• Home
  • About
    • The Legend of Stately Beat Manor
    • Pale Green Pants Moment
    • The “Satisfying Chunk” Theory
  • Pick Heidi’s Brains!
  • Advertising
  • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Information on How To Get Into Comics and Survive Once You’re There
    • Master Convention List
    • Tilting at Windmills Archive
    • Videos
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram

The Beat

The News Blog of Comics Culture

  • Cartoonists
  • Conventions
  • News
  • Publishers
  • Showbiz
  • Sales Charts
  • Reviews
  • Video Games
You are here: Home / 2006 / October / Archives for 24th

Archives for 10/24/2006 4:19 pm

Happy Birthday, Peter McFarland

10/24/2006 4:19 pm by The Beat

Happy Birthday, Peter McFarland

From the family vaults. [“Harvest” ©2003 Peter McFarland] The Beat

Filed Under: Announcements

To do: October 24-27

10/24/2006 2:23 pm by The Beat

Harvey Pekar, Stumptown, Bryan Lee O’Malley — this week has it ALL! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 NEW YORK, NY — 8 pm: Best American Comics signing at Galapagos, 70 N 6th Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn, $2. Booksigning with editors Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore – plus slideshow with local artists Kurt Wolfgang, Jessica Abel, David Heatley, […]

Filed Under: Events

Women Webcomicker Grant NAN: Recipients Announced

10/24/2006 11:31 am by The Beat

Via Lea Hernandez, the winners of four year long accounts on Webcomicsnation.com: WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN: 2006 Recipients Blue Canary, Kit White Chasing Daylight, Ann Kennedy Circuit of Heaven, Julia Claire Begley (URL forthcoming) Primary, Rachel Dukes Before September 6th, for me to say I understood the reach of the Internet would mean that I […]

Filed Under: Webcomics

For stylish lunching

10/24/2006 8:08 am by The Beat

For stylish lunching

Eric Shanower is once again offering his Wizard of Oz Lunch Box Only $16.95. Seriously, how could you not want this? PS: we recently received a copy of Eric’s ADVENTURES IN OZ compendium, published by IDW, and it is stunning and lovely. The Beat

Filed Under: Books, Indies, Toys

Two ways of looking at a library

10/24/2006 8:07 am by The Beat

The Kansas City Star looks at the recent controversy over FUN HOME and BLANKETS: But the books are notable because they’re also graphic novels, stories told primarily with drawings instead of words. They resemble comic books, but graphic novels typically run hundreds of pages and often tackle mature subject matter. And as graphic novels have […]

Filed Under: Literacy

Israeli comics

10/24/2006 8:06 am by The Beat

Israeli comics

The Jewish Quarterly offers a very long and thoughtful examination of the works of Actus Tragicus, Etgar Keret and the Hanukas: It is often at the margins of a culture that we can uncover the most pressing issues which it faces, as they well up from beneath the surface. Just as the political counter-culture in […]

Filed Under: World Comics

Richie + Diggle = THE GAMEKEEPER

10/24/2006 8:05 am by The Beat

Cinematical sums up the latest “director’s cut” comic from VIRGIN, this one from director Guy Richie: There was an announcement on comic book writer Andy Diggle’s blog that he will be writing Ritchie’s 10-part series The Gamekeeper for Virgin. Diggle is based in the UK and has written for Batman Confidential and Green Arrow. The […]

Filed Under: Indies

More on CORTO MALTESE – UPDATE

10/24/2006 8:03 am by The Beat

We had a brief conversation this afternoon with Howard Jurofsky of Heavy Metal. He says that they will be publishing the first CORTO MALTESE book, THE BALLAD OF THE SALTY SEA, and see how it goes before doing any more of the books. The book will be in the 6 x 9 format, smaller than […]

Filed Under: Books, World Comics

Loken is Painkiller Jane

10/24/2006 8:02 am by The Beat

Loken is Painkiller Jane

We missed this the other day Terminator 3 hottie Kristanna Loken will be PAINKILLER JANE in the upcoming series, but we didn’t want you to miss a photo op! ‘Painkiller Jane’ is executive produced by showrunner Gil Grant (24, NCIS). Loken will serve as co-executive producer. The series is slated to premiere on SCI FI […]

Filed Under: Indies, Television

Jackman on Wolverine

10/24/2006 8:01 am by The Beat

Jackman on Wolverine

Hugh Jackman is excited about the upcoming Wolverine solo movie –which is ironic, because we’re excited about Hugh Jackman! But thanks to a new script that recently arrived on the doorstep of Hugh Jackman, the saga of Wolverine is only just beginning. “We have our final script,” Jackman grinned like a proud papa this week, […]

Filed Under: Marvel, Movies

Next Page »

HIVEWORKS

Our Sponsors

Load More...
Follow on Instagram

Hot Now!

  • My MCU Rewatch: Guardians of the Galaxy Vols. 1 & 2 – When We Love Too Much
  • Amazon’s 99¢ Marvel Sale Appears To Be Over… But All Kinds of Questions Remain
  • This new Nancy strip is lit – and it’s got people on the internet going crazy
  • SD Comic Fest ’18: Richard Bruning Discusses DC’s Failed Venture into Webcomics, “Zuda Comics”
  • SD Comic Fest ’18: A Spotlight on Karen Berger’s Career at DC’s Vertigo
  • Breaking; Barnes & Noble is adding a kids graphic novel section

Search

CONTACT THE BEAT!!!

Send us news, tips and links!

Join our mailing list!

Sign up here for our very rare and special mailing list!
Text graphic for The Beat's Sales Chart archives
free comics, free comics on the beat, a year of free comics
artists you should know

Categories

Archives

Copyright © 2018 · News Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in