Photos: When cartoonists dressed like Don Draper
As part of a tribute to the late, great* Jerry Robinson, Mike Lynch has scanned in some of his old National Cartoonist Society programs -- comic strips in the Madmen era! BTW, he's pretty hard to even recognize Robinson in these photos, but that's him on the left with the glasses.
Continue ReadingFirst Look at NYCC: Photos from the set-up
Special Ops Beat Correspondent Torsten has already been on the floor for NYCC set-up and filed the following report:
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.
Continue ReadingBaltimore Comic-Con Photo Parade
It's been a long time since I posted an arty Hipstamatic photo dump -- and I know you missed it!
Continue ReadingThe Watchtower: Comic-Con — The Spectacle
Showing, not telling, as I post selected photos from around the Web.
Continue ReadingAmazing MAD photo gallery at LIFE.com
Wow, we've linked to some amazing LIFE Magazine photo galleries before, but here is a doozy:MAD Magazine: A Semi-Secret History with photos of MAD founder Bill Gaines from the files of current editor John Ficarra. LIFE made a few images available, but each is accompanied by Ficarra's commentary on the site with even more history and insight.
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The few looks of cosplay Black Widow
While we were poking around UGO we came upon this surprisingly lengthy gallery of Hot Black Widow Cosplay. Well maybe not to surprising -- all you need is a black catsuit, some wrist thingies, a red wig and a good figure and you too can fight for SHIELD.
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Modern children at the modern newsstand
If there's one thing comics bloggers love, it's those old B&W photos from Life Magazine showing kids reading comics--proof of a simpler time when children read things, bananas were a vegetable, and your real father dropped off a bottle of milk at your mom's house every day. Well, recently on the LA Times Southern California Moments feature of reader-submitted photos we came across what looks to be a contemporary example of the genre:
Continue ReadingSeparated at birth: Veitch and Wolverine
Based on this 1972 photo of cartoonist Rick Veitch (Brat Pack, Army @ Love) you've got to wonder who stole who's look.
Continue ReadingWe should use this more often
We totally forgot about this photo from 2008 NYCC. It was taken by Vaneta Rogers but the original is gone. So useful!
Continue ReadingCartoonists Doing Things: Raina’s Crazy 2010
Raina Telgemeier has had a busy year promoting her graphic novel SMILE -- which was just picked as an Honor Book for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. She shares some of her pictures, including stops in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and Queens. Here's Telegemier at the Dumbo Arts Festival just a week ago.
Continue ReadingSuperman’s German accident
Spotted in Berlin. Context unknown. Thanks to Jah Furry for the share.
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