Party Poop: 7/26, Lady Robotika at Meltdown
If, by some incredible series of events, you are still in the mood to party after Comic-Con, LA's Meltdown is throwing a premiere party for Jane Weidlin and Bill Morrison's LADY ROBOTIKA comic. This is sure to be the deadest of dead dog parties and also feature a lot of gossiping and beer, so come on down.
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Party Poop: Pop Candy Meetup
There are lots and lots of events at Comic-Con, but The Beat also endorses the Pop Candy Meetup, hosted by our pal, Whitney Matheson!
Continue ReadingParty Poop: The new “in” spot
Before things get rolling too much, we would like to state that the Beat endorses the Odysea bar at the Hilton Bayfront as the new “in” drinking spot, replacing the nasty old homophobic Hyatt, which doesn’t like us at all. In contrast, the nice people at the Hilton Bayfront sent out this invitation: Odysea Lounge [...]
Continue ReadingSCOTT PILGRIM Toronto report
Oni editor James Lucas Jones took several pictures of the goings on which seemed quite festive. So many Ramonas.
Continue ReadingTonight to do: Digital Panel: Abs & Apps @ Meltdown Comics… – Eventbrite
If you are not going to the Big Show or want to get a head start on the activities, here’s an interesting-sounding event, Meltdown’s Digital LA – Digital Panel: Abs & Apps . A ticket is $25 but includes networking and schmooze time. The speaker lineup alone is impressive: Scheduled speakers include:
- Marvel, TBD @Marvel (previously [...]
Continue ReadingThings to do!
I'd like to introduce the improved Events page! Now you can just go to our all purpose Events Page and see what's coming up! It's a little barebones now, but eventually it will have the week's events listed. You can also see the three upcoming events in the sidebar. (Sorry about that dingbat -- still trying to fix it.) As very observant readers may have noticed, I've been struggling with events for a while -- they were way too NYC-centric to be really useful, but this way, events can be quickly added and a database maintained. I'll still be doing some spotlight posts, as well, but this is, hopefully, a useful resource. So keep those events coming!
Continue ReadingTonight To Do: Sikoryak in conversation at MoCCA
Bill K. interviews R. Sikoryak tonight at MoCCA with a special slideshow.As a bonus the mind-bogging NeoIntegrity show is still up and if you haven't seen it yet -- YOU MUST.
Continue ReadingPeople doing things: Strand tote contest show; Seth Scriver/Jones/Ahlers
A few event photos from around. Christina Foxley, from The Strand bookstore sent us a few photos of the exhibit of the Strand Tote Bag design contest which was held the other night at SVA. Above, left to right: Toon Books Françoise Mouly, runner up Domitille Collardey, cartoonist and contest judge Art Spiegelman; another judge, R. Sikoryak; runner-up Tim Goldman and winner Zak Foster. We stopped by and ran into many cartoon types, including Sarah Glidden who told us about her next project after the upcoming How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, another comics-journalism piece, and it sounds pretty interesting. Collardey is what you call "an emerging cartoon star" and she's presently working on a graphic novel to be published in France.
Continue ReadingA whole conference about medicine and comics?
We spend a lot of time talking about comics event here at The Beat, but here's one that managed to elude us completely: the Graphic Medicine Conference. Held in London, UK, it's was all about, well what it sounds like, as Daryl Cunningham explains:
Continue ReadingWhere we’ve been, where we’ll be
A preview Heroes Con preview; a smashing comic book wedding; is a comic book really worth $3.99? Not when you have to get rid of hundreds of them; and my final thoughts on BEA.
Continue ReadingKids Read Comics Convention coming up
Via PR, Green Brain Comics is organizing the Kids Read Comics event June 12 and 13th to promote comics for younger readers with two days of workshops and presentations at the local library.
Continue ReadingLife IS a cabaret, old chum
Liza Minnelli at the SEX AND THE CITY 2 premiere the other night, apparently auditioning for the role of Krona in the Green Lantern movie. We’ll be at BookExpo most of today and tomorrow. Thursday at 9:30, we’re on this panel: Big Name Authors with Graphic Novels: How Will this Change the Market? Thursday, May 27, 2010 9:30AM [...]
Continue ReadingBEA kicks off; CBLDF party poop
BookExpo America is kicking off today at the Javits Center with a day of panels and roundtables The exhibit floor opens tomorrow. Image Comics and other Diamond publishers will be on hand, and there will be signings by folks like Todd McFarlane. The partying kicks off tonight with the CBLDF BEA Welcome Party,which, we’re told, [...]
Continue ReadingMeCAF hits Portland this weekend
This weekend sees the Maine Comics Arts Festival in Portland, ME. In its second year the show has expanded to two days -- a day of FREE panels at the Portland Public Library this Saturday and then a exhibit on Sunday at the Ocean Gateway. There's also a comics art show on display at the Lewis Gallery at the Portland Public Library. Guest list is here, headlines by Brian Wood, Skottie Young and Jeff Lemire. The Portland Press HErald previews the show here and the organizer, Rick Lowell of Casablanca Comics.
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