DC December Announcements in Full: The Suiciders and more
DC-s announcements for products shipping in FEbruary are out today and here's the WHOLE thing! what will you try What will make you cry?
THE...
Angoulême fest announces line-up of exhibits and spotlights: Watterson, Kirby, Moomins, Taniguchi
The Angoulême Festival International de la Bande Dessineé for 2015 has released the schedule of art exhibits, spotlights and other goodies. They attached this...
Goodreads Choice Awards Graphic Novel Nominees Announced
Goodreads, the social media network for readers, has its 2014 has its Best Graphic Novels & Comics 2014 nominees up. And they are
The Retailer’s View // A Confluence of Events (Part Two)
With both Marvel and DC running big, somewhat vague multiverse spanning crossovers this year, I decided to take some time to go over what...
British Comic Awards winners announced
The winners of the third annual British Comics Awards were announced during the Thought Bubble fest and they are:
Best Comic – The Wicked +...
Marvel celebrates 10 million social media followers with goodies
To mark more than 10 million combined likes and followers on TikTok and Twitter Marvel is offering some sneak peeks and free digital comics...
Jim Lee Joins Grant Morrison on The Multiversity: Mastermen
Grant Morrison's Multiversity mini-series has proven to be an unexpectedly fun rfrolic thruogh the various realities of DC's multiverses. Well, perhaps unexpected is not...
Hotelier: Why can’t San Diego Comic-Con move to November?
Oh no not again. With the San Diego Convention Center's expansion plans spiked, and Comic-Con's contract up in 2016, people are once again asking will Comic-Con stay in San Diego? but the question does seem to have a more perfunctory tone than last time. As Lori Weisberg reports, Mayor Kevin Faulconer is all about keeping Con in San Diego and trying to get local hotels to keep their prices at the 2016 level for 2017 and 2018—and many are going along, but only because pretty much everyone realizes that keeping Comic-Con in San Diego is in everyone's best interest. Anaheim is trying to jump into the mix again, but after a few WonderCons in Anaheim, I think everyone realizes that Anaheim is not San Diego, and the show would become a very different event if it moved. And besides, WonderCon is developing into a more significant event on its own.
The New Yorker’s Cartoons of the Year is out, with Wheeler and Karasik
Although The Beat is a loyal New Yorker subscriber (it's the only thing that holds our attention whilst on the elliptical) just beause you're a subscriber does't mean you get the Cartoons of the Year special edition. However if our email is to be believed, this issue includes several new pieces that may necessitate a trip to the newsstand.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/17/14—New people are reading comics, but what’s their deal?
§ MUST READ!!! Brigid Alverson has a write up of last October's Cv2 Conference. and boils down the many statistics that were presented that...
Throwback Saturday: The Golden Apple c 1987
Via Leonard Pederson's Facebook page here's a photo of me interviewing Frank Miller and Bill Sienkiewicz about Elektra Assassin at the Golden Apple in...
TGI-FOC: Degree of Variants
It’s the return of The Beat’s weekly look at comics on Final Order Cut-Off (FOC) and bits of retail process that doesn’t merit a...
