By Torsten Adair While the Beatrix goes forth among the ravenous hordes of Comic-Con International, I remain at stately Beat Manor, stuck on monitor duty. So, while we wait for news from the Californian Cannes, let’s see what’s been happening online! Bored? As reported here, CCI:SD hopes to lock down hotel space to prevent others from holding [...]
Continue ReadingThis is pretty random, but what do you expect two days before Comic-con?
Continue ReadingThings that happened, art that people drew, the greatest shame of Cleveland, and one nerdlebrity's struggle to free himself from the past.
Continue Reading§ Abhay does what Abhay does best and finds out Weezer was to blame: British fish have ovaries in their testes; the message is clear: even Jason Statham’s days are fucking numbered. Via the Forbidden Planet International Blog, a nice little video primer on graphic novels by Robin Valenza: Robin Valenza has uploaded [...]
Continue Reading§ Congrats to Dean Haspiel, who got an Emmy nomination for his work on the titles to the HBO series Bored to Death. Emmy nominations for Outstanding Main Title Design Bored To Death • HBO • Dakota Pictures, 3 Arts Entertainment /Fair Harbor Productions in association with HBO Entertainment Tom Barham, Designer/Director Marci Ichimura, Lead Animator Dean Haspiel, Illustrator/Artist Mark [...]
Continue ReadingMore Dancin' Art Spiegelman; Brandon Graham's manifesto; a Smurf-atar; is Scott Pilgrim turning video gamers into nostalgia freaks? and more more more!
Continue ReadingCasue and effect, interviews with Bryan Lee O'Malley, Ian Boothby and Connos Willumsen, and the shocking truth about Hall H.
Continue ReadingCan commercial comics ever equal the greatness of underground comics? Is there a solution to the scanlation problem? Is Shaenon T. Garrity's list of ten defining manga the most defining list of all? The answers to all this and more will be found in the link below!
Continue ReadingThe dirty, dirty mind of Mort Walker, the secret of Hostess Cupcakes and Spider-Man, chattings, learnings, growings and old family cartoon photos...all in the link!
Continue ReadingWhat is true, what is not? Who is a hack? WHo has dangling balls? What is Berkeley Breathed doing now? Answer await.
Continue ReadingDes Yahoo hold the answers to everything we need to know? Does Jake Forbes know how to save manga? Does Stan Lee know how to answer ticklish questions? Is Brian Wood as metal as they come? What made the internet great? Does Tom Brevoort know how to tweak the competition? Does Shaenon Garrity know how to read BL? All this and more in today's exciting episode of...KIBBLES 'N' BITS!
Continue ReadingAs usual, a ton of disparate links have piled up while we were on the road. §DC is teaming with the NBA for some licensed apparel, and the result is this fine piece of Photoshop craftsmanship. § This is old, but everyone was Tweeting it yesterdayL Nikki Cook’s advice to artists: 14. Before walking out of [...]
Continue ReadingWhy are superheroes cool? More discussion of race in superhero comics. What Jonah Hex means to Warners' movie plans. Where to go to the bathroom in San Diego. What happened at the Phoenix Comicon? Today in Kibbles 'n' bits!
Continue ReadingWow, so many links and things that we can't even begin to give you a teaser. Just read it!
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