Harris and the $1.99 comic book
Harris Comics -- home of Vampirella -- discusses the character's return and new price point -- FELL format -- in an editorial by Bon Alimagno.
So we set a goal: break back into the Top...
Marvel: Cap #600 gets second printing
We're still collating comments and results from the unprecedented Monday-shipping CAPTAIN AMERICA #600, but while you're all waiting, Marvel is proclaiming success in the usual way...with a second printing!
This week, there’s no bigger super...
MySpace — the law of diminishing returns
As reported widely yesterday, MySpace, the once ascendant social networking site, laid off over 400 people yesterday -- a third of its workforce -- in the same month that it announced that rival Facebook...
News briefs
§ Eroto-manga-ka SABE has passed away at age 41. Warning, the link is VERY, VERY NSFW...in fact it may even be something that you could go to jail for.
§ In Wizard news,...
A few words on PR dos and don’ts
Whew, there were more emails about new books for MOCCA than ever before -- more both in number and in the detail of the submissions. This is attributable to the fact that people really...
More Geppi money woes
The Baltimore City Paper has news of another debt against Diamond owner Steve Geppi,, this time a $600K loan from Camden National Bank in Maine, used for a controversial land purchase in Maine....
Marvel’s REBORN births more questions
The news which we reported on Monday, that Marvel would allow a much later than normal final order cutoff for REBORN #1 to be able to take advantage of hoped-for media coverage, drew...
Would Daddy Warbucks have bailed out Lehman Brothers?
The New York Times finds Jeet Heer's analysis of Little Orphan Annie's anti-FDR tone during the Great Depression a "Big Idea" for today, and a mirror of current monetary anxieties. What cartoon character is...
Meanwhile, at the Licensing Show
We used to love going to the Licensing Show to see what all the studios were flogging, but this year they moved it to Vegas, so we'll have to play along at home. PERSONAL...
Wizard news update
Spurge reports rumors that a few more folks have left Wizard. Vice-President of Production and Circulation Darren Sanchez left against his will, while photographer Dylan Brucie quit.
Meanwhile, over at Blog@, Lucas Siegel rounds...
Marvel news and notes: profits, Cap’s early release
Much goings on about a recent Marvelinvestor conference in which John Turitzin, Marvel’s general counsel and EVP of the executive office, answers a fan's question about their recent price rise by saying, more or...
SHOJO BEAT cancellation reax
Predictably, the demise of SHOJO BEAT, Viz's girl-focused magazine of serialized manga, is being discussed far and wide:
Alexander Hoffman:
The strange thing is though, that manga as a whole, is a comic sold to women...
