A Year of Free Comics: Farel Dalrymple launches the haunting SF comic Proxima...
Get in on the ground floor of a new comic that everyone will be talking about Farel Dalrymple is the artist on the amazing book The Wrenchies, as well as Popgun War and the...
A year of Free Comics: ‘webcomic name’ is a meta commentary on the banality...
This comic comes directly from the Beat's comment section, where a reader wondered why folks like things such as yesterday's pick, Owlturd Comics. Reader Nico plugged "webcomic name" as a parody of three panel...
A Year of Free Comics: Owlturd Comics and Blue Chair, daily laughter
You may have seen this floating around yesterday. It's the work of Owlturd Comics. This internet humorist is up to date with his targets and posts images so big that even your Uncle Fred who...
A Year of Free Comics: Sail the seas with Lucy Bellwood, Adventure Cartoonist
Do you like ships?
Do you like comics?
Then Lucy Bellwood is your jam. Billing herself as an "adventure cartoonist" the Portland OR-based artist has chronicled her adventures in many comics, everything from rafting down the...
A Year of Free Comics: Jack Kirby’s Golden Age
As we mentioned earlier today, as e celebrate the 100th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby, he was a master of all comics genres. From helping invent superheroes with Captain America, to romance with the...
A Year of Free Comics: Elmer Part 1 by Gerry Alanguilan, a giant chicken...
Oh yeah since its friday and I'm thinking of Filipino comics, here's a comic from the Beat itself, issue #1 of Elmer by Gerry Alanguilan, a fairly amazing comics about a giant chicken who...
A year of free comics – Lara Croft Was My Family by Carta Monir
One of the things I recall fondly from my childhood was playing video games with my parents. It has permeated our lives together for as long as I can remember. They had been playing...
A Year of Free Comics: On matter of the day by Passmore, Kobabe and...
You're probably sick and tired of the disturbing news that the US has been embroiled in for the last week. But in case you aren't - or are, like The Beat, just glued to...
A Year of Free Comics: Industry satire in “His Last Comic” by Noah Van...
An aspiring comics creator who longs for the Image Comics of his youth gets a shot at success and fame via a magic potion in van Sciver's latest online comic.
A year of free comics – K.L. Rick’s Fencing With Uncertainty in Arm’s Length
K.L. Ricks has this uncanny ability to portray movement incredibly well. In Arm's Length, we see our protagonist Mari biking and fencing. In each case, Ricks is able to convey motion both in her characters...
A Year of Free Comics: My Body and My Daughter by Glynnis Fawkes
Okay it's been a while, but FREE COMICS ARE BACK. And we're back with My Body and My Daughter: An In-Depth Analysis by Glynnis Fawkes in The New Yorker. Fawkes is a new name to the...
A Year of Free Comics: Customer Service by Vanessa Davis
The great Vanessa Davis has a visual essay for Topic, a new online magazine that presents "visual storytelling" about monthly themes. The topic is "Customer Service" and includes her observations on the time she...
