INTERVIEW: artist Liana Kangas on finding success and inspiration in comics

10/16/2018 11:00 am by Beat Staff

“It’s scary to put yourself out there, but the internet is a fantastic tool.”

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 5/23/18: No one bit Sebastian Stan

05/23/2018 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

§ Nice Art: Chip Zdarsky and Chris Bachalo are doing a two-part Sandman story. Not that Sandman…the other one. Here is the first cover. § Must read! Cartoonist Seth delivered the commencement for this year’s Center for Cartoon Studios graduating class, and he strikes a hopeful note, while looking back at what seemed like dark […]

Graphic Novel TK Episode 7: The Acquisitions Meeting

05/22/2018 12:15 pm by Graphic Novel TK

Episode 7: The Acquisitions Meeting What happens once an editor at a publishing house has a book on submission that they want to buy? What are the steps that they need to take between that and making an offer? At many publishing houses, the procedure is to present the book at an Acquisition Meeting — […]

Cartoonist John Callahan gets a biopic starring Joaquin Phoenix

01/17/2018 10:40 am by Heidi MacDonald

To the slim canon of movies about cartoonists (Crumb, Zodiac, Monkeybone) we can now add He Won’t Get Far on Foot, starring Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara and Jonah Hill and directed by Gus Van Sant. Phoenix stars as the late quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, and the title comes from his best known comic. The film […]

Greg Pak and Warren Ellis on newsletters and creators controlling platforms

12/18/2017 1:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

If you’re looking for the model of the modern, successful creative, Greg Pak is a good start. Multimedia (from making films to making comics), multi revenue stream – writing a lot of Marvel comics is fine, but running multiple successful Kickstarters is fine too – and if you read his Twitter, he can even make […]

Ardian Syaf: “My career is over now.”

04/11/2017 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

After a couple of days of dissembling, defensiveness and saying he did nothing wrong, artist Ardian Syaf has posted an apology/farewell note on his FB page, which is now visible again. As you may recall Syaf surreptitiously put messages referring to an anti-Semitic, anti-Christian organization in the are of X-Men Gold #1. On his FB […]

RIP Bernie Wrightson

03/19/2017 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Legendary horror artist and friends Bernie Wrightson lost his battle with brain cancer last night, his wife Liz reported on Facebook and his webpage. He was 68. He had been fighting the illness for a few years and last fall announced that he was no longer able to draw or attend conventions. In addition to […]

A little bit more about Jiro Taniguchi, mountains and solitary Japanese business men eating food

02/15/2017 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Zack Davisson has a fine obituary at TCJ which has much more info about the life of the great Jiro Taniguchi, who passed away on Saturday. One thing the piece makes clear: Taniguchi was REALLY famous in France, where he was hired to work on a Cartier ad campaign, and he was presented with a […]

Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker are making an Amazon series together…but that’s not all!

02/13/2017 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The news broke last week, but we had to laud The Brub for landing this sweet TV deal for a show called Too Old To Die Young which will be directed by Drive’s Nicholas Winding Refn: In what could, with any luck, end up becoming the Miami Vice of the new millennium, Variety reports that […]

Cartoonist arrested after assault on girlfriend

02/13/2017 1:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Cartoonist Kurt Wolfgang, whose real name is Kurt W. Holley, was arrested on Feb. 4 in Gainesville FL, and charged after attacking his girlfriend in a bathroom stall. (The article does not mention the exact charges but they involved resisting arrest, criminal mischief and other property damage related charges.) Wolfgang is known for indie comics […]