Interview: Ed Luce Tackles Wrestling, Music, and Sex in Wuvable Oaf
By Melanie Burke
Images courtesy of Ed Luce
In anticipation of the launch of his first project in comics, Wuvable Oaf, The Beat took a minute to...
Ed Luce’s Wuvable Oaf to Launch Thursday at Portland’s Floating World
It's Monday. The work week has just begun. That means it's time to start making weekend plans. If you're in Portland, OR, you can...
Book Con 2015: Papercutz to Release First Issue of Nickelodeon Magazine in June
Papercutz debuted the first issue of their rebranded Nickelodeon Magazine this past weekend at Book Con 2015. First announced back in February, the magazine...
Lumberjanes is about to become a major motion picture
One of the big critical darlings of last year, Lumberjanes is a fabulous comic series written by Noelle Stevenson and Grace Ellis, with art...
Review: Old Man Logan #1 Discharges Apocalyptic Swagger
Writer:
Brian Michael Bendis
Artist:
Andrea Sorrentino
Colorist:
Marcelo Maiolo
Letterer:
VC's Cory Petit
Wolverine is grizzled, dirty, and tired -- but Old Man Logan is downright nasty. Logan's resolve is killing...
DC’s in-story ads only to destroy comics for a month…so far
The facing page Twix ad is only a one-off...but it is enough to destroy the comics industry as we know it?
Jughead from Zdarsky and Henderson is coming this fall
While an attempt to crowdfund its new line didn't work, Archie Comics is moving full speed ahead with their reboot, and the planned Jughead...
UPDATED: DC to Begin Placing Ads on Story Pages
UPDATE 2: According to sources inside DC, the half-page ads will only appear in books releasing this June. This makes the advertising experiment concurrent...
Convergence #8 Marks the first steps of Divergence in the DCU
So...while you were away DC Comics just shifted their Multiversity concept. I know, I know, DC does this all the time. The last specific instance...
BEA 2015: More French comics on the way to the US
The gorgeous Albertine bookstore at the French Embassy.
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I'm in the middle of Book Expo/Book Con hubbub but I wanted to draw beat readers...
Cruel Portents: Looking at the Past and the Future of The Wicked + The...
In Kieron Gillen's talk on Alan Moore's and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, Gillen emphasizes themes of time and cyclicality present in Moore's graphic novel. Temporal...
That ‘Wilson’ movie is on again with Harrelson and Dern
Daniel Clowes is the Mark Millar of the indie comics set, with two of his graphic novels—Ghost World and Art School Confidential—having been filmed. And now a third, Wilson, based on the GN of the same name, is back on track, with filming set for Minneapolis next month. The script is by Clowes.
