Meeting Informs San Diego Comic Fest to Change Date and Venue: Will It Affect...
Said to be “The Friendly, Intimate Comic Con Experience,” San Diego Comic Fest held a volunteer meeting on Sunday afternoon at the Pacific Beach...
Alex Segura Promoted to Co-President at Archie
Congratulations to Alex Segura. The Beat has obtained verbal confirmation of Alex's promotion to Co-President of Archie Comics.
Alex was previously doing double duty as...
Comings and Goings: Diamond Books reorganizes; Brown and Stone on the move
§ Some pretty big news out of Diamond: Diamond Book Distributors has reorganized, with Josh Hayes, the new EVP in charge. Kuo-Yu Liang, who founded this...
Valiant adds Charlotte Greenbaum as associate editor
Valiant has hired Charlotte Greenbaum, formerly of Double Take, as an associate editor where she'll help EIC Warren Simons herd along a passel of...
Melody Reed joins CXC as operations manager
After a world-scouring search, Melody Reed has been named the operations manager of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus (CXC) and will be responsible for business operations of...
Two senior Marvel execs depart in one of those periodic purges
At San Diego the hottest barroom chatter was when and who there would be top exec removed at Marvel. And today we have reports...
Who’s the new Batman Group Editor? It could be YOU!
When DC Group. Editor Mark Doyle was bumped upstairs to run Young Animal and the remnants of Vertigo, the big question bussing through the...
SDCC ’17: What’s in Our Bags? A Look into a Veteran’s Walkaround Gear
We at The Beat are no strangers to conventions. Years of experience have taught us what is and is not necessary to take on...
Butcher ankles the Beguiling to become Viz Editor-at-Large
If you follow TCAF showrunner and comics industry savant Chris Butcher on twitter yuo know he's always in Japan. Always! IS it just to...
Dept. of Funny Business: Bill Morrison is named new Executive Editor of Mad Magazine
Ending a suspenseful watch that lasted a few months, the white smoke has finally risen from DC Entertainment, signaling the election of a new pope of humor: Bill Morrison will be the new executive editor of Mad Magazine when it moves westward later this year.
Chris D’Lando lands at ReedPOP to work on C2E2
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Former Marvel spokesperson Chris D'Lando didn't take too long to find a new gig. As he tweeted yesterday, he's joined the ReedPOP team; ReedPop...
Jerbs in comics: DC, Oni, Marvel, openings for May 2017
Some job listings for those interested in comics careers; full details in links.
Oni is hiring an Associate Editor!
Oni Press, Inc., is the premier comic book...
