Why are there no women “Modern Masters” of comics?
When I saw an item about a new book in TwoMorrows Modern Masters from Paolo Rivera in my feed I thought "Oh cool! Rivera...
Happy Thanksgiving from The Beat to you!
Art by Walt Kelly.
Happy Turkey Day to all the Beatniks around the world! We're very thankful for all our readers and your continued support...
Guardians of the Galaxy, Starlord’s father and the horrible joy of the spoiler
What secrets are left to us in an age of internet crowd-sourced sleuthing? We'll find out where Luke Skywalker is in a few weeks,...
Gender and Feminism in the Jem and th Holograms comic
We've been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that...
Gilbert Hernandez to present erotic biblical tales in Garden Of Flesh graphic novel
In a world where the word unfettered is used quite a bit, Gilbert Hernandez can truly be said to be unfettered. The Love and Rockets grandmaster is a prolific graphic novelist (in the last couple of years alone, Speak of the Devil, Loverboys, Bumperhead, and Marble Season) and no subject matter is too raw or shocking. His The Twilight Children (drawn by Darwyn Cooke) is currently coming out from Vertigo, and here's a brand new project, Garden Of Flesh
which promises Gilbert's own take on Biblical tales:
which promises Gilbert's own take on Biblical tales: More Nerd News Site Attrition: io9 folds into Gizmodo
Will any geeks news sites be left standing as 2015 draws to a close? I would have thought io9, the nerd part of the...
A quick round up of comics-related news about the Paris attacks
Just a few of the news notes regarding Friday's tragedies as they relate to our corner of the world, if you can stomach it....
Katsuhiro Otomo’s poster for 2016 Angoulême festival revealed
When Japanese cartoonist/animator Katsuhiro Otomo won the Grand Prix at this year's Angoulême comics fest, he became the first manga artist to win the...
Cartoonists gone wild on the Fear and Loathing graphic novel tour
[Editor's note: Troy Little has gone on tour to support his new graphic novell adaptation of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, as you do. Because you need a gonzo comics tour to compliment the ultimate gonzo road trip...okay maybe not quite as wild as Hunter S. Thompson's famous journey. Anyway, Top Shelf provided us with some photos from the tour stop.]
New X-Files photos, be still my heart
In case you had forgotten:
Two-Night Season Premiere of THE X-FILES:
Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, 10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT, following the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME;
Monday, Jan....
CrowdWatch: Locust Moon to publish long lost Will Eisner comic strips
Well speak of the devil, here's a new Kickstarter from the Locust Moon folks that plans to reprint some long lost early work by...
So who REALLY created the graphic novel?
Will Eisner: Champion of the Graphic Novel is a new book by former DC publisher Paul Levitz that looks at Eisner's historical contribution to...
