Around the blogosphere
Big BIG report over at The Comics Reporter as Bart Beaty lays smack down on David Hajdu's THE TEN CENT PLAGUE:
I read...
Levitz Vs Jakala round 2
We're been behind on the regular news with all the con stuff going on, but the latest blog entry from Paul Levitz ...
Awards Watch: Diamond Gem Awards
Kevin Melrose has the rundown of this year's Diamond Gem Awards:
Comic Book Publisher of the Year Over 5%DC ComicsComic Book Publisher of the Year...
The SHOCKING TRUTH!!! — Updated
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Yow! You'll never believe it but that Kinsey girl on MySpace was really a Marvel viral video campaign! The final video launched last night...
Columns: Gender, stores, soaps
§ Kristy Valenti has the second part of her Gender and Reading Habits examination up, this time the girls are scrutinized, although more is...
Whom DO you trust?
Rich Johnston sleuths out another Marvel viral marketing plot for SECRET INVASION, this one purportedly the MySpace video blog of a teenaged girl named...
Levitz vs Jakala
Hey it's Paul Fridays! as DC head honcho Paul Levitz begins blogging at Blogorama.
Another interesting phenomenon is the difference in concentration between three types...
The fate of Occidental comics
Despite the huge huge market for manga and things manga right now, comics shops, by and large haven't been able to sell them or...
ComicsPRO: CBLDF speech
Speaking of last week's ComicsPRO meeting, CBLDF Executive Director Charles Brownstein was generous enough to make the text of his presentation available to us....
The middle is STRONG
John Jackson Miller does his usual insightful number crunching with February's sale numbers:
...the February 2008 Top 300 as a group…sold 1.22 million more copies...
ComicsPRO meeting news
ComicsPRO, the organization for comics retaielrs, held it's conference last week, and Matt Price has a bunch of posts on the public presentations. ...
PictureBox opens store
Following in the footsteps of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly, Picturebox, the Brooklyn-based art comix publisher, is opening a store in Gowanus, Brooklyn!
First, we...
