The Beat

Our review of the first seven episodes of the upcoming Marvel and Netflix series

§ The Labor Day weekend was an insane one for nerd events around North America with Salt Lake City Con, PAX in Seattle, Dragon*Con,...

I’d say self-deprecating autobiographical comics by smart, talented women is officially a genre, and a sub-genre of that is self-deprecating autobiographical comics by smart,...

At the end of the month, the thriving scene of artists studios centered in the Gowanus part of Brooklyn will be no more. As reported last year (but not imediately connected to the comics world) a massive collection of old warehouses that have been turned into artists studios, in the classic NYC sense, are now being turned into...well condos, probably. The area is located near the toxic Gowanus Canal and not considered safe for habitation but that won't stop anyone. Maybe a bank or a organic dog treat store or a prozen yogurt shop will open up.

  After some delays caused by work on the oversized Walking Dead special, a new chapter of Barrier by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente...

Dean Haspiel gave the keynote speech at the Harveys and although there were a lot of joking catcalls from the audience, his speech had most people stunned by the end. It was a heartfelt tribute to the power of the comics community, while also refelcting the uncertain times that artists have in New York and, really, any community where real estate has soared beyond their reach. With eprmission, here's the entrie text of the speech.