Diamond iVerse Comics Shop Locator app live
That app for iPhones for finding the nearest comics shop that we told you about a few days ago is now available on iTunes. Via PR: In a move promising tremendous benefits for comic...
More Diamond cuts: WARLORD OF IO, Classics Illustrated
Two more stories on the continuing effects of Diamond's tougher benchmarks:
§ Robot 6 quotes a letter from SLG :
SLG Publishing was planning on following up the recent Warlord of IO and Other Stories one-shot...
Disney and Hulu team up
Proving once again, for a website to become an intimate part of life and culture, its odds are greatly enhanced by containing the comedy "oo" sound, as Hulu marched one step closer to becoming...
Central Park Media files Chapter 7
A key piece of Manga/Anime history slides into the sunset, as ICv2 reports that Central Park Media has filed Chapter 7. Many will remember CPM as one of the trailblazers of the anime (Patlabor,...
Business briefs
§ While we've covered several book publishers who won't be at BEA, several have alerted us to the fact that there will still be plenty of graphic novels at the upcoming BookExpo America. Diamond...
More on BEA
Jim Milliot and Rachel Deahl have more on this year's scaled-down BookExpo America:
The exhibit floor at this year's BookExpo America will look different from the hall at the 2008 BEA in Los Angeles...
More on Archaia Studios Press
Following up on what we touched on yesterday, Shaun Manning has much more on the revived Archaia Studios Press at CBR, interviewing Mark Smylie, PJ Bickett and Stephen Christy.
“Kunoichi stepped in late last...
Publishing news and notes: BEA dropouts, etc.
¶ An article in the email newsletter Publishers Lunch rounds up signs of book industry contraction via a lowered number of exhibitors and attendees at this year's BookExpo America. According to the piece, organizers...
Comic Shop Locator app for iPhone?
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Hm. Check out this video we found for what looks like a demo of a Comics Shop Locator app for the iPhone. In the demo, the demonstrator uses both GPS and typing in...
Ted Rall laid off at United Media
Alan Gardner reports that Ted Rall and eight others were laid off from United Media, the cartoon and content syndication giant.
Ted Rall, who worked as the Editor of Acquisitions and Development at United...
Marvel fourth biggest brand
License Global magazine has released its top 50 licensing companies, and toon-based behemoths once again top the list (last year's ranking in parentheses):
1. Disney Consumer Products $30 billion (1)
2. Iconix $6.5 billion (4)
3. Warner Brothers Consumer Products...
Buenaventura Press and Diamond make theirs comic books
Via email, an announcement from Buenaventura Press, the publisher of such fine comics as KRAMERS ERGOT and BOYS CLUB:
Despite the 'industry trend' of cancelling comic books to focus on graphic novels, Buenaventura Press boldly...
