THR: Helfant “forced out” at Marvel Studios
The trades are announcing a slew of changes at Marvel Studios, with The Hollywood Reporter reporting that "Michael Helfant, the studio's president and COO,...
Desperado laves Image
PR:
Continuing its mission of publishing the highest quality comics from top-notch creators, Desperado Publishing has announced that their two and a half year publishing...
Interesting rumor
We've received a few whispers of late that since Kurt Hassler left his position as graphic novel buyer at Borders, his replacement is not...
Eisner offers two Mickey Mantles and a Nolan Ryan for Topps
Remember Michael Eisner, who ruled Disney for many profitable, synergistic years? What's he up to these days? Well, it looks like he really likes...
CNN BREAKING NEWS! NO CAP #26!
Just kidding, there will be a CAPTAIN AMERICA #26 and many, many more to come by creative team Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. But,...
CRACKED crumbles
Comedy blog The Apiary publishes a letter from editor Jay Pinkerton that reveals that the CRACKED revival is folding as a magazine -- it...
So you wanna be a cartoonist, eh?
NOTE: This will be a two-part article, the first part focusing how you will probably fail to make money creating your own comics, the...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales — December 2006
By Paul O'Brien
CIVIL WAR is still going, but with the core title running late (because you demanded it), and many of the crossover...
Bitpass closes
Do you remember micropayments? Well, if you ever listened to Scott McCloud in the 90s you do. Micropayments were the idea that you could...
Manga corner: mini Tezuka. manga costs, etc.
§ MangaCast has news of SegaToys plans to reproduce 400 mini-manga collecting the works of Osamu Tezuka:
The books are truly mini in every sense...
PGW talks Perseus offer
GalleyCat has interesting reports of recent AMS/PGW news:
Publishers Lunch reports that Publishers Group West clients were explained in a conference call yesterday he details...
Today’s AMS update
PW reports on today's book distribution maneuvers. Perseus Book Group, another big book distributer, has announced a plan to buy PGW client Avalon,...
