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This is not comics, barely animation, but it does involve The Beat's favorite handbag designer, Hayden-Harnett, which has a deal with Disney to make limited edition handbags and accessories.

Over on YouTube, you can watch The Comic Strip Hero, 1981 documentary made by the BBC about the history of Superman. WE haven't had time to watch the whole thing, but it promises a fantastic look back with contemporary footage of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.

Every year the producers of the best cartoon of the 21st century, The Venture Brothers, unleash a new Christmas single -- here's a handy link to all of them to date Including Venture-Aid 2006 and The Monarch singing The Christmas Song. There are rumors of a new song for 2010, but until then, enjoy the mellow sounds of Venture-mas past.

A series of videos interviewing Vancouver comics legend Colin Upton . His website is here.

The much-beloved cult strip Barnaby by Crockett Johnson is getting a quality reprint, courtesy of Fantagraphics, The Comics Reporter reports. Eric Reynolds will edit while Dan Clowes supplies the art direction. First volume is due in April 2012. Spurge has all the history and details:

Grant Morrison was right!

Neill Cameron's graphic novel Mo-Bot High was released from the DFC Library recently, and it's having its book launch this Friday in Oxford, England. That's...

Dept. of lost comics companies: Recently Don MacPherson caught notice of a huge eBay auction of material from the '80s publisher Comico -- for $12,000, you get stacks of mostly color acetates and printing proofs -- not the materials of today's publishing industry, but salvageable with a lot of man hours -- IF you could sort out the rights.

When magic happens, it's not best to wear it out -- although Roger Langridge's announcement that he's leaving the Muppets is because of a...

Scroobius Pip is one half of UK indie hip hop duo dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip. Their songs tackle issues including suicide, domestic...

Check out the spiffy new site for Destructor, an ongoing webcomic by Sean T. Collins and the awesome Matt Wiegle, winner of the 2010 Ignatz award for Best New Talent. The character previously appeared in Top Shelf 2.0 webcomics portal and the anthologies Elfworld (Family Style) and Murder (Partyka).

Walking Dead Recaplet: Season One/Episode 5: Wildfire Episode 5 started off strong but ended on an odd note with lots of plot threads left unraveled...