Yo ho, yo ho, a Pirate’s death for me
The Beat's real life loved ones are under strict instructions should the Beat expire untimely: a portion of our ashes are to be clandestinely...
Operation: BREAKFAST!!
If this is truly a world where miracles occur, by the time you read this. The Beat will have been awake for an...
I’m Puddleglum
Lunch today:* Eel onigiri* Seaweed salad* Green tea mochi* Mud Mocha from Mud Coffee truckBTW, don't forget tomorrow's Think Future: Graphic Novels, breakfast panel,...
CAPS Honors Stan
SoCal's Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS) held it's annual banquet this weekend, and honored Stan Lee. Stan Sakai has his account of the gala,...
Platinum gets more press
The NY Times Magazine had another big section on movies, this time looking at modern Westerns, and the proposed Cowboys and Aliens film gets...
Quotable: Tom Brevoort
Tom Brevoort points out what we've been discovering as we've cleaned up both home and office: a lot of these reprint books can...
Morrison was right: Monkeys are ventriloquists!
Okay, that headline is a little misleading, but according to this piece a tiny part of the monkey brain is able to process sight...
It’s a larger world, after all
Speaking of Disneyland, the famed Small World ride will be closed for a while while it's upgraded. One of the reasons? The boats...
Picture parade
Julia Wertz and Brian Ralph at the Fart Party opening at Atomic Books:
Jennifer de Guzman goes to Disneyland, surrounding by goats.
Brian Hibbs also went...
Content at Comixology
comiXology is on of those new comics websites you are seeing everywhere. The site focuses on recent comics releases, biling itself as "the ultimate...
Athletes join comics stampede
Everyone wants in on this comic book gravy train, and now New York Jets running back Darian Barnes is coming to the line of...












