Spiegelman dances about comics
The Boston Globe has a full report on a new comics/dance collaboration, to wit: Art Spiegelman, lit comics mainstay, is teaming with the famed Pilobilus dance troupe for a "multimedia homage to early-20th-century cartoons" called “Hapless Hooligan in ‘Still Moving’,’’ which premieres Thursday at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts. The piece will feature characters based on Happy Hooligan, and Little Lulu and includes an homage to early animator Oskar Fischinger. Pilobilus is known for its abstract, athletic dance, and this piece includes dancers interacting with projected word balloons and other comics elements.
Continue ReadingA whole conference about medicine and comics?
We spend a lot of time talking about comics event here at The Beat, but here's one that managed to elude us completely: the Graphic Medicine Conference. Held in London, UK, it's was all about, well what it sounds like, as Daryl Cunningham explains:
Continue ReadingUpcoming: James Jean’s RIFT
James Jean's next art book, Rift (Chronicle Books), will debut at San Diego. Jason Sacher at the Meathaus blog has a preview: Featuring 15 accordion-style gold-foil-stamped panels and a series of interconnected landscapes (that change depending on how they’re folded) and James’ sketch-work on the reverse side, it’s a really a sight to behold.Speaking of Jean, over at his website, he's tearing it up, going into whole new places.
Continue ReadingAnd what DOES Shaft think about cosplayers, anyway?
If you read ONE local paper story about a comic-con/nerdlerbrity fest/back issue bonanza, it should be this one by Micaela Hood in the Miami Herald on this weekend's Supercon, because it nicely captures the peaceful intermingling of the fans in their homemade costumes, the dealers selling stickers, and the aging stars with nowhere else to go. As "Comic-Con" has become a brand name for an entrainment event where you can expect all this and MORE, the various strata of con-world must learn to live with one another. Just what IS going through Richard "Shaft" Roundtree's mind, anyway?
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The Hulk Hands Theory
A rotoscoped version of an episode of Big Bang Theory involving Hulk Hands seems like the perfect collection of items to kick off the first week of summer 2010, right? It's by French animator Nunub (aka Micaël Reynaud). The music is by Fikret Kızılok. Found at Cartoon Brew.
Continue ReadingJocks and nerds mix so well together
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As you may know, in recent years, the Padres are scheduled to be on the road during Comic-Con, to alleviate congestion down by the Convention Center and probably so studios can rent out Petco Park for promotional events, like the 300 screening a few years ago. However, as it turns out, the [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Archie Comics #2400
Archie Comics has a big presence planned, and they even have Stan Lee. (Is there a publisher that doesn't have Stan Lee this year?) Other participants in Archie activity include Michael Uslan, Dan Parent, Batton Lash, Kevin Keller, Rich Koslowski and Tania del Rio.
Continue ReadingOops, one more digital link: THEY ARE ALL AROUND US
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Brian Hibbs has another retail-focused take on digital which begins: I had kind of hoped I was done talking about digital, for at least a little while, but I think there are still bits that people are confused enough about that staying on the topic for another month might make some sense. Bad [...]
Continue ReadingThe week in digital: HOLY CRAP
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile we’ve been ranting and complaining and what not it has been an epochal week in digital comics publishing with so much crap going on, we are just going to link like crazy. The week started off, of course with BOOM! Studios making two big announcements. First, they joined Marvel with [...]
Continue ReadingE3 comics stuff
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Beat is contractually not allowed to pay attention to video games, but the E3 convention just wrapped up and we’ll just direct you to iFanboy’s E3 2010 Comic Game News Roundup which has all the news on Spiderman Marvel vs Capcom, Scott Pilgrim, and something called Comic Jumper which [...]
Continue ReadingNational Review’s Kick-Ass cover
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Now, that is funny.
Continue ReadingYour guide to the World Cup and comics
Hard as it is to believe there is more of a comics/footie connection than just Roy of the Rovers -- although who really needs more than Roy of the Rovers? We thought we'd see more World Cup comics art around but we forgot nerds aren't into sports.
Continue ReadingArea man writes book about surviving Comic-Con
This popped up somewhere in our RSS feed: The Unauthorized San Diego Comic-Con Survival Guideby Doug Kline from popculturegeek.com. This self published guide is a small pocket-sized book that sells for $7 plus shipping and includes info on surviving the ordeal of a lifetime, or at least the month. BUt if you ask us, you don't really need a book to figure out most of this stuff:
Continue ReadingNew SCOTT PILGRIM International Trailer
You realize this movie doesn't even have all the great lines in the trailer??
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