Tag: Top News
SDCC ’13: Cartoon art Museum Sketch-a-thon
Lots of TOP artists will be sketching for San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum at booth #1930. There is a suggested $10 donation and that's...
Amazon Sales Chart: Hyperbole and a Half and the Kindle dominate
Here are the Top 50 Comics & Graphic Novels on Amazon Friday morning. See About the Amazon Top 50 Lists for more information on how this list is compiled.
SDCC ’13 #Tweetfolio Season 2.0 goes #Beatfolio at Comic-Con
by Bon Alimagno
I'm Bon Alimagno, writer of the #Tweetfolio portfolio review column Heidi has linked to here on the Beat in the past. As...
Pacific Rim: Rip-roaring fun, emphasis on the ROARing
by Aaron Humphrey
In the increasingly geektrified environment of mass culture, Guillmero del Toro stands out among film directors as Hollwood’s One True(st) Geek, the...
Steranko-ing: the early years
Thanks to Sarrah Horrocks, this undated but 80s ish photo of Jim Steranko and Jack Kirby shows that Steranko-ing has a long, proud tradition....
Is DC launching a stealth price hike?
While holding the line at $2.99 was a rallying cry for DC a few years ago, since then realities have been encroaching on comics...
Columbia University acquires Al Jaffee archives
Anyone who has ever met him knows that they want to be Al Jaffee when they grow up. The master of MAD's fold-ins is...
DC to run TV ads for Before Watchmen collections
If you support comics creators rights, you may want to avoid Time Square for the next few days.
The NY Post has the exclusive...
Inside this week’s PW Comics World: the retailer survey and more
I actually mentioned this in my previous post but wanted to give it its own item. A new issue of PW Comics World, the...
Behind the news: Amazon’s comics debut and Marvel’s market research
A lot of big comics announcements this week in advance of Comic-Con showbiz onslaught, and some of them have interesting reverberations. By far the...
Andrew Hussie teams up with ShiftyLook
Here's an item that doesn't seem to have gotten too much play in the traditional comics media: as revealed on their Comic-Con pageShiftylook has...
Nice Art: James Jean pops up on Instagram
After a triumphant art show in January, renowned artist James Jean dropped out of site following a scorched earth interview in Juxtapoz. And he's...
