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While we were poking around UGO we came upon this surprisingly lengthy gallery of Hot Black Widow Cosplay. Well maybe not to surprising — all you need is a black catsuit, some wrist thingies, a red wig and a good figure and you too can fight for SHIELD.
YOU KNOW YOU WANT IT! Please help with photo IDs!
Just sayin’.
If there’s one thing comics bloggers love, it’s those old B&W photos from Life Magazine showing kids reading comics–proof of a simpler time when children read things, bananas were a vegetable, and your real father dropped off a bottle of milk at your mom’s house every day. Well, recently on the LA Times Southern California Moments feature of reader-submitted photos we came across what looks to be a contemporary example of the genre:
We totally forgot about this photo from 2008 NYCC. It was taken by Vaneta Rogers but the original is gone.
So useful!
Raina Telgemeier has had a busy year promoting her graphic novel SMILE — which was just picked as an Honor Book for the Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards. She shares some of her pictures, including stops in Maine, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Toronto, and Queens. Here’s Telegemier at the Dumbo Arts Festival just a week ago.
Spotted in Berlin. Context unknown.
Thanks to Jah Furry for the share.
Tweet[We welcome links for this feature -- please send your photo links to comicsbeat at gmail.com. Thank you!] •Anders Nilsen went to Rothenburg’s Kriminalmuseum and Munich’s Altes Pinakothekand took pictures. Jamie S. Rich and Diana Schutz spoke to Brian M. Bendis’s comics class. Charlie Chu (recently relocated to Portland as an Oni employee) took pictures.
TweetWhile nothing has quite channeled the Fantastic Four as much s the Ukrainian pairs skaters, the two-man bob competition has given everyone an EYEFUL. With their husky builds and lack of support garments, this is a pretty good idea of what real life superheroes might look like. Meanwhile on the women’s side, it was the [...]
TweetSome comics-related photos from around. If you’d like to see your photo parade linked to here, contact us at the link to the right. § Nikitas Manikatos’ photos from yesterday’s one-day Long Beach Comic Expo,, which we totally didn’t give enough coverage, but based on these photos it was a fine event. Above, the author [...]
Tweet After our last plea, DC’s David Hyde was kind enough to send us a complete set of DC Executive headshots and we are pleased to debut the most updated, version, complete with the RARE Pat Caldon variant. Congratulations to all involved.
Tweet Can you please get these men new headshots so we can get a definitive facial hair statement? Esp. Pat Caldon, since he has managed to live a life free of internet presence.
TweetAt a now-bookmarked site called Comic-Convention Memories, the author is posting some photos found in the late Shel Dorf’s collection highlighting: a) just how much fun the old San Diego really was; b) how majestic ’70s fashions really were. Just a wee sampling: Carmine Infantino, June Foray, and Dorf. The caption says: From the left, [...]
Tweet1981, Creation Con, New York: Mort Todd, Dan Clowes and Rick Altergott. Via Comics Comics c 1991-2, San Diego Comic-Con Jack Kirby meets his namesake, Kirby Veitch. Via Rick Veitch. 2006, WonderCon The 52 crew: Mark Waid, Wizard 52 reporter Ben Morse, Grant Morrison and Greg Rucka. Kneeling, Geoff Johns and editor Steve Wacker. Via [...]
Tweet …unless you are his wife. Apparently Kirkman trims his beard before conventions but lets it grow to Little House on the Prairie dimensions when hanging around the house. Via Twitter.
TweetAs we walked around the room at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Saturday, we asked folks what was coming up for 2010 and got a few newsy notes Perhaps the biggest news was confirmation that Randy Chang’s Bodega Distribution is taking 2010 OFF. Chang said he’s closing down sales on the website and [...]
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