EW debuts new cover featuring THE DEFENDERS
While Marvel and Netflix's Iron Fist won't hit the streaming network until mid-March, the two partners in gritty superheroing are already talking up their...
The Walking Dead #163 is the biggest selling comic in nearly 20 years
Image has announced that with 730,000 copies ordered, February's THE WALKING DEAD #163 is the Direct Market’s highest ordered comic in nearly 20 years, a feat...
Month-to-Month Sales November 2016: IDW hits with Batman/TMNT
by Duke Harrington
I’m a big fan of the monthly sales chart found over on The Beat. But while I seem to remember them covering...
The TWIN PEAKS revival is coming this May
After a year and a half of teasing, and walking off the project, and then coming back, and then releasing videos of himself eating...
Why Did Marvel Drop Free Digital Download Codes? An Intruiging Theory
We should probably talk about Marvel’s decision to drop the free digital copy they’ve been bundling with their print comics.
If you go back a...
Con Games: Paying to Volunteer at Commercial Events
A new framework for volunteering raises serious questions about law and business strategy.
The Beat's recent articles on volunteering at Dragon*Con and Phoenix Comic-Con highlight...
Graphic novels sales rose 12% in bookstores in 2016 – the only adult fiction...
Publishers Weekly has an overview of bookstore sales in 2016, via Bookscan, and print sales edged up 3.3%, the third year of growth.
The...
The CW renews all of its DC programming, revives CONSTANTINE in animated form
The network will be continuing its wall to wall superhero programming for another television season
Marvel teases a SECRET EMPIRE for Steve Rogers, Captain America in 2017
Marvel has just revealed a brand new teaser with the words SECRET EMPIRE and 2017. Due to the teaser's inclusion of a specific shield,...
Gene Yang and the March Trilogy team are voted the 2016 Comics Industry People...
For the sixth year in a row, The Beat is proud to present the Comics Industry Person of the Year, as chosen by voters in our annual creator survey: Gene Luen Yang. The the Team of the year: Rep. John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell.
The Beat Annual Creator Survey 2017 Edition Part 4: What inspires comics creators (plus...
And here's the fourth and final part of our creator survey, where we look at what inspires creators, what they're working on and what 2017 may being. Thanks to everyone who participated - and you'll fine a bunch of previews of work from Legend of Korra to Czap Books to Thanos.
Marv Wolfman Returns to his Co-Creation in BULLSEYE #1
We already knew that Marvel comics has an upcoming limited Bullseye series putting the spotlight on some of the Daredevil supporting cast members dubbed...
