Ryan & Cooper
Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper team as Hector Mumbly for Nick Magazine, as spotted at Dave Roman's new nickmag_comics blog. Damn, if only we were a child.
Jonathan Levine interview
Regular Beat readers know that we're big fans of Jonathan Levine's art gallery here in NYC, which specializes in "lowbrow" or "pop surrealism" art, much of it influenced by pop culture and comics....
Great moments in comics part XLVII
We always love Kean Soo's photo-journalism con reports and here he captures a magic moment we like to call Understanding Tetris, as Kazu Kibuishi and Derek Kirk Kim explain to Scott McCloud how to...
Alan Moore talks in complete paragraphs
A very long, very meaty Alan Moore interview up at the Onion A.V. Club:
The way that we worked on Lost Girls was actually different than the way I've worked on any other comic I've...
More Video Blogging!
Video Blog #3: Geof Darrow
Video Blog #4: VIZ Media
Unfortunately we can't link the players to the front page here. But we can link to them!
SDCC: ASFA (#4800, 4701-03)
Allen Spiegel Fine Arts is the booth where you find some of the most amazing artists at the comvention, this year including Thom Ang, August Hall, Dave McKean, Scott Morse, Jon J Muth, Bonnie...
SDCC: Random Stuff
Looks, here's all the stuff we just didn't have time to write up in its own items. It's a big sloppy mess:
A woman is auctioning off ad space on her...forehead. How horrid.
Atomic Comics...
SDCC: Bob Fingerman
Bob Fingerman makes a rare San Diego appearance to promote his new book RECESS PIECES. He'll be appearing at the Dark Horse and Fantag booths.
Good news, too: Dark Horse tells me *some copies...
SDCC: Kyle Baker (#1717)
Kyle Baker will be set up at San Diego selling cool books of edifying cartoons and bringing glee to to the populace. Schedule below.
Don’t miss Kyle Baker at Comic-Con International in San Diego this...
Must link of the day: FIELD GUIDE TO SAN DIEGO
Skribbl at Story Boredom presents a lovely field guide to the types you'll see at Comic-con, with their habits noted.
Look out for this one near any bathroom entrance or waste recepticle. Instead of...
