Yuko Ota and Ananth Hirsh talk cultural identity and intimacy in a Must-Read Interview...
Ananth Hirsh's and Yuko Ota's Our Cats are More Famous than Us: A Johhny Wander Collection, is an awe inspiring book. A playful and ruminating...
10 years after Minx, here comes Charmz, a new comics line aimed at tween...
Ah, Minx. So many memories and feelings. The very first, so ahead of its time modern graphic novel line aimed at tweenage and teen...
Another ex-Vertigo editor enters the publishing game with Alisa Kwitney’s Liminal Comics
It seems Karen Berger and Shelly Bond aren't the only ex-Vertigo editors who can't stay away from the comics game. Alisa Kwitney, who worked at...
Berserk has sold more than 1 million copies in the US
Berserk, the best selling manga by Kentaro Miura, is big in Japan and since it launched from Dark Horse in 2003 it’s been a...
THE MARVEL RUNDOWN: ResurreXion is Here! Is the New X-Men Golden? Are the Inhumans...
Face front true believers, ResurreXion is upon us! After years of stagnation, Marvel has aligned the cards for yet another X-Men and Inhumans reboot....
DC REBORN ROUND-UP: SHADE THE CHANGING GIRL #7 and CYBORG #11 showcase unrevealed secrets...
Kyle zeroes in on what he considers to be the best and worst books of the entire DC line
Review: You’ve got to fight for your right to make art!
Though it’s tempting to pronounce the atmosphere in James Albon’s Her Bark And Her Bite as retro or even nostalgic, timeless might be the...
Bagieu, Coin-Op, Shrestha and Chung win gold in MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence
I'm still putting together my MoCCA thoughts, but in the meantime, here are the winners of the fourth annual MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence,...
WonderCon ’17: Industry Artists Give Insight on How to Draw for Action Scenes
Many an artist of the comic, graphic novel, and manga format will cringe when the respective writer they work with asks for the dreaded...
Preview: Saladin Ahmed and Christian Ward’s Black Bolt #1
While Marvel's PR crisis continues to swirl, it should be noted that they still have books coming up from important new voices, and The Beat will continue...
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: ARCHIE GIANT COMICS MEDLEY collects 480 pages of Archie adventures
And here is the second of our two Archie exclusives, this go-round is your first look at Archie Giant Comics Medley, which collects a...
EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW: ARCHIE’S 75TH ANNIVERSARY DIGEST #8 unearths rarely seen tales of Riverdale
It's an Archie double-feature today at the Beat as we a pair of exclusive previews for upcoming classic Archie releases. First up, here's your...

















