Recession Watch: Bye bye, Virgin UPDATED
We've reported on this before, but one of the few remaining Virgin Megastores is to close soon, since designer clothes are more profitable than...
Recession Watch: Magazines take hit from distributor
The New York Post reports that in addition to falling advertising revenues, magazines must now deal with an added seven cent surcharge from their...
Marvel announces THE STAND gn is direct sales only
After getting some brickbats for shortages of the Obama Spidey comic, Marvel did something yesterday that made comics retailers very, very happy, by announcing...
Earth-2 is doing fine; Willingham responds
We're sorta pressed for time today because of a conflicting deadline but wanted to draw your attention to two comments, in case you didn't...
Wizard World cancels two shows — UPDATED
Newsarama reports what we've been hearing all morning: Wizard World is canceling their Los Angeles and Dallas shows. WizardWorld LA was scheduled for March...
LiveJournal future cloudy, ask again later
Much anxiety yesterday when it was announced that the company which owns popular blog/social network LiveJournal had laid off much of its staff. The...
Comix Experience top sellers in 2008
Brian Hibbs , owner of SF's Comix Experience, charts his store's top sellers of the year -- he can easily do this because he...
Waid introduces HEXED promos
http://www.youtube.com/v/hw1UTwEA790&hl=en&fs=1
BOOM! Studios sent along links to two videos talking about their promotions for HEXED, a new series which will have a retailer incentive, full...
Pull Quotes: Cartoonists and the recession
Peter Brookes, editorial cartoonist at Times of London, is one of my cartoonists interviewed at Bloomberg about the state of editorial cartooning worldwide. Of...
It’s the economy, stupid, Jan. 5 edition
With the happy holidaze over, everyone is back to fretting over the economy, which makes total sense, since the economy pretty much nuked the...
Manga rumblings
Along with everything else in the world, the future of manga in the US is being examined -- not that it's going anywhere, but...
Comics: Cheap entertainment?
Aaron Albert attempts to break down the cost per minute of such forms of entertainment as movies and comics, and comics come out a...
