A year of free comics: get back to nature with Mark Trail
Another source of free comics! The interface is perhaps not the smoothest but you can read just about every daily newspaper comic strip online...
Tony Millionaire say he’s ending his comic strip Maakies
Or so he claimed in a Facebook post. Millionaire has been known to pull a prank or two (and has used this opportunity to...
Shocker: The Village Voice is publishing comics again with Weinstein and Stevens
Following a storied history and a sad decline in the digital era, The Village Voice is publishing comics again with new strips by Lauren Weinstein and Karl Stevens.
The Nib is Fine, and K.C. Green is fine too
I can't really improve on this NYT story by Katie Rogers on the recent use of K.C. Green's "I'm Fine" meme in regards to...
Exclusive: More on Cerebus in Hell? and The Beat’s very own personalized Cerebus comic...
Last week we told you about Cerebus in Hell #0, a new "fumetti" style comic strip by Dave Sim and Sandeep Atwal that uses...
Promotional video for the Library of American Comics has some amazing shelf porn
If you're not impressed by the shelf porn shot from this brief video for the Library of American Comics you shouldn't be reading this site. The row of Eisner Awards isn't shabby, either.
Five cartoonists nominated for this year’s Reuben Award
This week the nominees for the Cartoonists of the Year, aka THE Reuben, presented yearly by the National Cartoonists Society, were announced and they...
Wondercon’16: IDW Plans to Publish a Plethora of Books
By Nicholas Eskey
San Diego publisher IDW have grown steadily beyond their beginnings of comics. Though comics are still their main focus, the company in...
Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Turned Into an Astounding Instagram Comic
A creatively vital use of an emerging medium
Happy 245th Birthday, Ludwig!
We're a cultured group here at Stately Beat Manor, and a lot of that classical culture comes via POP culture. Julius Caesar? Asterix. Classical music?...
Revolutionary new comics insert in newspapers spotlights King Freatures
The New York Times, which is the one newspaper that never ran comics strips, reverse engineers their insertion into Sunday papers as something of...
Bloom County is really, truly back
As promised, a new Bloom County comic strip is up—as promised, on Facebook of all places. Creator Berke Breathed announced the return during SDCC,...
