SD07: Video Blog #5 – Charles Vess

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 3:09 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Mispellings soon to be fixed. Also Firefox isn’t working nicely with these vids — apologies. click on pic or here for vid.

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No one does comma separated headlines like the New York Times

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 3:08 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetIn a Packed San Diego, Entertainment Worlds Collide: Much like the Cannes Film Festival — but with more at stake — Comic-Con has also begun to draw entertainment dealmakers, who have been trolling for meetings with comic artists and writers. Hollywood’s Endeavor talent agency, for instance, has at least eight agents attending, [...]

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I wish it wasn't ending!

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 3:08 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetDay five already…the day of farewells, the day of the setting sun. Can it be that this wonderful fairyland of opportunity is already fading away? So soon! Only a few times have we consumed the wonderful pretzels of the lobby, for a fleeting moment been to the panel rooms, and only [...]

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SD07: Video Blog #4 – Scott Morse

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 3:08 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Artist extraordinaire Scott Morse and The Beat chat about RATATTOUILLE and Morse’s new books. Click on vid or here for interview.

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Pulp Secret videos

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 2:38 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Our Pals at PulpSecret cover Iron Man’s unveiling and other things we were too busy to see ourselves.

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Listen up if you can't be there live

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 29 2007 AT 12:46 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!TweetFor 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 [...]

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SD07: Video Blog #3: What are the Turds?

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 5:35 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Click on pic or here for sidesplitting video.

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Comic-Con Costume contest

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 5:30 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetVote on the best costumes! Thanks Beat Spy Jonathan.

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Saturday news and notes

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 2:35 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!TweetNeil talks about the Eisner Kiss and other things CBR on Guice’s Marvel Exclusive CBR on the WB DVD panel more soon. Posted Mark Coale

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SD07: The Long March to Saturday

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 12:40 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetOnly a few mintues before we have to get to our panel. Everyone assumes this is the busy day, but we think every day bas been busy. We left the Eisners halfway through to go to the Oni party and try to go to the MySpace party (fire marshal problems) and then [...]

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2007 Eisner Award Winners

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 3:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetBest Short Story “A Frog’s Eye View,” by Bill Willingham and James Jean, in Fables: 1001 Nights of Snowfall (Vertigo/DC) Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) Batman/The Spirit #1: “Crime Convention,” by Jeph Loeb and Darwyn Cooke (DC) Best Continuing Series All Star Superman, by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely (DC) Best Limited Series Batman: Year 100, by Paul [...]

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Eisner Awards Live Blogging

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 28 2007 AT 2:00 am BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetHey there, we decided to love blog the Eisner Awards! Our spot by a power outlet doesn’t allow for very good pictures, but we’ll have all the banter and excitement. The evening begins with Jackie Estrada introducing MC Bill MOrrison, who recounts a wonderful deram of comics before admitting he’s having a [...]

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Waid @ Boom

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 27 2007 AT 8:51 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetNews spread rapidly over the floor that Mark Waid has been named Editor-in-Chief of Boom! Studios. No other details available. UPDATE: PR In a surprise announcement that rocked the comic-book world, BOOM! Studios revealed that fan-favorite scribe Mark Waid will become BOOM!’s Editor-in-Chief effective August 1st, 2007. Waid will fill a [...]

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Live from Hall H

0 Comments POSTED ON Jul 27 2007 AT 5:22 pm BY Beat

Share this link on Facebook!TweetPosting live from the promised land of Hall H. The loud speaker reminds the people who have been camped out here all day that there is food available, but they need to remove their garbage to keep it clean. There are seats here, but getting in is still a hassle. Not only [...]

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Who is the Joke on at SDCC?

2 Comments POSTED ON Jul 27 2007 AT 3:39 pm BY Mark Coale

Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhat’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 [...]

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