§ Nice art! As we reported earlier, Popula is a new online publication with a lot of comics content, including a sunDay Funnies page with Karen Sneider, Jon Lewis, Megan Kelso, Tom Hart and Steven Weissman. BOOK MARK!!! Above, a few panels from Hart. § Two of the best comics related profiles I’ve ever read […]
TCAF 2018: Listen to the game-changing Men in Comics Panel and much more
Men in comics – just a fad or important new voices in the comics medium?
David Brothers joins Viz as an Editor
Today’s “Job Moves” listings in Publishers Weekly confirmed that David Brothers has joined manga publisher Viz Media as an editor. Brothers, formerly Branding Manager at Image Comics, commented in tweets. New Year, New V https://t.co/f8h4ZMekdM — pshaw brothers (@hermanos) January 9, 2018 (I probably won’t talk about it online much but I’m […]
The Beat’s Annual Creator Survey, 2018 Edition Part One: with previews of Wash Day, Supergirl and more
It’s that time! We’re kicking off 2018 with our annual survey of creators, journalist, retailers and other comics industry insiders for their look back at 2017, their predictions for 2018 – and along the way a lot of previews and news about what’s coming in 2018. Our enormous thanks for all who participated this year; […]
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two
And here’s the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of these. Also, thanks to such a wide ranging cross section of this amazing industry we live and work in for taking to time to share their thoughts with us all. Save […]
Image Comics website gets a makeover, offers digital collections
A lot of the major comics publishers have websites that were set-up in the long ago days, and just like a street that slowly gets repaved in sections over a year, they are all getting revamped for the modern mobile and sharing era. Now it’s Image’s turn, as they’ve just put up a streamlined, updated […]
David Brothers: “I’ve got to keep banging the drum for more” [Interview]
David Brothers is one of the most accomplished writers-about-comics around, a blogger who recently moved into the industry himself as a member of the Image Comics staff. Having made a name for himself on websites like 4thLetter and Comics Alliance, his writing on (in particular) creator-owned comics, artwork, Manga and race have provided some of […]
Pedigree Chum 13/09/13: Wonder Man Don’t Count
Heidi’s off at Congress, as per usual, meaning there’s just me here at Stately Beat Mansion right now. It would be very bad luck indeed to not have a roundup piece on a Friday the 13th, so here’s a selection of news, opinion pieces, artwork, and all kinds of other stuff. Here’s some of the […]
David Brothers joins Image Comics
@gwarrenl editing, production work, a mixed bag of cool things, I think! And I have an office! — david brothers (@hermanos) June 4, 2013 According to a wide variety of tweets, David Brothers has joined the staff of Image comics as something akin to a guy friday, as the above tweet indicates In addition to […]