Events

The big day is finally here! Ladies and gentlemen of The Beat, gather your young ones and race onto the street. Proclaim for all to hear, TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL DARKSTAR DAY, AND I FEEL...

Last summer, the Musuem of Comics and Cartoon Art in NYC lost their physical space and transferred their assets to the Society of Illustrators. Although the SoI is a well-regarded institution, there was a...

First off...congrats to cartooners Abby Denson and Matt Loux who tied the knot not long ago. And then celebrated with a honeymoon in Japan that including exhibiting at the Kaigai Manga Festa. Denson has...

You know how The Beat works now. While everybody else works hard on getting the best interviews, writing the strongest articles and the most incisive opinion pieces you could find, I run around in...

Christmas is being held on December 25th this year, so you've only got a few weeks left to find something decent to give your family and friends. But never tremble with frostbitten fear! Because...

Laugh off that gravy with a night of top notch cartoonists reading their work at the Annual Thanksgiving Comix Night at KGB. $5 at the door. Curator/host Robyn Chapman presents guest readers Gabrielle Bell, Alabaster, Julia Wertz, Nathan Bulmer, and Jeffrey Lewis.

The wonderful thing about Thought Bubble, an annual festival in Leeds that encompasses the academic Comics Forum and a two day comics convention covering all sequential art from Bunny to Batman, is that two people can attend the event and come away with a completely different experience. So while Steve Morris brilliantly scratched the surface, the following is the tale of my adventures as I visited one of the UK's most popular conventions for the very first time.

So much going on part ii! But they are all in Brooklyn so gallery hopping is somewhat do able. Too Art for TV 6 We are excited to invite you to TOO ART FOR TV 6...

Too much to choose from! A French Comics Celebration: Discussion and Cocktail Party Thursday, November 8, 7pm, FREE The Cultural Services of the French Embassy / 972 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10075 Featuring Blexbolex, Françoise Mouly, and more… Complimentary refreshments /...

We like our Comic-Con, and our TCAF and all the other great North American comics extravaganzas, but only London has a comics festival which runs for a WHOLE MONTH. It's called Comica and it's...

Dundee Comics Day – in which a mini MorrisonCon occurs in a Scottish city, resulting in secrets spilled, wine aplenty, and the sexiest comics line-up you could hope to meet.

The biggest business book show in America is inching towards a full-on consumer day, as the Comic-con-ization of trade book shows continues. BEA director Steve Rosato writes that the 2013 show—the largest b2b book...