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As part of Pride Month, San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum will host the first annual Queer Comics Expo (QCE) on June 8th from 11am...

Jamie Coville has done his usual amazing job of recording panels from TCAF, including several from the librarian and educator conference, Trina Robbins talk...

Photographer and comics writer (Schmuck) Seth Kushner is one of the really good guys and just a few weeks ago he was spotted at...

I stole this link from Tom Spurgeon, and I'm just as fascinated by it as he is: it's a photo of the 1969 Comic...

I think this statement from the family of Bill FInger, the long uncredited co-creator of most of the Batman mythos speaks for itself. The...

I meant to get this post up many days ago but it's been that kinda week. Last Friday I went to SVA's comics/zine fest...

A few weeks ago we alluded to this glowing profile of Marvel Studios Head Kevin Feige in Businessweek, which, while semi-revealing, was also semi-revering. Clearly, Feige's Marvel Cinematic Universe is one of the most successful movie concepts of the 21st century, but I'm sure he puts his Hulk hands on one mitt at a time. Well, one person who did not like this profile was Amazing Spider-Man 2 producer Avi Arad, who penned an angry letter to the writer of the piece. The bit that Arad specifically took issue with is the claim that Arad quit Marvel Studios over his disagreement with Marvel's $535 million dollar credit line with Merill Lynch to make movies, the deal that set the stage for the MCU as we know it.

Amazing Spider-Man is definitely a hit—$91.6 million opening weekend—but the questions are just beginning. As are the spoilers just in case you DO NOT KNOW THE CENTRAL CANON OF SPIDER-MAN LORE. Look away, look away if you haven't seen the movie or read the comics. If you have...you may proceed.

There is only one night of the year to challenge the Oscars as the fashion highlight of the year, and it's the Metropolitan Museum...

The Kirby vs Marvel battle is not quite over yet. According to Dominic Patten the Supreme Court will actually discuss whether to hear the...

BTW one of the highlights of this year's Free Comic Book Day has to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird making their first public appearance together in 20 years! They signed at Jetpack Comics in New Hampshire, and I'm sure it was quite an event. TMNT celebrates their 30th anniversary this year and the new movie is coming out August 12th, whiel IDW is publishing the comic, with a 30th Anniversary Special coming out this month.

Hopefully by now you've all seen the debut of new contributor Kate Willaert's column "By Its Cover" which looks at the best of the week's cover designs—I've been wanting to add more craft-focused pieces to the Beat and this really fits the bill.