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Karl Stevens' comic page Failure has been cancelled by the Boston Phoenix, where it had run for the last few years, replacing another strip by Stevens known as "Whatever." The reason, reportedly, is because the above strip insulted an advertiser, Bud Light.

Via Millarworld -- in case you have been sleeping and missed Grant Morrison's thoughts on Alan Moore. We don't know the credits for this, but it's pretty awesome.

A new Kickstarter just launched this morning for The Big Feminist But a comics anthology of stories about women, men, attitudes and the humor and drama of those attitudes. Contributors include Jeffrey Brown, Gabrielle Bell, Lauren Weinstein, Josh Neufeld, Sarah Oleksyk, Corrine Mucha and many more, including what may be the last published comic by the late, great Dylan Williams. The goal is $13,995 which will pay for printing and distribution and a page rate for contributors.

Johanna Draper Carlson finds a SF book from 24 years ago that predicted the kind of soul-stealing succubus that many fear wit a narrative involving a SF convention:

Steven Sanders was one of the first people I ever interviewed. An artist and designer who has worked on books such as Five Fists...

by Laura Sneddon--Over the last few weeks, my good friend Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been writing a series of articles about Alan Moore and Superfolks, which became an edgeways look at the long running friction between Moore and fellow writer, Grant Morrison. While Moore has previously spoken out about his thoughts on Morrison in various interviews, Morrison has generally kept quiet on the issue. There have been occasional barbs of course, and plenty of praise, but very little on the actual facts of the matter.

Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday.  It's covered to death by the media, analyzed relentlessly by Wall Street, and now rivals Thanksgiving...

Thursday, I got to be seven years old again.  When I woke up, my parents were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.  My mother...

In 1987 there was a Marvel Comics float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This was around the time right after Marvel was...

On November 16th, a one day conference held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage brought out the best and brightest in Television to talk...

This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you're in the right place. I wasn't the only one feeling the love.

While we respectfully did not inform you of this at an earlier juncture, we here at The Beat would like to warn you of...