A Day of Romance
While we're out at Toy Fair, we'll leave you with our annual Valentine's Day image gallery! Let's kick things off with the instant classic...
The Fiffe Files: Mark Badger, Part 3
By MICHEL FIFFE for The Beat
Previously in part 1 and part 2, Badger spoke of his breaking into comics, his approach to character icons,...
Tea Party protests unintended CAPTAIN AMERICA portrayal
Tempest in a teacup? or...a tea bag? The first we got wind of this was a story on the right-leaning Newsbusters site protesting the...
Wizard World Mars — the REAL story
Truth be told, the Wizard World Tour has come in for some "joshing" here at Stately Beat Manor in recent days, but now The...
Squid report
Everyone once in a while we are wont to check in at the Gama-Go store to see what cool new designs we'll be longing...
Things that were
A page from the weekly comics newspaper, the Comics Buyer's Guide, March 11, 1988, via Larry Marder .
Andy Diggle's correspondence from 1999 --...
New Yorker Anniversary edition showcases cartoon jam!
This week's New Yorker is the 85th anniversary edition, and as is custom, the iconic Eustace Tilley character appears on the cover. However, this...
We’re not here to cause no trouble …
The Beat tweets:
My billion dollar idea for the day: Peanuts special that airs every year on SB Sunday Eve called "The Day Charlie...
The Fiffe Files: Mark Badger, Part 2
By MICHEL FIFFE for the Beat
In this second round (out of three), Mark Badger sheds some light on collaborating with J.M. DeMatteis, co-creating...
Shel Dorf’s 1973 San Diego Comic-Con Photos
At a now-bookmarked site called Comic-Convention Memories, the author is posting some photos found in the late Shel Dorf's collection highlighting: a) just how...
