Tag: Year-End Survey
The Beat Annual Creator Survey Part Five: Is Star Wars a guilty pleasure?
And so we wrap up this year's with the last round of replies, and if one thing is clear it's that a lot of people are looking forward to a new Star Wars movie. Once...
The Beat’s Annual Comics Industry Survey, Part One: The Return of Siegel & Shuster...
Yep, it's our annual survey of the comics landscape, from the mainstream to the indies and everything in between. Each year we send out surveys to as wide a swath of comics pros around the world as we can muster...among the answers you'll find lots of news of 2015 projects, predictions of the year ahead...and right off the bat some startling news from Jeff Trexler about a possible legal bombshell in 2015...and the return of Casey from James Sturm's epochal comic strip "The Sponsor." Hold on to your hats and let's get going.
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 5 — let’s look at...
Okay this wraps up our annual tradition of surveying all levels of the comics industry for their thoughts on the state of the union. We still have the Comics Industry Person of the Year...
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 4
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 3 — more thoughts on...
Yep it's more picks and prognostications, with a few tasty previews thrown in.
Ted McKeever, cartoonist
2014 Projects: THE SUPERANNUATED MAN
A new Golden Age format, B&W, 6-issue series from Shadowline/Image, coming out around June/July...
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 2
Here's the second part of our annual look at what's happened and what happening next for comics. Thanks to everyone for all the time and thought they put into their answers. Part 1 can...
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2014 Edition, Part 1 – Kickstarter, harassment, digital...
Yep it's the return of an annual Beat tradition that goes back nearly a decade, as comic folk from every level of the industry -- creators, reporters, retailers, publshers—talk about the issues of the year past and look at the issues of the year to come. There are always a lot of thoughtful answers in this survey, but this year a LOT of very important and thought-provoking topics are looked at from crowdfunding to harassment.
And as always, there are previews and news scattered in the 2014 projects. So settle in and enjoy—there is so much more to come.
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2013 Edition, Part Four
Oh yeah it's the final countdown, as industry professionals from every walk of life pick out the biggest stories an dpersonalities of 2012 and look ahead to what's in store for 2013, with plenty of news and art sneak peeks strewn along the way. Perviously: Part One, Part Two, Part Three
BTW, if you count up all the "biggest story of 2012" answers, the most votes went to one partricular story: Karen Berger leaving Vertigo. It was truly the end of an era of comics.
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2013 Edition, Part Three
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2013 Edition, Part Two
The yearly wrap up continues as folks from every area of the industry look back and forward and tell you what's coming up in 2013. Who will live? Who will die? Who will publish...
The Beat’s Annual Year End Survey, 2013 Edition, Part One
It's here! Our look forward and back with the most eclectic group of industry pros on the web, from creators to publishers, editors, librarians, even a journo or two. 2012 was a year bursting...
More comics make more “Best Of” lists for 2012
As year-end lists of best continue to come out at a steady clip, graphic novels continue to be represented on lists—not as a special category but as their own thing. And that's a good...