Tag: politics

John Seven reviews 'The Antifa Comic Book' by Gord Hill

Reviewed: Uniqlo Superman by Yan Cong, POTA: Visionaries by Dana Gould & Chad Lewis, The Scar by Andrea Ferraris & Reno Chiocca

The midterm elections are upon us and we need comics to survive it. This year’s voter turnout is projected to rival that of the 1960s, when the counterculture was at its peak and when the...

I have never read a Batman comic. I’m not even sure I’ve ever read a DC comic! It’s nothing against them, I’m just not much into superheros that are “gods among men.” That said,...

    With the recent tragedy of yet another mass shooting, all sorts of voices are rising, many trying to label the biggest roots of this continued problem in the US.     Two republican congressmen, Brian Mast...

Announced today, DC Entertainment is partnering with Warner Bros. Television Group and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment for a public event in Washington DC over the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. Entitled "DC in D.C." this...

"Look east, and you can see Libertas shrugging. There are weights around her robes, and her torch is flickering in New York Harbor."

Our Mother by Luke Howard Comics has become the territory of many examinations of mental health in regard to personal history, and each manifestation of this is going to be as varied as the individuals tackling...

Tomorrow Awesome Con in Washington DC kicks off, and The Beat will be there. In case you missed it, last year Awesome Con partnered up with Leftfield Media, the convention organization run by Greg...

  Comics characters running for president in a presidential election cycle is a hallowed tradition. Bill the Cat did it. The Demon did it. Howard the Duck did it. Uncle Duke did it. And now Loki,...

January 7th, 2015 will always be a grim date in for free speech, tolerance and French cartooning. As we all know, 12 people, including 10 staffers and four cartoonists were killed in a terrorist attack on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo yesterday morning. The attack—which some called the 9/11 for France—left grieving and reeling for those lost and for a world in which such a senseless act could occur. The four cartoonists killed—Georges Wolinski, Charb, Tignous, and Cabu—included one Angouleme Grand Prize winner, Wolinski, who won in 2005. It was a grievous toll.

A graphic novel has become Exhibit A in the latest Obamacare controversy. Clear, simple, understandable, useful - those are just a few of the words that recurred in reviews of Health Care Reform: What It...