Read the Eisner-nominated AFRODISIAC for free!
Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's totally groovy AFRODISIAC has been nominated for an Eisner for Best Humor Publication. But it's currently between printings. What to do? AdHouse has put it up to read for free: To ensure that every possible Eisner Award voter has all of the necessary information to cast their ballot in a responsible and educated manner, we have decided to put the entire book online for FREE.
Continue ReadingMore Pascal Girard
It is official! Pascal Girard, you have EQUALED Brandon Graham and Vanessa Davis in the TCJ Cartoonist Diaries derby. In fact this feature is so awesome it needs to stop right now so people can remember how cool it was and what might have been.
Continue ReadingMoCCA thoughts: The indie evolution
The MoCCA Festival at the Lexington Armory a few days ago was a fun weekend -- the numerous photo shows filled with smiling faces of dedicated artists and publishers show that. Look at Peggy Burns' engaging set or Dan Nadel's. Fun is fine, of course, but that's not entirely why people go to indie shows like MoCCA, SPX, and TCAF. I'd argue that the social aspect of hanging out with fellow cartoonists is a major motivation for attending, but that's not why D&Q or PictureBox or Fantagraphics attends. These are important shows for promoting authors and selling books.
Continue ReadingTHOR movie tie-in: Simonson’s Omnibus?
Has a 1000-page omnibus become the tie-in book for the Thor movie?
Continue ReadingFuture Comics: Hobo Lobo
Webcomics are moving forward with more experimentation on the infinite canvas of the browser, and taking new and unforeseen shapes. Here's one by Stevan Živadinović called "Hobo Lobo" that's a sidescroller/multi-plane retelling of the Pied Piper tale. Apparently this doesn't work on Explorer (what does?) but it worked on my decrepit and senile computer, so...happy scrolling!
Continue ReadingCaptain Obama covers National Review
This week's National Review has a cover of Obama as Captain America by Roman Genn. Sadly a larger image isn't available to us non-subscribers. It isn't as funny as the KICK-ASS cover from last year, but it is funny.
Continue ReadingPascal Girard’s cartoonist diary
The Comics Journal's new cartoonist diary features Pascal Girard's MoCCA journal and we're already severely flattered. In case anyone is wondering, Pascal, you're #1!
Continue ReadingMike Keefe wins 2011 Pulitzer Prize
Editorial cartoonist Mike Keefe of the Denver Post has won this year's Pulizter Prize for cartooning. He won the 2011 John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition earlier this year so he is on a roll. His home paper reacts here. A complete list of winners can be found here.
Continue ReadingMarvel woos retailers with NY Post Ultimate Spider-Man spoiler —SPOILERS!!!
For a while now Marvel has been hyping a storyline called "The Death of Spider-Man" in Ultimate Spider-Man, with a denoument due in June. Well, this morning the NY Post broke the story and told everyone what was going to happen:
Continue ReadingA tour of Philadelphia comics shops
Congrats to Brian Heater of the Daily Cross Hatch on starting his new job as an editor at über-popular tech blog Engadget today. Just to show what adedicated blogger he is, in his week between jobs instead of lying around playing Red Dead Redemption, like we would, he took a few days off to go to Philadelphia and decided to visit a bunch of comics shops and write about them. Although there are a bunch of fine shops, the most intriguing -- to us -- is Locust Moon, which is based on the "New Model" of comics shop:
Continue ReadingThought for the day: Tim Hodler on Tokyopop
Tokyopop is closing down its manga line. Not long ago, this company and others like it were sometimes pointed to as the future of comics publishing. I suppose they still might be. Via The Comics Journal
Continue ReadingMeta: The Beat is one of the Top 10 Comics Blogs You Should Read for Uninteresting Future Talk
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Continue Reading2011 Stumptown Award winners
The Stumptown Awards were given out at the like-named festival on Saturday night, and we haven't checked twitter or Facebook for the evidence of hijinks but hopefully Beat reporter Jen Vaughn, who was on the scene, will have all the dish in her report. We do know the eremont was hosted by Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts and winner were chosen on a public ballot. Here is the very fine bunch of winners:
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