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If @edwardekramer is following you on twitter, get to a safe place immediately.

This may make you cry. Jeffrey Baldwin is a Toronto child who died of starvation in 2002 after severe abuse at the hands of...

The 2014 SICBA Awards were handed out on Saturday at the Glasgow Comic Con. The awards honor the best in Scottish comics, and Dungeon...

You probably heard that DC has revamped their royalties program, adding colorists to the payout mix and lumping digital in with print.  We should...

The close-knit LA animation community has been rocked this week by trouble at Cartoon Network's show Clarence, where creator and show runner Skyler Page has been removed from his duties following an assault on an Adventure Time staffer and what friends are calling a mental breakdown.

As we continue our 10th anniversary SPECTACULAR here at the Beat, I thought it would be fun to look back at the top posts...

I actually don't remember the day I started this blog—it was June or July somethingth 2004- so I've arbitrarily decided today will henceforth be The Beat's anniversary. Ten long years of late nights, sleeping five hours, web crashes, Vietnamese Instant Coffee, Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Vitalic, Tipsy, Mahler, Stravinsky and Amy Winehouse. Ten years of stopping whatever else I was doing at some point to say "I gotta do The Beat now." Ten years of watching the graphic novel industry grow, 10 years of a new golden age of comics, the rise and fall of manga, the rise and rise of comic book movies and TV shows, firings, hirings, 10 days that shook the world. Ten years of the internet changing every week or minute. When I began there was no Tumblr, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Youtube, no smart phones. People were so starved for entertainment that they actually read websites run by one person in their pajamas.

Monkeybrian co-publisher Alison Baker has been one of the smart people in and around comics for a while, and now IDW has done something...

I've been hearing a lot of conspiracy theories of late about DC, and some of them involve their participation/royalties system. In addition for quite a while, people have been complaining about the fact that colorists aren't eligible for royalties—and neither are digital-first comics. But that is changing. I understand a letter has just gone out to DC creative folks announcing a complete overhaul of the DC royalty system. For the first time colorists will be eligible for royalties and will get cover credit. And digital first will also be eligible for royalties. Little things like direct deposit and electronic vouchering will also be available.

Word on the street is that Valiant has a lot of new stuff coming down the pike, and perhaps to run the paving machine for both the street and the pike, they've promoted Warren Simons to Editor-in-Chief. His previous title was Executive Editor. Since the company's relaunch in 2011, Wimons has been in charge of book including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong, Unity, Rai, and more. In his new role as Editor-in-Chief, Simons will continue to preside over all day-to-day operations of Valiant's editorial department, and manage Valiant's growing editorial team, which was just boosted by the addition of former DC assistant editor Kyle Andrukiewicz. CBR has the promotion interview that has a nice snapshot of Valiant's progress so far:

Every two years, the city of Erlangen, Germany hosts the Erlangen Comics Salon. In a nutshell, it's the German version of Angoulême.  It's not as...

The family of Jack Kirby's quest to regain some rights to the Marvel characters still has a chance to go all the way to...