ShortBox Comics Fair kicks off on October 1
Zainab Akhtar‘s annual ShortBox Comics Fair, an all-digital, indie comics convention, launches tomorrow, October 1st, 2025. The convention runs through the month of October, running until Halloween. Featuring over 100 comics creators, the event helps connect independent artists with new readers.
Diamond Doings: Drip, drip drip and a lease assigned
Bits and pieces of various Diamond news: Dynamite gets discovery; Sparkle Pop makes a promise and gets a lease; lawyers get paid
Wonderful Wednesdays: PRINTERNIA NIPPON, I’M FINE WITH BEING THE SECOND GIRLFRIEND among other new...
Seven Seas returns with its long-awaited weekly announcement event, Wonderful Wednesdays, revealing brand-new titles and bringing excitement back to our otherwise uneventful Wednesday evenings.
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WEBTOON partners with BOOM! Studios to bring award-winning comics to vertical scroll format
WEBTOON and BOOM! Studios team up to bring "Something Is Killing the Children," "Wynd," "Fence," and "Lumberjanes" to the platform in vertical-scroll format for the first time.
Burns, Feazell, Murakami, and Plant given the nod at CXC 2025
Cartoonists Charles Burns, Gigi Murakami, Matt Feazell, and distributor Bud Plant were award winners at the eleventh edition of Cartoon Crossroads Columbus
Image Comics announces 27-day comics shop exclusivity window
Comics shop owners should be happy about a new 27-day exclusive just announced by Image Comics
Marvel Cinematic Universe: AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY Wraps Production, Tom Holland Injury Halts SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW...
It's one step up and two steps back for the Marvel Cinematic Universe this week. While Avengers: Doomsday wrapped principal photography, Tom Holland suffered an injury on the set of Spider-Man: Brand New Day, which will delay production while he recovers.
Ron Friedman, TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE writer, dead at 93
A prolific TV writer, Friedman also developed the original G.I. JOE cartoon, and the 1994 FANTASTIC FOUR and IRON MAN series.
Secretlab unveils first-ever ONE PIECE collection
Secretlab launches its first-ever "One Piece" Collection featuring TITAN Evo chairs inspired by Luffy and Zoro, Gear 5 SKINS, and a Thousand Sunny lumbar pillow.
The Beat’s STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS Postseason 3 Spoiler Roundtable
The Beat's Star Trek Team gathers in Stately Beat Manor's Observation Lounge to discuss Strange New Worlds Season 3.
Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: SYSTEMIC, MACABRE VALLEY, SPACE RELIC HUNTERS, and four more projects you’ll...
In this week’s installment of The Beat's Comics Crowdfunding Round-Up: deep stories meet sci-fi fun, a violent mystery involving a reporter, a werewolf, and a priest! And five more stories you'll love!
INTERVIEW: The Humanity in the Margins, Crafting SYSTEMIC!
Creators Arthur N. Ebuen and Ben Crane are in the final days of their crowdfunding campaign for Systemic vol. 1, a sci-fi comics anthology that "collects...























