Politics

We get a lot of requests to mention Kickstarters here at the Beat, and rather than slight this one or that one, I hardly mention any. Only the worthiest. But I do HEAR about a lot of kickstarters as they get tweeted and promoted about the web. Here's one that only crossed my radar only recently (probably my fault more than anything, since it got written up in HuffPo, WaPo, Mother Jones and other places no one reads) but it doesn't seem to need much help. Tom Tomorrow, the veteran (no offense) political cartoonist is Kickstartinga compendium of the last 25 years of his comic, "This Modern World" and it's doing very well: it just passed the $250,000 mark and has a few days to go to kick it up a bit more.

A couple of years ago we were crowing with joy when Pulitzer Prize finalist cartoonist Matt Bors was hired to run Medium's comics section, The Nib, and the results were glorious, with two years of daily content that was smart funny, trenchant, moving, eye opening and everything else we love about comics. Well, as with most start-ups all good things must come to an end.

Graphic novels have a lot more prizes than they once did, including literary awards that help validate the medium. Awards season is well upon us, and I've been way behind in noting some of the most important.

The Charlie Hebdo murders, and the subsequent shoot outs and man hunts, have led to an unprecedented discussion over the role of satire, art...

Sacred and Sequential, a group of scholars who study the intersection of religion and comics has released a statement on Wednesday's still reverberating attack...

In an act of unspeakable horror, three gunman are at large in France after a brief deadly attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo,...

A graphic novel has become Exhibit A in the latest Obamacare controversy. Clear, simple, understandable, useful - those are just a few of the words...

by Edie Nugent The main stage spectacles of NYCC saw panels filled with celebrity actors and moderators alike, whipping thousands of screaming audience members into...

By Naif Al-Mutawa Many years ago, I was the volleyball counsellor at a summer camp in New England. It was 1990 and I was fit...

Last week I told you about The Forgotten Man, a graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression by Chuck Dixon...

A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320...

Well, a digital copy anyway. MARCH BOOK ONE, the comics autobiography of civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, has had a heck of a...