Tag: Webcomics

Brian K. Vaughan has alerted his mailing list that a new issue of Private Eye, his webcomic with Marcos Martin, is on the way any day now. Issue #4 will be out and to...

Superheroes sometimes come in for some criticism here at The Beat—I was a teenaged superhero reader but haven't read them regularly in a looooong time. I understand the tropes but don't them in my...

In a story on how Grumpy Cat—the dwarf cat that people (including The Beat) will line up for hours just to see—is worth $1 million, it's revealed that one of her signature catch phrases first appeared in a cartoon by Kate Beaton. Which wouldn't be so odd except that Grumpy's manager, who is a "meme manager", is very litigious about other people stealing his own memes. Beaton, who hasn't received any money from the cat or her manager, is philosophical about the whole thing, writing:

How had we not noticed that Darryl Cunningham has been serializing a comics biography of Ayn Rand over at Act--i-vate?

Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald. In a More To Come interview special episode,  Heidi talks...

A new book by Matthew Inman is coming out, collecting his comics from The Oatmeal. It's called Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants, and the title alone includes two funny things: bears and...

This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie Brosh's blog/webcomic/highly-structured stream of consciousness whatever-it-is, is getting a...

Mini-comics and stick-figure philosophy pioneer Matt Feazall has been turning out his delightful mini-comics since the 80s. Now he had an Indiegogo campaign going for The Amazing Cynicalman Vol. 2, a collection of his weekly strips from 2002 on.

The Private Eye, the webcomic by Brian K. Vaughan, Marcos Martin and Muntsa Vicente about a world without the internet, is up to the third issue of its planned 10-issue run, but to keep...

Continuing with the raccoons, a 24-hour comic in only 9 pages about a raccoon and a kitty cat by DV user Anima Project:All you need is fish - yes we know it's cute overload...

By Nick Eskey My first impression when I entered the designated room was that it was much larger than previous years. Last time I was at this panel was in 2008. Then it was located...

Dark Horse have thrown their saddle into the announcement arena, with the news that this December they'll be publishing a print version of Victor Santos' silent webcomic Polar. An interesting wrinkle, though, is that...