Marvel: Profits more than double, Publishing up 6% in Q4
Marvel had its quarterly earnings call today, and the picture was rosy, led by a rise in net income from $11.7 million in...
Platinum goes public
Some news from late last week: Platinum Studios is now a publicly traded company. Follow along at PDOS.
Platinum Studios, Inc. (OTCBB: PDOS), an...
WGA Strike — patches of blue sky!
Get out your Oscar frock! Both Nikki Finke and the NY Times are reporting a settlement may near :
Informal talks between representatives of Hollywood’s...
News and notes
§ Adrian Tomine interviewed by Terry Gross.
§ Direct link to Shaenon Garrity's Compleat Overlooked Manga Festival. BOOKMARK.
§ You gotta pay wholesale now.
§ Sam...
Cold Cut’s mystery future
For months, the LJ of Cold Cut Distribution employee Matt High has been spotlighting his spectacular vacation photos. Of late it started talking about...
News Briefs
We're battling some kind of virus that we got from eating some ill-advised food. It's a real tussle that goes back and forth, and...
Lebonfon Speaks
Patrick Jodoin of Lebonfon, a Canadian printer that has been picking up some work from the Quebecor mess, sent out a brief statement yesterday:
We...
Diamond’s Top 300 Comics of 2007
Diamond has released the figures for its top selling individual comics periodicals of '07. Marvel took 23 out of the top 25, with BUFFY...
Diamond’s Top 100 GNs of 2007
Annnnd here's the top selling graphic novel chart. Manga has its own chart which we'll hopefully be posting later on.
Sorry this looks funny....
Diamond’s Top Publishers of ’07
Diamond has released its year -end figures for 2007, and as soon as we figure out the HTML, we'll be putting up more of...
Quebecor World update
As reported yesterday, Quebecor World, printer of most North American comics periodicals, has filed for bankruptcy in both US and Canadian Courts. Jim Milliot...
Publisher websites criticized
We can't tell if this position paper from Comic Book Bin is a parody of the infamous ComicsPRO position paper (which we'll be getting...
