What’s going on with NSFW comics lately?
What's going on with NSFW comics lately? We ask a few comic creators currently working within the genre
Interview: Sam Prentice-Jones talks debut graphic novel ARCANA: THE LOST HEIRS
The Beat caught up with Prentince-Jones over email to discuss his debut graphic novel Arcana: The Lost Heirs, how it was inspired by tarot, and what it was like being the first graphic novel to be published by Hot Key Books.
Pride 2025 Interview: Khalid Johnson talks SANGUINE FOUNDATIONS and art as advocacy
Successfully funded on Kickstarter in April 2025, Sanguine Foundations by Khalid Johnson is the story of Jess Freeman, a Black trans woman who discovers that she's a witch after enrolling in a magical university, with a violent and transphobic past.
Comics Beat’s Pride 2025 Manga Reading List
Celebrate Pride with this non-exhaustive list of queer manga stories!
Exclusive: Maverick announces queer YA OGN WRACK & RUNE
Maverick has announced Wrack & Rune, a queer, fantastical, young adult graphic novel about power and privilege.
Pride Interview 2025: Kendra Wells talks their shit, REAL HERO SHIT 2 and future...
Fully funded in 12 hours, Real Hero Shit 2: Harder Than It Looks is the next installment in the Real Hero Shit series by...
Pride 2025 Interview: Jeremy Whitley talks the ACES & AROS anthology
Aces & Aros affirms that ace and aro identities are neither fringe nor fleeting but rich, complex, and deeply human.
Comics Beat’s Pride 2025 Reading List
To celebrate Pride 2025, The Beat staff is sharing a non-exhaustive list of queer comics to read, enjoy and share.
Pride 2025: NO STRAIGHT LINES is streaming on PBS to celebrate Pride Month
In celebration of Pride Month, PBS is proudly streaming No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics on the PBS Video app. The 2001 documentary...
Glass and Miner are back with YOUNG MEN IN LOVE: NEW ROMANCE
Fans are getting a follow-up to the GLAAD Media Award-winning LGBT+ anthology Young Men in Love: New Romance, published by A Wave Blue World,...
11 comics to read during Lesbian Visibility Week
It’s Lesbian Visibility Week! As a very visible lesbian, I wanted to give some recommendations (thanks, Beat staff!) for sapphic books to check out this week.
Trans women are women: Pedro Pascal wears ‘PROTECT THE DOLLS’ tee at UK premiere,...
At the London premiere of Marvel Studios' Thunderbolts on April 22, 2025, Pedro Pascal, 50, made waves by raising awareness for the protection of...
