Flashpoint #1 cover released
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s the Flash and he’s….coming apart????? Oh dear. Art by Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope.
Continue ReadingWhat’s up with…the ladies in comics movies
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDespite the embarrassing cinema outings for female superheaters such as Catwoman, Elektra and Aeon Flux, hope springs eternal that someone someday will make a movie about a heroic female that isn’t utterly cringeworthy. Of course, TV is a lot more heroic woman friendly, so it’s there that we find Wonder [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel releases cover to FEAR ITSELF #1 by Steve McNiven
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Marvel has released the cover to the first issue of its upcoming FEAR ITSELF event, written by Matt Fraction with art by Stuart Immonen and Wade von Grawbadger. Steve McNiven provides the covers.
Continue ReadingFirst Captain America poster unveiled
July's Captain America film starring Chris Evans just got its first poster. Looks gritty.
Continue ReadingFlashpoint Friday unveils five logos
DC has posted logos for five of their FLASHPOINT miniseries. FLASHPOINT seems to be a kind of DC-only alternative reality Amalgam comic where Cyborg is Superman and so on.
Continue ReadingNominations for the Eagle Awards open
Nominations have opened for the 2011 Eagle Awards. You have until March 7th to nominate writers, artists, comics, and the like. Then on March 14th the top 5 nominees in each category will be named, and the real voting begins. The awards will be handed out May 27th at the MCM London convention.
Continue ReadingBorders Walking Dead fail
A pal snapped this recent photo at a local Borders. Perhaps there is a reason they are in trouble.
Continue ReadingMoCCA hires new director, registrar
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Following the departure last year of Director Karl Erickson, MoCCA has just announced two new hires; Cartoonist Doug Bratton will fill the role of Museum Manager/Director of Development; and Mell Scalzi will join the museum as Registrar. Both have worked with the museum in the past. Bratton attended the Kubert School [...]
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To Do tonight: Cartoon Polymaths at Parsons, NYC
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This looks amazing Through a mix of newspaper tearsheets, comics, puppets, posters, zines, wallpaper, toys, animated film clips, interactive media and more, Cartoon Polymaths showcases the broad range of several influential artists, including pioneering comic strip artist and animator Winsor McCay, illustrator and puppeteer Tony Sarg, iconic New Yorker artist Saul Steinberg, [...]
Continue ReadingSneak peek: Jughead moves in with Archie and chaos ensues
Archie Comics has been making tons of news of late, in case you haven't noticed. In addition to all the digital initiatives they've recently announced, they're also repurposing the famed Archie Marries storyline by making all the original issues available as digital comics.
Continue Reading2010 Webcomic List Award Winners
The winners of the 2010 Webcomics List Award have been announced -- fittingly -- in a webcomic. Winners were chosen by a panel of judges: Although there is not a text list of winners, Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 made a print list:
Continue ReadingSales slide in January; Marvel tops DC, Image up — UPDATE
Overall, sales were dramatically down in January, with Marvel regaining their top at the spot with FF #587 but Image making their best showing in three years.
Continue ReadingHey baby! Cartoonist Gerry Alanguilan is Viral Video Star
We've often written about our admiration of the graphic novel ELMER by Gerry Alanguilan, both for its lush art and its daring, thoughtful storyline about a world where talking, thinking chickens struggle to be accepted as...people. But it turns out Alanguilan is much better known to the world at large as..."The Greatest Man On The Internet" thanks to a series of popular YouTube videos
Continue ReadingNice art: Toby Cypress and RODD RACER
Longtime readers of The Beat will know we are big fans of Toby Cypress's strange but beautiful art, seen on things like Killing Girl and The Schizophrenic. It turns out he's launching his own small press company, Punkrock*Jazz to publish his own work, starting with the long -awaited RODD RACER a Fritz Lang/Frank Robbins/Milton Caniif story about fast cars, crizy cities and a young racer who gets more than he bargained for. Back in the day, they would have called it "Widescreen" but then the screens got too small.
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