Pirates of the Coney Island round-up

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSpeaking of Rick Spears, he has a new book coming out from Image, Pirates of Coney Island, drawn by Vasilos Lolos, and Newsarama has a little preview up, which looks fierce, free-spirited and ready to take no prisoners. All the issues will have variant covers by Becky Cloonan. There’s also an interview [...]

Baltimore Comic-con update

Share this link on Facebook!TweetMore guests! More events! More TUMBLERS! It’s almost time for the Baltimore Comic-con, an always fun sojourn down on the Inner Harbor. While we just received an updated list of show exclusives which you can read after the jump, this year’s Baltimore show will be notable for several things: 1) It [...]

Sacco's almost famous days

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSpeaking of rock’n'roll and cartooning, LA CityBeat interview Joe Sacco on BUT I LIKE IT, his early account of touring Europe with the pre-grunge punk band The Miracle Workers. Ah, those days, we remember them well… : Cramped conditions in their conveyance notwithstanding, this tale never reaches the depths of misery in [...]

Gassere joins ICv2

Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 Newshas brought Anne Gassere on as Managing Editor: ICv2 is proud to announce that Anne Gassere has joined the company as Managing Editor, a new position. In that role, she will manage publishing operations for both the ICv2.com Website and the ICv2 Retailers Guides. Gassere comes to ICv2 from American [...]

Kochalka on tour!

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet James Kochalka SUPERSTAR! Now you can enjoy the galvanizing songs and tranformagtive experience of see James Kochalka LIVE as he embarks on a mini tour in support of his new CD Spread Your Evil Wings and Fly. “This tour will be acoustic-duo style James Kochalka Superstar… just me and [...]

Holy Sh8T! We lost Pluto!

Share this link on Facebook!TweetRed alert! Red Alert! WE HAVE LOST PLUTO. Repeat, one of our planets is gone. PLANET DOWN! FIRE IN THE HOLE!. Call the JLA, mobilize the Avengers…was it Darkseid? GALACTUS? Maybe….THE DEATH STAR. Leading astronomers declared Thursday that Pluto is no longer a planet under historic new guidelines that downsize the solar [...]

DEAD WEST movie prospects

Share this link on Facebook!TweetDEAD WEST by the doughty duo of Rick Spears and Rob G. (TEENAGERS FROM MARS) is the latest graphic novel to be headed to the big screen. According to Fangoria, Adam Green (HATCHET) is slated to direct. Stephen L’Heureux is producing under his Solipsist Films banner (currently in preproduction on LOST [...]

Michael Cho's GRASSHOPPER

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re big fans of Canadian artist Michael Cho here at Stately Beat Manor, and we just found out that over at his blog he’s posting pages of an upcoming project called GRASSHOPPER. We don’t know what it is or when it’s coming out, but it looks pretty amazing. One of the things [...]

SNAKES one more time

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe dissappointing showing of SNAKES ON A PLANE continues to haunt Hollywood, and the Internet may not be our friend any more. Someone sent us this link to THR’s Martin Grovevery long and thorough analysis of why the film floundered, as opposed to, say THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT which also had [...]

Thot for the day

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re pretty much up to and beyond speed. 90% of our functions and files have been transferred, but we were understandably a little preoccupied, so posting this morning is a bit light. So far all the problems on our new machine have been from the files and system folders we imported [...]

Going Off-line for a bit

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, the baby has arrived, and we’re about to unpack it, so we may be going off-line for a little bit while we learn how to play Second Life. In the meantime, The Beat website had some weird, momentary outages today that resulted in a WordPress error message saying the database [...]

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe hear Journalista! is coming back any minute now. In fact a preview is up right now, which we know because it pinged us. Out of respect to Dirk, the father of comics linkblogging, we’re not going to link to the site, which is still in testing, but it looks pretty [...]

Ivan Brunetti's 22 PANELS THAT ALWAYS WORK* (*sometimes)

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Darned if this isn’t almost as good as Wood’s. [Click for larger version]

Bandai gets tough with fansubbers

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAnime News Network and many other places are reporting a new get-tough attitude from Bandai regarding fan-made translations of their movies, including things like the GHOST IN THE SHELL sequel SOLID STATE SOCIETY: Several fansub sites have publicly announced plans to create and distribute illegal fansubs of Solid State Society following [...]

Museum Gets Funding From New York City

Share this link on Facebook!TweetE&P reports that Mort Walker’s National Cartoon Museum to be located in the Empire State Building, will get an influx of $1.8 million in funding from New York City: The NCM, slated to open next year, was formerly the International Museum of Cartoon Art. It began in Connecticut in 1974, [...]