• Home
  • About
    • The Legend of Stately Beat Manor
    • Pale Green Pants Moment
    • The “Satisfying Chunk” Theory
  • Pick Heidi’s Brains!
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Information on How To Get Into Comics and Survive Once You’re There
    • Master Convention List
    • Tilting at Windmills Archive
    • Videos
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

The Beat

The News Blog of Comics Culture

  • Cartoonists
  • Conventions
  • News
  • Publishers
  • Showbiz
  • Sales Charts
  • Reviews
  • Video Games
You are here: Home / Archives for Conventions / SDCC '09

California Dreaming, Part One

07/24/2009 12:27 am by Zena

California Dreaming, Part One

A special report by Zena Metal Day One of San Diego Comic-Con 2009 has come and gone, and though my heart feels a little bit heavier for not being a part of it, I’ve resigned myself to playing armchair critic in addition to my role as The Beat’s second-string reporter this weekend. Just think of […]

Filed Under: Announcements, Blogosphere, General, SDCC '09

Schreck joins IDW

07/23/2009 2:36 pm by The Beat

Ted Adams’ all-star line-up gained a heavy hitter with the official announcement of Bob Schreck joining IDW as senior editor: Newsarama: Bob, how did this position with IDW come about? Bob Schreck: Soon after I became available on the market again, that is “laid off,” IDW and several other interested parties reached out to me […]

Filed Under: Comings & Goings, IDW, SDCC '09

Camp Twilight packs its tents

07/23/2009 2:32 pm by The Beat

Camp Twilight packs its tents

From our hotel window, we can see that Camp Twilight has folded its tents and moved inside, after a grueling night spent sleeping on concrete and swatting giant cockroaches with shoes. Seriously, boys, could YOU handle spending a night outside fighting bugs and rats just to meet Kevin Smith? Hope the panel is as good […]

Filed Under: SDCC '09

EXCLUSIVE: More BONE on the way from Scholastic

07/23/2009 2:18 pm by The Beat

EXCLUSIVE: More BONE on the way from Scholastic

Our report for PW Daily on Day 0 is up here, with some notes on the ICv2 conference. The big news, via PR, is that there will be more BONE material on the way from Scholastic, written by creator Jeff Smith and Tom Sniegoski and drawn by Smith. Elsewhere, it was announced that Jeff Smith […]

Filed Under: Announcements, SDCC '09

Google announces Comics Themes

07/23/2009 2:10 pm by The Beat

Google announces Comics Themes

iGoogle has just unleashed a huge slate of Comics Themes for users’ home pages. Themes include Vertigo, Zuda, Daniel Clowes, Mutts, Jaime Hernandez, Renee French, Jeffrey Brown, Rumiko Takahashi, Children of the Sea and more. In honor of the day, Jim Lee has the artwork on the Google homepage, which, as he twittered, “It will […]

Filed Under: Announcements, SDCC '09

San Diego DAY 0 report

07/23/2009 5:06 am by The Beat

San Diego DAY 0 report

Beat Action HQ is The new Bayfront Hilton this year, a hotel that it is impossible to gain ingress or egress to unless you are “IN THE KNOW.” Seriously, we’d heard some people telling us it was hard to find the entrance, but we didn’t expect to have to wander around for two minutes before […]

Filed Under: SDCC '09

Day 0 initial report

07/22/2009 3:13 pm by The Beat

Only a little time to check in here, so no time to go to a news roundup. Last night was a peaceful one, as folks straggled into town. But cabdrivers are dreading the oncoming crush. Much talk about the future of the con, as you can imagine. We’re off to the ICv2 conference for the […]

Filed Under: SDCC '09

SD09: Who are the people who really matter?

07/21/2009 11:15 pm by The Beat

SD09: Who are the people who really matter?

As we walk around and read our email and check Twitter tag #sdcc, maybe it’s just because of the explosion of the social networking, but this year, like no other, it seems comics have been left sitting by the side of the road waiting to get a ride to the big show. Of course it […]

Filed Under: SDCC '09

Right now at the show

07/21/2009 10:12 pm by The Beat

Right now at the show

§ One of several posts we’ve seen Twittered purporting to be First Images from Comic Con 09 Floor!! § The authors urged us to blog this post from the SF Weekly on 10 Must See Panels at Comic-Con 2009 and we’ll oblige because several of them are actually about comics! The Beat

Filed Under: SDCC '09

San Diego Day -1

07/21/2009 8:52 pm by The Beat

Been on the ground for a while, following a flight that was jammed with Comic-Con personnel…many of them unknown to me, and working for street teams and book publishers and so on. Well, even The Beat can’t keep track of 125,000 people. By pure chance, our row on the plane included the charming John Nee, […]

Filed Under: Meta, SDCC '09

« Previous Page
Next Page »

HIVEWORKS

Our Sponsors

Load More...
Follow on Instagram

Hot Now!

  • My MCU Rewatch: Guardians of the Galaxy Vols. 1 & 2 – When We Love Too Much
  • Amazon’s 99¢ Marvel Sale Appears To Be Over… But All Kinds of Questions Remain
  • This new Nancy strip is lit – and it’s got people on the internet going crazy
  • SD Comic Fest ’18: Richard Bruning Discusses DC’s Failed Venture into Webcomics, “Zuda Comics”
  • SD Comic Fest ’18: A Spotlight on Karen Berger’s Career at DC’s Vertigo
  • Breaking; Barnes & Noble is adding a kids graphic novel section

Search

CONTACT THE BEAT!!!

Send us news, tips and links!

Join our mailing list!

Sign up here for our very rare and special mailing list!
Text graphic for The Beat's Sales Chart archives
free comics, free comics on the beat, a year of free comics
artists you should know

Categories

Archives

Copyright © 2018 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in