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Here's a run down of what Kevin Smith is up to, including news that Comic Book Men will be renewed for a fourth (!)...

Or so says this interview with The Square Peg Show from MegaCon. Hamner says he'll be working on something "pretty big" for DC and writing and drawing it. Which is good news because Cully Hamner is quality. Among his past work: design work for DC for years, RED, with Warren Ellis, and its spin-offs, The Question, The Shade, Animal Man, Action Comics, etc etc etc.

By the time you read this, The Beat will be on our way to Seattle for The Emerald City Comic Con, now just about...

Normally I'm not in favor of digging up characters who were done perfectly by their creator, but Elektra has been revived so many times, we might as well give it a go again—this time as part of Marvel's experimental push for female-led titles. This new version comes out in April and features writing by Haden Blackman and are by Mike Del Mundo. In fact these pages by Del Mundo look pretty sharp and remind me of....another book with a female lead.

True Story, Swear to God's Tom Beland is back with a new book, Chicacabra, to debut from IDW this June. It's billed as a humourous series of graphic novels, about a Latina girl who turns into a monster -- and yes the title is a play on the legendary creature the Chupacabra.

The Ting Comic and Graphic Arts Festival in London Ontario is yet another of the comic arts festivals (CAFs) springing up around the world....

Felix Lu writes to tell us he's just opened Felix Comic Art, as art rep for Garry Brown, Nick Dragotta, Chris Mooneyham, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Nick Pitarra, Riley Rossmo, Cody Schibi,...

It's not too soon to start planning: Comic Arts Brooklyn has just announced its 2014 dates: November 8th Mt. Carmel church and a few...

NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette Nathan W. Pyle William Morrow/HarperCollins $10, 144 pages ISBN 978-0-06-230311-0 I kept expecting this book of cartoon tips to be funny and it wasn’t. Then I realized it wasn’t meant to be funny. It was meant to be what the title says: tips and etiquette.

It's time once again to look at DC's sales figures. Once again DC takes the top two slots on the Diamond sales charts. But February is a down month overall for the Diamond NA comics market, and DC follows suit. Forever Evil returns with a new issue in February, but both Sandman Overture and Superman Unchained are still MIA. When retailers tie up their order volume with large orders for comics that don't ship, that means fewer potential sales across the board.

In a break with tradition, two living authors have been given the 2014 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing for 2014,...

I hope you have all read Padraig's incredibly remembrance of writer Steve Moore. Coincidentally, a movie is being made of the Hercules comic...