2010 Glyph Award Winners
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe fifth annual Glyph Comics Awards were handed out this weekend in Philadelphia at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention. The big winners were Jay Potts, Aya, and Luke Cage. Complete winners below: Story of the Year Unknown Soldier #13-14; Joshua Dysart, writer, Pat Masioni, artist Best Writer Alex Simmons, Archie & Friends Best [...]
Continue ReadingAlcott’s Analysis: Batman (1989)
The young people of today can hardly be expected to understand the impact that Tim Burton’s Batman had on movie-goers in the summer of 1989. The general audience of 1989 knew Batman only as the campy, self-conscious, broad-daylight superhero of the Adam West TV show. Nothing in movies prepared viewers for this radical re-thinking of the character, the weird darkness of the themes, the dense, oppressive production design or Jack Nicholson’s performance as The Joker. All of it was alarming, electrifying stuff back then. (Of course, it was all familiar territory for people who had read The Dark Knight Returns and The Killing Joke, but that’s another story.)
Continue ReadingNews: Scary Godmother returns from Dark Horse
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jill Thompson’s Scary Godnmother has become something of a Halloween classic, with two animated specials that are still shown on Caqrtoon Network, and a DVD. However, the original Eisner Award winning graphic novels have long been out of print — a series of graphic novels and several stand alone comics starting [...]
Continue ReadingLittle Orphan Annie cancellation hastens newspaper decline
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Many of you sent us this link to the news that the Little Orphan Annie comic strip has been canceled. The strip, currently drawn by Ted Slampyak and written by Jay Maeder, will end on June 13th with a cliffhanger in which Annie’s fate is not known and Daddy Warbucks ponders [...]
Continue ReadingRyan Reynolds debuts mocap Green Lantern and new, adorable sidekick
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet More leaks from the set of GREENLANTERN, this time, via Splash Page, Ryan Reynolds in his mocap suit. Aside from noting how fit Reynolds looks — rowwwwwrrr — we”re SHOCKED no one has commented on Green Lantern’s new sidekick, the Space Pup, Barktacus. Seriously Ryan Reynolds in a skin tight suit accompanied [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits – 5/14/10
Disgruntled creators, Rush Limbaugh, dick jokes, Flash and so on make up this morning's must reads.
Continue ReadingThis weekend at the Golden Apple
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Friday Night May 14 from 6-9pm The Final Cut: Wrap Party for The Sword hosted by the LUNA BROS. Saturday May 15 @ 1pm “Join the B.P.R.D” Member Event with Hellboy creator: MIKE MIGNOLA More info on giveaways and bonus extras here.
Continue ReadingThis ‘n’ that
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHousekeeping notes: • The OLD Beat is up at a new URL: whenmonkeysattack.com. Believe it or not we’re still trying to get all the old posts imported into the newer Beat, but it looks like I’ll have to clean up the database by hand which will take….well, there were over 8800 posts [...]
Continue ReadingTwo very good pieces of advice
Two pieces of excellent advise from Brigid Alverson and Shaenon K. Garrity.
Continue ReadingArt Attack: Joost Swarte covers The New Yorker
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Until a bigger version of this shows up, it will have to do. This is, to our knowledge, the first New Yorker cover to feature a cow’s bung emitting greenhouse gases front and center.
Continue ReadingMore on Viz and the future of manga
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Ever since the cutbacks at Viz on Monday, the online chatter has been surprisingly quiet. People close to the situation have mainly been in shock, and while the idea that Viz is “too big to fail” has been foremost among American manga commenters, we’re sure we’re not the only ones whose [...]
Continue ReadingCorey Lewis’s SEEDLESS
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Image has just released information on a new Corey Lewis concoction — this time a saga of garden fruits and the aliens who look like them: Just when you thought it was safe to go to the supermarket for a bag of grapes, Corey Lewis (Sharknife, Peng) reminds us that aliens could [...]
Continue ReadingVideo moment: Bronte Sister Power Dolls
If I lived in a world where this was real, I'd be so happy. In truth, it is a fake commercial by Phil Lord and Chris Miller made in 1998 for a series of educational shorts about action figures based on historical figures. It was never aired. Thank god for YouTube.
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Graphic Details: The iPad Cometh
That sound you heard recently was the iPad landing in America and thousands of bookstores and comic book shops across the country closing and locking their doors for the last time. That’s what happened – right? The world changed overnight and everyone is reading all their books, magazines, comics and newspapers on a digital devices. So, wait – that didn’t happen? I can still walk into a bookstore and pick up a chunk of dead tree and enjoy a good read? Cool. The world of publishing is changing – just not as fast as everyone thinks. The biggest change is that for the first time in publishing history consumers are being asked to invest in an expensive piece of hardware to allow them to read a book. Yes, audio books require either a cassette or CD player, but those were devices that most people already owned. To read an e-book you need a new device to view the books. Reading a book on a computer just doesn’t cut it. A book is easily portable so the device also needs to be portable.
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