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Peanuts: It takes a nation of millions to hold Franklin back
Here's a window into comics as social history as Nat Gertler write about this history of Franklin, the black kid in Peanuts which...
Nice Art: Paolo Rivera’s “pulp” style Guardians of the Galaxy covers
Over the weekend, this two "pulp style" variants cover for Guardians of the Galaxy by Paolo Rivera were released. (By CBR.) I love GotG....
A lot of money was spent at the recent Heritage comics art auction
That big Heritage Auction of comics and original art wound up over the weekend, and a lot of money was spent. The cover to...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 8/5/2013: PictureBox is having a sale!
§ Well that Boston Comic Con looks like it was fun.
§ Sue at DCWKA notes that this week two female writers debuted at DC:...
And the next Doctor Who is…
The BBC played out the announcement of the new Doctor -- the 12th iteration and 13th generation of the beloved SF character. Anglophiles and...
Friday Giveaway: 2 Guns tix, hat and t-shirt
Hey peeps, I guess it's just contest week here at the Beat. This time the nice folks at Universal are offering a 2 Guns...
Must Read: Tom Scioli on good/bad coloring and Barry Windsor Smith
Cartoonist Tom Scioli (Gødland) is obviously a devotee of classic comics styles; it should come as no surprise, then, when he wonders Whatever Happened...
Run DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that was...
Like many of the great rappers—and he is one of the old skool greats—Darryl "DMC" McDaniels grew up a big comics nerd. So after...
Help Jim Lee put his kids through college by buying Jack Kirby’s ARGO art
Well that's the short hand version. Basically, back in the 90s, Jim Lee bought two piece of Jack Kirby art. At the time everyone...
Keith Knight offers new subscription service
Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben...
Kean Soo’s Jellaby is coming back into print!
A couple of years ago I wrote about Kean Soo's Jellaby going out of print from Hyperion, despite a second volume still being available....
Quote of the day: Douglas Wolk on the Spirit of the Watchmen
If the people who commissioned really wanted to pay tribute to Watchmen," perhaps they could have tried to reproduce the circumstances of its...
