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On Friday we celebrated webcomics here at The Beat with a day completely devoted to the subject: 24 Hours of Webcomics! For your viewing...

There are only two newspapers in Tucson, which is surprising for a place with a population of a million people. Ever since I was old...

Some of my most fondest memories were spending time at my great grandmother's house during the brutal Tucson summers. My mother would wake my...

STRONG FEMALE PROTAGONIST is a relative newcomer to the world of webcomics.  Written by Brennan Lee Mulligan and drawn by New York School of...

Ethan Young’s webseries TAILS has been running since 2009 and springs from a 2006 mini-series of the same title. In transit, the comic has...

SCHMUCK is the brain-child of pop culture man about town and award-winning photographer Seth Kushner. He sets out to tell a semi-autobiographical story  in...

I think comedy is the toughest impression to pull with comics. It's not easy to create something humorous and memorable - something that makes...

As a follow-up on the very fun and well-received "24 Hours of Women Cartoonists" event in March, Team Beat is reassembling starting at midnight...

Phone time! Earlier today our lovely old antique phone started ringing from somewhere in Stately Beat Mansion's attic, so I braved the cabinets and cobwebs to pick up the receiver and see what was going on. It turned out Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada, VP of Animation Cort Lane and Executive Producer, Man Of Action Studio's Joe Kelly were on the line, to discuss the new Marvel cartoon series Avengers Assemble which'll be airing on Disney XD!

I’ve been following Oni Press’s HELHEIM since it started and have been impressed with it all along, but some of the plot elements have...

After the success of their first graphic novel, the Cow Boy team of Nate Cosby and Chris Eliopoulos have announced that September will see...

The Glyph Awards, honoring the best in African American comics, were handed out over the weekend at the East Coast Black Age of Comics...