SDCC ’18: INTERVIEW – Celebrating Artistic Progression & Expanding Creative Visions with DEAN HASPIEL

07/22/2018 4:33 pm by AJ Frost

He returns to SDCC after a 12 year absence

REVIEW: Hearts Beat & Fists Clench for Justice in Dean Haspiel’s THE RED HOOK

07/05/2018 2:31 pm by AJ Frost

Dean Haspiel’s imagines a world where art is currency and superheroes are more than vigilantes in the Ringo Award-winning The Red Hook.

EXCLUSIVE: Minky Woodcock is coming to Hardcover! Trailer reveal and interview with writer/artist Cynthia von Buhler

06/07/2018 3:25 pm by Edie Nugent

Exclusive announcement of Minky Woodcock’s forthcoming hardcover volume, trailer reveal, interview with artist/writer Cynthia von Buhler, and news about the Minky stage show and further comics adventures.

Roundtable: Stoya, Seth Gilliam, Phillip Cruise and Dean Haspiel talk The Last Bar at the End of The World

04/09/2018 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Dean Haspiel’s prowess as a cartoonist is well known, but he’s now an emerging playwright as well. His new play, The Last Bar at the End of the World opens tomorrow at Urban Stages in Manhattan – you can buy tickets here. Directed by Phillip Cruise, and starring Cruise, Tarik Davis, Lex Friedman, Seth Gilliam, […]

INTERVIEW: Dean Haspiel’s New Brooklyn Prepares for WAR CRY

12/06/2017 9:30 am by AJ Frost

I think it’s safe to say that if you follow the Beat, you are familiar with the artistic work of the indefatigable Dean Haspiel.This year has been particularly productive for Haspiel. His prolific work can be seen everywhere, including on television, on the stage (indeed, earlier this fall, his show Harakiri Kane debuted at the Brick Theater in […]

INTERVIEW: Dean Haspiel and Stoya bring sensuality to death in HARAKIRI KANE

10/27/2017 2:00 pm by Edie Nugent

“Whether it’s a porn set or live theater, the ability to take direction is the most useful skill I have as a performer.”

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/26/17: Art theft, corn pops, Chris Ware buys a house

10/26/2017 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

§ Nice Art: A page from Suehiro Marou’s The Laughing Vampire, reviewed here by Sarah Horrocks. Marou is a Japanese manga artist known for his extremely disturbing books, like Panorama Island and Mr. Arashi’s Amazing Freak Show, which depict erotic horror in a very precise style. Why Marou? Keep reading. § Saladin Ahmed, writer of […]

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/12/17: Dean Haspiel, playwright

09/12/2017 9:15 am by Heidi MacDonald

Summer is OVER pic.twitter.com/hnp77RZTsl — Tillie Walden (@TillieWalden) September 11, 2017 § Nice Art: Tillie Walden captures the anticipation of fall in this sketch. Walden’s eagerly awaited Spinning – sure to be one of the graphic novels of the fall – drops today and we’ll have an interview with her on the site later today […]

SDCC ’17: President Brains, Nanobots, and Nuclear War Comedically Combine in Rob Kutner’s “SHRINKAGE!”

07/18/2017 3:15 pm by AJ Frost

In 2015, veteran comedy writer Rob Kutner (The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Conan) launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund Shrinkage, a phantasmagorical burlesque about a group of nanobots that invade the President’s brain with the intent of launching, oh let’s say, nuclear war! From there, it’s a sci-fi action thriller and political comedy all […]

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/29/17: Preordering is just ordering

03/29/2017 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

I’ve got a lot to say about preordering, All Time Comics, Smurfs, the Fourth Disruption and Steve McQueen, and by god, I’m going to say it.