EXCLUSIVE: Complete 2013 New York Comic Con Programming: Friday October 11
Continuing our rundown of New York Comic-Con's programming in an easily digestible text format, here's the schedule for Friday, with everything from Ranma 1/2...
Wizard World adds seven cities including Tulsa, Sacramento, and San Antonio
Just how many places can Norman Reedus be in at once?
As we've been mentioning here time and time again at the Beat, comic cons...
EXCLUSIVE: 2013 New York Comic Con Programming: Thursday October 10
New York Comic Con has just released its panels and screenings schedule. But as in past year's, it is presented in a database...
SPX 2013: 600 cartoonists walk into a bar…
That is not a joke. It is definitely not a joke. With the SPX floor increased by a third to encompass the whole exhibition...
New, bigger SPX debuts with 600 exhibitors
The 2013 edition of SPX has already kicked off with a radically enlarged show floor—the number of tables has been raised to 280, meaning...
Stripped: Melinda Gebbie – Lost Girls, Pornography & Censorship
Kicking off the second round of Stripped events at the Edinburgh International Book Festival came the legendary and fabulous Melinda Gebbie, known for her...
I’m giving a talk at the Library of Congress on Friday…
....so come on down!
Seriously...no pressure.
WHY am I giving a talk? Because I donated a bunch of my mini-comics from the 90s on to...
First Salt Lake City con sells out, calls in fire marshals
It is an old story by now: con sells, out, fire marshals get antsy and shuts down entrance for a while. What's newish...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – Exit the Batwoman… Creators
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
HYPE ALERT: Baltimore Comic-Con, Seth Goldman and Honest Tea
First off, Baltimore Comic-Con is THIS WEEKEND. This is one of the most beloved events on the comics circuit and guests include:
Joe Hill, Neal...
NYCC 13: New York Comic Con adds RFID for badges—but you might win a...
If you've noticed that this year it's been even tougher than usual to get a badge to New York Comic Con, you were't just...
Sparkplug announces Reich #10 and convention schedule
A few newsy notes from Sparkplug Books just entered our inbox. First off, issue #10 of Elijah Brubaker's Reich is on its way—it's a stylized biography of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich.
