This weekend: Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
While we're still recovering, physically, spiritually and morally from the brutal fall show schedule, we're going to man up one more time for what...
Bluewater solidifies hold on daytime talk show host market with DeGeneres
Fresh from their triumph on The View, with a Babwa Wawa comic, Bluewater has announced another comics bio of a daytime staple: Ellen...
Publishing news and notes: One Piece is #1; Seven Miles a Second; Comic AG
• The Examiner reports that Eiichiro Oda's One Piece is about to set a record for the biggest first printing ever for a...
Indie Month-to-Month Sales: September 2009
By Matthew Murray
Only two non Marvel/DC titles made the top 100 this month, as both companies put out a higher than usual number of...
EXCLUSIVE Preview: STRANGE TALES #3 Brown and Hornschemeier
Let's just keep this Art Day here at Stately Beat Manor. Here's a preview of Marvel's STRANGE TALES #3, on sale TOMORROW, with an...
STAPLE! News
STAPLE! is a one day indie comics event held yearly in Austin which, if the pictues we've seen are any indication, is much...
This is the APE that was
Some links and news from APE, the Alternative Press Expo, held this weekend in San Francisco.
• Will Dinski's COVERED IN CONFUSION won the Isotope...
APE debuts and news
The Alternative Press Expo kicks off this weekend at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco. Details are in the link but guests can...
Indie Month-to-Month Sales: August 2009
By Matthew Murray
August was the best month for Archie for a long, long time in the direct market, with the first issue of...
Announcing the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
New York's already busy fall season got one more show with the official word of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival, a new oft-rumored...
APE debuts sought
Reminder: if you are debuting a book at APE, please send us some info.
APE (The Alternative Press Expo), as you may be able to...
SPX attendance up 19%; Nerdlinger winners!
According to SPX director Karon Flage, it wasn't just your imagination: there WERE more people at SPX this year. She writes:
Paid admissions were 1772...











