Composing for Heroes: Continuity and Emotions
By: Nick Eskey
There are many pieces that go into creating a successful movie and television series, especially when trying to bring something to life...
Dynamite announces The Art of Army of Darkness
As you know, we're big Bruce Campbell fans here at Stately Beat Manor, and Bruce was never Brucier than in Army of Darkness. So with Dynamite about to release a collection of The Art of Amy of Darkness—which was their first comic book some 10 (!!!) years ago—you know we'll want a copy so we can relive artistic reinterpretations of great moments in the history of the One True Bruce, from John Bolton's classic key art on. Hail to the King, baby.
Suffragette Lady: An Interview with Kate Charlesworth
On International Workers' Day, the 1st of May, Jonathan Cape published Sally Heathcote, Suffragette, the second graphic novel written by Mary Talbot, a semi-fictionalised...
Nice Art: Newelt and Remnant on Paul Shapiro’s Jewish Jazz
Joseph Remnant, artist on Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND, channels a bit of that Pekar vibe along with writer Jeff Newelt in this online comics about jazz musician Paul Shapiro, whose new album VERSES , is out featuring famed guitarist Marc Ribot. It's on John Zorn's TZADIK label, so if you like Masala, you might like this.
Nice art: Becky Cloonan’s Monster variant cover for Batman
Just to prove that the Bat office is going WILD with art, Becky Cloonan posted her Monster variant cover for Batman for October, which...
Nice Art: Jeff Smith covers Rocket Raccoon for SDCC Marvel exclusive
I've wondered in the past if Rocket Raccoon would get overexposed before Guardians of the Galaxy comes out. Well as long as that exposure is swell variant covers by Jeff Smith, I have no worries about that.
By Its Cover (06.25.14 – 07.02.14)
This is me still sort of figuring out where I want to go with this column. A side effect of so much comics output...
Nice art: Luke Pearson covers Charlie Mortdecai
I gotta admit, I never heard of the Charlie Mortdecai books by Kyril Bonfiglioli, but I am tickled with the covers to new editions...
Bat-Man and Superman get all selfie-tastic
August is variant cover Selfie month at DC comics, and to get everyone in a good mood, DC released their first selfie-variant cover on...
Neely and Keller offer zero issue of soon-to-be-announced THE HUMANS
Hm well, according to this, THE HUMANS, by Keenan Marshall Keller and Tom (The Blot, Henry and Glenn) Neely will be announced as an...
Adrian Tomine covers The New Yorker with 9/11 Memorial
This week's New Yorker has a cover by Adrian Tomine, and he discusses it inside the magazine:
“When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and...
Most gruesome cover of the day: The Worst of Eerie Publications
Craig Yoe's Yoe Books imprint at IDW has been a repository of some delightful cartooning, like Dick Briefer's Frankenstein and Christmas Comics and the...














