Tag: The Beat
Angoulême 2014 : Bill Watterson, Katsuhiro Otomo and Alan Moore are the finalists for the...
Angoulême 2014 : Bill Watterson, Katsuhiro Otomo and Alan Moore are the finalists for the Grand Prixhttp://ift.tt/1aFf3Ce
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Well, it looks like I picked a good year for my first ever visit to the Angoulême comics...
Meanwhile, Amigo Comics is retrenching
Meanwhile, Amigo Comics is retrenchinghttp://ift.tt/1cNaohE
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And speaking of the indie world of publishers below the Top Seven, Amigo Comics is a periodical publisher that launched last year with the hope of putting out...
Is Ape Entertainment dunzo?
Is Ape Entertainment dunzo?http://ift.tt/1e79pfS
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While PictureBox was the first big casualty of the potential Great ShakeOut of ’13-14, it seems that Ape Entertainment may have actually preceded it to the big hiatus box in...
Mark Trail in black fly shocker
Mark Trail in black fly shockerhttp://ift.tt/1mljKq8
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It all started when someone wrote to The Black Mountain News of North Carolina to point out a shocking misstatement in a recent Mark Trail comic strip:
There was...
Read a 14-page excerpt of The Love Bunglers
Read a 14-page excerpt of The Love Bunglershttp://ift.tt/1aEqhqD
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Fantagraphics has posted an except from Jaime Hernandez’s The Love Bunglers, coming in April. This reprints the story from Love and Rockets #3-4 which is one...
Derf announces new graphic novel for 2015: Trashed
Derf announces new graphic novel for 2015: Trashedhttp://ift.tt/1eZyytZ
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Over at his blog, Derf Backderf, author of My Friend Dahmer, has announced his next book: a 288-page GN based on his Trashed webcomic. Abrams will...
It’s Martin Luther King Day
It’s Martin Luther King Dayhttp://ift.tt/KrnxX2
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It’s a holiday for many of us, and what better way to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luthor King than to suggest that if you haven’t already, you may...
Dynamite Week: Parker, Shaner and Bellaire Bring Back Flash Gordon
Dynamite Week: Parker, Shaner and Bellaire Bring Back Flash Gordonhttp://ift.tt/1muy6aI
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Dynamite Week is going on this week, and so say Dynamite themselves. There’ll be several announcements coming from the company over the next few...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/20/14: This blogger tried to gather some links about comics, and...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/20/14: This blogger tried to gather some links about comics, and she nails it.http://ift.tt/Kxe4Nz
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Via Sean Howe
§ Neal Adams was interviewed at Flying Colors in Concord, Ca, and if yuo’ve ever...
Who Sold What?: New York Times Graphic Novel Bestsellers 2013
Who Sold What?: New York Times Graphic Novel Bestsellers 2013http://ift.tt/1bulR9S
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It’s a new year, and what better time to take a look back at what happened in 2013?
Regular readers of The Beat know me as...
Looking at the New Marvel Knights
Looking at the New Marvel Knightshttp://ift.tt/1eWH396
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by Jeffrey O. Gustafson
The on-again off-again imprint Marvel Knights played a very important role in the current Marvel Entertainment empire. Started in the late 1990s as an outlet...
Over and out: Afterlife With Archie reprint cover by Francavilla
Over and out: Afterlife With Archie reprint cover by Francavillahttp://ift.tt/1gX8hvN
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Just to give you something nice to get into the weekend with, here’s the cover for the second printing of issue #3 of the...
