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I was incredibly, completely, absolutely flat broke during my undergraduate film studies at NYU. Broke like skipping meals to afford rides on the Subway. Broke like working two college jobs, with all of it going to tuition and it never being enough. Broke like having to choose between living in a pest-infested room in Harlem, or not finishing college at all because I couldn’t afford to pay for the dormitories. I was angry, but my anger was a cloak that hid my shame, shame based on a fear that if I was indeed good enough to tell stories, somehow this would have been easier.

Hate and outrage have defeated love and optimism yet again. On Monday it was suggested that Marvel had a story trick up their sleeve that would steal the spotlight from DC's ramming-speed publicity blitz for its revamped universe and Rebirth #1. A shocking!!! plot twist in Captain America Steve Rogers #1 that revealed Steve was really a Hydra agent all along seemed unlikely to unseat a wholesale rewriting of ten years of DC history, along with a shocking Alan Moore related plot twist. But, today we have a genuine tweet storm and think piece blitz, all wrapped in a bow

Mell Lazarus, the cartoonist behind such comcis page staples as Miss Peach and Momma has passed away at age 89. Lazasua was a past...

Happy National Geek Day! Why today? What's so special about May 25th? Well, a long time ago, in 1977, Star Wars opened in 32 theaters! That's when...

  That was rhetorical -- of COURSE you are. At long last, after over a decade in the works, We Told You So: Comics As Art...

  I'm working on a longer account of TCAF for PW, but here's some photos to capture the high while it's fresh. While the weekend was tinged...

This morning, the world learned that Darwyn Cooke is undergoing palliative care after a "bout with aggressive cancer."

Please go read Lady of the Shard, the new comic by Gigi D.G. as soon as you can in the best space available to you.

The National Cartoonists Society Foundation (NCSF) has presented the 2015 Jay Kennedy Memorial Scholarship to Sheridan College animation major Tex Minos, who has a...

  Somewhere in the world it's Friday afternoon, and someone somewhere may be counting the minutes to a happy hour brew. To get you in...

Regular Beat readers know I'm OBSESSED with Chester Brown's Mary Wept Over The Feet of Jesus. For many years, I've generally admired Brown's work,...

At this year's Image Expo one of the most buzzworthy announcements was the Creators for Creators Grant, and submissions have just opened up and...