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Not a hoax!  Not an imaginary story! Super Grover, a superhero so popular he's had a balloon in Macy's Parade, who is faster than lightning,...

Declan Shalvey gets in the mood with Man-Thing!Whatever knows Christmas lights up at the touch of Man-Thing!

Christmas is Coming and that fat goose had better watch its ass.

While I was off the grid, the Blogfather Dirk Deppey announced via Twitter that he had been laid off by Fantagraphics: I've been laid off...

Comics artists send out the best holiday cards. Do you have any good ones? Post links! This is from Shaenon K. Garrity and Andrew Farago</a>.

Talented Stephanie Buscema shares her holiday art with us. Yes, she comes from an artistic family -- her grandfather is the legendary John Buscema.

via the Johnathan Levine Gallery The Artist's Unconscious Mind (Self-portrait) by Jean Labourdette (aka Turf One). Limited edition print, $185. Only 50 available.

Holiday thoughts from Howard Cruse here, the pioneering artist of such works as Barefootz and Stuck Rubber Baby. BONUS VIDEO! http://www.youtube.com/v/trOlvrFfE98?fs=1&hl=en_US

Taschen's Creed Poulsen forwarded this account of the recent book party in Los Angeles for 75 Years of 75 Years of DC Comics: The Art of Modern Mythmaking, Paul Levitz's amazing history of DC Comics. The pictures make it.

As teased at San Diego and mentioned in passing here and there, Marvel is bringing back some CrossGen titles this march: Mark Waid's RUSE,...

As you may have read, a gunman down in Panama City, Florida walked into a school board meeting, sprayed a V for Vendetta symbol on the wall, walked around with a gun, making a lot of statements, started shooting and eventually was shot by a deputy, then killed himself. (Reports differ on this, but the most credible reports are that he used his gun on himself.) This video is pretty unbelievable, especially the part where a woman sneaks behind him and whacks him with her purse. And gets worse from there.

Things are winding down for the holidays. The Beat is no exception. We'll be on holiday starting next week, and this time we really mean it. Almost no internet. We'll have a few elves looking in, but posting will be pretty perfunctory through Christmas. We will be posting some holiday art for the next few days so send us links or JPGs...but only through Friday. After that we're gone, baby, gone. Looking forward, we'd like to note that we're already booking advertisements into 2011. The top banner is sold out until April, and there are only scattered openings after that.