10 Geeky Books to Help Relieve Con Season FOMO

04/02/2019 11:15 am by Samantha Puc

Time to update your to-read list.

RIP Ellen Vartanoff

03/25/2019 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

The longtime fan and teacher passed away earlier this month.

INTERVIEW: Leah Williams Says Writing Comics Professionally ‘Feels Like Getting Away with Something’

11/28/2018 1:00 pm by Samantha Puc

Leah Williams tells The Beat about her transition from comics fan to comics pro.

It’s official! Venom/Eddie Brock is the hot new ship!

10/18/2018 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

There’s a hot new ship that’s taking the world by storm!

SDCC ’18: For the Last Time, There’s No Such Thing as a Fake Geek Girl

07/21/2018 4:29 pm by Andrea Ayres

Once and for all, there’s no such thing as a fake geek girl.

Well known fan personality and former trivia whiz Mike Chary passed away suddenly over the weekend. Chary was a regular on the forums of the olden days and Usenet, the primal dungeons on online fandom. He was also a regular on the Fan Trivia team at Chicago Comic Con’s annual Fan v Pro trivia contest. […]

San Diego Comic Fest ’17: Up and Early for Social Fandom for Geek Properties

02/19/2017 4:14 pm by Nicholas Eskey

Bright and early on a Sunday morning, collected in San Diego Comic Fest’s make shift “Kirby Café” panelists Jenny Stiven, Jonathan Tavss (working in digital and social fandoms for over 20 years), Anina Bennett (once editor at First Comics and co-author and co-creator of Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel and the science fiction series Heartbreakers), and […]

How much do the audience of various comics publishers overlap?

01/04/2017 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Number cruncher Brett Schenker is at it again. As part of the reinvigorated Graphic Policy he’s done a survey showing how Facebook likes overlap for various comics publishers, and also how publisher newsletters overlap. There’s no way to really figure out if the folks who purchase comics are loyal to one publisher, many publishers, or […]

SDCC ’16: Olicity wins Ship of the Year in MTV Fandom Awards

07/22/2016 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

In a bit of an upset over Stucky and Stormpilot, Olicity won “Ship of the Year” at the 2016 MTV Fandom Awards. Teen Wolf, which announced its final season, won the coveted “Fandom of the Year” award. The awards were presented as part of the MTV Fandom Fest events at Petco park but you can […]

Fans v Pros: You’re Doing it Wrong

06/03/2016 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

The Captain America Loves Hydra kerfuffle survived a three day holiday weekend filled with barbecues and hotdogs. I was a little surprised, but not entirely, because the whole matter (described here and here) touched all the nerves on an already uneasy populace. The incident ignited an ideological brush fire over identity, diversity in the comics […]