Up and at ’em!
We're back online, and back at work, but rather than try to play catch up, we're taking this outage as the great "Wipe the...
Return to the Database
Or...thank you Time Warner Cable. Well, that was annoying. Ironically, we didn't even know the Beat was down because our home home internet has...
Do the Eisner Awards ignore manga?
Noah Berlatsky sums up similar thoughts by David Welsh and Simon Jones on the dearth of manga titles and creators among the...
From now on, you WILL use Simpsons stamps
The US Post Office has unveiled its Simpsons stamps and a whole bunch of Simpsons stamp products. Luckily, we need to go to the...
Eisner reax
Yesterday's Eisner Award nominees announcement set off the usual round of commentary and reactions. For ourselves, we thought it was a wide-ranging list...
Stumptown CBLDF Benefit Dinner announced
Via PR:
On Friday April 17 2009, the Stumptown Comics Foundation is proud to present a chance-of-a-lifetime dinner event at which we would be honored...
Let’s start out the day RIGHT: STAR TREK premiere photos
The world premiere of the new STAR TREK movie was held Tuesday night in Sydney, Australia (apparently because director JJ Abrams just likes Sydney),...
2009 Eisner Award nominees
They're up! More commentary in a bit, although we are pleased to see the judges decided to REDUCE the number of categories this year!
The...
More on Len Wein and Christine Valada
Harlan Ellison has a much longer post on the house fire at the residence of Len Wein and Christine Valada...I've posted it in the...
More Diamond minimum casualties
While it makes big news when acclaimed cartoonists like Sammy Harkham and Kevin Huizenga don't make Diamond's new order benchmarks, rest assured, there's lot's...
Len Wein house fire
Writer Harlan Ellison just posted the following on his website:- Monday, April 6 2009 11:55:36 EXTREMELY BAD NEWS...
Business news briefs
• ECCC news: The initial launch of the BOOM!/Fox Atomic partnership will be an ongoing 28 DAYS LATER comic:
Initial launch story will be...
