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Study Group 12 goes digital
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The acclaimed Portland-based Study Group 12 anthology is starting up a web comic portal for several of their contributors, with regular series & one-shots included, in addition to regular blog posts like this one on Craig Thompson’s Habibi process.)
From their blog:
We’ll be uploading new comics every [read more]
Study Group 12 goes digital
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The acclaimed Portland-based Study Group 12 anthology is starting up a web comic portal for several of their contributors, with regular series & one-shots included, in addition to regular blog posts like this one on Craig Thompson’s Habibi process.)
From their blog:
We’ll be uploading new comics every [read more]
Must read: Best American Comics 2011 Notable list now online
Best American Comics series editors Matt Madden and Jessica Abel have just posted the Notable Comics of 2011 list, those comics that did not make the contents of this year's Alison Bechdel-edited book, but are still worthy of notice. The listing includes covers, links and more information: [read more]
Thought for the day
Whether you had a great week or a crappy week, this should tide you over the weekend. [read more]
Heavenly Bodies in Comics, Redux
Amid all the concern and conversation regarding the “nude52”, we here at the Beat would like to remind our readers of a previous attempt to develop new comics readers by offering comics featuring strong, attractive, empowered female characters engaged in romantic pursuits with male protagonists. [read more]
Well Said: George R. R. Martin
Clearly, then, you can’t rely on schools to teach these prospective writers to read. You'll have to do it yourself. Fortunately, there's an easy way. Comic books. [read more]
Must Read: Thoughts on the comics life
Unless you have been living under a rock, you've seen Tom Spurgeon's essay on facing a life threatening illness, an illness which led to his unexpected blogging absence earlier this summer, and which still affects him, although he's recovering. Since looking death in the face usually prompts some inventory [read more]
Flipping Point: The Coin Is Scarred Side Up
While there will be plenty of PR spinning about DC's big news as a great jumping on point for new readers and all that other doublespeak, let's look at the other side of the coin. [read more]
When Memorial Day Becomes Remembrance Day
On Friday, May 25, 1984, in a small town of 1200 people, in a small grocery store on the highway not too far from cornfields, at the golden age of 14, I became a comic book collector.
What set me on this path that has led me >choke< [read more]
Flashback: Saving comics one year at a time
From the comments of our "Saving Comics" post, Tim Stoltzfus went back to this Milennium Eve 1999 post by Warren Ellis that had the same message, and a call to arms on other matters: [read more]
Digital Comics: the future of commerce and the future of art?
Where are comics going anyway? Has anybody asked that lately? David Brothers and Matt Seneca have their own takes on the matter. [read more]
Webcomic Creators and Nerd Rapper UNITE
In as unstable job market as we have today, three men have decided to give their art their full time attention, their all. Writer and artist of Let's Be Friends Again!, Curt Franklin and Chris Haley respectively started their witty webcomic on the print comic world and what it means [read more]
Grassroots creators support campaign begins
No wonder that creators are getting a little more vocal about the importance of creator-owned material. Eric Powell's controversial video got things going, but itself was a response to a week-long tweet storm by writer Steve Niles who blogged recently What’s all this Creator-Owned Talk? [read more]
Modern children at the modern newsstand
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, [read more]
Spotted From The Watchtower
As The Beatrix, on vacation up country, deals with the new server and its delusion that it’s an electronic bulletin board from 1982, I am performing caretaker duties here at Stately Beat Manor.
So, some links…
Over at The Comics Journal, Tom Crippen posts two reprints of Gahan Wilson’s Nuts comic strip, [read more]
The Best Jaime Hernandez comic of all time?
At The Factual Opinion, Tucker Stone and Michel Fiffe ponder whether LOVE AND ROCKETS #3 might just be the best comic by Jaime of all time. In which case it would be one of the greatest COMICS of all time. [read more]
SPX 2010 memory roundup
This year's Small Press Expo was so wonderful that we can't stop reading about it! It's the first time in a while that it wasn't too cold or too hot but just right at an indie comics show we've attended and that made it special. PLUS, SVA and MICA and [read more]
SPX 10: You were awesome
Just a very quick moment to jot down a few thoughts on SPX. (My "official" report will be in PWCW tomorrow.) In short, it remains the summer camp of comics, with a bunch of people who are there for love just hanging out, talking, drawing, drinking, smiling and laughing. [read more]