Read Comics in Public to launch on Kirby’s birthday
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Daily Cross Hatch’s Brian Heater and Sarah Morean have launched a new day for comics pride via their Read Comics in Public program, which is planned for this August 28th, aka Jack Kirby’s birthday : The concept is fairly simple: we’re asking that everyone take an hour or two out of their [...]
Continue ReadingNice Art: Curt Swan Superman
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet No idea what the original home of this is, but we know it’s a Curt Swan convention program piece. Original provenance here. Found via Stephen DeStefano.
Continue ReadingNice Art: RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN cover
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The cover for RETURN OF THE DAPPER MEN by Jim McCann and Janet Leehas just been released. If you’ve ever seen Lee’s art in person, you know it is fantastic multi-level mixed media, created on thick pieces of plywood — crazy. We’ve never seen a lettered page but the story itself [...]
Continue ReadingFollowup on the news: Earth One, NEMESIS, etc., etc., etc.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Earth One story has been mostly cleared up as J. Michael Straczynski has responded to Robot 6 with a clarification: This was the actual exchange, as I remember it. Someone asked me on the panel if Superman Earth One was only coming out as a hardcover or as issues at the same [...]
Continue ReadingSCOTT PILGRIM Week!
Wow, in a few short hours, SCOTT PILGRIM VS THE WORLD finally opens and Edgar Wright and Bryan Lee O'Malley can stop their incessant promotional wanderings over the face of the earth. In future years, this will always be known as "Scott Pilgrim Week," a mystical, magical time of love and exploration and kung fu training. So much has happened, is happening. Some linkie winkins. ABOVE -- a super-amazing remake of the live-action SPvsTW trailer using the comics -- wow, it really is just like the book.
Continue ReadingGirls like to buy stuff, Times claims
The New York Times has a story on how Comic-Con has become a venue to market to -- gasp! -- girls with lots of info on various toy and clothing lines, including gymnast Nastia Liukin's Supergirl line of clothing.
Continue ReadingWomen who went to Comic-Con and drew comic strips about it
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jillian Tamaki And Gabrielle Bell — this one is an EPIC. We could have SWORN there was a third…but can’t find it now. Readers?
Continue ReadingSummertime wanderin’
Can you believe The Beat is on the move AGAIN? It's true! This time...it's a WEDDING.
Continue ReadingDC responds to EARTH ONE format mystery
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Late last year, DC announced a new line of graphic novels called Earth One. The idea was a line of standalone graphic novels about major characters with new continuities. It was kind of like the Ultimates line but in the new format — GNs — instead of periodicals. Books for [...]
Continue ReadingInterview: Jesse Blaze Snider is sticking with comics
[With reality TV and reality contests everywhere, people have been wondering when someone would start a reality TV show about the comics industry. That hasn't happened yet -- maybe because sitting at a drawing board all day doesn't make for all that exciting a visual. However at least one comics creator is currently starring in a reality show: Jesse Blaze Snider, the 27-year-old son of Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider is on A&E's Growing Up Twisted, which airs tonight at 10/9c. Although Snider has had much previous TV exposure, he considers writing comics the career he wants to follow. We were interested in finding out how someone with experience in so many fields balances all these different outlets. Currently the author of BOOM!'s Toy Story: Tales from the Toy Chest , Snider chatted to The Beat about his writing, being a reality star and his very colorful family.]
Continue ReadingAlan Moore still cranky and entertaining
With the release of UNEARTHING, a spoken word/music/photograph multimedia project, Northampton legend Alan Moore has done a few interviews which are just as entertaining as the man's work. At the Irish Times, he waxes lyrical about many things, and reaffirms his distaste for the current comics scene:
Continue ReadingIf Green Lantern Was a Pervert
More at Cracked.com. Although shouldn't that be "If Green Lantern WERE A Pervert"? Junior editors?
Continue ReadingTrue Blood Recap: Lethal Love, Loss and Lacerations
Share this link on Facebook!TweetS03:E08 Night on the Sun Night on the Sun was one long extended fight (then fuck) scene of an episode – and a good one at that, filled with lots of surprise moves, killings, and O faces. The episode opened right where things left off last week with Sookie screaming after seeing Bill [...]
Continue Reading“Keep them in the dark” — what some very bad publishers are really thinking
Late last night Twitter flared with anger over a post entitled How to hire an artist by a designer of Flash-based computer games. Although we usually don't quote things so extensively, it seems that running enough of an excerpt to get the whole story is important here (plus is may be taken down). This is what the author, Christopher Gregorio, has to say about selecting an artist for a game project:
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 8/9/10
Huizenga's inpsiration; Colletta's place; Doran's rage; Weing's fatigue....and the rise of urban fantasy in graphic novels. All in the TRIUMPHANT RETURN OF KIBBLES 'N' BITS after a vacation in Ibiza.
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