The 2013 Russ Manning Award Nominees Are Announced:
This year's nominees for the Russ Manning award, given out every year during San Diego Comic-Con since 1982, have been announced. The award recognises...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Annabelle Riggs
Marvel's female characters do tend to be their very best, so here at The Beat we've been following Will Sliney (at a distance, so...
Nice Art: Attract Mode’s Comics Be Video Games art show
TCAF is coming at us, and bringing with it a plethora of cultural events like Attract Mode's Comics Vs Video Games art exhibit, and...
INTERVIEW: OUT OF LUCK and Kentucky Derby-Chasing with Jen Ferguson
Pop culture is a bizarre creature and often creates strange intersections in media. Brooklyn-based artist Jen Ferguson has found herself standing at a cross-roads...
Nice Art: Olly Moss makes Thor: The Dark World posters
Artist Olly Moss—best known for his Alamo Draft House and other reimagined movie posters—was asked by the filmmakers to make the wrap gifts for the crew of hor: The Dark World, which comes out this fall. The result was
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Nga Pakiwaituhi: New Zealand Comics and Graphic Novels with Dylan Horrocks
Dylan Horrocks, the godfather of New Zealand cartooning, talks about the contemporary scene and the art exhibit he recently curated.
INTERVIEW: From Dragons to Vampires to Super-Spies, with Emma Vieceli!
It's St George's Day today, so to celebrate here's an interview with the only other person on known record to have slain a dragon -...
The Phantom Hand’s Art Opening on 4/20 in Philly
By Dre Grigoropol
The artist collective The Phantom Hand is having their art opening for their show The Last Meal this Saturday on 4/20. The show...
Molly Crabapple’s The Shell Game Exhibit
By Melissa Coci
Molly Crabapple's poster for The Shell Game. via MollyCrabapple.com.
When a crowd gathers in New York City on a Friday night to stare...
Nice art: Inaki Miranda
Inaki Miranda is an amazing Spanish artist best known for TRIBES: THE DOG YEARS and work for Vertigo. He's just launched a new website...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Warrior Woman
There's a new issue of Fearless Defenders out today, in which another character steps forwards into the spotlight. This time around it's not Valkyrie,...
Nice art alert: PEPITA: Takehiko Inoue meets Gaudí
Okay here is a thing which is cool: PEPITA: TAKEHIKO INOUE MEETS GAUDÍ a hardcover travel diary comprised of prose, sketches, and artwork by Takehiko Inoue, creator of SLAM DUNK, REAL, and VAGABOND. Inoue, whose sensitive pen and ink drawings are gorgeous by any standard, went to Barcelona and became entranced, as so many do, by the imagination and beauty of the architecture of Antoni Gaudí which lies over the landscape of Barcelona like a surreal lace scarf. culminating in the still unfinished Sagrada Familia, the famed twisty, turny cathedral that unites the gothic and the modern in one stunning building.













