Meg Lemke

New York, United States

Reviews and Features Editor at Publishers Weekly

EIC @MuthaMagazine, #comics reviews/features editor @PublishersWkly, previously @bkbf @PENAmerican @FrenchComix. #books/#babies. also: https://t.co/nOCbAF3n5e

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SI MoCCA Fest 2025 Mixes Celebration with Politics

1 month ago | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

Aisles were bustling at the Society of Illustrators’ Museum of Comics and Cartoon Arts Festival 2025, or SI MoCCA Fest, which drew almost 7,000 attendees to the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City March 15–16. Independent creators sold zines, prints, minicomics, and merch shoulder-to-shoulder with small and mid-sized publishers including Drawn & Quarterly, Fantagraphics, New York Review Comics, Silver Sprocket, and Uncivilized Press.
SI MoCCA Fest Returns: PW Talks with Arabelle Liepold

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

The annual Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art festival returns to NYC in March under the direction of the Society of Illustrators executive director, with international headliners such as Badiucao, Chloé Wary, Charles Burns, and Anders Nilsen. Comics fans are notoriously passionate and can be fractious—how does MoCCA serve this community? Programs will cover everything from comics and ecology to protest art.
SI MoCCA Fest Returns

2 months ago | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

The annual Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art festival returns to NYC in March, under the direction of the arts and culture leader, with international headliners such as Badiucao, Chloé Wary, Charles Burns, and Anders Nilsen by Meg Lemke | Mar 07, 2025 Comics fans are notoriously passionate and can be fractious—how does MoCCA serve this community? Programs will cover everything from comics and ecology to protest art. All that’s happening geopolitically, you can find it—and if you’re tired of...
Spring 2025 Preview: Middle Grade Comics & Graphic Novels

Jan 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

The major buzz this season is that Scott McCloud and Raina Telgemeier have a new book—drawn together, no less. They’re joined by middle grade favorites like Vera Brosgol and K. O’Neill. Top 10The Cartoonists Club Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud. Graphix, Apr.
Spring 2025 Preview: Adult Comics & Graphic Novels

Jan 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

This season features such marquee names as Alison Bechdel, Peter Kuper, George Takei, and Craig Thompson, alongside not-to-be-missed debuts and discoveries across genres. Top 10Black CohoshEagle Valiant Brosi. Drawn & Quarterly, June 17 ($24.95 trade paper, ISBN 978-1-77046-777-4)Drawn in a throwback 1970s style, Brosi’s debut graphic memoir recalls his back-to-the-land upbringing in an Appalachian commune, and how his health crises forced his family to interact with the systems they resisted.
Spring 2025 Comics & Graphic Novels Preview

Jan 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke |Shaenon K. Garrity

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Spring 2025 Preview: Young Adult Comics & Graphic Novels

Jan 24, 2025 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

Heartstopper certainly started something: queer romance is hopping this spring, along with more serious graphic memoir. Plus, YA bestseller Marissa Meyer makes her graphic novel debut. Top 10Blades of FurryDeya Muniz and Emily Erdos. LB Ink, May 13 ($32.99, ISBN 978-0-316-45983-9; $21.99 trade paper,ISBN 978-0-316-45993-8)This popular webtoon sports-romance series features anthropomorphic skaters who battle in the rink—and fall for each other off ice. Ages 13–17. Everyone Sux but YouK. Wroten.
Definitely for Mature Readers: PW Talks With Patrick Horvath

Sep 20, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

Described as Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town, Patrick Horvath’s six-issue series Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees was a hit in comics shops following its release last year and was released this month by IDW in a collected trade paperback that marks Horvath’s first book publication. It follows a cuddly-looking brown bear who moonlights as a serial killer—and finds herself tracking down a rival murderer threatening to expose her secret.
Fall 2024 Preview: Adult Comics & Graphic Novels

Jul 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

Charles Burns is back—along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cocreator Kevin Eastman—in an eclectic season that features reimagined classics, comics about therapy, and a philosophical investigation into Einstein and Kafka. Top 10All Princesses Die Before Dawn Quentin Zuttion, trans. by M.B. Valente. Abrams ComicArts, Nov.
Fall 2024 Preview: Middle Grade Comics & Graphic Novels

Jul 12, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Meg Lemke

This season, Ruth Chan, Jules Feiffer, and other kid-lit stars from across generations enter the bustling middle grade category—where realistic coming-of-age dramas and fantastical escapes fill up the same tween backpacks. Top 10Amazing GrapesJules Feiffer. HarperCollins/Di Capua, Sept. 24 ($21.99 trade paper, ISBN 978-0-06-296382-6)Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Feiffer’s first middle grade graphic novel follows a trio of siblings as they swirl about the Lost Dimension. Ages 8–12.