Comixamazon weekend round-up
People are STILL talking about Amazon's announced plans to acquire Comixology, although it has settled into the wait and see mode for now, as...
Commentary: An Inevitable Surprise—Amazon buys ComiXology
by Rob Salkowitz
Is Amazon’s acquisition of comiXology the beginning of the end, or just the end of the beginning, of digital comics’ golden age?
It...
Lust and Yang win LA TImes Book Prizes
The Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were handed out last night and the winner in the graphic novel division was Ulli Lust's Today is...
RIP: Courtney Utt
Designer Courtney Utt, who was responsible for some of Viz's most distinctive covers, passed away recently at the age of just 37 following a...
Will Comixology go the way of Audible or Zappos?
The great digital hope has been acquired by one of the giant fire breathing kaiju of the digital era. Will they trample tiny cottages beneath their feet or become a lovable behemoth? Ask me in a year. In the meantime...
First off, will you be able to read your comics? A story at the Guardian indicates yes...but...
News Flash: New Suicide Squad, new Dash Shaw, new Ted Rall, more
• Cosplayers is a new comic by Dash Shaw about...cosplayers.
Annie and Verti are two teen cosplayers with too much time on their hands. Annie...
Help Wanted: Dynamite is hiring in Sales and Accounting
Dynamite Entertainment, located in Mt. Laurel, NJ, has a couple of job openings. Requirements below -- interested parties should respond to the address...
RIP: The Ultimate Warrior
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR08M6EUd0g
Only a day after recording this promo, the man known as The Ultimate Warrior is dead at age 54.
Born Jim Hellwig, the masked...
2014 Glyph Award Nominees Announced
The 2014 nominees for the Glyph Awards, honoring the best in African America comics and characters have been announced. The awards will be presented on May 16th at the ECBACC show in Philadelphia. The deadline for voting in the Fan Award is Friday, May 2, 2014.
Congrats to Janna O’Shea and Michael Zagari!
While people were not watching Wrestlemania or Game of Thrones yesterday, some were getting married, including popular comics folks Janna O’Shea and Michael Zagari,...
MoCCA Award of Excellence Winners announced — and here’s where you can get them
Saturday night at a rockin party at the Socirty of Illustrators, the winners of the 2014 MoCCA Arts Festival Awards of Excellence were announced....
Sick sick sick
I gots the con cruds which has killed The Beat dead in its tracks. Sorry about this lost week. Hopefully back in the flow...
