Quotes On Comics site debuts
When I was a child, ladies and gentleman, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was a the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 3/12/09
§ Retailer Brian Hibbs is done with Heroes, the NBC super-show which was recently renewed for a fourth season. But the reason is not what you were expecting:
Oddly, it wasn't the inanity of...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits Supplemental, 3/3/09
Well some more stuff rolled in, so we're rolling it right out:
§ Eddie Campbell has started blogging again after a long hiatus, possibly related to a TV pilot.
§ Journo Rich Johnston was laid...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 2/17/09
Dear lord, the internets have been busy! Many comings and goings and teaming ups.
§ The Savage Critic old order doth change, as Tucker Stone, Sean T. Collins, Dick Hyacinth, David Uzumeri and Chris...
Forewarned is forearmed
If you're one of the folks traipsing out to your local comics store to get the first part of the Neil Gaiman-written, Andy Kubert-drawn BATMAN issue, you may want to know that the second...
Go find your VGA adapter!
The one lesson we have learned above all else from New York Comic-Con 2009 is to go find that funny little cable that came with our computer that we had no idea what to...
Random thoughts
• All the party invite info for New York Comic-Con has been flooding into our inbox over the last few days -- thank goodness, we've already scheduled a nourishing meal each evening, or else...
EXCLUSIVE: Comic Foundry #5 cover
Tim Leong has provided The Beat with the debut of the cover to Comic Foundry #5, featuring Bryan Lee O'Malley.
This fifth issue will be the last one of the magazine, but it looks...
“Are Comic Books Dying?”
Yadda yadda. Over at the Tor.Com Blog, Heather Massey asks Are Comic Books Dying?, and she isn't even talking about the Diamond thing. It's a summation of most of the usual arguments:
Think about the...
CEREBUS: A Diablog
As briefly noted, yesterday marked the debut of Cerebus: A Diablog which features journalist Laura Hudson and Top Shelf's Leigh Walton blogging each issue of CEREBUS, one issue a week. (That's nearly 6 years...
LiveJournal future cloudy, ask again later
Much anxiety yesterday when it was announced that the company which owns popular blog/social network LiveJournal had laid off much of its staff. The fact that the company is owned by a mysterious Russian...
NYC Graphic site launches
Photographer Seth Kushner, whose portraits of various comical types have been appearing online in advance of a book, to be written by Christopher Irving, announced a new website today: NYC Graphic . Kushner has...
