2009 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners
The 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners have been announced, and for the first time...there was a tie! Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chamber,...
Climb every mountain
Sigh. Every once in a while, the image uploader on The Beat just takes a holiday. It's like a play by Alberto Casella. ...
The webcomics approach to printing
The New York Times strikes yet again, this time with a profile of XKCD creator Randall Munroe and his plans to go to print:
The...
The “Let’s Rebuild Len Wein’s Comic Book Collection” Project
In case you haven't figured it out, this is an organized way to help creator Len Wein, whose house was recently gutted by fire,...
That darned New York Times bestseller list!
Now that the New York Times' online-only Graphic Books Chart has been around for a month or so, people are beginning to wonder just...
Missing girl in Colorado
BLOG@ reports that webcomics artist Frank Frisina’s niece is missing in Colorado.
The girl is 14 years old (5/5/94), 5 feet 5, 120/130 pounds, and...
Stumptown Trophy Award nominees announced
The Annual Stumptown festival is this weekend and the nominees for the Trophy Awards, recognizing standout new works from exhibiting creators have just been...
Dark Horse and Image join Final Order Cut-Off program
As planned for over a year, Dark Horse and Image are joining the ranks of "FOC" publishers at Diamond. Already used by Marvel and...
Up and at ’em!
We're back online, and back at work, but rather than try to play catch up, we're taking this outage as the great "Wipe the...
Return to the Database
Or...thank you Time Warner Cable. Well, that was annoying. Ironically, we didn't even know the Beat was down because our home home internet has...
Do the Eisner Awards ignore manga?
Noah Berlatsky sums up similar thoughts by David Welsh and Simon Jones on the dearth of manga titles and creators among the...
