First Second announces The Nameless City fantasy trilogy from Faith Erin Hicks
Faith Erin Hicks is rapidly becoming a "name" graphic novel author, and her new project from First Second should help with that. It's a...
When Harold Gray went Meta in Little Orphan Annie
Roman á clef comics go all the way back to the start and Library of American Comics editor Dean Mullaney called my attention to...
RIP: Nick Cardy
Famed DC artist Nick Cardy passed away at age 93 last night, it was reported on FB and elsewhere. Cardy's long time friend Todd...
Go, Read: Dan Berry and Nate DiMeo’s The Memory Palace
The first of what appear to be a number of collaborations between writer and podcaster Nate DiMeo and artist (and podcaster!) Dan Berry has...
Interview: J. Michael Straczynski Talks About Coming Home to the Twilight Zone
By Jeffrey O. Gustafson
This summer, Dynamite announced that they had the rights to do comics based on Rod Serling's legendary anthology The Twilight Zone,...
This Weekend is Steve Ditko’s Birthday
November 2nd is Steve Ditko's birthday, and so it's only right that The Beat remembers his pioneering work in comics for this, his birthday...
Fables ending with issue 150 — UPDATED Fairest ending too
All good things must come to an end and after a 10+ year, 150 issue run, Bill Willigham has announced the end of Fables....
Allie Brosh is probably the best selling cartoonist of the year
Allie Brosh's debut book Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened came out earlier this...
24 Hours of Halloween: Gypsy Witch Fortune Telling Cards
Of everything I looked ah while compiling my annual Halloween clow=out, nothing disturbed me as much as this. Did you own these cards and...
