Tis the Season
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Here at Stately Beat Manor we’ve been getting many holiday cards, both physical and electronic, and each and every one brightens our mailbox with tidings of joy. By far the most unusual, however, was the Virgin Comics holiday card, above. At first we thought “Kaliiiiiiiiii!” but’s it’s actually a character from [...]
Continue ReadingNo Laughing Matter
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet MTV.com has an article up talking to a bunch of folks about Heath Ledger’s Joker. Included in the article are Guillermo del Toro, Paul Dini, Jeph Loeb and … ADAM WEST! Posted by Mark Coale
Continue ReadingBrian Heater and the Spurge show us up
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile Dirk has rolled up his welcome mat, and The Beat has been loafing, at least a couple of bloggers have been WORKING. Brian Heater at Daily Cross Hatch polls a wide-ranging list of cartoonists on their favorite comics of the year. Much love for Julia Wertz’ The Fart Party but the [...]
Continue ReadingTori Amos anthology due from Image
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Many blogs, including Colleen Doran’s are reporting an item from Spin Magazine regarding COMIC BOOK TATTOO, a new anthology based on the songs of Tori Amos. The book will run some 400 pages and stories will be based on individual songs. Long-time Amos cohort Rantz Hoseley edits. Doran has a bit [...]
Continue ReadingGUTSVILLE is coming back
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Frazer Irving writes to assure us that he is indeed, working on issue #3 of GUTSVILLE, the well-received comic by him and Simon Spurrier about life inside a giant whale. To prove it, he even points us to a five-page preview. Enjoy!
Continue ReadingThe interview
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet loans emergency cash Boston, Massachusetts has investigated such usage in their tunnels, although there is loans emergency cash of usage etiquette and also how to fairly award contracts to carriers. unsecured rate fixed loan In Australia and unsecured rate fixed loan the standard ring cadence is 400 ms on, 200 [...]
Continue ReadingAnecdotes #2
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Ron Hogan at GalleyCat has a report on the Comic Book Club One Year Anniversary which we wrote about earlier, with a fuller report It was definitely Fraction who said of his work on Punisher War Journal, one of the best mainstream superhero comics I know of right now, “I wanted to [...]
Continue ReadingAnecdotes #1
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe attended a nice holiday party last night thrown by artist Kelli Bickman and jill-of-all-trades Paulette Powell. It was just a bunch of folks getting together, but it was nice to see old friends like Kyle Baker, Martha Thomases and Jim Salicrup and have a chance to talk a bit. We [...]
Continue ReadingSlow news day
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay we’re taking the day off from blogging except for a few odds and ends…time to get those last minute gifts and get ready for the trip home. We may have a seasonal greetings over the next few days but basically, we wish you ALL a very safe and happy holiday [...]
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HELLBOY II trailer launches
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe trailer for Hellboy II: The Golden Army launches today at noon PST simultaneously over four Fox-owned websites: The trailer will launch simultaneously across four of Fox Interactive Media sites, including MySpace (http://www.myspace.com), IGN (http://www.ign.com), Rotten Tomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com) and AskMen (http://www.AskMen.com) and is set to premiere at 12 noon PST on [...]
Continue ReadingAldara Madden
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt was really the year of the Baby. They were popping out everywhere.2007 closes with yet another cartoonists birth as Jessica Abel and Matt Madden welcomed Aldara Juliet Abel Madden on Sunday, December 16 at 8:27PM. According to Matt, “Aldara is pronounced all-DAH-rah and its origin is probably Old German, meaning [...]
Continue ReadingDidio has braid-in-inkwell technique down pat — UPDATE
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA post at Millarworld details a top notch tweaking: First off, I have no opinion on this question of whether or not Stephanie Brown deserves a memorial in the Batcave. Never read a book with her in it, have only the vaguest idea that she was a female Robin who got killed [...]
Continue ReadingQuick links and ITEMS!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Queenie Chan notes the 3rd volume of THE DREAMING is out and gives the closing credits along with a correction: An apology and thanks to Katie Huang and Paul Aeria, who helped me with the toning for book 3, but unfortunately didn’t get their names in the credits because of a [...]
Continue ReadingHobbit news examined
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMany news outlets have more info on the joyous news of two Peter Jackson/Fran Walsh-led Hobbity movies, including the New York Times. It seems that Jackson is busy filming LOVELY BONES and then TINTIN (YAY!) for the next three years or so, but he and Walsh will have complete creative [...]
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