Cartoon Art Museum announced WATCHMEN benefit screening:
Needless to say, if we lived a few thousand miles west, we'd be here:
The Cartoon Art Museum presents an advance screening of one of...
Forry Ackerman auction news
When legendary horror fan/publisher Forrest J Ackerman died, everyone wondered what would become of his one-of-a-kind collection of horror memorabilia. It tursns out some...
RIP Lux Interior
http://www.youtube.com/v/r3HSO1F7zHM&hl=en&fs=1
Frontman of seminal Psychobilly rock band, The Cramps.
More Diamond thoughts
§ Chris Butcher finally weighs in with his thoughts on the Diamond changes and it seems we've reached the end of an era:
I...
NYCC: CBLDF
As usual, the CBLDF booth will present all kinds of merchandise and signings, and they're kicking off the show on Thursday with the traditional...
NYCC: The Hero Initiative – #1865
A party, an auction and signings by George Perez and many others highlight the activities at The Hero Initiative:
The night before the show begins,...
NYCC: Rich Faber – #1930
Rich Faber writes that he'll be at the show and selling many items (like the print above) to raise money to pay continued...
More on Diamond and the future
There's been a lot going on since Diamond's new benchmark bombshell, with several alternative distribution sources cropping up, notably Ka-Blam and their Print-on-Demand ComicsMonkey....
Show news: BEC canceled; more on Reed moves
Even as Reed Exhibitions was announcing a new comic show for Chicago, they were also announcing that Book Expo Canada, Canada's biggest book...
Recession Watch: Alt-Weekly cartoons
§ Cartoonist Matt Bors sits down with Kevin Allman, editor of The Gambit, an independent alt-weekly out of New Orleans, to talk about...
Random thoughts
• All the party invite info for New York Comic-Con has been flooding into our inbox over the last few days -- thank goodness,...
You missed us!
Sorry for the outage, but based on all the emails and phone calls and IMs, you really do read The Beat! It's a touching...
