The assistant editor’s life
Rich Johnston reports that associate editor Nachie Castro has left DC for a job at Disney. He has not left the band Skelter, however,...
Meltzer’s bid to save Siegel’s house
Novelist Brad Meltzer has a new book out -- Book of Lies -- which uses the murder of Jerry Siegel's father when...
McCloud announces Google Chrome
Not content with becoming a verb, noun and ultra-profitable media conglomerate, Google is about to launch a browser, and it will be called Chrome....
Warners fires back, drags in everyone
The New York Times reports on Warners' response to Fox's suit over WATCHMEN. A key element: Just what did one-time WATCHMEN producer Lawrence Gordon...
BUY: PictureBox sale
Starting today!
Beginning Monday, September 1 at noon PictureBox is having a one-week only massive Back-to-the-old-new-School Sale!Everything on the site is discounted from 30% to...
2008 SPACE Prize finalists announced
The Day Prize, for small press comics, was ended recently when founder Dave Sim withdrew it, but there is now the SPACE Prize, with...
Happy Friday!
Yes, we are still loafing. In a summer in which we spent ZERO hours lying in the sun, reading a book, going to the...
Shop at Ralphs for the Hero Initiative
As The Beat wanders each week through a cramped Gristedes, pushing a tiny, child- or midget-sized cart through narrow, stacked-up aisles, hoping against hope...
Requiem for a Virgin
Looking at my calendar for today, there was a single item, planned about a month ago:
12:00 -- Lunch with Virgin Comics
The meeting had already...
Writer Dan Slott and DC Comics editor Michael Siglain join Comics Experience
Is this a trend? Press releases complete with giant photos of Dan Slott holding a copy of SHE-HULK and Mike Siglain standing in front...
Virgin: That’s all she wrote
Somewhere, Nicolas Cage is crying. Calvin Reid at PW gets the tale of the tape:
Although calls to Virgin Comics CEO and cofounder Sharad Devarajan...
Quick hits
§ Revolving door: Rick Marshall has joined MTV's Splash page blog:
I’ll be joining the current editor, Casey Seijas, in helping to make this new...
