A very brief MLK day post
Martha Cornog rounds up From Aya to Zapt!: 24 Graphic Novels for African American History Month:
The past year has left tweens and teens with...
Let’s go, Jets!
With a pain-wracked history emblazoned with love-hate names like Richard Todd, Vinny Testaverde, Boomer Esiason, Rick Mirer, Chad Pennington, Brooks Bollinger, Brett Favre, Browning...
The march of time in photos
1981, Creation Con, New York:
Mort Todd, Dan Clowes and Rick Altergott. Via Comics Comics
c 1991-2, San Diego Comic-Con
Jack Kirby meets his namesake, Kirby Veitch....
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Five
If you've stuck with us this far, you've got to go all the way, as the last batch of comics writers, artists, editors, marketers...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Four
It's the biggest year-end survey ever! We're going to keep going until it's all done though. People from EVERY walk of the comics...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Three
Wow, we had SO many responses there WILL BE A PART FOUR. And maybe a part five. Although there's a perhaps not-so-surpsiing consensus on...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Two
Continuing our look forward with writers, artists, editors, publishers, retailers and other people who make the comics. Lots of news, art previews and insight...
Reading roundup: 1/4/10
WOW, lots of reading to do to get yourself ready for the new year!
§ You will be dumbfounded with amazement at Douglas Wolk's...
Happy 87th birthday, Stan Lee
The Man Abides. He also twitters, and if you are following Smilinstanlee, you can only marvel (yes) at how a man approaching his 10th...
Holiday Reading: TCJ 300 conversations
For those who enjoy filling the quieter times of the holidays with reading, pretty much the most essential online comics reading right now is...
The Best Comics Anthologies ever?
Since we never got around to doing a gift giving guide because we're so lame/lazy, we'll steal this post from Jeet Heer on the...
18 Days of Christmas: Lew Stringer’s Comics History
Cartoonist Lew Stringer explores the contents of the 1971 Christmas issue of VALIANT.













