MALLARD FILLMORE cartoonist drinks, then drives
From E&P news that a right-leaning cartooner was arrested for a family unfriendly activity:
Edward Bruce Tinsley, 48, creator of the comic...
Jodorowsky profiled
Legendary avant-garde-filmmaker-turned cartooner Alexandro Jodorowsy is profiled in the NY Sun as new prints of EL TOPO highlight the NY Film Festival:
Visiting this fall...
SPAWN conquers Bulgaria
If we were as mean as they say, we might say that if Borat wrote a comics press release, it would read something like...
Oh, the Huge Manatee
Regular readers know we have always been manatee-friendly here at The Beat. These peaceful, lovable behemoths of the seas may lack cutes,...
BrumCon remembered
Adrian Brown, organizer of the Just1Page charity, sent us a report on the recently concluded Birmingham International Comics Show, complete with a link to...
“Anti-gay” writer takes on gay superhero
The blogosphere has a new talking point as the news that Chuck Dixon is writing a comic starring Midnighter, the gay character from THE...
Jahnke leaves VIZ
Publishers Weekly has word of a personnel shift at VIZ:
Dudley Jahnke has left Viz Media and Viz CEO Hidemi Fukuhara has taken over his...
Women in comics movies
A quick roundup of some comics to movie news that gives us a chance to post some nice photos.
Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has...
Roger Langridge does Marvel
Entire 8 10-page Roger Landgride Marvel Christmas story on line at Newsarama. Crap, what are you waiting for???
Millar gushes about WANTED FILM
Over at MILLARWORLDMark Millar pees his pants in excitement over a recent visit with WANTED director Timur Bekmambetov:
I went in expecting little as I...
Cliff Chiang, Harvard grad
We can't resist linking to this nice article from the Harvard Crimson on Cliff Chiang, a wonderful artist and pal. It tells of his...
300 Trailer—yikes!
Yahoo has the new 300 trailer. After watching it in high-def a few times all we can say is...well, we're frankly pummeled speechless. Click...
