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https://twitter.com/blicqer/status/688898644632825857 https://twitter.com/theblerdgurl/status/688484747992002560 The Black Comic Book Festival, held at the Schomburg Center in Harlem, just has its 4th outing on Saturday and by all accounts it...

CORRECTION: In all the excitement I managed to forget the news that MTV has aquihired most of the ex Grantland staff. So clearly they...

YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) has released one of their annual reading lists, 2016 Quick Picks for Reluctant Young Adult Readers, which represents: The...

Recently I posted a news item about the new Badger book from Devil's Due having low orders. Writer/creator Mike Baron reached out to me...

When you look at the list of comics publishers who have stayed the course throughout decades of tumultuous changes in distribution and audience, one...

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.

And here's the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of...

Floyd Norman is a legendary animator and cartoonist. His first big job was on Sleeping Beauty, and he's gone on to work on any...

Here's the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven't noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.

I'd been waiting to write this up as things have been changing so fast but after a very brief period this morning where the...

https://twitter.com/HasbroNews/status/684555948959096832 The people have spoken. And Hasbro listened. Two for diversity in two days! After all the hue and cry about there not being a...

It's a year since the Charlie Hebdo killings, when six cartoonists (and 11 others) were murdered in the Charlie Hebdo office and around Paris....