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The Beat is going to be hung up for the next day or so with Industry Day here at the CEnter for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT. We arrived late last night, missing...

Local comic-cons are all the rage these days, and now Long Island is getting its own show: Eternal Con, which will be held June 15th at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City....

People often ask me "Why don't you do a podcast?" I answer, "I do." This week on More To Come 46: Exit JManga, Persepolis Banned, myself, Calvin Reid and Kate Fitzsimons - discuss the closing of...

Although we and many others have been touting this weekend's WonderCon in Anaheim as the anti-Comic-Con -- a SoCal show where you can just kick back and wander in and out and not worry about hassles—it's popular enough to have sold out ahead of the actual show:

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hv4KQNHYfY?feature=player_detailpage&w=640&h=360]But it's the Rugburn-produced motion comic AXE COP—not the yet-to-premiere animated version that will debut in July as part of Fox's ADHD adult animation block. Whoa, are you confused yet? Perhaps. But the bottom...

I saw the final night of the ENCORE! concert staging of the Adams/Strouse Superman musical last night and I truly wish I had seen it earlier so I could have written about it earlier...

Walking Dead continues to dominate, but Star Wars and Saga both go from strength to strength. Strong debuts for Shadow Year One, Legend of the Shadowclan and the new GI Joe book are interspersed with increased sales for My Little Pony, Adventure Time and Hellboy. Elsewhere is the usual clutch of Image debuts, while further down a few series return to the charts after a period away.

Writer/publisher Vera Greentea is shooting for her fifth successful Kickstarter comic book campaign. Since 2010 she has raised $22,601 and this time she's trying to hit her $10,000 goal to fund her latest anthology,...

Looking to work in comics? There are quite a few openings at DC Entertainment—most of them in the Burbank office—but this one in NYC for Editorial Scheduling Coordinator might be the most nerve-wracking, as...

§ J. Caleb Mozzocco looks at the remains of WildStorm in the New 52 with a focus on Stormwatch, and he has some sharp words for the overall art style: What I found most...

After a mini PR meltdown over DC editorial's leaked plans to kill John Stewart, the long running Green Lantern character who is considered DC's best known African American character, it is being confirmed on...

On his Tumblr, he mentions that he also owns a pizzeria, which would make him possibly the most popular cartoonist of all times.