Carla and Lance Hoffman badly injured in fire
Blog@Newsarama has a sad story about Carla Hoffman, part-time blogger and employee at Metro Entertainment in Santa Barbara, and her husband, Lance. The two...
Art from MAD Magazine goes for $750K
If there's one item that can be said to be recession proof, it's apparently original artwork from the glory years of MAD Magazine. Heritage...
When weekends attack!
Thanks to everyone for the many birthday wishes, and to everyone who came out to our birthday bash this weekend. It was a well-attended...
Bond mania hits Big Apple
By Steve Bunche, entertainment ronin
Keeping the vibe of old school fandom alive, Michael Carbonaro’s always-welcome Big Apple Convention once more sets up shop this...
Tom Fagan’s 1972 convention report
Join Scott Edelman for a fascinating trip down memory lane to the 1972 Comic Art Convention in New York City, via a fanzine report...
He’s a doodler!
The nerd percentage of President-elect Barack Obama continues to fire the imaginations of comics enthusiasts everywhere, even though, as pointed out in the Beat...
More technical problems
If you're reading this with your morning coffee, it's because our Internet has been off all night. Thanks, Time-Warner Cable! Posted via iPhone
Does he read them under the covers?
This 50 facts about Obama article has spurred considerable hopes that the incoming US president might, at last, be the one to truly...
Powerhouse Pepper
Oy...Big f'ed up mess on The Beat server today. Much missing in action. To make up for it, here's some Powerhouse Pepper by Basil...
Michelle Obama gets comic book, too!
In their most lucid press release yet, Bluewater announced that First Lady-elect Michelle Obama would be joining Sen. Hillary Clinton and Gov. Sarah Palin...
Kuwata controversy roundup
It all started when Laura Hudson rounded up comments by Top Shelf's Leigh Walton, Andrew Wheeler and Joe McCulloch about the fact that mangaka...
