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Several job openings at Marvel -- both in Burbank and New York. You'll notice that several of them are in the games division. I've confirmed that a couple of weeks ago there were some layoffs...

Hello people, as you may have noticed the Indie Sales Chart has been getting later and later, and that' usually a sign that the writer is moving on. After a pioneering stint, Chris Rice...

Monkeybrian co-publisher Alison Baker has been one of the smart people in and around comics for a while, and now IDW has done something smart themselves by hiring her as their Director of Operations....

Word on the street is that Valiant has a lot of new stuff coming down the pike, and perhaps to run the paving machine for both the street and the pike, they've promoted Warren Simons to Editor-in-Chief. His previous title was Executive Editor. Since the company's relaunch in 2011, Wimons has been in charge of book including X-O Manowar, Harbinger, Bloodshot, Archer & Armstrong, Unity, Rai, and more. In his new role as Editor-in-Chief, Simons will continue to preside over all day-to-day operations of Valiant's editorial department, and manage Valiant's growing editorial team, which was just boosted by the addition of former DC assistant editor Kyle Andrukiewicz. CBR has the promotion interview that has a nice snapshot of Valiant's progress so far:

Alert the media! Everyone was excited last year when Award-winning cartoonist Matt Bors got hired by the Medium to edit an actual comics page, The Nib, the cartooning world stood up and cheered at...

World traveller, gourmet and beer enthusiast CB Cebulski is moving to an international business development role at Disney/.Marvel. In between tweeting and (in the past) blogging about eating everything from wagyu burgers to porcini...

Clearly DC was not taken aback by Bob Wayne's official announcement of his retirement, as the new SVP of Sales and Business Development was waiting in the wings. 16 year WB vet and former...

This week saw digital comic publisher Graphicly announce that they have been acquired by Blurb, a book publisher who will be subsequently folding the comics section of Graphicly. The question, however, is if the...

  Along those same lines, DC's Burbank office is totally ramping up -- although not in editorial, where the biggest defection is coming. and in some pretty big jobs -- a VP of Development, a...

When DC announced their move to Burbank, I was told the first name on the list of people who weren't going was SR VP of Sales, Bob Wayne. Wayne was already near retirement...

Peter Levin, a behind the scenes type who has had a hand in everything from Deadline to Angry Birds to Nerdist to Comixology, is joining Lionsgate to oversee their video game and interactive activities....

Are you going to C2E2? The Beat is not for the FIRST TIME. Torsten will be there for all the inside story as only Torsten can cover it, but if you have a hankering to listen to people make awkward banter about upcoming comics and then race to feverishly type it up, you may be just the person we're looking for! If you'd be interested in covering it for The Beat, email me at comicsbeat at gmail dot com.