Reactions to last week’s doom stories: Diamond, MAD
§ Cartoonist MK Reed shakes her fist at doom with a resource-filled post that includes alternative distributors and other places where you can sell...
John Jackson Miller analyzes 2008 year-end comics sales
Number cruncher John Jackson Miller looks at Diamond's yearend figures and concludes that in 2008, the industry moved sideways:
Now, to 2008: As noted, the...
Further posting delayed
THE BEAT has a lot in the queue to be posted, but we've been delayed by what one might term "affairs in the world...
Recession Watch: MAD goes quarterly
If you've been following along at home today with our news stream, the announcement that MAD Magazine is going quarterly will not be such...
Recession Watch: Magazine distribution woes continue
Only the New York Post seems to have picked up on this story, but it's a biggie. Another major magazine distributor has joined...
DC layoffs include Schreck
The Beat has confirmed that DC Senior Editor Bob Schreck was laid off yesterday. Other layoffs, expected in the wake of Warner Brothers' companywide...
Recession Watch: 13 laid off at Diamond
The Beat has confirmed that Diamond laid off 13 employees yesterday, including the managing editor and designer for the recently canceled Diamond Dialog magazine....
More Diamond stuff
Newsarama finally gets Diamond's recent changes on the record from Bill Schanes. Those following the story will probably have read the whole thing, but...
Still out of it
Stately Beat Manor remains a vale of sickness and disease, as both The Beat and Future Mr. Beat had to skip all outside Inauguration...
Oni’s Joe Nozemack on new Diamond policies
While we're sipping soup and all that, Joe Nozemack, publisher at Oni Press, was kind enough to send us some brief thoughts on Diamond's...
New Diamond policies expected to have massive effects
Diamond Distribution, the largest and practically only North America distributor of periodical comics, is in the process of rolling out a few new business...
Comics status report: Hibbs Division
Last Friday's "Tilting at Windmills" column by Brian Hibbs sums up the comics zeitgeist circa last Friday pretty well. A few bullet points:
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