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  Richard Sala is running another Tumblr comic, SUPER-ENIGMATIX. IT includes mysterious masked figures, pretty girls, enigmas and other Sala trademarks.   You know you want it.  

by Matt Hawkins Why do we need more diversity of creators in comics? The simple answer is money. The only color in business that matters...

Over the weekend there was a kerfuffle or two! Are you shocked? These involved comic cons which had promotions that seemed to forget that about 40% of the con going audience is now female.

Just in case you can't enough of a smiling Abe Vigoda, there's a really nice Flickr set of the Old Jewish Comedians opening up at the Society of Illustrators page. With lots of old Jewish comedians and some great shots of the exhibit itself.

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...

I'm happy to report that Sequart's SHE MAKES COMICS documentary has been fully funded and reached a first stretch goal of making a special...

It is not every day you see Fantagraphics associate publisher Eric Reynolds and legend Abe Vigoda in the same place (as seen on Reynolds'...

Okay this is an ad for Ikea, but it is also a fantasy for most of us. Like, a Sex in the City/Axe ad level fantasy.

By Matt O'Keefe Since 2008 Jeff McComsey has been immersed in all things FUBAR. The New York Times best selling zombie series has consisted of three...

It's a booming time for more scholarly looks at comics, and Ball State doctoral candidate Christina Blanch is one of the most important figures in this movement. last year she held a MOOC (massive online open course) on Gender in Comics that drew some 7,000 participants, and she's at it again with Social Issues Through Comic Books a six month online course that will examine "current social issues through comic books while understanding how popular culture is shaped by it's surroundings." Guests include Denny O'Neill, Shaenon Garrity, Scott Snyder, Gene Yang, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid... the list goes on. NOW how much would you pay? Well, it's FREE. Yep.

I don't even watch basketball, but while passing TVs of late I noticed some guy playing basketball who seemed to be wearing a...

Jen Sorenson has become the first woman to win the Herblock Prize, awarded each year to an editorial cartoonist “to encourage editorial cartooning as...