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No one is quite sure how the Miami Book Fair International—held in a city known for its wild and crazy lifestyle—got to be the...

The new Comic Arts Brooklyn indie comics CAF, or CAB as everyone is calling it, kicks off on November 9th at the Mt. Carmel...

As we reported the other day, the Wizard World convention experience is expanding dramatically in 2014, adding seven shows in comics market ranging from huge—Atlanta—to kind of off the beaten path—Sacramento, Tulsa.

By Adam McGovern One of the final panels of SPX 2013 was about fruitful points of departure. “Paying Tribute: Traditions of Style,” hosted by Joe...

Gilbert "Beto" Hernandez's status as One Of Our Greatest Living Cartoonists got yet more validation today when it was announced that he's the recipient of The Pen Center USA's 2013 Graphic Literature award for Outstanding Body of Work. The Pen Center Awards are given out each year to deserving authors in multiple categories, and as the name suggests, it honors a notable body of work.

As revealed in Beaton's comic recounting the momentous event, during some SPX chit chat, it turned out they are both related to a family...

In all the gender controversies rattling the comics world, one of the most frequently cited paradoxes is that although research such as DC's 2011 reader survey showed only 7% of comics readers were female, yet when you walk around any comicksy event you see a lot more than 7% women. Women make up a lot of tweeters, tumblrs, and cosplayers and cartoonists. Why this disparity?

All the way back in April, folks at C2E2 were stunned when there was no DC booth. Lots of panels, but no booth. Whispers were that there would be no booth at NYCC either, but that just seemed unfathomable: no big set up at the home town show? Inconceivable!

Last week WB head Kevin Tsujihara gave a talk to the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference and touched on their upcoming slate. You can read a full transcript here (although whoever did it doesn't seem to know Zack Snyder's first name.) Anyhoo, while the J.K. Rowling wizarding news had everyone clicking their heels, it doesn't mean that DC has been left waiting out in the car . Here's the key passage:

Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & Saints, a two volume view of the Boxer Rebellion from both sides of the conflict, has made the long list for the 2013 National Book Awards in the Young People's Literature category.

Just how many places can Norman Reedus be in at once? As we've been mentioning here time and time again at the Beat, comic cons...

New York Comic Con has just released its panels and screenings schedule. But as in past year's, it is presented in a database...