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Broken Frontier Awards 2015 Nominations are released
Broken Frontier, a long running site about comics, put out nominations for its comics awards last week. The nominees were chosen by the...
Webcomic Alert: Sacha Mardou’s “The State I’m In” at Mutha Magazine
Mutha Magazine is an online journal that deals with issues surrounding motherhood. It has a regular comics section, edited by Meg Lemke, and she's put together some amazing work from cartoonists including Lauren Weinstein, Glynis Fawkes, Tyler Cohen and many more. Today a standout, Sacha MArdou's THE STATE I’M IN: A Birth Story in Comics, in which the expectant Mardou and her husband has to deal with the possibility that her child has Down Syndrome.
This Weekend: Winter Con in Queens
The never ending convention seasons rolls on with Winter Con 2015 which is mostly a SF/cosplay show with some comics guests including Neal Adams,...
Fruits Basket is coming back from Yen Press, along with lots more from ...
Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket was one of the greatest hits of the First Manga Era, with the English editions from TokyoPop one of the best selling manga of the time. The original was published from 1998 to 2006 in Japan and was turned into a successful anime as well. While ToykoPop's manga have been OP for five years, Yen Press knows a good thing when they see it and they're bringing back Fruits Basket in fully updated collector’s editions AND publishing more from Takaya’s list including her classic Twinkle Stars and her new Liselotte & Witch’s Forest.
In Case You Never Saw that Chris Ware Animation, Here it is
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Chris Ware is neither a luddite nor a technophobe. He's created computer apps and hearing him talk about his ideas...
Speaking of Dave Sim; The remastered Church and State Pt. 1 is available
While poking around on the A Moment of Cerebus site following my previous post on Glamourpuss, I noticed that the remastered editions of Church...
‘Batman vs. Superman’ in race to see who is the biggest fascist
Well last night's Batman v Superman trailer debut definitely perked things up for this film. After the underwhelming sepia-toned teaser from Monday this stoked the chatter to acceptable levels with variety of villains and a question of just how heroic all these heroes are going to be. And for the first time, the Big Three of DC in one film.
Chip Zdarsky auctions rare Vader Down variant for Syrian refugees
The above Vader Down #1 variant with a Chip Zdarsky over, referencing the forbidden memory of Jaxxon the rabbit is one of the rarest...
Preview: Master Obi-Wan and Padawan Anakin have adventures in new Marvel comic
Marvel continues it's very successful line of "NAME OF CHARACTER" Star Wars books with Obi-Wan And Anakin by Charles Soule and Marco Checchetto, which...
Nice art: Christopher Hunt and Paul Pope’s Carver art
We've been talking up a book called Carver for a while here at the Beat. It's the work of Christopher Hunt, one of the...
Nice Art: The Quest for the Time Bird by Le Tendre and Loisel
Regis Loisel is a spectacular artist. If you've seen his version of Peter Pan you know this to be true. Titan is releasing a...
James Jean gets an iPad Pro and the result is about what you’d expect
The iPad Pro—a larger tablet that with added keyboard and pressure sensitive pen becomes a mini computer/Wacom—is shipping out to artists and comics readers...
