Yet more maudlin wallowing in olden days from the author.
Some thoughts on helping list the 100 Most Influential Comics Pages of All Times
Over the last month or two I may have alluded to an outside project I was working on and it was this: The 100 Pages That Shaped Comics. The team that put this together was spearheaded by Vulture’s Abraham Riesman and I was joined by Sarah Boxer, Jeet Heer, Fred Van Lente, Brian Cronin, Charles Hatfield, Christopher Spaide, Joshua Rivera, Klaus Janson, Mark Morales, […]
Breaking news!!! Now you can read “More Posts” right from The Beat’s Front Page!
Despite some setbacks in the advance of science, we really are living in an age of miracles. Computers in your pocket. Self driving cars. Foxes that are cute, cuddly pets. And now, humanity’s greatest achievement: a link to the second page of posts on the Beat. As I travel this great nation of ours, I […]
What’s up with the free comics anyway?
As you read this I’m on a plane to New Orleans to speak on a panel at Intix, a convention for people who sell tickets. I’ll be on a panel with Rob Salkowitz explaining how the pageantry and passion of comic cons can be brought to other kinds of events. Becuase comic con is […]
SDCC ’15: who to thank
The Beat is home! Charlie and Lucy are thrilled and I’m trying to reset my sleep schedule. With this year’s Comic-con in the rearview mirror, the attention span of the nation has moved on already and we’re not going to drag out our coverage for a month but you’ll see my wrap-up post (with pictures!!!!!) […]
The Beat is 11 today!
It’s July 1st, meaning it’s the day we celebrate the Beat’s birthday and today marks 11 years of daily comics news! It’s a very special day—I even ganked some clip art for the occasion. I was going to write a long essay here about the State of the Blog but frankly, I’m too wiped out […]
Meet the Beat tomorrow at EternalCon in Garden City
This weekend there’s plenty of comics activity around NYC. Many will be interested in FlameCon, the first ever queen comic-con in NYC, to be held at the Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn…. but I will be at EternalCon, which is held at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City Long Island. This is an […]
On minding your social media manners and hot takes
The priceless Deb Aoki has created yet another masterful Storify called Twitter for Comics Creators – Do’s & Don’ts and rather than embed here, it just go read it. But here’s the nut graph:
Preview: The Multiversity: Ultra Comics brings a haunted comic into our world
The eighth and most meta chapter of The Multiversity hits shelves this Wednesday
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/12/15: What is an “indie comic” anyway?
§ By chance, two websites have been devoting some time to overviews of…non Big Two Comics I guess you could call ’em. Multiversity is running Small Press Month and offers A Brief History of Alternative Comics by Drew Bradley which offers a pretty good run down of the journey from Zap to Teenage Mutant Ninja […]
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