The Strange Case of Grant Morrison and Alan Moore, As Told By Grant Morrison
by Laura Sneddon--Over the last few weeks, my good friend Pádraig Ó Méalóid has been writing a series of articles about Alan Moore and Superfolks, which became an edgeways look at the long running friction between Moore and fellow writer, Grant Morrison. While Moore has previously spoken out about his thoughts on Morrison in various interviews, Morrison has generally kept quiet on the issue. There have been occasional barbs of course, and plenty of praise, but very little on the actual facts of the matter.
Black Friday Gives Way To Small Business Saturday
Everyone knows about Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It's covered to death by the media, analyzed relentlessly by Wall Street, and now rivals Thanksgiving...
Macy’s 86th Thanksgiving Day Parade: The Geeks Have Won
Thursday, I got to be seven years old again. When I woke up, my parents were watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. My mother...
Thanksgiving Parades of years past
In 1987 there was a Marvel Comics float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This was around the time right after Marvel was...
On the Scene: The Future of Television Conference Goes Digital
On November 16th, a one day conference held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage brought out the best and brightest in Television to talk...
The mystery and joy of BCGF
This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you're in the right place. I wasn't the only one feeling the love.
SPOILER! Who are Bleeding Cool’s Top Ten Most Powerful People in Comics?
While we respectfully did not inform you of this at an earlier juncture, we here at The Beat would like to warn you of...
Matt Groening explains why you need an Apple computer…in 1989
In 1989 The Simpsons were still on the drawing board, an cartoonist Matt Groening was a freelance illustrators, and Apple was a rising company whose ungainly, boxlike beige computers boasted lordly hard drives of 40 mbs.
NC Comicon—the local con wins
It was nice to finish up a busy and exhausting year of cons (11 or 12) with one of the strong local shows that has been a hallmark of current comics/nerd culture. The NC Comicon was put together by the guys behind Ultimate Comics, a popular shop in Durham, NC.
All the Hostess comics ads in one creamy cake
While for a few days there it looked like the indestructible Twinkie had ben felled by bad management and union politics, it seems everyone involved is going to give it another go. While we sit back and imagine a world of endless Devil Dogs, you can also enjoy ALL the Hostess comics ads archived at The Hostess Page on one of the internets early adapters, seanbaby.com.
Marvel’s 2013 Event will be Age of Ultron
Their first event, at any rate. Today's conference call was with Brian Michael Bendis, who will be writing a 10-issue event story for Marvel...
SNL spoofs Hawkeye’s small quiver
This weekend's Saturday Night Live featured guest host Jeremy Renner who was all too happy to reprise his role as Hawkeye in a very...
