Holidays

Better than just Legos. Better than just superheroes. SUPERHERO LEGO HALLOWEEN COSTUMES, as constructed by one family. You will need to go to...

Stephanie Buscema is the Crown Princess of Halloween. Her Cute Ghouls are just one reason why. Click around her site and you'll soon realize...

http://www.twincomics.com/

Okay two of our favoritest things in one post -- Halloween and Ikea. No, it's not the existential dread of assembling a Målm. It's a hack of an old lamp painted black and turned into a ghostie forest! Brrrrrr.

It's the spooky, chilling time of year, when pumpkin muffins are consumed and woolen scarves are brought from the closet. As in years past...

My favorite Kirby now is the more crazy abstract stuff, so my selection favors that. Of course there was much more to Kirby.

Read Comics in Public 2012 has just been announced for Tuesday, August 28th, which happens to be another great date in comics history:

Back in July 1982, the Comics Journal ran an article titled “Archetype Meets Angst” by one Heidi D. MacDonald. Thirty years later, during Comic-Con International surrounded by so many people she knows, we here at The Beat celebrate our Editor-In-Chief, and bestow the honorary title of "exemplar"!

Jason Latour and Robbi Rodriguez put Wolverine in the corner

Hope everyone has a safe and happy one! Easy on the BBQ.

The Beat salutes the secret superheroes, fathers!

Like any good cartoonist and comics evangelist, a road trip cannot just be days of blasting Mates of State and stopping at roadside attractions like Corn Palace. No, no, on my trip from The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT to Fantagraphics in Seattle, WA will be punctuated by a few stops to conduct portfolio reviews and drop off some Schulz Library tote bags at great comic book stores across America.