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Matthew Pocci, a Comic-Con volunteer who ran over a woman during the 2014 SDCC ZombieWalk was found guilty yesterday and now faced up to three years in prison. The jury deliberated only a day...

This weekend it's Comic Arts Brooklyn in Williamsburg and here's a look at the books that will be debuting. Thanks to all the contributing publishers and cartoonists for supplying the info and lightening our wallets. Because there were so many new and exciting books I'm splitting this into two parts. Look for part two tomorrow!

If you are located near Homewood, IL, and want to get started as a comics shop owner, Craig's list has what you want listed at $25,000 for a fully functioning shop: Yes .. I...

Back in March we reported the sad news that comics artist Norman Lee had disappeared while snorkeling the Cayman Islands, and was presumed dead. But in a strange twist, it turns out that an...

I've refrained from commenting too much on the Mets recreating Brunnhilde's Immolation scene just in time for the World Series, but then I ran across a report on how the day after, on Monday,...

Disney and Twitter released some character posters for Star Wars: The Force Awakens featuring Han, Leia, Finn, REy and Kylo Ren. Still not a glimpse of Luke Skywalker, which is 100% intentional, according to...

The Beat has been a fan of Michael Cho's spot-on duo-tone illustrations for about as long as there has been a Beat. And now he's doing a full month of Marvel variants? How awesome can you get? Here's what we have thus far:

"It’s the story that has the world talking." Yes that's right. I guess it must be FOC for Secret Wars #8, the next to last issue of Marvel's 2015 event which was supposed to have...

For the past few days there has been a kerfuffle in the extremely high profile, glamourous and profitable world of comics journalism. Rather than comment on this hot mess, I'm going to talk about why it happened. And what we an do to improve things.

In re the last piece, here's a direct link to my first piece for Slate in which I investigate the comics/cartoon connection with quotes from Rebeca Sugar, Kevin Lee, Annie Koyama, Sam Alden and...

If you know anything of the work of Canadian cartoonist Seth, you know that him giving an exhibit of his art the gloomy title "Nothing Lasts" is quite appropriate. But it should be lovely. Details and a preview here.. Bonus daily showing of Seth's Dominiom an award winning documentary about the artist by Luc Chamberland that was produced by the National Film Board of Canada.

STAN THE MAN…YOU’VE BEEN HACKED!! pic.twitter.com/DmYM8FrQt3— stan lee (@TheRealStanLee) November 2, 2015 //platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Not content with cuddling Grumpy Cat, Stan Lee is now under attack from a video of Todd McFarlane. Could anything be more terrifying?...