Iconix buys Peanuts for $175 million
Iconix, the world's second biggest licensing company, has acquired the licensing rights to E.W. Scripps (aka United Media's) comic strips, including Peanuts, Dilber, Get Fuzzy and many, many others, it was reported today. The price was $175 million. As we reported a few months ago, Scripps, had put its lucrative licensing business on the block, given the problems in their other segments, including the newspaper business. The deal will be a joint venture with the family of Charles Schulz continuing to get a share of the licensing income from a previous deal.
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ASTERIOS POLYP wins Los Angeles Times book prize
David Mazzucchelli's stunning ASTERIOS POLYP won the prize for the best Graphic Novel in the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which as the...
Stumptown Trophy, Kukoc Award winners
The Stumptown Comics Festival was held this weekend. Many folks attended the party where the awards were held, and even wrote extensive blog postings...
Tucci and McCool team for NEVSKY
Oh yeah, speaking of the London Book Fair, this little news nugget was buried in Rachel Deahl's preview of the event for PW:
Russia will...
Harvey Awards nominations close this Friday — hurry up and nominate your friends
Nominations for the Harvey Awards are closing this Friday. With all the nominating irregularities in recent years, I strongly advise getting together a...
Eisner Awards online voting opens
Via Jackie Estrada, online voting for the annual Eisner Awards has opened.
If you voted last year, your login from last year should still work....
RIP: Carl Macek (1951-2010) | Cartoon Brew: Leading the Animation Conversation
Carl Macek, a pioneer of bringing anime to America, died of a heart attack on Saturday, April 17th. He was 58. Jerry Beck, ...
C2E2 Day 2: Crowds, CASANOVA, Whistling Skull
A much bigger crowd descended on C2E2 yesterday, Saturday, and more people seemed to be buying. With folks parading around in costume and announcements...
New CBLDF site debuts
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has debuted a new look and a new, expanded website, with a new logo designed by Charles Orr,...
News and notes from ALL over: Tuesday is comics day?
At last night's presentations at the Diamond Retailer summit, some hints were dropped of bigger projects to be announced more fully during C2E2 panels....
C2E2: Reading with Pictures
Reading with Pictures (Booth 1468), an advocacy organization which promotes learning to read via comics, has a pretty big slate of programming at C2E2:
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