Robot 6 does Comics 101
Can you believe that none of the marquee comics blogs have a feature called Comics 101? That was low-hanging fruit. Over at Robot 6,...
A Wendell Willkie carven from the living lard
Our usually on-the-ball Junior Woodchuck Torsten Adair may have missed the ball by not linking to this fantastic gallery of butter/lard sculptures from the...
The Big Tent was pitched long ago
I own a comic gallery, an art gallery in New York that sells comic art and stuff; the guy that runs the art gallery...
Siegel heirs win legal point based on blog
The latest round of the seesaw "one for you, one for me" legal battle between the heirs of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and Time...
More on the cartoonist/swimsuit mystery
Our post spotlighting a LIFE magazine archive of photos of 1950 cartoonists drawing on swimsuit models, got lots and lots of attention, but no...
Action as you’ve never seen it before
We missed 1979 Semi Finalists's list of the 100 Best Comic Book Covers ... it's a highly subjective list -- big on Jaime Hernandez,...
The happiest cartoonists of all time
One can only guess at what the occasion for this LIFE Magazine photo shoot was, but it must have been long remembered in the...
Marvel/Miracleman plot thickeners
Likewise, we haven't had time to delve into all the various levels of the return of Marvelman, but let's just say all the players...
Mommy, what was San Diego like 20 years ago?
Here at Stately Beat Manor we're involved in an ongoing process of transferring some of our valuable collection of memorabilia and artifacts, painstakingly gathered...
Interviews: GUTSVILLE's fate and Infantino's final interview
§ GUTSVILLE was one of the highest concept comics ever, a Hawthorne-esque melodrama of a society that lives inside some giant beast. Written by...
Master Post: Von Eeden Interview Extras
Michel Fiffe interviews artist Trevor Von Eeden for the latest Comics Journal, and his LJ includes outtakes and a generous helping of art...
Spiegelman in the Washington Post
Art Spiegelman has a comic in the Washington Post about the St. Louis, a 1939 ship filled with Jewish refugees from Europe that...
