Young, Hip and Wild About Comic Books
No real time for links today but today's comics loving New York Times has a big story about what we've been telling you for...
Gloeckner wins Guggenheim
Cartoonist and art teacher Phoebe Gloeckner has won a Guggenheim Fwllowship. The Fllowships are prosented to advanced professionals in a variety of creative and...
Uniqlo does Tezuka again
Actress Chloe Sevigny models the Tezuka-inspired t-shirts from Japanese retailers Uniqlo..
This latest T-shirts have been designed in collaboration with iconic Australian artist Keith...
Another what might have been: Tezuka/Kubrick
i09 reports on an aborted Tezuka project:
When Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga, died in 1989, nobody had a full archive of his works—at...
New Ditko book
It's one of the erroneous assumptions of comics that Steve Ditko is a crazy old coot who doesn't draw comics anymore. While it...
Don Rosa update
While perusing the Disney forum for the previous item, we came across an update on Don Rosa's detached retina relayed from Dan Shane on...
What’s hot at MySpace!
CBR takes a look at comics on MySpace and concludes that Marvel is very buzy there. However the most popular cartoonist on MySpace is...
Robin Enrico in the Daily News
Brooklyn's indie cartooner Robin Enrico is profiled in the Ny Daily News:
With thoughtful and believable dialogue, eye-popping visual elements, simple character designs,...
Get well soon, Don Rosa
Several sources are reporting that cartoonist Don Rosa is recovering from surgery. Mike Gold at ComicMix writes:
It probably goes without saying that an artist's...
Jill Thompson update
A reader writes to inform us that Jill Thompson now has her own forum on the Lurid Forum. That in turn reminded us...
‘Tooners now “brashly confident avatars of cool.”
Dear friends, The Beat has been blogging for nigh on four years now, and when we began, our goal was to put comics culture...
The damage is irreversible
The Baltimore City Paper reviews Scrooged a show of Carl Barks art at the Geppi Entertainment museum. And you will cry:
And "Yukon" is not...
