This weekend: Royal Flush Festival
Jah Furry shares a preview of the new issue of Royal Flush Magazine, which contains much of comics-related interest:
• Exclusive cover story / interview with Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, including a first-time-ever-printed 60-year-old autobiographical comic...
21 Days of Halloween: John Totleben
Up first, in our celebration of all things Halloween, a zombie by John Totleben, submitted by M.D.
The real highlight of the Baltimore Con
By Mark Coale
Sure, we published our first issue in years and it was great to see old friends and discuss not being able to watch either the England or US matches with FMB,...
First PLANETARY, now this. What’s Next? BIG NUMBERS?
While everyone marveled at PLANETARY 27 finally being published, a much less important book will also debut this week.The often-delayed issue four of ODESSA STEPS MAGAZINE makes its first appearance at the Baltimore Comic...
Just how dirty is DRAGONBALL?
Ever since the manga revolution hit American shores, comics industry observers have been writing for parents to catch on to the fact that their kids are reading stories about passionate gay love affairs and...
ARCHIE ANDREWS DUMPS VERONICA LODGE FOR BETTY COOPER?!!!
Archie! You SH*T!!!
Since the world first found out Archie was getting married, fans everywhere hoped Betty would be the bride. But those fans discovered quickly Archie Andrews chose Veronica Lodge over Betty Cooper and...
Roddy Piper is alive and not dying yet
Wrestling legend and very early Beat crush Roddy Piper is not dead -- although it was erroneously reported by some news sources this morning when someone with a similar name passed away. It was...
Hours of fun: The comics that seduced the innocent
To commemorate last week's Banned Books Week, Stephen St Walley tracks down all the comics mentioned in Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent and adds links to downloadable versions.
Obviously, many of the below...
A question for the publicists out there
When you are preparing your books to go out to reviewers, do you say "The review copies are going out today" or "The complimentary copies are going out today"?
Just wondering.
Blogosphere vs the FTC
This being the blogosphere and all, there was lots o' reax yesterday to the announcement that the FTC will fine bloggers $11,000 if they "endorse" products they received for free. According to the FTC,...
Craig McDean’s superhero fashion photos
Let's just jumpstart the day with some lively fashion photography by Craig Dean, spotlighted at Kanye West's blog. (Team Kanye is definitely a better blogger than award interceptor.) Lots more in the link.
(Thanks...
Journey through time with the Hernandez Brothers
Speaking of Los Bros, their Facebook Fan Page has an incredible pageant of photos through the ages. Here, an early publicity shot.
