Random thoughts
• All the party invite info for New York Comic-Con has been flooding into our inbox over the last few days -- thank goodness,...
You missed us!
Sorry for the outage, but based on all the emails and phone calls and IMs, you really do read The Beat! It's a touching...
Angoulême: Blutch wins Grand Prix; Pinocchio wins Best Album
The Angoulême comics festival wrapped up yesterday, and the prizes were announced, with French cartoonist Blutch (aka Christian Hincker) winning the Grand Prix. As...
Legal Danger: Lead laws threaten children’s products
Evan Dorkin rounds up the potential dangers of too-literal readings of recent laws aimed at testing lead levels in children's toys:
Anyway -- said impact...
Legal Danger: Comics in Britain!
Comics fans fear that two new British anti-pornography laws 'could make comic books illegal'. The Criminal Justice and Immigration Act would make possessing...
ALA’s 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
As part of the Winter ALA fest, the list of 2009 Great Graphic Novels for Teens was also released. It's a wide-ranging sampling, from...
GLAAD nominates comics
The GLAAD Awards nominations, honoring media representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, have been announced, and the honorees in the comics...
Magazine distribution wars continue
Time Inc. has taken a hard line with two magazine distributors who are asking for an additional seven cents an issue to distribute magazines:...
Tokyopop cancellations
Johanna Draper Carlson notes that you can't buy Kozue Amano's ARIA #4 any more, even though it just came out in December.
Aria Book...
CRICKETS ceases
Sammy Harkham says that CRICKETS, his comics series from D&Q will end its current format; Diamond's new policies is once again the reason....
Recession Watch: MySpace Comic Books division
Nikki Finke reports on layoffs at Fox, including MySpace. The departments cut include the Comics division. We can confirm that marketing manager Sam Humphries,...
Some Stan musings
§ Steven Grant looks at the history of Stan Lee and his failed dot-com:
Which led to an interesting phenomenon, though one not so rare...
