New Ditko book
It's one of the erroneous assumptions of comics that Steve Ditko is a crazy old coot who doesn't draw comics anymore. While it...
Friends of Lulu Awards move to MoCCA
With the San Diego con news cycle increasingly taken over by mega movie marketing events it was perhaps inevitable that a few events would...
Help wanted
§ Milton Griepp seeks panelists for two NYCC panels:
Call for NYCC Panelists!!
For two panels on Friday--on manga retailing and Seuling New York shows.
We’re rounding...
Next Door Neighbor at Smith
Dean Haspiel is editing a new online comics anthology for SMITH Magazine:
"Everybody has one. And, no matter how close or how far, we...
Sorry about that, Chief
We don't know why the comment table keeps crashing. Our tech team is looking into it around the clock and will not rest until...
NYCC: Hero Initiative MJ Look-a-like contest
As usual, the Hero Initiative will have all sorts of activites and signings at New York Comic-Con. They're auctioning off a super-duper VIP package...
Joe Staton Exhibit in August
Lawrence Klein writes to tell us of a spotlight on a very very deserving artist: the great Joe Staton. The veteran cartoonist behind E-Man,...
And it doesn’t even have nipples
Michael Keaton's Batman costume from Batman Returns is up for auction and it's expected to fetch $60-80K :
The impressive outfit from the 1992 sequel,...
Bin Laden doesn’t like cartoons
On the fifth anniversary of the start of America's dumbest war ever, Public Enemy #1 Osama bin Laden reportedly dissed the Mohammed cartoons in...
Cartoon is appointed ambassador for Japan
Lovable toon robot cat DORAEMON has been appointed Japan's cartoon ambassador!
Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an "anime ambassador," handing a human-sized Doraemon...
BEA spotlights Graphic Novels with day of panels
Back in the neolithic times when The Beat first started working at Publishers Weekly, there was usually one graphic novel panel at the yearly...
PictureBox opens store
Following in the footsteps of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly, Picturebox, the Brooklyn-based art comix publisher, is opening a store in Gowanus, Brooklyn!
First, we...
