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Lisa Hix of Collectors Weekly sat down with Trina Robbins and runs through a few chapters of Robbins' Pretty in Ink, her third history of women cartoonists. The result is an immense article that could function on a primer on the history of women cartoonists going back more than 100 years, starting with Rose O'Neil:

You can read my official SPC report at PW, with news and notes, but I'm guessing that everyone who was at SPX is probably, like me, realizing that the magic is over and we have a whole year to go, or maybe a few weeks if you count APE, but in the meantime, I can keep the magic going a few moments more by rounding up some of the magical, mystical memories of SPX. I said there were a few people who didn't have a good time, and you can find one of two on Tumblr who sat outside hotel rooms sadly waiting for the person with the key to come back. But if you could open your heart, SPX would make you love it. As the above picture shows, SPX is the only con where you can find Julia Wertz and Renee French just sitting and smiling with each other. It's also the only place where someone would leave their computer just sitting out on a table (as one prominent comics personage di don Friday)and feel pretty secure that it would be just fine. There is a reason why people puts up so many pics and blog so much about this show—it's a full on love affair.

@s_k_hanselmann decided to do his Paul Pope impression at @LocustMoon tonight. (He wrote "Paul Pope" on his chest.) pic.twitter.com/q1Rn723BOH— Fantagraphics Books (@fantagraphics) September 17,...

  Alison Bechdel has been named one of this year's MacArthur Foundation grant winners, often known as a genius grant. Bechdel was cited for being ...a cartoonist and graphic...

By Naif Al-Mutawa Many years ago, I was the volleyball counsellor at a summer camp in New England. It was 1990 and I was fit...

"But the men in comics are sexualized too!" they have whined since time began, copletely ignring how boob-windows, brokebacks, boob socks and more are not the same thing as a man with a good physique in a dynamic pose. Well courtesy of Sears (!????!!?!?) and the listing for a UNDER THE BED RESTRAINT GEAR here's what it actually looks like when a male is sexualized, just for your information.

This weekend the Small Press Expo takes place in North Bethesda, MD. The show is known for its collegial, summer camp vibe, but this...

Zainab Akhtar's excellent Comics and Cola blog runs a feature called "Comics Shelfies" which includes pictures of various comics collections. Usually the Expedit or...

The Colbert Report Last week Randall Munroe of xkcd fame apepared on the Colbert Show to promote his new book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers...

Simon Hanselmann, Patrick Kyle and Michael DeForge are going on tour together, an event that will doubtless span a thousand autobio comics. DeForge is...

We here at The Beat have long been a fan of Tim Beyer's analysis of comics and comics-based entertainment trends at The Motley Fool and he's just launched his own site to expand on that called The Full Bleed:

There's a new show on the Nerdist Channel called 'Just Cosplay' and I was given a sneak look at the first episode, live now....