Jill Thompson update
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A reader writes to inform us that Jill Thompson now has her own forum on the Lurid Forum. That in turn reminded us that she has a blog which we don’t check nearly often enough. Thompson is yet another cartoonist who has been locked away working on a loooooong series [...]
Continue ReadingEconomic Report #2: Books not so hot
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYesterday’s announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a bad day on Wall Street, but the outlook for chain book stores isn’t all that rosy over all says Marketwatch: Shares tumbled more than 20% in morning trading [...]
Continue ReadingEconomic report #1: Toys okay
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are coming out based on Indy, Iron Man, Prince Caspian etc etc? Not necessarily. Longtime Bay Area comic book store owner Joe Field said comics and graphic novels – [...]
Continue ReadingBut some must be persuaded
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis post by Molly Flatt in the Guardian has been linked to by several bloggers, starting with Tom. Flatt is definitely of the “Think! Feel! Comics are a great medium!” school, but the comments get a bit lively, although some of the Newsarama-esque ones were removed before we could cut’n'paste. [...]
Continue ReadingCOPPER goes to Scholastic
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Fresh off the news that his AMULET gn is getting the movie treatment, Kazu Kibuishi’s long running COPPER webcomic has been sold to Scholastic, ICv2 reports. The Copper collection, planned for Spring 2010, will include both existing and new material. It will be released in both trade paperback and library hardcover [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles 'n' Bits 3/21
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ “Manga, anime growing in southeast Kansas “ — The National Guard has been dispatched, but can they halt this growing threat? § In comics history this may well go down as “The Symposium Era”. Add the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books to the list of bookish confabs spotlighting GRAPHIC [...]
Continue ReadingSnake Eyes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The first picture of Snake Eyes, played by Ray Park, from the GI JOE movie has been released. We give this its own spot because it’s a nice spot to salute Larry Hama, who wrote tons and tons of GI Joe comics and is a creative consultant on the film. Hama [...]
Continue ReadingStudio Peeps: Tintin, Kick-Ass
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Has Tintin been cast? The Daily Mail thinks so. This is only a rumor, but they claim Thomas Sangster, 17, is on the job as the boy adventurer. Sangster is an experienced thespian, having already been adorable in Nanny MacPhee, and cute in Love Actually. The Daily Mail doesn’t identify [...]
Continue ReadingMini Lost Report
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMark will be along with his usual summary but can we just say: “WE KNEW IT!”
Continue Reading'Tooners now "brashly confident avatars of cool."
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Dear friends, The Beat has been blogging for nigh on four years now, and when we began, our goal was to put comics culture into the context of real world culture, and make cartoonists feel good about themselves by treating the medium as a place of ideas and influence, not the [...]
Continue ReadingBorders on the block?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look into a possible sale in order to get more cash to move forward with restructing. CEO George Jones said that given the tight credit market it was becoming [...]
Continue ReadingPublick, Hammer at NYCC
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Tons o’ guests have been recently announced for this year’s New York Comic-Con, including Gail Simone, Orson Scott Card and now =…the Venture Bros. crew of Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer will be on hand. REMINDER: ONLY THREE MONTHS TO GO! Season 3 debuts this June. It’s been a long lonely [...]
Continue ReadingMore Scott PIlgrim/O'Malley news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § First off, Bryan Lee O’Malley will be appearing this Saturday at Meltdown in LA. Hope Larson will also be lurking. § NEXT, Alex Zalben has a review of the SCOTT PILGRIM movie script! There’s spoilers here, not just for the movie version, but for the books as well. Because, at least in [...]
Continue ReadingTHE BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON cover
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More Jacob Covey-designed goodness! The cover to Dash Shaw’s upcoming BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON.
Continue ReadingAwesome BEAST-y goodness
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet BEASTS art director Jacob Covey has linked to a Flickr page of submissions for his open call and the results are super tasty. Above, Mario Trigo.
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