Diamond, Comic Foundry reach historic accord
Tim Leong reports on a compromise bill that all are happy with with a price drop the key concession:
All has been quiet on the magazine front — until now. I'm happy to report that...
Silver Surfer vs. the US Mint!!!
Who wouldn't like a piece of the Silver Surfer? Maybe even to carry around in your pocketses.That must have been what 20th Century Fox and the Franklin Mint were thinking when they cooked up...
MacGuffin closes?
Many blogs have alluded to this Ben Towle post as evidence that MacGuffin, a graphic-novel heavy comics shop in Newport News, has closed down:
I received news earlier today from Newport News based illustrator Wade...
Can You Trust Newsarama?
Leave it to the pesky Canadians to make us question everything we have ever believed in! Comics Book Bin points out that the Emperor is a nudist:
The debate about independent news reporting on the...
Telling it like it is: Hibbs, Butcher
Brian Hibbs looks at the End of History as two of the latest late books ever are released and explains what it means for retailers:
Ultimates, the “Ultimate Universe” version of The Avengers by Mark...
Night of the FEMINAZIS!! Pt 1
I keep hoping to get a big enough caffeine buzz going to write about the current gender war raging in the comics petri-dish blogosphere, but it just isn't working. Maybe it's time to switch...
FCBD offerings at Salon
Douglas Wolk at Salon offers his take on today's Free Comic Book day Offerings. You need only watch a short ad to read the entire thing.
Five years ago, the weekend that the...
Comics Bestsellers: by the numbers
There's been a lot of talk lately about comics on various bestsellers lists, and of course, comics have their OWN bestseller list at Publishers Weekly. While manga has been quite rightly noted for its...
Personally, we’ve always been a Hanley’s girl
But George Gene Gustines' Free Comic Book Day Preview in the New York Times (!) gives a reason to check out Midtown for some:
Chuck McKinney, 41, a voice-over actor and Web cartoonist, loves...
Von Allan’s view from the trenches
Over at Von and Moggy's journal, cartoonist Von Allan takes a clinical look the metrics of attending a small press show like APE:
What do we know, then? Well, we know that APE ’07 had...
Media revolution
Speaking of magazine and blogs and whatnot, everyone has linked to this piece n cartoonist Daryl Cagle's weblog wher ehe lays out the challenges facing old media (print, newwspapers) very succinctly, Short version: there...
Catch-up: ComicsPRO
Somethiong we're sure to read: brian Hibbs account of the first ComicsPRO meeting for retailersheld recently in scenic Las Vegas:
Since we needed to have elections, we reasoned, maybe it would be better to do...
