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We’re Two!
Yes, The Beat is two years old today as its own standalone website. Woot. And we're celebrating just as we always do --slaving away into the wee hours of the day so you have something to read with your coffee.
Oh yeah we also changed the background just for the [read more]
Coming Attractions: Some Constructive Criticism
By Torsten Adair
From: The Beat
Tagged with Comics, Meta, Publishers, websites
December 26th, 2011 @ 7:00 pm
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For our regular readers, you can skip on to the next post. (You can read this, but this is directed at comics publishers. Feel free to add your criticism and kudos in the comments below.)
Oh, and this is a generic post. No names here, and some [read more]
Holiday slowdown ahead
Well, we got our Christmas wish! Our internet came back on -- magically! But only after we had made a service appointment and had to give up all our last minute Christmas shopping to race -- and we do mean race -- home.
Time Warner Cable, you know how to [read more]
Time Warner: we hate you to death
Hell demons from Time Warner are trying to stop the Beat! [read more]
20 Days of Christmas: Alexis Frederick-Frost
We'll take this occasion of reprinting this year's Center for Cartoon Studies holiday card by Alexis Frederick-Frost to note that thanks to a 12 hour cable outage on my block I've had to repair to the local Not Starbucks for internet. Dear god, this place [read more]
Beat news and notes: please send us BCGF debuts, Christmas links, etc.
Hope you all had a great holiday weekend and plenty of turkey and stuffins. We spent the whole holiday mucking out our shelf porn -- organizing shelves, tossing pamphlets, setting aside some books for storage some for donation, a few for eBay. And some for Beat giveaways! Check back every [read more]
Is it possible to stay in touch without a phone or Facebook?
This weekend I suffered the technocrat's greatest nightmare and dunked my iPhone. It's currently sitting in a bag of rice and soon I will find out if my life is over or not. In the meantime, for someone who is attached at the metacarpal to her iPhone, this past weekend [read more]
Time flies when you are having fun
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Offline
I am going away from the computer for approximately 48 hours. Of course, this means that Marvel will announce a reboot, or Jim Lee will quit DC, or Alan Moore will announce he's writing HELLBOY, or Google will buy Archie Comics sometime during the next 48 hours. My Special Operatives [read more]
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I am going away from the computer for approximately 48 hours. Of course, this means that Marvel will announce a reboot, or Jim Lee will quit DC, or Alan Moore will announce he's writing HELLBOY, or Google will buy Archie Comics sometime during the next 48 hours. My Special Operatives [read more]
Parting Shot: Possibly the Most Creative Halloween Costume of All Time
By Laura Hudson
From: ComicsAlliance.com
Tagged with halloween, halloween costume, HalloweenCostume, Meta
October 27th, 2011 @ 3:29 pm
I know we use the words "best ever" a lot here on ComicsAlliance when we get excited, but man, this spectacularly meta door costume -- as detailed in a comic that's been floating around Tumblr -- is one the most creative Halloween ideas I've ever ..... [read more]
Speed force activate!
As happens from time to time, The Beat has been engaged in an outside project which takes up a significant amount of time normally given over to Beatage. Between that and all the incredible comics events all around every week, it's literally hard to find time to sleep, let along [read more]
Never Forget
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Snuffy Smith and others remember Sept. 11
As you may not have noticed, the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks falls on a Sunday and so more than 90 sunday strip cartoonists will be marking the occasion. [read more]
So what will happen THIS time?
Wow, life in these United States sure is funny. One minute you're watching dashing rebels storming a tyrants compound while Sara Sidner dodges celebratory, lethal bullets, the next there's a dinky but baffling earthquake, and then what about that hurricane? And then this happened. [read more]
Comic shops hit in UK rioting all open for new comics day
By The Beat
From: The Beat
Tagged with Meta, Retailing & Marketing, World Comics
August 10th, 2011 @ 3:06 pm
News roundup and some personal notes on the rioting. [read more]
SDCC, A Look Back: The Beat
One red-eye flight from Burbank later, and I've had the most uninterrupted sleep I've gotten in two weeks. It will take another 10 hours to really get normal, but for that I've got to hang on until the weekend. YOU CAN DO IT!
I'll have more emblematic con thoughts tomorrow, [read more]
The Watchtower: Comic-Con — Do-It-Yourself Edition
As the temperature outside hits 312 degrees Kelvin, I sit here in the cool subterranean basements deep in Stately Beat Manor, keeping watch over the reportage coming east from San Diego. While scanning the umpteenth cosplay photo, I got to thinking... perhaps our readers would care to look behind [read more]
The week in preview
By The Beat
From: The Beat
Tagged with 10 Days that Shook The World, History, Meta
June 27th, 2011 @ 5:00 am
It's been a furious few weeks of action here at Stately Beat Manor and around the comics intertubes as everyone scrambles to cover the DC Relaunch and What It Means. I've been as obsessed as anyone, although some of the fruits of my labor have yet to be posted. And [read more]
Heroine of the week: DaYoung Jung
Thank god for interns. [read more]