Comings and goings
Some random personnel moves that have crossed our paths of late.
• Former Comics Foundry Senior Editor Laura Hudson has been teasing a new blogging...
Publishing news and notes: BEA dropouts, etc.
¶ An article in the email newsletter Publishers Lunch rounds up signs of book industry contraction via a lowered number of exhibitors and attendees...
Full of Pryde
Worth a click: A number of artists have contributed drawings of the X-Men character Kitty Pryde as part of a benefit for the Oregon...
Comic Shop Locator app for iPhone?
http://www.youtube.com/v/piGIlkpwX54&hl=en&fs=1
Hm. Check out this video we found for what looks like a demo of a Comics Shop Locator app for the iPhone. In the...
RIP: Jack Cardiff
We're a little under the weather today, so it's late and light, but we had to make mention of this Not Comics obit: The...
Ted Rall laid off at United Media
Alan Gardner reports that Ted Rall and eight others were laid off from United Media, the cartoon and content syndication giant.
Ted Rall, who...
Marvel fourth biggest brand
License Global magazine has released its top 50 licensing companies, and toon-based behemoths once again top the list (last year's ranking in parentheses):
1. Disney Consumer...
Attention! Everyone on the internet!
Since people seem to love spreading my two-word descriptions, here are some that you should absolutely quote out of context any time you like:
"terrific...
Buenaventura Press and Diamond make theirs comic books
Via email, an announcement from Buenaventura Press, the publisher of such fine comics as KRAMERS ERGOT and BOYS CLUB:
Despite the 'industry trend' of cancelling...
Platinum $20 million in the red
Hm, whatever happened to Platinum and their 5000 comic book properties? It's been a while since we checked in, but luckily, Van Jensen has...
HUNTRESS soars up the charts…huh??!?
Okay, here's today's mystery achievement, and perhaps SOMEONE somewhere can give us a clue. As of 10 pm last evening, HUNTRESS: YEAR ONE by...
Steve Breen wins 2009 Pulitzer
Steve Breen of the San Diego Union-Tribune won this year's Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. As others have pointed out, the Pulitzer Prize winners...
