The Beat Podcasts! – Heidi interviews Jeff Smith!
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
More Harry Potter-ish films on the way from J.K. Rowling and WB
Don't call it a prequel. WB and J.K. Rowling have agreed to make more films set in the Harry Potter universe. The first film...
Kupperman Kartoon: Twain’s Garbage River Rambles
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Cartoonist Michael Kupperman is, as we all know one of the world's funniest humans. Tales Designed to Thrizzle proves that. He's also obsessed with...
Dynamite Launch ‘Grimm’ Miniseries With Jai Nitz and José Malaga
Continuing on with Baltimore Comic-Con announcements, Dynamite have announced yet another new series, building up what is rapidly becoming a huge list of new...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come – Exit the Batwoman… Creators
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi...
Best idea ever: Shatner and West kibbitz at Salt Lake City con
HOW has no one ever thought of this before? Putting William Shatner and Adam West—the two most mellifluous, self mocking and endearing of legendary...
Kickwatcher: The Scary Godmother Doll by Jill Thompson
Okay this is one project that really truly deserves all your support! IT's The Scary Godmother Doll designed by creator Jill Thompson. As...
Interview: Riddick director David Twohy on getting back to basics
I'm one of the very few people in the world who really enjoyed THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK. Where others saw a confusing storyline, I saw a CGI heavy SF film that had actual imagination and didn't play by predictable rules. Admittedly it was a departure from the tighter, simpler PITCH BLACK, a tense action adventure which introduced Vin Diesel as Riddick, a tough as nails, brutal survivor of an interplanetary criminal. Taken together the films—both written and directed by David Twohy—were one of the odder SF franchises in the CGI era.
Comics Art, a new book by Paul Gravett
Well, speaking of wandering around the comics landscape, if there's one tour guide who seems to know what he's talking about, Paul Gravett is...
Tell-all book on the Spidey musical is on its way
About 10 years ago, when I ran a tiny item on a proposed Spider-Man musical with music by U2 on the old Comicon-com site,...
Saga and The Avengers Pick Up Hugo Awards
The Hugo Awards were hosted last night - and hosted by no less than comics and TV writer Paul Cornell. An awards ceremony focusing...
Brooklyn Book Festival spotlights graphic novels with Tomine, Feiffer, Modan, more
Fall's Brooklyn Book Festival, to be held September 22nd this year, has evolved into the biggest public book event in NYC—authors range from Edwidge Danticat to Chuck Klosterman—and each year it features a pretty extensive graphic novel presence as well. This year is no exception, with a full slate of panels which you can see in the link. Cartonist guests thi syear include Adrian Tomine, Jules Feiffer, Rutu Modan, Francoise Mouly, Audrey Niffenegger, Paul Pope, Jeff Smith, Art Spiegelman, and Gene Yang.
