New Yorker Anniversary edition showcases cartoon jam!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis week’s New Yorker is the 85th anniversary edition, and as is custom, the iconic Eustace Tilley character appears on the cover. However, this time out the issue sports four separate covers, as a jam between Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Dan Clowes, and Ivan Brunetti. Each issue includes two of [...]
Continue ReadingDiamond power out, no phones
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe big snowstorm which smacked much of the Northeast has claimed Diamond Distribution’s phone and power lines, as John Jackson Miller writes: The first Monday of the month is normally when the Top 300 lists to be released — but against the great snowstorm, not even comics sales charts can stand. Power [...]
Continue ReadingI am a SECRET Avenger!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Ooohhhhh. Secret! They freshened it up with a silhouette — looks like some kind of frog monster, right?
Continue ReadingShamus announces Cleveland Comic-Con
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And now Cleveland has fallen beneath the heel of the Wizard horde’s relentless march! The Cleveland Comic Con Wizard World Convention has been announced for an unknown date, annexing the previous North Coast Comicon, which, based on the website, was last held in 2008. This brings to 11 the number of [...]
Continue ReadingVeitch statement on Comicon.com
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFollowing reports last week about Jen Contino leaving the Pulse, Rick Veitch, co-owner of Comicon.com along with Steve Conley, made a statement on the Comicon message board:
Continue ReadingUP tops Annie Awards
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UP, the much loved Pixar animated film about an old man and a boy scout who pull a house suspended by balloons over a mysterious South American wilderness, has won the Best Film award at the Annies, honoring the best in animation. CORALINE had the most individual awards with three, and [...]
Continue ReadingStudio coffee run: DAREDEVIL, Goyer, COWBOYS, Cap, etc.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe might as well just set up a direct link to Deadline Hollywood, since they’re breaking all the news these days…. § Although generally a lackluster film which spawned a totally lame spin-off, DAREDEVIL is getting a reboot at Fox, with David Scarpa, writer of the little-liked remake of THE DAY THE [...]
Continue ReadingPhoto/event parade
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan at Rocketship!. § Hope Larson’s back piece! § Craig Yoe and “Faux Stan Lee” and “Faux Ditko”at MoCCA.
Continue ReadingKibbles-n-Bits, 2-8-10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Karen Green walks you through an exhibit of comics arts she curated at Columbia University’s Butler Library, including the above: How fabulous is that? A twelfth-century illumination from a manuscript known as the Hortus deliciarum (“the garden of delights”), depicting Hell with the Antichrist cradled on the lap of a [...]
Continue Reading“We Love xkcd” video will cheer you up
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If the Super Bowl’s ad parade of pathetic unempowered, dehydrated, skinned males, bitchy women, lonely bulls, people without pants and Danica Patrick left you feeling a little sad, surely this nerd-centric video by Elaine Doyle and Olga Nunez featuring Neil Gaiman, Wil Wheaton, Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, Bruce Schneier, Jason Kottke, [...]
Continue ReadingWe’re not here to cause no trouble …
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Beat tweets: My billion dollar idea for the day: Peanuts special that airs every year on SB Sunday Eve called “The Day Charlie Brown Kicked the Football” Enjoy the game (or the commercials) if you watch.
Continue ReadingThe Fiffe Files: Mark Badger, Part 2
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [Continuing Michel Fiffe's interview with artist Mark Badger. Part 1 can be found here.] By MICHEL FIFFE for the Beat In this second round (out of three), Mark Badger sheds some light on collaborating with J.M. DeMatteis, co-creating the Mask, being influenced by Howard Chaykin, cultural significance in “realistic” art, the virtues [...]
Continue ReadingWes Anderson’s SPIDER-MAN
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhen the name of quirky director Wes Anderson (THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, FANTASTIC MR. FOX) was floated as a possible replacement for Sam Raimi on the Spider-Man franchise, your first thought was, “What a great idea!” and then your second thought was “Oh, no, that could never work!” And then you saw [...]
Continue ReadingContino leaves The Pulse; whither Comicon?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOnly the other day, a thread on Comicon.com asked Has Jen Contino left THE PULSE? noting that the prolific writer of Comicon’s Pulse newssite had been missing in action on the site, Facebook, and Twitter for quite a while. An email to Comicon.com’s owner Rick Veitch confirmed that Contino and the [...]
Continue ReadingThe Fiffe Files — Mark Badger, Part 1
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet By MICHEL FIFFE for The Beat [Editor's note: We're proud to continue running Michel Fiffe's series of interviews with some of the more fascinating comics artists of the last few decades. This time out: Mark Badger -- one of the most progressive comics artists who ever worked in mainstream comics.] I’ll admit that [...]
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