The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 1: What will be the biggest story of...
It's time for our annual look at what's happening in comics and where creators see things going and what impacted them in the past year. This time as always we have a wide range...
Call for boycott of Angoulême’s Grand Prix nominees after list includes only men
The long list for the 2016 Grand Prix at Angoulême was announced today—this is a kind of lifetime achivemenet award, and arguably the greatest honor a cartoonist can receive. It's also been the center of much...
Horvath and Turner join Superfan Promotions
Over the years I have been asked any a time, "is there a good indie publicist for comics?" and I always racked my brain. There have been a few good people, but they usually get hired by companies. Indie PR is a tough business and comics are a niche. But now, Superfan Promotions has become to go-to company. It's run by David Hyde, formerly of DC, and it's the best in the biz. And they are so good, they are pending, hiring Pamela Horvath (above left) Ilana Turner as director of publicity and publicity coordinator respectively.
Gene Yang named Library of Congress’s Ambassador for Young People’s Literature
Gene Luen Yang has racked up a lot of honors for his work—first graphic novel to be shortlisted for a National Book Award (for American Born Chinese), first cartoonist to be shortlisted TWICE (second...
The All-New, All-Different Marvel Rundown Week Thirteen: Rocketing into The New Year
It's time for an early/late addition of the All-New, All-New Different Marvel Rundown. Marvel shipped a select few comics early including Rocket Raccoon and Groot #1, this week's exclusive #1! This week we're exclusively taking a...
Happy New Year and let’s kick things off with Andrew WK
Happy New Year, faithful Beat readers. Hoping it's a happy and healthy one for all. 2015 was a challenging year for many of us with many changes blowing through the world of comics, but,...
All-New, All-Early: Marvel Allows Retailers to Sell Select Product New Year’s Day
With so many different Marvel comics shipping each and every week, it can be hard to track exactly which comic books ships on which day. In fact for the All-New, All-Different Marvel Rundown, (our ongoing...
VOTE for the Comics Industry Person of the Year!
This year we're opening person of the year voting to everyone!
DC to Dominate CW on January 19th, Release new SUICIDE SQUAD Trailer
We're going to get hurt really, really badly on January 19th.
Dynamite Launches $.99 Sale at Dark Horse Digital
Dynamite has launched a line-wide sale at Dark Horse Digital, allowing fans to finally try out the first few issues of coveted new series James Bond 007: Vargr for $.99. The entire line is discounted, including...
Must read: the last decade of graphic novel publishing and the next five
As we wrap up our big picture look at where it's at, here's a piece that Calvin Reid and I put together for Publishers Weekly called From the Fringes to the Mainstream: Ten Years...
Heavy Metal to Serialize Pepe Moreno’s GENE KONG in English for the First TIme
In the 1990, cartoonist Pepe Moreno created Batman: Digital Justice, one of the first comics to be produced solely through digital programs. Prior to this, he also worked closely with the comics magazine and publisher Heavy Metal...
