SDCC 14: Gene Luen Yang on the First Asian American Superhero, Faith and the...
By Kyle Pinion Gene Luen Yang is the writer/artist of critically acclaimed graphic novels like American Born Chinese and Boxers & Saints, as well as the writer of Level Up, The Eternal Smile, and...
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The Beat Podcasts! – Looking Back at Comic-Con 2014
Recorded at 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...
View ArticleSDCC ’14: Jeff Lemire Explores A Futuristic Universe Through A Child’s Point...
By Kyle Pinion Announced at Image Expo this year at San Diego Comic Con, Jeff Lemire’s first ongoing series with Image, Descender, is described thusly: Ten years ago massive, planet-sized robots called...
View ArticleSDCC ’14: Ben Costa on Kung-Fu, Gelatinous Goo, and Good Game Design
By Matthew Jent Ben Costa is a maker. He makes comics, games, and deadpan jokes. I caught up with Ben at the tail end of this year’s San Diego Comic Con to chat about the Kickstarter-funded second...
View ArticleSDCC ’14: Inside, Outside–A Visual Recap
by Pam Auditore While at SDCC I could not help but notice the grumbling across Social Media of how little seemed to be coming out of SDCC in real time, and how deeply missed G4 was as a result. For...
View ArticleCartoonists and Quiznos raise money for schools
whata great event! helped raise over $10k for local san diego schools @sanfordgreene #sdcc #quiznos #QanvasbyQuiznos http://t.co/avW93mvE1R — bernard chang (@thebernardchang) August 6, 2014 Here’s a...
View ArticleSDCC ’14: First time diary: the time of her life
[Ed. note: Chandler Banks is a 17-year-old cosplayer/journalist who went to Comic-Con for the first time this year, and agreed to share her experiences with us. Although folks in the comics business...
View ArticleSDCC ’14: Is Cosplayer Harassment a Real Problem?
How do we solve the problem of cosplayer harassment? Is it even a problem at all, or are we simply dealing with a few isolated incidents? Let’s take a look. Sexual harassment has become a high-profile...
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By Its Cover Special: Image Expo 2014
This will be the last By Its Cover for a few months, so I thought I’d do something special. Today we’re going to look at the Image Expo teaser images shown at SDCC 2014. To be clear, these aren’t...
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The Retailer’s View: Greed, Avarice, Power, and Responsibility
The first superhero comic I paid for with my own money was Sensational Spider-Man #0. It arrived at the pharmacy my mom worked at one cold December before school had let out for winter break. In those...
View ArticleDenis KItchen on The Best of Comix Book–“One of the Greatest Things Stan Lee...
The Best of Comix Book: When Marvel Went Underground is in B&W/ and Full color, HardCover an exclusive Kitchen Sink Press imprint under Dark Horse ISBN:978-1-61655-258-9 Intro by Stan Lee...
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Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 1/4/15: Everybody’s got a snappy new look
New year, new looks for some familiar websites, and some observations about Comic Con that I never revealed until now!
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