“Graphic books” bestseller list reax
Last week's inauguration of a "graphic books" best seller list from the august New York Times drew much response, naturally. ICv2 answered the burning,...
RIP: Rod Gilchrist
Rod Gilchrist, executive director of San Francisco's Cartoon Art Museum, died of brain cancer at age 58 on February 26th. The SF Chronicle has...
RIP: John Carbonaro
John Carbonaro, a longtime fan-turned publisher when he purchased the rights to the T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents, passed away at age 58 on February 25th, as...
Wizard moves office
Via PR, Wizard is moving its office from Congers to the big, bad city.
Starting this May, all three monthly Wizard Entertainment publications—Wizard, ToyFare...
NY Times adds online Graphic Novel Bestseller list
For over a year, there's been some consternation among comics publishing types that the prestigious New York Times bestseller list did not include graphic...
Reynolds on benchmarks
We've been waiting a long time for someone to sit down and ask Eric Reynolds what he thinks about Diamond's benchmarks, and Chris Mautner...
Scans_daily story roundup
Glen Hauman interviews the scans_daily moderators over at ComicMix, and it's interesting on many levels.
ComicMix: What do you know about the circumstances of...
Tonight: MoCCA WATCHMEN Benefit screening
You still have time to go get a ticket for MoCCA's WATCHMEN benefit tonight. And if you come with a mask on, you get...
Amazon offers e-books for iPhone
Bathroom reading ahoy! Now you can download a free iPhone app called Kindle and use it to buy read e-books from Amazon:The move comes...
All remaining Virgin Megastores shutting down
Hello, Amazon! All six of the remaining Virgin Megastores in the US will be shutting down by summer:
After nearly two decades of rocking the...
Recession Watch: The DFC shutting down
The DFC is a less-than-a-year-old British comics weekly for kids, recently launched in a market where new comics products have an uphill battle. Backed...
Recession Watch: More distribution woes, but movies shining
§ That story about how magazine/book distributor Anderson Media was trying to charge magazine publishers 7 cents an issue to distribute magazines is now...
