Chitter chatter: The ComixTalk 2010 Roundtable
Very knowledgeable webcomics folk Xaviar Xerexes, Brigid Alverson, Larry Cruz, Lauren Davis, Brian Heater, Rick Marshall, Gary Tyrrell and, inexplicably, The Beat gather together to look at the present and future of the digital comics medium. Pairs well with Comics Alliance's Digital December in which they talk to comics publisher digital czars for a nice state of the union.
Continue ReadingTaschen DC party brings out the comics stars
Taschen's Creed Poulsen forwarded this account of the recent book party in Los Angeles for 75 Years of 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, Paul Levitz's amazing history of DC Comics. The pictures make it.
Continue ReadingTo Do tonight: CBLDF Member Appreciation Holiday Party
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re scraping the very end of comics-related events before the holidays but here’s one the locals shouldn’t miss: The CBLDF’s Holiday Party with special guests John Layman and Cliff Chiang. Come by to “chew” the fat! Har, har, har. The party is FREE for CBLDF members and a $5 and up [...]
Continue ReadingCrossGen returns in new imprint from Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As teased at San Diego and mentioned in passing here and there, Marvel is bringing back some CrossGen titles this march: Mark Waid’s RUSE, the screwball steampunk detective series, and SIGIL, the mainline title of the entire “CrossGen universe.” Waid returns on RUSE with artist Mirco Pierfederici; Mike Carey and Leonard [...]
Continue ReadingA Comic Shop opens Fangirls: Comic Club
A Comic Shop down in Orlando is starting, a girls-only comics club -- PR below:
Continue ReadingUpdate: Cosmic Comics is staying open under new management
Well, this is a Christmas story with a happy twist: Cosmic Comics is not closing. Owner Mark Friedman wrote in to the Beat yesterday.
Continue ReadingJG Jones covers Revolver
The new issue of Revolver magazine salutes the rock greats who died this year, and has a special painted cover by JG Jones, artists of such things as WANTED and FINAL CRISIS. The cover depicts Ronnie James Dio, Slipknot’s Paul Gray, Avenged Sevenfold’s the Rev, Type O Negative’s Peter Steele, Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell, Metallica’s Cliff Burton, Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain, Ozzy Osbourne’s Randy Rhoads, Queen’s Freddie Mercury, and Alice in Chains’ Layne Staley and it is available as a free poster in the issue. rocking together in heaven. The cover painting also appears as a free poster
Continue ReadingNice Art: Takio by Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming
Who doesn't like some Bendis, Bendis, Oeming? iFanboy has a preview of Takio, the new all-ages Icon book:
Continue ReadingWhat’s it’s really like: The V for Vendetta gunman
As you may have read, a gunman down in Panama City, Florida walked into a school board meeting, sprayed a V for Vendetta symbol on the wall, walked around with a gun, making a lot of statements, started shooting and eventually was shot by a deputy, then killed himself. (Reports differ on this, but the most credible reports are that he used his gun on himself.) This video is pretty unbelievable, especially the part where a woman sneaks behind him and whacks him with her purse. And gets worse from there.
Continue ReadingCall for papers: Graphic Medicine
Brian Fies (Mom's Cancer, Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?) writes that he's involved with an upcoming conference on comics and medicine that is looking for papers:
Continue ReadingIt’s beginning to look a lot like Krampus
Things are winding down for the holidays. The Beat is no exception. We'll be on holiday starting next week, and this time we really mean it. Almost no internet. We'll have a few elves looking in, but posting will be pretty perfunctory through Christmas. We will be posting some holiday art for the next few days so send us links or JPGs...but only through Friday. After that we're gone, baby, gone. Looking forward, we'd like to note that we're already booking advertisements into 2011. The top banner is sold out until April, and there are only scattered openings after that.
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: October 2010
The "Return of Bruce Wayne" and "Brightest Day" brands continued to be the driving force behind DC's periodical output in October. While most of the Batman books were on hiatus, a bunch of one-shots, collectively titled Bruce Wayne: The Road Home, filled the gap. Other October releases include the low-profile miniseries Knight and Squire and JLA/The 99. Consequently, average sales of the DC Universe line remained relatively flat.
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE First looks at Nevermore and The Warriors
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDynamite has provided first looks at several of their March covers. DEAN KOONTZ’S NEVERMORE #1 (of 6) Written by DEAN KOONTZ w/ KEITH CHAMPAGNE Art by LENO CARVALHO Covers by DARICK ROBERTSON (50%), TYLER WALPOLE (25%) & LENO CARVALHO (25%) From the moment they first met, Bobby Godric and Nora Watson were meant only for [...]
Continue Reading51,658 people tried to buy Comic-Con passes today
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTicketLeap, the company tasked with handling the onslaught of ticket requests for San Diego, has analysis of how it went. With numbers. What happens when 51,658 people try to buy 1,000 Comic-Con tickets all at once? TicketLeap’s system stumbled briefly but then recovered to fulfill all the orders successfully. We [...]
Continue ReadingComic-Con International manages to sell 1000 tickets in 60 seconds. UPDATE: Next announcement in January
Well, the test seems to have worked in that Comic-Con International was able to actually sell 1000 tickets. But it all happened so fast. People logging into the TicketLeap site were able, after some hanging, to get in and register for tickets. But according to Jonah Weiland, who joined with others to attempt to buy tickets, within moments, a “Checkout failed: Not enough tickets remain for the event to fulfill your purchase” result came up. So about 1000 tickets were sold in 60 seconds. Given the 250-requests-a-second that David Glanzer referred to yesterday, that's not hard to believe.
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