Interviews

Christian Beranek is the writer of Validation, a webcomic telling stories from the life of a trans girl living in the city. The series...

By Matt O'Keefe Over ten years in the making, Mark Waid and Barry Kitson's Empire is finally back. Volume 2 just debuted as on Thrillbent...

By Matt O'Keefe The first series out of Dynamite Entertainment's Creators Unleashed program, The Devilers is a comic book about an apocalypse inspired by a number of different...

Next week sees the release of the third trade of Fairest, the spinoff series of Fables which has seen a number of writers and...

On the 26th of August 2013 I started doing a very long biographical interview with Steve Moore (as mentioned in my earlier post, Steve...

Standing at seven and a half feet tall, pro-wrestler Andre The Giant more than earned his title over a three-decade career which saw him...

When thinking about the crazy world we live in today, where The Walking Dead is the most successful thing on TV and Marvel is the most successful thin in movies, I often think back to a seminal moment in the debate between creator-owned and company-driven: the 2008 debate between Robert Kirkman and Brian Bendis which took place at that year's Baltimore Comicon. The think kicked off when a pre-Talking Dead sharpened Kirkman posted a video editorial calling for more creators to band together to make creator owned comics more of a thing, He even had an agenda for the process (emphasis mine.):

As Summer 2014 starts to break onto the horizon, one of the first big launches of the year sees Mariko and Jillian Tamaki working...

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...

For the last several years, writer Amy Chu has been a familiar face at comic conventions around the World - just last year I...

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...