On the Scene: Indie Publisher Confronts Amazon Exec at Litquake’s digi.lit Conference
by Bob Calhoun
The mood was tense in the fourth floor conference room of the SPUR Urban Center in San Francisco on Saturday—especially for a...
Digital comics make up 15% of Image Comics sales, 27% of revenue
Wired has more info on Image's big digital news today including charts and graphics. Basically, Image publisher Eric Stephenson isn't afraid of no pirates...
Boom! Studios acquires Archaia
Well, well. While the general state of comics is pretty healthy these days, there had been one company whose well-being we continually heard whispers...
Warner Bros. studio shakeup official: Robinov out, Kroll, Silverman, and Emmerich in
(Above Jeff Robinov and his wife, Nicole.)
Despite the importance of MAN OF STEEL in the futures of both Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment, its...
IDW’s Ted Adams confirms that comics are not dying
IDW president Ted Adams is always engaging and as candid as any comics CEO might be, so when ICv2 catches up with him for...
Licensing world round-up: Princesses are king but Avengers are for boys
As we mentioned in the previous post, the Licensing Show's wrapping up today and there are always some lists and announcements and other observations...
Valiant officially joins the ranks of Kindle’s fanfic program
The Licensing show is on in Vegas this week and with it a smattering of announcements about licensing deals and brandings and so on....
Breaking news: the comics industry is not dying
If there's one phrase that frosts my scuppers these days it's variations on the "comics are a dying industry" or "failing medium" or some...
Antarctic Press turns to Indiegogo after Wal*Mart deal leaves them in debt
The comics industry is doing "okay" these days, but it's still a business of very small margins, and one misstep can put you in a rocky spot.
For instance, it seems that Antarctic Press, the long running manga-tinged indie publisher of such books as Gold Diggers, Warrior Nun, Ninja High School and many more, has run afoul of two things that can cause big problems: Wal*Mart and returns.
DC profiles: Karen Berger and Jeff Robinov
Kremlinologist alert!
§ Dave Itzkoff profiles Karen Berger, now departed from Vertigo, and the changing face of risk-taking at DC. Of course everyone will be...
More Disney layoffs: ESPN sheds hundreds
Disney continues its road to profitability by cutting staff, this time at ESPN, where as many as 400 people lost their jobs in a...
But if you are trying to buy Eisner Award nominated book in a comics...
In a note to his fellow retailers giving them Diamond codes for this year's Eisner nominees, Brian Hibbs made a rather interesting discovery: Diamond has only 59% of the 101 individual SKUs in stock. Meanwhile, Baker & Taylor, the world's biggest book distributor, has 83% of them in stock.
