Awards season kicks off for books
The midwinter American Library Association meeting is taking place in Philadelphia this week, and yesterday's session included an avalanche of award announcements. The...
2008 Golden Globes
Ratatouille won for Best Animated Film.
No one cared.
BTW, the WGA strike -- which killed the Golden Globes -- has entered a significant phase...
The Beat named among EW’s 100 Greatest Websites
Thanks to my EW colleagues for the very nice kudo: The Beat pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/ Heidi MacDonald is one of comic-dom's premiere journalists, and this...
Eustace Tilley Contest
The New Yorker is running a Flickr contest for new versions of their mascot, Eustace Tilley . Above, one of Ape Lad's fine contributions.
Eustace...
New Bytes: Newtype, FBI.com
• ANN reports that Newtype USA, the glossy, oversized manga-culture magazine is to cease publication -- but ADV will replace it.
Representatives of A.D. Vision...
Buy Steve Geppi’s house!
A Baltimore real estate section scrutinizes the housing sales of the Diamond Comics CEO:
The CEO of Diamond Comic Distributors and minority Orioles owner is...
RIP Martha Arguello
The SF Chronicle reports that cartoonist Martha Arguello - better known as Marty Links -- died on Sunday at age 90. As Links, Arguello...
Top Cow adds Caylo
Filling the void left by Filip Sablik's rise to Publisher, former Wizard Editorial Director Mel Caylo has been named the new Top Cow VP...
Sablik named Top Cow publisher
Filip Sablik, formerly VP of Sales and Marketing at Top Cow has been promoted to Publisher.
As Publisher, Sablik’s primary responsibility will be to...
Under The Influence: A Tribute To Stan Lee opens 1/8
Here's an LA art show we just heard about which looks very entertaining -- a tribute to Stan Lee by various Juxtapoz-type artists at...
Warmouth joins Devil’s Due
PR:
Devil's Due Publishing proudly announces the addition of Brian Warmoth to its Chicago office as the company's new Marketing Manager. In a year of...
Flight from Wesnoth
The Beat can't stop playing Battle for Wesnoth. Maybe it's just avoidance. Maybe it's the cold weather. We're trying to beat the dragons in...
