Bristol reporting
The reports coming in from the Bristol Comics Expo this weekend are surprisingly lucid thus far -- pretty shocking, but guess the big drinkers...
Barcelona Part II: The Quest for “Mount Jew”
We returned to the show on Friday late after a day of hardcore sightseeing, but in time for the Awards. As I...
What I did on my Spanish Vacation Part I
Our arrival in Barcelona coincided with the morning, a time period The Beat is all too unfamiliar with, but it gave our arrival a...
Animated Burns, McGuire, Mattotti
Did we get your attention? They all did animated shorts for the upcoming French film Fear(s) of the dark and now you can see...
Exciting stuff we missed
We can't believe we missed the bulging crotch scandal!:
My pal Jake said to me, “I think there are two equally creepy options - 1....
Ficomic Day 4
After a dismal journey to the beach, we finally got to see the rest of the show today. We spotted a lone quartet of...
Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona Day 3
Suddenly Cosplay! Well they weren't kidding about the crowds and the local kids dressed as their favorite manga characters. We don´t have time for...
German ‘toon lonely for mate
Pumuckl, a lovable water sprite plucked from folkelore to become a popular German cartoon character is at the center of a legal battle over...
Thailand crack down on porn
Although the headline may sound as unlikely as "New York crack down on pretzel carts" or "Iowa crack down on corn dogs", it turns...
Breaking News: Travis Charest is ssllooww
We're receiving word that Travis Charest may have been removed as the artist on the Alejandro Jodorowsky-penned Dreamshifters graphic novel for Humanoids. We're...
4/3: news and notes
§ Dan Nadel has a nice picture-laved post in which he gets to go to Europe and visit with Moebius and many other...
Comic strip debuts in Jewish Museum in Munich
Whatever happened to former DC editor Jordan Gorfinkel? Well, for one thing, he's just completed a comic strip that decorates the walls of the...













