RIP Rory Root
Numerous sources are telling us that Rory Root has passed away this evening.
Our sincere condolences to his family and his friends. We'll have...
Young John Stanley
The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It's always refreshing to see a great artist...
Women in Comics!
Writer Hudson Phillips runs a "women in Comics" roundtable:
I recently had a conversation with 5 brilliant, creative, funny women who are up and coming...
Mecha-supes?
So cute! From 10 years ago, a Cliff Chiang reinvention of the DCU via J-pop stylings.
International Museum of Cartoon Art moves to OSU
Mort Walker's International Museum of Cartoon Art has had a long (more than 30 year) history of diaspora: from its first home in Greenwich...
The mystery of the AMAZING FANTASY #15 donation
It was big, big news recently when the entire original art for Amazing Fantasy #15, the origin story of Spider-Man himself, was presented to...
More art sale news
Beat readers were divided over the $600k sale of recognized Pop Art master Mel Ramos's painting based on a Gil Kane cover. So here's...
LOST: Visit Scenic Membata
Time for the return of some old faces. And some bombshells of course.
SPOILERS after the jump
THE NUMBERS ARE BACK ~! WOO HOO~!
And so...
RIP Will Elder
Journalista is reporting the death of legendary MAD artist Will Elder at age 86. The Bronx-born Elder went to school at the Manhattan...
More John Stanley!
Drawn and Quarterly continues to do God's Work be announcing even more John Stanley reprints:
We'll be starting off with a three volume set...
A great American
To whoever gave us that box of Jacques Torres chocolate covered espresso beans at NYCC -- someone whose identity we have completely blanked out...
Gene Colan ill
Over the weekend news spread quickly that Gentleman Gene Colan is suffering from liver failure. Gene's wife Adrienne sentr out a letter, reproduced ...
