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The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: 2014 in Comics
Brought to you by Publishers Weekly, it’s More To Come, the weekly podcast of comics news, interviews and discussion with Calvin Reid, Kate Fitzsimons and The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald! In this week’s...
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#fourcomics unleashes a stream of comics we love on Twitter
Jim Zub kicked it off. And then the hashtag spread like wildfire. What four comics would you pick as the ones that influenced you? While I'm often preoccupied with the business machinations of the...
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Because-Play: Parents Organize A Friendly Neighborhood Costume Parade To...
Ellie Evangelista is a four-year-old Spider-Man fan. She wears the pajamas. She plays with the toys. She watches the cartoons with her mother. She wants to be Spider-Man. But that changed when the boys...
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11 Years of Comics Beat: My First Comic
Everyone remembers their first. Comic. Whether it was a Peanuts strip, an X-Men floppy, or the collected run of Watchmen, we were all introduced to the wonderful world of sequential art in one way or...
View ArticleSDCC ’15 – The Beat’s Panel on Ethics in Comics Journalism
Reflecting on The Beat’s comics journalism ethics panel tonight at San Diego Comic-Con, my thoughts keep going back to the comics community – who we are, where we’re going, and what can keep us all...
View ArticleHarvey Pekar Park dedicated today with fest, installation in Cleveland
Cleveland is getting a park dedicated to its comics laureate, Harvey Pekar, whose long running American Splendor comic captured the quotidian lives of Clevelanders. The celebration will run all...
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My Week in Pop Culture: Fixing Comics by Ignoring Comics
You have to breathe out before you can breathe in.
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I Used To Sell You Comics: Comics Are For Everyone (and how working in a...
My mother used to roll her eyes every time I started talking about comics. My intricate and inane knowledge of the history and process of this strange thing (that seemed almost to come from another...
View ArticleBecause YOU demanded it! The Best Graphic Novels of All Time?
Is there a comics canon? Do we want a comics canon? Do we need a comics canon?
View ArticleYou need to read this twitter story about Supergirl
Rather than embed a giant string of tweets just go to this one and read the story that unfolds. https://twitter.com/sapphicgeek/status/805146210235518976 Written by a comic shop clerk, it’s about how a...
View ArticleEleanor Davis, Julia Gfrörer and more in this years New York Comics Symposium...
MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, renaissance man and all time great cartoonist Ben Katchor is not busy enough being a certified G(enius). He also organized the New York Comics and Picture-Story...
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View Article2018 Ignatz Award nominees are announced and it’s a stellar list
Rising above the roiling tides of history, the 2018 Ignatz nominations are out, and they are, as always, a very deserving list of creators and titles some known, some exciting newcomers. It’s all worth...
View ArticleI Can’t Believe What I Found at My Local Comics Shop!
Since moving back to the Midlands last August, I’ve been working part-time at my local comics shop. They just moved to a new location, and I’m using my bookselling, librarian, and organizational skills...
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McFarlane, Ross, García-López among the artists honoring George Pérez in new...
The spread will appear in DC's June-shipping titles, as well as serve as a variant cover for DARK CRISIS #7.
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