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Can comics become legitimate bestsellers, the Beat's own John Shableski has been asking in a series of publishing procedurals. But in truth...comics already ARE legit best sellers!

Rumors that Disney is completing its march to mono-corporation by purchasing toy titan Hasbro have been going around. We have no dog in that hunt, so we reached out to our pal Paul Nomad who has his finger on the pulse of the toy biz like no one else, and his sources confirm the two companies are in talks.

After a brief flirtation during publishing webcomics in the "graphic novel boom" of the Aughts, it's been pretty rare to see something picked up...

The biggest business book show in America is inching towards a full-on consumer day, as the Comic-con-ization of trade book shows continues. BEA director...

Despite the host city's rep as party central, the Miami Book Fair is one of the nation's largest, an 8-day extravaganza of top literary figures from everywhere. This year's line-up includes Lemony Snicket, Junot Diaz and many more, and as usual, a large comics contingent, as seen on the card above. Participants include Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Aline Komoinsky-Crumband many more. Are you going? Tell he Beat about it!

Although hampered by the lack of electricity at their offices, Publishers Weekly has managed to release their Best Books lists for 2012. Leading the list...

Oscar winner, Jamie Foxx, is in talks to play Marvel villiain, Electro, for the next installment of Amazing Spiderman. Foxx hinted as such in...

Here's a quick evening sampling of #DisneyStarWars mashups from around the worldwide web-0-sphere... There's a new Disney Princess in town...   Oh, R2...   A gentleman named Matthew Main...

A few weeks ago, Cartoon Brew publicized the new Blu-Ray release of Mad Monster Party, a rare Rankin-Bass motion picture.  (I did intend to...

Not one, but two videos have popped up with George Lucas talking about sending his intellectual properties and sundry companies over to Disney. First, from...

This may be delirium setting in, but it seems that Disney have acquired Lucasfilm today for the princely sum of $4.05 billion. This means...

When the last episode on Doctor Who aired a few weeks ago, companions Amy and Rory left the Doctor (and the show)... but nobody...