Landis on Gaines
Variety reports a frequently reported on comics-related biopic has acquired a director. John Landis will make Ghoulishly Yours, a biography of EC/Mad publisher William...
Trapped in a world he never made
The "tweener" generation of comics readers and creators -- of which I'm one -- were lucky enough to come of age in an era...
Grant Morrison makes girls happy
In all candor, we're not sure how all this fits into continuity or storylines or whatever, but is seems that while in the midst...
When comics were bad
Book Forum runs an excerpt from David Hajdu's upcoming The Ten Cent Plague, a history of the persecution of comics books in the '50s...
More on the DaHeidi Code
Okay I can't resist posting another one of my old comics cycle sheets; this one two sided and from 1984.
This is interesting for several...
Blogger baffles self
The clean up effort continues here at Stately Beat Manor, and we're uncovering all kinds of forgotten wonders -- a complete run of Fiz(z)...
The Great Beat Giveaway
During the continuing renovations here at Stately Beat Manor, we have unearthed a cache of surplus Little Lulu reprint volumes from Dark Horse. Since...
Drink-Up Cartoon Playing Cards
Andertoons presents a Flickr set of a deck of Drink-Up Cartoon Playing Cards by a mysterious cartoonist known as Washaw.
Another set here which...
The 90s: who was to blame?
Tom Spurgeon goes over George Khoury's history of the direct sales market, and disagrees on just what happened in the 90s.
While the other...
J. EDGAR HOOVER: A GRAPHIC BIOGRAPHY
Hill and Wang, the same outfit that brought you The 9/11 Report and Ronald Reagan is back with a graphic bio of J. Edgar...
When underwear was underwear
The Golden Age of Underoos via Jezebel. Note comments in which women go on and on about how they used to wear Wonder Woman...
