Once more into the breach, dear pals!
Bully rounds up the greatest ads of all time.
The Beat is showing her age, but it is fair to say that nothing entranced this...
Madge the Magician’s Daughter
Everyone else has been linking to the 1907 comic strip Madge the Magician's Daughter by W.O. Wilson -- why shouldn't The Beat?
While enjoying this...
The dog days
Seems like everyone is on vacation or in an extended version of Coma Week, so not too much is going on these days. We're...
Old Newspaper Strips
As usual when we're too busy to post, we'll just try to distract you with pretty pictures. Courtesy of ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive -- gaze...
Young John Stanley
The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It's always refreshing to see a great artist...
More art sale news
Beat readers were divided over the $600k sale of recognized Pop Art master Mel Ramos's painting based on a Gil Kane cover. So here's...
More John Stanley!
Drawn and Quarterly continues to do God's Work be announcing even more John Stanley reprints:
We'll be starting off with a three volume set...
No hugs, no lessons
This old Donald Duck one-pager has been making the rounds lately. Or should we say, this Donald Goddamn Duck one pager. He shows them...
Garrity on Lulu
Shaenon K. Garrity cuts straight to the quick of John Stanley's Little Lulu in this piece:
The thing about the Little Lulu reprint project is...
More on the origins of 20-something superhero fans
Our experiment in parsing the superhero trends of today ended in disarray as the discussion devolved into the kind of sock puppetry and name...
The many faces of Edgar Allan Poe
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has been spotlighting Poe with all kinds of incredible artwork and a few comics stories.
The Black Cat (1843)
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