Webcomics

Digital comics have been growing at a tremendous rate over the past years, with initiatives like Thrillbent gaining prominence on top of individual projects...

BoingBoing has just introduced a new webcomic and it's a doozy: Bani Garu, a history of Gainax Studio, the legendary Japanese animation studio. There's...

With RASL running up the sales chart and soon to start racking up awards, Jeff Smith's next project—a webcomic called Tüki Save the Humans!...

I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days...

Brian K. Vaughan has alerted his mailing list that a new issue of Private Eye, his webcomic with Marcos Martin, is on the way...

Superheroes sometimes come in for some criticism here at The Beat—I was a teenaged superhero reader but haven't read them regularly in a looooong...

In a story on how Grumpy Cat—the dwarf cat that people (including The Beat) will line up for hours just to see—is worth $1 million, it's revealed that one of her signature catch phrases first appeared in a cartoon by Kate Beaton. Which wouldn't be so odd except that Grumpy's manager, who is a "meme manager", is very litigious about other people stealing his own memes. Beaton, who hasn't received any money from the cat or her manager, is philosophical about the whole thing, writing:

How had we not noticed that Darryl Cunningham has been serializing a comics biography of Ayn Rand over at Act--i-vate?

A new book by Matthew Inman is coming out, collecting his comics from The Oatmeal. It's called Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants,...

This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie...

Mini-comics and stick-figure philosophy pioneer Matt Feazall has been turning out his delightful mini-comics since the 80s. Now he had an Indiegogo campaign going for The Amazing Cynicalman Vol. 2, a collection of his weekly strips from 2002 on.

Boulet is awesome, nuff said. The French cartoonist is very popular in his home country, and his amazing 24 hour comic published here by AdHouse as Noirness has begun to get him a well deserved US following.