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The Beat’s 2025 COMICS LOVER Gift Guide

The Comics Beat 2025 Comics Lover Gift Guide has ideas for every single person on your holiday gift buying list.

Organiser 9e Art+ puts ANGOULÊME FESTIVAL 2026 on hold [UPDATED]

Embattled Angoulême Festival organiser 9e Art+ has officially put production of the 2026 event on indefinite hold

BLACK FRIDAY SALES: All the deals on comics, books and toys

From Alex Ross Art to Zenescope, the deals are flowing today. Celebrate capitalism by checking out these Black Friday deals on comics, books and toys.

Exclusive Preview: Titan Manga publishes EKO EKO AZARAK remake, EKO EKO AZARAK REBORN VOL. 1

A powerful witch confronts Hell and her dark past in Titan Manga's new series, "Eko Eko Azarak Reborn" by Yamada Jta.

The Marvel Rundown: It’s the Dawn of the Age of Monsters in INFERNAL HULK #1

This week the Beat's Marvel column tackles Infernal Hulk #1 for its main review, with blurbs about Black Cat, Cloak or Dagger, and more!

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BLACK FRIDAY SALES: All the deals on comics, books and toys

From Alex Ross Art to Zenescope, the deals are flowing today. Celebrate capitalism by checking out these Black Friday deals on comics, books and toys.

INTERVIEW: Behind the scenes of JUSTICE LEAGUE ANNUAL #1 with Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV

How these two writers have taken on the entire DCU and lived to tell about it

Bandai Namco to Close Sailor Moon Drops Game Server

by Erica Friedman On January 28, Fans of the popular phone color-matching game, Sailor Moon Drops, based on the popular manga by Naoko Takeuchi, Pretty Guardian...

Angoulême Day 3 – Meet all the Angoulême Festival Prize Winners of 2019

Our reporter at Angoulême continues his account of this year's festival.

Yuri is My Job! Works for Kodansha Comics as they move into BL and Yuri

Kodansha Comics, the US-based arm of Japanese publisher Kodansha, is beginning their foray into the worlds of Boy’s Love and Yuri Comics with a trio of hard-working series.

Review: A man and his weaknesses drifting in ‘The Sea’

Getting old comes with several features, some of them obvious but many of them not. One of the most alarming is the loss of...

Manga and Anime News

Exclusive Preview: Titan Manga publishes EKO EKO AZARAK remake, EKO EKO AZARAK REBORN VOL. 1

A powerful witch confronts Hell and her dark past in Titan Manga's new series, "Eko Eko Azarak Reborn" by Yamada Jta.

Black Friday: TOKYOPOP launches its biggest manga sale of 2025

For Black Friday 2025, manga readers and fans (and loved ones of fans) can save on their favorite TOKYOPOP titles and merchandise.

CLAMP’s official artbook COLOR KURO is a gorgeous collection of a life’s work

2025 has seen a very interesting collaboration between two...

Exclusive Preview: Roku Souna’s GIZMO RISER explores class inequality

The Beat has an exclusive look at "Gizmo Riser, Volume 1" by Roku Souna, to bepublished by Titan Manga in February 2026.

Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: Take a trip to DICK FIGHT ISLAND

This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers DICK FIGHT ISLAND, SAND LAND and FLCL: THE COMPLETE MANGA OMNIBUS.

Manga Review: MY OH MY, ATAMI-KUN Volume 2

My Oh My, Atami-kun Volume 2 Writer and Artist: Asa...

Business News

CRWN Studios launches distribution arm

The long running Portland-based publishing services house CRWN Studios is expanding to distribution with a 25-year-Diamond Comics veteran as Director of Sales

In Funko’s Fall, We Sinned All

With Funko's future in doubt, a look back at how Pops took over the world and comics shops, and whether they can be replaced

Portland’s Books With Pictures starts GoFundMe campaign

Portland's beloved Books With Pictures comics shop has launched a fundraiser to pay off debts, and the community is rallying around it

Kickstarter staff strike ends

The platform's unionized workers, Kickstarter United, gained "historic protections" against AI and more after striking for 42 days.

Disney and YouTube announce a truce after Disney’s hard line with investors

Disney-owned channels are back on YouTube TV after a two-week absence. The two mega-corporations had reached an impasse in their carriage negotiations, and eventually their previous deal expired, leading to a showdown.

Dynamite signs with Universal for distribution in the US

Universal Distribution has signed a second publisher, Dynamite Entertainment, for a non-exclusive distribution deal in the US and Canada

Reviews

Manga Review: MY OH MY, ATAMI-KUN Volume 2

My Oh My, Atami-kun Volume 2 Writer and Artist: Asa Tanuma Publisher: Yen Press (print & digital) Translation: Amanda Haley Lettering: Elena Pizarro Publication Date: Apr 22, 2025 Rating: Older...

Entertainment

ALICE’S RESTAURANT: where you can stream the Thanksgiving classic

Sixty years after Arlo Guthrie's arrest, here's how you can celebrate Thanksgiving with ALICE'S RESTAURANT.

Horror Beat: Watch these 4 movies this THANKSGIVING to celebrate the terrors family creates

Scream together. It’s what Thanksgiving is all about.

MOVIE REVIEW: Zootopia 2 is an animal buddy cop blast

Disney’s long-awaited sequel brings rapid-fire jokes, buddy-cop chaos, rich animation, and an irresistible new cast of creatures.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW did the right thing with Kris Statlander

The future remains bright for Statlander.

Scott Shaw! looks back at the untold stories of CAMP CANDY

Why Shaw! loved working with the late, great Candy … but hardly anything else about the cartoon starring him

CRITICAL ROLE: THE MIGHTY NEIN ORIGINS debuts on Webtoon

Webtoon and Dark Horse have released a vertical-scroll version of Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins, a prequel comic to the main story.

Wrestling News and History

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW did the right thing with Kris Statlander

The future remains bright for Statlander.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Remembering the Reigns of Terror, Pt. 2 – Jeff Jarrett

Lo, I looked to the horizon and saw him brandishing the NWA Championship and behind him, four horsemen who brought the apocalypse: "My World," ref bump, low blow, and guitar shot

NYCC ’25: DC x AEW crossover debuting at event

The two-part series, helmed by Steve Orlando and Travis Mercer, will debut with a special preview issue at this month's convention.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: Rhea Ripley becomes the latest victim of TERRIFIER’s Art the Clown in Ice Nine Kills concert

Should Art the Clown be Cody Rhode’s next title defense match?

Turnbuckle BEATdown: So, WRESTLEMANIA is coming to Saudi Arabia

It would mark the company's first ever overseas Wrestlemania.

Turnbuckle BEATdown: AEW is now officially on its HBO Era with PLE livestreams

Not necessarily cheaper than WWE’s ESPN package, though.