The Blogger’s Staycation
In 1999, would anyone even know what the title of this blog post meant?Like many of my fellow bloggers, The Beat finds August is...
Shogakukan and Shueisha acquire Euro Japanime companies
Via PR:
The Japanese manga and animation powerhouses Shogakukan Inc., Shueisha Inc. and Shogakukan-Shueisha Productions Co., Ltd. (Shogakukan & Shueisha Group) announced today their joint...
Pundits examine iPhone comics stampede
There were a couple more iPhone comics announcement in our inbox this morning, bringing the approximate number of iPhone related comics announcements this week...
Is Diane Nelson the new overlord at DC?
Rich Johnston reports the rumor that has been swirling around for the last few weeks from multiple sources: a new boss for DC, namely...
Ted Kennedy memories — UPDATE
Poor Bluewater...bad timing.
UPDATE: Bluewater has released a statement:
The country is a lesser place with the passing of Senator Kennedy. Regardless of where you...
My Romance news: iPhone apps, marketing director
MyRomanceStory is a division of Arrow Publishing that has been turning out romance comics for a while now -- unspectacularly, but they made it...
Brief bits: New Siegel decision, Larson and Shaw on editors
§ Ever vigilant Jeff Trexler reports on the latest ruling in the Superman case—the judge is pushing REALLY hard for a settlement.
As I’ve...
Meth ring used comics to launder money
We were not aware that Denver, CO was a hotbed of both methamphetamines and comics speculation, but the two went hand in hand ...
2009 Ignatz Award nominees announced
The nominees for the Ignatz Awards, the festival prize awarded at SPX, have been announced. It's a pretty awesome list, as usual, heavy on...
Levitz on the industry
ICv2 sits down for its yearly or so confab with DC Publisher and PresidentPaul Levitz and it took all I could muster...
News stories we missed
While we were having vacations and internet problems last week, there were several stories that we had queued up that never got off the...
