C2E2 I: The wrap-up
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [Photo via Mekanicat's flickr set.] Incredibly, The Beat is on the move AGAIN. While we’re in transit back to base, a few quick thoughts on C2E2, based on dozens of conversations with publisher, creators, and attendees. • It was a good first-time show. This was repeated over and over by just about everyone [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2 Day 2: Crowds, CASANOVA, Whistling Skull
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA much bigger crowd descended on C2E2 yesterday, Saturday, and more people seemed to be buying. With folks parading around in costume and announcements from Marvel and DC panels, there was definitely the feeling that we had achieved con. Also, folks seemed to know their way around some more, so there [...]
Continue ReadingOni signs up Yo Gabba Gabba
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The big news from Oni’s panel yesterday was a license for Yo Gabba Gabba, the insanely popular show for young kids and those who think like them. PR below, although the creative team hasn’t been announced — maybe Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer, who write for the show, will be involved. W!LDBRAIN [...]
Continue ReadingThe Abominable Charles Christopher comes to print
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Karl Kerschl’s much admired webcomic, The Abominable Charles Christopher, is coming to print! Wrapped in an embossed, faux suede cover, this 144-page tome collects all of the comics from the first two years of the series, along with many additional illustrations and a gorgeous 40″ gatefold at the end of the [...]
Continue ReadingNew CBLDF site debuts
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has debuted a new look and a new, expanded website, with a new logo designed by Charles Orr, of Hypothetical Library fame, and features the photography of Graphic NYC’s Seth Kushner.
Continue ReadingThe Matt Smith Dr. Who era begins (now in US)
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATE: Episode One airs tonight in the US on BBC America. It is preceded by a clip/preview show with Matt Smith and Karen Gillan. Episode three aired today in the UK. All we will say is “toyetic.” Reminder: Season One/Season 31 of Dr. Who (exec producer Steven Moffat says don’t call it Season [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2 Day 1
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt was a day of discovery for the comics industry gathered in Chicago for C2E2 yesterday. Discovering where things were; discovering who was there; discovering how to get past the toilet and sink show. The first major discovery was that — as many locals had warned us — the McCormick Place [...]
Continue ReadingBetty White in a Metal Bikini Wielding a Flaming Chainsaw While Riding a John Ritter Centaur
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Artist Andrew Zubko executes the cover a poll of readers said they would most like to see. via
Continue ReadingNews and notes from ALL over: Tuesday is comics day?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAt last night’s presentations at the Diamond Retailer summit, some hints were dropped of bigger projects to be announced more fully during C2E2 panels. Here’s a bit of a roundup. We tried to snap some pictures of the slides, but they are awfully blurry…As Gilly might say: “Sorry!” • In Diamond news: [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: How to get to C2E2
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Torsten Adair [Bookseller, Beat comment regular and internet addict Torsten Adair has compiled a list of ways to get to McCormick Place, the location of C2E2, the comics/pop culture show opening today. Read and learn.] Here are a few tips on traveling to and from the C2E2 convention at McCormick Place. 1) The [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Various
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet• ICv2 publisher Milton Griepp will present the company’s Comic Industry White Paper at C2E2 on Friday at 12:15 in room E350 at C2E2. The annual ICv2 White Paper, which has been presented for the last four years at New York Comic Con, is the definitive source of information each year [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Dark Horse
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDark Horse (Booth #459) hosts many creators, including Jim Shooter and Jill Thompson: FRIDAY, APRIL 16th: 12:00 – 1:00 Solomon Kane – Writer Scott Allie 2:00 – 3:00 Mass Effect/Star Wars – Writer John Jackson Miller 3:00 – 4:00 Beanworld – Writer/Artist/Creator Larry Marder *Dark Horse Gold Key Comics Panel! 3:00 – 4:00 Room E353. Featuring [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Reading with Pictures
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Reading with Pictures (Booth 1468), an advocacy organization which promotes learning to read via comics, has a pretty big slate of programming at C2E2: FRIDAY Room E352, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM A Brief History of Cartoons,Comics and Graphic Novels: Putting It All Into Context It may seem like the term “graphic novel” has [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Top Cow teams with the Bears’ Lance Briggs
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via PR: Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce Lance Briggs, the 5-time Pro Bowl player and Co-Defensive Captain of the Chicago Bears, will play a special role in Top Cow’s plans for next week’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2). “I’ve been in love with comics since I was 7 years [...]
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