Friday Giveaway: 2 Guns tix, hat and t-shirt
Hey peeps, I guess it's just contest week here at the Beat. This time the nice folks at Universal are offering a 2 Guns...
Faith Erin Hicks’ Fantastic Journal Comics from San Diego
Oh yes, more from SDCC, you're all going to be thrilled. But wait! This time round the reporting doesn't come from anyone at The...
Must Read: Tom Scioli on good/bad coloring and Barry Windsor Smith
Cartoonist Tom Scioli (Gødland) is obviously a devotee of classic comics styles; it should come as no surprise, then, when he wonders Whatever Happened...
Run DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that was...
Like many of the great rappers—and he is one of the old skool greats—Darryl "DMC" McDaniels grew up a big comics nerd. So after...
Help Jim Lee put his kids through college by buying Jack Kirby’s ARGO art
Well that's the short hand version. Basically, back in the 90s, Jim Lee bought two piece of Jack Kirby art. At the time everyone...
Keith Knight offers new subscription service
Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben...
John Layman speaks on second chance for ‘Chew’ screen adaption
Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision broke the news that Jeff Krelitz and his company Quality Transmedia is giving the New York Times bestselling comic book...
Valiant Tease UNITY For November – Their First Event Crossover
On Free Comic Day Valiant teased the future of their comics line, revealing they'd be starting up new ongoing series for characters Ninjak and...
Kean Soo’s Jellaby is coming back into print!
A couple of years ago I wrote about Kean Soo's Jellaby going out of print from Hyperion, despite a second volume still being available....
Quote of the day: Douglas Wolk on the Spirit of the Watchmen
If the people who commissioned really wanted to pay tribute to Watchmen," perhaps they could have tried to reproduce the circumstances of its...
Exclusive Advance Review: The Bunker by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Joe Infurnari
What is The Bunker? A brand new comic from the writer of I, Vampire, The Ultimates, Tumor and last week’s Hunger that is guaranteed...
Review: Everything you need to know about 2 Guns
As the long cinematic slog of Summer 2013 crawls to a close, the summer of the comic book movie, one last battle of comics-based...
