24 Hours of Halloween: Something
We're not quite sure what this is. But if you see it, run the other way. Click for the NSFW version.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Heidi Klum as a corpse
OTOH, the latest from the queen of Halloween might just be the best costume evah.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Kim Kardashian as Poison Ivy
Is this the most terrifying thing you will see all Halloween? Probably.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Ronn Sutton’s Vampira and more
Via Ronn Sutton, B-movie legend Vampira (Malla Nurmi) and a spooky vampire hunter. BTW, if you poke around Sutton's site you'll find an interview about his job as a courtroom sketch artist -- some of that is truly scary.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Hipster Ghost Rider
On a fixie by Tony Goins. More Ghost Riders in the link.
Continue Reading24 hours of Halloween: Halloweirdos
Bradwick McGinty, J Chris Campbell, and Josh Latta have been getting into the psirit of the season at the sketch blogHalloweirdos. Guests like Rob Ullman and Pat Lewis and Ashley Holt (Above) have also contributed. McGinty was so excited he drew his own Mars Attacks card (below.)
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: Fall 2011: Marvel
Continuing the review, I turn my attention to Marvel. They don't usually have a strong Holiday list, instead relying on licensed products to sell in bookstores. They even have a tendency to take what would be big ticket gift items like omnibus hardcovers and schedule them for January! No big gift books on the radar, so I wonder if anything will pop when people surf on Cyber Monday.
Continue ReadingComing Attractions, Fall 2011: Macmillan
Okay... continuing on with Fall previews, we move to one of the Big Six pubishers. No, not comics, the mainstream Big Six, the ones which dominate American and English bookselling. Macmillan is part of of the Holtzbrinck Group, and includes such marques as Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Henry Holt, St. Martin's, Tor, Scientific American, and, of particular interest to comics fans, First Second Books.
Continue ReadingToday to do: The Long Beach Comic and Horror Con
Long Beach Comic and Horror Con is kicking off in Long Beach, CA today. This is a full service con with a great comics guest list including Darwyn Cooke, Amanda Conner and David Finch on the comics side, and Thomas Jane and John Carpenter on the media/horror side. Spotlights include Robot Chicken, Iron Man 3 director Shane Black, and the debut of Cooke's Parker: Martini Edition. A masquerade, lots of films and a full programming slate add to the festivities. Follow along at #lbcc on Twitter or watch live streaming here!
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Infant in Red Lantern costume
Todd Kent, who directed the Comic Book Literacy Documentary, sent along pictures of his 3 month old daughter dressed in ALL the Lantern costumes. I don't quite know what to say about this but it is cute...and very scary!
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: James Kochalka
Simple but this should get you in the mood. Kochalka tells us he drew this map for the Halloween party at son Eli's school. It lists the various activities, but some abstractly. "For instance, 'silly windsi is a ping pong ball race where you blow the ping pong balls with a straw."
Continue ReadingTo do tonight SF: Isotope Trick-Or-Treat w/ First Second Books
A Halloween costume contest at a comics shop -- isn't this the most natural promo ever? Be there and take pictures!
Continue ReadingPOSTPONED until November 12!!!! UNDERWIRE at Bergen Street
Jennifer Hayden is at Bergen Street Comics, and you will be there in your Ben Cooper costume!
Continue ReadingQuote of the Day: Jason on the future
-- Cartoonist Jason asked about print vs digital in an interview at The Casual Optimist.
Continue ReadingThe very, very odd tale of Platinu–er Goldmine Studios
One of the great mysteries of comics which we enjoy exploring here at Stately Beat Manor is Platinum Studios. This long running "publisher" has been the recipient of glowing profiles over the years, its business model hailed as "genius", despite the fact Platinum never actually published anything for nearly a decade of its existence. Getting the he Cowboys and Aliens movie -- based on a Platinum property -- produced was the holy grail for owner Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, (above, far left) and now that it's finally come out, to middling box office, he'll probably spend the next decade spinning out its success, just as he did with MEN IN BLACK in the 90s. Before Platinum, you seem Rosenberg was the head of Malibu Comics and before that Sunrise Distributors, both businesses which had "interesting" histories. HOwrver, getting a producer credit on the MEN IN BLACK film after finding an obscure comic to sell to Hollywood, made Rosenberg a "MAde" man in Hollywood terms. In addition, there has been much outcry over the years over creators who signed away all the rights to their work to Platinum, only to see it all go into a dark hole of development. Yet, over the last few years, despite many pactings, partnerings and acquisitions, Platinum's finances have not been not so great -- you can see them in their public filings as a penny stock -- until COWBOYS & ALIENS got made. At any rate, Platinum seems to have mastered the "comics to movies" model while hardly producing any comics, such an efficient, waste-free model that we're surprised more people haven't adopted it. With the actual existence of the C&A movie, the publishing arm of Platinum seems to have come to a close as well. In June of this year, VP of Development Dan Forcey left the company, prompting one ex-Platinum creator to tweet that the company was dead.
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