Holidays

Raina Telgemeier sent along the itinerary of her fall tour which begins a APE and ends at the Long Beach Comic-Con, with a barnstorming tour of the west in between -- plus the art fits right in with our holiday theme!

No, that’s not a reference to what I felt like the Sunday after fighting my way across last weekend's uber-crowded, nerd sweat fueled NYCC convention floor.  Of...

Rob Steen is another children's book illustrator/cartoonist. He's illustrated books with Ricky Gervais and just released a book called The Things in Ted's Head for iPhone.

Children's book illustrator/cartoonist Rhode Montijo sent along some pages from his new book The Halloween Kid -- on his Web site, he's got some activity pages with things like mask cut-outs and mazes. Good stuff.

Bobby Timony of Zuda's Night Owls provides a nod to an imagined Laurel & Hardy's horror comedy, LAUREL & HARDY: VAMPIRE HUNTERS. Click for a larger version.

Veteran artist Ronn Sutton was long the artist on the long-gone Claypool's Elvira comic and here's a nice tribute to the Mistress of the Dark, who just relaunched her movie weekends.

The creator of several webcomics, including Elf n' Troll, Furtado contributed not one but TWO tentacled horrors to our Halloween gallery. His blog can be found here and his DeviantArt page here.

Today is not only the 60th anniversary of the debut of Peanuts, but part of an ongoing COUNTDOWN TO THE GREAT PUMPKIN social media game whereby fans can contribute their own memories, videos and so on on a variety of platforms. Participants win points towards winning a custom Peanuts iPad, and then a further $25,000 prize. Full details in the link.

Yep, it's that time of year again! And we already have so many awesome contributions we may have to to do more than one picture a day just to keep up. But please keep the links and art coming. We kick off this year's festivities with Andrea Tsurumi's 13 Witches project. According to her website, Tsurumi is an illustrator/cartoonist who is part of the Tapir Tooth comics collective, and creator of the webcomic TERKA.

Well, according to this press release, it might be Iron Man.

All this horror put us in mind to answer the question several of you have emailed: Yes, we will be doing 31 Days of Halloween this year! Send us Halloween-themed art or a link and we'll share it with the world, or at least with people who read The Beat. Send it to heidi dot macdonald at gmail dot com, and try to put the word Halloween in the subject somewhere so it's easier to find. Thanks in advance.

With the Green Lantern movie underway for delivery in 2011, the emerald warrior is getting all kinds of promotions to make sure that by the time Ryan Reynolds has been on 100 junkets, everyone will know who Green Lantern is. And to that end, he's already being licensed out the wazoo. For instance, the Asbury Park Press tells us that Green Lantern is getting his own roller coaster at the Great Adventures in New Jersey. The ride -- 15 stories of 63 mph mayhem -- will open to coincide with the movie.