Disney and Marvel team up with PREP & LANDING
When DIsney bought Marvel, the idea of them teaming up for "Mouserine" was the topic of laughs. but now such things are actually happening, with the cartoon character Prep & Landing entering The Avengers, Spider-Man and Marvel Super Heroes comics. Actually, it's just an INSERT story about the tooners trying to prepare for Santa, not an actual, coninuity-shattering crossover, but it does show that these titles are super kid-friendly. Even John Lasseter approves of this mingling.
NYCC Announcements: Dexter, Marvel and Mystery Writers
Yesterday at his panel, Marvel Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada announced a Dexter comic, in the continuity of Dexter novels. This comic will be...
NYCC Announcements: Vertigo Goes Simultaneous Print/Digital Release – Or – Get Used To It
Over on the Vertigo blog, we find an announcement that Vertigo's titles are starting to be released simultaneously in both print and digital ("day and date" is an insipid phrase; let's all stop using it).
NYCC Announcements: The Lost Alan Moore Scripts Resurface
In the late '90s, Alan Moore had a bit of a lull in his career. It was after his exit from DC and before...
Indie Month-to-Month Comics Sales: August 2011
By Paul Mellerick
The new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles book supplants Walking Dead this month, while Kirkman also takes number three spot with his &...
NYCC Announcements: Yen Press Adapts NYT YA Bestsellers
Yen Press has announced two manga style adaptations of bestselling YA novels: Sherrilyn Kenyon's Chronicles of Nick and Cassandra Clare's The Infernal Devices trilogy. HyeKyung Baek...
NYCC Announcements: Sesame Street Comics?
This is a little premature, but we might be looking at Sesame Street comics in the not-too-distant future. APE Entertainment, which does have some...
NYCC Announcements: Viz Takes Shonen Jump Digital, Syncs Closer to Japanese Original
This is interesting. Viz is migrating Shonen Jump to a digital edition that's only 2 weeks removed from the Japanese original. (And you can...
Ann Nocenti on Green Arrow – OR – Did a Publisher Just Listen to...
DC announced yesterday that Ann Nocenti will be taking over the writing chores on Green Arrow, as of issue #7. JT Krul was previously...
NYCC 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.
DC 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?
Comics are art
The new issue of ARTnews has a nice survey of the fine art/Comics crossover:
