The Beat is 10 today!!!
I actually don't remember the day I started this blog—it was June or July somethingth 2004- so I've arbitrarily decided today will henceforth be The Beat's anniversary. Ten long years of late nights, sleeping five hours, web crashes, Vietnamese Instant Coffee, Amon Tobin, Luke Vibert, Vitalic, Tipsy, Mahler, Stravinsky and Amy Winehouse. Ten years of stopping whatever else I was doing at some point to say "I gotta do The Beat now." Ten years of watching the graphic novel industry grow, 10 years of a new golden age of comics, the rise and fall of manga, the rise and rise of comic book movies and TV shows, firings, hirings, 10 days that shook the world. Ten years of the internet changing every week or minute. When I began there was no Tumblr, no Twitter, no Facebook, no Youtube, no smart phones. People were so starved for entertainment that they actually read websites run by one person in their pajamas.
Adrian Tomine covers The New Yorker with 9/11 Memorial
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“When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and...
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by Brandon Schatz
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It had to happen: “Call to Cosplay” reality show debuts Monday on MyxTV
It had to happen: “Call to Cosplay” reality show debuts Monday on MyxTVhttp://ift.tt/1veQOVl
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Help SLG Publishing get back on its feet
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about a sale at SLG Publishing and pointed out thatit had been a pioneering publsiher in reaching...
Allison Baker is new Director of Operations at IDW
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