Kibbles ‘n’ Bits around the world
§ The NY Daily News profiles...Jeffrey Brown?
But there's more than meets the eye when it comes to Brown's comics. His sketchbook-style graphic novels are...
Posy Simmonds profile
The Telegraph profiles Posy Simmonds, who we are told, is read by millions in the UKm thanks to her long running newspaper strip POSY,...
World's oldest cartoonist
A few news outlets have noted the 107th birthday last month of Russian editorial cartoonist Boris Efimov, best known for his biting caricatures of...
Brum Con roundup
Beat reader Stephen Aryan sends us some linkage to last weekend's second Birmingham comics fest in the UK.
There are a number of roundups about...
World news
Lars Vilks, the man at the center of the Swedish cartoon controversy defends his deliberately provoking Mohammed cartoon
Vilks, who has been a controversial artist...
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...
