Charles Burns’ X’ed OUT

27 Comments POSTED ON Apr 12 2010 AT 2:15 pm BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet One of the hottest promos at MoCCA was the Pantheon flyer for this fall’s new Charles Burns GN, X’ed OUT, and we’ve sneakily scanned it in to give you a sneak peak. The cover is a direct homage to this famed Tintin tale: A theme echoed in the interior. (Click for larger version.) X’ed [...]

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Dynamite and Liquid launch Grant Morrison’s 18 Days

3 Comments POSTED ON Mar 25 2010 AT 12:01 am BY The Beat

Proving the law of physics that states that matter and Grant Morrison projects cannot truly be destroyed, only transferred from one publisher to another, Liquid has teamed with Dynamite, and Morrison's "Mahabharata" project -- announced a few years ago with now defunct Virgin Comics -- will be seeing print as an "illustrated script book" entitled 18 Days .... The original -- a classic Indian myth telling of three great warriors and their cataclysmic battles -- is the world's longest epic poem at more than 1.8 millions words, so there was certainly a lot of source material. ...Combined with the visual spectacle of Mukesh Singh's artwork, this is a book that goes beyond myth, beyond generations and beyond borders, transcending the story's origins and showing the world a dynamic new vision of gods and war,” Liquid’s CEO, Sharad Devarajan commented, “Dynamite is the ideal partner to help us bring this book to all fans of comics, pop culture and myth." ...Morrison has long had an interest in Indian myths -- see much of the Invisibles -- and he and Deepak Chopra appeared on a panel together at San Diego in 2008 to tak about aspects of the project.

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Montana family sues Geppi for $500,000

3 Comments POSTED ON Feb 17 2010 AT 8:05 am BY The Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [NOTE: Some copy was left out of the original version of this story due to a posting error; the entire story is now posted.] It’s been no secret over the last year that Steve Geppi, the owner of Diamond Comics Distribution, has had some money problems on his other business ventures, including [...]

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Jeff Robinov, the front stabber

6 Comments POSTED ON Feb 10 2010 AT 8:06 am BY The Beat

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Happy 50th Birthday, Grant Morrison

1 Comment POSTED ON Jan 31 2010 AT 9:45 am BY The Beat

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