Interviews

A couple of incidents this week of creators who spoke out, and editors who took offense at the speaking out. First off, we've noted many times that Jim Starlin and Marvel seemed to have reached a happy place in terms of Starlin created characters Gamora and Thanos getting the big screen treatment in Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy. Starlin, whose various cosmic works such as The Infinity Gauntlet have been hugely influential in that end of the Marvel Universe, created a new Thanos graphic novel for Marvel and all seemed to be well. But then....things weren't. Newsarama has a full rundown of the matter but The Beat first noticed something might be up when Starlin posted this on his FB page:

This May, IDW will continue to develop their range of all-ages titles with The Littlest Pet Shop, from the twin creative teams of Georgia Ball and Nico Pena; and Matt Anderson and Antonio Campo....

For the last several years, writer Amy Chu has been a familiar face at comic conventions around the World - just last year I bumped into her at Thought Bubble! Among other things a...

Scotland has been missing some good superheroes recently, and especially giant hulking shirtless ginger ones. Luckily that's all changed thanks to Saltire, a new character created by writer John Ferguson, who'll be the star...

Every so often a comic arrests you on the spot, and you're drawn wholly into a new world, style, and story. It happens sometimes completely by chance, which is what happened when I first...

The British comics scene is in one of the healthiest places it's ever been right now, with new projects coming from all angles, and new creators breaking onto the scene. Among them is Rachael...

A year or two ago I spoke to the creative team of The Only Living Boy about their project, a successful Kickstarter which led to a print comic coming out in two volumes subsequently....

Out today from First Second is the latest project from writer/artist Danica Novgorodoff, whose previous works included Slow Storm and Late Freeze. A slight departure from her prior stories, The Undertaking of Lily Chen...

Next month sees a launch which The Beat has been following on and off for the last few weeks. A new Transformers miniseries will be launching at IDW in April, chronicling the introduction of...

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 MacDonald. In this week's interview special, Heidi goes to Mid-Georgia Con...

Out this April comes a one-shot from Image Comics by the creative team of Nathan Edmondson, Alison Sampson and Jason Wordie. Called Genesis, this is a story is all about imagination and creation, and...

Playboy has a long interview with Stan Lee here (link NSFW but not really as much as you'd think), Normally I'd call this an "autumnal" interview, but under the circumstances, it's more...the lion in winter. Lee, perhaps realizing this is one of the few spots he has to dig in a little, sometimes avoids the kind of jokes and spin he uses in other interviews. And while his memory is always spotty (and any Lee interview includes may spots where he takes the question and moves the answer to more familiar territory) his grasp on things is still pretty sharp all things considered.