Holidays

The Beat salutes the secret superheroes, fathers!

Like any good cartoonist and comics evangelist, a road trip cannot just be days of blasting Mates of State and stopping at roadside attractions like Corn Palace. No, no, on my trip from The Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction, VT to Fantagraphics in Seattle, WA will be punctuated by a few stops to conduct portfolio reviews and drop off some Schulz Library tote bags at great comic book stores across America.

Do you know where your towel is? Friday is the day to show everyone what a hoopy frood you are!

In celebration of Earth Day, The Beat gives a hoot-out to Woodsy Owl, public servant.

What's better than getting free candy on Halloween? Free comics! I offer some crazy ideas for retailers and lovers of comics, using Halloween as the inciting incident to tell a great story about marketing comics!

Grant Morrison will present Mxyzptlk as a Kryptonian God of Chaos, in direct contrast to Brainiac, a God of Order. Both will battle across multiple dimensions (as hypothesized by String Theory), forming the "brane" of his long-awaited "Multiversity" epic.

Cursing the basketball gods because your bracket is broken? Searching for a tournament bracket which better suits your knowledge base? We present a multitude of 2012 non-sports tournaments, from popular culture, food, and corporate America!

It's my mother's 75th birthday!

Today is the International Women's Day in Women's History Month. I was working on a big old post on all sorts of recent gender related topics but...it will have to wait. Instead, I'll shore my little Pinterest board I have called "Women in Comics."

Hope you are all spending it with someone you love.

If you need a very special message for your special love interest tomorrow, these Game of Thrones Valentines by Chris Bishop will send what signal?