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As mentioned earlier today, ECCC is the first big con of the year, and a ton of comics creators will be there to talk...

We've been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand's comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night...

Alan Brennert reports on FB that comics retail founding father Richard Kyle has passed away at age 87. Kyle had been in ill-health for...

At the recent New Jersey Comics Expo I had the good fortune to talk to Neal Adams, Amy Chu and Ron Marz about comics, life,...

Today is Veteran's Day and About Comics publisher Nat Gertler wrote to let us know about a book he just put out that's pretty appropriate...

Welcome back to Unassuming Barber Shop, a semi-regular column here at The Beat that examines--and sometimes flat-out speculates-- on the possible historical origins of fictional comics...

San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has found a new home after closing down last September sue to rising rents in its SoMa home. The new...

Here's a very worthy Kickstarter that's just a tiny bit shy of being funded with a few days to go that's a daughter's tribute to...

  The NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium is a weekly series of lectures organized by the great Ben Katchor covering a vast range of topics on comics...

Jack T. Chick, whose religious tract comics inspired revulsion and mirth– along with some faith, I'm sure -- passed away over the wekeend at...

Monsters Unleashed is Marvel's first big event of 2017, with the Avengers, the Champions, the Guardians of the Galaxy, the X-Men, the Inhumans and the rest going up against hordes of giant monsters. You'll need little more than that to sell you on the idea, but it's written by Cullen Bunn with art by Steve McNiven, Leinil Yu, Adam Kubert, Greg Land and Salvador Larocca.

Speaking of politics, one of the strangest stories this year has been the appropriation of Pepe the Frog as a symbol for white supremacist...