Ryan & Cooper
Johnny Ryan and Dave Cooper team as Hector Mumbly for Nick Magazine, as spotted at Dave Roman's new nickmag_comics blog. Damn, if only we were a child.
Staying home
Wizard World Chicago, aka Rosemont is kicking off in earnest today, and it's a bit strange not to be there. We've missed a few over the years, but we've been to most for the...
WWC: Desperado
Everyone is too braindead from SD to be putting out Wizard World Chicago PR, but a few brave souls are doing their jobs, including Desperado, which will be there with "a host of writers...
Claypool thoughts
The end of Claypool as a paper publishing company drew some reaction on the web.
Peter David, writer of SOULSEARCHERS & CO.
Personally, I think this should send a serious chill through the industry....
Alan Moore talks in complete paragraphs
A very long, very meaty Alan Moore interview up at the Onion A.V. Club:
The way that we worked on Lost Girls was actually different than the way I've worked on any other comic I've...
Wright on SCOTT PILGRIM
Bryan Lee O'Malley tips us off to an interview with director Edgar Wright at CHUD where he talks about the possible SCOTT PILGRIM film. Woot!
Q: That’s going to have all six volumes, right? Even...
ROCKY in the Metro – update
Swedish cartoonist Martin Kellerman's ROCKY strip appeared a couple of weeks ago in the NYC and Boston editions of the free daily Metro. The press release doesn't make it clear if this was a...
Claypool goes online
After a well documented struggle to stay in the Diamond catalog, Claypool Comics has just announced that they are going to the web and shutting down their print operations.
After almost fourteen years and...
And then there were 9,724: New SPAWN Pop Culture website
According to a terse press release on SPAWN.COM, Todd McFarlane Companies is launching a new website covering various kinds of crap:
It's been obvious for years: Todd McFarlane has his finger on the pulse...
Image and Marvel team to promote CRIMINAL
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' new Icon title CRIMINAL is going to be showcased in THE WALKING DEAD, in a rare cross company promotion.
Imageâs The Walking Dead #30 will showcase the five-page teaser...
Video Blog #6: 300 & Gerard Butler
Yes, this is the moment we have been waiting for, and you have too, whether you knew it or not.
The greatest moment in Beat history.
The Deepak and Grant Show
We missed the first part of this due to a scheduling mix-up, but the part we saw was probably the most intellectually trippy panel in San Diego History. "When conscioussness starts opening up, it...
