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....
Japan embraces licensing
It's hard to believe that the land of the Rising Sun and Sanrio isn't licensing happy, but accoring to this article, it's just catching...
LA Times guy is pretty gloomy on comics
An editor at the LA Times has a pretty Debbie Downer take on the current comics scene:
What's strange about this grim reprieve for the...
Didio: Comics industry is here to stay
Lynn Arave at the Deseret Morning News has a brief but somehow substantive interview with Dan Didio who assures us the comics industry isn't...
How not to be snotty
A few online pundits react to Alex DeCampi's potential career suicide the other day.
Steven Grant points out that public ridicule is not the...
BREAKING: WORK FOR HIRE IS BAD!!!
Yet another squawk over Platinum and its long languishing library over at Comixpedia where Mike Strang pens a cautionary tale he'd like to call...
