Heidi MacDonald
| Heidi MacDonald | |
|---|---|
 MacDonald at the 2014 Brooklyn Book Festival | |
| Born | November 15 |
| Occupation | Critic, Writer |
| Notable credit(s) | "The Beat" |
| Website | Official website |
Heidi MacDonald (born November 15[1]) is an American writer and editor in the field of comic books based in New York City.
Career
MacDonald is a former editor for DC Comics' Vertigo imprint and Disney Adventures, and also edited the graphic novel The Hills Have Eyes: The Beginning from Fox Atomic Comics that served as a prequel to the 2006 film. She created her long-running blog "The Beat: The News Blog of Comics Culture" at Comicon.com in June 2004, before moving it to an independent site in 2010.[2] She also served as an editor and writer at Publishers Weekly.[3][4]
In January 2016, MacDonald announced she was laid off from her position at Publisher's Weekly, and was moving her blog to the webcomics site Hiveworks. She wrote, "The era of the 'bedroom blogger' is long gone, replaced by corporate entities trying to outdo each other with clickbait headlines and subsisting on popup ads that get more bewildering every day.".[5]
MacDonald is married to comic book writer Ben McCool.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Comics Buyer's Guide #1636 (December 2007); Page 135
- ↑ McDonald, Heidi (February 16, 2010). "EXCLUSIVE: The Beat to leave Publishers Weekly". The Beat. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
- ↑ Reid, Calvin (January 29, 2010). "Comics Blog 'The Beat' to Leave Publishers Weekly". Publishers Weekly. Archived from the original on 2010-04-05. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ↑ Reid, Calvin (February 16, 2010). "MacDonald Relaunches Comics News Blog, The Beat". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved February 22, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.comicsbeat.com/a-new-era-for-the-beat/
- ↑ https://rhbfictions.wordpress.com/category/ben-mccool/
References
External links
- The Beat
- Heidi MacDonald at the Comic Book DB
- Heidi MacDonald on Twitter
- Heidi MacDonald at the Internet Movie Database