Cast PIRATE GIRL
Jeremy Bastian’s CURSED PIRATE GIRL is one of those comics in periodical format that in an earlier era probably would have gotten a great deal of support as an independent project by a talented cartoonist with a distinctive vision, kinda steampunk, kinda old school illustration. However, in a day and age inhospitable to the [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: Indie Spinner Rack — #875
If you’re looking for indie cartoonists at NYCC, the Indie Spinner Rack booth is as good as any to find ‘em! We are premiering the first official ISR t-shirt and will have copies of the Awesome anthology available! We will be recording interviews throughout the weekend and will be raffling off a huge original sketch jam [...]
Continue ReadingIf you just can't get enough Beat…
The Comic Book Club folks are now PODCASTING. So you can now listen to the State of the Industry show with ourself, Brian Heater, Kiel Phegley, and John DiBello.
Continue ReadingMore PictureBox stuff
HEAR Dan Nadel interview Powr Mastrs auteur CF here. SEE Gary Panter, Brian Chippendale / Blak Pus and Paper Rad on the new PictureBox YouTube channel.
Continue ReadingTodd vs Gary
Blake Bell posts an mp3 of Gary Groth interviewing Todd McFarlane. We’re told it’s “classik” with a “k”.
Continue ReadingClickwheel update
Clickwheel has been around for a bit as the first company to attempt to take advantage of comics on the iPod. While it hasn’t been maing many headlines lately, it does have some recent updates in regards to the new generation of iPods: In the wake of Appleās new iPod line, Clickwheel, the site for creating [...]
Continue ReadingAnother wrestling/comics connection
Even though THE BEAT and her helper monkey have been talking about Chris Benoit’s brain, that’s not the wrestling talk we have for you today. As everyone knows, there are a multitude of similarities between the two popular culture whipping boys: brightly-colored outfits, supersized muscles, and so on. Today, we shine a line on one of our [...]
Continue Reading"Comics are not literature" now online
Via Colleen Coover the “Comics are not literature” panel from San Diego that was practically the only provocative one, as far as we can tell, is up. We haven’t listened yet, but it’s very high on our catch up list. Image of Douglas Wolk, Dan Nadel, and Sara Ryan stolen from Coover. Who just got [...]
Continue ReadingHernandez Brothers Week
Blake Bell is celebrating Hernandez Brothers week, and of course you don’t have to ask us twice to join in the fun. Bell is posting mp3’s of a 1989 interview of Gilbert Hernandez by Gary Groth and throwws in a few observations: Interesting that, in part one, Gilbert name checks Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko as [...]
Continue ReadingComic News Insider #100 is online
Hear the Beat blab! Hear Paul Pope, John Cassaday, Jimmy Palmiotti and John Lucas blab also! It’s all on the 100th episode of the Comic News Insider podcast which is now online. Comic News Insider is your source for news, reviews and interviews on everything comic book, animation, sci-fi and pop culture! Sponsored by Dynamic Forces. [...]
Continue ReadingInkstuds does Deitch
Comics podcast Inkstuds has a mammoth three part interview with Kim Deitch. Part One Part Two Part Three We haven’t listened to it yet. But you should.
Continue ReadingHear the Beat wrap-up San Diego
Who needs spending hours and hours writing deep thought when you can just blab? Cinematical’s James Rocchi interviews the Beat about movies, comics and comic-book movies.
Continue ReadingListen up if you can't be there live
For those of you that aren’t in SD, DC Comics is giving you a way to feel like you were there. For at least the second year in a row, DC has podcasts available from some of the panels. There are shows from Thursday, Friday and Saturday offered. You can find them at DC’s webpage or on [...]
Continue ReadingWho is the Joke on at SDCC?
What’s up with the viral game tied into the Batman movie going on at the Con this afternoon? It apparently started this morning with the Why So Serious website giving out coordinates this morning to a location right outside the convention center. As of this writing (3:30 ET), the website says “Checkpoint 1″ and a cryptic [...]
Continue ReadingThe Trailer
For nerds not in San Diego, the biggest news of the week is probably the release of the Simpsons movie. But, maybe more important than that is what you can see before the movie: the trailer for THE DARK KNIGHT movie. Of course, it’s 2007, so someone who saw a preview has already put it [...]
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