Cartoonists

Several sources are reporting that cartoonist Don Rosa is recovering from surgery. Mike Gold at ComicMix writes: It probably goes without saying that an artist's most significant tools are his eyes. People have figured out...

A reader writes to inform us that Jill Thompson now has her own forum on the Lurid Forum. That in turn reminded us that she has a blog which we don't check nearly...

Dear friends, The Beat has been blogging for nigh on four years now, and when we began, our goal was to put comics culture into the context of real world culture, and make cartoonists...

The Baltimore City Paper reviews Scrooged a show of Carl Barks art at the Geppi Entertainment museum. And you will cry: And "Yukon" is not an example of Barks' best work, coming as it does...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzFv_AMWJDo&hl=en&w=425&h=355] Via YouTube Craig is profiled by the local paper . . . and we get a sneak peek at his adaptation of Neil Gaiman's SANDMAN: THE DREAM HUNTERS. This is a preview scene...

ESSEX COUNTY's Jeff Lemire (interviewed this week in PW Comics Week by Laurel Maury) has a new mini comic up at his blog:THE HORSELESS RIDER.:

The comics industry and blogosphere has been overflowing with tributes to the late Dave Stevens, who died Monday. His work influenced many people -- more than you might think given the relative scarcity of...

Turns out Paul Pope isn't the only cartoonist with a designer collectin coming out. Chris Butcher links to many photos of the Spring prada line which contains numerous designs by none other than...

§ Yes there WILL be a Superman Returns sequel, director Bryan Singer tells Empire and he WILL be directing it: "That movie made $400 million!" Singer says incredulously. "I don’t know what constitutes under-performing these...

Starting in September, you will be able to purchase DKNY jackets, hoodies and tees emblazoned with the art of Paul Pope in the 2089 line. We sincerely hope that these will be in sizes...

http://services.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/452319854 Another narrative-defining profile, this time Paul Pope's many media forays are profiled in the Wall Street Journal, with an emphasis on his work in the fashion world for Diesel and DKNY: Though he's working with...

This is definitely not comics, but cartoonist Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons (SHUTTERBOX) has a harrowing account of what happened after her mother wandered out of a retirement home. Her mother, who suffers from aphasia, was missing...