Marvel Pushes Karnak #2 into February
Getting comics work from writer Warren Ellis (Injection) is cause for celebration, especially at the Big Two publishers where his output has been scarce recently. While the first issue of the writer's acclaimed Karnak...
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two
And here's the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of these. Also, thanks to such a wide ranging cross section...
2000 A.D. Reprints Monster, an ’80s Comics Collaboration by Moore and Wagner
Monster, a comic strip published by Scream! from authors Alan Moore (Watchmen) and John Wagner (Judge Dredd) is coming back to store shelves this July. After being out of print since the ‘80s, the...
Wizard World Portland gets exclusive Doctor Who variant cover
Wizard World Portland gets the Time Lord treatment in an exclusive variant cover for the upcoming show in February.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity
Here's the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven't noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.
After briefly adding six women, Angoulême fest throws open Grand Prix voting
I'd been waiting to write this up as things have been changing so fast but after a very brief period this morning where the list of Grand Prix nominees was posted with the 30...
Cybils Awards announce 2015 graphic novel finalists
The Cybils, a literary award presented by children's and young adult book cloggers have announced their 2015 finalists, and the graphic novel picks. And they are:
Baba Yaga’s Assistant
Courtney Crumrin Volume 7: Tales of a...
Alors! Florence Cestac says Franck Bondoux is “un crétin total.”
Whooooo-ah! This whole Angoulême-gate thing got out of hand FAST. In just 24 hours it went from an angry petition to the world's best cartoonists rejecting their nominations to front page news to the festival sulkily added Marjane Satrapi and Posy Simmonds to their list, even though no one would vote for them, and a whirlwind of hot takes.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 2: Previews and News galore
Here's the second part of our annual creator survey, and this time out we have some exclusive peeks at some new projects for 2016, as well as what might be hit of something cool to happen...but you'll have to read everything figure out what that is.
Thanks to all for taking the time to participate in this survey especially during the busy holiday time. You can find Part 1 here.
FiBD grudgingly to add names to Grand Prix nominee list
It seems that the Festival of Comics of Angoulême is grudgingly going to add more names to it's Grand Prix list after a growing number of cartoonists have withdrawn in protest over the lack...
Sattouf, Clowes, Burns, Davodeau and Sfar and even MIlo Manara withdraw from Grand Prix...
As reported yesterday, there has been international consternation over the 016 list of nominees for the Grand Prix, the lifetime achievement awards for cartoonists presented each year at the FIBD in Angoulême. While it...