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Mega City Comics,18 Inverness Street, London 5-6.30pm. Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi signing Dr Stone at Kinokuniya New York, 8.30-9.30pm. Jeff Kinney at Books-A-Million, Ames, Iowa 6-8pm. Danny Fingeroth with Brian Michael Bendis at Powell's Books, A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee. Vita Ayala signing Morbius at Bulletproof Comics Inc, New York, 6-8pm. And a happy birthday to… Photo[...]

They are a publishing house that is bringing the comics of the world to America! We got to see their exclusive panel where they joined with others to talk about their wide world of publishing inside and outside of the states. Heidi Macdonald, a writer for The Beat, moderated a panel of professionals, including: Terence Irvins,[...]

Bleeding Cool's Hilton Collins writes: At one time, Heidi MacDonald was a huge fan of X-Men comics MacDonald, a comic book journalist and former editor of Vertigo and Disney comics, was captivated by Christopher Claremont's classic X-Men stories — until he messed them up. MacDonald told the story during the Friday morning panel Writing About Comics: From Fan to Pro, which she moderated, at San Diego Comic-Con[...]

As quoted in the article, our goal has always been to provide a positive, safe, and respectful environment for its employees, creators, and fans. You can read the full statement here at The Beat, a statement in which Richardson does refer to Asselin's suggestions that Dark Horse might be permissive in allowing a pattern of harassment[...]

Moderated by Henrik Barahas , comics journalists, Heidi MacDonald (The Beat) Brigid Alverson (CBR, School Library Journal), our beloved E.I.C Hannah Means-Shannon (Bleeding Cool), Abraham Riesman (NY Magazine), and Deb Aoki (Publishers Weekly and mangacomicsmanga.com) gathered to discuss their experiences with the comic book world. The conversation started with a fun introduction about how all five[...]

She's one of the very best artists working period. Heidi MacDonald Heidi MacDonald is one of the biggest names in comics journalism She's the founder and editor of The Beat and a self-proclaimed "Pop Culture Maven." Her opinions are informed and astute, her reporting is solid and her tweets are thoughtful and engaging In addition to covering[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/PCHPodcastEpisode75.mp3] After last week's chat with the gifted and insanely busy Zack Whedon (which you can still listen to here) – I'm back with the first of my reports from the 41st Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême! This week I chat with Joe Keatinge, Heidi MacDonald, and Imaginism Studios' founder/creative director[...]

Heidi MacDonald on The Beat, posted a piece criticising Avatar's covers for the series Crossed, after fellow Beat writers Amy Chu and Steve Morris called me out for bias asking why I wasn't calling out Avatar over Crossed covers such as this. Why are peeps all over @mrmarkmillar and no one's calling out stuff like this[...]

Tom Spurgeon (The Comics Reporter) moderated and participated in the panel with Heidi MacDonald (The Beat: Newsblog of Comics Culture), our own Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool, Tony Isabella (Tony's Tips), Alexa Dickman (Ladies Making Comix) and Graeme McMillan (Wired, THR, Newsarama, Comics Alliance, Spinoff, Fanboy Rampage) Spurgeon proved an excellent host to the proceedings[...]

I want to try out some new ideas and explore the opportunities that keep coming up to write novels and screenplays." JoeEismaWatch: Boom! seem really pleased about this hire on Higher Earth… and the morning glories it will bring. SaccoWatch: Moyers & Company on American PBS talking with Joe Sacco on Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. MarketWatch:[...]

And it turns out I have quite the busy Thursday. At 10.30 am I'll join the likes of Rick Offenberger, Alan Kistler, Chris Thompson, Bryan Young, Dan Manser, Heidi MacDonald, Holly Golightly, Kiel Phegley, JC Vaughn, Hosh Waldrop and Matt Moore for the How To Get News Coverage panel in Room 8. I can answer that question[...]

But Ike is uncharmable.") New York-based industry veteran Heidi MacDonald backs this up, saying; Although Marvel's publishing business is still being more or less left alone to do its comics thing, it is increasingly in the middle of Disney's New York real estate problem Disney Publishing's lease on its New York office is up and a new[...]

Have these people learned nothing? Do they actually want to raise money for charity? I only ask because the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund appears to be running a Live Rock And Roll Karaoke night during the MoCCA festival in New York. And it's being co-hosted by comics blogger, editor and PR maestro Heidi MacDonald. You don't[...]