Facts emerge in fired teacher/EIGHTBALL case
The New Haven Register weighs in with actual news story about the story of Connecticut teacher Nathan Fisher who resigned after parents complained about...
The Best Comics of 5767
The year's best-of lists get out of the gate with Heeb Magazine lists their top ten comics of 5767 starting with
1. Nick Bertozzi, The...
Wizard staff cuts
Tom has an unusually extensive list of recent lay-offs and resignations from Wizard which we've removed since Tom objected.
It's of some interest that Mike...
D&Q hires Salomon as controller
D&Q sends out a personnel related press release and is thoughtful enough to include a Julie Doucet panel to illustrate it!
Effective immediately, Jamie Salomon...
Clean up delays blogging
We're just so swamped with this and that...a disappointing day on The Beat is bound to follow.
Porn comic revealed…..EIGHTBALL!
UPDATE: Based on the news video at the below link, it appears that the issue in questions was EIGHTBALL #22, shown at left. I...
PR: Fassbender at BOOM!
As we told you a while ago, Tom Fassbender has joined Boom! Studios as VP of Publishing; the press release praises his "steady hand"...
Our loss is your gain
As some of you may know, when we're not toiling away on The Beat we're toiling away at Publishers Weekly on various odd jobs...
Highwaymen continues to perplex
Sometimes it just takes an honest question to bring out honest answers. Writer Marc Bernadin's frank questioning over the relative sales failure of his...
Reid/Wood wed
E&P has a brief report on the editorial cartoonist wedding of the decade :
Two cartoonists were married in a ceremony presided over by a...
Teacher assigns “lewd” comic
Many questions are raised by this brief news story out of Guilford, CT about a teacher who is accused of giving a freshman student...
