AMERICAN BORN CHINESE nabs NBA nom
Wow. Gene Yang's AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, published by First Second, has scored a National Book Award nomination in the YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE category. These awards are extremely prestigious -- a win for Yang would...
Scott McCloud Flash expression generator!
Boing Boing leads us to a page showing Scott McCloud's soon-to–be-infamous facial emotion generator, and a nifty Flash app that lets you blend expressions as others blend spices.
Today’s Jeff Smith quote
Via B o n e v i l l e:
Another interesting thing to note: in Germany, the black & white manga version of BONE is for younger readers, and the color version is for...
Stardust site, Gaiman vs Brazil
A coupla Neil Gaiman notes. The teaser site for the STARDUST movie is live.
In addition, Bookslut has an unusually fun interview with the author:
Have you ever shut down an event, where there...
Meanwhile, on the East Coast…the Quills
Our Scream Awards viewing was interrupted by attending a real live event, the Quill Awards, honoring the best in books via voting by the reading public. To say it was slightly more erudite than...
PORN STAR unpopular in blogosphere
It's a bit unusual for the comics blogosphere to raise torches and pitchforks against a non-superhero offering, but the debut graphic novel from Regan Books, HOW TO MAKE MONEY LIKE A PORN STAR, has...
More book banning thoughts
We'd like to take a moment to recognize our regular gallery of posters here at The Beat, and commend them for their insightful and informative postings on a variety of topics. If you...
Marshall, MO final notes
A few items that have drifted in over the day regarding the library cencorship story that everyone is tracking.
One of our correspondents notes that Marshall, MO is where WAITING FOR GUFFMAN was filmed,...
Do you like Penguin Classics’ comics covers? — LINK FIXED
Over at Galleycat they are having a little survey about Penguin's recent comic-esque covers to the Classic series.
Go and let 'em know how you feel.
Robert Anton Wilson – UPDATE
UPDATE: Boing Boing has a further report, saying that Wilson has enough money to live out his last few weeks, as reproducing a note from him, which we're going to quote.
Dear Friends, my God,...
BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because she feels they are inappropriate, writes the Marshall-Democrat News. ...
Comics in Virginia Quarterly Review
Now even literary magazines, the last bastion of reading, are being invaded by comics! But the comics are cool and...well, literary. The Virginia Quarterly Review has been serializing Art Spiegelman's "Portrait of the...
