The Beat

Whatever happened to the movie based on Officer Downe that the Slipknot guy was directing? Well, it's having its world premiere in June.

In 2006’s Lucille, French cartoonist Ludovic Debeurme gave a surreal and somber tone to a doomed love story, following the individual wrecked lives of...

Tyler James is easily one of the hardest working people in comics. Over the past several years, while continuing his role as the publisher...

Okay actually, we know this: Cryptocracy is a new book by Van Jenson and Pete woods coming out from Dark Horse in late June. It sounds like a juicy "secret society" comic dealing with The Nine Families, who manipulate whole societies from behind the scenes. When I first saw this promo, it reminded me of Matt Kindt who has a lengthy track record of these kinds of mysterious promos and spy-based work.

Marvel's at it with a new teaser campaign for something or someone named Mosaic. The teasers involve jigsaw puzzle pieces. The first one reference Alias, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos that introduced Jessica Jones to the world. The new piece seems to be about Spider-Man, and the name Mosaic would suggest a mash-up of some kind. Something never before seen in comcis, then.

I’m sitting here in my office in Chicago, thinking as to what I’m going to write about comics. I’ve been publishing comic books for over six months now, as the co-publisher at Z2 Comics. In that time I’ve met incredible artists, discussed stories and characters, gone through sleepless nights peppered with nightmares of cash flow, and had these brief, fleeting moments of joy as I held a new issue of a book we just made in my hands. I’m wondering how to describe that feeling, as it would be the core of this piece, and for some reason I’m having a hard time putting it together in my mind. And then Prince died.