SNAKES one more time
The dissappointing showing of SNAKES ON A PLANE continues to haunt Hollywood, and the Internet may not be our friend any more. Someone sent us this link to THR's Martin Grovevery long and thorough...
Tower Files for Bankruptcy
Tower Records has filed a Chapter 11 for the 2nd time in 2 year, Publishers Weekly reports:
The beleaguered music and video chain, which launched an online bookstore as recently as last March, went into...
Cold Cut’s new policy
Yesterday, Cold Cut Distribution announced that they were instituting an across the board discount for retailers, as opposed to a tiered system base on how the size of the order. MacGuffin explains why it's...
Where is your messiah now, Internets?
As you all know by now, SNAKES ON A PLANE, the internet driven movie phenomenon which saw Samuel L. Jackson intoning "M-----f---in' snakes on a m-----f---in' plane!" everywhere nerd hipsters congregate, was a first...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales July 2006
BY PAUL O'BRIEN
Well, here's something I never thought I'd see - a month where most of the six-month comparisons are going up. July was an extremely good month for Marvel, mostly thanks to...
Must Reading: 2005’s Graphic Novel Bestsellers
In what could very well be the Rosetta Stone for graphic novel sales analysis, The Book Standard takes a look at their Comics & Graphic Novel Chart which is taken from the Bookscan...
We’ve been podcasted!
Several comic geeks speak about, um, Civil War, at the podcast Comics Geek Speak, including
creator Beau Smith, noted comics journalist Heidi MacDonald and outspoken retailer Brian Hibbs. We also hear from two listeners David...
It is a period of CIVIL WAR
Whose side are you on? No really. Retailers, readers or publishers/creators? The news of Civil War #4's lateness, Marvel's resultant line rescheduling and apologies/explanations from various members of the creative team split the...
We won! Comic books in newspapers!
It seems that the AMAZING FANTASY #15 giveaway in the NY Post we wrote of yesterday is but one example of a huge project that will see weekly Spider-man comics given away in 122...
Where have you gone, Sal Buscema?
We don't really follow the day to day announcements of Marvel and DC, except when they strike us in some larger sense, but yesterday's shocker that CIVIL WAR #4 and 5 would be delayed...
McElhatton’s new review site!
After 1000 comics reviews at iComics, Greg McElhatton has moved his review site to its own spot Read About Comics:
Read About Comics’s goal is to help keep you informed and updated on comics of...
INTERVIEW: Brian Hibbs on all sorts of stuff
Independent Propaganda also has an interview with the ever candid Brian Hibbs. We don't always agree with Brian, but we always respect where he's coming from. Some interesting pull quotes.
Q: How can self-publishers...
