Gina Gagliano

I'm in such great company with this year's award -- it's wonderful to be recognized alongside amazing author and free speech advocate @redgoldsparks.bsky.social and publishing hero @andreacecelia.bsky.social!

(Also obviously we’ll keep it up — have you met comics people? Kinder, cooler, more dedicated humans do not exist!)

When I look back to when I started in the industry, most bookstores and libraries didn’t have a comics section. The industry has made such strides since then — there will be comics EVERYWHERE if we keep it up!

2026 marks twenty years of working in comics for me, and I look forward to many more years of doing all I can to connect comics and readers, and to support comics creators.

Thanks so much to the Children's Book Council for recognizing me with this year's Graphic Novel Advocate Award!

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'Books are going to take longer to get to libraries': What Baker & Taylor's demise means for comics - The Comics Journal Diamond’s disintegration is not the only crisis facing comics publishers these days. The latest distribution company ceasing to exist is the venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor. If you’re not...

I talked to publishers, librarians, and distributors about comics and the demise of venerable library distributor Baker & Taylor!

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Also CANNON is so so good; if you haven’t read it, please treat yourself and acquire a copy immediately!

An interview with Lee Lai: 'I’ve developed a growing fondness for confrontation' - The Comics Journal Gina Gagliano talkes to the Cannon author about queerness, invisible magpies, kitchens, and bicycles.

Why does Lee Lai draw so many bicycles? All this and more at:

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Love that Chi-Chi! Ngozi Ukazu scores a different type of body checking with her new book, Flip - The Comics Journal Ngozi Ukazu talks to Gina Gagliano about all that’s led up to this moment, and about her latest graphic novel, Flip, which tells the story of a Black high school girl who switches bodies with the popu...

I got to talk to @ngoziu.com! She has a new book and it’s great!

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Mariko Tamaki is killing it: 'We're constantly pushing back against someone trying to tell us our reality is wrong.' - The Comics Journal Does Mariko Tamaki ever stop? Let's hope not! Here she talks to Gina Gagliano about superheroes, queer identity, the best eyebrows ever, and her new murder mystery set at an all-girls' boarding school...

Mariko Tamaki is great! It was so fun to get to have this conversation with her, she’s the coolest!

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Tariffs are affecting comic book stores, but not in ways you might expect - The Comics Journal Gina Gagliano talked to forty-five comics stores about how they’re weathering this year’s financial changes and upsets.

I talked to many amazing comics retailers about tariffs for @comicsjournal.bsky.social and mostly they are very tired (but still excited about comics).

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'What do you think would happen if we combined Smile with Understanding Comics?’ Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud have the answer - The Comics Journal Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud talk to Gina Gagliano about their collaboration, The Cartoonists Club.

I got to interview two people who have been changing the face of comics their whole careers (and who have now teamed up for a new book) for TCJ!

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Comics and Trump's tariffs 2.0: 'They might fuck us up at any moment' - The Comics Journal Gina Gagliano follows up in how the comic book publishing industry is being affected by the Trump administration’s reckless tariffs.

I wrote a super-depressing article about comics publishing and tariffs at the beginning of the year, and it was sufficiently ominous that now I’ve written another one.

Thanks to everyone who talked to me for this!

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What will potential tariffs mean for comics publishers in 2025? 'We'll likely have less customers' - The Comics Journal Gina Gagliano talked to a host of comics publishers to get a sense of what the potential effects of increased tariffs from the new Trump administration could be.

Thank you to all the publishers who talked to me about their thoughts on tariffs in 2025!

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The best comics of 2024, as chosen by TCJ contributors - The Comics Journal What were the best comics of this past year? No idea, but here's some stuff our contributors really liked.

I got to talk about two fantasy graphic novels I loved for TCJ, TIFFANY’S GRIFFON and YOUNG HAG AND THE WITCHES’ QUEST!

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“I don’t think it’s anybody’s dream to make art under capitalism.”- An interview with Bianca Xunise - The Comics Journal Bianca Xunise talks with Gina Gagliano about her new book Punk Rock Karaoke, Poly Styrene, punk and plagiarism.

I got to talk to Bianca Xunise! She’s awesome!

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The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week - The Comics Journal There's been a troubling rise in challenged and banned books in recent years- why are comics being targeted?

It’s Banned Books Week and comics are being targeted. Gina Gagliano reports: “In the last three years, the numbers have seen a huge jump – 2023’s total censorship attempts are twenty times what they were just three years ago in 2020.” www.tcj.com/the-state-of...

The state of comics and censorship during Banned Books Week - The Comics Journal There's been a troubling rise in challenged and banned books in recent years- why are comics being targeted?

It’s Banned Books Week! I got to talk to a lot of very cool authors, librarians, and other folks about what’s happening with comics and censorship today.

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"It was definitely weird knowing that people would read about my darkest secrets": An interview with Siobhán Gallagher - The Comics Journal Siobhán Gallagher talks with Gina Gagliano about healing oneself by drawing the unmentionable, body image, and approaching the hidden culture of disordered eating.

It was very neat to get to talk to Siobhan Gallagher about her latest book for TCJ!

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I think Sara Varon is amazing! It was great to get to talk with her.

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MICE!

I'm going to be at MICE this weekend -- and I'm excited to talk to amazing cartoonists Joseph Kai, Lawrence Lindell, and Sharon De La Cruz about queer activism in comics on Saturday at the show!

Cookies & cream ice cream!

Next week! MICE!

(and maybe cartoonists riding on the top of the Boston T, if this illustration is to be believed? I'll be keeping an eye out.)

Apple cider doughnut ice cream!

Kids graphic novels at Frugal Books in Roxbury!

Chocolate!

Checking out Beacon Hill Books!

Coconut almond chocolate chip ice cream!

Summertime peanut butter oreo ice cream!