The Peanuts Movie trailer showcases a potential November gem
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...
Noelle Stevenson’s Nimona is getting the animated treatment by Feast director
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...
Interview: Ed Luce Tackles Wrestling, Music, and Sex in Wuvable Oaf
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...
Sam Hiti is not dead, but that’s about all we know
Yesterday, the tumblr of incredibly talented cartoonist Sam Hiti presented a post called Rest in Pages Sam Hiti which suggested that he had...
Interview: Brad Neely & Co. on China, IL – The Worst School in America
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.
Interview: Rafael Rosado and Jorge Aguirre Create Sequel to Beloved Giants Beware!
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...
Quote of the Day: Daniel Clowes on the artist’s tools
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...
To Do tonight: SVA’s Fresh Meat 2015
Poster above is by Giselle Sarmiento.
SVA—the School of Visual Arts— holds a yearly mini comic-con for its senior class Fresh Meat.
SVA has been a hotbed...
Ty Templeton is home and has some advice for all of us
The Beat has been reporting over the last few weeks on Ty Templeton's severe heart attack and I'm pleased to report that he's...
Adam Zyglis wins Pulitzer Prize for Cartooning
The Pulitzers, awarded for excellence in journalism, were announced yesterday, and the winner for cartooning was Adam Zyglis of The Buffalo News. Finalists were...
Ty Templeton in critical condition after a heart attack
Cartoonist Ty Templeton—generally considered one of the funniest people of his generation—is in stable but critical condition after suffering a heart attack wife, KT Smith reported on Facebook. Templeton, 52, suffered the attack yesterday but in an update today she reports he's in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator, but expected to be taken off of it tomorrow.
To do tonight: Barbara Stok at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
There are a lot of comics events going on around town tonight but here's a pretty cool one, especially if you'd also like...
