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“It was quite a challenge because it was unlike anything DC had done,” said Bruning. Though they had been in the industry for years, they didn’t know how to deal with online talent and online competition. In many ways, they had to “rebuild” and rework their established view of comics.

“You can count the comic book editors on one hand who are so influential to the medium and whose vision for their material is so strong that they really define a brand that gives the audience that kind of confidence. And one of them is here to my left, Karen Berger.”

The exhibit features over 300 pieces on display, including original comic book art and movie props and costumes.

Over the last month or two I may have alluded to an outside project I was working on and it was this: The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics. The team that put this together...

  By James Romberger and Heidi MacDonald This weekend, New Yorkers will get a chance to meet some comics industry legends when the Big Apple Con hits Penn Plaza. Although there are some notable media guests...

MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, renaissance man and all time great cartoonist Ben Katchor is not busy enough being a certified G(enius). He also organized the New York Comics and Picture-Story Symposium every week in...

Fresh takes on long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away.

Let's investigate one of the most haunting quotes ever attributed to a cartoonist.

In what may or may not become a long-standing tradition, Alan Moore has answered questions at Christmas set by the members of a Facebook group called The Really Very Serious Alan Moore Scholars’ Group,...

  As we mentioned earlier today, as e celebrate the 100th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby, he was a master of all comics genres. From helping invent superheroes with Captain America, to  romance with the...

Quirk Books is running their BOOK POP! online comic-con this week - with Quirk Books authors being interviews on social media and across multiple blogs and websites. We here at The Beat love the wide range...

I just received my copy of the new Palookaville with the finale of Seth's Clyde Fans - a saga of mid century decay that does much to explain the current malaise of the while...