Graphic novels sales rose 12% in bookstores in 2016 – the only adult fiction...
Publishers Weekly has an overview of bookstore sales in 2016, via Bookscan, and print sales edged up 3.3%, the third year of growth.
The...
Warren Ellis: the “horrible little book” Karnak is now finished
Warren Ellis's latest newsletter is its usual chatty and information packed self.
A year of free comics: Batman Black & White by Gaiman, Bolland, Timm, etc.
Get five classic Batman stories by Neil Gaiman, Simon Bisley, Brian Bolland, Klaus Janson, Ted McKeever and Bruce Timm to read for free.
A year of free comics: Anna Archie Bongiovanni’s Grease Bats
You wouldn't necessarily expect the author of the moody, haunting fantasy comic Out of Hollow Water to be a cracking good comedic cartoonist, but...
Injustice 2 Game Gets Release Date?
While Injustice 2 developer NetherRealm (Mortal Kombat) had been almost radio silent since SDCC, today that silence was broken when creative lead Ed Boon himself...
Marvel teases a SECRET EMPIRE for Steve Rogers, Captain America in 2017
Marvel has just revealed a brand new teaser with the words SECRET EMPIRE and 2017. Due to the teaser's inclusion of a specific shield,...
Marvel fans livid after publisher replaces “Free Digital Copy” incentive
Today, Marvel announced that they would be discontinuing the "free digital copy" incentive that currently runs through their single issue comics. In its place,...
A year of free comics: Polly Guo’s Gawain’s Girlfriend and the Green Knight will...
Polly Guo is a storyboard artist for Adventure Time, Dreamworks and various well regarded animated shorts.
She made a comic called Gawain's Girlfriend and the Green Knight that is one of the best comics I have ever read
Gene Yang and the March Trilogy team are voted the 2016 Comics Industry People...
For the sixth year in a row, The Beat is proud to present the Comics Industry Person of the Year, as chosen by voters in our annual creator survey: Gene Luen Yang. The the Team of the year: Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey 2017 Edition Part 4: What inspires comics creators (plus...
And here's the fourth and final part of our creator survey, where we look at what inspires creators, what they're working on and what 2017 may being. Thanks to everyone who participated - and you'll fine a bunch of previews of work from Legend of Korra to Czap Books to Thanos.
Marv Wolfman Returns to his Co-Creation in BULLSEYE #1
We already knew that Marvel comics has an upcoming limited Bullseye series putting the spotlight on some of the Daredevil supporting cast members dubbed...
ACO and Robinson prime Nick Fury Jr. For his First-Ever ongoing series with Steranko-Influenced...
Marvel has just announced via a Newsarama interview that author James Robinson (Fantastic Four) and artist ACO (Midnighter) are working on a brand new...














