Gunfire at the Ft. Myers charitable event created a real-life running zombie herd, but the organizers’ security safeguards may have helped prevent further harm. Jeff Trexler
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/4/15: Everybody’s got a snappy new look
New year, new looks for some familiar websites, and some observations about Comic Con that I never revealed until now!
NYCC ’14: God is Disappointed in You, but Shannon Wheeler and Mark Russell have hope
by Nicky Wheeler-Nicholson
Who else but the hipster indie publisher Top Shelf could possibly put out a book entitled God is Disappointed in You. Written by Mark Russell with illustrations by Shannon Wheeler of “Too Much Coffee Man” fame God is Disappointed in You is the Bible boiled down to its essential elements.
Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files: Down Town Coming in Spring 2015
I think we can give Jim Butcher his comic book street cred. It’s one thing for an author to allow adaptions of their work. It’s an entirely different thing when the author co-writes three new adventures for the comics medium. And that’s what Butcher is doing. Todd AllenTodd Allen wears a lot of hats. At […]
The Retailer’s View: Greed, Avarice, Power, and Responsibility
The first superhero comic I paid for with my own money was Sensational Spider-Man #0. It arrived at the pharmacy my mom worked at one cold December before school had let out for winter break. In those days, I would walk to my parent’s work after school and sit in the back reading comics until […]
By Its Cover Special: Image Expo 2014
This will be the last By Its Cover for a few months, so I thought I’d do something special. Today we’re going to look at the Image Expo teaser images shown at SDCC 2014. To be clear, these aren’t necessarily covers. In theory, they’re teaser images intended to get people interested in each series, though half of […]
SDCC ’14: Is Cosplayer Harassment a Real Problem?
How do we solve the problem of cosplayer harassment? Is it even a problem at all, or are we simply dealing with a few isolated incidents? Let’s take a look. Jeff Trexler
SDCC ’14: Inside, Outside–A Visual Recap
by Pam Auditore While at SDCC I could not help but notice the grumbling across Social Media of how little seemed to be coming out of SDCC in real time, and how deeply missed G4 was as a result. For those of us trying to bridge the gap, their seemed to be insufficient band width […]
The Beat Podcasts! – Looking Back at Comic-Con 2014
Recorded at Publishers Weekly, it’s More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald. In this week’s episode, the More to Come Crew discuss 2014’s San Diego Comic-Con including the long-awaited Eisner award vindication of Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, Image Expo […]
SDCC 14: Gene Luen Yang on the First Asian American Superhero, Faith and the East/West Dichotomy
By Kyle Pinion Gene Luen Yang is the writer/artist of critically acclaimed graphic novels like American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints, as well as the writer of Level Up, The Eternal Smile, and adaptations of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Yang’s work has been awarded with multiple Eisners including “Best New Graphic Album” for American Born Chinese […]
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