Ambrosia Publishing debuts
There's a new publisher in town, and their name begins with "A" so they have a small chance of escaping end of the catalog ennui. And they are looking to get in!
Ambrosia Publishing, a...
Gordon Lee back in court
Georgia retailer Gordon Lee is back in court for a hearing with two motions to dismiss today. The case has been in the court system since 2004. The CBLDF provides a complete run down...
FREAK SHOW comics
Kevin Merose at the Blog@ had a post yesterday all about FREAK SHOW, the new David Cross-created cartoon now airing on Comedy Central. We caught about 50% of the debut last night, and it...
Slave Labor publishes first digital comic
First it was just a few renegades like Phil Foglio and Carla Speed McNeill. Now it's even publishers like Slave Labor who are ditching paper. SLG announced their first digital only comics, WHISTLES by...
Where will you be when the robots arrive?
This link has been making thr rounds, but it definitely qualifies as MUST-READING: MIT's Henry Jenkins interviews Todd Allen about micropayments. Now we admit, micropayments aren't a very sexy topic, and Allen can get...
Wayne Talks FoC
Meanwhile over at Newsarama, Bob Wayne discusses DC's implementation of the FoC system. You'll recall that this system--which Marvel has been using for some time now--allows retailers to lower or raise their orders for...
Changes in the market
Last Friday Brian Hibbs had one of his usual thought provoking columns at Newsarama, and this one looked at a very interesting trend: comics shops opening up accounts with Baker & Taylor to buy...
Diamond to distribute HOUSE OF SUGAR
Some good news to start off the weekend. Hope Larson writes to say that Diamond will carry HOUSE OF SUGAR by Rebecca Kraatz after all.
I just heard from Jim Kuhoric that Diamond has...
Citizens flee CIVIL WAR
Apparently, the late shipping CIVIL WAR #4 shipped this week, with many shocking revelations. (Hint: We're going to need a bigger grave.) However, reaction in the blogosphere has been, well, contemptuous.
Normally we take...
Indies publisher sign up for digital delivery
McCloud was right! Micropayments! Sort of. DriveThruComics.com is a spin off of a very sucessful RPG downloading site that has begun to offer downloads of comics from Dabel Brothers Productions, Shi, About Comics,...
Would a manga anthology work?
Last week Tania Del Rio wrote at Pop Culture Shock wondering if manga anthologies could possibly work here the way they do in Japan.
Rather than wait multiple months for the next volume of...
DC COMICS MONTH-TO-MONTH SALES: JULY 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
July was a very busy month for DC Comics, in terms of new projects. The publisher's line of mainstream superhero titles was headed by the first issue of crime novelist Brad...
