Happy Birthday, Quentin Blake!
Illustrator Quentin Blake, perhaps most well known for his collaborations with Roald Dahl, celebrates his 80th birthday today.
One of THE most important and inspiring...
FIRST LOOK: Juan Doe’s Cover for The End Times of Bram and Ben #3
Lovely James Asmus has shared with us an exclusive first look at the cover for issue #3 of his upcoming Image miniseries The End...
One Week Until International Darkstar Day 2012!
You know how The Beat works now. While everybody else works hard on getting the best interviews, writing the strongest articles and the most...
Jusko and Ploog at Feral Planet for Goliath
Is this the week of new small publishers? Yes, everyone is doing it. Here's yet another: Feral Planet a newish company started by Michael...
Shopping Guide: Julia Wertz on Etsy
Cartoonist Julia Wertz (Fart Party, The Infinite Wait and Other Stories) has just launched Julia's Junk Shop on Etsy, and if you are looking...
Nice art: Jim Rugg covers Henry & Glenn Forever & Ever #1…
Jim Rugg does an alternate cover for Tom Neely's comic about Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as a bickering old married couple. A new...
The Hawkeye Initiative launches—and genderswapping will never be the same
Over the weekend someone on Tumblr got the great idea of satirizing anatomically unlikely, and overtly sexualized comic book covers by replacing the women...
Webcomic alert: Mark of the Best by Conor Willumsen
An amazing descent into oddness by Wright Award nominee Connor Willumsen to disturb your weekend getaway.
New tumblr alert: Tom Fowler
Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all.
Nice art: James Jean mural for BLITZ in Hong Kong
James Jean created a mural for BLITZ at Lane Crawford in Hong Kong. You can see the rest of it in the link and it's spectacular.
FIRST LOOK: Amazing Spider-Man #700 by Jen van Meter and Stephanie Buscema
While the main storyline sounds exciting enough, so do the backups and Marvel has provided the Beat with an exclusive peek at the van Meter/Buscema tale. It's always a good time when the Black Cat shows up, and even better when it looks this great.
INTERVIEW: Steven Sanders has Designs for the World
Steven Sanders was one of the first people I ever interviewed. An artist and designer who has worked on books such as Five Fists...
