31 Days of Halloween: Stephen R. Bissette’s WE ARE GOING TO EAT YOU!
Stephen Bissette is one of the morbid masters of horror comics, having gained fame for pencilling Saga of the Swamp Thing, publishing Taboo, and...
Live from Detroit Fanfare: Cosplay photos
Hey there, we're transferred Stately Beat Manor to the warm Aboda Hotel in Dearborn, and have been enjoying the hospitality of the Detroit Fanfare...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – Coffin Hill Interview Special
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi...
31 Days of Halloween: Akira Toriyama’s COWA! and seven other new digital series from...
Viz had been plugging along with its digital comics available via Viz.Com and their app they just announced eight new series. Including one by...
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: September 2013 – Big 3D 10th Anniversary Collector’s Item Spectacular
First things first: September 2013 is, by quite a margin, the most successful month ever for DC Comics since Diamond started providing data on actual comic-book sales to retailers in March 2003.
In September 2013, DC Comics sold an estimated 4.2 million new comic books to specialty retailers, for a total of $15.3 million in retail sales value. To date, the record was held by October 2011, with 3.8 million new comic books for a total retail sales value of $11.9 million, followed by September 2011, with 3.6 million new comic books for $10.9 million.
The Alan Moore/Marvelman Interview: Part III: “I Definitely Wanted My Name Taken Off It”
This is the third and final part of a three-part interview I did with Alan Moore in October 2010 about Marvelman, and indeed Miracleman,...
CAB Preview: Keep Fresh by Zejian Shen
From the ongoing serial PARTY PLANS to her editorial handiwork in the anthology DIMENSIONS, the resounding and gripping nature of Zejian Shen's work have...
31 Days of Halloween: Vintage Comics covers
A brief tribute to days of yore by Grayflanneltumblr
Best Relaunched Blog: Zainab Akhtar’s Comics & Cola
If, like The Beat, you have been mourning the absence of Zainab Akhtar's byline around here, it's because she's relaunched her own blog, Comics&Cola,...
Beware The Batman should have bewared Cartoon Network
I haven't really been following all the animated DC cartoon news, but Beware the Batman, the dark (!) CGI cartoon telling Batman's early days...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: 10/25/13 — Now I remember what it is like to be...
It's 43ºF at Stately Beat Manor, but they haven't turned the heat on, because...they don't do that. So forgive me if the shivering forces...
New Luke Pearson and more funny Brits
From the The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humour vol 2: The United Kingdom. Launch party tomorrow at Gosh! in London. For US readers more...
