Disturbing photos: The portly in spandex

9 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 2:46 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet While we’re all digesting and gossiping about today’s news, here’s some truly disturbing photos, via Interbent. A few are Photoshop jobs. Most, God help us, are not.

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DC’s Diane Nelson statement

8 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 12:22 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAlso on the Source blog, Diane Nelson makes a statement that in addition to extolling the men chosen for the new exec team, answers a lot of the questions we’ve all been pondering for the last few months — in fact, they seem directly aimed at them: In terms of possible [...]

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DC Entertainment’s new executive team speaks

2 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 12:00 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia the Source blog, statements from DC’s new executive team: Dan DiDio and Jim Lee: With our respective experiences and history with DC and our relationships with the world’s best writers and artists, our mission is to reinvent DC Comics to prepare it for the challenges and opportunities in this quickly changing world. [...]

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DC announces DiDio and Lee to take over as publishers; Johns named CCO

37 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 11:12 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetSometimes, the bluebird of happiness was within your own backyard all along — WB has ended its search for a new publisher right in their own backyard, with Dan DiDio and Jim Lee named co-publishers. Geoff Johns has been named to the new position of Chief Creative Officer. Pat Caldon, a [...]

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Pood art blog debuts

0 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 8:04 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Another art blog to bookmark! Pood comics which unites Andrés Vera Martínez, Henrik Rehr, Bishakh Som, Connor Willumsen, Chris Capuozzo, Geoff Grogan, Sara Edward-Corbett, Jim Rugg, Kevin Mutch, Joe Infurnari, Mark Sunshine and Fintan Taite. Above, a piece by Henrik Rehr. The meaning of the word “pood” has been the subject [...]

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Put your face on WIRE HANGERS

1 Comment POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 8:02 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The music-comics connection continues with WIRE HANGERS, a miniseries written by Alan Robert, bass player for Life of Agony and front man for Spoiler NYC. In true auteur fashion, Robert writes and illustrates the four-issue miniseries, due from IDW in April. (Covers are by Nelson DeCastro.) To get things going, the [...]

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LOST art galleries

2 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 8:01 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet With its strong characters, endlessly debatable themes and memorable set pieces, LOST is becoming quite the inspiration for a lot of art. We already linked to Vera Brosgol’s Flickr set, now here’s a companion piece from Graham Annable above with “Foggy Memories of Lost”. Bonus, Van Jensen was inspired to create his [...]

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Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 2/18/10

6 Comments POSTED ON Feb 18 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Joe Alterio at Indirect Collaboration posts a Q & A with Charles Burns and Gary Panter on their ongoing works together. [Via Flog] § As noted, we skipped the Hasbro Showroom, but Splash Page didn’t and we gotta admit, that 19-inch Galactus is totally bitchin’.

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Just Mostly Gross, Funny Fun: An Interview with CHEW Writer John Layman

0 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 6:00 pm BY Marc-Oliver Frisch

On the occasion of the German edition of CHEW, which debuted from Cross Cult Verlag last week, I had the opportunity to talk to Layman about the series, his prospects in the comics industry and his experiences at WildStorm. An abbreviated and translated version of the interview, which was conducted via e-mail over the course of several weeks, appears in CHEW - BULLE MIT BISS 1: LEICHENSCHMAUS.

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Graphic.ly acquires iFanboy

6 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 2:02 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetGraphic.ly, a fairly new but bold player in the digital comics distribution field, has announced the acquisition of iFanboy, the popular comics news and information community. PR below: Graphic.ly, the cutting-edge community and digital content delivery platform for comics and other forms of publishing, has acquired iFanboy, one of the leading communities, [...]

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Lost: The List of Jacob’s Messenger

14 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 8:15 am BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Well, Lindelof and Cuse had teased a return of the numbers. And well…., let’s discuss it after the jump.

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Montana family sues Geppi for $500,000

3 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 8:05 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [NOTE: Some copy was left out of the original version of this story due to a posting error; the entire story is now posted.] It’s been no secret over the last year that Steve Geppi, the owner of Diamond Comics Distribution, has had some money problems on his other business ventures, including [...]

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January numbers not so great

21 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 8:03 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 released its January figures the other day — ICv2 – ‘Siege’ Tops the Charts BLACKEST NIGHT didn’t ship for DC. Siege #1 was the top book followed by GREEN LANTERN #50. THE WALKING DEAD Vol. 11: FEAR THE HUNTERS topped the GN chart with a stellar estimated 16,914 copies. Other charts: Dollar [...]

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Gotta chart ‘em all!

15 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 8:00 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe congrats on the new site (now with BLACK type!) continue to pour in, and we’re thrilled by the support. So when we say we are still digging through the email and links and news tips, we mean we’re still spending a lot of time behind the scenes getting this thing [...]

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Big ole’ beatdown: The new TCJ.com

22 Comments POSTED ON Feb 16 2010 AT 4:31 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetAfter a grace period of a few months, internet pundits are targeting the hapless TCJ.com for an old school internet beatdown. TCJ.com thought it knew its way around the ‘net, but wandered up the wrong side of the street and is getting an absolute pasting from hardcore internet bullies site contributors [...]

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