Sociology

http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Oh my! I've been waiting for the story of cosplay harassment at cons to get more TMZed. According to the above teaser, tonights' Inside...

Attendees at this year's New York Comic Con are accustomed to giant-sized announcements for the latest entertainment, but this year a new sign greets...

Lisa Hix of Collectors Weekly sat down with Trina Robbins and runs through a few chapters of Robbins' Pretty in Ink, her third history of women cartoonists. The result is an immense article that could function on a primer on the history of women cartoonists going back more than 100 years, starting with Rose O'Neil:

"But the men in comics are sexualized too!" they have whined since time began, copletely ignring how boob-windows, brokebacks, boob socks and more are not the same thing as a man with a good physique in a dynamic pose. Well courtesy of Sears (!????!!?!?) and the listing for a UNDER THE BED RESTRAINT GEAR here's what it actually looks like when a male is sexualized, just for your information.

What a tiring week it has been even though I'm technically on vacation. You are probably sick and tired of reading about the irrational,...

It was recently revealed to us olds that YouTube and other social media stars are actually more popular with teens than celebs old enough...

Okay, unless the unforeseen happens I swear this is the LAST Beat post about Spider-Woman's butt. But One of the bingo card arguments trotted...

Italian fanzine Fumettologica has made an English transcript of their interview with Milo Manara available, and offered it to run at The Beat....

Yesterday the enduring appeal of the human female rump as an object of sexual desire was reaffirmed in two separate incidents. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDZX4ooRsWs Rapper Nicki Minaj...

Oh god where to begin. The short version is that Judge Dread artist Ulises Farinas calling out Yale Stewart over what Farinas deemed ill-advised charity efforts then led to Stewart, the artist of the webcomic JL8, being outed as a naked selfie sender, and then apologizing while putting his webcomic on hiatus.

Cartoonist MariNaomi is starting a database of cartoonists of color (COC) and you can upload your details as explained in the link. There's...

How is it that a mini series that was conceived six years ago can actually be a stunningly accurate mirror of this week's events in Ferguson, MO, where the shooting of an unarmed black teen led to days of police action that looked like something out of a Christopher Nolan Batman movie? Could it be that the issues of race, inequality and violence that Genius deals with are so important that they were just as clear six years ago?