Unassuming Barber Shop: A Real Doctor Strange
Welcome back to Unassuming Barber Shop, a semi-regular column here at The Beat that examines--and sometimes flat-out speculates-- on the possible historical origins of fictional comics...
This Weekend: Comic Arts Brooklyn rolls out with some amazing comics
It looked a little rocky there for a while, but, Comic Arts Brooklyn is back at the Mt. Carmel Gymnasium, 12 Havemeyer St. in Williamsburg...
Comics publisher Double Take is shutting down at the end of the month
The boom in comics periodical publishers over the last few years has a first casualty: Double Take. The division of video game company Take Two Interactive, which was headed by former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas will shut down at the end of the month. The news was first reported at Bleeding Cool and independently confirmed by The Beat.
San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum finds a new home!
San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum has found a new home after closing down last September sue to rising rents in its SoMa home. The new...
Preview: Ghost Rider is back for Marvel Now ’16
The Felipe Smith/Tradd Moore run on Ghost Rider was a stylish new take on the character. The Marvel Now '16 verssion isn't quite as...
Cartoonist Connor Willumsen’s LICAF report should break the internet
A few days ago I told you how Whitney Taylor's convention reports are the industry standard, and I stand by that statement for factual reports...
Tilting at Windmills #255: The long and diminishing tail of graphic novel series
By Brian Hibbs
Here’s my preface on this column, so you understand my point-of-view: I am bullish on graphic novels. They’ve been the leading category...
Best of 2016: PW’s Best Books of the year kicks it all off with...
Yep it's time for the best of lists to start rolling out. Publishers Weekly traditionally starts the process and here's the five graphic novels...
Lauren Purje’s ‘You Might Be An Artist If…’ coming in 2017 from Top...
Cute comics strips about the artistic life...nothing radical but somehow always enjoyable, especially when as well done as Lauren Purje You Might Be an Artist If......
Review: DOCTOR STRANGE is Marvel’s best visual spectacle to date
Our review of Marvel Studios' fourteenth feature
Terror comes to Bleeding Cool
No, really.
Jude Terror, formerly of the satirical comics news site The Outhouse, is joining Bleeding Cool as a staff writer. Rich Johnston made the...
Cover reveal: Rough Riders Book 2 #1 offers Roosevelt, Edison, Oakley and more...
Continuing our series of cover reveals, here's the cover to AfterShock's team book Rough Riders. This super team is actually pretty super: Teddy Roosevelt, Harry...
