Comics

Several attendees of the Angoulême comics festival are still filing their reports. A must-read is this report on the Rights Panel, including such smart folks as Peggy Burns, Carol Burrell, and Calista Brill talking about publishing realities:

http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.swf Howcum Thor doesn't have a Norwegian accent? Just sayin'.

http://d.yimg.com/nl/movies/site/player.swf In addition to showcasing the TRON 3 trailer as performed by the Black Eyed Peas, Super Bowl XLV also featured the debut of the...

It's the Flash and he's....coming apart????? Oh dear. Art by Andy Kubert and Sandra Hope.

Marvel has released the cover to the first issue of its upcoming FEAR ITSELF event, written by Matt Fraction with art by Stuart Immonen...

July's Captain America film starring Chris Evans just got its first poster. Looks gritty.

DC has posted logos for five of their FLASHPOINT miniseries. FLASHPOINT seems to be a kind of DC-only alternative reality Amalgam comic where Cyborg is Superman and so on.

More info here.

Archie Comics has been making tons of news of late, in case you haven't noticed. In addition to all the digital initiatives they've recently announced, they're also repurposing the famed Archie Marries storyline by making all the original issues available as digital comics.

The winners of the 2010 Webcomics List Award have been announced -- fittingly -- in a webcomic. Winners were chosen by a panel of judges: Although there is not a text list of winners, Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 made a print list:

Longtime readers of The Beat will know we are big fans of Toby Cypress's strange but beautiful art, seen on things like Killing Girl and The Schizophrenic. It turns out he's launching his own small press company, Punkrock*Jazz to publish his own work, starting with the long -awaited RODD RACER a Fritz Lang/Frank Robbins/Milton Caniif story about fast cars, crizy cities and a young racer who gets more than he bargained for. Back in the day, they would have called it "Widescreen" but then the screens got too small.

While we were noting our one-year anniversary on our calendar, we also asked some of out pals and gals to update us on what they were up to, comics-wise, and a lot of them obliged. So we'll be posting them as we go along. And we'll keep doing more of it because..it's fun.