NBM celebrates 40 years with a new logo, new brand and new website
When you look at the list of comics publishers who have stayed the course throughout decades of tumultuous changes in distribution and audience, one...
Ch-ch-ch-changes for The Beat
If you're a faithful Beat reader, you know the past year has been filled with discussions of the economics of running a comics news website. This talk was prompted by an unprecedented run of comics sites closing down or losing key personnel. I summed up a lot of my thoughts back in September, pointing out that the realities of the web make running any kind of independent site very difficult these days.
Announcing the Comics Industry Person of the Year for 2015: Noelle Stevenson
The votes are in! And after an exceptionally close race, for the second year in a row a prominent YA graphic novelist has taken Person of the Year.
IDW announces new international licensing program, kicking things off with Archie
About a year ago, IDW made headlines by buying Top Shelf. They haven't topped that yet, but they do have a new business division:...
ALA: ‘Rollergirl’ is a Newbery honor book, three other graphic novels honored
Victoria Jamieson's Rollergirl, a graphic novel about a girls dream of becoming a roller girl star, was named a Newbury honor book, this morning,...
Civil War 2 will include Marvel’s quarterly character death
A Daily News writer was privy to the most recent Marvel retreat where the events of Civil War 2 were hashed out, and while...
More Civil War II Details: Tony Stark Vs. Captain Marvel?
Marvel has just unveiled additional details to Civil War II, the publisher’s next big crossover event. Instead of the traditional Captain America and Iron...
Marvel Pushes Karnak #2 into February
Getting comics work from writer Warren Ellis (Injection) is cause for celebration, especially at the Big Two publishers where his output has been scarce...
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 4: With a special preview or two
And here's the final part of our annual creator survey. It seems people are really looking forward to Rom if you read all of...
2000 A.D. Reprints Monster, an ’80s Comics Collaboration by Moore and Wagner
Monster, a comic strip published by Scream! from authors Alan Moore (Watchmen) and John Wagner (Judge Dredd) is coming back to store shelves this...
Wizard World Portland gets exclusive Doctor Who variant cover
Wizard World Portland gets the Time Lord treatment in an exclusive variant cover for the upcoming show in February.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part 3: The year of diversity
Here's the third part of our annual creator survey with a varied look from people in all aspects of the business from creators to publishers to journalists. As always, buried among the answers you will find a bunch of news items for the sharp eyed and also some preview art. In case you haven't noticed, our panel certainly did: 2015 was the year diversity broke around the comics industry, although much, much, much more needs to be done. Read on to see what our our respondents thought about the year past and what they have coming for 2016.
