Cartoons

Regular Beat readers know we're huge fans of The Nib, the non-fiction comics site run by political cartoonist Matt Bors. You can imagine they've...

The network is headed back to Spidey's roots

A new Batman '66 film is in the works following 'Return of the Caped Crusaders'

Earlier this week, it was revealed that Fox Animation has picked up Eisner Awarding-winning writer Ben Hatke's series Zita the Spacegirl with Chernin Entertainment to...

Over the weekend I was devastated to learn of the sudden death of Clay Martin Croker, best known as the voice of Zorak and...

The 1966 Dynamic Duo returns in animated form!

Today, CW announced that their digital network, CW Seed, would adapt the story of the classic DC Comics character The Ray in a new...

Add comics formalist/experimenter Dash Shaw (Bottomless Belly Button) to the list of cartoonist/movie directors: his animated film My Entire High School is Sinking Into...

It's been over a decade since Samurai Jack aired, but an ending for the series - in the form of a movie or otherwise - has been on creator Genndy Tartakovsky's mind since. After last year's announcement that the series would finally return with a fifth season, Tartakovsky sat down with press at SDCC to explain what that return would look like and what brought it about.

Teen Titans Go! has been entertaining fans for three seasons. It continues to make audiences laugh by taking the beloved characters from the original Teen Titans series, which at times took on a serious tone, and putting them in ridiculous storylines. During interviews at SDCC this year, the cast members and producers chatted about the absurdity and humor of the show, and why audiences need it now more than ever.

This year's Republican National Convention (held July 18-21 in Cleveland) promises to be a spectacle of unsurpassed Marvels. Either it will be the...

Whaaa-at!!! When I first saw this profile of Luke PEarson in The New Yorker, I was pleased as punch. I called Pearson one of the best emerging cartoonists when I first saw his work four years ago and since then he's definitely emerged are a best selling author. But then I got to the third paragraph with the huge news that Pearson's Hilda series is being adapted as a 12-episode animated series set to debut on Netflix in 2018. The series will be based on the first four Hilda books, all published by Nobrow. The series will be produced by Silvergate Media (The Octonauts and Peter Rabbit.)