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Well NYCC Stupor Week is here, with all the excitement and dread that it brings. A bunch of locals were pre-gaming on Saturday and the consensus was that no one was vaguely ready. As a local show, there's a big difference between NYCC and SDCC, the other domestic "Super con" in that when its in your own back yard it becomes part of your regular routine and not a thrilling trip to an exotic locale. You tend to put things off a lot more. But let's look at the big picture.

NERD COMPUTER ALERT! I know computer stuff isn't entertaining but I like writing out my experiences just for Google. I got my laptop back! You may recall that my MacBookPro died just before Comic-Con....

Continuing this morning's elegiac tone, here's a lovely remembrance of retailer Nick Post by the CBLDF's Charles Brownstein. Postiglione, to give his full name, passed away last week, and my social media has similarly...

The reaction to Robin Williams' death has been unlike any celebrity death I can remember. We all knew Whitney was going to go, and Michael Jackson's end was as expected as it was bizarre. With Williams there seem to be few mysteries. It was a battle, and he lost. Yet the shock of his tragic decision seems to have transcended our celebrity autopsy culture with its essential question: how can someone who gave so much, who had so much to give, have turned away from the light with such finality?

What's happening at Stately Beat Manor! So many exciting things, you won't believe it! Just amazing.

The Beat has joined the crowdfunding revolution! Now you can support the stuff we do here directly with your dollars via the Patreon platform. Lot's of folks have suggested that we do some kind of crowdfunding campaign over the last year or so, but I've chosen Patreon because it's method—recurring monthly payments—seem like a more usable model for an ongoing website than the one and done big bang of a Kickstarter.

It's what I like to call Hell Week, boys and girls, the week before San Diego Comic-Con when every single thing has to get done, including all those things you thought of in January...

As we continue our 10th anniversary SPECTACULAR here at the Beat, I thought it would be fun to look back at the top posts since 2010. (I don't have stats for the first five...

I actually don't remember the day I started this blog—it was June or July somethingth 2004- so I've arbitrarily decided today will henceforth be The Beat's anniversary. Ten long years of late nights, sleeping five hours, web crashes, Vietnamese Instant Coffee, Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Vitalic, Tipsy, Mahler, Stravinsky and Amy Winehouse. Ten years of stopping whatever else I was doing at some point to say "I gotta do The Beat now." Ten years of watching the graphic novel industry grow, 10 years of a new golden age of comics, the rise and fall of manga, the rise and rise of comic book movies and TV shows, firings, hirings, 10 days that shook the world. Ten years of the internet changing every week or minute. When I began there was no Tumblr, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Youtube, no smart phones. People were so starved for entertainment that they actually read websites run by one person in their pajamas.

We're off on the road to TCAF! The only thing harshing my mellow is the Newark Airport monorail being down, but otherwise the charming Porter Air experience is already in full effect with cappucino...

Are you going to C2E2? The Beat is not for the FIRST TIME. Torsten will be there for all the inside story as only Torsten can cover it, but if you have a hankering to listen to people make awkward banter about upcoming comics and then race to feverishly type it up, you may be just the person we're looking for! If you'd be interested in covering it for The Beat, email me at comicsbeat at gmail dot com.

I gots the con cruds which has killed The Beat dead in its tracks. Sorry about this lost week. Hopefully back in the flow for MoCCA! BTW when I'm sick, I drink BAI coffee-tea-fruit...