What’s up with that San Diego Convention Center expansion anyway?
The long planned expansion of the San Diego Convention Center—an expansion crucial to keeping the Comic-Con there—is still moving along, as this video explains....
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – SPX 2013
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...
EXCLUSIVE: Complete 2013 New York Comic Con Programming: Sunday October 13
Here's the continuing our rundown of New York Comic-Con's programming in an easily digestible text format, with the schedule for Sunday, with Star Wars...
Whither Wizard World?
As we reported the other day, the Wizard World convention experience is expanding dramatically in 2014, adding seven shows in comics market ranging from huge—Atlanta—to kind of off the beaten path—Sacramento, Tulsa.
Exclusive: Complete NYCC 2013 Programming for Saturday October 12
Saturday, October 12
Here's the continuing our rundown of New York Comic-Con's programming in an easily digestible text format, with the schedule for Saturday....
SPX 2013 Panel Report: The Awesomeness of Influence
By Adam McGovern
One of the final panels of SPX 2013 was about fruitful points of departure. “Paying Tribute: Traditions of Style,” hosted by Joe...
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...
