Cartoonists

§ Top news today! The city of Scottsdale, AZ, hopes to erect a statue in tribute to cartoonist Bil Keane who was a citizen of the town. While you'd think a statue dedicated to the artist Family Circus might include a diorama of footsteps strewn across a park, this one will feature a 9x7 bronze statue of Keane with the four Family Circus kids riding him like a pony. Hopefully this statue does not have a "torture variant." The above photos are artist's renditions.

. Today would have been the 96th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby. 26 years ago, on the occasion of Jack's 70th birthday, I was in the basement of the Hotel San Diego with about 600 of my fellow professionals as we waited in a dark room for Jack to appear.

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...

John Romita Jr. talks about facing a world of options for his career and addresses concerns over Kick-Ass 2.

Molly Crabapple is known for her comics, her drawing, her drawing salons—Dr. Sketchy's—and her political activities, and now she's signed with Harper Collins to...

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...

The fall comics landscape is shaping up with the books we'll be talking about and one will definitely be Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger...

Kevin Maguire is an artist who had several defining runs on comics over the years. Back in the late 80s he helped relaunch JUSTICE...

Over on his website, Dan Berry has just put up a new comic which explains how he almost quit drawing comics. It's a story...

Amanda and I tied the knot. Finally. pic.twitter.com/ZjRbfOvKnA— Jimmy Palmiotti (@jpalmiotti) August 6, 2013 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js According to the above tweet, one of comics most loved couples...

Well that's the short hand version. Basically, back in the 90s, Jim Lee bought two piece of Jack Kirby art. At the time everyone...

Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben...