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...
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...
Publishing news: FBI kids comics, death, cancellation
In news that must have many people standing around looking blank and confused, Fantagraphics has announced plans to publish a series of GNs...
These times we live in
Heard via AIM:
Agent Wolfenstein: But even so, is still short-sighted and fixated on a model that's not going to work for much longer.
The...
SHOJO BEAT cancellation CONFIRMED
Evelyn Dubocq at Viz is sending out the following statement regarding SHOJO BEAT, confirming that it is ending with the July 2009 issue.
Yes, the...
Business Briefs: SHOJO BEAT ending?
A lot of sources today are picking up a distributor's note that Viz's SHOJO BEAT is ending publication in July. Anime News Networkrounds...
Media Apocalypse Monday
We usually start off our day with Media Bistro's news roundup -- as goes advertising and circ, so goes entertainment -- and today's state...
Internet, your days are numbered
Free content on the web, it's time to stock up on food and ammo, and shore up the compound, because big media is coming...
Business briefs
A few quick notes on notables things:
§ BOOM! has announced that its line of kids comics will be carried at Disney's Soda Fountain Studio...
New business model: PictureBox advance orders
Via email and up at the PictureBox website, publisher Dan Nadel is offering a bunch of exclusives and bonuses for those who preorder two...
The coming of Kodansha?
Over the last couple of years, many rumors have circulated about Japanese publishing giant Kodansha entering the US manga market. Anime Vice digs up...
Vado on IO
A few more links of note on the specifics of the WARLORD OF IO situation: SLG's Dan Vado clears up the facts of the...
