Tag kate beaton
Pizza Island Ends, Kate Beaton Steps Back from Regular Updates for ‘Long Term Projects’
Filed under: Indie
The Brooklyn comics studio Pizza Island recently disbanded, with its creators -- Kate Beaton, Domitille Collardey, Sarah Glidden, Meredith Gran, Lisa Hanawalt, Deana Sobel and Julia Wertz -- parting amicably and scattering as fa... [read more]
ComicsAlliance’s 11 Best Comics of 2011, #6-5
Filed under: Opinion As 2011 draws to close, ComicsAlliance has assembled its annual list of the best comics and graphic novels of the year with the help of our editors, writers, and readers. Like any list, it is naturally subjective, but we've packed ... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton’s Wonder Woman Is Incredibly Tired of Stupid People
Filed under: DC, Webcomics
Wonder Woman has had a tough time in the mass media between her failed screenplay by Joss Whedon and her recent failed television pilot, making Kate Beaton's wonderfully sullen take on the character seem more apropos than... [read more]
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Filed under: Webcomics, Culture
What does it take to get your cartoon published in the New Yorker? Box Brown, creator of the webcomics Bellen! and Everything Dies, has been trying to crack the code. Last summer, after Hark! A Vagrant cartoonist Ka... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kraven Goes on the Hunt for a Prom Date with Kate Beaton (But Not WITH Her)
Filed under: Marvel, Indie
The (wonderful) Strange Tales II anthology from Marvel Comics featured a host of indie and webcomic creators writing and drawing superhero stories, including webcartoonist Kate Beaton, who has now posted her complete Krave... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton Talks to Her Younger Self About Comics
Filed under: Indie, Webcomics
Cartoonist Kate Beaton is best known for her Hark! A Vagrant webcomics poking fun at the absurdity of history, and while her style has gotten more refined over the years, some of our earliest favorites were her "younger ... [read more]
‘Nursery Rhyme Comics’ by Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and More [Exclusive Preview]
Filed under: Indie, Art
This month, First Second is releasing Nursery Rhyme Comics, a hardcover featuring 50 classic nursery rhymes illustrated by 50 amazing artists. It's a great collection for kids, but as fans of indie comics, we here at Comics... [read more]
Link Ink: New X-Men Teams, DC’s ‘New 52′ Commercials And Hope For ‘Locke & Key’ On TV
Filed under: Link Ink, Culture
Teams: Marvel Comics has released its initial lineups for its X-teams following the events of Schism. What do you think of the new teams? [Marvel]
Creators: Kate Beaton will be touring North America in support of he... [read more]
‘Strong Female Characters’ Inspires Strong Female Fan Art, Animation
Filed under: Webcomics, Humor, Art, Culture
Strong Female Characters is a new team of scantily-clad, ultra-violent super-heroines composed of Georgia O'Queefe, Queen Elizatits, and Susan B. Assthony. Created by Kate Beaton, Meredith Gran and Carly M... [read more]
SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton’s ‘Strong Female Characters’ [Webcomic]
Filed under: Webcomics, Humor, Culture
Cartoonist Kate Beaton has created another characteristically hilarious webcomic lampooning the popular treatment of female characters in mainstream American comics. Called Strong Female Characters, the strip i... [read more]
Link Ink: Collected ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Gets a Cover, Hot Toys Does Harry Osborn and ‘Doctor Who’ Goes Anime
Filed under: Link Ink, Culture
Upcoming: Kate Beaton's collected Hark! A Vagrant finally has a cover to official watch out for when it drops in October. [D&Q]
TV: AMC's The Walking Dead could be hit with some budget cuts. Do you fear for the ... [read more]
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton’s Brown Recluse Spider-Man
Filed under: Webcomics
Kate Beaton of the illustrious Hark! A Vagrant turns her attention to a certain web-slinger in a series of strip reimagining Peter Parker as Brown Recluse Spider-Man (who does whatever a brown recluse spider can). ... Read mor... [read more]
Justin Bieber, Wonder Woman, And #Winning In Today’s Twitter Report
Artwork seemed to be the topic of the day this morning. Chris Weston and Jimmy Palmiotti both called for Italian artist Milo Manara to get a shot at doing a Wonder Woman book, while Kate Beaton showed off some "Jersey Shore" doodling.
Meanwhile, Charlie Sheen hasn't left the public consciousness just [read more]
Charlie Sheen vs Marge Gundersson
Okay we have not been linking to EVERY single Charlie Sheen comic because, let's face it, we're beating this thing to death. Yes there was Family Circus and Superhero Quotes and Sheen vs Deadpool and even some Comics Alliance didn't link to.
But it is [read more]
Charlie Sheen vs Marge Gundersson
Okay we have not been linking to EVERY single Charlie Sheen comic because, let's face it, we're beating this thing to death. Yes there was Family Circus and Superhero Quotes and Sheen vs Deadpool and even some Comics Alliance didn't link to.
But it is [read more]
Kate Beaton goes to D&Q
The big news of the day: D&Q has picked up Kate Beaton and will publish her next collection, HARK! A VAGRANT.
Beaton's current print outlet is the Topatoco edition of Never Learn Anything from History, which, every time we've seen Beaton at a show -- is sold [read more]
This isn’t a very good political cartoon.
1.) The flying saucer is labeled "Speaker Pelosi," which in a political cartoon means that the flying saucer is a symbol for Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi. So—just so we're all clear here—in this particular scen... [read more]
TWITTER REPORT: R.I.P. Harvey Pekar, A Double Rainbow, And Harvey Award Nominations
The Harvey Awards, whose nominations for the year have been making the rounds today, may have been named for Harvey Kurtzman, but Harvey Pekar, another comics luminary, shook the Twitter Report feed this morning as news of his death at the age of 70 broke.
Elsewhere, a more cheerful coincidence occurred [read more]
Off-topic: So, what was up with that Lost show, anyway?
(Above: A detail from one of Kate Beaton's Lost strips; follow the link below to see the rest of it and some of her other strips riffing on the show)I didn’t watch Lost when it first started airing, as I didn’t watch a lot of network TV at the time... [read more]
You know who should draw Aquaman? Kate Beaton.
That's the second panel of a recent Aquaman strip the cartoonist posted here. You'll notice that the Aquaman she draws is the 1990's version, from the Peter David-written volume of Aquaman, with the beard and the harpoon hand. Why that Aquaman? Here's... [read more]