Shel Dorf’s 1973 San Diego Comic-Con Photos
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAt a now-bookmarked site called Comic-Convention Memories, the author is posting some photos found in the late Shel Dorf’s collection highlighting a) just how much fun the old San Diego really was and b) how majestic 70s fashions really were. Just a wee sampling: Carmine Infantino, June Foray and Dorf. The caption says: From [...]
Continue ReadingLost: Nothing’s Irreversible.
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Time once again for the Lost running diary after the jump. Spoilers ahoy, you are forewarned. A brief mention about the clip show before the premiere. Michael Emerson could probably spend the rest of his career doing voice-overs. So very great.
Continue ReadingHappy Los- er, Groundhog Day
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Finally, that day we’ve been waiting for all year. The season premiere of Lost. I mean, Groundhog Day. Click to see the rest of that rodent-filled cartoon by the great creator of Cul de Sac, Richard Thompson. As for Lost, yes, the recap/discussion thread will return tomorrow for this last season of [...]
Continue ReadingFirst Bill Watterson interview in 20 years — No regrets
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet With Salinger gone, you would have thought that Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson was ready to assume the mantle of the literary world’s most dedicated recluse, but he’s gone and ruined everything by giving his first interview in 20 years to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. You’ll want to promptly [...]
Continue ReadingAVATAR, UP, DISTRICT 9 lead Oscar’s nerd herd
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet AVATAR, to no one’s surprise, snagged nine Oscar nominations this morning, tied with THE HURT LOCKER for most. The two films are the leading contenders and sets up an exciting “Battle of the Exes” between directors James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow, who were once married. Pixar’s UP became only the [...]
Continue ReadingWhat is AVATAR ripping off NOW?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet After reading all the things that AVATAR is supposed to have ripped off, you’re sure to wonder if there is a SHRED of originality in the movie — that is, aside from the brand new way of shooting movies that took years to develop. While the usual suspects — POCAHONTAS, DANCES [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 2-2-10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Matthias Wivvel has his wrapup of Angoulême 2010 including an appreciation of Baru: In this context, it seems auspicious that the Grand Prix winner (for his life’s work) is Baru (aka. Hervé Baruléa, b. 1947), in that he is one of the great proponents of a working class and immigrant perspective [...]
Continue ReadingThe Grammys find the future
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWow, based on last night’s Grammy Award telecast, the music biz has found a new look, and it’s Black Lantern all the way! Most performers dressed in dark, or gunmetal, with lots of metallics — hell even Dave Matthews looked like he stepped out of a SAW movie, which is [...]
Continue ReadingBEAT updates
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe were hoping we’d have the new digs open for business today, but despite our best efforts nodding with templates and what not, we’re not quite ready for the housewarming. However, we should be able to at least move our new posting over to the new site later this week. [...]
Continue ReadingFor now, the iPad rolls over and goes to sleep
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Whether you’re basking in the afterglow or fretting unfulfilled, the tumultuous excitement of the iPad announcement has come…and gone. The reactions seem evenly mixed between the rapture and the crapture, with tech site grumbles loud and clear. Annaleen Newitz at io9 has a well thought out complaint: The iPad promises to be [...]
Continue ReadingSo e-publishing is going to be as stupid and petty as regular publishing
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWow, the iPad announcement really didn’t solve everything! In fact the battle lines over who gets what with ebooks and i-that may just be beginning if this weekend’s skirmish between Amazon and Macmillan is any indication. Johanna Draper Carlson has the back and forth — basically, Macmillan — publisher of such [...]
Continue ReadingIch bin ein Avenger
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Or so says a new Marvel teaser campaign. First poster above. So Cap has got a gun for good now? So it goes. EDIT: You know I forgot to mention that the book is written by Brian Michael Bendis with art by John Romita Jr.
Continue ReadingShamus takes Cincinnati
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Continuing his march to the sea, grading and slabbing everything in his path, Gareb Shamus has added a stop on his pop culture tour in Cincinnati, Ohio with the Cincinnati Comic Con Wizard World Convention. PR in the jump, but the Shamus/Wizard brand acquired the existing Cincinnati Comic & Anime [...]
Continue ReadingAngoulême wrap-up: Baru wins Grand Prix
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Angoulême comics festival wrapped up over the weekend, with the Grand Prix being presented to Baru, a well-respected French cartoonist whose genre-spanning career is the kind of thing the French do way better than us. The Comics Reporter has the rest of the prize winners here. Winners include Riad [...]
Continue ReadingRIP: Keiko Tobe
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Manga-ka Keiko Tobe has passed away at age 52. Tobe is known for her award-winning WITH THE LIGHT (published in the US by Yen Press), the sensitive story of a couple raising an autistic child. She stopped work on the title because of her illness a year ago, and her death [...]
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