Tag: Archie

Archie Comics continues its march to diversity, naming playwright/screenwriter/comics scripter Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to the post of Chief Creative Officer. Aguirre-Sacasa's hire was announced in...

Just to give you something nice to get into the weekend with, here's the cover for the second printing of issue #3 of the...

Archie Comics complaint against co-CEO Nancy Silberkleit for sexual harassment has been going around for a while. New information includes recent filings in which...

Today is Black Friday, when America celebrates their foundations through the buying of heavily discounted goods. The Beat, being a comics blog, strongly endorses...

If we're doing Halloween, then that seems like a great chance for me to catch up on Afterlife with Archie, the company's first mature...

Here's a list of the creators and artists signing at individual booths -- we'll update it as we go so please send us updates.

Archie Comics and Warner Bros are teaming for a a live-action Archie. The PR claims it's the first feature film starring Archie which...

The heat wave that scorched the streets of Philadelphia on the weekend of the show did nothing to stop the stampede of comic universe...

Archie's ongoing Kevin Keller comic won Outstanding Comic Book at the GLAAD Media Awards, presented Saturday evening in San Francisco. The book beat out...

Mark Waid and Dean Haspiel are joining Archie's Red Circle superhero line with THE FOX, a new series. Waid has been tearing things up of late with his Thrillbent comics and Daredevil for Marvel, while Haspiel has been spearheading his Trip City website and various projects, so this chould be right up both their alleys.

The co-creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, George Gladir passed away Wednesday night at the age of 88. The winner of the 2007 Bill Finger Award, Gladir wrote countless classic Archie stories in a career that went back to the 50s. Even in the last decade, he was still creating comics and attending Comic-Con to promote them, as recounted in this touching memorial by friend Batton Lash:

Having met KISS, Glee, and Nick Cannon, the Archie gang is now going undead in a new ongoing series called AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE that's...