San Diego’s hotel lottery aftermath: Mission Valley dread
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Mission Valley! A historic region, location of the first Spanish settlement in the US, and home to the Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, Fashion Valley Mall and Qualcomm Stadium. And also where you’ll probably be staying after yesterday’s San Diego Hotel Room Rush. Like many people this year…The Beat got [...]
Continue ReadingGraphic Details: Comics Need to Grow a Spine
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Rich Johnson Comics bound together as books. What a silly idea. Comics were magazines; you read them once and shoved them in a closet to be thrown away by your mother years later, right? Plus, if you did read them a few times they usually fell apart. The pages scattered after [...]
Continue ReadingEXCLUSIVE: Al Gore is coming to Comic-Con
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And so are Newt Gingrich, DeeDee Myers, Ken Burns and Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt. Well, they’re not exactly coming to Comic-con, see. But they will be NEXT DOOR as part of the 2010 AHA Health Forum Leadership Summit which is being held at the Manchester Grand Hyatt, July [...]
Continue ReadingHOTELOWEEN — the aftermath? — UPDATE with Hyatt info
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay, that was really easy. Got on, no problem. Faced with big list of hotels…luckily, I’d done my planning last night and know the hotels of downtown by heart so that didn’t take long. Had to fill out all info…total time. Less than 10 minutes. BUT… NOW THE AGONY BEGINS. Waiting, waiting, [...]
Continue ReadingNew Guardians of the Globe member is on comeback trail
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Continue ReadingCountdown to Hoteloween
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you are like The Beat, you are right now loosening up your internet connection, optimizing your browser and limbering up your fingers for Hoteloween — the annual dash for a good hotel room for San Diego Comic-Con. We’ve detailed the horrors of this day many times in the past — [...]
Continue ReadingIDW becomes Diamond premier publisher
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And then there were…five. Diamond has just announced that IDW will join Marvel, DC, Image, and Dark Horse as a “premier publisher,” the first company to rise to that rank since the whole system was set up in 1996. Diamond will continue to act as IDW’s exclusive distributor to comics shops, [...]
Continue ReadingPorcellino, Sturm, and Clowes on tour
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via the D&Q blog, chances are a great cartoonist will soon be coming to a store near you, as three tours have been announced: Daniel Clowes: 05/03/10 Wash DC POLITICS & PROSE05/04/10 Cambridge BRATTLE THEATER & HARVARD BOOKSTORE05/05/10 NYC THE STRAND05/07/10-05/09/10 Toronto TCAF05/13/10 San Francisco THE BOOKSMITH05/14/10 Los Angeles SKYLIGHT BOOKS05/16/10 Portland POWELLS06/03/10 Oakland DIESEL06/12/10- 06/13/10 Chicago PRINTERS ROW & QUIMBY’S
Continue ReadingLos Angeles Rock’n Comic-Con to feature Stan Lee
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet With Long Beach and Anaheim getting their own conventions, why not Pasadena? A consortium of FAME LA , Vanguard Productions, and Animation Ink, in cooperation with Desert Wind Comics, have just announced the LA Rock’n Comic-Con for May 28-30 at the Pasadena Convention Center. Stan Lee is the Guest of Honor, and [...]
Continue ReadingNotes from the road
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet By some miracle, we are safely back at Stately Beat Manor, after a continent-crossing turn as a tagalong on the CHOKER Tour. The Bens Templesmith and McCool (and yes that does sound like a detective agency) are still out there barnstorming the Southwest and getting tattoos, but we’re home reacquainting [...]
Continue ReadingThe Guardians of the Globe tell it like it is
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As INVINCIBLE readers know, Image has its own superteam, the Guardians of the Globe, a JLA analog in the manner of The Authority and the Squadron Supreme. It seems that the Guardians are getting their own book in August of Image’s rather cheeky marketing campaign –itself taking off from Marvel’s recent [...]
Continue Reading2010 Joe Shuster Award nominees announced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNominees for the 2010 Joe Shuster Awards recognizing the best comics work by Canadian creators (including permanent residents of Canada), were announced today. Nominees were selected from a list of eligible work published in 2009 and winners will be selected by a jury. The awards will be presented at a public [...]
Continue ReadingTop Ten Vital Reasons Why Cartoonist Milt Gross is *IMPORTANT*
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet by Craig Yoe [It has come to our attention that we don't link to the I.T.C.H. blog enough, especially when they post lots of awesome Milt Gross art, as above. Site proprietor Craig Yoe recently published Complete Milt Gross Comic Book and Lify Story from IDW and generously offered to [...]
Continue ReadingVampirella goes to Dynamite
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The last vestige of Harris Publications’ long ago black and white horror line, Vampiralla was the odd woman out at the publisher. Now the lady vampire will find a more hospitable home at Dynamite Entertainment which today announced they had acquired the character. PR below: Before Twilight. Before True Blood. [...]
Continue ReadingSt. Patrick’s Day with Eclectic Micks
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It is hard to know how to celebrate the day of Irish folk on a comics blog, so we’ll just link to Eclectic Micks, the art blog by Irish cartoonists Stephen Mooney (Angel; After the Fall), Stephen Thompson (Star Trek; New Frontier, Presidential Material: John McCain), Len O’Grady (Smoke, Ares) [...]
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