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Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
Rejected by The New Yorker: Box Brown’s Spurned Single-Panel Cartoons
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 Kate Beaton became the first webcomics creator to have a cartoon published in the New Yorker, webcartoonist Brown posted a Bellen... Read More ...
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton Talks to Her Younger Self About Comics
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton Talks to Her Younger Self About Comics
Parting Shot: Kate Beaton Talks to Her Younger Self About Comics
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 self" comics where she tried to explain her adult life -- and her evolution into a professional illustrator -- to herself as a child...
‘Nursery Rhyme Comics’ by Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and More [Exclusive Preview]
‘Nursery Rhyme Comics’ by Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and More [Exclusive Preview]
‘Nursery Rhyme Comics’ by Kate Beaton, Jaime Hernandez, Mike Mignola and More [Exclusive Preview]
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 ComicsAlliance were pretty excited to see some of our favorite creators involved in what turned out to be some pretty fun illustrations...
SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton’s ‘Strong Female Characters’ [Webcomic]
SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton’s ‘Strong Female Characters’ [Webcomic]
SEXISM IS OVER: Kate Beaton’s ‘Strong Female Characters’ [Webcomic]
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 is inspired by characters Beaton created in a Twitter-based collaboration/conversation with fellow cartoonists Meredith Gran and Carly Monardo...
Link Ink: Collected ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Gets a Cover, Hot Toys Does Harry Osborn and ‘Doctor Who’ Goes Anime
Link Ink: Collected ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Gets a Cover, Hot Toys Does Harry Osborn and ‘Doctor Who’ Goes Anime
Link Ink: Collected ‘Hark! A Vagrant’ Gets a Cover, Hot Toys Does Harry Osborn and ‘Doctor Who’ Goes Anime
Upcoming: Kate Beaton's collected Hark! A Vagrant finally has a cover to official watch out for when it drops in October. TV: AMC's The Walking Dead could be hit with some budget cuts. Do you fear for the show's season two quality? Interviews: Atomic Robo co-creator Brian Clevinger discusses what would have been his take on a new Firestorm series for DC...

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