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As mentioned earlier this week, The Beat is 10 years old this month! What was it like in the primitive days of 2004? Thanks to the wonders of digital archiving we can tell you! We can even take you back to San Diego 2004 for a look at skinnier but not necessarily better versions of many Beat favorites. So step with us behind the veils of time for....

Anders Nilsen—Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, Big Questions, Rage of Poseidon—is surely one of the finest cartoonists of the last decade. Big Questions...

They totally went there.

As long as we're harkening back to the internet of 10 years ago, as we are in this AMAZING THRILLING BEAT 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, one of the great hallowed traditions of the internet came under fire yesterday, with TCJ.com co-editor Tim Hodler wonderedif TCJ.com should turn off comments and encourage a "letter's page" instead. Oddly, this inspired a flurry of comments. The "letters page" idea goes back to Blood & Thunder the letters page on the old print Comics Journal where industry titans would throw rocks at each other. Seriously these are a goldmine of Bronze Age defensiveness and invective. Would the same spirit be upheld in a world with instantaneous communication in every medium known to humankind? Not sure.

Despite the glut of unscripted reality TV shows and the lack of recent breakout hits, there is still some slightly untilled ground. For years...

Yes, Summer officially started last Friday.  You're probably haven't even done your grocery shopping for the Fourth of July cookout!  Or started packing for...

The family of Jack Kirby's quest to regain some rights to the Marvel characters still has a chance to go all the way to...

We're off to HeroesCon in Charlotte later today and one of the many pleasures of that show is its relaxing and expansive Barcon; as opposed to other conventions where people scatter to their various drinking holes, pretty much everyone at HeroesCon stays in the same bar, and it's a great place to catch up with folks and maybe lay the foundation for future work. OR IS IT???

Clickhole, the Onion's answer to Buzzfeed and Clickhole, has posted an audacious NSFW video parody, "If You Grew Up With 'Calvin and Hobbes,' You...

Famed New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti has passed away at age 80. He was 80. Barsotti had been suffering from brain cancer since...

  What a great idea for a comic programming focus: this year's Small PressE Expo, to be held September 13-14 in Bethesda, MD, will spotlight...

Apparently for a year a statue of Spider-Man that proved he is a MAN loomed over a playground at the Lotte Shopping Center in...