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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.

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, James O'Barr, Billy Tucci etc. SF guest include Nichelle Nichols,...

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.

//player.cnevids.com/embedjs/52f2ad0169702d21a5080000/video/5654e2bd94c05f26d2000028.jsWatch this on The Scene. Chris Ware is neither a luddite nor a technophobe. He's created computer apps and hearing him talk about his ideas for the technology, it seems that the cost of doing...

While poking around on the A Moment of Cerebus site following my previous post on Glamourpuss, I noticed that the remastered editions of Church & State, perhaps the masterpiece of Cerebus's 300 issue run,...

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.

The above Vader Down #1 variant with a Chip Zdarsky over, referencing the forbidden memory of Jaxxon the rabbit is one of the rarest of Marvel variant covers—one was available for every 4,999 issues...

  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 comes out in January. Disney may have brutally kiboshed George...

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 fast rising young guns of comics. The first issue, published...

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 US version of The Quest for the Time Bird, a...

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 everywhere. The Beat's own mother is experimenting with one right...

Just a few days ago I was predicting some consolidation in the crowded convention business in 2016, and like clockwork I learned that there have been layoffs at the convention company Wizard World, following the most recent financial statements that revealed a slowdown in convention revenue. I reached out to a WW spokesman for confirmation and was told "We are working to run the shows as efficiently as possible."