Tapastic Announce Webtoon Based on Mobile Game ‘Golf Star’
You'll be hearing quite a bit from Tapastic over the next few years, I'd imagine, so here's one to start with. This week the...
Webcomic alert: Boys’ Night
Go read this quick before it gets taken down: Boys' Night by artist PB Quatch and Hollywood tyro screenwriter Max Landis.
INTERVIEW: Paul Duffield Announces ‘The Firelight Isle’
Paul Duffield has been working on a huge new project for a long time now, following the finale of his co-created web series Freakangels...
Allie Brosh is probably the best selling cartoonist of the year
Allie Brosh's debut book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened came out earlier this...
24 Hours of Halloween: Samhain Night
Peggy Wolohan von Burkleo sent me along a link to her manga-style webcomic Samhain Night, which she describes as "a dark modern Celtic faerietale...
INTERVIEW: Entering the Digital World of Tapastic
Digital comics have been growing at a tremendous rate over the past years, with initiatives like Thrillbent gaining prominence on top of individual projects...
Webcomic Alert: Bani Garu, Lea Hernandez’s history of Gainax
BoingBoing has just introduced a new webcomic and it's a doozy: Bani Garu, a history of Gainax Studio, the legendary Japanese animation studio. There's...
First peek at Jeff Smith’s Tuki Save the Humans!, with CBLDF future unveiling
With RASL running up the sales chart and soon to start racking up awards, Jeff Smith's next project—a webcomic called Tüki Save the Humans!...
NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer
I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days...
BKV, Marcos Martin and Private Eye return with “pictures of lunch unlike any you’ve...
Brian K. Vaughan has alerted his mailing list that a new issue of Private Eye, his webcomic with Marcos Martin, is on the way...
Recommended: Something Terrible by Dean Trippe
Superheroes sometimes come in for some criticism here at The Beat—I was a teenaged superhero reader but haven't read them regularly in a looooong...
Internet Meme Shocker: Did Grumpy Cat Rip off Kate Beaton?
In a story on how Grumpy Cat—the dwarf cat that people (including The Beat) will line up for hours just to see—is worth $1 million, it's revealed that one of her signature catch phrases first appeared in a cartoon by Kate Beaton. Which wouldn't be so odd except that Grumpy's manager, who is a "meme manager", is very litigious about other people stealing his own memes. Beaton, who hasn't received any money from the cat or her manager, is philosophical about the whole thing, writing:
