Tiny Pencil: the forest is lovely; dark and deep
Tiny Pencil
Edited by Amber Hsu and Katriona Chapman
Tiny Pencil is a brand new, all-graphite, comic and art anthology edited, produced and bought to life...
Note to artists: “Don’t give it away!”
While the benefits of giving all your art away for free on Tumblr and deviantART are well known, you still shouldn't give it away...
INTERVIEW: Gay Superheroes and Kickstarter Success with Alex Woolfson and Adam DeKraker
The Young Protectors has been running as a webcomic for a little over a year now in the hands of an experienced creative team...
The Phoenix Presents: Rob Deas on Troy Trailblazer!
Every Friday, Stately Beat Mansion invites round a comic creator or two for a cup of tea, complementary Kit Kat, and a chat about...
INTERVIEW: From Comics to The Tower of London, with Kate Brown!
Kate Brown's on The Beat! A writer, colourist, artist, self-publisher, Young Avenger, anthologist, board game inventer and designer, Kate was kind enough to talk to...
Will Sliney Profiles The Fearless Defenders: Annabelle Riggs
Marvel's female characters do tend to be their very best, so here at The Beat we've been following Will Sliney (at a distance, so...
Big Interview: L Nichols- ‘Autobiography is terrifying’
I first came across L Nichols work via her comic for Retrofit: Flocks. To date, Flocks is one of the most powerful works I've read,...
INTERVIEW: The Code Monkey Team Expand with “The Princess Who Saved Herself’
The creative team behind the Code Monkey Save World Kickstarter - Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton, Takeshi Miyazawa, Jessica Kholinne and Simon Bowland - have...
INTERVIEW: OUT OF LUCK and Kentucky Derby-Chasing with Jen Ferguson
Pop culture is a bizarre creature and often creates strange intersections in media. Brooklyn-based artist Jen Ferguson has found herself standing at a cross-roads...
INTERVIEW: Antony Johnston on Adapting Alex Rider for Comics!
Anthony Horowitz's Alex Rider series of novels, telling the story of a young boy who becomes a super-spy, are massively popular, and have sold...
INTERVIEW: The Phoenix’s Tom Fickling Guides Us Through the Oxford Children’s Comic Festival!
This weekend sees the first-ever Oxford Children Comics Festival, held on Saturday 4th. I'll be heading over meself, and there promises to be heaps...
INTERVIEW: Dan Berry’s ‘Make It Then Tell Everybody’
A comics lecturer and creator, Dan Berry both writes and draws his own work -- such as the forthcoming The Suitcase from Blank Slate...
