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#Valiantsummit wrap up: staying the course

05/17/2016 4:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

#Valiantsummit wrap up: staying the course

You’ve seen the news and art, but a brief report from the actual Valiant Summit. This was a briskly run and produced event; given that it was in a comedy theater at 2 in the afternoon there was a decent turnout who applauded enthusiastically. EIC Warren Simons and publisher Dinesh Shamdasani spoke about the general […]

Filed Under: News, Valiant Tagged With: News, Valiant, ValiantSummit

A giant statue of Deadpool is touring Japan

05/09/2016 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

A giant statue of Deadpool is touring Japan

Japan loves giant statues. I was down on Japan a few items ago, but I do support their love of giant statues. And they’ve just unveiled a 23 foot long statue of Deadpool, at his come hither best.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Deadpool, giant statues, News, things that are awesome

Black Comics Month: Clusterf@#K

02/02/2016 5:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Black Comics Month: Clusterf@#K

I’m a firm believer that we shouldn’t celebrate black history or women’s history only one month a year, but 365 days (or even 366 days) a year. However Black History Month has given rise to Black Comics Month and a a website covering all kinds of comics. By special arrangement with that site’s mastermind, Miz […]

Filed Under: Diversity, News Tagged With: #blackcomicsmonth, clusterf@#k, jon parrish, News

Civil War 2 will include Marvel’s quarterly character death

01/11/2016 5:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Civil War 2 will include Marvel’s quarterly character death

A Daily News writer was privy to the most recent Marvel retreat where the events of Civil War 2 were hashed out, and while a Iron Man Captain Marvel conflict was revealed, the sausage making got very explicit, as the group mulled over who to kill off. After hours of occasionally heated debate, Bendis and […]

Filed Under: Marvel, News Tagged With: #Marvel, News

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two

01/08/2016 5:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two

And here’s the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of these. Also, thanks to such a wide ranging  cross section of this amazing industry we live and work in for taking to time to share their thoughts with us all. Save […]

Filed Under: Cartoonists, News Tagged With: 2016 creator survey, Alex Lu, ben towle, Cartoonists, chris butcher, christiasn beranek, david brothers, eric peyron, gary tyrell, joan hilty, kat kan, Kieron Gillen, mike vosburg, News, Nick Abadzis, Roy Thomas, sean wiliams, xavier lancel, yuuko koyama, zack davisson

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity

01/07/2016 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity

Here’s the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven’t noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.

Filed Under: Cartoonists, News Tagged With: Amy Chu, brandon easdton, Cartoonists, creators survey 23016, David Gallaher, david macho, Hope Larson, jim ottaviani, Joe Harris, joh nlind, jt yost, Julia Wertz, Kate Beaton, keith jones, lea seidman hernandez, mimi pond, News, patrick crotty, sean ford, Stuart Moore, Todd Allen

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 2: Previews and News galore

01/06/2016 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 2: Previews and News galore

Here’s the second part of our annual creator survey, and this time out we have some exclusive peeks at some new projects for 2016, as well as what might be hit of something cool to happen…but you’ll have to read everything figure out what that is.

Thanks to all for taking the time to participate in this survey especially during the busy holiday time. You can find Part 1 here.

Filed Under: Cartoonists, News Tagged With: 2016 creator survey, Cartoonists, claire bretecher, derf, gnzeer, james romberger, james sturm, jimmie palmiotti, Jimmie Robinson, kickliy, neil kleid, News, Shaenon K. Garrity, steve morris, thomas ragon, Tom Kaczynski

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 1: What will be the biggest story of 2016?

01/05/2016 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 1: What will be the biggest story of 2016?

It’s time for our annual look at what’s happening in comics and where creators see things going and what impacted them in the past year. This time as always we have a wide range swath of creators, publishers and retailers, with all kinds of opinions. And if you look closely you’ll see lots of news […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: andrew farago, anne bongiovanni, anne ishii, Chris Ryall, cliff biggers, ed catto, eric reynolds, Jeffrey Brown, john p green, kelly fitzpatrick, kelly thompson, kwanzaa johnson, Lara Antal, marinaomi, News, rick lowell, sarah winfred searle, Trina Robbins, Van Jenson, year end survey 2016

Want to learn about comics? Santoro and Shutz are offering classes

12/21/2015 3:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Want to learn about comics? Santoro and Shutz are offering classes

A few of preemptive notes about starting some education classes in 2016, since many of you will be beginning a new course. § Frank Santoro’s online comics making course is starting up again in 2016. His course is $500 for eight weeks, but if you apply before cChristmas you get $100 off. A good deal. […]

Filed Under: News Tagged With: comics education, diana schutz, Frank Santoro, News

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/16/15: SBI Comics launches from Community creator

12/17/2015 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 12/16/15: SBI Comics launches from Community creator

Things are slowing down for the holidays. Even at Stately Beat Manor. Those presents won’t buy themselves. But news of a new comics company and many best of lists are here for you to peruse in your spare time.

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits, News Tagged With: News

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