People going places

2 Comments POSTED ON Sep 27 2007 AT 8:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSome catch-up blogging of photo-filled fests of comical types going places and doing things. Remember when you had to go over to someone’s house and sit through hours of boring slides? Thanks to the internet now you can just click and scroll! § PictureBox goes to Greece! Much artwork ensues. (Above) § [...]

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LIbrary event recounted

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 27 2007 AT 8:03 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetForeWord Magazine writes up a recent graphic novel event for librarians. \ It may have been the first all-day event for librarians devoted exclusively to the graphic novel. Graphic novel consultant John Shableski and librarians from the Harborfields Public Library, headed by Director Carol Albino, assembled a mesmerizing series of panels and speakers [...]

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James Turner's Map of Humanity

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 27 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Rex Libris creator James Turner has created a Map of Humanity which you can see in greater detail and even purchase at the SLG website.

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DC Month to Month Sales: August 2007

64 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 11:04 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch DC Comics’ average numbers slightly recovered in August, thanks to continued strong sales of the “Sinestro Corps War” crossover storyline, solid first-issue numbers of various 52 spin-off titles including the ongoing Booster Gold series by writer Geoff Johns and artist Dan Jurgens, and a sudden, mysterious sales increase for [...]

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Disney wins long, bitter Pooh battle

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 11:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Walt Disney company has emerged victorious in a 16-year court battle over the rights to Winnie the Pooh. A California appellate court upheld an earlier ruling that threw out the case filed by the family of Stephen Slesinger, who had acquired the merchandising rights to the ursine honey-lover from creator [...]

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Zot's back!

18 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:08 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetPW reports the joyous news that ZOT will be reprinted by Harper Collins: Acclaimed comics artist and theoretician Scott McCloud will see his classic comics series, Zot!, republished by HarperCollins as an original trade paperback edition in July 2008. One of McCloud’s earliest extended works of fiction, Zot! is a seminal work [...]

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Everybody's Zuda-ing it

2 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:07 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetBelieve it or not, we still haven’t had time to read the Zuda contracts.But lots of other people have! Johanna has an excellent summary of opinion so far, she catches Chris Butcher’s dire warnings It’s nice to be paid a page-rate for your work and all, but that $14,000 salary cap ($1000 [...]

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Nate Fisher/Eightball case mop-up

35 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Pretty much everything of interest in the Nate Fisher/Eightball case has been said, until Fisher himself speaks, perhaps, but a few late comments are worth noting. We found these through our own trackbacks (Our story got Boing Boinged yesterday, sending our hits and trackbacks through the roof.) but if anyone knows [...]

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Canadian Money Matters

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:06 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe mighty Canadian Loonie continues its assault on the now-dinky American Dollar : After sinking steadily for most of the year, the U.S. greenback hit a record low against the euro and declined against the yen yesterday. But nothing hits closer to home, literally, than seeing it fall to a 31-year low [...]

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Shop the Catastrophe one more time

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:05 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia several blogs, The U.S.S. Catastrophe Shop is up again for a bit — time to grab those minis and limited edition goodies while you can!

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Meet Ellen Dolan

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSarah Paulson, lately of STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP will play Ellen Dolan in the SPIRIT movie, it’s being reported: Paulson…joins Eva Mendes and Scarlett Johansson in the dark supernatural tale about a young cop who returns from the dead to fight crime, the Hollywood Reporter said Tuesday. While Mendes and Johansson [...]

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Superhero movie curse strikes again _REPOST

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:02 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet loans subprime equity home On loans subprime equity home telephone system, this is created by sending an alternating current signal of about 100 volts into the line. lending loan home 6 SMS sent per day per person across lending loan home lending loan home subscriber base. car loan online [...]

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Rolling

8 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re told the above is how they roll in Atlanta. And we say more power to them. We’re rolling off for a few days, so we’re a little discombombulated. There may be a lot of posting. Or none at all. That’s how WE roll.

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Sketchcast Zot comment

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We don’t know what a “sketchcast” is, but Brady Dale sent us this, and we guess it’s Etch-a-sketch you can share with your friends!

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Salma Hayek has baby!

0 Comments POSTED ON Sep 26 2007 AT 8:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We almost forget that actress Salma Hayek had a baby girl last week. Congratulations! Valentina Paloma Pinault is the first child for Hayek, 41, and fiancee Francois Henri Pinault, but great training for when Hayek plays mother of god-knows-how-many Luba in The Beat’s imaginary but much dreamed for adaptation of LOVE [...]

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