Comics

Margaret Atwood is one of the great literary figures of our times, as the award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Penelopiad, Onyx and Crake, mixing science fiction, social commentary and huamnist themes. She's also a dabbling cartoonist, as these doodles from the road show.

The Batman panel at Wondercon.

Comics Beat snuck a peek of some exhibitors on the floor before the opening of Wondercon and this is what we saw.

IDW's "parent company"—actually a holding company consisting of a travel brochure publisher and IDW—has become renamed IDW Media Holdings, and IDW's Ted Adams will...

The Beat takes a look at Japan with the manga Solanin during their 24 Hours of International Comics.

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"Sandman Overture" By Nick Eskey Okay, perhaps not a British comic, but seeing as “Sandman” was written by a British man, and is in English, its...

Guten Tag! Germany... it's a bit of a conundrum in Continental comics. Smack dab in the middle of Europe, it gets a lot of comics imported...

Best known in the US for writing Beautiful Darkness, Fabien Vehlmann is a superstar writer in France, working on some of the best known characters while winning numerous awards, and even writing the occasional movie. Here's a brief look at some of his work available in English.

By Victor Van Scoit Usually when you find a web comic it doesn't have the vision and scope of Run Freak Run. I can't recall...

 Writers Charles Soule  Ryan Stegman Artists Steve McNiven Jay Leisten Ryan Lee Brandon Peterson Colorist Justin Ponsor James Campbell Marvel is adamantly trying to push the Inhumans as their premiere X-Men team, even stealing the...

Today is a day to send shout-outs to the Center for Cartoon Studies, located in White River Junction, VT and recognize it's many good deeds. While my shout out should be a loving essay on how teaching comics has had a strong effect on storytelling and how the bucolic yet isolated campus in rural Vermont allows students to focus in on making comics, or the print room or the other great things about the faculty which includes James Sturm and Steve Bissette, I don't have time for that. Instead I will just direct you to Rob Clough's series looking at the WORK of CCS grads and spotlight a few of them: