Russ Manning Award submissions are now open
The Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award is presented annually to a talented new artist, and submissions have opened with a May 27 deadline. All...
Review: Silent parable The Ark is science fiction as sacred text
This silent, black and white work from French artist Stephane Levallois, and the publisher Humanoids, best known for his storyboard work on films like...
Comic artists on canvas: POW! art show in Brooklyn
Looking for something to do in New York City on this grey Saturday? How about a little cultured comic artist appreciation?
Nice Art: Jillian Tamaki’s print for Gosh! Comic’s 30th Anniversary
Gosh! Comics is one of London's premiere comics shops, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. And to mark the occasion they're selling a print...
Review: mini kuš! are diverse, challenging, exciting
An off-shoot from the Latvian anthology š!, mini kuš! is a series of short single works, released in blocks of four as standalones. As always, this...
To do: Roz Chast’s chuckle-filled exhibit at the Museum of the CIty of New...
Well this is pretty cool, and has flown mostly under the radar of my usual comics sites: Roz Chast has an exhibit up at the Museum of the City of New York. It runs from April 14th until October 9th, so you have plenty of time to go see it...and you should. Best known for her 2014 award winning 2014 memoir Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Chast's droll cartoons capture urban foibles of dread, fatalism and UES (upper East Side, to non New Yorkers) neuroses with a levity that barely masks how deep they cut. One of the exhibits mentions that one of her biggest influences was Charles Addams, and it easy to see how Addams' loose penwork and gallery of characters informs her work. She also shifted his emphasis on the lugubrious and horrific to internal anxieties over health, parental guidance, mid-life crises and geographic uncertainty.
Nice Art: Kyle Baker’s variant cover for Black Panther #3 AND FREE COMICS
Via this month's solicits. I had the pleasure of hanging out with Kyle a bit and interviewing him for an upcoming "More to come"...
Nice Art: Jaime Hernandez hot dogs the New Yorker
The New Yorker has been on a recent run of covers by cartoonists, with Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes doing recent covers. Now Jaime...
The “Gibbs Girls” bring their vision of steampunk in “The Invention of E.J. Whitaker”
By Nicholas Eskey
Shawnee and Shawnelle Gibbs it seems were each destined to be creative. Both writers and illustrators, these sisters are the founders of...
You can only buy this Jen Lee print at the OOSA Print Shop for...
Color me a dope for mentioning this as March is ticking down, but Beat favorite Jen Lee (Thunderpaw, Vacancy) is the Guest Artist in...
C2E2: Viz Media Announces Amano, Miyazaki, and New Streaming Line-up
Viz media announces new Yoshitaka Amano and Hayao Miyazaki art books, in addition to picking up Terra Formars and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure for their streaming collection.
Tribute: Al Jaffee is 95
Yesterday the great Al Jaffee turned 95. He's been contributing to Mad Magazine for a mere 61 years as the master of the "Fold-In," a few of which are presented below. Still active and charming as ever, Mr. Jaffee is one of the few people who can genuinely be said to speak with a "stentorian" presence, and I would just sit and listen to him read the phone book.
