Conventions

It's a busy week for comics event in NYC, with Comic Arts Brooklyn this weekend. Here's the official list of CAB events and some...

It's here! Once again, The Beat has teamed with The Devastator magazine for the annual Indie Exhibitor Convention Mega Survey 2015. This is an...

This weekend it's Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here's a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets. Because there were so many new and exciting books I'm splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!

...and there's more development around McCormick Place! Read on... Curbed Chicago reported on the recent votes by the Chicago Plan Commission approving the Lucas Museum of...

Comikaze Expo puts its best foot forward for 2015.

Convention season is still rolling on, and New Jersey is getting a full-service con on November 21-22 with the New Jersey Comic Expo and they've just announced a special guests in the form of Garth Ennis. Ennis rarely does conventions so this is a good chance to hear him talk about Preacher, The Boys and his new project which is called, unexpectedly, A Train Called Love. And from the cover, above you can see this will be something very unusual, bunnies included.

The Lakes comics best was just held in the beautiful Lakes District of England; it's a collegial show that aims to fit into the...

2016 is almost here! If you're not well into your 2016 convention planning already what are you waiting for! WonderCon as kicked things by...

      The year in indie comics shows isn't over yet! The Short Run Festival in Seattle kicks off with a library talk tonight and continues with...

Even as the dead leaves rattle through the dooryard, turkeys gargle their last calls and pumpkin spice invades our dreams, there are still a few more comic events to come, including, just this weekend, the Locust Moon Festival in Philadelphia (disclosure: an advertiser on this site.) A lively event for a burgeoning local comics scene, the Locust Moon Fest, run by the comic shop of the same name, will have a stellar guest line up this year, including Chris Claremont, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alexa Kitchen, Ronald Wimberly, Craig Thompson and Dean Haspiel, among many others...and now...Mark Beyer!

In the quiet early hours of Saturday in New York Comic-Con's press lounge, Marjorie Liu chatted with The Beat about her new Image title "Monstress" with artist Sana Takeda, systemic racism, the expectations places on creators of color, and the intergenerational trauma of war.

Forbes reports on New York Comic Con's record attendance: If you spent any time at all at New York Comic Con last weekend, you know...