IDW’s parent company stock splits 10-for-1 and gets new ticker name
As we've mentioned here a few times, the majority owner of IDW is actually a holding company, formerly known as CTM MEDia Holdings, but...
Comics & Libraries: San Diego State University Crowdfunds to Catalog 20,000 Comics!
San Diego State University has over 20,000 comics and related items to process! (Here's a basic list of comics waiting to be cataloged!)
Like most...
Phonogram: The Immaterial Girl #1 is a Deep Comic About Shallowness
By Cal Cleary
"... what really matters is what you like, not what you are like." - High Fidelity
Welcome back to Phonogram, Kieron Gillen and Jamie...
Deadpool and Cable go Existential for a Split Second with Brown and Nicieza
Deadpool and Cable might not be the best of friends, but that doesn’t stop Marvel from teaming up the unlikely duo again and again....
State of the Industry : The floppy abides
And with another "where are we at now" the revamped Trouble with Comics (or "Middle Aged White (mostly) Men on Comics") looks at the state of the pamphlet, or periodical comic, as we like to call it here at Stately Beat Manner. The question, McLaughlin Group style, is
State of the Digital Industry: Amazon/Comixology gets bigger
Comics business has generally been on an upward trajectory of late, but there are several signs that's things are slowing down a bit. No...
MoCCA Festival announces dates and new venue for 2016
Update: the correct dates for the show are April 2-3, not 3-4 as I originally wrote.
MoCCA Festival, New York's largest indie comics focused...
Trank Sank: Fantastic Four blame flies after poor box office showing
About the one element not being blamed for the Fantastic Four's meagre $26.2M opening is superhero box office fatigue. The film opened at #2,...
Did Watchmen Steal From The Outer Limits, Or From Jack Kirby?
At the end of Watchmen, a television set in the background announces a rerun of The Outer Limits episode "The Architects Of Fear." This was a...
SDCC ’15: Bengal on The Narrative of Action and Influences in Manga
Bengal is a comics artist residing in Reims, France. His published work includes Naja, Luminae, and Meka published in the US by Magnetic Press and Batgirl: Endgame and Batgirl Annual #3 (not published at the time of this interview). On the last day of San Diego Comic-Con 2015, I had the good fortune to chat with Bengal, tucked in the back of the very busy Magnetic Press booth.
Fall Preview: Merry Misadventures in Julia Wertz’s Drinking at the Movies
Continuing our look at this fall's top graphic novels, Koyama Press is reissuing Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies, originally published by Three RIvers...
This Weekend: Autoptic in Minneapolis
This weekend's premiere comics event is Autoptic, the Minneapolis stop on the ongoing indie comics festival tour. Guests include Josh Bayer, Gabrielle Bell, Charles...
