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R. Sikoryak is the talented cartoonist behind a bevy of conceptual comics that use the strictures of a particular style -- say Charlie Brown...

Anniversary by Sophie Goldstein :

And yet more Study Group Comics, A Weekend at the Atwood by Patrick Dean, or as it's subtitiled, "Ghost Con."

More of Study Group's Halloween Haunting comics, this one is about a nightmare experienced by the artist that he never forgot.

More magic from Bouletcorp. :

Study Group Comics has its annual Halloween special up now...FREE comics to read online by some of todays;' best cartoonists. Up first: A spooky tale about a car breakdown in a terrifying town called...Portland! Don't Look Back by Rich Tomasso -- enjoy!

With This One Summer, Jillian Tamaki established herself as one of the best artists working in comics. With Super Mutant Magic Academy she...

Just in time for the spookiest season, here's We Choose Our Friends Alone" : a short horror comics about a little girl who goes...

A little while back, Brian Hibbs wrote a piece involving the place of Kickstarters in the comics world that still seems to be making...

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.

At home in the warmer months, recovering from neck surgery, cartoonist Lauren Weinstein gifts us with Flower Voyeur, a slice of the circle of...

First big announcement of the week: Delcourt, the biggest independent comics publisher in France, will release a line of their book in English for...