INTERVIEW: Declan Shalvey on working with Marvel, Dark Horse, Boom, DC, IDW…..
Artist Declan Shalvey has had an incredible year. Whilst working as regular artist for books like Venom and Thunderbolts at Marvel, he's also created art...
What Should You Buy In August? Seth, Doran, Gillen and more
August! New month, more comics, 'nuff excitement. We have a shuftie round and picked out the comics we're looking forward to this month:
Jessica Lee:
PALOOKAVILLE...
Fort Wayne’s CAF Appleseed launches Kickstarter
As the comics live event business diverges into Cons and CAFs (comic arts festivals), both seem to be thriving. In 2013 Fort Wayne got...
Beat Contest: Win a piece of original art by Neal Adams at Wizard World...
Okay we don't run too many contests here at The Beat, but when the prize is as awesome as this—a piece of original art created for you by Neal Adams—it is something we can't pass up offering Beat readers a shot at.
INTERVIEW: Jim Zub’s Samurai Jack comic will have “big action, big adventure”
by Matt O"Keefe
IDW recently announced that in October it will be publishing a Samurai Jack as a comic book series that picks up the story...
Must Read: DiDio and Lee on the state of DC
ICv2 sits down with DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee and asks them sensible, hard questions. The whole thing is a must read, of course, and triangulates nicely with Diane Nelson's interview in the Hollywood Reporter. Here's Part 1 and Part 2. Some takeaways:
Wednesday’s Review Slate: Skybreaker, Liberator and Tom Strong
This week's review slate once more races backwards and forwards through time - we've got Skybreaker #3, which came out a short while back,...
Riddick Motion Comic explains how a three-picture epic went back to a smaller action...
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is one of my favorite SF films of the last decade, even though it's a mad jumble of elements: wanted...
Valiant wants you to pick a luge suit
When Valiant Entertainment came back, they wanted to make a splash—with strong content, memorable characters and regular shipping. And luge. Because everyone loves luging and lugers. For those who are not winter sport aficionados, this is the sport where people pile into a tiny sled and go feet first down an icy hill. Sometimes two people pile onto the tiny sled.
Nice Art: Yanick Paquette Pages from Wonder Woman: Earth One
Over on USA Today, Grant Morrison has done a wrap-up interview for his Batman Inc series, the last issue of which comes out today....
The Beat podcasts! More To Come – Comics At Comic-Con
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Derf’s The City strip ends in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
As the newspaper industry slowly spirals into the birdcage lining industry, acclaimed cartoonist Derf Backderf (My Friend Dahmer) has announced that his strip The City will cease running in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is going to three-times-weekly home delivery among other budget cutting measures. Yesterday's strip was the last one. Derf waxes philosophical about the end of newspaper strip cartooning and muses on his future:
