Art

Want to read a 96 graphic novel about a young woman and a time travelling ghost for FREE? You can read about the making of the book at the Under the Apple Tree webpage and download it here. Cartoonist Sarah Winifred Searle created it as part of a Children’s Writer-in-Residence at the Boston Public Library. here's the logline:

Fall is in the air, bringing a crisp step and the crunch of leaves under foot, and the inevitable—perhaps inescapable—presence of Pumpkin Spice everything all around us! Yes, it's time for 31 Days of Halloween, The Beat's annual tribute to our MOST FAVORITEST TIME OF YEAR. And let's get things going with probably the most obvious link possible...but I have ever written about painter/cartoonist/musician Menton3 on The Beat before so here goes! Based in Chicago, Menton3—aka Menton J Matthews III—is a painter of atmospheric and disturbing images. While you can find a lot of his work at his website, he's probably best known these days as a partner in 44Flood, a publishing company that has teamed with IDW to put out art books and comics. Along with fellow artists Kasra Ghanbari, Ben Templesmith and Nick Idell, 44Flood has put out Tome, an artbook which was mostly Kickstarted, Templesmith's The Squidder, the comic Monocyte, which you see on this page, and Libretto, an anthology of eerieness centering on vampirism. A new volume of Tome is on its way or already here (I couldn't find a lot of solid news about the bunch.)

StarWars.com has unveiled Joe Quesada's variant cover to Star Wars #1. The first Marvel issue of the 21st century will debut in January with story by Jason Aaron, and art by John Cassaday and Laura MArtin.. MArtin colored Quesada's cover. Marvel's e-i-c- wrote:

As they do periodically, TCJ.com is running a cartoonist diary; this week it's Eleanor Davis. Her collection How To Be Happy is out now...

Okay, unless the unforeseen happens I swear this is the LAST Beat post about Spider-Woman's butt. But One of the bingo card arguments trotted...

RISD (The Rhode Island School of Art and Design) is hosting an art show—now open and running until January 9, 2015—"What Nerve!" and it...

I said I was going to be happy and puppies today, but I feel I should note that Marvel's executive editor Tom Brevoort responded...

In commenting on his FB page on how drawing a sexy cover got attention at EW.com, artist J. Scott Campbell posted this classic...

Cartoonist/comics educator Ben Towle likes to take up half the year in alphabet themed art projects; once it was monsters then animals. This time...

Let's end this week with some art! No publisher puts out more consistently beautiful books than Nobrow, and "(In a Sense) Lost and Found&quot...

This will be the last By Its Cover for a few months, so I thought I'd do something special. Today we're going to look...

Randy Queen is a skilled comics artist who often draws attractive women. He's best known for Darkchyde but he's worked on many other books over the years like Red Sonja and Witchblade. Escher Girls is a tumblr that posts pictures of ridiculously drawn comics women. As you do. Some of Queen's art was featured on the site, and he didn't like it. So he used the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) to sport these posts to Tumblr and get them removed.