Art

The iPad Pro—a larger tablet that with added keyboard and pressure sensitive pen becomes a mini computer/Wacom—is shipping out to artists and comics readers...

Nicola Scott is probably best known currently for her time drawing for DC Comics. Her smooth, sleek linework on titles such as Secret Six and Earth 2 was distinct...

It's pretty well known tat Tom Fowler is one of the best artists out there—a great storyteller as well as a fantastic character designer....

Dynamic Forces has teamed with auction house ComicLink.comto auction Jae Lee's The Dark Knight III: The Master Race #1 variant art. IT's the first...

Star Wars art from the best selling, year best Star Wars #1. The force is strong with this gallery. Metropolis opened earlier this...

The Beat has been a fan of Michael Cho's spot-on duo-tone illustrations for about as long as there has been a Beat. And now he's doing a full month of Marvel variants? How awesome can you get? Here's what we have thus far:

If you know anything of the work of Canadian cartoonist Seth, you know that him giving an exhibit of his art the gloomy title "Nothing Lasts" is quite appropriate. But it should be lovely. Details and a preview here.. Bonus daily showing of Seth's Dominiom an award winning documentary about the artist by Luc Chamberland that was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

After remaining pathologically tight lipped at their NYCC appearances—even a small elite media only press event—Dark Knight III workmen Brian Azzarello and Andy Kubert spill the beans on the big plot twist of the event comic in an interview at CBR. And the story element is in fact the one that I heard was the genesis for the entire storyline. And would have made a nice surprise for those reading the story. I'm curious as to why DC didn't even try to keep it under wraps. I guess they knew that it would be spoiled and wanted to get ahead of it?

This isn't actually Halloween related but there is plenty that is spooky or ethereal in the massive trove of images that the British Library has uploaded to it's Flickr account. Some 1 million of them in fact. There's a page with various albums, including maps, children's book illustrations, historical events and so on. And yes comics, mostly broadsheet cartoons. The images have been cataloged and tagged by online volunteers from images that were automatically uploaded.

Ain't art grand?

In case you were watching The Big Bang Theory Llast night (Spoiler: we weren't) you may have seen the gnag arguing over a sexist poster in the comics shop they frequent. And you may have guessed that it was the work of Amanda Conner (and colorist Paul Mounts.) The poster was created to show all the sexist cliches you can have in one unfriendly comics shop and Amanda hit them all...but let's face it, it's still a lovely piece.