RIP: Charles Barsotti
Famed New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti has passed away at age 80. He was 80. Barsotti had been suffering from brain cancer since...
The Retailer’s View: Event Comics and Ordering Abuse
by Brandon Schatz
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When you spend your days breaking open comic solicitations and marketing for a living, you begin to pick out patterns. A new...
Cartoonist who got paying job hired another cartoonist for job!
Alert the media! Everyone was excited last year when Award-winning cartoonist Matt Bors got hired by the Medium to edit an actual comics page,...
Notes From The Future: First Details Regarding September Releases
Ahead of their solicitations, The Beat has learned about several new books coming out in September and beyond.
GI JOE returns to the shelves with...
May Sales now online: Amazing Spidey #1 up to 545k
by John Jackson Miller
Marvel's Original Sin #1 led the market in a month that included a Spider-Man movie release and what Diamond Comic Distributors...
Denver Comic Con grows, as do table fees, vexing retailers
This weekend's Denver Comic Con experienced the kind of exponential growth that one expects these days: up to a reported 84,000 people from 63,000...
New York’s big calm convention weekend
It was a busy weekend for comics in and around New York City, with EternalCon, New York Comic Fest and Special Edition: New York...
SENYC 2014: The Return of the Original Quantum & Woody
by Brandon Schatz
Christopher Priest and M.D. Bright return to Quantum and Woody this October, as the long announced Q2: The Return of Quantum and...
Doggie Captain America is the biggest thing at Special Edition
Looks like all today's cons are doing great, but this canine Cap is definitely the most tweeted and instagramed cosplayer of the day!
ELCAF Previews Night: Robert Ball’s ‘Dark Times’
Responsible for some of last year's most visually arresting comics in the form of Winter's Knight: Year One, Robert Ball's next project is going...
ELCAF Previews Night: Kristyna Baczynski’s ‘A Measure of Space’
Astounding designer and comic-maker Kristyna Baczynski will be at ELCAF, debuting what look to be a number of new pieces. One will be her...
ELCAF Previews Night: Ricky Rouse Has A Gun
Launching early for ELCAF (the full release isn't slated until September), Jörg Tittel and John Aggs' book 'Ricky Rouse Has A Gun' will be...
