Pull Quotes: Cartoonists and the recession
Peter Brookes, editorial cartoonist at Times of London, is one of my cartoonists interviewed at Bloomberg about the state of editorial cartooning worldwide. Of...
HELP Nina Paley and Mike Fiffe!
§ Animator/cartoonist Nina Paley is looking for someone to help scan her old comic strip:
It’s time to copyleft ALL of my old Nina’s Adventures...
The Beat’s Annual Yearend Survey, 2009 Edition: Part II
Welcome to part II! We got so many responses, there's going to be a part III! And also please note that there are quite...
Attention! The color of the year!
Pantone has announced that the color of the year is 14-0848 Mimosa:
"The color yellow exemplifies the warmth and nurturing quality of the sun, properties...
The Beat’s Annual Yearend Survey, 2009 Edition: Part I
Welcome to the New Year, and welcome to a whole new cycle of big stories, little stories, Internet kerfluffles, and wonderful surprises. As we...
It’s the economy, stupid, Jan. 5 edition
With the happy holidaze over, everyone is back to fretting over the economy, which makes total sense, since the economy pretty much nuked the...
Feel better, Mark Millar
Mark "Wanted" Millar is now such a celebrity in his native Scotland, that we have to read about his health issues in the newspaper:
Marvel...
Back to work
And there's a lot of it...
We had a nice holiday, but it taught us one crucial, crucial lesson...don't ever, ever start playing Desktop Tower...
New Who tomorrow?
So, last night, we see this Twit from everyone's favorite rumormonger, Rich Johnston, about who will be the new Doctor.
So... will the Next...
Movin’ on. Movin’ up
Yep it's the end of the trail for 2008, a year which had some high points (Nov 4) but which an overwhelming number of...
WATCHMEN: this is getting uglier
Many late night holiday-themed movements in the WATCHMEN case, and they are enough to make a movie fan's nerves as frayed as the collar...
Who injuncts the WATCHMEN?
NOTE: Several people have pointed out that "injunct" is not the correct legal term -- "enjoins" is more accurate. However "injuncts" contains the comedy...
