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Italian fanzine Fumettologica has made an English transcript of their interview with Milo Manara available, and offered it to run at The Beat....

Yesterday the enduring appeal of the human female rump as an object of sexual desire was reaffirmed in two separate incidents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs Rapper Nicki Minaj...

Oh god where to begin. The short version is that Judge Dread artist Ulises Farinas calling out Yale Stewart over what Farinas deemed ill-advised charity efforts then led to Stewart, the artist of the webcomic JL8, being outed as a naked selfie sender, and then apologizing while putting his webcomic on hiatus.

The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground is in B&W/  and Full color, HardCover  an exclusive Kitchen Sink Press imprint under Dark Horse  ISBN:978-1-61655-258-9 Intro...

Cartoonist MariNaomi is starting a database of cartoonists of color (COC) and you can upload your details as explained in the link. There's...

http://youtu.be/mNLcjWIzQHM Before Marvel became the toast of tinsel town, there were some pretty dreadful Marvel-based movies—and I'm not just talking Howard the Duck. Dolph Lundgren...

Noah van Sciver is one of our finest young cartoonists, building up a body of work that displays hard work, insight, and a strong storytelling sensibility that doesn't shy away from the uncomfortable. I like The Hypo, his unconventional take on Abraham Lincoln, and Saint Cole from the Expositor.

How is it that a mini series that was conceived six years ago can actually be a stunningly accurate mirror of this week's events in Ferguson, MO, where the shooting of an unarmed black teen led to days of police action that looked like something out of a Christopher Nolan Batman movie? Could it be that the issues of race, inequality and violence that Genius deals with are so important that they were just as clear six years ago?

The first superhero comic I paid for with my own money was Sensational Spider-Man #0. It arrived at the pharmacy my mom worked at...

About Comics is a boutique publisher that specializes in bringing back unjustly obscure comics in affordable editions. They've just released HOLLYWOOD SUPERSTARS by Mark Evanier and Dan Spiegle. Originally published in 1990 via Marvel's Epic line, it was a non-superheroic variant of Crossfire by the same team, basically behind the scenes tales of Hollywood, seen through the adventures of a team of private eyes consisting of a stuntman, an aspiring actress and a stand up comic. Like Crossfire, it has that slightly elegiac air of people who believe Hollywood's legend and lore a little too much, told as only a couple of insiders could tell it.

Is the Beat obsessed with The View liking comics? Why, yes, because it represents the farthest encroachment of comics culture into the fortress of...

How do we solve the problem of cosplayer harassment? Is it even a problem at all, or are we simply dealing with a few...