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Milt Snapinn! Todd Klein is not only a letterer of renown, he's a comics historian and he's just begun a history of the DC Comics Offices 1982-1991 with photos, a seating chart and photos of staffers in all their 80s glory.

We lost two of the great this week, Richard Thompson and Jack Davis. I'll have a fuller round-up of reactions and remembrances but in...

Legendary is a word often over used, but Al Jaffee is truly a legendary cartoonist. Still drawing Mad magazine's fold-ins at age 95, he's...

And just to make this day even more sorrowful in comics circles, legendary MAD cartoonist Jack Davis has passed away at age 91. Davis created some of the most memorable horror comics at EC, but then basically invented an entire style of caricature that was endlessly imitated throughout the 60s and 70s.

Cartoonist Richard Thompson, the artist behind Poor Richard's Almanack, Cul-de-Sac and many other wonderful comics, has passed away from the effects on his battle...

By: Nicholas Eskey During this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, writer and artist Ben Hatke is spending time with publisher First Second to help commemorate their...

By: Nicholas Eskey Artist Dave McKean is in every aspect a Renaissance Man. He expresses himself in illustration, art installations, music, theatre, writing, graphic design,...

by Nancy Powell The Comics Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald moderated a Thursday evening panel discussion on the state-of-state of comics journalism, featuring Megan Purdy of...

In a bit of an upset over Stucky and Stormpilot, Olicity won "Ship of the Year" at the 2016 MTV Fandom Awards. Teen Wolf,...

Here's a brief burst of non SDCC news: Noah Berlatsky announced that The Hooded Utilitarian blog is going on hiatus: Hey all. I wanted to...

Nearly a decade ago, Cheryl Eaton created a site called The Ormes Society. It was named after Jackie Ormes, the first African American woman cartoonist and creator of Torchy Brown. The site was devoted to recording the work of African American women in comics and when the site started, Eaton came up with 13 names.

A big Marvel reboot, a midnight release of a previews magazine that reveals the state of Marvel after a big event called "Wars"...and a...