Layoffs at ADV
ANN is reporting a new round of layoffs at anime company ADV, which just recently started getting back into the manga publishing game:
An...
Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize
Official accounts mention her "sci-fi" period.
Short, stout and a bit hard of hearing, Ms. Lessing was sharp and straightforward in her comments. After a...
Alexie, Selznick nab NBA noms
Two sort-of comics-related projects have garnered National Book Award nominations. Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian which was illustrated...
Priego stopped at the border
The Comics Reporter reports that Mexican scholar Ernesto Priego has been denied a visa for his appearance later this month at ICAF, the international...
O'Reilly joins Platinum
In a somewhat unusual indie-to-indie hiring move, Arcana Studio's e-i-c Sean O'Reilly has moved over to Platinum to run their animation arm:
Platinum Studios, Inc.,...
More on the Comics Press/Newsarama
Chris Butcher had a post on the state of comics journalism a few days ago that everyone should read. In it he basically echoed...
Marder leaves McFarlane
A recent posting at Larry Marder's blog confirms what we'd been hearing on the grapevine: the forner Executive Director of Image and McFarlane Toys...
Damned cable outages
Apparently it's sun spots??? Or the UN General assembly. Or the Second Avenue Slasher.
Thanks to all the kind folks who responded to my SPX...
Pathetic Plea
I'm looking for a ride from NYC down to Bethesda for this weekend's Small Press Expo. Normally I would have no problem taking public...
Newsarama acquired by Imaginova
Newsarama, the longtime champion of comics news sites, has been acquired by Imaginova, the home of several science-geek-centric sites such as LiveScience and Space.com....
More on Massarsky, Goldwater
The recent deaths of past and preseng comics execs Steve Massarsky and Richard Goldwater have a bit of online commentary. Marv Evanier discusses Goldwater...
RIP Richard Goldwater
Archie Comics President and Co-Publisher Richard Goldwater passed away last week. Archie released the following obituary:
Richard H. Goldwater, President/Co-Publisher of Archie Comics, passed away...
