Can superheroes grow up?
Screenwriter Todd Alcott examines the genre:
First, let me make something clear: there is nothing wrong, shameful or second-rate about adolescent fantasies. Adolescent fantasies drive...
Recession Watch: MAD goes quarterly
If you've been following along at home today with our news stream, the announcement that MAD Magazine is going quarterly will not be such...
DC layoffs include Schreck
The Beat has confirmed that DC Senior Editor Bob Schreck was laid off yesterday. Other layoffs, expected in the wake of Warner Brothers' companywide...
If only all superhero comics were this great
Sulk (Vol 1): Bighead and Friends
Grant Morrison, eat your heart out!
TCAF announcements
This official press release brings together all known facts about this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and if the names "Guibert" and "Tatsumi" mean...
What’s up with Nick Gurewich?
It's been nearly a year since Nicholas Gurewich gave up drawingTHE PERRY BIBLE FELLOWSHIP, so what's he been doing? Well, for one thing, he...
SCOTT PILGRIM cast expands
Brian O'Malley announces that most of the cast for the screen adaption of his cult hit SCOTT PILGRIM series has been revealed. In a...
Recession Watch: WB cuts, Top Cow cuts
• On Monday, Rich Johnston reported that Top Cow has laid off two of its top people, VP of Sales and Marketing Mel Caylo...
Oni’s Joe Nozemack on new Diamond policies
While we're sipping soup and all that, Joe Nozemack, publisher at Oni Press, was kind enough to send us some brief thoughts on Diamond's...
Two from Goldman
Two digital comics from Dan Goldman today: YES WE WILL, which imagines the end of Obama's first term in 2012.
PLUS an excerpt from...
Evil Ex-Boyfriends cast grows
More SCOTT PILGRIM casting news. This is really gonna happen! Studmuffin Chris Evans, a Beat favorite despite his role as the Human Torch in...
Hugh Jackman sends email?
AND he knows how to include attachments, in this case, a WOLVERINE cast photo.
