Visual Virtuoso Vassilis Gogtzilas preps the Universe for THE BIGGEST BANG #1 (Interview)
The Beat already got the writer's perspective on IDW's upcoming mini-series and follow-up to The Bigger Bang aptly titled The Biggest Bang, but now we would...
Looking back at DC’s $250,000 Vertigo marketing plan
Most of the discussion over the elimination of Shelly Bond's position as head of the Vertigo line has centered on the lack of profit...
Thrillbent 4.0 coming in July
Writer Mark Waid launched the digital comics site Thrillbent four years ago as a proof of concept for digital comics and since then it's...
Dark Horse to publish The Art of Metal Gear Solid V
Good god do I love these "art of" game books; not only do they make the most interesting things a coffee table can be...
Jamie Rich: Vertigo is “alive and kicking”
It's been quite the (heartbreaking) 24 hours, and we're still working through it, but after the dismissal of Vertigo Executive Editor Shelly Bond yesterday, many...
Vertigo restructures; Shelly Bond let go
Whoa, seismic news tonight as longtime Vertigo editor Shelly Bond, currently Vice President & Executive Editor and the storied Vertigo imprint, has been let go, as the imprint restructures. DC released a statement to CBR which you can read below. The move comes only days after a new "Young Animal" imprint, led by former DC intern Gerard Way, was announced, using many of the characters and tactics that made Vertigo a success when it launched in 1993.
Nice Art: Jillian Tamaki’s print for Gosh! Comic’s 30th Anniversary
Gosh! Comics is one of London's premiere comics shops, celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. And to mark the occasion they're selling a print...
Interview: Matt Kindt submerges us in Dept.H
For about a month now, comic book creators and fellow comics internet community writers have been buzzing about Dept.H from Dark Horse Comics. The book,...
Unflattening wins Lynd Ward Prize
Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, a theoritcal treatise on the use of visual storytelling, has won the 2016 Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Novel of the Year....
It’s a golden anniversary for Cybermen in Titan’s four Doctor summer crossover
The fab four return in Titan's summer Doctor Who crossover comic event, and they're bringing Cybermen to the party. In addition to the July 6 launch of John Barrowman's Torchwood comic series event, Titan announced today that a five issue, bi-weekly series featuring Doctors Nine through Twelve will kick off that same day.
After two years of development, Lanzing, Kelly and To launch BOOM! Studios’ JOYRIDE into...
April 20th is a date years in the making – the day Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing (Grayson) and Marcus To (Hacktivist) are launching their very first...
Review: Czkaj’s R2-D2 strikes back; Bangs & Beard Diary offers a whole new ‘He...
Bangs & Beard Diary
Melinda Tracy Boyce and Aaron Whitaker are cartoonists living in Los Angeles. They’re also a couple and collaborators in an interesting...












