Preview: Foreigners By Patrick Kyle
Continuing their mini-series releases, SPACE FACE BOOKS is gearing up for another string of tiny-sized comics from some of indie's most notable cartoonists. Joining...
Interview and Exclusive Preview: Peyo’s BENNY BREAKIRON with Jim Salicrup of Papercutz
Following a multi-volume and ongoing celebrated run of bringing Peyo’s original SMURFS comics to English-speaking reader, all ages comics publisher Papercutz is poised to...
Preview: Phabula #1
Monkeybrain Comics, the digital comics imprint, has been rolling along since its launch last July, and they have a new book debuting on ComiXology today: Phabula #1 by Dalton Rose (Sacrifice, Theremin)
Preview and Interview: 5 GHOSTS with Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham
5 GHOSTS is a new genre-splicing series premiering with Image Comics on March 20th, 2013 from writer Frank Barbiere (recently of THE WHITE SUITS...
Preview: Who is AC? by Hope Larson and Tintin Pantoja
With 2013 barreling along, it's time to start looking at some of books that are going to make it a notable year, and here's one that has flown mostly under the radar until now: Who is AC? by Hope Larson with art by Tintin Pantoja, to be published by Atheneum on April 16th. It's Larson's first original GN since Mercury, she she describes it thusly:
Preview: Comics About Cartoonists: The World’s Oddest Profession
Before "meta" was physical, before Modernism became Posted, before Art Popped, cartoonists drew stories about cartoonists and cartooning!
Some of it was autobiographical (or possibly...
Preview of the Legend of Zelda: HYRULE HISTORIA
A few months ago Dark Horse announced they were publishing The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia an authorized art book of the storied video game franchise. Such was the excitement for this book that it knocked off Shades of grey from the Amazon best seller list for a while week, and money from The Beat's Amazon affiliate link paid for all our Christmas presents.
A Smurfy Preview Review: THE BABY SMURF by Peyo from Papercutz
It seems appropriate to ring in the new year with a blue moon and a stork-bourne baby Smurf. THE BABY SMURF, including the title...
HYPE AND PREVIEW: Joe Palooka #1
The venerable comics strip character Joe Palooka has been remade into a modern day MMA fighter in JOE PALOOKA #1 on sale today from...
First Still from THE HOBBIT: The Desolation of Smaug and more 2013 movie previews
Warner Bros dumped a bunch of stills from 2013 movies the other day, including this first look at The Hobbit II: The Desolation of...
Preview: Princeless 2: Wanted
Princeless was a runaway hit for new-ish indie publisher, Action Lab Comics, this year. The sassy fairy tale comic about a disgruntled princess who...
Preview: Django Unchained, the comic
Quentin Tarantino's upcoming DJANGO UNCHAINED is already garnering buzz for what is said to be Tarantino's most amazing screenplay yet—and in his usual discursive fashion there so much story that not all of it could be fit in to a movie of normal length. Enter the DJANGO UNCHAINED comic book,