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...
We interrupt this blog…
Well, not only are we on a horrible life-or-death do-or-die deadline this morning -- and you peeps we've been talking to since yesterday know which one -- but we hear a roling blackout may...
San Diego ’06: Viral marketing, imaginal cells
The San Diego Comic-con now exists as a means to disseminate press releases to the internet. Sitting in the press room on the Friday of the show, on deadline, a group of reporters were...
Scream Awards 2006 honor comics, horror, racks
Long ago we mentioned that Spike TV was launching a new set of awards called the Scream Awards to honor the best in superheroes, horror and comic books. The nominees were announced at San...
And then there were 9,724: New SPAWN Pop Culture website
According to a terse press release on SPAWN.COM, Todd McFarlane Companies is launching a new website covering various kinds of crap:
It's been obvious for years: Todd McFarlane has his finger on the pulse...