To Do: Kunzle and Sandlin at the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium next...
The NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium is a weekly series of lectures organized by the great Ben Katchor covering a vast range of topics on comics...
Webcomic alert: “The Breakup Event” by Ryan Alexander-Tanner is something all superhero fans must...
This webcomic explains the dance that Marvel and DC must keep going to retain readers.
Review: Slapstick #1: A New Deadpool For Those Kind of Bored of Deadpool
by Defne Sastim
He’s invincible, he’s a smart-mouthed mercenary that kicks ass and calls people names, he’s sailing into a new ongoing for the first time...
31 Days of Halloween: Marvel’s Monsters Unleashed variants by Mignola, Pichelli and more
Marvel has just released some variant covers for their MONSTERS UNLEASHED event in January. They're by the likes of Mignola, Sienkiewicz, Pichelli , Adams and McGuinness, so enjoy. Let's face it, these covers are totally cool. The only thing missing is Brag-ga-doom!
Webcomic review: Grounded Supernatural Action in ‘Wilde Life’
Journalist Oscar Wilde decides to leave his life in Chicago and rent a house from Craigslist in Podunk, Oklahoma because he wants an adventure....
Wizard World announces 16 events for 2017
Wizard World has announced a somewhat streamlined schedule of 16 conventions for next years, mostly concentrating on major metropolitan areas. Here's the list:
New Orleans, January...
Kodansha Comics to Release More Than 750 Titles on BookWalker Global
Another digital company heard from and this time in the manga arena. Bookwalker is a kind of Japanese Comixology, offering digital manga and light...
RIP religious tract cartoonist Jack T. Chick
Jack T. Chick, whose religious tract comics inspired revulsion and mirth– along with some faith, I'm sure -- passed away over the wekeend at...
Manga About A British Explorer Wins the German Children’s Literature Award for Nonfiction!
The Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis (German Youth Literature Prize) is awarded each year as part of the festivities surrounding the Frankfurter Buchmesse (Frankfurt Book Fair). Celebrating...
Insight Comics launches in 2017 with MFK, Die Hard, X-Com and more
Last month, Insight Editions announced a new graphic novel imprint, and how, courtesy of Publishers Weekly, we have more details:
Insight Editions, best known for...
6 Days of BAIT: David Mack, nude drawings of cats and the Emmys.
What's up everybody! Welcome to the penultimate day of a series you'll only see here on The Beat. Tomorrow, Dark Horse is publishing the enigmatic Chuck...
Walking Dead Round-up: Shocking deaths reveal that the zombie apocalypse is awful
Last night the seventh season of The Walking Dead kicked off and answered this cliffhanger of a question: just WHO did Negan beat to...
