BATMAN logo designer discovered
If you are interested in comics history and design issues, master letterer Todd Klein has got the blog for you. And now he's done some real archaeological digging by discovering the creator of the...
Study: 1 in 10 readers read comics
But wait! Maybe comics are not ruined. The brief of some kind of data crunch by Simba Information suggests that things may be better than ever as far as "comic books" are concerned:...
Two men who ruined comics: Giordano, Morrison
So who REALLY ruined comics? Was it former DC executive editor Dick Giordano? As the DCU show runner from 1983-93, Giordano oversaw the comics during the rise of the direct market, the widening of...
Alan Moore, destroyer of library workers
Amy Wilson in the Lexington Herald-Leader has an in-depth story on just what went on when two Lexington, KY librarians library workers were fired for withholding a copy of THE LEAGUE OF...
Comic books do SO help children learn!
It's official! The battle has been won, according to the Telegraph:
Professor Carol Tilley, from the department of library and information science, said that comics are just as sophisticated as other forms of reading, and...
Imaginova baffled by beaver?
The recent news of Newsarama's sale to TopTenReviews.com has kind of faded into the woodwork -- the site seems to have just kept on going, the only change a new list of sister...
STRAY BULLETS art for sale
With a new house to pay for, for the first time EVER, David Lapham is selling original art from STRAY BULLETS. If only we had a spare $500 lying around.
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The Onion’s big scoop
Barack Obama Names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer "As evidenced by his epic run on Swamp Thing #21–64, Moore's deft hand with both sociopolitical commentary and metaphysical violence makes him an ideal choice...
RIP Shel Dorf
Shel Dorf, comics fan, letterer, and the driving force behind the early years of the San Diego Comic-Con, passed away yesterday from complications related to diabetes. He was 76.
Growing up in Detroit, the...
The mystery of Thomasina
No biography of Patrick McGoohan is complete without mentioning THE THREE LIVES OF THOMASINA, and The Beat is no exception. The movie was on Hallmark the other day. We DVR'd for later viewing...
