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By Steve Morris The Thought Bubble Convention is considered to be one of the strongest in the UK, emphasising comics ahead of film or television....

The late Charles M. Schulz has previously praised the long running comic strip MUTTS as "one of the best comic strips of all time."...

A few months ago we repeatedly asked: Would WB treat J.K. Rowling the way DC treated Alan Moore? We may never know the answer to that one, but we can now definitely answer this: Lana and Andy Wachowski would not treat CLOUD ATLAS author David Mitchell that way

Hope Larson's epic comics adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME has barely hit shelves but she's already talking about her next projects, including a graphic novel she's written with art by Tintin Pantoja called WHO IS A.C.?. Planned as the start of a series, it debuts next spring.

Hope Larson's epic comics adaptation of A WRINKLE IN TIME has barely hit shelves but she's already talking about her next projects, including a graphic novel she's written with art by Tintin Pantoja called WHO IS A.C.?. Planned as the start of a series, it debuts next spring.

by Serhend Sirkecioglu From her Tumblr all I know about Jen Lee is she’s a freelancer from Idaho, with a boyfriend, two dogs, two cats,...

You don't always have to think big when you decide to be awesome. When an artist named Oviot decided to pay tribute to Adventure...

In light of recent stalkerish stories, two incidents from last weekend's PAX video game show, make for disturbing readings. While it occurred at an event that wasn't officially affiliated with PAX, the incident recalled by female video game blogger Kyle is perhaps given away by her blog post title: Boundaries and The Penis Incident:

Sultry photos of a loungey Wonder Woman accompany Julie Ditrich's story on Wonder Woman creator William Moulton Marston, with an emphasis on Marston's pre-50 Shades interest in bondage, domination and having more than one wife—all interests which seeped into the pages of WONDER WOMAN.

The one and only Gary Panter, quintessential punk illustrator and the highly accoladed set designer of Pee-Wee's Playhouse, envisions a mind-bending sci-fi/punk fusion in a new release with Fantagraphics. Originating in 1983, this is first time Panter's DAL TOKYO will be collected into one epic volume, exhibiting the surreal cultural and temporal collision of a futuristic Mars that is terraformed by Texas and Japan. This one is going to be a real trip.

Secret Acre's wildly psychedlic cartoonist Theo Ellsworth preps the release of his newest work, THE UNDERSTANDING MONSTER - BOOK ONE, as it debuts in a couple weeks at SPX. A quest to explore the inner workings of an imaginary world sends the displaced Izadore, whose current form is that of a mouse, to regain his true form and full realize his true identity.

As we quietly put the white shoes and plastic martini glasses into one of those vacuum-sealed plastic bag thingies, some are facing the fall with renewed vigor and marketing campaigns, "gearing up" as it were. Let's take a look, shall we? And reminder: PLEASE SEND US COOL LINKS AND NEWS TIPS AND SO ON. We do use them all the time. That email—comicsbeat at gmail dot com.