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Comics Journalism is alive!!! Comics Should be Good and Robot 6 alums set up new shops

10/03/2016 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Comics Journalism is alive!!! Comics Should be Good and Robot 6 alums set up new shops

The revamed CBR.com phasing out its bloggy subsites, but a lot of the writers involved still have blogging in their blood. This is a calling and a curse you see. Kind of like beng a superhero. The Comics Should Be Good crew have announced they are launching their own site, Atomic Junk Shop, with Greg […]

Filed Under: Comics Media, News Tagged With: atomic junk shop, comics should be good, corey blake, greg burgas, greg hatcher, jim macquarrie, jk parkin, smash pages

Redesigns, rebranding sweep over the comics media landscape: who will survive?

09/08/2016 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Redesigns, rebranding sweep over the comics media landscape: who will survive?

Old New While I was running around last week, Newsarama rolled out its redesign, which isn’t really that different from the old site, as you can see above. Bigger pictures, more modern look. TBH, the navigation is actually a little better, so this gets the IMPROVED! rating from us. The funny symbol was just the […]

Filed Under: Comics Media, Meta Tagged With: black girl nerds, cbr.com, comics vine, comicsbook.com, death of all media, I want a headphone jack, newasrama

Newsarama is also getting a redesign and a new, mysterious logo…comics industry teetering on the brink

08/29/2016 5:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Newsarama is also getting a redesign and a new, mysterious logo…comics industry teetering on the brink

It seems that in response to long time rival CBR.com rebranding and getting a redesign and new logo, Newsarama.com is also getting a makeover starting with t anew logo, seen above. Newsarama will not be updating until Tuesday morning, August 30th, but please come back then for a little newness… And keep an eye on […]

Filed Under: Comics Media Tagged With: Newsarama

CBR.com has new design, rebrand, no blogs

08/25/2016 9:01 am by Heidi MacDonald

CBR.com has new design, rebrand, no blogs

Oh speaking of comics media consolidation, which we do weekly here at Stately Beat Manor, comicbookresources.com, the longest running and biggest site about comics, has rebranded as cbr.com, and with a complete redesign. For you nostalgics out there, I saved a screen shot of the old site. CBR was purchased by Valnet back in April, […]

Filed Under: Comics Media Tagged With: cbr.com, robot 6

Great comics website consolidation claims another victim: Panels

08/23/2016 11:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Great comics website consolidation claims another victim: Panels

This one hurts. Panels.net a wonderful site about comics that focused mostly on graphic novels, representation and the kind of books that are the future of the medium, with the tagline “Read comics. Be Happy” will fold into parent site Book Riot, editor Swapna Krishna reports. As many of you may know, Panels is the […]

Filed Under: Comics Media Tagged With: panels

Comics media watch: De Blieck debuts PipelineComics.com and more on Tilting at Windmills

08/05/2016 10:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Comics media watch: De Blieck debuts PipelineComics.com and more on Tilting at Windmills

In case you missed it, yesterday retailer Brian Hibbs’ long running Tilting at Windmills column found a new home here at The Beat after a long run at Comic Book Resources.

Augie De Blieck Jr’s long running Pipeline column has also moved: the regular column will run at Comicbook.com and he’s just launched his own site Pipeline Comics:

Filed Under: Comics Media Tagged With: augie de blieck

SDCC ’16: State-of-the-State: The New Comics Journalism Panel

07/22/2016 3:00 pm by Beat Staff

SDCC ’16: State-of-the-State: The New Comics Journalism Panel

by Nancy Powell The Comics Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald moderated a Thursday evening panel discussion on the state-of-state of comics journalism, featuring Megan Purdy of Women Write About Comics, Brett Schenker of Graphic Policy and Mark Stack of Comics Bulletin. What they had to say about the challenges of writing against the backdrop of media […]

Filed Under: Comics Media, SDCC '16 Tagged With: #SDCC2016, brett schenker, comics journalism, Heidi MacDonald, mark stack, megan purdy

Comics blog death watch: The Hooded Utilitarian goes into the long hiatus of unknown length

07/20/2016 12:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Comics blog death watch: The Hooded Utilitarian goes into the long hiatus of unknown length

Here’s a brief burst of non SDCC news: Noah Berlatsky announced that The Hooded Utilitarian blog is going on hiatus: Hey all. I wanted to tell you that HU is going on semi-hiatus, at least for the summer, and possibly for good. We’ll see what happens, but my family is moving in the next couple […]

Filed Under: Comics Media Tagged With: Comics Media, hooded utilitarian

Comics Journalism: You get what you pay for

06/10/2016 10:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Comics Journalism: You get what you pay for

We lost another one yesterday. David Harper of the oft-linked to and discussed Sktchd sitecalled it quits after a year of think pieces, surveys, podcasts and charts. He’ll continue doing his podcast after a break for the warm Alaskan summer, but those long investigations are a thing of the past. The reasons were the usual: burnout from writing about what you love.

Filed Under: Comics Media, Meta Tagged With: Comics Media, Crowdfunding, Patreon

Pages, Sunny Singh and The Kickstarter Underdog: How I plan to fund my first comic

03/24/2016 4:00 pm by Beat Staff

Pages, Sunny Singh and The Kickstarter Underdog: How I plan to fund my first comic

Who am I? Nobody important. Well, as far as the Independent Comic Book scene is concerned. Go ahead. Google Sunny Singh. You won’t see a thing about Comics. Maybe some banging Punjabi music. But that’s as far as your search for me goes.

Filed Under: Comics Media, Commentary, Kickstarter, Top News Tagged With: How To, pages, self-publishing, sunny singh, using social media for kickstarter

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