§ In the biz we call this “Hell Week” because you have to get everything done for con in JUST ONE WEEK. Emails at 1 am. Emails at 6 am. Corrections. Schedules. Powerpoints. 15 minutes of hold music. Caffeine, and lots of it. And, the ritual posting of the “San Diego Horror” gif from The […]
MARCH: BOOK THREE wins big at the Annual Glyph Awards
Last Night, the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention presented the Annual Glyph awards. The award was held in Philadelphia at TECH Freire Charter School in a departure from its typical venue at the African American History Museum of Philadelphia. The awards began with a bang as writer Brandon Easton and artists Tony Vargas and […]
Retrospective Review: Pursuing Justice with ‘The Silence of Our Friends’
STORY: MARK LONG & JIM DEMONAKOS ART: NATE POWELL PUBLISHER: FIRST SECOND In the Bible, from the Book of Leviticus particularly, there is a particularly haunting yet aspirational line that reads: “You will not stand idly by the blood of your fellow” (19:16). It is a juxtaposing phrase, placed among a variety of dictums towards leading […]
March will be on the NY Times regular trade paperback bestseller list next week
Congratulations @repjohnlewis, @andrewaydin, and @Nate_Powell_Art; March Bk 1 will have its 1st wk on the NYT paperback non-fic list Feb. 12 — Rebecca Sherman (@RebeccAgent) February 1, 2017 According to this tweet agent Rebecca Sherman who has access to early lists, no doubt. As you may recall, last week controversy erupted when it […]
Diamond: March Trilogy Still Available
Just a quick note: Diamond has an advisory up that the slipcased March trilogy edition is still available from them, although it’s sold out at Amazon. (March Book Three is still available there.) As we reported earlier, controversy has sent sales of the book soaring with sell outs in comic shops, bookstores and online but Diamond […]
The Beat’s Best Comics of 2016
Featuring Beat staff members and special contributions from some of the best cartoonists of the year. It was a wild year but there were some good comics to keep us entertained and thinking.
Bitch Planet and March win first Virginia Library Association Diversity Award
The Virginia LIbrary Association (VLA) has announced the winners of their first ever Graphic Novel Diversity Awards. The prize celebrates diversity in comics form, and for the first year, ten publishers submitted 22 titles (published in 2015) in two categories: Adult and Youth. Winner receives $500 from the VLA Diversity and Inclusion Forum, and will be […]
SDCC ’16: We Shall Overcome – “March” with John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell
By Nancy Powell The line outside Room 23ABC at 9:20 AM Saturday morning was already two deep before staff let people filter into the room nearly half an hour later. School children – Muslims in burqas, black, white, Asian, Hispanic — had taken up many of the early spots. Their roles would be explained later. Regular attendees, […]
Civil Rights Saga MARCH is becoming an animated series
Announced by Charleston Immersive & Interactive Media today, the production company has optioned Top Shelf’s March for adaptation into an animated series, along with developing related interactive educational products. No release date was announced at this time. The March series, which currently set as a trilogy, is penned by Civil Rights Icon, Congressman John Lewis, […]
Lewis, Aydin, and Powell’s March featured on CBS This Morning
Maybe the biggest highlight of a fairly eventful San Diego Comic Con was the moment when Congressman John Lewis cosplayed as himself, donning the trench coat and backpack he wore to march for voting rights across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, 50 years ago. He led a touching children’s march through the halls of […]
