SPX 2024 updates: badges, hotel rooms etc.
Some updates on this year's Small Press Expo in Bethesda, MD - and some words of warning about booking a hotel room.
A tale of two communities: Fanatics Fest and FlameCon 2024
Fanatics Fest - Comic-Con for sports - and Flame Con - all things geeky and queer - both took place in New York over the same weekend.
Exclusive: HEAT SEEKER: COMBUSTION #1 brings GUN HONEY back in November
Titan Comics and Hard Case Crime announced Heat Seeker: Combustion at San Diego Comic-Con 2024, expanding the Gun Honey universe once more.
Otakon 2024: Exploring the Anime Home Video Museum
To wrap up The Beat's Otakon 2024 coverage, Adam Wscott details the Anime Home Video Museum, a hybrid panel and exhibition detailing the impact of video formats on anime distribution
Shocker! NYCC expands to Wednesday with “Retailer Day”
New York Comic Con expands to five days in 2024, with Retailer Day on Wednesday, including presentations from Lunar, ComicsPRO and Tiny Onion
Otakon 2024: Leviathan made me believe a jellyfish could fly
At Otakon 2024, Qubic Pictures in collaboration with the CG studio Orange previewed their upcoming project, Leviathan.
SDCC ’24: Comic-Con police blotter report
Was there a Comic-Con crime wave? TMZ looked at the police reports.
A Tale Of Two Cons: How Otakon and Otakuthon handled Funko Pop autographs and...
Anime cons Otakon and Otakuthon take on the growing concern of Funko Pop autograph scalping.
SDCC ’24: “Our Air BNB is burning down. Call me.”
How a fire in the Gaslamp during SDCC left two cartoonists homeless....and how the comics community came through for them.
SDCC ’24: Library catalogs offer a unique perspective on comics history
Librarians reflect on the impact comics, graphic novels and manga have had on library readership and propose next steps to broaden its appeal
SDCC ’24: Is it going to be Covid-Con forever?
My thoughts on the 2024 San Diego Comic-Con, including the realization that Covid is here to stay
Vault announces sponsorship for CAPE & COWL CON 2024
Vault Comics and Cape & Cowl are partnering for Cape & Cowl Con 2024, taking place in California on August 25
