Survey: Digital book readers buying more print books
A couple of new surveys reveal some interesting book buying trends. In the bad news category, weekly sales are down 32% from 2011but that's mostly due to last summer's Borders sell off, Publishers Weekly reports.
SDCC 12: Comic-Con is spreading like the zombie apocalypse
It's a sign of the length of the Comic-Con Recovery Process that even though I thought I could wrap this all up on Tuesday, it's taken me another four days and many many packets of Vietnamese Instant Coffee (Cà Phê Hòa Tan) to have the energy to write my thoughts. If you don't want to read them you can listen to much the same thing in the PW Comics World More to Come podcast. While I'm pretty sure everyone has purged the week of July 11-15th from their mind entirely —and I just about have forgotten it all myself—for the sake of completeness, here's what I thought and observed and smelled and saw and heard:
Todd McFarlane Spider-Man cover sells for $675,250 — and that's just the start
Recent record-setting prices for original comics art could just be the beginning as the art world continues to perform.
Infinity, the new FREE magazine about digital comics for iPad
A digital magazine about...digital comics?
Why didn't anyone think of that before?
DreamWorks buys Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Lulu and many more classic comics licenses
A Lassie animated movie? A new Casper cartoon? It's all speculation, but DreamWorks has just purchased licensing company Classic Media for $155 million. Classic Media, which was founded by ex-Marvel CEO Eric Ellenbogen and ex-Broadway Video's John Engelman in 2000, has long been one of the biggest behind-the-scenes media entities, amassing a huge library of legacy characters including the Harvey and Western libraries, in addition to The Lone Ranger, Lassie, and many many more.
More on the Batman connection
Without going into overdrive over covering every minute detail of the life of the mass murder which took place during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises , it is very slowly being revealed that there was a Batman connection:
The Legal View: "Breaking" old news in the Superman copyright case
By Jeff Trexler
-- Other comic news sites are reporting a bombshell development in DC's legal fight to hold onto the Superman copyright: on Monday, the company filed a court document asserting that the Shuster estate had actually sold its share of the Superman copyright back to DC in 1992 and affirmed this sale in subsequent correspondence.Charles Burns' X'ed OUT
One of the hottest promos at MoCCA was the Pantheon flyer for this fall's new Charles Burns GN, X'ed OUT, and we've sneakily scanned...
Montana family sues Geppi for $500,000
It's been no secret over the last year that Steve Geppi, the owner of Diamond Comics Distribution, has had some money problems on his...
Jeff Robinov, the front stabber
The New York Times profiles president of production at Warners, Jeff Robinov, painting him as the heir apparent to Alan Horn as he finds...
