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Here’s the fourth part of my interview with the late Steve Moore, with more to follow. The first, second, and third parts are already...

I was asked not too long ago what was something I was proud of writing on The Beat, and it's actually something I didn't write. This post by political communications specialist Brett Schenker entitled Market Research Says 46.67% of Comic Fans are Female from February, was pretty groundbreaking. Why am I mentioning a six month old post? Well, people continue to quote it when they look for demographic information on comics readership, and it represents a solid benchmark in an area where there is shockingly little research. Schenker's research via Facebook, which he's graciously presented here, has been quoted in numerous articles and yesterday it was referenced in this Time.Com piece on the new female Thor. I tweeted it again and it got a whole new set of reactions on twitter from people who hadn't seen it the first time.

On International Workers' Day, the 1st of May, Jonathan Cape published Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, the second graphic novel written by Mary Talbot, a semi-fictionalised...

As mentioned earlier this week, The Beat is 10 years old this month! What was it like in the primitive days of 2004? Thanks to the wonders of digital archiving we can tell you! We can even take you back to San Diego 2004 for a look at skinnier but not necessarily better versions of many Beat favorites. So step with us behind the veils of time for....

  What a great idea for a comic programming focus: this year's Small PressE Expo, to be held September 13-14 in Bethesda, MD, will spotlight...

Last week I told you about The Forgotten Man, a graphic novel adaptation of Amity Shlaes' history of the Great Depression by Chuck Dixon...

Fans of X-men: Days of Future Past excitedly point to the film’s overt “social commentary” as a major reason for its success. We always...

Considering that William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of my favorite books of all times, you'd think I'd have remembered that there was a comics...

Infographic Created by Shirts.com If such a thing can really be done—and let's face it, around about NÜ Marvel it got a lot harder. Anyway...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5EqPZMZO4s My log saw something—and it's wrapped in plastic. Could it be....TWIN PEAKS: THE ENTIRE MYSTERY, a new Blue Ray set that includes the long...

I stole this link from Tom Spurgeon, and I'm just as fascinated by it as he is: it's a photo of the 1969 Comic...

I think this statement from the family of Bill FInger, the long uncredited co-creator of most of the Batman mythos speaks for itself. The...