A brief interview with Diane Nelson
On an busy day for DC Entertainment, president Diane Nelson has been making the press rounds, and she very graciously stopped by to answer a few questions for The Beat on today's management announcements...
Chains of command unfolding at DC; Bruning’s role downplayed
With the new five-headed management team being unveiled at DC, a big question is who reports where? Meetings with the new management team are ongoing today at the DC offices -- the announcement was...
DC’s Diane Nelson statement
Also on the Source blog, Diane Nelson makes a statement that in addition to extolling the men chosen for the new exec team, answers a lot of the questions we've all been pondering...
DC Entertainment’s new executive team speaks
Via the Source blog, statements from DC's new executive team:
Dan DiDio and Jim Lee:
With our respective experiences and history with DC and our relationships with the world’s best writers and artists, our mission...
Graphic.ly acquires iFanboy
Graphic.ly, a fairly new but bold player in the digital comics distribution field, has announced the acquisition of iFanboy, the popular comics news and information community. PR below:Graphic.ly, the cutting-edge community and digital content...
Montana family sues Geppi for $500,000
It's been no secret over the last year that Steve Geppi, the owner of Diamond Comics Distribution, has had some money problems on his other business ventures, including Gemstone, his now-dormant publishing arm and...
Barbara Marcus in the running for DC Publisher job?
UPDATE: Well Nikki Finke says there is no truth to this. So that's that.
Like Bleeding Cool, we've been hearing the name of former Scholastic Publisher Barbara Marcus as a contender for the job of...
Business news round-up: Borders, WCP, etc., etc.
§ National bookstore chain Borders is getting shakier and shakier, and yesterday's news that CEO Ron Marshall was ankling the joint did nothing to cheer anyone up.
Borders, which has been under a...
Bluewater: finding new ways not to pay people
While Bluewater is often just thought of as that make-a-buck-quick company that puts out the funny bios, they've been getting a lot of heat lately for a business plan that asks for a huge...
Archie signs deal with Random House, other updates
Since it's Archie Comics day here at the Beat, here's some later news and notes.
* The artist on the Elizabethan Archie painting is Terry Petersen.
* In looking for some Archie comics art...
Top Shelf announces new business partnership with Johnson and Bregman
Indie comics mainstay Top Shelf, publisher of such critically acclaimed books as BLANKETS, FROM HELL, BOX OFFICE POISON, and LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN, has gained a new minority owner, more funding and a first...
WOLVERINE pirate charged but culprit remains at large
You may recall that last April there was great chagrin at Fox when a near-perfect workprint of WOLVERINE was uploaded a full month before the film's planned release. The world will never know how...
