On the set of SKIDOO
http://www.youtube.com/v/8MmI6zjN31A&rel=1
I suppose this contemporaneous -- 1968-- set visit report by Roger Ebert must be gospel among SKIDOO afficianados, but it still retains the...
New Yorker cartoonist blog!
Can a normal human be as funny as a New Yorker cartoonist? The odds would seem to be against it, but perhaps, just as...
SKIDOO: Ralph Kramden on Acid
http://www.youtube.com/v/tFO-D3TInGg&rel=1
No really. I saw SKIDOO, the long suppressed all-star Otto Preminger bacchanal, thanks to Mark Evanier and circumstance, and you must see it to...
Reynolds and PItzer interviews
The Spurge--or at least his website--is up and at 'em again! His holiday interview series continues today with Eric Reynolds, publicity maven and...
Stars of ’08: Dash Shaw
With THE BOTTOMLESS BELLY BUTTON a 720-page graphic novel coming out later this year (from Fantagraphics), stories in MOME and Marvel Comics, and the...
MAC cartoon makeup
MAC cosmetics, a brand near and dear to The Beat, is collaborating with Parisian grafitti artist FAFI, and the resulting theme has a very...
Comic Books in the Classroom: all the rage?
We knew it! Barely a week after looking at comics as teaching aids, The New York Times is back with a freaking EDITORIAL...
Land o’ Links
Yet more year end lists:
§ We (that means me) compiiled the Second Annual PW Critics poll, which was topped by Exit Wounds and Scott...
Comics Reporter update — UPDATED
Tom Spurgeon reports on his continuing website outtage over at the TCJ board:
Since we've been unable to a) get the site back, or...
The Beat’s Annual News Survey, 2008 Edition–Part 1
It's here! The Beat's annual survey of comics professionals, journalists and respected hangers on covering the biggest events of 2007 and where they think...
