AX 2025 Interview: NOMELON NOLEMON on the unit’s first live show overseas
The Beat caught up with the musical duo NOMELON NOLEMON ahead of their live performance at Anime Expo to discuss their first live event overseas, the origin of the band name, and what it's like composing for anime.
Pride 2025 Interview: Khalid Johnson talks SANGUINE FOUNDATIONS and art as advocacy
Successfully funded on Kickstarter in April 2025, Sanguine Foundations by Khalid Johnson is the story of Jess Freeman, a Black trans woman who discovers that she's a witch after enrolling in a magical university, with a violent and transphobic past.
Interview/Exclusive Preview: Aron Wiesenfeld on PLAYTIME and Post-it note liberation
Painter, illustrator, and comic book creator Aron Wiesenfeld (Deathblow/Wolverine, Y: The Last Man) is venturing into a new narrative style with his new crowdfunding campaign...
‘Sometimes you create magic’: Temeura Morrison & Mike Jonathan on IN THE FIRE OF...
New Zealand-based Māori actor Temuera Morrison is probably best known to Comics Beat readers as the actor who played Jango Fett and the other...
Exclusive: New comics collective Power Pulp wants to get weird
Power Pulp Comics has launched as a creator-owned distributor under a collective banner with big hopes for the future of indie comics.
Interview: Marguerite Bennett and Bev Johnson on FLASH GORDON: THE GIRL FROM INFINITY VOL....
An interview with the co-creators, Marguerite Bennett and Bev Johnson, on FLASH GORDON: THE GIRL FROM INFINITY Vol. 1
Pride Interview 2025: Kendra Wells talks their shit, REAL HERO SHIT 2 and future...
Fully funded in 12 hours, Real Hero Shit 2: Harder Than It Looks is the next installment in the Real Hero Shit series by...
Interview: Jason Shawn Alexander revisits a literature classic in SCROOGE!
Christmas' ghosts will be as unsettling as they've ever been here
Interview: Taboo and his daughter Jett discuss her first role on DORA season 3
It's the 25th anniversary of Dora the Explorer, a bilingual Latina character who was created by Chris Gifford, Valerie Walsh Valdes, and Eric Weiner for...
New book BIG-ASS SWORD features more than just a big-ass sword
To prepare for the upcoming release of his new book BIG-ASS SWORD, cartoonist Andreas Butzbach took us behind the scenes.
Interview: How tariffs affected the latest Kickstarter campaign for Wandering Planet Toys
We chat with Gavin Hignight and Chris “Doc” Wyatt about how recent economic events impacted their Kickstarter campaign for The Prisoner Ultimate Edition 1:12 Scale Figures
Interview: Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin discuss the genesis of FAMILY FORCE V
The Beat interviewed Matt Braly and Ainsworth Lin to discuss their collaborative process, what inspired Family Force V, and how the story explores grief.
