Zuda in March
It's the beginning of the month and that means a new bunch of Zuda comics. Eddie Sharam and James Woodhead’s ROAD was the...
Saul Bass vs Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/v/z25t-PQDn5A
We're reasonably sure that the highly erudite folks who read The Beat get this joke, but just to give a little background, Bass was...
New Emerald City ComiCon poster
The Emerald City ComiCon is not, strictly speaking, an indie comics show, but it takes place in Seattle, so it sorta is by default....
Pop culture icons
The A.V. Club recently spotlighted some painters who take pop culture characters and paint 'em up in the style of Ingres or Rembrandt. Yeah,...
Ming Doyle’s Lady Gotham
Okay, here's a new one to rally behind: Ming Doyle's treatment for the little discussedMartha Wayne.
Much other good stuff at the site of this...
Butler boards Black Freighter
Everyone has been very, very sad that dear, dear Gerard Butler didn't end up with a role in WATCHMEN, although he and director...
The secret history of Vertigo?
After all the deep thots around here of late, cleanse your palette with this hilarious page.
To Do Tonight, Seattle: Lust
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Multimedia reading and performancePlus! Dazzling dancer Fuschia FoXXX! (Voted one of the Stranger's "Sexiest Citizens"!) Scantily-clad boy AND girl sirens, including Holly Chernobyl! (Also...
To Do Tonight, Cambridge, MA: ADrian Tomine
Thursday night, Adrian's at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, sponsored by the Harvard Bookstore.
Last night, he addressed a SRO crowd at the Librairie...
WIMPY KID movie planned
Fox 2000 has optioned the phenomenally successful WIMPY KID books. Nina Jacobson will produce. According to the article, five books are eventually planned, with...
Jeff Smith on whether he tastes great or is less filling
New York Mag's Vulture bloginterviews Jeff Smith today and they bring up where he sees himself on the spectrum of comics:
This fall, a...
Movie update: Norton Hulks out, Armie Hammer Jr. IS Batman again!
§ While IRON MAN has been everywhere from the Super Bowl to Lost, this year's INCREDIBLE HULK movie has had relatively little publicity. This...
