Recession Watch: Magazine distribution woes continue
Only the New York Post seems to have picked up on this story, but it's a biggie. Another major magazine distributor has joined...
DC layoffs include Schreck
The Beat has confirmed that DC Senior Editor Bob Schreck was laid off yesterday. Other layoffs, expected in the wake of Warner Brothers' companywide...
Recession Watch: 13 laid off at Diamond
The Beat has confirmed that Diamond laid off 13 employees yesterday, including the managing editor and designer for the recently canceled Diamond Dialog magazine....
TCAF announcements
This official press release brings together all known facts about this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and if the names "Guibert" and "Tatsumi" mean...
Soooooo tired
Okay, you people have me plum tuckered out. If we haven't been "debating" men vs. women, we've been "debating" liberals vs conservatives, and now...
More Diamond stuff
Newsarama finally gets Diamond's recent changes on the record from Bill Schanes. Those following the story will probably have read the whole thing, but...
Oscar likes BUTTON, Ledger
The Oscar nominations are out, and though DARK KNIGHT scored a respectable 8 nominations -- including one for Heath Ledger as Best Supporting Actor,...
Recession Watch: WB cuts, Top Cow cuts
• On Monday, Rich Johnston reported that Top Cow has laid off two of its top people, VP of Sales and Marketing Mel Caylo...
Starting Over
We're gingerly climbing back into the saddle, but won't be galloping for a little while; thanks to everyone for the "Get well" wishes. We...
Still out of it
Stately Beat Manor remains a vale of sickness and disease, as both The Beat and Future Mr. Beat had to skip all outside Inauguration...
Oni’s Joe Nozemack on new Diamond policies
While we're sipping soup and all that, Joe Nozemack, publisher at Oni Press, was kind enough to send us some brief thoughts on Diamond's...
RIP: Bob May
After the shocking double dose of death with Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalban the other day, we know you were all wondering who would...
