Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/3/17: RX Comics in Vancouver is closing at the end of...
§ Nice Art: François Vigneault made a downloadable, printable calendar for 2017 in both French and English. I desperately need to print this out...
Terror comes to Bleeding Cool
No, really.
Jude Terror, formerly of the satirical comics news site The Outhouse, is joining Bleeding Cool as a staff writer. Rich Johnston made the...
Comics Journalism is alive!!! Pt II: Akhtar kickstarts new zine, Critical Chips
Not only is comics blogging still alive, but so is PRINT comics criticism! Zainab Akhtar, formerly of Comics & Cola and now of Short...
Comics Journalism is alive!!! Comics Should be Good and Robot 6 alums set up...
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...
Redesigns, rebranding sweep over the comics media landscape: who will survive?
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...
Newsarama is also getting a redesign and a new, mysterious logo…comics industry teetering on...
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...
CBR.com has new design, rebrand, no blogs
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,...
Great comics website consolidation claims another victim: Panels
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...
Comics media watch: De Blieck debuts PipelineComics.com and more on Tilting at Windmills
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:
SDCC ’16: State-of-the-State: The New Comics Journalism Panel
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...
Comics blog death watch: The Hooded Utilitarian goes into the long hiatus of unknown...
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...
Comics Journalism: You get what you pay for
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.
