20 Days of Christmas: Christmas in Duckburg
Bully's running theme this month is Christmas in Duckburg -- nobody got into the holiday spirit better than Carl Barks!
Continue ReadingChristmas Countdown: Tsuneo Sanda
Let's get our Christmas art parade kicked off with Japanese artist Tsuneo Sanda, one of the best known contemporary Star Wars artists -- because nothing says Christmas like Yoda. Every Star Wars Christmas image brings back distant memories of the "Star Wars Holiday Special" and Bea Arthur's bravura performance as the cantina owner. And the burning question "What do you get a wookie for Christmas (when he already owns a comb)?"
Continue ReadingBeat news and notes: please send us BCGF debuts, Christmas links, etc.
Hope you all had a great holiday weekend and plenty of turkey and stuffins. We spent the whole holiday mucking out our shelf porn -- organizing shelves, tossing pamphlets, setting aside some books for storage some for donation, a few for eBay. And some for Beat giveaways! Check back every day this week at 5 pm EST for some really swell classic GNs which we're giving away to lucky readers! A few other notes of business:
Continue ReadingA very Jim Shooter Thanksgiving
Former Marvel e-i-c Jim Shooter's blog has become the repository of some amazing stories -- some of them even true -- but here's one that could well become a holiday tradition: Thanksgiving in Newark. It's got everything a TV movie could need: a freelancer in need -- IRON MAN scripter David Michelinie -- an editor with a mission, two holiday orphans, and a quest to bring it all together:
Continue ReadingHappy Turkey, everyone!
Hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving...and a lot to be thankful for. Including old comic book covers, courtesy of Cover Browser.
Continue ReadingHalloween Supplemental: Chris Ware’s House
Just as we dreamed about it. very envious of his autumn leaves. Here all we get is snow for Halloween.
Continue ReadingUnemployed superheroes hit Occupy Wall Street
Snowtober didn't drive them away, and now that the weather has warmed up again, Occupy Wall Street is going strrong -- and now with added superheroes. but not just any superheroes, but the characters from THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN, a GN anthology that came out last year. Written by Gan Golan and Erich Origen, the book was way ahead of all this 1% vs 99% rhetoric with the story of an unemployed man who gathers a team of misfit superheroes to fight the self-interested villains from the Hall of Just Us. (And why not be way ahead of it since income inequality has been a looming issue for years?)
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24 Hours of Halloween: Hellboy
Let's face it, nothing says Halloween like Hellboy by Mike Mignola.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: “Ghost Town” by the Specials
At a time of similar hopelessness and when people are actually asking if Brutalist architecture contributed to the UK Riots, it's good to revisit this classic from the Specials. When I first watched this video I thought it was a modern remake as it looks so current and timeless, but apparently it's from 1981, and directed by the late Barney Bubbles, a designer who killed himself a few years later.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: MARGOT’S ROOM by Emily Carroll
If Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween costumes, Emily Carroll is now the queen of Halloween webcomics. Following last year's "His Face All Red" Carroll has created MARGOT'S ROOM, an interactive comic that is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Read the poem on the first page and then click in the proper order on the main image...if you read this after dark we DARE you not to feel a chill.
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24 Hours of Halloween: MR MURDER IS DEAD
Writer Victor Quinaz and illustrator Brent Schoonover, the creative team behind the recent Archaia and Before the Door graphic novel, Mr. Murder Is Dead, have created a brand-new strip just for Halloween.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: “Raw Head and Bloody Bones”
Cullen Bunn and Drew Moss have collaborated on a short comic from the Crooked Hills universe. The comic is part of a longer project being compiled for 2012. Bonus: An interview with Bunn at The Outhousers.
Continue Reading24 Hours of Halloween: Knights of the Living Dead
Download the first issue of Knights of the Living Dead by Ron Wolfe and Dustin Higgins (Pinnochio Vampire Slayer) FREE from SLG. King Arthur vs the Zombies? Why not!
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