Broken Frontier goes it alone
Broken Frontier began life as a volunteer collective of writers about comics that for a while was an excellent collection of columnists. A while...
Would cheering up sell more comics?
Retailer John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics has a piece at ICv2 called "Sharpening the Sword--Where Are The Villains?" which suggests that since we're...
Marvel gets online ad agency
Gorilla Nation, one of the more prominent online ad agencies, announces that they'll be selling as space for Marvel's website. not too much to...
State of the Industry Alert!
A few disparate threads which, taken together, stick a thermometer straight up the rectum of the comics industry. Sales are good, but is the...
More on the Comics Press/Newsarama
Chris Butcher had a post on the state of comics journalism a few days ago that everyone should read. In it he basically echoed...
Newsarama acquired by Imaginova
Newsarama, the longtime champion of comics news sites, has been acquired by Imaginova, the home of several science-geek-centric sites such as LiveScience and Space.com....
Platinum goes very very public
On Monday it was announed that Platinum Studios the nearly 10 year old publishing company that just began publishing about a year ago is...
DC Comics in distro pact with Random House
MEANWHILE, ever since Time Warner sold off its book biz to Hachette, people have been wondering who would be distributing DC's book line. Well...
ADV and Geneon enter distro pact
PR:
Today ADV Films and Geneon Entertainment (USA) announced a new distribution agreement. From October 1st on, ADV Films will be Geneon Entertainment USA’s sole...
IDT acquires controlling interest in IDW
And...the news just keeps coming, as multi pronged telecom IDT has acquired a controlling interest in comics publisher IDW. Some hint of this development...
Morning Briefing: Y, Hex, Watchmen, UGO, etc.
Just a few entertainment briefs as we deal with last minute stuff:
§ The Y THE LAST MAN movie has a writer and director, D.J....
