Tag: Top Cow

When thinking about the crazy world we live in today, where The Walking Dead is the most successful thing on TV and Marvel is the most successful thin in movies, I often think back to a seminal moment in the debate between creator-owned and company-driven: the 2008 debate between Robert Kirkman and Brian Bendis which took place at that year's Baltimore Comicon. The think kicked off when a pre-Talking Dead sharpened Kirkman posted a video editorial calling for more creators to band together to make creator owned comics more of a thing, He even had an agenda for the process (emphasis mine.):

What shocking secrets will you learn in today's thrilling episode of Kibbles n' Bits?

NOTE: I originally attributed these valentines to Suzene Campos -- but she merely sent me the link. Apologies to the ACTUAL artist, callmekitto, about whom I only know is named Lauren. (Although I suck,...

§ By now if you are at all interested in Batman you have seen This and the above intro of Bluebird by Dustin Nguyen. If you're NOT into Batman suffice to say that Batman...

§ Warren Ellis has trashed another laptop, prior to moving to LA SOMEWHERE for six months to work on a mystery project. I repeat, Warren Ellis is moving to LA for six months....

§ January 6th is the Christian feast known as Epiphany, also the 12th Day of Christmas, so the holidays are over AND you get to wish people a great Epiphany. It never gets old. Above painting by Abraham Bloemaert.

Thanks for all the great emails yesterday, people. They are much appreciated. § MUST READ: More on Neil Cohn's experiments in how comics are read. He actually put electrodes on people's brains to figure...

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

§ Tim Gibson's Moth City is a fine looking webcomic—it'a now running on Thrillbent— and Gibson talks some about the web/print paradigm shift here. It doesn’t sound sexy, but distribution is everything now....

For the last few weeks, a story has been going around, recounted by artist Tess Fowler, about how a comics pro seemed to be interested in her work, but when he asked her to...

I noticed this morning that they hadn't updated and that, coupled with the recent editor search, sent my Heidi sense tingling and yes indeed, MTV Geek is no more. Friends and fellow geeks — We're...

Although this is the best time in recent comics history for sales and quality, the current sales success doesn't come without an asterisk: the huge number of variants that almost every publisher is pumping...