Photo Parade Day 2 — I think

10 Comments POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 4:44 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few photos, and no time to write captions except for one… SAN DIEGO ‘06 — MAKE WAY FOR DUCKLINGS!

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More Video Blogging!

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 12:30 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVideo Blog #3: Geof Darrow Video Blog #4: VIZ Media Unfortunately we can’t link the players to the front page here. But we can link to them!

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Blogging is hard, except when it's not

1 Comment POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 12:26 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetToday we have very limited online time, due to our other schedules. so we won’t have much of an update. It is very very very crowded here. Despite that, everyone is kind of calm and collected, perhaps in a shell shocked way. In a way it is hard to report on [...]

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Video Blog #2: Kyle Baker

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 8:55 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe shoot the breeze with celebrity Kyle Baker!

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Video Blog #1

8 Comments POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 8:49 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetArrival, registration and booty.

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2006 Eisner Award Winners — corrected

17 Comments POSTED ON Jul 22 2006 AT 3:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The 2006 Eisner Awards were presented tonight at the San Diego Comic-Con. In addition, several other industry awards were presented. Multiple award winners including the anthology SOLO, which won three awards, Kyle Baker, and Chris Ware. Russ Manning Award: R Kikuo Johnson Bill Finger Award: Alvin Schwartz and Harvey Kurtzman Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award: Zeus [...]

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Live Blogging from San Diego!

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 8:02 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet OUR GLAMOUROUS SAN DIEGO: The Beat, Ian Brill, Laurel Maury and Calvin Reid hard at work on tomorrow’s edition of PW Comics Week. Sitting outside the press room. The cast of HEROES is awfully attractive. Tim Sale tells us he’s ghosting the artwork for the painter character on the show. The ladies room [...]

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The Deepak and Grant Show

Comments Off POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 2:11 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We missed the first part of this due to a scheduling mix-up, but the part we saw was probably the most intellectually trippy panel in San Diego History. “When conscioussness starts opening up, it terrifies people!” exclaimed one questioner excitedly. Chopra spoke about the transformation of the caterpillar to the butterfly through [...]

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Day 1 Party Poop

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 2:00 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetA zillion parties were spread out across the city last night: CBLDF/Image/Suicide Girls, Friends of Lulu, Conan, Hasbro/Marvel, Circle of Confusion, Scholastic, Del Rey, Heavy Metal, and probably a few we’re forgetting. DC had a private luau. We hit Del Rey where we got to meet Stephen Woodworth, Elizabeth Bear and [...]

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CGI Mutant Turtle trailer

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 1:52 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt’s up.:

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Day 1 – the Quickening

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 1:51 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt’s big. Look at the size of that thing. That’s what every con virgin says when asked what they think of the show. We are in a scheduling rush right now, a few hours of free time spent talking to old friends like Scott Shaw! and Katie Merritt and John Layman and [...]

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San Diego Photo Parade Day 1

5 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 12:56 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust a few of the wonderful sights of the show. We have achieved con. Bad Sunburn Parade: Frazier Irving. Mad Dogs and Englishmen and all that…

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2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 21 2006 AT 12:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe 2006 FoL awards were presented in a ceremony at the Bristol Hotel this evening. The winners are: WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARD: (Honoring women in the comic book industry in non-creator roles [editors, publishers, retailers].) Diana Shutz (Editor, Dark Horse) WOMEN CARTOONISTS HALL OF FAME: Roberta Gregory (Naughty Bits, Artistic Licentiousness) LULU of the YEAR: (Recognizing those whose [...]

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SD '06 Photo Parade Day 0

Comments Off POSTED ON Jul 20 2006 AT 1:54 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe took pathetically few pictures yesterday because we were busy Video blogging, and the ones we did are just…lame. But anyway… Stan Sakai has 20 volumes of USAGI YOJIMBO in print — the first book alone is in its 10th printing. How many other American cartoonists have produced such a consistent body [...]

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Registration Update 2

2 Comments POSTED ON Jul 20 2006 AT 1:22 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetRegistration was NOT the nightmare everyone had feared. It took us literally 15 seconds to get our badge with our bar coded press letter. Now, there were lines for ProReg, but the wait of 20-30 minutes seemed pretty reasonable. If you hadn’t pre-registered, there were definitely problems, however, and we also [...]

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