Alison Bechdel wins a MacArthur Foundation Grant
Alison Bechdel has been named one of this year's MacArthur Foundation grant winners, often known as a genius grant.
Bechdel was cited for being
...a cartoonist and graphic...
2014 Ignatz Award Winners IN FULL
We're live blogging the 2014 18th Annual Ignatz Awards—there's a palpable buzz in the air as not only the traditional pagentry of the awards...
Free Comic Book Day Promotes ‘Alien’ Metal Dildo Doubling as a Bottle Opener
I think the money makers at Diamond Select Toys are secretly testing the market for an upcoming adult toy line.
The Free Comic Book Day...
Meanwhile, DC is hiring an editor for Vertigo
While Warner Bros. itself is facing a round of layoffs following the abortive takeover attempt by Rupert Murdoch, DC Comics is hiring a few...
Ron Perazza joins Amazon as Creative Director for Amazon Publishing
Via tweets last night, industry veteran Ron Perazza announced that he's left Marvel, where he served most recently as Director of Digital Publishing starting last year, and joined Amazon to as Creative Director of all of their digital publishing efforts. Perazza's multi faceted career includes stints at Fleer, Marvel, DC (where he ran creative services and then rose to VP of Online and oversaw the Zuda webcomics launch), Marvel again and now Amazon. Perazza has relocated to Seattle for the position.
Tim Beyers launches pop culture site The Full Bleed
We here at The Beat have long been a fan of Tim Beyer's analysis of comics and comics-based entertainment trends at The Motley Fool and he's just launched his own site to expand on that called The Full Bleed:
2014 Harvey Awards unspool
Live from Baltimore, the 2014 Harvey's are unspooling. Will our computer battery hold out? Will our attention span survive? I'm not sure, but we'll...
The Rock Tweets that he’ll play Black Adam
"Kneel at his feet or get crushed by his boot." My honor to become.. #BlackAdam #TheAntiHero #DCComics pic.twitter.com/Qk55eNf3R7
— Dwayne Johnson (@TheRock) September 3, 2014
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It was a rotten week to be a woman on the internet
What a tiring week it has been even though I'm technically on vacation. You are probably sick and tired of reading about the irrational,...
“A Cosmic Fairytale” – D.J. Kirkbride incites The Bigger Bang [Interview]
Author D.J. Kirkbride has been an important force in the comics’ industry for years now spearheading projects like Amelia Cole for Monkey Brain...
ICv2 announces The New Comics Customer conference at NYCC
ICv2 will once again hold a conference the day before New York Comic-Con officially kicks off, on Wednesday, October 8th. This year's conference has...
RIP Stan Goldberg
Legendary Archie artist Stan Goldberg has passed away at age 82. The artist suffered a stroke two weeks ago. His passing was noted on his Facebook page, where fans are invited to share memories.
