Salt Lake Comic Con releases more information on attendance
Following yesterday's post on Salt Lake Comic Con's attendance this weekend—widely reported as somewhere between 120,000-130,000—in which I examined some doubts about this number that have been expressed to me, I received a press release on the numbers, and some clarification from Bryan Brandenberg, Chief Marketing Officer and co-founder of the show. He told me, "We feel real good about our numbers. The capacity for the Salt Palace is 150,000 not 82,000. We not only were in the Convention Center, but our film festival was at the Gateway two blocks away and our gaming tournaments were offsite as well. Besides ticket sales, we gave away over 15,000 tickets to schools, military, first responders and charities and we counted free kids."
Meanwhile, DC is hiring an editor for Vertigo
While Warner Bros. itself is facing a round of layoffs following the abortive takeover attempt by Rupert Murdoch, DC Comics is hiring a few...
Ron Perazza joins Amazon as Creative Director for Amazon Publishing
Via tweets last night, industry veteran Ron Perazza announced that he's left Marvel, where he served most recently as Director of Digital Publishing starting last year, and joined Amazon to as Creative Director of all of their digital publishing efforts. Perazza's multi faceted career includes stints at Fleer, Marvel, DC (where he ran creative services and then rose to VP of Online and oversaw the Zuda webcomics launch), Marvel again and now Amazon. Perazza has relocated to Seattle for the position.
Last Call: All messages go better with Star Trek “Capt. Kirk vs. the internet”
Tom Tomorrow has done it again with a classic Trek-theme cartoon.
Image joins “Artists Edition” ranks with Walking Dead’s All Out War
Artist's Editions are a recent addition to the comics shelf, starting with IDW's over sized Artist Edition series, and continuing on with giant tomes from Dynamite and Dark Horse. Put them all together and you can build a little house! IDW pioneered the form with books that reproduced art original size, with pencil marks and flaws intact. They're as spectacular as they are heavy.
Brooklyn Book Festival has huge lineup of comics events
Just as soon as you recover from SPX, you'll be drinking in the comcis events at the Brooklyn Book Festival, the annual literary love-in which will be held Sunday, September 21st this year. Not only is there a full slate of comics panels, with Brandon Graham, John Porcellino, MariNaomi, Mike Dawson and MANY MORE, but there will be a signings, a screening and parties galore. You can check out the totally excellent (I will steal their theme) Tumblr jsut for BBF comics and graphic novels, but here is the whole schedule for posterity:
Only two comics over 100K in August, but overall numbers creep up
ICv2 has released its August sales analysis and only two comics were over 100K, Batman and Amazing Spider-Man, as they should be. I'm quoting...
Tim Beyers launches pop culture site The Full Bleed
We here at The Beat have long been a fan of Tim Beyer's analysis of comics and comics-based entertainment trends at The Motley Fool and he's just launched his own site to expand on that called The Full Bleed:
Yang and Holmes to produce Secret Coders
Gene Luen Yang (Boxers/Saints) and Mike Holmes of Bravest Warriors are teaming for a new graphic novel aimed at middle schoolers called Secret Coders...
Salt Lake City Comic Con draws 100,000 to a facility that holds 82,000
The third Salt Lake City Con was held this weekend, and it was by all measures a success, becoming the largest convention in Utah,...
New Walking Dead Season 5 trailer teases gore, zombies, haggard looking Rick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2VCyRga2kk
Yep it's baaaaaaack.
AMC released a new trailer for Season 5 of The WAlking Dead. As you may recall when last we left our survivors...
2014 Harvey Awards unspool
Live from Baltimore, the 2014 Harvey's are unspooling. Will our computer battery hold out? Will our attention span survive? I'm not sure, but we'll...
