How a stop for a bit of hearty breakfast can change your life.
Must cry: The Cartoon Crier
05/01/2012 by Leave a Comment
We mentioned this in our official MoCCA report for Publishers Weekly, but if there is one must-read this week, it’s The Cartoon Crier from The Center for Cartoon Studies. Distributed as a lovely free paper at MoCCA, you can now read it in Issu form at the link.
But we must warn you. DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE NOT SAD. Because it will make you sad.
Random thoughts on hoarding
11/30/2011 by Leave a Comment
About once a year, we give Stately Beat Manor a really good going-over — tossing out unwanted pamphlets, moving some stuff into storage, organizing permanent additions and so on — and after doing so we write a post with our thoughts about storage and hoarding and so on.
This is that post, c. 2011.
I assume most of you reading this are borderline hoarders, like The Beat. Your shelf porn resembles a splatter film. You have more longboxes than you do pieces of silverware. Your home contains at least one Billy. You have at one time — perhaps even at this very moment — made use of some kind of software to catalog your collection even if it was just Excel or Google spreadsheets. You know the drill.
Is it possible to stay in touch without a phone or Facebook?
11/22/2011 by Leave a Comment
This weekend I suffered the technocrat’s greatest nightmare and dunked my iPhone. It’s currently sitting in a bag of rice and soon I will find out if my life is over or not. In the meantime, for someone who is attached at the metacarpal to her iPhone, this past weekend was very interesting.
For instance, I had to find my way to someplace I’d never been. Instead of relying on GPS when I got out of the subway, before leaving the house I had to look it up on a map and print it out. And then pull out a paper and look at the map when I arrived. It was like a Geico caveman commercial.
Majestic Snow Batman towers over Vermont
03/09/2011 by Leave a Comment
Speaking of Vermont, Beat Spy Inky Jen passed along this epic photo of a huge Batman carved from the icy terrain spotted by a passing motorist/blogger. (Click link for larger image.)
What I was doing in 1997
12/14/2010 by Leave a Comment
Once I was paid to review websites. In a magazine. And look what was cutting edge in 1997 in the pages of CMJ Monthly.
Things the internet was made for: Kanye New Yorker cartoons
08/05/2010 by Leave a Comment
Take one part Kanye West’s completely solipsistic Twitter feed. Add in one part abstruse New Yorker cartoons. Result: comedy.
INCEPTION’s numerous comics inspirations
08/04/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet So according to I Watch Stuff, Christopher Nolan got the idea for INCEPTION from a Don Rosa story featuring Donald Duck and the Beagle Boys. But according to Chris Sims, it was Calvin and Hobbes that gave Nolan’s dream epic its inspiration. Which to choose? And apparently, Matthew Vaughn didn’t want X-MEN FIRST CLASS [...]
Proof that you really cannot escape Comic-Con
07/20/2010 by Leave a Comment
Actual Time-Warner Cable ad received in email moments ago.
End Times: Gilligan’s Island, The Movie
03/03/2010 by 20 Comments
Tweet If you were going into the end of the world in 2012, with a cold, empty feeling because Gilligan’s Island had not yet been turned into a feature film, rest easy: you will not be cast into the void unfulfilled. Co-producer Charles Roven previously worked on the GET SMART movie, so you know it [...]
Poll: Help us rank what is cool!
03/02/2010 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Since moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us all about it. [...]
POLL: Help us rank what is cool!
03/02/2010 by Leave a Comment
TweetSince moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us all about it. But [...]
Our Previews picks
01/28/2010 by 5 Comments
TweetThe best stuff we found in this month’s Previews: from Antarctic Press From DC and Amanda Conner. KITTY!
Thoughts for the day
01/26/2010 by 11 Comments
Tweet And now every time I get a little burnt out on what I “have” to do for work, I shut out all the external pressures around covering comics as an industry and read some comics that no one told me too. You should try it sometime too! – Kiel Phegley “The dominant tech culture [...]
Bye-Bye, CoCo
01/22/2010 by Leave a Comment
TweetAs some of you may know, tonight is Conan O’Brien’s last night as host of the Tonight Show. The story has been little covered by the media, so we thought we’d end the week with a brief comics-related tribute via the pages of MYTHOS SPIDER-MAN, a 2007 Marvel miniseries which had a brief O’Brien appearance. [...]
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