Where I’ll be this weekend: C3 and Long Beach Comic Expo
The Beat is on the road again! Friday I'll be appearing at the first ever Comic Creator Conference, or C3. The industry has been without...
Fried Pie Con 2 adds more guests: Brandon, Hinkle and Conner
Fried Pie Con 2 is a day of comics and cartoonists and will be held April 15th in Broomfield, CO. It's organized by the...
Five Finalists for Dwayne McDuffie Award For Diversity In Comics Announced
After a vigorous round of judging, the five finalists for the Dwayne McDuffie Award For Diversity In Comics have been revealed (I was one of...
ComicsPro meeting is happening now, future of industry to be decided
The annual ComicsPRo meeting is taking place in Memphis as I write this, a gathering of comics retailers and ann the most important vendors and...
Does San Diego need both San Diego Comic-Con and San Diego Comic Fest?
Once upon a time, there wasn’t a San Diego Comic-Con.
Some would mark this period as “The Dark Ages of Conventions” (those being myself). It...
Breaking news: only 30% of the news on comics news sites is actually about...
Months ago, a comic book publicist and I were chatting about this and that and he suggested, rather ominously, "Have you ever tried counting...
HAPPY: Diamond May Release End-of-Year Charts for 2016!
CORRECTION: Diamond MAy still release the charts! The misunderstanding was all Miller's but the status of the charts is still unknown. His calculations stand for...
A Year of Free Comics: Boy Meets Girl #25 featuring two Golden Age women...
I picked this romance comic this romance comic completely at random from the vast archives of public domain comics at ComicBookPlus, but I chose...
Russo Brothers reach out to Starlin
The other day we reported that Jim Starlin, creator of Thanos, Gamora, Infinisty Stones and other Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstays, was sassing the studio about perhaps showing up in a cameo in an Avengers movie.
Preview: Campbell Whyte’s Home Time: Under the River looks pretty spectacular
Top Shelf really has a knock for finding under-exposed cartoonists who have a distinctive look, especially in the all-ages category. They've just announced Home Time: Under the...
More Archie TV in development …and a special Valentine’s Day greeting from Riverdale
https://youtu.be/9X-lspKmiXM
If you're like me, this special Valentine's day greeting from Cole Sprouse and KJ Apa - Apa with his adorable native Kiwi accent -...
Interview: Unleashing Animated Friends Old & New with Butch Hartman
If you were a kid coming of age in the late 1990s/early 2000s, then Butch Hartman’s work was an essential part of your entertainment...
