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I'm going to be travelling for much of the day, so in the meantime I've posted some previews of books on sale today, as well as the Indie sales charts. I'm sure Steve has things in good shape as well.

Of everything I looked ah while compiling my annual Halloween clow=out, nothing disturbed me as much as this. Did you own these cards and think, like I did, that they would explain all mysteries?...

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The Beat is having caching problems. When you see the black ball just click and it goes away. Somehow it removed all the fonts too. Our team is working on it. Meanwhile, here's a...

The other day, my mother posted this watercolor she dashed off on Facebook, along with this line from Thomas Keneally: "Summer now seemed to have lasted mere days, all its chances quickly squandered." Truer words were...

I got an email yesterday urging me to link to this piece from Unleash The Fanboy that reasons that Jarvis, Tony Stark's robotic AI helper (voiced by Paul Bettany) will turn into Ultron in...

On the Saturday night of Con I was walking back from the Hilton Bayfront to the Manchester Grand Hyatt and happened upon the end of a line of campers. While once the madness of Hall H—where the biggest show biz spectacles are held—fell poignantly silent on Sunday, now it was a titanic blockbuster—Sunday's line-up included the final appearance of Breaking Bad, the final appearance of Matt Smith as Doctor Who and the appearance of Supernatural in the fulsomeness of its midlife.

(Photo from and © American Virus) When I moved to Los Angeles in the 80s, I lived in West Hollywood at the height of the AIDS crisis. I was a sheltered young woman without much...

As a follow-up on the very fun and well-received "24 Hours of Women Cartoonists" event in March, Team Beat is reassembling starting at midnight E.D.T. tonight for "24 Hours of Webcomics." Steve, Laura, Hannah,...

One year ago today I said goodbye to my best friend, Inky. It was one of the saddest days of my life and I still think about it. Since then, two wonderful new friends...

Happy Birthday to The Beat's one and only (we hope) Zainab Akhtar!    On this most special of days, I ask you all to go spam her with messages over at her blog and on her...

Given the week's events, looking at the above photo by Dynamite's Nick Barrucci taken at the C2E2 bar—the creme de la creme of comics internet media, Newsarama's Albert Ching, CBR's Kiel Phegley, The Beat, ComicVine's Tony G.Man Guerrero and IGN's Joey Exposito—you might be forgiven for wondering which member of the comic press would soon have a big red X drawn over his or her face. It was that kind of week.