We’re Two!
Yes, The Beat is two years old today as its own standalone website. Woot. And we're celebrating just as we always do --slaving away into the wee hours of the day so you have something to read with your coffee. Oh yeah, we also changed the background just for the day—yes, it's awful, but it's our blog and we'll be tacky if we want to.
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: Some Constructive Criticism
A few suggestions on how publishers can improve their websites. Feel free to add your own in the comments! (And, yeah, I guess we could take some ourselves, "what's sauce for the goose" and all that...)
Continue ReadingHoliday slowdown ahead
Well, we got our Christmas wish! Our internet came back on -- magically! But only after we had made a service appointment and had to give up all our last minute Christmas shopping to race -- and we do mean race -- home. Time Warner Cable, you know how to push my buttons. Things are back on line just in time for our annual pilgrimage to Ultima Thule. Everything is slowing down to holiday mode anyhoo. We'll post some holiday reading just to keep everyone sharp. And remember to shop locally! Like we wanted to...but were prevented from by TIME WARNER CABLE.
Continue ReadingTime Warner: we hate you to death
Hell demons from Time Warner are trying to stop The Beat!
Continue Reading20 Days of Christmas: Alexis Frederick-Frost
We'll take this occasion of reprinting this year's Center for Cartoon Studies holiday card by Alexis Frederick-Frost to note that thanks to a 12 hour cable outage on my block I've had to repair to the local Not Starbucks for internet. Dear god, this place is a madhouse of men in business suits yapping about plans along with three plucky students from nearby Baruch who looked to have pitched a tent amid empty yogurt containers and one Unabomber type in the back corner typing on a seedy black netbook.
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 ReadingIs it possible to stay in touch without a phone or Facebook?
This weekend I suffered the technocrat's greatest nightmare and dunked my iPhone. It's currently sitting in a bag of rice and soon I will find out if my life is over or not. In the meantime, for someone who is attached at the metacarpal to her iPhone, this past weekend was very interesting. For instance, I had to find my way to someplace I'd never been. Instead of relying on GPS when I got out of the subway, before leaving the house I had to look it up on a map and print it out. And then pull out a paper and look at the map when I arrived. It was like a Geico caveman commercial.
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Offline
I am going away from the computer for approximately 48 hours. Of course, this means that Marvel will announce a reboot, or Jim Lee will quit DC, or Alan Moore will announce he's writing HELLBOY, or Google will buy Archie Comics sometime during the next 48 hours. My Special Operatives will be keeping an eye on things, and I've left a few art posts to keep you all amused. But for now I'm going somewhere where giant Indians beat drums so loud that train tracks disintegrate. Because that's how I roll. So behave.
Continue ReadingSpeed force activate!
As happens from time to time, The Beat has been engaged in an outside project which takes up a significant amount of time normally given over to Beatage. Between that and all the incredible comics events all around every week, it's literally hard to find time to sleep, let along post fun pictures. But we'll keep pooking along. There's so many great events we've attended in recent weeks that we meant to post about -- like the signing for Cliff Chiang and WONDER WOMAN last weekend at Bergen Street Comics -- people had lined up as early as 4:30 and the line went around the block! The Source had a little write up. That's Mike Cavallero and Ali Collucio standing in front of some of the art, above.
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Snuffy Smith and others remember Sept. 11
As you may not have noticed, the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks falls on a Sunday and so more than 90 Sunday strip cartoonists will be marking the occasion.
Continue ReadingSo what will happen THIS time?
Wow, life in these United States sure is funny. One minute you're watching dashing rebels storming a tyrants compound while Sara Sidner dodges celebratory, lethal bullets, the next there's a dinky but baffling earthquake, and then what about that hurricane? And then this happened.
Continue ReadingComic shops hit in UK rioting all open for new comics day
News roundup and some personal notes on the rioting.
Continue ReadingSDCC, A Look Back: The Beat
One red-eye flight from Burbank later, and I've had the most uninterrupted sleep I've gotten in two weeks. It will take another 10 hours to really get normal, but for that I've got to hang on until the weekend. YOU CAN DO IT! I'll have more emblematic con thoughts tomorrow, but for now a few shout outs:
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