SDCC ’14: Fashion Shows on Trend
This year there are several high-profile fashion-related events and product launches at Comic-Con, which at the very least reflects how much the comics industry's...
Comic Con: Beyond the Panels
By Hannah Lodge
For some, the real glamour of San Diego Comic Con lies beyond the confines of the convention center. For four days, the...
SDCC 14: #comicsbeat Sin City in the morning. Smells like whiskey to me. #sdcc...
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SDCC ’14: Werthamania
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Fredric Wertham's influential and notorious Seduction of the Innocent, and Comic Con's programming schedule includes several panels...
The Beat Podcasts! – SDCC ’14 Day 1: Eric Powell & Richard Starkings
Live from San Diego Comic Con, it's More To Come! Publishers Weekly's podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate...
SDCC: The HUMANS are coming to Image – Exclusive Preview and Interview
First it was vampires, then it was zombies. After that it was bronies but now? It's all about monkeys and Image Comics is one...
Eventbrite Research: Younger con attendees 50/50 male to female
The following game as a press release from Eventbrite, but its groundbreaking nonetheless, as Eventbrite andRob Salkowtz haveteamed to get even more demographics about...
SDCC 2014: The Beat picks the most offbeat panels at Comic-Con
We know Comic-Con is a crowded, tumultuous place, with a noise level akin to being sucked through a jet engine and a similar toll...
Pictures From the Guardians of the Galaxy Premiere
by Brandon Schatz
If you were on the Secret Comics Illuminati Twitter Feed last night, you probably saw folks complaining about John Cena and Brock...
The Retailer’s View // The Death of Archie and Selling Comics
by Brandon Schatz
On Monday, the pop culture bereft owner of my shop phoned had asked if I had ordered enough of the “death of...
The secret of comics history that people on the internet don’t want you to...
I was asked not too long ago what was something I was proud of writing on The Beat, and it's actually something I didn't write. This post by political communications specialist Brett Schenker entitled Market Research Says 46.67% of Comic Fans are Female from February, was pretty groundbreaking. Why am I mentioning a six month old post? Well, people continue to quote it when they look for demographic information on comics readership, and it represents a solid benchmark in an area where there is shockingly little research. Schenker's research via Facebook, which he's graciously presented here, has been quoted in numerous articles and yesterday it was referenced in this Time.Com piece on the new female Thor. I tweeted it again and it got a whole new set of reactions on twitter from people who hadn't seen it the first time.
