Comics Media

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...

If you're a faithful Beat reader, you know the past year has been filled with discussions of the economics of running a comics news website. This talk was prompted by an unprecedented run of comics sites closing down or losing key personnel. I summed up a lot of my thoughts back in September, pointing out that the realities of the web make running any kind of independent site very difficult these days.

If you were wondering who the Face of Comics 2016 is, how about Sana Amanat, Marvel's Director of Content and Character Development. In addition...

We've been writing quite a bit in the last year about the slow death of comics media, and one of the reasons is that...

Will any geeks news sites be left standing as 2015 draws to a close? I would have thought io9, the nerd part of the...

For the past few days there has been a kerfuffle in the extremely high profile, glamourous and profitable world of comics journalism. Rather than comment on this hot mess, I'm going to talk about why it happened. And what we an do to improve things.