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CANCER VIXEN is a very important graphic novel. When it came out in 2006, it earned what must have been the biggest advance ever...

Infinity #1 is a Marvel Comics Event.  It says so on the first page.  I'd also say that might be slightly overstating things.  Having read...

A few years ago, comics water cooler gossip (and message boards) were enlivened by Con Wars, a series of conventions—mostly run by Wizard World—that...

And speaking of sales, Variety reports that news of the upcoming Batman/Superman movie has spiked sales of Frank Miller’s ‘Batman: The Dark Knight Returns’,...

As it's the time of the month when he sales charts come out, usually someone stands up and says "WHY ARE THERE NO DIGITAL CHARTS?!??!?" and it's true, we don't know the numbers, but it's easy to make a snapshot chart from the top in-app purchases and other automatically generated lists. Brigid Alverson has been doing just that n a weekly basis for Good E-Reader

Boulet is awesome, nuff said. The French cartoonist is very popular in his home country, and his amazing 24 hour comic published here by AdHouse as Noirness has begun to get him a well deserved US following.

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...

In a comment on his post regarding DC's allocation of their Villains month promotion, veteran retailer Brian Hibbs mentioned that he had quit the...

I've just been looking through the DC solicitations for November, but suddenly stopped in awe as I came across Harley Quinn #0. The first...

Here. This is the footage that was shown at Comic-Con and at D23. It's.... Whoa. That's Peter Serafinowicz who voices the "what a bunch of A-holes" line, equalling...

Unexpectedly, Vertigo have today explained through MTV Geek that Simon Oliver and Robbi Rodriguez's (excellent) new series Collider is due to change its title....

DC is in a weird place right now. You can practically watch the publisher's retail and talent relations take a nose-dive on the Internet. Just last week, retailers Brian Hibbs and Leo McGovern called DC out on its handling of a line-wide publishing stunt in August; a "head of DC Comics" was quoted as admitting that his target audience are "45-year-olds"; popular artist Kevin Maguire announced on Twitter that he'd been "just fired" from an upcoming DC title, asked for work -- and was hired, lickety-split, by a gleeful Marvel editor in chief a few hours later; and the brave souls who read the actual comics that somehow still get made, published and sold in this environment conclude that everything kinda reads the same at DC.