Comic Blog Moves to Publishers Weekly

Posted on July 10, 2006

Heidi MacDonald, author of the comics culture blog called The Beat is moving her blog from Comicon.com to Publishersweekly.com. The Beat can now be found here. Here are statements by PW and Heidi from the press release.

"There's only one Heidi MacDonald and Publishers Weekly and PW Comics Week are lucky enough to have her. Heidi can literally do it all. In the Beat Heidi manages to break industry news, offer insightful analysis and perspective and she seems to know everyone in comics from the quirkiest indie self-publisher to the heads of the biggest comics publishers in the industry. She brings wit, wisdom and a tremendous love for the comics medium to PW and we couldn't be happier (or luckier) to have her."-Calvin Reed, Senior News Editor, Publishers Weekly and PW Comics Week.
"I'm overjoyed to be bringing The Beat to the PW website," said MacDonald. "Every one here at Publishers Weekly has been a huge supporter of both graphic novels o and myself, and with all the added resources, The Beat is going to be better than ever."

We thought these type of deals where a publisher and independent blogger join forces would be more popular after Andrew Sullivan moved the Daily Dish to Time.com in November, 2005 -- but there really haven't been too many of them. Maybe they will become more commonplace in the second half of 2006.