Comics Media

It's July 1st, meaning it's the day we celebrate the Beat's birthday and today marks 11 years of daily comics news! It's a very...

That nerd-themed SVOD (subscription video on demand) service from Comic-Con/Lionsgate we told you about a while ago, just got an EVP/GM in the form of Seth Laderman, formerly of Legendary and Nerdist. This new service will offer programming themed to Comic-con attendees as well as archival footage from CCI's library. Laderman was instrumental in growing the Nerdist brand via its podcast network and on YouTube, as well as programming such as All Star Celebrity Bowling, Magic Meltdown, The Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Live Show and the upcoming reboot of Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. At Legendary he ran operations and oversaw content acquisition and development for Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls at the Party and Felicia Day’s Geek & Sundry and worked with Spotify, Twtter and Xbox. So, It's safe to say that he knows the terrain.

In the past 12 months, Newsarama, The Outhouse, Comics Alliance, Multiversity and Broken Frontier have all had changes at the top, with various editors...

Many people ask me, "Why don't you do a podcast?" and I reply, "I do!" It's called More to Come and it's produced by Publishers Weekly. This week, I chat with Matt Hawkins, president and coo of Top Cow. Matt is more than just an inimitable Facebook poster (if you've read his stories about standing in line at the grocery store, you know what I mean.) He's also an industry veteran who's seen the highest highs and the lowest lows, and in this talk he dishes on the early days of Image and much more.

Fans of the Sandman scribe rejoice: Starz announced today that they have officially green lit an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's New York Times bestselling novel American Gods.

The Great 2015 Comics Site Editor-in-Chief Mass Step Down continues as Broken Frontier, a long running comics news and culture site, has announced that Andy Oliver will takes over the site from Frederik Hautain, who held the position since the site's launch in 2002. Oliver was previously Managing Editor, and they are seeking candidates for that position now. Check out the details here or send an application to joinus@brokenfrontier.com. Like every job in comics journalism, it is an unpaid position.

As reported last week, The Nib, the political comics site edited by Matt Bors and run by Medium, is undergoing some changes, and on...

The Nib is the best comics site out there, with new comics every day from some of the greatest cartoonists working. Edited by Matt Bors, it's a model of how a comics site can be sharply observent and politically relevant, and yet still be good comics overal, with both editorial cartoons—Tis Modern World, Tom the Dancing Bug, Slowpoke, Bors own strip—and new work by folks like Emily Flake, Lisa Hanawalt, R Stevens, Ted Rall, Brian McFadden, Erika Moen, Shannon Wheeler and more more more. A whole generation of incisive non-fiction cartoonists, given a paying platform to work for. Unfortunately, it's not going to be around in the same form any more.

The priceless Deb Aoki has created yet another masterful Storify called Twitter for Comics Creators - Do's & Don'ts and rather than embed here, it just go read it. But here's the nut graph:

A few things going on out there in nerd media land. § Tripwire Magazine has relaunched their website. Spo far mostly Mad Max, which...

Audi produced this short comedy advertisement with Stan Lee teaching how to do what he does best: appear in cameos in Marvel films. The short, directed by Kevin Smith with appearances by Smith, Jason Mewes, Michael Rooker, Tara Reid and, poignantly, Lou Ferrigno, sort of sums up where we're at as a culture right now. “I’ve studied a lot of acting methods,” Rooker says in the short. “I’ve studied the Stanislavski method, the method method, but I’ve never studied anything like the Stan Lee method.

Netfix and Marvel's first foray into comic book scripted series crackles with energy and hits all the right notes with series pilot "Into the RIng"