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...
Financial Fretting: 12/19/08
Just to keep the holiday spirit going, here's a roundup of recession rumbling from the comics world:
• Rick Veitch notes that he has received...
Webcomics ad networks — one goes, one arrives
We're been hearing some rumblings of late that ADSDAQ, a web advertising network, has been dumping webcomics. BookElves had some rumblings back in August:
One...
More on Devil’s Due
As we've alluded to several times, there are a handful of comics companies that one keeps hearing persistent rumors about of late. One such...
The questions we face
Prominent comics blogger Tom Spurgeon had a series of pertinent questions about the industry over the weekend. All deserve continued contemplation, but we'll take...
