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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...

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...

In the end, memories are what make us who we are.  Although they slip away so easily, these small fragments of past inform our...

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, the ticketing agency, caused a lot of talk last year when they released the results of the first survey of convention attendees with...

This is an old link, but Robort Boyd has posted a slideshow he delivered on Comixploitation! that rounds up some of the more egregious...

  Continuing on from our first entry this past Friday, here is the second part of my HeroesCon interview with Michel Fiffe, creator of the...

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...

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.

A trip to Comic-Con with a good hotel room, two passes, dinner with the Suicide Girls and VIP access to a special burlesque show...

Millennial comics superstars Kate Beaton, Luke Pearson and Noelle Stevenson have just been announced as the first guests at this year's SPX which will spotlight creators who have only worked in the 21st Century. So get ready to write either your 6000-word think piece or your series of tweets on what this all means. This year's SPX will be held September 19-20, with over 650 creators, 280 exhibitor tables, 22 programming slots and countless rollaway beds. IT's the annual Camp Comics on the schedule and this sounds like a real watershed year.

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.