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Via many media yesterday came news of USA Today laying off a bunch of folks, including Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson, following a 15 year run. A few may remember in the VERY VERY early days of this site, Whitney was a blogging nemesis, bearing in mind that when we both started there were only four blogs. The pretend "feud" lasted about five minutes, and ended as soon as I met Whit and found out what an awesomely kind, smart and talented person she was. Seriously there is not a person on earth who is nicer than Whitney.

  Chris Ware is only the second cartoonist to get the Paris Review interview treatment—Robert Crumb was the first—and it's said to be one of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdc7cTPuU I'm addicted to Russian dashboard camera videos. The best ones have loud Russian disco playing, but they are pretty much all good, revealing a...

What a tiring week it has been even though I'm technically on vacation. You are probably sick and tired of reading about the irrational,...

Here's a good idea: Small Press Previews, a new site that I was informed of by Jared Smith. They have 46 publishers signed up to create a single spot to see previews of small press comics coming out each month. For instance I didn't know there was a new Derf coming from Alternative Press!

It's The King's 97th birthday today, but who needs an excuse to celebrate the mans vision, talent and tenacity? Kirby's granddaughter Jillian is spearheading...

It was recently revealed to us olds that YouTube and other social media stars are actually more popular with teens than celebs old enough...

Okay, unless the unforeseen happens I swear this is the LAST Beat post about Spider-Woman's butt. But One of the bingo card arguments trotted...

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...