Karen Ellis hit by fire
Karen Ellis, creator of the webcomic PLANET KAREN, is the latest comics creator to face the disaster of a devastating fire, according to a...
DC answers “After WATCHMEN, what’s next?”
In a nod to capitalizing on Google searches if nothing else, DC has unveiled a plan for giving newbies who enjoyed WATCHMEN a place...
Business bits
§ At PW Comics Week, Ada Price surveys s bunch of comics retailers o see how they're doing and the old "cautious optimism" line...
PRESIDENT AWESOME debuts
Is Barack Obama funny? Dean Trippe and Evan Bryce are going to find out as they launch a new webcomic entitled PRESIDENT AWESOME.
President...
A comics shop in France
Fantagraphics' Jason Miles visits Un Regard Moderne, a comics shop in France.
Top GNs in bookstores
And in our final chart based item for the morning, ICv2 has released an adjusted list of the top-selling graphic novels of 2008, according...
It’s beginning to look a lot like WATCHMEN
Living in an urban area as does The Beat, it's been impossible to miss the WATCHMEN posters and neon signs and promotions popping up...
Weidenbaum leaves Viz; Original content on hold?
Tina Anderson at Gynocrat writes that Viz's plan for original manga has been put on hold, following the departure of guiding editor Marc Weidenbaum:
Weidenbaum's...
BODY WORLD wraps up
Congrats to Dash Shaw for finishing his astonishing webcomic BODY WORLD. You can read the whole thing online or wait until the Pantheon version...
Webcomics weekend
This should be fun:
Fleen explains what's going on, although we liked Unshelved's description, as well: The accent will be on hanging out, with some...
