A Day of Romance
While we're out at Toy Fair, we'll leave you with our annual Valentine's Day image gallery! Let's kick things off with the instant classic...
Things that were
A page from the weekly comics newspaper, the Comics Buyer's Guide, March 11, 1988, via Larry Marder .
Andy Diggle's correspondence from 1999 --...
Shel Dorf’s 1973 San Diego Comic-Con Photos
At a now-bookmarked site called Comic-Convention Memories, the author is posting some photos found in the late Shel Dorf's collection highlighting: a) just how...
Taschen’s comics beginnings in 1980
As Paul Pope alluded to in the comments, Taschen Books, the art book publisher whose sale we were just telling you about, actually started...
A very brief MLK day post
Martha Cornog rounds up From Aya to Zapt!: 24 Graphic Novels for African American History Month:
The past year has left tweens and teens with...
Let’s go, Jets!
With a pain-wracked history emblazoned with love-hate names like Richard Todd, Vinny Testaverde, Boomer Esiason, Rick Mirer, Chad Pennington, Brooks Bollinger, Brett Favre, Browning...
The march of time in photos
1981, Creation Con, New York:
Mort Todd, Dan Clowes and Rick Altergott. Via Comics Comics
c 1991-2, San Diego Comic-Con
Jack Kirby meets his namesake, Kirby Veitch....
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Five
If you've stuck with us this far, you've got to go all the way, as the last batch of comics writers, artists, editors, marketers...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Four
It's the biggest year-end survey ever! We're going to keep going until it's all done though. People from EVERY walk of the comics...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Three
Wow, we had SO many responses there WILL BE A PART FOUR. And maybe a part five. Although there's a perhaps not-so-surpsiing consensus on...
The Beat’s Annual Year-End Survey, 2010 edition — Part Two
Continuing our look forward with writers, artists, editors, publishers, retailers and other people who make the comics. Lots of news, art previews and insight...
