The cross-cultural appeal of Frank Miller
Spanish indie cartooner Pepo (El Vecino)is a regular Beat tipster, and also one of Spain's indispensable bloggers with his Con C de Arte blog....
Storytelling
Some storytellers on storytelling:
Todd Alcott:
The protagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey is:a) Moon-Watcherb) The Monolithc) Dr. Heywood R. Floydd) Dr. Dave Bowmane) Dr. Frank...
O’Malley covers SHOJO BEAT
Bryan Lee O'Malley unveils his cover for SHOJO BEAT and reveals several other cool things inside the magazine.
Can you say "watershed"?
But will the...
Worthy Project #2: Words Without Borders
Words Without Borders bills itself as "The Online Magazine for INternational LIterature" and naturally, the latest issue turns to international comics.
Philippe Dupuy and Charles...
Worthy Project #1: Comics Influx
Comix Influx treads the line between Wiki and scanslation without being either. Basically, it's a cooperative website that offers English translations of foreign comics...
Santiago on Clemente
Wilfred Santiago is putting out a graphic novel about baseball great Roberto Clemente called 21 and he's posted a preview on Flickr. Baseball and...
@#*! Brat Pack t-shirt
Rick Veitch has printed up a new batch of t-shirts based on his classic superhero noir, BRAT PACK. To promote the shirts, he's created...
Movie news: Keane, Urasawa
§ Kate Hudson will star in Big Eyes a film about the painter Margaret Keane . Keane is credited with developing the seminal style...
The Self-Publishing Movement remembered
Over at his Boneville blog, Jeff Smith has started a series of posts looking back at the self-publishing movement of the 90s:
It’s been 15...
More on comics and literary quality
Jennifer de Guzman looks at the ongoing literary debate and calls for higher criticism.
We don't see more literary quality in comics being published...
Hewlett’s PHOO ACTION on BBC3
Jamie (Gorillaz) Hewlett's strip Get The Freebles which ran in The Face, has been turned into a British TV show called PHOO ACTION. It...
Criminal week!
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It's been CRIMINAL week on MySpace lately. Although that sounds dire, it's really a promotion for the Ed Brubaker/Sean Phillips ICON title, CRIMINAL....
