CrowdWatch: The Economics of Digital Comics by Todd Allen
Frequent Beat contributor Todd Allen has just launched a Kickstarter for a new edition of his book The Economics of Digital Comics —the goal...
More and more and more comic cons are on their way
Are con wars just heating up? Calvin Reid and I surveyed the showrunners after this weekend's three con pile-up and it sounds like things are just getting started.
In particular, it turns out Special Edition: NYC was just a warm-up for what could be smaller comics shows everywhere.
To do tonight: Pope, Haspiel, Fingerman, Bertozzi, Miskiewicz
Forbdden panet is hosting a fairly epic singing tonight with PAUL POPE / DEAN HASPIEL / NICK BERTOZZI / CHRIS MISKIEWICZ / BOB FINGERMAN...
Don’t Miss the Devastator’s Hilarious Story Bundle
Bundling is now as popular as it was in Colonial times—even if it meant something a bit different then. Anyway, nowadays it means putting...
Theft follows Denver Comic Con
Just one more little bad news for Denver Comic Con -- it seems two of the dealers, Mindy and Zac Skellington Conley of Hall...
HeroesCon unveils harassment policy
This weekend is HeroesCon in Charlotte, everyone's favorite stop on the convention circuit, and in advance of the show, a
statement on harassment has...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 6/18/14: To canon or not to canon?
§ Multiversity has been killin' it lately with a bunch of industry analyses and convention reports. Here's David Harper on Creator-Owned and the Thin...
Interview: Kids Read Comics Enters its Sixth Year
By Dave Carter
This coming weekend (June 21-22, 2014) will mark the sixth annual Kids Read Comics Festival. KRC brings together kids (and their families)...
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...
