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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...

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...

One year ago today I said goodbye to my best friend, Inky. It was one of the saddest days of my life and I...

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...

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.

As if everything crazy going on in the last hell week wasn't enough, life keeps kicking the ass of good people. All time nice...

I'm just getting recovered from my appearance at Industry Day at the Center for Cartoon Studies; a report is coming anon, but it was a great experience and I came away mightily impressed with what James Sturm and Michelle Ollie have created on the banks of the White River.

The Beat is going to be hung up for the next day or so with Industry Day here at the CEnter for Cartoon Studies...

• I regret to inform the dozens of people who were looking forward to my being there, that I won't be at WonderCon after all. Some travel stuff and other factors made it unfeasible. I'm sad I won't be seeing everyone, but not as sad that I won't be complaining about the line at Starbucks every morning.

This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance!

If you've been following me on the internet for any length of time, you know I have always been obsessed with finding the perfect refreshing drink, whether it's long gone Pepsi Blue, Code Red, Ca Phe Sua instant coffee, Starbuck's much missed Tazo Berry Chai, Dunkin Donuts' Mango Fruit Blast and so on. Well, here is a new one, the Bai5 line of antioxidant waters. I was describing my favorite flavor, Congo Pear, the other day and said "It's got real pear juice and coffee fruit and white tea extract! It's a water-based drink!" to which someone replied "So it's pear-flavored coffee tea water?"