INTERVIEW: Will Morris Comes to 2000AD!
The Leeds Thought Bubble Convention is probably the best convention in the world. And, realising this, 2000AD's editor Tharg decided to launch an annual...
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...
