To Do: August 29th, Vancouver: Comix & Stories
Len Wong sent us info on Comix & Stories, a day of alternative & small press comics, zines, artwork & culture set for Sunday in Vancouver BC Sunday, August 29 11 AM to 5 PM, Heritage Hall
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 8/25/10
Man-Thing! Katrina! Ant-Man! Inkers! Is this all one big disaster?
Continue ReadingMotions toward the jerk-free life
With the slow news cycle, we've been doing some much needed maintenance around Stately Beat Manor -- trimming unread email lists, pruning RSS feeds, and so on. We've also been pondering our commenting system. We've recently put a few posters on "time out" because they were basically rude, insulting brigands, and we don't like their kind. Biting wit and a droll put-down is fine. Name calling and invective is not. Frankly, we're always amazed when we go out and meet all the smart, talented people who read the Beat daily -- we'd love to get some of those folks to comment more but it might require a complete overhaul of the commenting system. Also, it's always been our observation that the better the modding, the better the commenting, and we don't have the time it probably requires.
Continue ReadingWalking Dead to debut on Halloween
Too early for Halloween plans? Not really. The Walking Dead TV show debuts on Halloween at 10 PM ET with a 90-minute opening episode. Based on Robert Kirkman's comics, the show follows the adventures of the survivors of a zombiepocalypse, and stars Andrew Lincoln, Jon Bernthal, Shane Walsh, and Sarah Wayne Callies. A four-and-a-half minute trailer was also released, and we would absolutely set our DVR for this while we were out trick or treating!
Continue ReadingWhat Lee and DiDio were really saying
ICv2 has its first comprehensive interview with DC co-publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio since the publisher restructured in February. The interview runs in three parts. There's a hint that some of the CMX titles that weren't finished may get picked up by a different publisher, perhaps Dark Horse, and an acknowledgment of the need to keep prices down from DiDio:
Continue ReadingTittle tattle suggests an AUTHORITY movie is being discussed
A bit of idle gossip in Dean Haspiel's account of his Emmy experience has tongues wagging everywhere:
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 8/24/10
August's dog days continue as everyone is vacationing on the job.
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Frank Miller’s complete perfume ad
The Frank Miller -directed Gucci Guilty ad is now online, with Chris Evans, Evan Rachel Wood and a Depeche Mode cover by Friendly Fires. It's sorta...steamy. The new fragrance is for "her," btw.
Continue ReadingGareb Shamus on Wizard convention plan
Shamus has a lot of answers for everything, but doesn't even seem to be saying that comics are a focus of the Wizard shows any more: “When you look at how comicbooks or the characters pervaded the media, they’ve become celebrities themselves. ... So when you look at people, and how they’ve come to know Spider-Man, or Batman, or Star Wars, ten years ago, fifteen years ago, twenty years ago, they may have only known Spider-Man through a comicbook or maybe an animated show or something like that. ... They are going on their own way, creating a large national chain of comic conventions that’s servicing a local population that can’t make it to the bigger shows – but also injecting them with stars of stage and screen to bring in a new audience. ... It took the MCM London Expos to knock that out of me, and I’m starting to realise that my expectations and experiences are not shared by the vast majority of the population and that an increased numbers of Wizard World style conventions will increase the acceptability and appeal of comics to a population, even if that population is only on hand to see Xander and Spike. ... I'd argue that the focus on celebrities past and present at Wizard/Creation shows is not driving attention to the comics publishers who do exhibit at these shows, so without some kind of support -- even Shamus says that the reason there was such minimal comics programming is because attendees weren't interested in it -- it might not be a cost effective marketing push.
Continue ReadingThor gets DOUBLE RAINBOW — oh my Norse god!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Two sold-out issues of THOR by the awesome Roger Langridge are being combined into a portmanteau, dubbed a “Double Rainbow.” The cover by Chris Samnee is sadly devoid of an actual double rainbow, however, so we can’t start whooping and hollering at it. Marvel is pleased to announce that both Thor: [...]
Continue ReadingTrue Blood Recap: A Whole New Dimension of Fairy Tale Trash
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSeason 3/Episode 10: I Smell a Rat Episode nine ended with some bloody messes to clean up. Franklin’s entrails were all over the Merlotte’s parking lot, Calvin’s face looked like he’d just gotten back from a Gathering of the Juggalos, and Russell pretty much destroyed any hope of the VRA passing when he ripped [...]
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 08/22/10
This week: Kieron Gillen on the prospects of more PHONOGRAM; Axel Alonso on that X-Men crossover with the vampires; and the conclusion of EX MACHINA.
Continue ReadingHero Initiative announces Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award
Via PR, as alluded to in an earlier post, the Hero Initiative is introducing a new award to be presented at the Harveys on Saturday, Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year Award.
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