Calvin Reid

New York

Senior News Editor at Publishers Weekly

Host at PW Comics World: More To Come

Jazz books baseball (sports) comics and beer (politics?) techish retired senior news editor Publishers Weekly, retired editor PW Comics World

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Articles

Panel Mania: ‘Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir’ by Joanna Rubin Dranger

1 week ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Joanna Rubin Dranger’s Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir is a scrupulously compiled record of her Jewish family’s experiences leading up to and during the Holocaust, as well as a powerful memorial to the suffering of its victims and survivors. In a combination of drawings, historical documents, and photos, Dranger tracks her family from village life in Poland and Russia to Sweden and Israel alongside a grim accounting of the advancing Nazi horrors of WWII.
Panel Mania: ‘Aya: Face the Music’ by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie

3 weeks ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Marguerite Abouet and Clement Oubrerie’s Aya: Face the Music is the latest volume in their popular graphic novel series about a savvy teenage African girl in 1980s urban Côte d’Ivoire and an endearing agglomeration of her family, friends, fellow students, and local officials.
Panel Mania: ‘Galaxy of Madness’ by Magdalene Visaggio and Michael Avon Oeming

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Galaxy of Madness by Magdalene Visaggio and artist Michael Avon Oeming is a brainy sci-fi adventure thriller full of lively banter and richly illustrated mysteries.
Panel Mania: ‘Life Drawing’ by Jaime Hernandez

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Jaime Hernandez’s new graphic novel Life Drawing is a generational update on the lives of his fictional punk rock duo Maggie and Hopey, from the original Locas and Love and Rockets comics series. Hernandez has created a new generation of adolescent characters as affecting and as comical as his original queer lovers. Now middle-aged, the two have separated, each now in a new relationship—Maggie lives with Ray, a painter/art teacher, and Hopey with Sadaf and her son.
Panel Mania: 'The Girl Who Flew Away' by Lee Dean

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Lee Dean’s The Girl Who Flew Away is a moody, stylishly crafted graphic novel about a young woman of mixed race who struggles to make sense of the course of her life in 1970s America. Pregnant after an affair with her married boss, Greer is sent to Key West, Fla., to have the child in secrecy.
Panel Mania: ‘Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832’ by Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Wilfrid Lupano and Stéphane Fert’s Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832, is an artfully fictionalized graphic history based on the true story of a groundbreaking educator and a courageous class of Black girls 30 years before the Civil War. In 1832, the year after Nat Turner’s bloody slave rebellion, Prudence Crandall, a white headmistress of a boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Conn., admits Sarah Harris, a Black girl.
Panel Mania: 'Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure' by Matt Madden

Jan 15, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Cartoonist Matt Madden’s new collection of graphic short fiction Six Treasures of the Spiral: Comics Formed Under Pressure is a savvy selection of experimental comics based on the concept of self-imposed creative restraints.
Panel Mania: ‘The Last Mermaid: Book 01’ by Derek Kirk Kim

Dec 11, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Acclaimed cartoonist and filmmaker Derek Kirk Kim’s The Last Mermaid: Book 01 is a dazzling post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic and his first graphic novel in more than a decade. Set in a devastated future-world, the book opens with images of a beautiful mermaid floating within a water-filled mecha-vehicle as it roams a barren landscape dotted with ruined structures.
Panel Mania: ‘Sound: A Comics Anthology,’ Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke

Nov 27, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Edited by Budjette Tan and Charis Loke, Sound: A Comics Anthology uses the broad theme of sound as a platform to showcase an appealing and diverse group of South Asian comics creators. Featuring creators from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand, the anthology offers stories that invoke the presence and impact of sound in our lives, from an evening of karaoke with a group of singing fantasy creatures to learning how to speak a Chinese grandmother’s dialect.
Panel Mania: ‘Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It’ by Tara Booth

Nov 13, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Calvin Reid

Tara Booth’s new graphic memoir, Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It, is an eccentric and colorful psychological self-portrait. The pages of her comics are essentially a series of crisply designed miniature paintings, with each page carefully drawn, rich in painterly applied color, and accompanied by quirky often funny personal narratives.