Mosher joins comiXology as VP of Marketing, PR, and Business Development
Following his stint at BOOM! Studios, Chip Mosher has joined comiXology as VP of Marketing, PR and Business Development, where he'll run the digital distributor's West Coat office. Mosher was in on BOOM!'s early experiments in digital comics, so he'll doubtless bring much of that experience to comiXology, as well as his formidable talking abilities. It's a strong move for both parties. As if you hadn't figured out that digital comics are here to stay, they are now hiring real people for real jobs for, presumably, real salaries.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Everett Raymond Kinstler and “The Man in The Tank!”
Via The Horror of it All Blog, comes this Atlas story drawn by Everett Raymond Kinstler from the September 1953 issue of MYSTERY TALES #15. Crime does not pay!
Continue ReadingArchie brings back superheroes in digital form
The "Red Circle" line of superheroes—The Fly, the Shield and so on—has been bouncing around the industry for a while now -- first at Archie, then recently licensed to DC where they basically kicked back on the veranda with an iced tea. They're one of those little bits of IP that isn't always out in front but just seems too valuable to let go of entirely. Now Archie Comics is continuing its forward looking ways by bringing back their superheroes as a series of digital comics.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Jamie McKelvie
The PHONOGRAM artist has a new print for sale, about US$55.
Continue Reading31 days of Halloween: Sam Costello & David Hitchcock
Today's image is pretty strong stuff so to see the whole thing, you'll have have to click on the thumbnail. It comes to us from Sam Costello, who writes: This image is from our latest story, A Mother's Love, for Split Lip Comics. I wrote it and David Hitchcock (Whitechapel Freak, Springheeled Jack, etc.) drew it. The story is about a monster plaguing a small town in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. You can read the whole story here.
Continue ReadingToday is Torsten Day at Stately Beat Manor
While others celebrate Columbus, we will celebrate Torsten Adair, who's become our regular weekend poster, keeper of the Coming Attractions, and master of the roundup. Torsten has been commenting at the Beat as long as there's been a Beat, and somewhere back in the mists of the Mesozoic Era we said "Hey, if you're going to write all that you might as well post it."
Continue ReadingDC Comics: 52 Be Continued…
DC is concentrating on their "New 52". But what of the other stories? As DC replicates a strategy from 25 years ago, when will we see self-contained stories which can be added to a strong backlist? What will be the new "Watchmen"?
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NYCC 2011: Behind the Green Door (or: I Am Curious (Black))
One thing which has been overlooked: A new paradigm for dealing with the crushing crowds expected this week at the New York Comic Con. 100,000 attendees are expected. New Yorkers have perfected the art of standing in line and consider it a sacred secular experience. So, ReedPOP has created a map to help everyone navigate the convention center quickly
Continue ReadingComing Attractions, Fall 2011: Abrams
Abrams publishes some of the most beautiful (and bestselling!) books about comics. Here are some of their forthcoming titles!
Continue ReadingComing Attractions: The Reboot/Relaunch/Remifasolatida
Okay... it takes a lot of work to do these Coming Attractions posts. Judging by the lack of comments, it doesn't look like they are very attractive.
Continue ReadingDon’t forget: This weekend is GeekGirl Con in Seattle
This weekend, the first female-centric comics convention in many a year takes place in Seattle, with GeekGirl Con. Jennifer de Guzman has a great write-up at PW:
Continue ReadingDC’s Amazon exclusive may last only four months
Buried in the flurry of news over the B&N/DC war, it appears that DC's exclusive on 100 graphic novels for Kindle may last only four months. Although no one from DC will comment publicly, they seem to have hinted to the LA Times that it was only an exclusivity window, and DC has sucked it up and will have to swallow the loss in sales until that window is over.
Continue ReadingDigital distribution wars heat up: B&N employees spotted pulling DC graphic novels from the shelves
When comics publishers started going into digital platforms, it was comics retailers in the direct market who were the most upset, with several going off in a snoot and saying that they wouldn't order books from publishers who went digital. Over the last year or so there have been some threats, but more posturing. Pretty schoolyard behavior, right? So when the nation's only remaining book chain gets equally snitty and pulls a major publisher's books from the shelves over a digital exclusive, you have to just go ---What the fuc--?"
Continue ReadingDC’s victory over Marvel was bigger than Diamond figures show — UPDATED
While DC triumphed over Marvel in September's charts -- if they hadn't, it would have been the greatest shock of the year -- but some folks, like Warren Ellis were unimpressed with the margins: However, one thing that these figures Diamond released today don't take into account is that when comics are returnable, they are automatically downgraded by around 10%. We'll leave it to John Jackson Miller and Marc-Oliver to crunch the actual numbers, but DC's figures as reported are about 10% lower than the actual numbers to allow for potential returns. Given the sell-outs and reprintings, returns -- if any! -- are likely to be extremely low, but DC's numbers will be 10% lower for as along as the returnability exists, which goes through December.
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