The Daily Cross Hatch is on hiatus
February 1st has yet ANOTHER comics birthday—the indie comics-focused blog The Daily Cross Hatch was five years old this week. However, owner Brian Heater was back with less-happy news. Due to his heavy workload editing the massively popular Engadget blog, Daily Cross Hatch is on hiatus: This is the part where I explain what’s going on.
Continue ReadingBookmark: Dylan Williams Reporter
A group blog devoted to memories of the much missed publisher. Above, Jason T. Miles and Williams talk comics late into an SPX night while Tom Neely tries to sleep.
Continue Reading2006 Boilerplate for All Future Comics Articles still holds true
While we were tidying up, we chanced upon the old archives of Beat articles no longer on the Internet, including one linking to Edward Champion's Boilerplate for All Future Comics Articles. It's as true today as it was in 2006!
Continue ReadingTokyopop back….sorta, teamed with GeekChicDaily
GeekChicDaily, the daily nerd news email, is launching an edition for New York, and also teaming with the Tokyopop brand for a special edition spotlighting Japanese culture trends and news. The New York edition will cover the Big Apple's lively offerings in geek culture, following localized versions for LA and a national edition. GeekChicDaily also added Microsoft's Mich Mathews to its board of directors.
Continue ReadingThe Beat wins Shel Dorf Award for Best Comics Blogger!
The Shel Dorf awards were given out this weekend at the Detroit Fanfare con, and while the complete winner list has not been posted anywhere we could find, we know we won for Best Comics Blogger! Woot! The competition was tough and to have prevailed is really humbling and gratifying. We don't know who exactly voted on these wards, but whoever did -- thank you so much.
Continue ReadingBrian Chippendale on JUSTICE LEAGUE #1
Do we need to even tell you how great this is? Imagine Stephen Malkmus analyzing the April 1995 issue of Wizard Magazine.
Continue ReadingNew website Spandexless launches
A new website focusing on reviews of non-superhero comics has just launched, Spandexless. It's fronted by frequent PW Comics World writer Beth Scorzato, who was down at SPX along with her partner Alex Jarvis, and they seemed to be covering the show with tons of enthusiasm. It's a nice looking website -- bookmark!
Continue ReadingGuest review: Champion! magazine
by Matt Demers-- The other day, The Beat covered the launch of Champion!, a new iPad-only magazine that's being staffed by a number of former Wizard personnel. As a huge fan of the latter, I decided to load up the free preview issue and give it a look. Inside, I was treated to a number of different features, including interviews with Jim Lee and Will Friedle, spotlights on toys and t-shirts and a number of off-beat features (such as comic creators' first books) that Wizard was famous for. However, capturing the spirit of the old magazine isn't the only good thing that Champion! is managing to pull off.
Continue ReadingChampion! Magazine debuts for iPad from many ex-Wizard staffers
Some ex-Wizard staffers have found some friends and launched an iPad magazine about pop culture
Continue ReadingMust Read: Thoughts on the comics life
Unless you have been living under a rock, you've seen Tom Spurgeon's essay on facing a life threatening illness, an illness which led to his unexpected blogging absence earlier this summer, and which still affects him, although he's recovering. Since looking death in the face usually prompts some inventory of life, Spurgeon does just that in an astonishing essay that covers his life and his life in comics, if there is a difference. That a man fighting for his life should spend that time thinking about the Green Lantern movie is both ridiculous and awesome -- Tom's thoughts on why we chose the comics life and why we stay there speak for me about 80% of the time. It's not that we have on choice, but rather why would we WANT to leave a field that is full of such honest, unpretentious work and creative, life-loving people?
Continue ReadingThe Comics Reporter has returned
Since going on a nearly month long hiatus from blogging, Tom Spurgeon has left indie comics readers in serious withdrawal from golden age comics reprints, indie comics art dumps, old photos of cartoonists doing things, and of course, insightful commentary. Luckily as of today Tom is back to blogging today, with a San Diego preview, and a look at why it may have been time for the Xeric to go. Sadly, the elements that caused the hiatus have also prevented him from making the San Diego trip, but we're sure that he'll give better coverage from afar than most of us could do from the ground.
Continue ReadingWolk’s Dredd Reckoning
Douglas Wolk is blogging about Judge Dredd . The author of "Reading Comics," has presented us with several specialized comics blogs in the past -- like his amazing 52 Pickup analyzing all the metadata of DC's 52 -- but now he's wading right in to the world of the ultimate law, and one of Britain's most popular native characters:
Continue ReadingPreview: Tripwire #55
TRIPWIRE, edited by Joel Meadow is an excellent magazine about comics and their satellites. Like most paper-based periodicals, it's found a new distribution method as a e-magazine -- but you can still order the ppaer version from Diamond. Meadows' blog has a preview and come highlights:
Continue ReadingKittens or Keffiyehs? The truth behind Superman #712
Did Rich Johnston get burned on one of the most outrageous stories of the month? Or is DC really afraid of Superman saving kittens?
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