The Alan Moore 2016 Christmas Interviews – Part I – “Advertising itself is the...
In what may or may not become a long-standing tradition, Alan Moore has answered questions at Christmas set by the members of a Facebook...
A Year of Free Comics: Today’s New York Times Sunday Magazine is one big,...
A long time ago, the NY Times ran serialized comics every Sunday. That ended after a few years, but cartoonists are frequently seen in...
This Lynda Barry/Family Circus crossover may make you cry
The other night at the Reuben Awards, cartoonist Lynda Barry was presented with the Milton Caniff award for her lifetime achievement because, after all, she...
A Year of Free Comics: Speculative SF in The Offering by Alexandra Beguez
The SF genre – especially social science fiction - has been well represented in comics of late with works like Tillie Walden's On a...
How a comics marriage broke up over financial stress
Just to stay on this cheerful topic while everyone is so happy to be back at work after the holiday, Maggie Umber, cartoonist and...
Graphic novelist quits making graphic novels after trying to live on $10k/year for three...
Hannah Berry is a UK cartoonist whose 2010 gn Britten & Brülightly was a well-received mystery tale (and an Angoulême prize nominee when it...
Happy Geek Pride Day!
So, it's Geek Pride Day, which has been a thing since... 2006?
Why today, May 25th? Well, there are many events which have coalesced on...
Along with all its other woes, Marvel also has a library problem
So what's up at Marvel anyway! Asher Elbein at The Atlantic, of all places, has an excellent round-up of their recent travails until the...
Conservative pundits are tut-tutting about teaching comics in college
If I had one takeaway from the recent TCAF Librarians and Educators Day, it was that comics as educational tools are here to stay,...
Is the decline in graphic novel sales due to the NY Times bestseller list...
We've been noting on Diamond's charts that graphic novels sales in 2017 are down quite a bit from 2016, at least for the first...
Interview: Chatting with The Allreds about BUG!, Kirby, Free Will, Young Animal and more!
Interview conducted by Kyle Pinion and Alex Lu
Today in comic shops, you can now buy the first issue of Bug!: The Adventures of Forager,...
Journey back to 70s comics with Jonathan Winters and Neal Adams – you won’t...
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"Comics have become a big business, high stakes....making millions and millions of dollars."
A quote from yesterday's Beat comment thread?
No, from a 1978 documentary about...
