That darned New York Times bestseller list!
Now that the New York Times' online-only Graphic Books Chart has been around for a month or so, people are beginning to wonder just...
Dark Horse and Image join Final Order Cut-Off program
As planned for over a year, Dark Horse and Image are joining the ranks of "FOC" publishers at Diamond. Already used by Marvel and...
More Diamond minimum casualties
While it makes big news when acclaimed cartoonists like Sammy Harkham and Kevin Huizenga don't make Diamond's new order benchmarks, rest assured, there's lot's...
Business news briefs
• ECCC news: The initial launch of the BOOM!/Fox Atomic partnership will be an ongoing 28 DAYS LATER comic:
Initial launch story will be...
ShoWest’s growing obsolescence
The annual ShoWest confab is wrapping up in Vegas today. Begun as a trade show for NATO, the National Association of Theatre Owners, the...
Recession Watch: Baker & Taylor fights lowered rating
Well, this can't be good. Baker & Taylor, the self-proclaimed "world's largest distributor of books and entertainment", insists they aren't in trouble, even though...
Recession Watch: Borders announces big loss
Borders, the embattled bookstore chain, announced their numbers on Tuesday, and they showed, not surprisingly, a huge loss.
A series of one-time charges...
More on Diamond and Gemstone
Yesterday's rumblings of Gemstone giving up both the Disney and EC licenses have been answered by an official statement from Diamond, confirming what we'd...
Time Machine: 2002: The Year of the Graphic Novel
When you've been doing this as long as I have you are often Googling for information on some topic and end up finding something...
The Times on comics price increases
George Gene Gustines looks at Marvel and DC's comic book price increases in the NY Times:
Mr. Buckley felt that, because of comic books’ origin...
Comics magazine death watch
Rumors flew yesterday that Wizard had canceled Anime Insider, its J-culture-themed magazine, and Newsarama confirmed:
In an email to Newsarama, Gramling writes, "...after several years...
Cartoons to become far scarcer on the Cartoon Network
The Cartoon Network held its upfronts the other day -- you can read the PR here -- but like most cable channels,...
