Archie signs deal with Random House, other updates
Since it's Archie Comics day here at the Beat, here's some later news and notes.
* The artist on the Elizabethan Archie painting is...
Top Shelf announces new business partnership with Johnson and Bregman
Indie comics mainstay Top Shelf, publisher of such critically acclaimed books as BLANKETS, FROM HELL, BOX OFFICE POISON, and LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, has...
GLAAD Media Awards comics nominees announced
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) announced their Media Award nominations today, including the comics category. The awards recognize "news coverage and...
Guy who controls Tintin is very controlling
Nick Rodwell is a lawyer and the second husband of Fanny, the widow of Hergé, the world-famous creator of comics icon Tintin. As such,...
RIP: Eric Rohmer
Film director Eric Rohmer, part of the French New Wave in the 1960s, passed away Monday in Paris at the age of 89.He might...
Fire at Ross Cochran’s house
Publisher Russ Cochran is best known for putting out various EC and Disney archives projects long before it became fashionable and most recently was...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Five
If you've stuck with us this far, you've got to go all the way, as the last batch of comics writers, artists, editors, marketers...
Paging Blackjack!
Sorry for radio silence, we're were felled by the crud yesterday and were flat out until now. It's not the H1N1, thank God, maybe...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Four
It's the biggest year-end survey ever! We're going to keep going until it's all done though. People from EVERY walk of the comics...
Shamus announces Austin Comic-Con
Wizard World has returned to Texas, but in indie-friendly Austin, as opposed to Arlington/Dallas the venue of the previous Wizard World Texas. according to...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Three
Wow, we had SO many responses there WILL BE A PART FOUR. And maybe a part five. Although there's a perhaps not-so-surpsiing consensus on...
PWCW Critic’s Poll anoints ‘Polyp’
It's probably no surprise that Asterios Polyp won PW Comics Week's annual critic's poll. Footnotes in Gaza came in second, and the rest of...
