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Archives for May 2010

Tragedies

05/28/2010 8:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Tragedies

Very sad news in the comics community.

Filed Under: News

BEAT MAY GIVEAWAY FRENZY #7: Eddy Current

05/27/2010 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

BEAT MAY GIVEAWAY FRENZY #7: Eddy Current

Today we are giving away a cult comics classic which was published in 1987 but still speaks to today’s issues. Before there was Wesley Gibson or Dave Lisewski or Flex Mentallo there was…Eddy Current, the story of an inmate at a mental asylum who finds himself melded with the “Dynamic Fusion Suit” he ordered from an comic book ad and escapes to save the world.

Filed Under: Image

BEA Day 2

05/27/2010 8:10 am by Heidi MacDonald

BEA Day 2

As mentioned previously, we were at BookExpo America all day Wednesday, and will be there all day Thursday. The show is much smaller than in recent years — the children’s book section which once took up the entire bottom part of the Javits is now just a corner of the main floor. The Diamond alley of comics publishers seems smaller this year, as well, although Dark Horse, Image, Dynamite, IDW and Marvel are all set up, along with a few others.

By contrast, Fantagraphics was set up in the Norton Booth right at the front of the hall and was practically the first thing you saw as you walked in. They are giving away galleys of Moto Hagio’s HERE COMES THE SON and Joyce Farmer’s SPECIAL EXITS, which we have and have flipped through, but haven’t had time to read yet. Something to look forward to in life, thank God! Fanta assoc. publisher Eric Reynolds explained that he felt that this year it was more effective to pay for more galleys to give away than to have an author appearance, and given the alacrity with which people roaming the floor scoop up those galleys, it might be a good idea.

Filed Under: Books, Business News

Disney joins Marvel’s fight with Jack Kirby

05/27/2010 8:08 am by Heidi MacDonald

Disney has issued a memo supporting Marvel in the rights dispute with the heirs of Jack Kirby. THe document is included in the post; we don’t have time to read it now, but we’ll join you back here for the discussion. Heidi MacDonaldHeidi MacDonald is the founder and editor in chief of The Beat. In […]

Filed Under: Jack Kirby, Legal Matters

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 5/27/10

05/27/2010 8:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 5/27/10

Wow, so many links and things that we can’t even begin to give you a teaser. Just read it!

Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits

BEAT MAY GIVEAWAY FRENZY #6: Cat Eyed Boy Volume 1

05/26/2010 6:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

BEAT MAY GIVEAWAY FRENZY #6: Cat Eyed Boy Volume 1

Do you like the Twilight Zone? Do you enjoy horror movies? Do you like mischievous half-human observers who set off events of mutilation, transformation and dismemberment? Then you will like today’s giveaway, CAT-EYED BOY Volume 1 by Japanese Horror master Kazuo Umezu. OF this volume AICN wrote: The manga offers an inclusive look at oddities […]

Filed Under: Giveaways

Briefs & Boxers! 05/26/10

05/26/2010 11:04 am by Marc-Oliver Frisch

Briefs & Boxers! 05/26/10

o “I’ve Never Sent a Prose Reader to Amazon Because Amazon Doesn’t Leer; I’d Like to Stop Doing It in Comics” Comics reporter Tom Spurgeon poses three rarely discussed questions on comics as a culture and industry. The questions concern the moral aspects of archival reprints, the general and specific unfriendliness of comics specialty stores […]

Filed Under: Culture, Marc-Oliver Frisch

Gene Luen Yang’s AIRBENDER boycott explained

05/26/2010 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Gene Luen Yang’s AIRBENDER boycott explained

The Last Airbender movie gained controversy for casting white actors in the roles associated with Asian characters in the cartoon original. Many folks are boycotting it because of this, including cartoonist Gene Luen Yang.

Filed Under: Sociology

New Yorker alert: Ivan Brunetti

05/26/2010 8:45 am by Heidi MacDonald

New Yorker alert: Ivan Brunetti

The New Yorker has totally been on a cartoonist cover tear lately, with Joost Swarte, Daniel Clowes and now Ivan Brunetti. Who’s next???

Filed Under: Art

The return of Ryan Choi

05/26/2010 8:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

The return of Ryan Choi

Writer Ian Boothby has been at play in the fields of Gail Simone’s forum, and aided and abetted by other posters, it turns out Ryan Choi, the recently deceased Atom, is not dead, he’s just resting, or something. (The above example of “His Choi is Alive” art is by a poster, it should be noted.)

Filed Under: DC, Twiddle Rompus

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