Going Off-line for a bit
Well, the baby has arrived, and we're about to unpack it, so we may be going off-line for a little bit while we learn how to play Second Life. In the meantime, The Beat...
It’s Impossible To Keep a Secret on the Internet
We hear Journalista! is coming back any minute now. In fact a preview is up right now, which we know because it pinged us. Out of respect to Dirk, the father of comics linkblogging,...
2006 Quill Awards nominees up – UPDATED
The nominees for the 2006 Quills Awards are up, and the nominees in the graphic novel category are:
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Alison Bechdel/Houghton Mifflin Company
Maximum Fantastic Four: A Visual Exegesis of Fantastic Four #1
Stan...
Where have you gone, Sal Buscema?
We don't really follow the day to day announcements of Marvel and DC, except when they strike us in some larger sense, but yesterday's shocker that CIVIL WAR #4 and 5 would be delayed...
Doug Wright Awards info
A date and venue for the Doug Wright Awards have been announced -- this will be a stand alone affair to be held on September 14th. More info here.
The 2nd annual Doug Wright Awards...
Wizard jumps the shark, fires two
After a week of folks piling on with all their stored-up grievances against Wizard, things took a darker turn last week, as Wizard fired Stewart Morales and Gabe Fieramosco, the two folks most responsible...
World Fantasy Awards finalists
Locus has the finalists for this year's World Fantasy Awards. We'll refrain from posting the entire list, but the Best Artist category includes some familiar names:
ARTIST Kinuko Y. Craft James Jean...
Cable outages
Annoying internet cable outage last night curtailed early morning Beat postings. We suppose that fixing the cable from 1-3 in the morning wouldn't annoy most NORMAL people, but for bloggers...it's a pain in the...
WW Chicago News updates
HOLY F**K THIS IS EASY! We just sit at home and link to other people's reports. GodDAM, why didn't we think of this year'4, while DC "tallied" nine. ABC/Disney was the lone none DC...
