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Faeries Are Just Really Racist Aren't They?
Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier and German Erramouspe's grown-up fairytale comics, a free webcomic from Bleeding Cool's publisher Avatar The new issue just went up. The first collection is out in print later this year, but is all still available free from the website. How does that make you feel? Exactly.   Welcome back to Disenchanted, Si Spurrier[...]
Things To Do In New York And Philadelphia This Week If You Like Comics (UPDATE)
Tuesday, January 28th The NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 at 7:00 PM at Parsons The New School, 2 West 13th Street, in the Bark Room (off the lobby) Free and open to the public. [PLEASE NOTE: Events this semester will take place on Tuesday evenings rather than Mondays]. The[...]
Monday Morning Runaround – Photographic Proof
Why the difference? And The Comics Beat gets heat for linking to it And kicks back. Guess what trolls, I was "gender baiting" before most of you were born, except then it was called "examining gender/social roles." The rise of the internet and social media means everyone is allowed to call out shit when they see it[...]
A Modest Proposal For… The Reader-Owned Comic
Why stop there? Much has been made of Image Comics' contracts that don't give them ownership of any comic, but is that fair? Just as a letterer and a colourist may be more committed to a comic if they own a piece of it, why shouldn't that be true of a publisher? What about the[...]
Brad Meltzer And Chris Eliopoulos' Ordinary People
For some, Brad Meltzer is the man behind DC Comics' Identity Crisis When you-know-what happened to Sue Dibny To others he's a leading novelist with a string of successful books. Well now he's gaining an entirely new audience and is taking Chris Eliopoulos with him A new series of children's comics in the young children's hardcover[...]
A Savage Conversation – Chris Roberson Talks The Man Of Bronze
And as the series progresses, we'll gradually introduce new members of the supporting cast, as well, while keeping the narrative focus fixed firmly on Doc. AP: I'm kind of obsessed with the trend in comics away from a third person, omniscient author's voice and toward a first person inner narrative approach I like the way you[...]
Swipe File: Rick Parker And Frank Frazetta's Weird Fantasies
From Papercutz artist Rick Parker (also former Marvel letterer and artist on Marvel's Beavis and Butt-head), we have Weird Zombie-Fantasy… And from Frank Frazetta, we have Weird Science-Fantasy from EC. Rick Parker explains the genesis of this incredibly detailed parody cover: "I was a kid in the mid 50's when those EC covers and MAD Comics came[...]
Gregory Benton's B+F Is Hitting The Road And Coming Soon To A Town Near You
It's the talk of the town when it comes to art comics, and Benton's going to be inscribing madly at Angouleme coming up with his trademark full art renderings inside the large covers of the new book But you don't have to go to France to get one of these beauties hand-drawn inside by Benton–he's[...]