Comics Media

The revamed CBR.com phasing out its bloggy subsites, but a lot of the writers involved still have blogging in their blood. This is a...

Old New While I was running around last week, Newsarama rolled out its redesign, which isn't really that different from the old site, as you can...

It seems that in response to long time rival CBR.com rebranding and getting a redesign and new logo, Newsarama.com is also getting a makeover...

Oh speaking of comics media consolidation, which we do weekly here at Stately Beat Manor, comicbookresources.com, the longest running and biggest site about comics,...

This one hurts. Panels.net a wonderful site about comics that focused mostly on graphic novels, representation and the kind of books that are the...

In case you missed it, yesterday retailer Brian Hibbs' long running Tilting at Windmills column found a new home here at The Beat after a long run at Comic Book Resources. Augie De Blieck Jr's long running Pipeline column has also moved: the regular column will run at Comicbook.com and he's just launched his own site Pipeline Comics:

by Nancy Powell The Comics Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald moderated a Thursday evening panel discussion on the state-of-state of comics journalism, featuring Megan Purdy of...

Here's a brief burst of non SDCC news: Noah Berlatsky announced that The Hooded Utilitarian blog is going on hiatus: Hey all. I wanted to...

We lost another one yesterday. David Harper of the oft-linked to and discussed Sktchd sitecalled it quits after a year of think pieces, surveys, podcasts and charts. He'll continue doing his podcast after a break for the warm Alaskan summer, but those long investigations are a thing of the past. The reasons were the usual: burnout from writing about what you love.

Who am I? Nobody important. Well, as far as the Independent Comic Book scene is concerned. Go ahead. Google Sunny Singh. You won't see a thing about Comics. Maybe some banging Punjabi music. But that's as far as your search for me goes.

Yesterday Zainab Akhtar announced she was shutting down her Eisner-nominated website Comics & Cola. The reason was not the usual ones — no money in it, moving on, life changes. It was something much more troubling and dangerous.

CORRECTION: In all the excitement I managed to forget the news that MTV has aquihired most of the ex Grantland staff. So clearly they...