The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – SPX 2013
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
SPX Shocker: Jeff Smith and Kate Beaton are RELATED
As revealed in Beaton's comic recounting the momentous event, during some SPX chit chat, it turned out they are both related to a family...
SPX 2013: 600 cartoonists walk into a bar…
That is not a joke. It is definitely not a joke. With the SPX floor increased by a third to encompass the whole exhibition...
The Beat Podcasts! – Heidi interviews Jeff Smith!
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
The lost world of Cartoon House profiled
Indie comics folk around Brooklyn and beyond have been quietly grieving over the imminent end of Cartoon House, a giant loft in South Williamsburg...
Making of iconic cover examined in new book on Françoise Mouly
Esteemed comics scholar Jeet Heer has just written a book about RAW and New Yorker Art Director Françoise Mouly entitled In Love with Art:...
Kickwatcher: The Scary Godmother Doll by Jill Thompson
Okay this is one project that really truly deserves all your support! IT's The Scary Godmother Doll designed by creator Jill Thompson. As...
Ben Templesmith: “I’m alive.”
When the story broke about J. Michael Straczynski replacing Ben Templesmith with CP Smith, as artist on his Image series Ten Grand after Templesmith...
Jeff Smith on tour for RASL all fall
The complete RASL by Jeff Smith is out this week, and he'll be touring all over the place—from SPC to CAB—throughout the fall. Here's...
Neil Gaiman and Grant Morrison having tea together
We've seen some pretty funny mash-ups photos floating around the web of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore together, photos which are a little ironic since the two titans of comics are not actually besties IRL. However, the above photo of Morrison and Neil Gaiman is 100% real.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, August 29, 2013: Gitty-up Daddy
§ Top news today! The city of Scottsdale, AZ, hopes to erect a statue in tribute to cartoonist Bil Keane who was a citizen of the town. While you'd think a statue dedicated to the artist Family Circus might include a diorama of footsteps strewn across a park, this one will feature a 9x7 bronze statue of Keane with the four Family Circus kids riding him like a pony. Hopefully this statue does not have a "torture variant." The above photos are artist's renditions.
It’s Jack Kirby’s 96th Birthday
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Today would have been the 96th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby. 26 years ago, on the occasion of Jack's 70th birthday, I was in the basement of the Hotel San Diego with about 600 of my fellow professionals as we waited in a dark room for Jack to appear.
Today would have been the 96th birthday of Jack "King" Kirby. 26 years ago, on the occasion of Jack's 70th birthday, I was in the basement of the Hotel San Diego with about 600 of my fellow professionals as we waited in a dark room for Jack to appear. 
