Comings and goings: former HBO Go Exec DiBartolomeo joins Comixology as CTO
HBO Go co-founder Jeff DiBartolomeo has joined Comixology as chief technology officer. In case you hadn't figured out that a) ComiXology hs the income...
Breaking Down Battle of the Atom #2
Battle of the Atom, the 2013 X-Men event crossover, will see All-New X-Men, X-Men, Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine & the X-Men tell a story...
The 2013 Harvey Awards — Live blogged?
We're here at the Baltimore Hyatt for the 2013 Harvey Award ceremony! Sponsored by Guinness Beer! Despite that dangerous sounding circumstance, things are this...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – Exit the Batwoman… Creators
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Baltimore Comic-Con to be three days, even bigger next year
Have you heard that everyone loves a comic-con? It seems to be true. While the Baltimore Comic-Con has been growing in size every year,...
Dan DiDio’s late night Batwoman and Breaking Bad truth bombs
As the mainstream media continued to make hay over Batwoman's banned wedding, DC's co publisher Dan DiDio took to twitter last night to give...
Diamond Sales: Marvel tops August in 4-week month
Marvel was the winner again in August according to today's just released figures from Diamond. Infinity #1 was the top comics and Marvel meat...
Breaking news: Cartoonist gets paying job!!!!
The unthinkable has happened. A cartoonist has been hired for a job that pays a living wage. Instead of heating up old shoe leather...
Valiant goes to Mexico with Kamite publishing deal
Valiant has just announced it's teaming with Mexican publisher Kamite to distribute a new line of Spanish-language versions of the Valiant line. Foreign publishing...
Should we even try to give indie comics a wider cultural context?
This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there.
All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.
Chuck Forsman’s TEOTFW being adapted into video series in the UK
I don't know why this news hasn't been picked up at every entertainment blog everywhere. A comic book has been optioned for a live...
First Second announces Winter 2014 line-up
First Second released some news about their Winter 2013-14 titles, including paperback editions for Sailor Twain and Baby's in Black, and some new books...
