Brum Con II
Aside from SPX, this weekend there's the second Birmingham International Comics Show, in the UK, featuring all the hard-drinking Brit comics folk you would...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...





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