Recession Watch: MySpace Comic Books division
Nikki Finke reports on layoffs at Fox, including MySpace. The departments cut include the Comics division. We can confirm that marketing manager Sam Humphries,...
Some Stan musings
§ Steven Grant looks at the history of Stan Lee and his failed dot-com:
Which led to an interesting phenomenon, though one not so rare...
Recession Watch: Welcome to the Essex!
(Above: The Gulf Stream by Winslow Homer)
Well, people, in case you haven't noticed, it is a grim time in the empire. When people ask...
A little bit more on McGoohan
Cartoonist Michael Aushenker sent us a link that provides a bit more information on the enigmatic Patrick McGoohan, who died last week. Aushenker is...
RIP John Updike
Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters,...
Reactions to last week’s doom stories: Diamond, MAD
§ Cartoonist MK Reed shakes her fist at doom with a resource-filled post that includes alternative distributors and other places where you can sell...
John Jackson Miller analyzes 2008 year-end comics sales
Number cruncher John Jackson Miller looks at Diamond's yearend figures and concludes that in 2008, the industry moved sideways:
Now, to 2008: As noted, the...
Recession Watch: Newsweekly comics meltdown
Yesterday, cartoonist Tom Tomorrow revealed the dire news that his strip, This Modern World, and all other weekly cartoons were being canceled by Village...
Stan Lee Media sues for $750mil Marvel movie profits — UPDATE
If you're a lawyer, everything surrounding the strange history of Stan Lee Media is a fountain of endless, cool, refreshing litigation. Now "legendary" lawyer...
Further posting delayed
THE BEAT has a lot in the queue to be posted, but we've been delayed by what one might term "affairs in the world...
GRAVEYARD BOOK wins Newbery Award
Word via email and Twitter that Neil Gaiman's THE GRAVEYARD BOOK has won the ultra-prestigious Newbery Award for children's literature.
The awards are being...
Recession Watch: MAD goes quarterly
If you've been following along at home today with our news stream, the announcement that MAD Magazine is going quarterly will not be such...
