Peanuts licensing business may be for sale
E&P reports that E.W. Scripps, the parent company of comic strip syndicate United Media, is considering spinning off their licensing business, United Media Licensing,...
Your New DC FAQ
It was a busy day for DC Entertainment's new executive team, and they were made available to many press outlets. Although a few key...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
