Thor Was Tired of Living A Lie… The View Wasn’t
By David Nieves
Equal to a freeway pile up closure in California where honking and flying obscenities are like pennies overflowing from the change jar...
Breaking: Titles for October
With October solicitations just around the corner, sources have whispered these sweet secrets in The Beat's ears. Get a jump on what's to come with the...
IDW takes a crack at getting Corto Maltese right in the US
We've long been among the most vocal supporters of getting a proper US edition of Corto Maltese our. Hugo Pratt's adventure masterpiece is one...
Comics and Graphic Novel Market: $870 Million in 2013, up $65 mil
As there will be no industry white paper at San Diego, where Milton Griepp traditionally releases his industry sales figures for the year, he and John Jackson Miller has teamed up for an estimate of the size of the comics market in 2013: $870 million. That's up $135 million from 2012 -- a very sizable increase. With sales this year generally flat it probably won't be a big increase unless something really nutty happens, but that shows that it wasn't just your imagination: 2013 was a pretty swell year for the comics.
Comics Media — introducing The Spire by Steve Morris
If you are like The Beat, you've noticed that the informed writing styling of Steve Morris have been greatly lessened on this site of...
SDCC 2014: This year’s “Has Hollywood Left Comic-Con” think piece
Every year someone wonders before the big show if Hollywood is giving up on Comic-Con, based on a perceived paucity of panels or whatever, and then Steven Spielberg comes out on stage and kisses Benedict Cumberbatch and everyone forgets about this ideas for another 340 days.
Seconds by Bryan Lee O’Malley is out today
How do you follow up a phenomenon like Scott Pilgrim? Well, you take some time off and then come back with a beautifully realized standalone graphic novel that tells a story about..starting over. That's Bryan Lee OMalley's Seconds, which hits today.
The View announces something about Angela a woman becoming Thor
OOPS -- ALL WRONG! It's Jason Aaron and Russell Dautermann! on some unspecified Lady Thor. But Angela still seems likely. But note the talk about female audience in the pr! Okay that's the last time I ever play guessing games!
Marvel is excited to announce an all-new era for the God of Thunder in brand new series, THOR, written by Jason Aaron (Thor: God of Thunder, Original Sin) complimented with art from Russell Dauterman (Cyclops).
The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood is coming to Dynamite
Educator Christina Blanch had made quite a name for herself with her MOOCs covering gender and social issues in comics. But she's also a very talented writer, and her Thrillbent series The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood has gotten a lot of positive attention. And this October it's coming to print, courtesy of Dynamite. With a Franceso Francavilla cover so you know its good.
SDCC 2014: EGADS! Wristbands for Hall H’s First Panel of the Day!
Hall H camping at Comic-Con became a huge thing over the last five years or so, with thousands lined up all night, and for...
SDCC 2014: Welcome to Hell Week! And what could make it more hellish?
It's what I like to call Hell Week, boys and girls, the week before San Diego Comic-Con when every single thing has to get...
Sales Charts: June Sales Estimates show size of “the long tail”
The full estimates for June 2014 comics sales are now online, and as reported last weekend, at "halftime" we see a market that has rebounded from winter to bring this year's sales even with last year.
Retailers spent almost the exact same amount of money on comics and graphic novels in the period in the first halves of this year and last year, but this year they bought slightly more graphic novels and slightly fewer comic books. But the losses in comic books mainly came during the winter; they've perked up since. We were down 4% in overall sales in the first quarter and up 4% in the second. (So there's no "comics recession," at least in the two-negative-quarters definition of the term.
