Alex Ross on gay characters
Thanks to the blogosphere, it's getting so you can't get away with ANYTHING. In a recent interview at Wizard, Alex Ross had some comments...
News notes and briefs
§ Yen Press, the eagerly awaited new line headed by Kurt Hassler and Rich Johnson, is hiring, according to Manga Blog, but you must...
Jodorowsky profiled
Legendary avant-garde-filmmaker-turned cartooner Alexandro Jodorowsy is profiled in the NY Sun as new prints of EL TOPO highlight the NY Film Festival:
Visiting this fall...
Picadilly Lounge R.I.P.
At the drawn and quarterly blog, Peggy Burns takes time out to remember the Picadilly, where all the indie cartoonists like to hang out...
Oh, the Huge Manatee
Regular readers know we have always been manatee-friendly here at The Beat. These peaceful, lovable behemoths of the seas may lack cutes,...
Target: Tony Lee
Although the general reaction to BrumCon was positive (Rich Johnston has a good summation in this week's crackerjack edition of Lying in the Gutters,...
“Anti-gay” writer takes on gay superhero
The blogosphere has a new talking point as the news that Chuck Dixon is writing a comic starring Midnighter, the gay character from THE...
Platinum Studios targets sex offenders
Well here is the headline we never thought we'd see, but it's all for a very good cause. Family Watchdog, a registry of information...
Gossip! Scandal!
Not too much happening in the comic book world right now. Our link dump brought in a lot of sort of comics related MOVIE...
Martin Nodell – 1915-2006
Mark Evanier is the first to announce the death of Green Lantern creator Mart Nodell at age 91. Nodell was a fledgling...
Cliff Chiang, Harvard grad
We can't resist linking to this nice article from the Harvard Crimson on Cliff Chiang, a wonderful artist and pal. It tells of his...
Carousel spins forward and back
A lot was going on last night in NYC. Chris Ware was speaking at the Jewish Museum, but we opted to go downtown to...
