Tag: Top News
Review: Everything you need to know about 2 Guns
As the long cinematic slog of Summer 2013 crawls to a close, the summer of the comic book movie, one last battle of comics-based...
Fort Wayne’s CAF Appleseed launches Kickstarter
As the comics live event business diverges into Cons and CAFs (comic arts festivals), both seem to be thriving. In 2013 Fort Wayne got...
Beat Contest: Win a piece of original art by Neal Adams at Wizard World...
Okay we don't run too many contests here at The Beat, but when the prize is as awesome as this—a piece of original art created for you by Neal Adams—it is something we can't pass up offering Beat readers a shot at.
Must Read: DiDio and Lee on the state of DC
ICv2 sits down with DC co-publishers Dan DiDio and Jim Lee and asks them sensible, hard questions. The whole thing is a must read, of course, and triangulates nicely with Diane Nelson's interview in the Hollywood Reporter. Here's Part 1 and Part 2. Some takeaways:
Riddick Motion Comic explains how a three-picture epic went back to a smaller action...
THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK is one of my favorite SF films of the last decade, even though it's a mad jumble of elements: wanted...
Valiant wants you to pick a luge suit
When Valiant Entertainment came back, they wanted to make a splash—with strong content, memorable characters and regular shipping. And luge. Because everyone loves luging and lugers. For those who are not winter sport aficionados, this is the sport where people pile into a tiny sled and go feet first down an icy hill. Sometimes two people pile onto the tiny sled.
Derf’s The City strip ends in the Cleveland Plain Dealer
As the newspaper industry slowly spirals into the birdcage lining industry, acclaimed cartoonist Derf Backderf (My Friend Dahmer) has announced that his strip The City will cease running in The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which is going to three-times-weekly home delivery among other budget cutting measures. Yesterday's strip was the last one. Derf waxes philosophical about the end of newspaper strip cartooning and muses on his future:
Neil the Horse to be reprinted by Hermes Press
For several dozen people out there, this will be the biggest news of the year.
Katherine Collin's Neil The Horse is going to be...
Fun Home called ‘Pornographic’ in South Carolina
A South Carolina watchdog group has criticized the College of Charleston (CofC) in Charleston, South Carolina for choosing Alison Bechdel's award-winning FUN HOME as...
Comics and Raccoons Part 2: All you need is fish
Continuing with the raccoons, a 24-hour comic in only 9 pages about a raccoon and a kitty cat by DV user Anima Project:All you...
Comics and Raccoons Part 1: Drax and the baby raccoon
Is comics and raccoons the hot trend for the second half of 2013? Rocket Raccoon may just be the herald of the newest craze....
Marvel Month-to-Month sales: June 2013
by Paul O'Brien
The focus this time round is on the conclusion of AGE OF ULTRON; Marvel had nothing else competing with it for your...
