Heidi MacDonald

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Eisner Award winning EiC ComicsBeat.com and KComicsBeat.com. NYC. https://linktr.ee/Comixace

Lego version of the San Diego Comic Con from 2025 show floor
The cover to Tell it to the Marines from 1952 featuring two soldiers excited by the prospect of meeting some dames.
Francisco Lindor as a Met and Juan Soto as a Yankee in a game together.
Woman putting bare feet on the seat back pocket on airplane.
Demonic makeup wrestler Danhausen, writer Heidi MacDonald and Headlocked Comics publisher Michael Kingston at the 2025 San Diego Comic Con.
The NBA's new 'signature' sound? "The National Basketball Association is launching a new 'signature audio identity' that will serve as a connective tissue between the league's media and social coverage and in-arena experiences, using a new NBA Finals promo scored by 'Succession' composer Nicholas Britell and voiced by Nas to introduce the sound," Alex Weprin reports over at THR...
More Bilton…: The funniest part of Bilton’s press rounds yesterday was the notion that he’s being brought in not to pivot 60 Minutes away from reporting aggressively on Ellison family friend Donald Trump or toward more favorable Israel coverage but because he needs to save the top-rated program—which grew 9 percent last season, per Nielsen—before it declines. “It’s still the number one news broadcast in America,” Bilton told CNBC. “But history tells you disruption doesn’t happen immediately when new technology comes along—it’s usually a few years later.” Come on, Nick. Did Hollywood teach you nothing? Smash hits are so rare, nobody really knows how or why they happen, so when you’ve got one—and the 60 Minutes format and ethos has proven itself exceptionally durable through such massive disruptions as cable news, the internet, and now streaming—you don’t screw around with that success.
image of a Boards of Canad album called Inferno with a hazy over exposed photo of some people maybe in a forest.
Starting this summer, people will be able to create, customize, and manage multiple new “information agents” within Google Search. These agents can work in the background 24/7 to track changes on the web and alert you to new information. For instance, you could have an agent track market movements based on customer parameters, Google suggests.
Blank post pane from LinkedIn reading "What do you want to talk about?" Cody Rhodes' catchphrase.
Donovan Cook’s “Two Stupid Dogs” and the Tremblay Brothers’ “SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron” were pretty good. My distribution strategy, not so much. The shows didn’t really catch on, we dumped $10mm, and had two shows for the library, but nothing much more to show for it. Certainly, not a profit. I went to see Ted with a new plan, asking for yet another $10mm. He listened patiently to my scheme to revive the shorts strategy that had virtually invented the cartoon industry (well, it invented it 75 years before!). “You’ve already failed.” “Well, that was with two swings. This plan gives us 48 at bats. Don’t you think I’ll get it right at least once?” He smiled. Only an entrepreneur would say yes, no business person in their right mind. 48 “What A Cartoon!” short cartoon films later Hanna-Barbera and Cartoon Network debuted “Dexter’s Laboratory,” “Johnny Bravo,” “Cow & Chicken,” “I.M.Weasel,” “Courage the Cowardly Dog.” Not one. Six. Oh, and a plan that put Cartoon Network on the map. Ted was a gambler who liked to win. And he won big.
The report includes figures from the NielsenIQ BookScan, showing that in 2025 the UK comics market reached its highest-ever total sales, making £78.7 million, an increase of 13.9% from 2024. Children’s comic strip fiction and graphic novels hit £25.9 million – a 28.7% increase on the previous year, and the biggest sales year the category has ever recorded in the UK.
The Comics Journal #116 with headline "Jim Shooter Fired - Marvel cites no reason"
a small baby hippo covered by a red blanket snuggles against a sleeping man in a straw filled enclosure.
Playbill for Home Sweet Homer, a flop musical from the 70s staring Yul Brenner.
Drawing of an X-ray view of a good looking white man with a short 50’ style haircut shown as a Skull beneath the skin. Artist Charles Burns is sitting in front of a screen.
A tabby cat asleep in a lattice of sunlight from a blind
Wordpress message board explaining new features for social media sharing are only for Gutenberg. Jetpack Social works with the Classic Editor for the basics like auto-posting, but you won’t have access to all the bells and whistles outlined in this post. New features are only being supported in the Block Editor.
A woman sits at a tiny desk with a thick fabric cover over it less tan a foot from a similar work station. There is no privacy and it is distinctly dystopian.
Three young men wearing patterned hoodie blankets and looking morose.
Floyd Norman at WonderCon panel