Spielberg talks TIntin
Director Steven Spielberg gave film site scribes visiting the set for some Indiana Jones scoop a heaping helping of news about the planned Tintin trilogy that he and Peter Jackson are making, according...
Manga conventions
One more manga post! Over at Sporadic Sequentialcultural anthropologist and Japan-based manga expert Matt Thorn explains why manga is so exacting:
Sure, there's a wide variety of subject matter in manga, and more...
People going places
Some catch-up blogging of photo-filled fests of comical types going places and doing things. Remember when you had to go over to someone's house and sit through hours of boring slides? Thanks to the...
Canadian Money Matters
The mighty Canadian Loonie continues its assault on the now-dinky American Dollar :
After sinking steadily for most of the year, the U.S. greenback hit a record low against the euro and declined against the...
Important things we didn’t mention yet
Stately Beat Manor is humming with projects, activities and cat yak and we are way behind on pointing you to many interesting things that may prove to be the butterfly stamp of some future...
Manara interview online
Sonaste Maneco , as near as we can make out, is an online comics magazine out of Argentina. The latest issue has some interesting content, according to an email we received:
With exclusive interviews to...
SWORD OF THE ATOM analyzed
Beat pal Pepo has one of the finest Spanish-language comics blogs out there, CON C DE ARTE, and today he has a long analysis of the 1983 mini-series SWORD OF THE ATOM by Jan...
Swedish cartoon controversy updates
Over in Turkey a pundit speaks:
Metin Peker, chairman of the Association of Turkish Cartoonists, speaking to Today's Zaman condemned the cartoon published by Swedish newspaper Nerikes Allehanda depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog, saying...
Artist meant to create controversy; got it
Swedish artist Lars Vilks, hiding in an undisclosed location after drawing threats for his cartoon of a dog with the head of Mohammad, says he did it to stir debate:
Showing the original picture at...
Kare-Kare Komiks joins Chemistry Set
Webcomic collective Chemistry Set welcomes another strip:
The Chemistry Set is pleased to announce that Filipino comicker Andrew Drilon and his series, Kare-Kare Komiks, is joining it's line-up. Previously displayed at Warren Ellis' forum The...
Another day, another cartoon crisis
Swedish artist Lars Vilks is now confined to his house following an al-Qaeda bounty was placed on his head after he drew the prophet Mohammed with a dog's body:
Vilks, who was whisked away by...
Interviews of note
§ Daily Cross Hatch continues chatting with Paul Gravett and Nick Bertozzi:
Gravett: Exactly. And the point is, these characters—there’s nothing in Japan that’s been artificially kept alive this long, well past their sell by...
