Happy New Year and let’s kick things off with Andrew WK
Happy New Year, faithful Beat readers. Hoping it's a happy and healthy one for all. 2015 was a challenging year for many of us...
Happy Thanksgiving from The Beat to you!
Art by Walt Kelly.
Happy Turkey Day to all the Beatniks around the world! We're very thankful for all our readers and your continued support...
It’s about disclosure in comics journalism
For the past few days there has been a kerfuffle in the extremely high profile, glamourous and profitable world of comics journalism.
Rather than comment on this hot mess, I'm going to talk about why it happened. And what we an do to improve things.
NO a school did not ban a cute Wonder Woman lunchbox
Was that letter everyone linked to about a sweet Wonder Woman lunchbox getting banned at a child's school real? Or are we all just sheeple who believe everything we read on the internet?
The Dog Days
You probably didn't even notice, but The Beat Herself has been on vacation for the last week, however we're headed home today although travelling...
Good-bye ferry: Billy Bishop Airport opens its tunnel
This post is purely for Porter Airlines fetishists who enjoy that portion of their trip to TCAF every year. Those of you who take...
SDCC ’15: who to thank
The Beat is home! Charlie and Lucy are thrilled and I'm trying to reset my sleep schedule. With this year's Comic-con in the rearview...
The Beat is 11 today!
It's July 1st, meaning it's the day we celebrate the Beat's birthday and today marks 11 years of daily comics news! It's a very...
Meet the Beat tomorrow at EternalCon in Garden City
This weekend there's plenty of comics activity around NYC. Many will be interested in FlameCon, the first ever queen comic-con in NYC, to...
On minding your social media manners and hot takes
The priceless Deb Aoki has created yet another masterful Storify called Twitter for Comics Creators - Do's & Don'ts and rather than embed here, it just go read it. But here's the nut graph:
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/12/15: What is an “indie comic” anyway?
§ By chance, two websites have been devoting some time to overviews of...non Big Two Comics I guess you could call 'em. Multiversity is...
The Devastator/Beat Convention Exhibitor Survey is out: which cons are loved, which are hated
Last fall, we here at The Beat teamed up with the awesome folks at The Devastator to put together a survey for convention exhibitors. With all the controversy over who is spending and what cons are con games, it seemed like time to seriously upgrade this survey. And you responded, with more than 100 people taking the survey, giving results on the top cons and CAFs that revealed average sales and average amount of satisfaction with each show.
In case you've never heard of them, The Devastator is a humor/comic magazine based in LA that features sharp satire and art by founders Geoffrey Golden and Amanda Meadows as well as people from The Onion, the Daily Show, Adult Swim, Marvel and more.
The result, as crunched by the Devastator's staff, has some eye-opening statistics. You can read the entire report right here, and see some of the Devastator team's own comments below, but here are a few of my own eye-openers:
