Interviews

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In the quiet early hours of Saturday in New York Comic-Con's press lounge, Marjorie Liu chatted with The Beat about her new Image title "Monstress" with artist Sana Takeda, systemic racism, the expectations places on creators of color, and the intergenerational trauma of war.

FACT: I don’t make much money in comics. I only make enough to survive. However… I still love making comics. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not crying...

The How to Train Your Dragons franchise is one of the biggest critical successes in animation from the last decade.  Spawning two movies and three...

by Alex Dueben Jessica Abel has produced a unique body of work in comics that ranges from two collections of her award winning comic series...

Jim Zub, easily my most-interviewed creator, is on a tear lately. In addition to wonderful corporate-owned work like Figment, he more than stuck the...

by Alex Dueben For the past few years Maggie Thrash has been writing fiction and nonfiction at the acclaimed Rookie Magazine. Her first book, Honor...

At New York Comic Con last week, The Beat's Lindsey Morris chatted with Wes Craig about his current comics life - what it's like to spend your days elbow-deep in teenage assassins, angst, and violence.

As New York Comic-Con's show floor slowly shuffled to a close on Friday evening, The Beat's Zach Clemente slipped behind the Epic Proportions booth to chat with one of his all-time favorite artists, Cliff Chiang. They talk mostly about Chiang's new book with Image Comics, "Paper Girls".

Skies of Fire, the brainchild of Vincenzo Ferriero and Ray Chou, is a colorful and mesmerizing comic that takes readers into the Aquilan Empire, a...

The Beat sneaks in an early NYCC interview with the one and only Maris Wicks to chat about her new educational science comic from First Second: "Human Body Theater"!

Calling all miscreants!  All slackers and gamers!  All those who would banish terrible cafeteria food to the secret tenth circle of hell (located in...