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§ Nice Art: the work of Chinese artist RLoN Wang, via § Marjorie Liu, Kieron Gillen and Kate Leth picked some comics for summer beach reading, and they have good taste. § Gabrielle Bell is cartooning again! Huzzah! § Chicagoist profiles Gina Wynbrandt and her irresistible comic ‘Someone Please Have Sex With Me’ Released in May […]

§ Actress Noel Neill, who played Lois Lane in the Superman serials of the 50s to George Reeve’s Superman passed away at age 95 over the holiday after a long illness. Neill was a fine, foundational Lois and one of the early “nerdlebrities” at comic-cons where she gained a reputation as a feisty, lovely woman. […]

§ Nice statue: I’m not a big fan of The Darkness, but this statue by XM Studios is pretty cool. Via FB. § Yesterday we introduced our new, fresh burning dumpster scale for kerfuffles, but on reflection we decided that a counterbalance for justice and mercy was needed, and we were inspired by the thoughts […]

§ Nice art: Chip Zdarsky and Ramon Perez, good Canadian citizens, have created a variant cover for Civil War II: Choosing Sides #5 starring dreamboat Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau in a fetching pose. Zdarsky and Trudeau are evidently very close friends. “I didn’t want to do a stuffy cover — just like a suit and […]

§ Webcomic of the day: “Your lack Friend” by Ben Passmore. Just read it. It’s an excerpt of a longer work that will be sold at MICE in Boston, Ripexpo in Providence and NOCAZ Fest in New Orleans, and available online from .Radiator Comics.   § This kept coming into my inbox: a Spidey Zine […]

§ Nice art: Inkbrink #5 is an anthology of poetry comics available for preorder now. There are many contributors and you can see them all (and more art in this link. Yet again our submission pool brought us more excellent work than we could hope to print, and as a result this will be our largest […]

"Jim Woodring using the big pen" @iheartSAM #GraphicMasters (photo: @fantagraphics) pic.twitter.com/hfKJHVAT4Y — SAM (@iheartSAM) June 10, 2016 § We’re going through a pretty horrific time in our nation’s history right now, and it’s a time of grief and fear. The rise of hatred and violence weighs heavy on my mind, along with the need to […]

§ Nice Art: Supergirl fan art by Bilquis Evely. Evely is drawing Sugar & Spike for DC, as written by Keith Giffen and I may just need to check this out. § First Second, the graphic novel imprint at MacMillan, is profiled for its 10th year with lots of numbers and quotes: First Second was […]

§ Nice art: Arthur Adams posted a piece of Avengers art on his Facebook page and people went nuts! In case you missed it, Art Adams is a very important artist in comics history. Although he was much influenced by Mike Golden, it’s Adams highly detailed, fine-lined art that formed the inspiration for most of […]

§ Nice art: Brett Booth’s design for the new Wally West. More concept art for Donna Troy and other Teen Titans here. § 61-year-old JK Simmons gets jacked for his role as Jim Gordon in Justice League. In case you didn’t notice, he wore a lot of tight t-shirts as the sadistic drumming teacher in Whiplash, so […]

§ Nice Art: Darwyn Cooke’s Brief History of Mainstream Comics – I’m not sire of the origin of this, but it’s a great way to remember Cooke. § Many comics friends gathered at this weekend’s MegaCon to remember Cooke as well. It looks like he was celebrated in style. § Elsewhere, reading the news was a […]

§ Nice Art: My Girl a recentish comic by by Sophia Foster-Dimino about dreams and work and life and struggle. Like all off Foster-Dimino’s work its evocative and allusive and rewards contemplation. § A few weeks ago Michael Davis wrote a mild-mannered think piece called Why Are We Still Complaining About Dan DiDio?. This weekend, […]

§ Blutch, Blutch, Blutch. French artist Christian Hincker, aka Blutch is a cartoon god in Europe, but known only to Euro comics experts here. The new New York Review of Books edition of PEPLUM is his first long work to be translated into English. It’s no easy reader; a mystical narrative that takes element from the […]

§ Nice Art: OMG here’s the cover to the indie Free Comic Book Day Sampler from Retrofit Comics (USA), Peow! Studio (Sweden), Avery Hill Publishing (UK), Uncivilized Books (USA), kuš! komiksi (Latvia), and Big Planet Comics (USA). If you are into good comics, you know that these six publishers alone, are responsible for an amazing […]

§ At Emerald City, best selling cartoonist Raina Telgemeier showed she's not just the president, she's a customer, cosplaying as Miyazaki's Ponyo. Just when you thought life couldn't get any more awesome.

§ Nice Art: Chris Arrant chats with Dean Haspiel about The Red Hook, his new comic for Line WEBtoon, the mobile-based comics company. IT’s set in Brooklyn and as you might expect from Haspiel, it’s from the streets: Nrama: Stories are usually about heroes dealing with problems. What kind of problems does Sam Brosia have […]

§ Pretty much like this, as Mile High Comics moved some boxes into their Jason St. Mega-Store. That’s owner Chuck Rozanski, aka the boy with the most comics, standing in front. § Some photos from the Drink & Draw Like A Lady party on Friday by Lisa Aurigemma. This party is PACKED every year, but it’s […]

The Beat is back, baby! We hope you endured the past couple of weeks without your kibbles, and we’re still wading through hundreds of emails, so you might want to hit us up again. Here’s some good stuff you probably saw already. § Nice art: Before closing up shop, Comics & Cola was offering the […]

NICE ART: Jillian Tamaki (Super Mutant Magic Academy, This One Summer) has completed a poster for the MTA, New York’s Subway system. That’s a segment of it above. § On the 10th, a coalition of French publishers met with the French Minister of Culture, and asked for a mediator to come in and untangle the […]

A new column by Marissa Louise is the best thing I've ever read about coloring comics.

§ Nice Art: Gerhard, the mononymous artist who is best known for creating the intricate backgrounds in the psycho masterpiece Cerebus, is now doing prints of this and that. And that includes a new Harry Potter print which is to die for. I know we were just talking about the crack down on unlicensed prints, […]

§ I may have overdramatized Killing Joke artist Brian Bolland's lament over the flood of superhero movies , but think of it as a metaphor:

The long weekend of Deadpool is over, Toy Fair is wrapping up, Valentine’s day is just a memory, and we have a backlog. but let’s kick things off with a brace of Image interviews. David Harper chats with Image publisher Eric Stephenson–surely nothing controversial will be said there. One thing that seems to happen when […]

#Transformers vs #GIJOE pic.twitter.com/ky11h2R6FP — Thomas Scioli (@tomscioli) February 5, 2016 Cobra Commander on Cybertron #Transformers vs #GIJOE pic.twitter.com/FUtVEbbyTu — Thomas Scioli (@tomscioli) February 9, 2016 § We live in a great time for comics when even Transformers vs GI Joe looks this good. Thanks, Tom Scioli. § Kickstarter has funded its 100,000th project and […]

§ By now you’ve probably forgotten everything about this year’s crop of mostly bland Super Bowl ads, but the whole Marvel/Coca-Cola thing has kicked off with a spot where Ant-Man and the Hulk fight over a can of Coke, because that’s what people do. I understand that the spot was partially storyboarded by artist Sean […]