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This weekend the Small Press Expo takes place in North Bethesda, MD. The show is known for its collegial, summer camp vibe, but this...

Zainab Akhtar's excellent Comics and Cola blog runs a feature called "Comics Shelfies" which includes pictures of various comics collections. Usually the Expedit or...

The Colbert Report Last week Randall Munroe of xkcd fame apepared on the Colbert Show to promote his new book What If?: Serious Scientific Answers...

Simon Hanselmann, Patrick Kyle and Michael DeForge are going on tour together, an event that will doubtless span a thousand autobio comics. DeForge is...

We here at The Beat have long been a fan of Tim Beyer's analysis of comics and comics-based entertainment trends at The Motley Fool and he's just launched his own site to expand on that called The Full Bleed:

There's a new show on the Nerdist Channel called 'Just Cosplay' and I was given a sneak look at the first episode, live now....

Via many media yesterday came news of USA Today laying off a bunch of folks, including Pop Candy's Whitney Matheson, following a 15 year run. A few may remember in the VERY VERY early days of this site, Whitney was a blogging nemesis, bearing in mind that when we both started there were only four blogs. The pretend "feud" lasted about five minutes, and ended as soon as I met Whit and found out what an awesomely kind, smart and talented person she was. Seriously there is not a person on earth who is nicer than Whitney.

  Chris Ware is only the second cartoonist to get the Paris Review interview treatment—Robert Crumb was the first—and it's said to be one of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnsdc7cTPuU I'm addicted to Russian dashboard camera videos. The best ones have loud Russian disco playing, but they are pretty much all good, revealing a...

What a tiring week it has been even though I'm technically on vacation. You are probably sick and tired of reading about the irrational,...

Here's a good idea: Small Press Previews, a new site that I was informed of by Jared Smith. They have 46 publishers signed up to create a single spot to see previews of small press comics coming out each month. For instance I didn't know there was a new Derf coming from Alternative Press!

It's The King's 97th birthday today, but who needs an excuse to celebrate the mans vision, talent and tenacity? Kirby's granddaughter Jillian is spearheading...