Comings & Goings

We at The Beat are no strangers to conventions. Years of experience have taught us what is and is not necessary to take on our “nerd-orientated” excursions into extreme fandom. More importantly, trial and...

If you follow TCAF showrunner and comics industry savant Chris Butcher on twitter yuo know he's always in Japan. Always! IS it just to bring back green tea Kit Kats? Well now all of...

Ending a suspenseful watch that lasted a few months, the white smoke has finally risen from DC Entertainment, signaling the election of a new pope of humor: Bill Morrison will be the new executive editor of Mad Magazine when it moves westward later this year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BTJ0Sxxh9sp/ Former Marvel spokesperson Chris D'Lando didn't take too long to find a new gig. As he tweeted yesterday, he's joined the ReedPOP team; ReedPop being the outfit that puts on NYCC, C2E2, PAX, and...

Some job listings for those interested in comics careers; full details in links. Oni is hiring an Associate Editor!  Oni Press, Inc., is the premier comic book and graphic novel publisher in Portland, Oregon. We publish creator-owned...

  As first reported at Newsarama, former EW assistant editor Andrea Towers is joining Marvel as sales and communications assistant, replacing the outgoing Chris D'Lando. As she tweeted: https://twitter.com/_atowers/status/861974304594042883 Towers led much of the comics coverage at EW and has written for CBR,...

DC just announced a promotion and a new three pronged editorial team, led by Pat McCallum, Mark Doyle and Bobbie Chase, and the announcements hints at some of the "market expansion" Dan DiDio hinted at...

Today, Chris D'Lando officially announced that as of yesterday, he was no longer working at Marvel as a Sales & Communication Administrator. Those of us in comics press will know Chris as one half of the front-end...

CXC, the Columbus-based comics festival, is hiring; deadline is tomorrow at 5 pm though, so brush up that resume. The fest has rapidly become a focus for comics art on all levels, and this...

And then there were...five. Comics Alliance is shutting down, effective today, In fitting sign of the state of comics journalism , the news was scooped by another site whose lede was about how they...

Scott Kennedy of the New Jersey local paper The Montclair Dispatch writes to say he's looking to hire an editorial caricature artist. This is a paid opportunity, although it it geared towards student, "The time...

AfterShock  is on the move, with more titles and now a new publishing assistant and a (well deserved!) promotion for Lisa Y. Wu; Ashley Wyatt has been hired as publishing assistant. Bios below: Lisa Y. Wu,...