Comics

Comics Beat contributor Seth Ferranti has had a long and storied past.  A writer well and truly familiar with life on the streets, Ferranti...

Rarely do I get to learn the story of people who have moved away from the comics industry. Artist and creator Thomas Boatwright is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXBJIZ1NXFU&feature=youtu.be That's right! Two titans from your childhood face off in one of the most popular of YouTube channels! It's Stan Lee (Lloyd "EpicLLOYD" Ahlquist) vs...

The column that judges a book by its cover, focusing on the month's best-designed comic covers. For the month's best-illustrated comic covers, see Best...

Masashi Kishimoto, creator of the 205,000,000 copies in print Naruto comic, will be making an extremely rare appearance at this year's New York Comic Con with two special signings—one at Books Kinokuniya and one at the Tribeca outpost of Barnes and Noble. It's not only Kishimoto-sensei's first appearance in the US, it's also his first con appearance ever. And probably one of the few times he's left his house during the 18-year run of the international smash hit. We're kidding a little about the leaving the house bit, but as we've mentioned here many times in the past, manga creators can lead a pretty monastic lifestyle, even with the help of assistants. Since Naruto ended last year, he's been busy with various manga about Boruto, Naruto's son, and also writing the Naruto movie, but hopefully he's been enjoying some time off.

Yesterday, Ray Sonne at Loser City levied hefty accusations at Marvel staff.  In an interview with CBR, Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso angered fans when...

A lot of the major comics publishers have websites that were set-up in the long ago days, and just like a street that slowly...

Centrala is a Polish indie comics publisher that recently opened a London office, which s helping their books get wider distribution. They have three new books including what sounds like an intriguing tale about two German police officers who join the Klan to make friends and meet girls, an anthology mixing comics and cooking and a book adapting a famous Polish poem about a train into a 60 foot long comic! Eastern European comics are usually thought of as an "emerging" scene, but with publishers like Centrala and the Latvian kuš! collective getting notice, they've emerged quite a bit. Here's the Centrala books, which are all available for order.

It's time to get back to what's best in life: COMICS. The fall publishing season has been announced (and Spring '16 is coming soon)...

Here's where I finally release what's left of our SDCC audio content...as a follow-up to last week's set of DC and Marvel Television interviews,...

England is gone, replaced by a new World Tree, promising to end this world and replace it with something new. Hellboy speaks with a spirit that may be his friend Alice, but who also appears to be something more. She delivers a prophecy of doom and beauty to Hellboy, who awakens, and finds himself in Hell once more. And then things start to get weird.

We get a lot of requests to mention Kickstarters here at the Beat, and rather than slight this one or that one, I hardly mention any. Only the worthiest. But I do HEAR about a lot of kickstarters as they get tweeted and promoted about the web. Here's one that only crossed my radar only recently (probably my fault more than anything, since it got written up in HuffPo, WaPo, Mother Jones and other places no one reads) but it doesn't seem to need much help. Tom Tomorrow, the veteran (no offense) political cartoonist is Kickstartinga compendium of the last 25 years of his comic, "This Modern World" and it's doing very well: it just passed the $250,000 mark and has a few days to go to kick it up a bit more.