Happy New Year!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Wishing you all the best in the new year. Let’s all stay safe, healthy, and happy. And thank you for reading The Beat.
Continue ReadingTurn the Page
Share this link on Facebook!TweetI have been looking back over the past year in the comic industry and what a year it was. I leafed through all the headlines from The Beat in an effort to determine what the big story of the year was. In a year that saw Scott Pilgrim taking on the [...]
Continue ReadingNew Year’s Eve with Ogden Whitney
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Continue ReadingIs Naoki Urasawa the greatest living genre cartoonist?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet I’d like to read this, wouldn’t you? Anne Ishii writes about Billy Bat, his current manga series, available only in Japan: Billy Bat is an attempt at Pynchon-esque meta-fiction that marries two ethnicities so indivisible one rarely ever sees them in the same cel: Japanese and Japanese-Americans. Plot: WWII’s just ended. Kevin [...]
Continue ReadingThe week in Spider-Man: the musical
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe week’s toplining news for the cursed Spider-Man musical is that that Natalie Mendoza, who plays Arachne, the feminine spider-muse of the play, has decided that getting bashed on the skull is not in her job description and left the show after suffering a concussion: Per the paper, “On Sunday, Ms. Mendoza [...]
Continue ReadingAnd so, the adventure ends
Today's the big day when I make one more attempt to get home. This has been a long two-week adventure -- by far the longest that I've ever been away from home and not blogging. The weather disasters that bracketed my trip are hopefully a once in a lifetime event, but I don't think I'll be traveling at Christmas for a year, at the very least.
Continue ReadingDilbert moves to Universal Uclick
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Continuing changes in the world of syndicated comics this week, as Universal Uclick has announced they have just picked up the rights to Dilbert from their arch-rival United Media. As the press release reminds us, in October Peanuts, the other ginormous strip long-handled by UMS, also moved to Universal UClick. Alan [...]
Continue ReadingSales Charts Supplemental: Sales dollars actually up a titch in November
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile there is an ongoing discussion of whether a mistake is likely in the monthly Diamond Sales Charts in the comments of the DC sales charts, statistics guru John Jackson Miller passes along an information-packed column that reveals that there WAS at least one mistake in November’s charts from Diamond: Running and [...]
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From the Archives: Walt Kelly at Harvard
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet I’m home for the holidays, and spending some time digging around my parent’s basement, delving into my assorted and sordid collection of ephemera. The above scan is from a photocopy of a bound volume of Life Magazine. While college students today have numerous distractions available to them via cellphones and wi-fi, back [...]
Continue ReadingFrom the Archives: Star Trek #7, March 1970
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHere’s a comic from my brothers’ collection, the type of comic kids read back in the 1960s and 70s. We didn’t care about condition or collectibility, we just read the comics, tossed them in a cupboard somewhere, and maybe re-read them when we were bored. That pile never got in the [...]
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: November 2010
by Marc-Oliver Frisch On the surface, November was business as usual for DC, with "Brightest Day" and the latest makeover of the Batman line cheerfully purring along. Apart from a handful of strong major books, though, many DC titles displayed sudden, unusually large drops. See below for the details, and please consider the small print at the end of the column. Thanks to Milton Griepp and ICv2.com for the permission to use their figures. An overview of ICv2.com's estimates can be found here.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Roger Langridge’s Father Ted
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Why didn’t *WE* think of commissioning this? For those not in the know, Father Ted is one of the greatest sitcoms of all time, involving a bunch of Irish priests and their tea-loving housekeeper living on a small island off the coast. The show was created by Graham Linehan, best known these [...]
Continue ReadingNice Art: Moebius’s Akira Kurosawa
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Continue ReadingHoliday rewind: Team Venture Christmas Song
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Totally missed this before, but better late than never? “Shallow Gravy”
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