RIP Frank Springer
Newsday reports the death last week of veteran artist Frank Springer at age 79.
Springer was a gregarious and practical man who labored for hours...
Wolverine-gate updates
Last week, Roger Friedman, a showbiz columnist who worked for Fox, wrote a column in which he reviewed the download bootleg version of WOLVERINE....
The Dawn of the Daffodils
We enjoyed a much needed internet vacation this weekend, which happily coincided with the arrival of some uplifting spring weather. We definitely needed a...
Some trimming at Dark Horse
The Beat has learned that editor Rob Simpson was recently laid off at Dark Horse. Simpson, an industry vet who formerly worked at DC,...
ShoWest’s growing obsolescence
The annual ShoWest confab is wrapping up in Vegas today. Begun as a trade show for NATO, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the...
Joe Shuster Award nominees announced
The 2009 Joe Shuster Award nominees, presented to the best in Canadian comics, have been announced. It's a long list, so see them all...
Ride BIZARRO!
The date of this press release announcing a new Six Flags BIZARRO ride at Great Adventure had us suspecting a clever April 1 gag...
Alt weekly comics strips given no reprieve
Tom Tomorrow reprints correspondence that indicates that things aren't any better for alternative weekly comics than they were a few months ago.
To no...
Recession Watch: Baker & Taylor fights lowered rating
Well, this can't be good. Baker & Taylor, the self-proclaimed "world's largest distributor of books and entertainment", insists they aren't in trouble, even though...
Recession Watch: Borders announces big loss
Borders, the embattled bookstore chain, announced their numbers on Tuesday, and they showed, not surprisingly, a huge loss.
A series of one-time charges...
More on Diamond and Gemstone
Yesterday's rumblings of Gemstone giving up both the Disney and EC licenses have been answered by an official statement from Diamond, confirming what we'd...
Time Machine: 2002: The Year of the Graphic Novel
When you've been doing this as long as I have you are often Googling for information on some topic and end up finding something...
