Tomine mini-site launches
Adrian Tomine's SHORTCOMINGS is sure to be one of the hottest graphic novelsof the fall, and to help speed it along D&W has just...
SWORD OF THE ATOM analyzed
Beat pal Pepo has one of the finest Spanish-language comics blogs out there, CON C DE ARTE, and today he has a long analysis...
Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings
Craig Yoe announces a new website to promote his upcoming book Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings:
By day their cartoon creations included Mickey Mouse, Superman, Beetle...
Mighty Marvel Marching Society Remastered
We could just listen to this all day: Doug Pratt writes to say that he has remastered what seems to be the only extant...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits
§ James Thurber's home profiled
It was in that attic in the 1970s that a former owner discovered several of Thurber's drawings on the wall...
Meet Christopher Moonlight!
He's one of the Beat's most consistent commenters, and today you can meet the one and only Christopher Moonlight at the LA Shrine show:
Ok,...
In Search of Steve Ditko
http://www.youtube.com/v/BaBuYz2A90M
First part of the JOnathan Ross BBC special above; links to the next five parts:
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
Part Five
Part Six
The comics nobody wanted
Purge week continues here at Publishers Weekly. Yesterday, Calvin, Ada and The Beat boxed up about 1500 comics -- that was two years worth...
Facts emerge in fired teacher/EIGHTBALL case
The New Haven Register weighs in with actual news story about the story of Connecticut teacher Nathan Fisher who resigned after parents complained about...
LA CityBeat looks at comics
Local culture paper LA CityBeat has a nice, far better written than usual section on comics with:
§ An examination of Popeye
§ A look at...
Porn comic revealed…..EIGHTBALL!
UPDATE: Based on the news video at the below link, it appears that the issue in questions was EIGHTBALL #22, shown at left. I...
