SDCC ’13: Comic-Con Day -1 in Photos from DC to Pacific Rim
ONe of our most trusted spies "Connie Snowden" managed to snap some surreptitious photos during set-up last night. The Lego booth looks amazing, you can look up He-Man's skirt, Weta has yet another incredible...
On The Scene: LA Zoo hosts ‘Wild’ Comics Event + Photo Gallery!
Comics are everywhere. In the boom of the small comics event, even the LA Zoo staged a “Comics Jungle” event last Saturday geared at kids but drawing in families, artists, illustrators, and cosplayers. The...
C2E2 Photo Parade: The Good, The Bad, and The Cosplay
Some of the amazing sights at this year's C2E2 convention! (Not really -- just some random fuzzy pictures The Beat took.)
When great cartoonists ate Korean food together
Natalie Atkinson captures a cartooning summit in Toronto with, l-r, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Seth, Chester Brown, Anouk Ricard, Beguiling owner Peter Birkamoe and Adrian Tomine.
Spain Rodriguez remembered, as he hoped he would be
Quite a few remembrances of underground pioneer Spain Rodriguez, including this round-up of reactions from his peers at TCJ. Here's Gary Panter's imagined history:
SPAIN looked to be exploring edgy scenes and choosing to do...
NYCC: Everybody is out to get Joe Quinones!
Artist Joe Quinones tries his hardest to make friends and network at conventions, he really does, but for some reason everybody who comes into contact with him develops a murderous blood lust. Revealed today...
SPX 2012: the last photo bomb
BY JEN VAUGHN - These photos are photos that SHOULD be out on the internet somewhere instead of sitting on my phone. Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, and Charles Burns are...
A Little Adventure Time
You don't always have to think big when you decide to be awesome. When an artist named Oviot decided to pay tribute to Adventure Time, she elected to do so on the smallest scale...
Wonder Woman and Supergirl Get Married
Phil Jimenez saw something cool today. So he took a photo of it, as Phil Jimenez is wont to do.
MoCCAFest 2012 wraps up in pictures
Well, we had a swell (and swollen) time at this year's MoCCA Fest as usual. We'll be along with some observations and books we got presently, but for the full flava here's aphotoset assembled by Jeff Newelt covering the show as well as two events for Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND. MoCCA photos are by Shahriar Shadab, Strand photos are by Winslow Porter.
C2E2 2012: The Virgin Experience: A 27-Year-Old’s First Time…Now With Pictures!
Remember your first time? Wish you had taken pictures? Well, special correspondent J. Parker Adair certainly remembers his first time, and he took lots of pictures!
Photos: When cartoonists dressed like Don Draper
As part of a tribute to the late, great* Jerry Robinson, Mike Lynch has scanned in some of his old National Cartoonist Society programs -- comic strips in the Madmen era!
BTW, he's pretty hard to even recognize Robinson in these photos, but that's him on the left with the glasses.