Hype: The Helper Monkey discusses Lost
If you have been missing Lost this last couple weeks, well, no new episodes, but this might tide you over for a day or so. The Helper Monkey was on wrestling historian Karl Stern's...
WonderCon news: Image, BOOM!, Fox Atomic
There's a bit of news and announcements out this morning from WonderCon. At the Image panel, Erik Larsen talked about Obama and John Layman talked about his new series:
Layman was on hand...
THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY wins International Horror Guild Award!
Woot! I'm proud to announce that THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY Volume 1 (which I edited) won a 2008 International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated Narrative!
Congrats to everyone who worked so hard on this book:...
Tonight: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY signing at Hanley’s
More big doin's! Tonight at Jim Hanley's, Stuart Moore, Joe Harris and the legendary Bill Sienkiewicz sign for Thomas Ligotti's THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY Volume 2, which was assembled by your humble narrator. The NMF...
This week in PW Comics Week:
• Actress Mia Kirshner talks with Laura Hudson about I LIVE HERE.
• Van Jensen learns more of IDW's G.I. Joe plans.
• AFRO SAMURAI makes is manga debut, Kai-Ming Cha reports.
• Peter Sanderson looks at...
Announcing: THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, VOL. 2
HYPE ALERT!!! Over the summer one of the projects taking valuable time away from The Beat was work on a second volume of THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY, Vol. 2, a spine-tingling, mind-warping anthology of work...
Comics: not just for nerds anymore!
That is the true next level in comics' ascendance, as WaPo sends book guy Bob Thompson to see what all the excitement is about:
To a lifelong Prose Guy, whose idea of a good time...
Stan Lee’s “Soapboxes” collected!
ITEM! You won't believe your eyes, True Believer! Hero Initiative is collecting Stan Lee's "Soapboxes" from classic Marvel comics! In this one scintillating volume, you'll see how comic book hype was born and learn...
McKellen to be Gandalf in THE HOBBIT
Presumably, this news will help THE BEAT recover from any travel-related mishaps that may have occurred on her trip out to SD.
Empire magazine caught up with Sir Ian at THE DARK KNIGHT premiere and...
The more things change….
So, I'm cleaning and I find a random issue of AMAZING HEROES from 1989. I leave it out and save for...bathroom reading later in the day. I see that THE BEAT (before she went...
Levitz talks DARK KNIGHT
The hype machine rolls on.
The Washington Post did an on-line chat with Paul Levitz today talking about the movie, the WATCHMEN movie and some comics talk.
Minneapolis, Minn.: From a villain perspective, who do you...
Surprisingly, more Bat hype
Even the Washington Post is getting into the act. The paper, which is sending reporters to Comic-Con to cover the LOST Panel, has a write-up today about the popular notion of duality between The...
