Cartoon mash-up: David OReilly and NWA
New World Animation -- the makers of those amazing Taiwanese news cartoons -- and experimental animator David OReilly have teamed up! OReilly wrote and NWA animated -- in their typical deadline-busting style -- "Children's medium used for dissemination of truth." It's pretty cool but NWA should totally collaborate with other writers -- imagine Warren Ellis or Johnny Ryan writing an NWA cartoon.
Continue ReadingThe Beat wins Shel Dorf Award for Best Comics Blogger!
The Shel Dorf awards were given out this weekend at the Detroit Fanfare con, and while the complete winner list has not been posted anywhere we could find, we know we won for Best Comics Blogger! Woot! The competition was tough and to have prevailed is really humbling and gratifying. We don't know who exactly voted on these wards, but whoever did -- thank you so much.
Continue ReadingWATCH: “The Secret History of Women in Comics” at SPX
Scott Edelman has posted a complete video of the panel I moderated at SPX featuring Jessica Abel, Robyn Chapman, Alexa Dickman, and Diane Noomin. If you don't want to watch the whole video, former Beat Events Editor Maggie Siegel-Berele posted her own cartoon take on the panel. Maggie thought the panel was depressing. I say those who don't remember the past are doomed to go to panels to find out about what happened.
Continue ReadingWatch: the trailer for METAMAUS by Art Spiegelman
In METAMAUS, Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman describes the making of the comics classic, the real life story behind it and more background material. The book, out on October 4, includes a DVD. Here's a trailer with more information on the making of the book.
Continue ReadingNew 52 stimulus flowing freely into comics shops
No matter what you think of Starfire or Catwoman or Batwoman or BIRDS OF PREY, one thing is for sure: The New 52 is a huge success. Retailers across the nation are talking about how great sales have been, with sometimes triple digits of even books that no one felt would sell flying off shelves. Or, as ComicsPRO president Joe Field put it, DC's stimulus is working.
Continue ReadingMICE 2011 (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo)
BY JEN VAUGHN - Boston is home to a lot of things like baked beans, awful one-way streets, MIT and occasional leaf-based riots. This weekend marks the second annual MICE comic convention in Boston at University Hall of Lesley University (yes, that's right). MICE boasts among many things, a smattering of local artists and cartoonists as well as some that come a-running down the mountain from Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine and even New York and Pittsburgh.
Continue ReadingBoom honors Oosterveer with free download
Earlier this week, Dutch artist MInck Oosterveer died tragically in a motorcycle accident at age 50. Oosterveer worked extensively in european comics but also on American projects such as Marvel's RUSE and several projects for BOOM!. As a tribute to his work, BOOM! is offering all issues of Mark Waid and Oosterveer's THE UNKNOWN and THE UNKNOWN: DEVIL MADE FLESH for free via comiXology, iVerse, Graphicly, and mydigitalcomics.
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: The Last Mortician by Haspiel and Hall
Tor.com has been putting out some interesting comics works over the last few years, with some of their webcomics now going to print. Here's a new one: The Last Mortician:
Continue ReadingPopular woman athlete promotes her favorite comic…in 1941
The story of how tennis champ Alice Marble promoted and wrote Wonder Woman. Maybe she was the first nerdlebrity.
Continue ReadingNice art: Adrian Tomine
Because I am a total schmuck I didn't get a chance to plug this yesterday, but Adrian Tomine created this gawjus print just for his signing at Desert Island yesterday. The signing is over, but you may still be able to order one. If you can't, there is a lot of cool stuff at their webstore. BTW, I've had more people fighting over the new issue of OPTIC NERVE than any other pamphlet this week. Truly we live in a glorious time.
Continue ReadingCBLDF asks you to be counted, have tea with Neil Gaiman
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has launched a major fall membership drive that hopes to raise $100,000 by the end of October. And to do it -- they have some amazing premiums listed: professional review with Brian Azzarello or lunch with Dan DiDio or tea with Neil Gaiman. Costs for the defense of Brandon X -- an American arrested for anime and manga images on his computer --are kicking into high gear, and every dollar counts. Here's the deal:
Continue ReadingEveryone is talking about sex and the superheroes!
Well, we didn't want to have another whole link dump devoted to the New 52 but...there has been so much reaction to the Week 3 books and their various portrayals of the ladies that there was more than enough material. § For some much needed perspective, Newsarama looks back on the 10 Most Shocking Superhero Hook-ups, and it is wise to remember that 10 years ago, Luke Cage giving Jessica Jones a blast in the can was considered the End Of Comics As We Know It. Now, it's a cozy nostalgia moment.
Continue ReadingLost Comics: The Gerber/Nowlan Man-Thing graphic novel
Continuing Lost Comics Spotlight week, Chris Arrant roots out a long lost project by the late Steve Gerber and Kevin Nowlan involing one of Gerber's best loved characters:
Continue ReadingDigital Comics Alert: The Zen Of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the legendary guru/CEO of Apple, has had a very interesting life -- one that could easily have been imagined by a fiction writer, and writer Caleb Melby is turning his early years into a graphic novel with art by interactive agency JESS3. It's kind of like a real life Batman Begins, with Jobs going to the Far East to meet Kobun Chino Otogawa, a Japanese Soto Zen Buddhist priest following his removal from Apple.
Continue ReadingWas Catwoman worse than Wonder Woman was good?
Is all the complaining about the tone deaf portrayal of women in the New 52 really doing any good at all?
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