One More: Sam Alden’s cover for It Never Happened Again
As we mentioned earlier in the week, Uncivilized Books won the Sam Alden Derby and will be putting out the first collection of the...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – SPX 2013
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Comic Arts Brooklyn shaping up with guests, poster
The new Comic Arts Brooklyn indie comics CAF, or CAB as everyone is calling it, kicks off on November 9th at the Mt. Carmel...
SPX 2013 Panel Report: The Awesomeness of Influence
By Adam McGovern
One of the final panels of SPX 2013 was about fruitful points of departure. “Paying Tribute: Traditions of Style,” hosted by Joe...
Walking Dead gets a spin-off TV series for 2015 with Kirkman co-producing
AMC is jumping on the "spin-off" bandwagon. With Breaking Bad ending, a Bob Odenkirk-headlined spinoff called "Better Call Saul" is in the works, although...
The Beat Podcasts! – Heidi interviews Jeff Smith!
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Z2 Comics relaunches with Pope and Haspiel
This week's edition of PW Comics World contains news of a newish publishing company: Z2 Comics, formerly Zip Comics, which put out the Eisner-nominated...
Should we even try to give indie comics a wider cultural context?
This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there.
All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.
Last chance for MIX 2013 discount rate
MIX 2013 is yet another outstanding comics symposium, this one in Columbus, OH. It will be held Sept. 27–28, at the Columbus College of...
This weekend: THE PROJECTS
Oh yeah but speaking on indie comics and arts festival., this weekend THE PROJECTS kicks off in Portland, but it isn't so much a...
Koyama Press announces Spring 2014 titles: Kim, DeForge, Jacobs and Lim
Wow is it Spring already? In the publishing world it is. Koyama Press has just announced its titles for Spring 2014 aka TCAF time! and as usual they look irresistible. The lineup includes new releases by Michael DeForge and Jesse Jacobs. Information below:
Sam Henderson’s Magic Whistle celebrates 20 years and relaunches website
"Humor can be funny," cartoonist Sam Henderson once told us, and he was so right. Henderson has been giving us the giggles for 20...
