amazon sponsorship and the Amazon/Comixology backlash; reexamining R. Crumb from today's perspective; Black Label, 'Batman Damned' and naked Batman; and an interview from SPX with Michael Cherkas and Larry Hancock, co-creators of the classic graphic novel 'The Silent Invasion'.

Calvin interviews Shelly Bond, founding editor of Black Crown, IDW's new imprint, and former executive editor at DC's Vertigo imprint. They discuss Black Crown, as well as her career in comics publishing.

CBLDF and SPX start a legal fund for defamation lawsuit defendants; new Comicsgate controversy; remembering the late comics creators Marie Severin and Gary Friedrich; Milton Griepp's ICv2 White Paper cancelled by NYCC, and Star Gazing.

Animation director Aminder Dhaliwal ('Woman World'), SF novelist Cory Doctorow ('In Real Life'), and SF novelist Nalo Hopkinson ('Sandman: House of Whispers') talk about their decision to make comics in this panel from SDCC 2018, moderated by More to Come's Calvin Reid.

Con report and interviews from Flamecon 2018, the LGBT comic con; comics creator and publisher Cody Pickrodt sues indie creators for defamation for MeToo accusations; and an update on Comicsgate and recent PW comics features