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ZombiCon Shooting – 1 Dead, 4 Wounded

10/18/2015 12:34 pm by Jeff Trexler

ZombiCon Shooting – 1 Dead, 4 Wounded

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

Filed Under: Breaking News, Comics, Conventions, Culture, Helloween!, Image, Legal Matters, SDCC '14, Sociology, The Legal View, Top Comics, Top News Tagged With: crowds, guns, shootings, Walking Dead, ZombiCon

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/4/15: Everybody’s got a snappy new look

01/05/2015 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

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!

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: SDCC '14, Top News

NYCC ’14: God is Disappointed in You, but Shannon Wheeler and Mark Russell have hope

10/22/2014 1:00 pm by Beat Staff

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.

Filed Under: SDCC '14, Top News, Top Shelf Tagged With: mark russell, nicky wheeler-nicholson, NYCC '14, Shannon Wheeler, Top Shelf

Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files: Down Town Coming in Spring 2015

10/09/2014 12:00 pm by Todd Allen

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 […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, Comings & Goings, Dynamite, HYPE!, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: Dresden Files, Jim Butcher, NYCC'14

The Retailer’s View: Greed, Avarice, Power, and Responsibility

08/14/2014 11:29 am by Brandon Schatz & Danica LeBlanc

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 […]

Filed Under: Comics, Commentary, Conventions, Retailing & Marketing, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: SDCC '14, The Retailer's View

By Its Cover Special: Image Expo 2014

08/11/2014 10:00 am by Kate Willaert

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 […]

Filed Under: Art, Comics, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: Art, By Its Cover, Comics, SDCC '14, Top News

SDCC ’14: Is Cosplayer Harassment a Real Problem?

08/09/2014 12:00 pm by Jeff Trexler

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

Filed Under: Conventions, Culture, Legal Matters, News, SDCC '14, The Legal View, Top News Tagged With: ethics, Kant, law, Legal, SDCC '14, Sex, sexual harassment, Top News, women

SDCC ’14: Inside, Outside–A Visual Recap

08/05/2014 12:36 pm by Beat Staff

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 […]

Filed Under: Dark Horse, Fashion, Photos, SDCC '14, Television, Top News Tagged With: SDCC '14

The Beat Podcasts! – Looking Back at Comic-Con 2014

08/04/2014 12:21 pm by Kate Fitzsimons

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 […]

Filed Under: Culture, Image, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: Gilbert Hernandez, Image Expo, Jaime Hernandez, more to come podcast, Podcasts, SDCC '14

SDCC 14: Gene Luen Yang on the First Asian American Superhero, Faith and the East/West Dichotomy

08/04/2014 10:25 am by Beat Staff

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 […]

Filed Under: Breaking News, First Second, SDCC '14, Top News Tagged With: American Born Chinese, Boxers & Saints, First Second, Gene Yuen Lang, SDCC '14, Sonny Liew, The Shadow Hero

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