The Black Beetle

Over the past 10 years, Francesco Francavilla emerged as one of the most unique and prolific artists of this generation, with a slew of credits at almost every major publisher and fans clamoring to see his gorgeous style on their favorite characters. Earlier this year, Mondo hosted a special gallery show celebrating his milestone. A frequent collaborator with the Austin art house, Francavilla will also be appearing at this weekend's MondoCon. ComicsAlliance caught up with Francavilla ahead of the event for a retrospective of his first decade in comics.

The comic book, animation, illustration, pinup, mashup, fan art and design communities are generating amazing artwork of myriad styles and tastes, all of which ends up on the Internet and filtered into ComicsAlliance’s Best Art Ever (This Week). These images convey senses of mood and character — not to mention artistic skill — but comic books are specifically a medium of sequential narratives, and

  With hundreds of comics released to stores every month, a great cover can make a big difference. That tiny rectangle needs to grab the eye, set a mood, convey an idea, and entice a reader to pick the book up and look inside. It takes a great cover artist to get all of that right. ComicsAlliance continues its look back at some of the best cover work in 2013 from some of the most talented cover ar

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Movies: A new Iron Man 3 featurette profiles Tony Stark's abundance of new armors. Toys: A new Man of Steel Lego set sees Superman and Lois Lane face General Zod in a "Black Zero Escape" scenario. Art: Johnny Ryan does Dav Pilkey's Captain Underpants in the style of Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns...

Video: YouTuber Demi Adejuyigbe manages to improve American Psycho with... Pokémon cards? Animation: Obnoxio the clown is back in the latest Marvel Super Heroes: What The--?! Craft: Dark Horse profiles the prolific letterer Nate Piekos as he works on the continued adventures of Francesco Francavilla's The Black Beetle. ...

Upcoming: Francesco Francavilla's The Black Beetle is getting a full-fledged miniseries at Dark Horse in January, which will kick off with a #0 issue collecting the BB tales from Dark Horse Presents #11-13 in December. Industry: Alex Segura has returned to DC Comics as Executive Director of Publicity after a nearly two-year stint at Archie Comics as Vice President - Publicity and Marketing at Arc

On sale this week is Dark Horse Presents #11, the latest issue of Dark Horse's prestigious anthology series. Featuring no distracting advertisements, the 80-page book contains new material by such comics creators as Francesco Francavilla (introducing The Black Beetle), Mike Richardson, Tim Seeley and Victor Drujiniu (introducing The Occultist), John Arcudi and Jonathan Case (introducing The Creep)