A few images from the TBG/CBG days of yore
And oh how yore they are. Alan Light, founder of The Buyer's Guide/Comics Buyer's Guide is one of the most organized flickr users we've ever encountered and he has a couple of sets from the history of TBG/CBG that those reminiscing about the now cancelled publication might enjoy.
RIP: Comics Buyer’s Guide (1971-2013)
In a brief, statement, publisher F+W announced the closing of CBG, the Comics Buyer's Guide today. The magazine's 42 year run will end with issue #1699, one shy of the farewell #1700 that the collectors it appealed to would have liked.
The cause of death was the usual suspects:
Arthur Magazine is back with Rick Veitch cover
AUGHTS NOSTALGIA. Arthur Magazine was a FREE culture magazine that defined a lot of the early internet/alternative culture of the early century, before the...
The Path to Becoming a Bestselling Graphic Novel
When I first began writing this column, my intent was to help creators and comics publishers understand the methods to the madness of landing...
The Hawkeye Initiative launches—and genderswapping will never be the same
Over the weekend someone on Tumblr got the great idea of satirizing anatomically unlikely, and overtly sexualized comic book covers by replacing the women...
New tumblr alert: Tom Fowler
Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all.
Things we liked that aren’t on the internet any more
The other day we were polishing our buggy whip collection, cleaning the heads on our VCR player, and updating our RSS reader, getting rid of the dead feeds and nuking categories like "Lost blogs" and "Harry Potter." There were, unsurprisingly, scores and scores of things that have gone away in the 7 or 8 years we've had a google feed, including many that were dear to us.
On the Scene: The Future of Television Conference Goes Digital
On November 16th, a one day conference held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage brought out the best and brightest in Television to talk...
SPOILER! Who are Bleeding Cool’s Top Ten Most Powerful People in Comics?
While we respectfully did not inform you of this at an earlier juncture, we here at The Beat would like to warn you of...
The state of the comics internet on September 4, 2003
If you're a digital hoarder like The Beat you may wake up one day and realize you have some bookmark files that go back 10 years or more. And then you may poke around and you may find something like. Bradley's Almanac - comic book links which was last updated more than nine years ago.
Alan Moore Drops Hot New Single
Comic book writer Alan Moore has dropped a new single today, available through Occupation Records. His first new recording in a while, it shows...
Art 4 Sandy Relief Initiative Launches
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which hit America over the past week and caused blackouts, severe damage, and claimed several lives in the...
