Daredevil to End with Issue 36
According to long-term artist Chris Samnee, it appears that the current run on Daredevil - written by Mark Waid and drawn by artists including...
The Jim Zub Interviews: David Liss on The Spider
Continuing our Dynamite sponsored series of peer-to-peer interviews, Jim Zub interviews writer David Liss on The Spider #15
Disney launches toyetic shonen Avengers cartoon in Japan
The main reason Disney acquired Marvel was to finally break open the boy market bank, and their simple plan worked pretty well. They're even conquering Japan, it was just announced, with "the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys." It's called Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. "Disk" wars, eh That sound highly, highly toyetic.
The Legal View: Court refuses new hearing for the Kirby family
It looks like the final skirmish in the estate of Jack Kirby's battle to regain copyrights for the characters he co-created at Marvel Comics...
Interview: David Wohl and Jason Enright Unveil Darby Pop Publishing
In the December solicitations for IDW, there was an interesting new book launch - one called Indestructible, which was being published through a new...
The Alan Moore/Marvelman Interview Part II: A Crumpled Letter from Archie Goodwin
The second of three parts of a telephone interview I did with Alan Moore in October 2010 about Marvelman and his later incarnation, Miracleman....
The JIm Zub Interviews: Jai Nitz on Green Hornet
ZUB: What draws you towards Green Hornet as a character, or the pulp genre in general?
NITZ: Pulp characters are much more grounded than their...
31 Days of Halloween: Robb Mommaerts
Robb Mommaerts has done lots of work in animation, illustration and most recently, The Lookouts (written by Ben McCool). You can find ore of his work on deviantART aallery and his website.
Kryptonite, Cairo’s comics shop
As we've been noting more and more, comics are a global culture, and there's even a comic shop in Cairo, Kryptonite located in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt. Here's the description from the English language "Yelp" of the region.
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: August 2013 – Allocation Blues
Due to unprecedented demand for the DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales Column, The Beat announces that broadcasts of the August 2013 DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales Column will be allocated. This column is now FUBAR-Late at the writer level.
You won’t believe this Chester Brown Louis Riel cartoon
A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.
Alternative Press Expo 2013: Not San Diego or New York, But Something Else
By Bruce Lidl
While the vast bulk of the comics industry, including most of The Beat staff, was gathered in Manhattan for New York Comic...
