Steven Sanders launches Symbiosis on Kickstarter
Artist and designer Steven Sanders, curly of beard and intense of eyes, launched a Kickstarter yesterday for his new project Symbiosis. A massive 100+...
Dave Sim plots new career path with art auction
When last we left Cerebus creator Dave Sim, he was contemplating a grim existence as his declining productivity and shrinking market place left him few recourses to make a living. Fortunately for all, he was saved from a life of dining on Fancy Feast by a Kickstarter campaign, the arrival of cover work from IDW and an agreement to publish a print version of the digital High Society, whatever that is. And now, as he discusses in a post at A MOMENT OF CEREBUS, he's found a new way to make money: selling artwork.
Read Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman ONLINE
The other day we were joking about 80s comics weirdos/iconoclasts/content creators like Bob Burden and Steve Lafler -- post-underground cartoonists who turned out sizable, notable bodies of work that appeared mostly in serial form, mostly based around very strong characters. It's a format that has all but vanished. But here's another near legendary practitioner of the same, Canadian legend David Boswell, creator of Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman. Boswell has just put all of Fleming's adventures online in a pay-what-you-wish format, which most people will take to be free, but be a good sport and drop a few bucks, won't you?
Nice Art: Kazu Kibuishi creates new Harry Potter covers
Talk about a high profile gig—for the15th anniversary of the series, Harry Potter is getting new covers for the paperback versions by cartoonist Kazu Kibuishi. All seven books will be released in a boxed set in September. Mary Grand Pré's iconic (and work for hire) covers will continue to be used on the hardcover and digest-sized paperback editions.
GREAT PACIFIC #4 gets a Phantom Variant
Continuing the tradition of Phantom Variant covers from the semi-secret Phantom Variant retailer group—as opposed to the totally secret and nonexistent Ghost Variant retailer group—Joe Harris's GREAT PACIFIC #4 will have a Phantom Variant cover by regular artist Martin Morazzo, which is also an homage to the classic Y
Art Wall: Cubist Thing, them Mighty Morphin’ kids and Batman- lots of Batman
Hello and welcome! We are starting a weekly art thingy and have -rather thoughtfully- set it for Friday, that interminable day where the weekend...
Amanda Conner’s Variant Cover for X-Men #2
Marvel's solicitations for May are sneaking out, but the first thing that caught my attention - Amanda Conner providing art for Marvel, in the...
Kickstarter alert: Benign Kingdom
You have only a few hours to get the Spring 2013 series by Benign Kingdom and as it includes sketchbooks and posters by Emily Carroll, Tyson Hesse, Gigi D.G. and Phil McAndrew, you might want to do that. The project is long funded, but it ends today!
Review: Green Arrow #17
It must be difficult to put out a comic when Hawkeye comes out. But especially so if you also happen to be writing a...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Misty Knight
With Fearless Defenders #1 out today, artist Will Sliney has returned to The Beat to talk about the first recruit to Valkyrie's cause: Misty Knight! Yes,...

























