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The Society of Illustrators has announced medalists in their Sequential/Series, Institutional, Uncommissioned, and Moving Image categories. SoI doesn't really give awards in comics, but the Sequential/Series category covers work that requires more than one image, so it's mostly comics.

We're a whole week into the new year and stuff is coming at you like a burbling popcorn machine: § What was that you guys were saying about webcomics being out of the mainstream and all? Webcomics merch and distribution company TopatoCo just bought a building to house their operations. So there.

It all happens this Thursday. That's one small step for a woman...

Marvel's Next Big Thing is.... Fearless Defenders! Which launches in February from Cullen Bunn and Will Sliney. We've already given you a look at...

Marvel have released a full teaser image - brings you back to those heady days before one-word teasers, sweet memories - for Daniel Way's...

It seems so! Marvel have released another one of their one-word teasers today, although this one is less of a word and more of...

Oh yeah it's the final countdown, as industry professionals from every walk of life pick out the biggest stories an dpersonalities of 2012 and look ahead to what's in store for 2013, with plenty of news and art sneak peeks strewn along the way. Perviously: Part One, Part Two, Part Three

BTW, if you count up all the "biggest story of 2012" answers, the most votes went to one partricular story: Karen Berger leaving Vertigo. It was truly the end of an era of comics.

Amidst a Hurricane Sandy-fuel hiatus, the third installment of HAPPINESS, a biannual art and comic anthology set to expose and spread a refreshing breadth...

In an earlier post, I alluded to the trials of 2012, and the sorrow of losing my dear cat Inky at age (almost) 20....

Let's start the year out with a return to comics' original sin: Daniel Best reprints Truth, Justice, & The Corporate Conscience by Steve Gerber, an article from WAP, a creator's rights newsletter published in the 80s by Gerber, Steven Grant and Frank Miller. Gerber, for those who don't know, was a very influential writer for Marvel in the 70s who eventually sued for ownership of a character he co-created, Howard the Duck. He lost the suit, but never the anger. He died in 2008.

Although we've sneaked references to the Jet's 2012 season into the Beat as a cautionary tale here and there, they have only been references and not a full on post, because we just couldn't make the bizarre saga of the Quarterbacks who Couldn't and the Coach who Enabled Them (aka The Man Who Mistook a Backside for an Opening) fit into a comics blog. Until now.

Yet another installment of our annual massive survey of the industry. Tons of preview artwork and opinions from industry movers and shakers. Please check it out all the way to the end—there's a lot of thoughtful commentary on where we've been and where we might go next. Part One, Part Two