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Witness the Return of Persephone in New Wic+Div Teaser

03/03/2016 4:25 pm by Alexander Lu

Witness the Return of Persephone in New Wic+Div Teaser

“What is dead may never die.” Wait, wrong series.

Filed Under: Image Tagged With: Clayton Cowles, Image Comics, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, matt wilson, The Wicked + The Divine

Comics Writing how-to with Kieron Gillen

01/15/2016 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Comics Writing how-to with Kieron Gillen

There exist on the internet a good few resources on how to break into writing comics—many of them linked at The Beat’s own resource page—but there is always room for more, especially more by The Wicked + The Divine’s Kieron Gillen, who is writing some of the best comics out there these days. But if […]

Filed Under: Process, Writing Tagged With: Kieron Gillen, Process

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two

01/08/2016 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two

And here’s the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of these. Also, thanks to such a wide ranging  cross section of this amazing industry we live and work in for taking to time to share their thoughts with us all. Save […]

Filed Under: Cartoonists, News Tagged With: 2016 creator survey, Alex Lu, ben towle, Cartoonists, chris butcher, christiasn beranek, david brothers, eric peyron, gary tyrell, joan hilty, kat kan, Kieron Gillen, mike vosburg, News, Nick Abadzis, Roy Thomas, sean wiliams, xavier lancel, yuuko koyama, zack davisson

REVIEW: Vader Down #1 Kicks the Hornet’s Nest

11/17/2015 4:02 pm by Alexander Jones

REVIEW: Vader Down #1 Kicks the Hornet’s Nest

Writer: Jason Aaron Artist: Mike Deodato Colors: Frank Martin Jr. Story: Jason Aaron & Kieron Gillen Letterer: VC’s Joe Caramagna When Darth Vader accidentally finds himself facing off against the Rebel Fleet on his own, the rebels will learn the true strength of the Dark Side of the Force! Once Vader crashes on a nearby […]

Filed Under: Marvel, Reviews, Top News Tagged With: Jason Aaron, Jedi, Kieron Gillen, Marvel, Mike Deodato Jr, review, Sith, Star Wars, Vader Down

NYCC ’15: “Using Tumblr to Sell Your Ideas” Liveblog

10/10/2015 1:58 pm by Alexander Lu

NYCC ’15: “Using Tumblr to Sell Your Ideas” Liveblog

We’re live at the “Using Tumblr to Sell Your Ideas” panel.  Our panelists include Ghost Rider writer Felipe Smith, My Little Pony artist Katie Cook, and The Wicked + the Divine writer Kieron Gillen.  You can even submit questions to their blog [but not anymore…the past has passed…-ed.]. General Information If someone steals content you originally posted […]

Filed Under: NYCC '15, Top News, Tumbling Tumblr Blogs Tagged With: facebook, felipe smith, ghost rider, IDW, Image, Katie Cook, Kieron Gillen, Marvel, My Little Pony, NYCC '15, Self published, social media, The Wicked + The Divine, Tumblr, Twitter

Discussion Points: What Can’t We Recycle?

09/10/2015 5:44 pm by Alexander Lu

Discussion Points: What Can’t We Recycle?

Let’s talk about originality in art. The Wicked + The Divine #14 came out this week, and while I know I sound like a broken record at this point whenever I talk about it online, the whole team is really outdoing themselves this arc.  Kieron Gillen has trumpeting this one as an “oddball” and “the most audacious […]

Filed Under: Comics, Image, Top News Tagged With: Clayton Cowles, Image Comics, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, Mattew Wilson, The Wicked + The Divine, WicDiv

Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1 is a Deep Comic About Shallowness

08/10/2015 4:00 pm by Beat Staff

Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1 is a Deep Comic About Shallowness

By Cal Cleary “… what really matters is what you like, not what you are like.” – High Fidelity Welcome back to Phonogram, Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie‘s long-running ode to music, criticism, and… well, themselves, kind of? In Phonogram, we deal with Phonomancers, a group of magicians who draw their power from music. Not music […]

Filed Under: Comics, Image, Reviews, Top Comics, Top News Tagged With: Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, matt wilson, Phonogram: the Immaterial Girl

Kieron Gillen Joins the Marvel Break Exodus

07/02/2015 11:34 am by Alexander Lu

Kieron Gillen Joins the Marvel Break Exodus

Writer Kieron Gillen (Young Avengers, The Wicked + The Divine) took to his Tumblr today to state that he would be taking a break from Marvel superhero books following Secret Wars.  He confirms what many have suspected for a few weeks now, given his notable absence from the “All-New, All-Different” solicitations that have been rolling out at a […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Comics, Marvel, Top Comics, Top News Tagged With: All-New All-Different, Kieron Gillen

The Wicked + The Divine’s Fandemonium Trailer Will Have You Losing Your Head

06/29/2015 3:08 pm by Alexander Lu

The Wicked + The Divine’s Fandemonium Trailer Will Have You Losing Your Head

Once again, we return to the end of another arc in Kieron Gillen’s, Jamie McKelvie’s, Matthew Wilson’s, and Clayton Cowles’ Image hit, The Wicked + The Divine.  The trade that collects the “Fandemonium” story will hit store shelves on Wednesday, July 1st.  To celebrate, designer James Leech has put together an expertly animated trailer featuring sad […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Image, Top News, Videos Tagged With: Clayton Cowles, Image, Jamie McKelvie, Kieron Gillen, Matthew Wilson, The Wicked + The Divine

Hold on, some people are actually making money at comics!

06/18/2015 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Hold on, some people are actually making money at comics!

After yesterday’s gloom parade over the economics of comics, and the small number of people who seem to be making a good wage from making them, writer Kieron Gillen delivered another set of metrics that was far more cheerful. He wrote it in response to a website’s concern trolling over sales of The Wicked + […]

Filed Under: Cartoonists, Top News, Working for a Living Tagged With: Cartoonists, comics economics, Kieron Gillen, the wicked and the divine, Top News

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