2008 Eisner Award Hall of Fame Nominees
PR with emphasis added. Of some interest is the fact that now what we'd call "modern" or contemporary Marvel and DC creators are beginning...
Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a...
Economic report #1: Toys okay
The San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look...
D&Q: Breakin’ the law
If you were going to pick on an indie comics company as a scofflaw, Montreal's ultra-civilized Drawn & Quarterly would be the last one...
Bin Laden doesn’t like cartoons
On the fifth anniversary of the start of America's dumbest war ever, Public Enemy #1 Osama bin Laden reportedly dissed the Mohammed cartoons in...
Cartoon is appointed ambassador for Japan
Lovable toon robot cat DORAEMON has been appointed Japan's cartoon ambassador!
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon...
BEA spotlights Graphic Novels with day of panels
Back in the neolithic times when The Beat first started working at Publishers Weekly, there was usually one graphic novel panel at the yearly...
PictureBox opens store
Following in the footsteps of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly, Picturebox, the Brooklyn-based art comix publisher, is opening a store in Gowanus, Brooklyn!
First, we...
February sales slump
The ICv2 charts same out yesterday, and for the second month in a row, things were down:
Comic and graphic novel dollar sales to comic...
Arthur C. Clarke dies at 90
Visionary and science fiction giant Arthur C. Clarke has died at age 90.
The British-born Clarke, who lived in Colombo, Sri Lanka, for decades, died...
