Amazon reveals secrets of EARTH ONE and MORE OGNs for DC
While DC reps remained mum about the price and format of the Earth One OGNs, they announced last week -- such elements being important clues to the intended audience of said projects -- Amazon...
Publishing news and notes — update
¶ Marc-Oliver Frisch is now link blogging! He notes that Marvel will be publishing their own bargain-priced, entry-level line of reprints, sort of like DC's After the Watchmen promotion:
The books mentioned are Matt...
Earth One: the retail perspective
Today's big DC news story is WAR OF THE SUPERMEN, the big Superman event for 2010 everyone has been speculating over. James Robinson and Eddy Barrow kick things off with a Free Comic Book...
Non-payment updates: Devil’s Due, Dabels
It's been no secret that even as comics have been enjoying better-than-those-around-them economic results in the Great Recession, a few companies have been late with creator payments. Bleeding Cool has been doing the...
Marvel’s Maisel to step down
Marvel Studios Chairman David Maisel plans to step down after the Disney deal goes through, the trades report. President Kevin Feige will remain and report directly to Disney Studios boss Rich Ross.
Maisel...
C2E2 to host Diamond Retailer Summit
Diamond will be holding its next retailer summit in the Midwest, as it's announced a team-up with Reed's C2E2, to be held this April in Chicago. Most recent summits have been held in conjunction...
Exclusive: Dynamite acquires Dabel Brothers titles
The much traveled fantasy adaptation imprint run by the Dabel Brothers has been acquired by Dynamite Entertainment. Les and Ernest Dabel have made a name for themselves over the past decade by making...
Italian studio buys Coconino Press
Variety reports that Italian producer Domenico Procacci's Fandango has purchased Igort's Coconino Press.
As you might guess from the name (taken from the setting of the seminal comic strip Krazy Kat) Coconino publishes literary European...
The Funnies Business
A few links making the rounds related to the health of various sectors of the comics business.
§ In Boston, while book industry sales are "in freefall", comics sales are strong enough to support...
Meanwhile, in sports cards….
While comics and trading cards were once joined at the hip in the Speculatory Era as twin collectibles, the trading card industry has faded over the years into more of a pure hobby and...
Do you remember the time? MAYHEM
If we had to guess, we'd imagine that when actor-musician-model Tyrese Gibson wanted to join the infectiously lively world of graphic novels, he wasn't aware that part of this world is nitpicking bloggers,...
Silence of the WUMBs
It seems that the Wizard Universe Message Board, home to seditious postings on bad customer service, personnel changes, joyless conventions and other, hoi polloi, topics, has been shut down, part of a total reworking...
