We’re not kidding
We're going crazy here at Stately Beat Manor! How crazy? We're going away and WE'RE NOT TAKING OUR COMPUTER! Totally nuts, right? We've got...
Max wins Spanish cultural award
According to this article and Google, the Spanish Ministry of Culture has just presented their first award for comics, to Max for Bardin Superrealist....
What’s new, pussycat
Sorry for the brief hiatus. While we've been recovering from various birthday related celebrations, the truth is we're also just too damned busy. We...
Egmont US to open
From Publishers Lunch today, announcement of an American arm for Egmont.
Following their discussion in August of plans for a US venture, the UK's...
Spanish cartoonists GUILTY!
Do you remember the Spanish cartoon controversy?. Of course you do. Two cartooners for the satirical Spanish cartoon magazine El Jueves were accused of...
Castree found guilty
Ronald Castree has been found guilty of the 1975 child murder of Lesley Molseed. Castree is a well-known comics retailer in Manchester, England. A...
Michael George update
Accused comics shop owner Michael George is attempting legal maneuverings to go free on bond while he awaits trial for the murder of...
More strike talk
LOST co-creator (and sometime comic book writer) Damon Lindeolf had this to say today in the New York Times.
I will probably be dragged through...
The cost of the Gordon Lee case
Many posters here on the Beat and elsewhere have wondered if it is really in the interests of the community of Rome. GA to...
HERO rides bull at WizTex
Wizard World Texas is in two weekends, and the Hero Initiative has the kind of benefit we like -- one which involves potential...
Hold on to your rights
http://www.youtube.com/v/oJ55Ir2jCxk&rel=1
This video is making the rounds with a clever multi-media presentation of the precepts behind the WGA strike. In a nutshell: the writer want...
‘Everyone Is Sickened by What Gordon is Facing’
ICv2 interviews CBLDF head Charles Brownstein with more on what happened this week down in Rome:
What are the next steps in this case--does the...
