Happy Fourth of July!
Image by Ward Sutton
Happy fourth to all! I'm taking it easy on the pre San Diego news to run errands, upgrade my laptop and...
James Robinson releases statement on Airboy #2 to GLAAD
As anticipated, writer James Robinson has made a statement to GLAAD about the controversy over the issue of Airboy #2, which we reported on earlier...
Airboy #2 criticized by GLAAD for transphobic storyline
When creators James Robinson and Greg Hinkle showed me a copy of the first issue of Airboy back at NYCC last year, my jaw...
PREVIEW: Corto Maltese: Beyond the Windy Isles
What better way to celebrate the Beat's 11th anniversary than with a preview of one of our all time favorite comics, Corto Maltese by...
11th Anniversary Special: Really Famous People Holding Comics Books, world politics division
In honor of the Beat's 11th anniversary ehre are two epic photos from recent social media. In the first, Congressman John Lewis presents signed...
Closing Time: Anthony Desiato’s ‘My Comic Shop History’ Chronicles the Life, Death, and Legacy...
In the end, memories are what make us who we are. Although they slip away so easily, these small fragments of past inform our...
The Beat is 11 today!
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...
Eventbrite Survey: conventions have achieved gender parity but some still feel unwelcome
EventBrite, the ticketing agency, caused a lot of talk last year when they released the results of the first survey of convention attendees with...
Know your exploiters in comics: a brief guide
This is an old link, but Robort Boyd has posted a slideshow he delivered on Comixploitation! that rounds up some of the more egregious...
HeroesCon Interview with Michel Fiffe Part 2: The Possibility of Digital, Comparisons to Cerebus,...
Continuing on from our first entry this past Friday, here is the second part of my HeroesCon interview with Michel Fiffe, creator of the...
HeroesCon Interview with Michel Fiffe Part 1: The Challenges/Merits of Self-Publishing and the Appeal...
For me, COPRA is the one of the few superhero comics that really matter.
A few years ago, I was at a point where I had basically...
Flashback Friday: historic photos of San Diego in the 80s
While I was poking around the internet for the history of Marriott Hall the other day, I chanced upon some photos of San Diego in the 80s taken during and just after the construction of the Marriott Marquis and Marina. The first photo is prior to the hotel's completion in 1987. I'm not enough of an expert in San Diego history to know the history of the marina, but as you can see, it bears very little resemblance to the glitzy high rise neighborhood of today. There's no convention center, no Hyatt, no Embassy Suites, no Petco PArk, no Omni...nothing really.
