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...
Dark Horse, Uni pact
Dark Horse and Universal have announced a 3-year production/distro deal. Universal is putting out this year's HELLBOY 2 (which was long without a...
Buck Rogers returns from Dynamite
Buck Rogers, the early sci-fi comic strip icon is coming back to the comics from Dynamite Entertainment. Rogers debuted as "Anthony" Rogers in...
To do Tuesday: Comic Book Club!
This Tuesday, 3/11 we'll once again be guests on The Comic Book Club, the weekly talk show about comics. This time we'll be...
Jess Fink and Rachel Nabors updates
We're happy to report that the Jess Fink vs Hot Topic brouhaha has been ended with a satisfying and righteous conclusion:
"I would...
