Catching up with Vertigo and Rushkoff
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVertigo has joined the “first one is free club” by posting the first issues of most of their signature titles for free on these here internets. Everything from SANDMAN #1 and SWAMP THING #1 to EXTERMINATORS and TESTAMENT. The latter has the added bonus of notes by writer Douglas Rushkoff, which [...]
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McLauchlin on The Hero Initiative
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe frequently post news of fundraising efforts for The HERO INITIATIVE (formerly ACTOR), but a quick review might be in order. ACTOR stood for A Commitment To Our Roots and was founded to help cartoonists in need — drawing the funny books is a job without benefits and pensions, and when [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles 'n' Bits 11/17
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe footnote interviews color whiz Matt Hollingsworth, who just moved to Croatia: Q: Coloring techniques have changed quite a bit over the years, with them infernal computers and tools like Photoshop becoming more and more essential. With your colors being known for their textured quality, do you now wonder how you lived [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do Tonight: MASTERS AT NEWARK
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A supercool comics event, one of so many recently, is taking place tonight at the Newark Museum. Now, you may be afraid of going to Newark, but we were there a few weekends ago, and honest, it was a very easy walk from the train station to the museum. And the [...]
Continue ReadingJournalists jailed for Mohammad cartoons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe don’t cover too much stuff on the Danish cartoon controversy — to be honest, it’s too depressing and hopeless, and Tom has been doing a bang-up job of keeping up with it. But once in a while a story comes along that bear mentioning. It seems two Azeri journalists have [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt was a red letter day for The Beat when we finally got linked in Gawker in an item parsing Wil Moss’s report on the graphic novel symposium at the 92nd St. Y. Specifically…what to call those books of words and pictures. La Perdida author Jessica Abel summed it up: “A graphic [...]
Continue ReadingNexus Clarification
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe other day when I posted the news about Steve Rude and Mike Baron bringing back NEXUS, it was mentioned that I will be contributing to the Dude’s follow-up anthology. Just to clear things up, since in my glee I didn’t phrase it very well, this is NOT a Nexus story! [...]
Continue ReadingFantagraphics moves to dismiss Ellison suit
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDirk has the .pdfs etc of Fantagraphics/Gary Groth/Kim Thompson’s epic 41-page motion to dismiss the Harlan Ellison suit. Apparently The Beat has been submitted as an exhibit, so perhaps we’ll say nothing until we get back from the cafe after digesting the whole, chunky mass.
Continue ReadingDoes Mick Anglo own Miracleman?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe had a chance to listen to the Alan Moore interview on Fanboy Radio, and in it he dropped a bit of a bombshell into the already ravaged crater that is the rights situation of Marvelman/Miracleman. You’ll recall that this long unavailable comics classic is unavailable because the rights are in [...]
Continue Reading300 selling in five figure increments
Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 has an analysis of the surging sales of the 300 graphic novel. Apparently that super-hot trailer has got everyone running down to the store to buy a copy, and Dark Horse has just put in an order for 40,000 more copies. A no-brainer, you say? Yes, but previous Dark Horse [...]
Continue ReadingNational Book Awards report
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet AMERICAN BORN CHINESE lost out at the National Book Awards to M.T. Anderson’s The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party, but Anderson gave a shout out in his acceptance speech: In his acceptance speech, Anderson made a point of noting that Gene Luen Yang’s [...]
Continue ReadingRIP Paul Rigby
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Paul Rigby, the Australian cartoonist whose lush cartoons were a fixture of the new York Post and Daily News in the 70s, has died at age 82. He began drawing political cartoons for Perth’s afternoon Daily News in 1952 and, between 1960 and 1969, gained national prominence with his cartoons, which were [...]
Continue ReadingListen to Alan Moore on Fanboy Radio
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe ran out of room to mention this, but you can still listen to Alan Moore on Fanboy Radio yesterday. Moore talks about Lost Girls, the Simpsons, and, we don’t doubt, more. BTW, FBR is celebrating its Fifth Anniversary next week, so congrats to the crew for hanging in there.
Continue ReadingTo do NYC TONIGHT: WOMEN COMIC ARTISTS
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTrina Robbins, Joan Hilty, Leela Corman and Sabrina Jones appear tonight at the Jewish Museum as part of the ongoing comics related programming surrounding the Master of American Comics Exhibit. IN FOCUS: WOMEN COMIC ARTISTSPanel DiscussionThe Mildred and George Weissman Program Influential comic artists discuss how women have contributed to the development of [...]
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