Tag: HYPE!

Artist PJ Holden has a new 7-page story in a collection of short comics currently on Kickstarter from The Beat's reviews editor.

Tomorrow Awesome Con in Washington DC kicks off, and The Beat will be there. In case you missed it, last year Awesome Con partnered up with Leftfield Media, the convention organization run by Greg...

Hey mom, that movie I was in may be getting much wider distribution! She Makes Comics, Marisa Stotter's documentary about the history of women making comics is being picked up Lifeframe a new documentary division of indie distributor XLrator Media.

The other day we mentioned that the hugely popular team behind Harley Quinn of Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti had imposed a sensible signing limit for shows, which makes sense because they are two...

Z2 Comics just made news last week with a new line of periodicals, and here's their fall graphic novel line, courtesy of Publishers Weekly. The slate includes a collection of Koren Shadmi's awesome webcomic...

Well, we are getting down to a) the bare bones of emerging facts and b) the huge, blossoming never ending until they find the black box* range of speculation over what the hell actually...

First off, Baltimore Comic-Con is THIS WEEKEND. This is one of the most beloved events on the comics circuit and guests include: Joe Hill, Neal Adams, Josh Adams, Ed McGuinness, David Finch, Ivan Reis, Brian...

Disclosure: from time to time I take on outside consulting projects, and I'm currently working with the creators of the new graphic novel Mission in a Bottle to do some marketing for them...

Apocalypse now? Boxing announcer/comics publisher Joe Antonacci will be appearing this Friday on Fox & Friends to talk about the Joe Palooka comic which is launching this week from IDW. (Disclosure: We were a...

Comic cons are springing up like umbrella stands in the rain everywhere around the US -- even in small places like Asbury Park. This Saturday the second Asbury Park Comic Con kicks off at...

By Todd Allen While I'm not sure this news is big enough to warrant having been sent out in what I expect will end up being at least three pieces, DC has issued yet another...

This is firmly under the HYPE banner since I was a publishing consultant for this project, but Ham Fisher's venerable boxing-themed comic strip character has been updated to an MMA-fighter for IDW's Joe Palooka, the brain storm of boxing announcer Joe Antonacci, along with Mike Bullock, Fernando Peniche and Matt Triano. In the story, Joe Palooka is a discredited MMA fighter who travels the world desperately trying to clear his name while fighting to earn a spot in the legendary “Legion of Combat,” worldwide fight series.