A New Year’s Gift From The Beat!
Listen to Heidi MacDonald, The Beat herself, discuss 2011 in comics on a special year-end edition of More To Come, the PW Comics World podcast! As you may or may not know, Heidi has been one of the hosts of our bi-weekly comics news podcast for the past several months. In this episode, Heidi MacDonald and her co-hosts PW Comics World editor Calvin Reid and I discuss the biggest trends and events of the past year, including...
Continue ReadingCatch The Beat on Comic News Insider
My voice is back enough to podcast! A miracle! Check out this week's Comic News Insider Episode 322 – Walking The Beat with Heidi MacDonald in which I co-host with Jimmy Aquino:
Continue ReadingPaul Duffield on motion comics
FREAKANGELS artist Paul Duffield, who has a background in animation, shares some informed thoughts on motion comics proving that there is more you can say about the hybrid form than "Yuck." However, there is a conceptual problem, he says.
Continue ReadingThe Dan Clowes Show and multimedia
Should comics panels be written about or recorded for all to hear? This panel report from APE of Dan Nadel interviewing Daniel Clowes has been linked everywhere, probably because it's such a thorough write-up. There's lots of dish on other cartoonists, and anecdotes from the history of alt.comix:
Continue ReadingPodcast alley: Comic News Insider #300
Podcasters Jimmy Aquino and Joe Gonzalez and their long running Comic News Insider podcast are big supporters of The Beat, and the feeling is mutual, so we were happy to go down and put in an appearance on their Gala 300th Episode But we were in fantastic company: Kevin Maguire (JLA), Kate Beaton (HARK! A VAGRANT), Veronica Taylor (voice of Ash from Pokemon), Michael Emerson (Ben Linus from Lost), Molly Crabapple (Dr. Sketchy's), and Ben McCool aka FMB (CHOKER) were also on the show. Beaton did a long interview that revealed her construction site past, and everyone else was equally informative. Good times!
Continue ReadingICv2 Digital & Comics Conference audio: Print vs Digital
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Another jam packed and fascinating discussion among people who have a lot to say. NYC participants: Print vs. Digital–War, Co-existence, or Collaboration Publishers, retailers, and others on how the digital revolution will impact on print sales. - Ted Adams, CEO of IDW Publishing - Eric Beaulieu, Vice President Premedia, Transcontinental Transmedia - Dave Bowen, Director of [...]
Continue ReadingCast PIRATE GIRL
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: Indie Spinner Rack — #875
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIf 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 [...]
Continue ReadingIf you just can't get enough Beat…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBlake Bell posts an mp3 of Gary Groth interviewing Todd McFarlane. We’re told it’s “classik” with a “k”.
Continue ReadingClickwheel update
Share this link on Facebook!TweetClickwheel 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 Apple’s new iPod line, Clickwheel, [...]
Continue ReadingAnother wrestling/comics connection
Share this link on Facebook!TweetEven 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 [...]
Continue Reading"Comics are not literature" now online
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
Continue ReadingHernandez Brothers Week
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet 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 [...]
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