Amazon’s best book covers
Amazon has its nominations for Best Book Cover of the Year up and there are a few familiar friends in the nominees --...
2010 shopping list: The Maxx: The Complete Series
'90s nostalgia alert! All 13 episodes of The Maxx, the ultra quirky cartoon based on Sam Kieth's mega-quirky comic book, will be out...
Hype Alert!
We try not to overly hype Future Mr Beat aka Ben McCool's projects here, but his upcoming book with Ben Templesmith CHOKER, is in...
Art and such: Rick Veitch’s The Spotted Stone
Via Bleeding Coolm a peek at a new Rick Veitch project, The Spotted Stone.
Veitch describes The Spotted Stone as a “kissing cousin” book...
Studio coffee run 11/30/09 — THE LOSERS, Smallville
• Despite a 70 percent drop-off, TWILIGHT stayed atop the Thanksgiving box office. But it got some competition from a film where Sandra Bullock...
Truly thankful
The Beat definitely lapsed into blog-silence this holiday weekend, but it was for a very good cause -- the ongoing re-shelving and organization of...
New ABANDONED CARS covers
Last year's ABANDONED CARS by Tim Lane, was a solid debut that didn't get a lot of attention, which is a shame because Lane's...
How to make a cover
Tomer Hanuka explains his approach to the cover for The Kiss Murder:
Illustration is like acting. you need to invest a strand of authentic emotion...
Two thoughts for the day
"In the Core Marvel Universe, a "gritty crime story" is one
where a blind lawyer ninja dressed as the Devil fights
a massive Sumo...
Collins! What is best in comics?
If you thought yesterday's A.V. Club Best Comics of the Aughts list was going to tiptoe by unnoticed and uncommented on, you were wide...
