Now retired as full-time staffer, Calvin Reid was a senior news editor at Publishers Weekly, the trade news journal of the book industry, editor of PW Comics World, PW’s online coverage of the comics and graphic novel marketplace, and editor of The Fanatic, PW’s twice a month e-newsletter on comics and pop culture. He is also cohost of More to Come, PW’s weekly podcast on comics and graphic novel publishing. Reid has covered the book industry as a reporter and editor since joining Publishers Weekly in 1987 as an associate editor. He has reported general book industry news and business trends, as well as covering digital publishing and the rise of self-publishing platforms, small press and independent publishing, and African American publishing, in addition to his groundbreaking coverage of comics and graphic novels in the book trade.
In 2006 at the annual Will Eisner Comics industry Awards, an annual event honoring the best work in comics and graphic novel publishing, Reid was awarded the Bob Clampett Humanitarian Award by the San Diego Comic-Con International for his longtime efforts working to raise the understanding and the business profile of graphic novel publishing in the general book trade.
In 2011, Reid joined with Heidi MacDonald, editor-in-chief of the comics news blog The Beat, and podcast producer Kate Fitzsimons, to launch More to Come, PW’s weekly podcast on comics and graphic novel publishing. Reid was a member of the Brooklyn Book Festival graphic novel committee from 2012 until 2022 and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Foundation.