Holidays

I may have lost the memo, but I believe this is a national holiday on THE BEAT CALENDAR.

Ease yourself out of the holiday mood and back into the workaday with The July 4th Project, an assemblage of new superheroes by an assortment of fine cartoonists curated by Chris Duffy. Above THE...

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In honor of the occasion, IDW is releasing a CAPTAIN CANUCK collection. Also...

As everyone gets ready for the long weekend, as always, New York City is abuzz with the excitement of FLEET WEEK! We're probably going to check out a few ships, and maybe a few...

Can it be that 2009 is already 1/3rd finished? HOW? HOW? HOW? We have barely finished musing over our end of year "Best of" list. And here is the year, hurtling towards Midsummer's Day...

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From around the net, a Pandora's box of the nearly plausible, yet clearly risible. (For the record we're not big on practical jokes, but we love the imaginative ones.)First off, Trent Reznor's diss on...

Via Mark Evanier's blog, we learn that the great Maurice LaMarche has declared today "International Talk Like William Shatner Day."Enjoy, won't you?http://www.youtube.com/v/_fJOaqsBXAc[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlOTRxt-dIw&w=425&h=355][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE&w=425&h=355][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hliTwpIGeA&w=425&h=355][youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH1PJTY9AVA&w=425&h=355]

From: THE BEAT -- This is what they want, March 6, 2007: But there you go, if you listened to the internet, you would think turning WONDER MAN into a book about a cranky superhero...

Via Eclectic Micks, a blog for Irish comics artists, this fine celebration of the season featuring Father Jack from Father Ted by Declan Shalvey.