The Year @ The Beat: February 2009
Continuing Torsten Adair's compilation of the most popular -- as measured by comments -- posts on The Beat the Beat Last last year:
PW Beat Top...
The Year @ the Beat: January 2009
Tireless poster Torsten Adair has incredibly spent part of his holidays toting up the most popular stories -- as measured by comment response...
Happy New Year, Beat Nation!
We're rolling up the RSS feeds and email drops here at Stately Beat Manor, piling up the fireplace, heating up the mulled cider, and...
Disney buys Marvel: Stockholders approve
PR via Nikki Finke:
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL), a global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939, announced that at a special meeting...
2009: Those who left us
A brief tribute to some of the cartoonists and pop-culture related deaths during the last 12 months:
Bob May
Ricardo Montalban
Patrick McGoohan
John Updike
John Carbonaro
Rod Gilchrist
Andrew "Test"...
RIP David Levine
Illustrator David Levine has passed away at age 83. In addition to being one of the most iconic illustrators of his era -- his...
News rumbles: Keenspot, Blackest Night, Haven
While we're gearing up for a few end of year posts here, pointers to news items that are making a few ripples in the...
Gaiman to edit next year’s BEST AMERICAN COMICS
Nestled in this account of author Neil Gaiman's entry into the world of reading glasses is the news that he's guest editing next year's...
Don’t plan that vacation around a trip to the Frazetta museum
We haven't been updating the Frazetta family feud, as it's certain to just drag on and on, but Howard Frank at the Pocono Record...
18 1/2 days of Christmas
Whew, things got a little heated around here this week! Time for other things. Let's just go out and buy some awesome graphic novels...
WOLVERINE pirate charged but culprit remains at large
You may recall that last April there was great chagrin at Fox when a near-perfect workprint of WOLVERINE was uploaded a full month before...
Amazon reveals secrets of EARTH ONE and MORE OGNs for DC
While DC reps remained mum about the price and format of the Earth One OGNs, they announced last week -- such elements being important...
