Review: There’s power and dignity in these ‘Vietnamese Memories’

02/08/2019 5:00 pm by John Seven 1 Comment

Clement Baloup’s gorgeous and moving stories of the Vietnamese who settle in America

SPIDER-MAN: LIFE STORY Time Travels Through History

12/12/2018 5:58 pm by Samantha Puc

How would the world have been different?

A long lost photo of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee has surfaced

11/16/2018 1:15 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A mystery photo has emegred with a scene we’ve all longed to see for years.

RIP Fred Patton

11/14/2018 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Comics and animation lost another key figure this week. Fred Patton, a protean champion of early anime/manga fandom passed away at age 77 this week. He had been confined to a nursing home after a stroke in 2005, but continued writing and pursuing his interests in anime. Until then he wrote widely about anime, […]

A lot of people have said a lot of things about Stan Lee

11/14/2018 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

A round-up of the best takes on Stan’s passing and some of my own thoughts.

Stan Lee has died

11/12/2018 1:56 pm by Heidi MacDonald

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news that Stan Lee has died.

Three Great Comics for Midterm Tuesday

11/06/2018 1:00 pm by Ricardo Serrano Denis

The midterm elections are upon us and we need comics to survive it. This year’s voter turnout is projected to rival that of the 1960s, when the counterculture was at its peak and when the political rifts that divided the nation rivaled those that led to the Civil War a century earlier. Comics offered a […]

‘Mandela and the General’ looks at an era where diplomacy existed

11/06/2018 11:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Just in time for Election Day, Plough Publishing has released Mandela and the General, a new graphic novel about the first post apartheid electionsin 1994. With well-armed white militias fearing reprisals, Nelson Mandela must team up with former general Constand Viljoen, the former leader of the apartheid-era army and leader of the militias. Mandela knows that […]

David Jesus Vignolli explores colonization and the supernatural in ‘New World’

10/22/2018 4:45 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Cartoonist David Jesus Vignolli got some notice for his debut GN A Girl in The Himalayas, earlier this year, and he’s just announced a new book for August 2019: New World. Publisher Boom/Archaia describes it thusly: The discovery of the Americas forever changed the landscape of the world as cultures collided with violent consequences. But there’s […]

Here’s how comics are making history more compelling than ever

10/16/2018 12:00 pm by Beat Staff

by Ricardo Serrano Denis Truth might edge out fiction in the ‘strange’ department, but it doesn’t always go the same way with entertainment. People are creatures of entertainment. They aspire to it, they thrive in it, and they inherently gravitate towards it. When I was kid, my preferred form of education was movies. JFK, Saving […]