The Seth Parade Float
Seth -- yes, THAT Seth -- has designed a parade float of the Wine King for the Niagara Arts Centre. Can we somehow get this into the Tournament of Roses parade? The petition begins...
Carl Jung liked words AND pictures
This long article in the NY Times Magazine talks about Carl Jung's mysterious Red Book, a journal he worked on for years which contained his most profound ideas but which has never been published...
We would totally wear this: Jaime Hernandez/Stussy t-shirts
Via Hypebeast, a new line of on beyond tasty Jaime Hernandez T-shirts. Want, want, want.
Art Attack: The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics
Edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is perhaps the most seminal historical comics anthology since A Smithsonian Book of Comic Book Comics, and a powerfully...
More on the death of Yoshito Usui
While Japan mourns the creator of Shin-chan, Yoshito Usui, some rather heartbreaking details are emerging about his death on September 11th. Usui-sensei fell to his death while out hiking, and there's a cautionary tale...
Suddenly, the days are shorter
(Coincidentally, the first comic book I ever had an editing credit on.)
Crumb. Sodom. What are you waiting for?
Boing Boing has an exclusive excerpt of Crumb's GENESIS, out this week, and you know they chose Chapter 19, the one where Lot has unexpected houseguests. Good times.
Kirby family files for copyright reassignment
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE. Last week, Jack Kirby's four children filed notices of copyright termination for 45 characters . The LA Times has details. This is the same legal maneuver that the Siegel...
Windy CIty report
We got this open letter from Patrick Brower of Challengers Comics + Conversation in Chicago, and it's a little hypeish, but it sounds like this weekend's Windy City Con was a fun, successful event,...
Talk like a Pirate Day
I may have lost the memo, but I believe this is a national holiday on THE BEAT CALENDAR.
