Truly thankful
The Beat definitely lapsed into blog-silence this holiday weekend, but it was for a very good cause -- the ongoing re-shelving and organization of our Hoarders-like graphic novel library. While we had the...
SPX attendance up 19%; Nerdlinger winners!
According to SPX director Karon Flage, it wasn't just your imagination: there WERE more people at SPX this year. She writes:
Paid admissions were 1772 which is a nice increase of 19% over last year....
A great week to be in comics
Sometimes it's design, sometimes it's fate, sometimes you just have a week that makes you realize you are one lucky duck indeed. Despite sometimes yucky weather, and bad train schedules, we managed to hit...
Onerous possessions
A tweet yesterday about "packing up my office" prompted some concerned private messages, and I am always touched by concern, but I am just moving office, not leaving office. However, I've been packing up...
Penultimate WATCHMEN linkage – UPDATE
Will 'Watchmen' live up to the hype? WATCHMEN has the widest opening EVER for an R-rated movie and midnight screenings are tracking way ahead of 300...if it breaks $70 million, it wil be the...
Covered blog getting really good!
We were a little disappointed when the Covered blog first began. The idea -- indie cartoonists recreating classic comics covers -- was dynamite, but initial efforts were a bit too close to copying. But...
The Flying Pooch
Whilst searching for an appropriate cover for the previous post, we came across this beaut on Cover Browser, a site which reveals so much about changing tastes and standards that we could probably spend...
If only all superhero comics were this great
Sulk (Vol 1): Bighead and Friends
Grant Morrison, eat your heart out!
When will the axe fall on comics?
So, just how shitty are things? Really, quite shitty.
Wednesday was a black letter day for the book publishing industry, as it seemed to be Armageddon all over the place. Jay Franco rounds up...
Best Graphic Novels Of 2008: NPR
NPR's Laurel Maury has released her Best Graphic Novels Of 2008. There are five, and we won't tell you what they are, so click on the link already! Let's just say it's an eclectic...
Garrity’s “Ten Comics That Made Me Cry”
This could have gone in Kibbles 'n' Bits, but it is so excellent it deserves it's own item. Shaenon K. Garrity's Ten Comics That Made Me Cry is a nice reminder, in the midst...
Win a copy of ALAN’S WAR
In perhaps the most unlikely sentence ever typed, I Love Rob Liefeld is giving away a copy of ALAN'S WAR, Emmanuel Guibert's award-winning graphic novel about World War II as related by...
