31 Days of Halloween: Stephanie Buscema
The spooky pictures are pouring in to Stately Beat Manor, raising spirits of both kinds. Before we get too far into it, we've managed to find the motherlode of all Halloween link blogs, Countdown to Halloween..., which is administered by none other than writer John Rozum. Three are enough sites listed -- over 200! -- to keep you busy until Halloween 2012, and we expect to be ganking from it heavily.
Continue ReadingGender battles: Miyazaki is shocked to see a woman driving a bus
It might come as a shock that Hayao Miyazaki, the revered animator behind such enduring and magical characters as Totoro and Nausicaa -- a creator whose body of work nearly defines entertainment that everyone can enjoy -- might have some odd ideas about women animators but that's what this tweet seemed to imply:
Continue ReadingNYCC: White Space announces featured attendees: Doctorow, Sullivan, Tanz, Mason
The featured attendees at the invitation-only think tank White Space have been announced, and they're a pretty smart crew: novelist, blogger and technology guru Cory Doctorow; Broadway Video CEO Jack Sullivan; Project Greenlight's Larry Tanz; and Matt Mason, author of The Pirate's Dilemma. The puppy dog eyes of those waiting for their invites just got puppier and doggier.
Continue ReadingDeb Aoki on updating APE
This weekend's Alternative Press Expo sounds like it was a blast from all accounts we've seen, (including Todd Allen's BEAT exclusive photo of the Isotope party, above) but Deb Aoki's Twitter feed repeats some very common grumbling that we hear every year: namely that people don't buy very much at the show, and it's hard to make money. Aoki has put together a suggestion list for improving the show:
Continue ReadingImage goes day and date with Graphicly — UPDATE: and with comiXology with “top titles”
The dominoes are falling fast and furious. Image has just announced they will be going day and date via Graphicly, distributing their entire line of comics to iOS, Android, Kindle Fire, Nook, and Graphicly's exclusive, Facebook. In addition to all the usual platforms, The Image Facebook page will be transformed into a digital store where you can buy all your Image comics, including THE WALKING DEAD, CHEW, and so on. With DC already available same day print and digital, who will be the next publisher to go that way? And how long will it take for every comcis publisher to be day and date? Six months? Or three?
Continue ReadingMarvel going weirder with its movie lineup
EW's cover story on the Avengers, included a sidebar from studio head Kevin Feige where he talked about some upcoming Marvel films. The obvious ones -- THOR 2 and IRON MAN 3 were in there but what came next was....a SHOCK!
Continue ReadingWebcomics alert: Dick Tracy in “The Black Bag Mystery”
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Dick Tracy comic strip tomorrow -- the fearless crime solver who introduced the world to such things as wrist-watch radios and villains named Pruneface -- The Library of American Comics is reprinting The Black Bag Mystery, an interactive mystery strip which 1948 readers tried to solve to find a real $25,000 prize.
Continue ReadingJack Kirby might be getting a real museum
The Jack Kirby Museum and Research Center has long existed as a website and a table at conventions; but a real museum would be much nicer. Now the organizers have announced they will be setting up a temporary "pop-up" museum this wimter -- November '11-January '12 -- to showcase what they hope will eventually be a permanent brick-and-mortar museum. How cool would that be? They'll be set up at NYCc to talk about the project -- and are accepting donations. The Summer of 2011 should have witnessed an eruption of interest in legendary American
Continue ReadingA manifesto that came true
Writer Tony Isabella ruminates on his A COMIC-BOOK MANIFESTO from 1996 and wonders how far we've come:
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Chunks, 10/3/2011
Newspapers, magazines, and websites across the world were churning out articles on comics this weekend!
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween is back!
Well, sorta -- as soon as we get some submissions! Yes the calendar got away from us and we're now 3 days into October but for the rest of the month we'll be spotlighting Halloween art. It's one of the things -- along with crisp fall air, hot apple cider, the crunch of leaves underfoot, the World Series, and bright blue Autumn skies -- that makes this our very favorite month of the year. So git goin' Beat readers! Send us your halloween art! LInk to you webcomics, galleries, tumblrs, Deviant Art galleries -- you name it. Celebrate the season! WE'll be picking the best to run each day until the big night of toilet papering and fun-size Snickers poisoning.
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