Fantagraphics goes exclusive with Diamond
Diamond sent out a press release yesterday confirming that Fantagraphics is going exclusive to the comic shop trades with Diamond. You can read the whole thing in the jump. While Norton's exclusive with FBI...
Fantagraphics going with Diamond?
The TCJ board floats the rumor that Fantagraphics is going exclusive with Diamond for the DM -- if true. Norton would continue to be their bookstore distributor, of course. Barry Rodges emails Tony Shenton,...
More on Wizard’s HQ sale
After yesterday's real estate listing for Wizard HQ rocketed through the inboxes and AIM windows of the comics industry like a hot knife through butter, ComicMix called up to get the scoop, or at...
More Marvel financials
You can read Marvels' entire press release on their Q1 results here. Here's the relevant portion on publishing:
Marvel’s Publishing Segment net sales declined by $1.0 million or 4% to $26.5 million in Q1...
Can Sparky Greene Change Comics?
The headline says it all: New comic book team faces challenge:
But Sparky Greene, a writer and film producer from Malibu, wants a piece of that market. He and a small group of designers and...
Platinum ‘s 2007
Now public Platinum has announced it's 2007 financial results:
For the year ended December 31, 2007, Platinum reported net revenues of $1.96 million compared to net revenues of $0.18 million for fiscal year 2006, representing...
The fate of Occidental comics
Despite the huge huge market for manga and things manga right now, comics shops, by and large haven't been able to sell them or capitalize on the boom. While Naruto sells in Watchmen-like numbers...
Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a bad day on Wall Street, but the outlook for chain...
Economic report #1: Toys okay
The San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are coming out based on Indy, Iron Man, Prince Caspian etc...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look into a possible sale in order to get more cash...
February sales slump
The ICv2 charts same out yesterday, and for the second month in a row, things were down:
Comic and graphic novel dollar sales to comic stores dipped in February vs. the year ago period, the...
Jeff and Vijaya’s busy day
Jeff Smith's blog comments on the comics' move to Warner Bros:
The whole thing happened very quickly last Friday night. Warners called and made us a real offer, it was as simple as...
