Spring 2007 Xeric Grant Winners announced
Unlike the last two batches, the latest bunch of Xeric Grant winners includes several people with actual track records -- including Typer Page (Stylish...
“Artist’s work looked familiar”
The St. Petersberg Times has an interesting and informative article on Todd Goldman::
Jim Benton, a fellow T-shirt designer, said Goldman's fans bought into his...
Summer trav(ai)els
It's that time of year when unpacking your travel kit becomes a complete non-necessity as con season looms. I'm actually scaling back a bit...
Internet memes analyzed
As computer-centric as you may think The Beat is, we're often as baffled by the latest fads as the next guy. Take the whole...
Everybody run, the webcomicker has got a gun — UPDATE
This story isn't as corroborated as we'd like, and a bit hard to piece together, but it seems that web cartoonist Matt Boyd of...
Quick Hits
§ San Diego Comic-con board member and hubby indicted in crazy-ass $7.7 million stock scam: The arrest has nothing to do with the con,...
Does anyone need a wormed puppy?
By now we're all hep to the Nigerian Scam, and the Autograph Scam and so on...but here's a new one making the rounds...and it...
RIP Tom Artis
ComicMix is reporting the death of artist Tom Artis:
Comics artist Tom Artis died of complications from diabetes today at his home in Springfield, Illinois.
Tom...
People news and notes
§ Publicist Sierra Hahn has left DC...best of luck to her!
§ Former DC employee Vinnie Costa has been cast on the Latin American season...
Race against time!
Last night we decided to go through the last three days of email in an organized fashion and prepare all the links people sent...
Salma Hayek
We've been very remiss in posting pictures of Salma Hayek lately. We hear Salma is having a baby, so no svelte pictures of her...
Where’s…THE MCCLOUD FAMILY?
When last we saw them, the McCloud clan was setting off on a 50-state, one year tour of America's motels and college classrooms. We've...
