These Suicide Squad hats will cap off your week
Whatever you think of the actual movie, no one can question that the art direction for the Suicide Squad movie has been on fleek,...
Bitch Planet and March win first Virginia Library Association Diversity Award
The Virginia LIbrary Association (VLA) has announced the winners of their first ever Graphic Novel Diversity Awards. The prize celebrates diversity in comics form, and...
Stars of comics and screen come out for the Suicide Squad premiere
It was quite a gathering of comics talent for last night's Suicide Squad premiere in New York. The crew gathered for the above photo...
Stranger things: tour DC’s offices in the 80s with Todd Klein
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.
Weekend reading: Some Jack Davis and Richard Thompson art
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...
Al Jaffee to get the Harvey Kurtzman Hall of Fame Award
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...
RIP Jack Davis
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.
RIP Richard Thompson
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...
#SDCC ’16 Special Guest Ben Hatke Talks About His Work, His Eisner Nomination, and...
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...
#SDCC ’16 Dave McKean Talks Art and WWI in his Latest Graphic Novel “Black...
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,...
SDCC ’16: State-of-the-State: The New Comics Journalism Panel
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...
SDCC ’16: Olicity wins Ship of the Year in MTV Fandom Awards
In a bit of an upset over Stucky and Stormpilot, Olicity won "Ship of the Year" at the 2016 MTV Fandom Awards. Teen Wolf,...
