Cartoonists

Millennial comics superstars Kate Beaton, Luke Pearson and Noelle Stevenson have just been announced as the first guests at this year's SPX which will spotlight creators who have only worked in the 21st Century. So get ready to write either your 6000-word think piece or your series of tweets on what this all means. This year's SPX will be held September 19-20, with over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 22 programming slots and countless rollaway beds. IT's the annual Camp Comics on the schedule and this sounds like a real watershed year.

For the past number of years that I've attended SDCC, the fine folks at Cartoon Network and their brand Adult Swim have put on...

After yesterday's gloom parade over the economics of comics, and the small number of people who seem to be making a good wage from...

By Victor Van Scoit With San Diego Comic-Con around the corner, press releases titled "San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Exclusive" are coming fast and furious (where's...

  Being in comics is great, it's a golden era, new readers, yadda yadda. But this golden era is mostly the product of people slaving...

The new trailer for The Peanuts Movie has arrived, and it's a 2015 release that hasn't gotten a lot of notice, but based on...

It's been a good couple of weeks for Noelle Stevenson. Just two weeks after the announcement that her collaborative Boom! Studios comic Lumberjanes was getting...

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...

Yesterday, the tumblr of incredibly talented cartoonist Sam Hiti presented a post called Rest in Pages Sam Hiti which suggested that he had...

The showrunners of China, IL sat down with Comics Beat for a quick talk about their show, Hulk Hogan, and the finer ways to curse on network television.

By Harper W. Harris The first book in The Chronicles of Claudette, Giants Beware! was quite well received; in fact, it earned the creators several...

Photo by Abigail Huller, via Oakland Museum of California Q. Do you still work the same way you did 25 years ago, drawing by hand...