PWCW: Now that you've had a day or two, what's the atmosphere like in the halls of IDW? What's your office like?

Scott Dunbier: It’s remarkably similar to old WildStorm, back when I first started. There’s a feeling of “we’re all in this together,” which I really like.

It's usually wise for a memoirist to have either an intrinsically interesting life or unusual sensitivity to the meaning of personal experiences. Dawson, unfortunately, has neither. The premise of his comics memoir is, as he puts it, that "when I think of Queen I can remember my whole life": he's been obsessed with the British rock band and its late front man, Freddie Mercury, since he was a child living in England, and they're the madeleine that triggers memories of his life's significant events. But he barely explains why they mean so much to him, other than that they rock (Mercury's sexuality is mentioned briefly, once), and his recollections are the common stock of geeky, misunderstood adolescent male cartoonists. Dawson's black-and-white artwork is smoothly paced, fluid caricature in the vein of Joe Sacco or Alex Robinson, and his narration neatly evokes the hyperdramatic worldview of a teenager; some of the individual anecdotes he recalls are amusing, as when he imagines the breakup of Wham! or shows himself as a 10-year-old belting out "Bohemian Rhapsody" a cappella at a talent show and being hustled off stage. While Dawson rambles at times, anyone who was ever obsessed with a creator will recognize some of the whimsical story. (June)

Journalist G. Willow Wilson made a splash last year with her debut graphic novel, Cairo, a Middle Eastern fantasy drawn by MK Perker and published by Vertigo. Now Wilson and Perker are reuniting for an ongoing monthly Vertigo series, Air, just announced at the New York Comic-Con and scheduled to debut in October. She told PW Comics Week about the origins of the series and brought us up to date on her other projects, both inside and outside comics.

• Bottomless Belly Button (Dash Shaw)
• Nat Turner (Abrams Books)
• Tezuka's Dororo Vol. 1 (Vertical)
• Tales of the Fear Agent (Dark Horse)
• Green Arrow Year One (DC)
• Fantastic Four: Beginning of the End (Marvel)
• Wordless Books (Abrams Books)
• Thoreau at Walden (Hyperion)
• Metronome (NBM)
• Delayed Replays (Liz Prince)
• Warriors Vol. 3: Warriors Return (Harper Collins)
• Aventura Vol. 2 (Del Ray)
• Cy-Believers Vol. 1 (Go! Comics)

• Call For Lulus
• Free Comic Book Day
• Around The Web
• Blain U.S. Tour
• Spiegelman Speaks
• Life Sucks Excerpt