Indies

The pitch images tease the origin of Galactus as presented by Scioli.

Dean Haspiel's imagines a world where art is currency and superheroes are more than vigilantes in the Ringo Award-winning The Red Hook.

Over the years that I’ve contributed for The Beat, I’ve gotten to preview some pretty-interesting projects in the making, as well as talk to their equally-interesting creators. A little more than two years ago, I had a phone interview with two women who called themselves the “Gibbs Girls.” They were working on a steam-punk inspired comic that takes place at the dawn of the 20th century and during the Industrial Age. The story followed a female, African American inventor named Ada Turner who creates the first flying machine. Last week, the Gibbs Girls reached out and informed me that the comic had finally come out.

This week we look at anxiety, Macbeth, and a darn-fine detective.

Baristas fighting monsters, fantastic creators, and hot coffee encounters- So What? Press has all sorts of things in store this month! Starting in mid-April, a...

The most fascinating thing about art is the many forms it can take and ways one can make it. This also applies to comic...

To end Black History Month, I wish to highlight a recent event held in San Diego, California, home of the world-famous San Diego Comic-Con...

Another closing of a comic shop; another end to a piece of one’s comic community. For the last six and a half years, Villainous Lair...

The tiny indie comic that could has grown in readers and especially in volume. Hundreds upon hundreds of pages have been written, drawn, and...

In last week's interview with Paula Knight, author of the graphic memoir The Facts of Life, we dove into popular cultures remaining difficulties with discussing...

Mainstream comics aren't exactly known for their stellar depictions of parenthood, maternity, fertility or pregnancy. The pregnant superhero is treated as something to be...

Rick Veitch's Heroica Universe is one of the masterpieces of dystopian superhero fiction. More horryfying than Dark Knight, more visceral than Watchmen, it's a...