DC Month-to-Month Sales January 2008
DC COMICS MONTH-TO-MONTH SALES: JANUARY 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
With Justice League of America, DC Comics only had one book selling above 70,000 units in January. As a consequence, the publisher's average periodical sales saw a...
More on Dave Stevens
The comics industry and blogosphere has been overflowing with tributes to the late Dave Stevens, who died Monday. His work influenced many people -- more than you might think given the relative scarcity of...
Bits o’ DC news: LIARS trailer, Canadian pricing
§ DC has created an animated trailer for the new David Lapham book YOUNG LIARS. No direct embed but its in there.
§ DC has also updated their Canadian pricing policy. With the Canuck...
Interview round-up
§ ICv2 has a two-par interview with First Second's Mark Siegel:
What were your big hits for the second half of 2007 through the holiday season?Laika and Robot Dreams have had all sorts of interesting...
Morning Briefing 2: Singer/Superman, TenNapel, etc
§ Yes there WILL be a Superman Returns sequel, director Bryan Singer tells Empire and he WILL be directing it:
"That movie made $400 million!" Singer says incredulously. "I don’t know what constitutes under-performing these...
Morning briefing: You wouldn’t like Ed Norton when he’s angry
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While IRON MAN has been everywhere, this summer's upcoming HULK movie has been a little publicity shy. A few stills have been released, a very brief teaser trailer is up on YouTube, with...
RIP — The Real Mlle. Marie?
While reading the NYT today, I was struck by the obit of Pearl Cornioley, a resistance fighter during WWII, who died a few weeks ago in France.
She was the inspiration for the novel...
Boy dies in Naruto-related accident
Codey Porter, 10, has died after playmates buried him headfirst in a sandbox -- an act inspired by Naruto's ability to bury himself in the ground. Despite the tragic and horrible circumstances...
Child porn outlawed in Japan, manga okay
Japan -- along with Russia the only G8 country not to ban the possession of child pornography, has bowed to international pressure and has taken steps to do just that. According to the Guardian...
Viz debuts nine
Viz has announced officially nine new titles for the second quarter, GUN BLAZE WEST, HARUKA: BEYOND THE STEAM OF TIME, NIGHTMARE INSPECTOR: YUMEKUI KENBUN, B.O.D.Y, FAIRY CUBE, THE RECORD OF A FALLEN VAMPIRE, ROSARIO+VAMPIRE,...
This and that
§ Chris Butcher is on a tear this week, first with a calling-a-spade-a-spade . post
So yeah, most of the 3300 graphic novels released in 2007 sucked. Godwin’s Law Sturgeon’s Law is that 95% of...
