NYCC 11: Here there be con
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet So yeah, another New York Comic Con is unfolding around us in all its tumult. We’ve been caught up in running a panel, and now chilling with our pals at the Joe Palooka booth. Which is right next to Virgil. Some things are eternal. Like Virgil. It’s that kind of show. [...]
Continue ReadingAnn Nocenti on Green Arrow – OR – Did a Publisher Just Listen to Its Fans?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDC announced yesterday that Ann Nocenti will be taking over the writing chores on Green Arrow, as of issue #7. JT Krul was previously (currently, if you’re at the shop) writing Green Arrow. Nocenti, while having done a small amount of work for DC (a Kid Eternity series for Vertigo and a [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC 11: Come see The Beat at the “Comics History of the World Panel”
Hype alert! I'll be making my only scheduled public appearance at NYCC at 1:30 today.
Continue ReadingNYCC 11: Retailer breakfast highlights
New York Comic Con kicked off with a retailer breakfast sponsored by Diamond. Held in the Galleria room, it looked great -- and the bacon was surprisingly crisp -- but with an all-glass ceiling and walls it was hard to see or hear the speakers and their slides.
Continue ReadingDC sells 5 million comics, decides to lay them end to end
DC sold a lot of comics — so many that they actually sent out a press release about it; even Diane Nelson, previously silent on the relaunch, now thinks it was a great idea. Selling five million comics in 6 weeks is indeed a sizable number; however what augurs the best for the comics industry is that sales across the board were up. Marvel had its best September in a while, as did Image. We're not talking a return to 1993 -- as some retailers thinks -- but more like a return to 2003. Which is still great. It's fairly obvious that customers were waiting for something exciting to happen in order to go back into stores; these disenchanted readers -- Dan DiDio's much loved "lapsed readers" -- have now discovered that comics are still fun. But will they stay that way?
Continue ReadingNYCC 11: 3-day and 4-day passes sold out; line up outside
It's official: Three- and four-day passes for New York Comic Con are sold out. And fans are being urged NOT to line up to get in today due to having to line-\ up outside in a rain-slicked city:
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Comics are art
The new issue of ARTnews has a nice survey of the fine art/Comics crossover:
Continue ReadingNYCC 2011: Day One: Preview Day
Here are some sneak peeks, taken from my Samsung phone. Apologies for the resolution.
Continue ReadingNYCC 11 kicks off
Events in New York were in full swing last night with the CBLDF signing at Forbidden Planet (above) ...and the Image signing at Jim Hanley's Universe (Moritat, above), and we're soon to be breakfasting with some retailers. Reporting from the floor may be dodgy but stay tuned...it's going to be a wild ride.
Continue ReadingGraphicly goes on iOS 5 Newsstand
Yesterday, Apple servers were challenged when the world rushed to download iOS 5 with a host of new features -- and something called Newsstand, which will help readers subscribe to their favorite magazines available on iPads. Graphicly is there, so far the only mobile comics platform to be available, with titles like WALKING DEAD:
Continue ReadingAbrams buys UK indie SelfMadeHero
UK publisher SelfMadeHero -- which has put out GNs by a European cast of all-stars such as David B as well as such things as Manga Shakespeare and Eye Classics— will be acquired by Abrams, with a US line coming in 2012.
Continue ReadingBooks-a-Million joins DC book removal over Kindle deal
PW reports that Books-a-Million, the OTHER book chain remaining, has also ordered DC's top 100 GNs removed from their shelves in retaliation for DC's signing a digital four-month exclusive with Amazon.
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: August 2011
As you may have heard, DC had this relaunch thing going on in September, ending several months of deck-clearing and water-treading in the company's superhero line. The kick-off came in the last week of August, with the release of Geoff Johns and Jim Lee's Justice League #1, which -- to nobody's surprise -- leads the August charts by quite a margin. To gauge what this means in the broader context of the comic-book direct market, though, we'll have to go back a few years.
Continue ReadingFirst Look at NYCC: Photos from the set-up
Special Ops Beat Correspondent Torsten has already been on the floor for NYCC set-up and filed the following report:
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