Tag: david scroggy

Comics retailing pioneer Mel Thompson passed away recently, and his colleagues remember his innovations

“Five years ago, Marvel was in charge, and they ruled everything I did as a retailer. It was ‘Marvel first.’ Now, they are the bastard children of the industry. I’ve lost probably 25% of my comic readership because 25% of my Marvel fans got tired of my higher cover prices, the non-sequitur storylines, the almost incomprehensible X-Men this and that… Marvel has done nothing to drive the industry towards us.”

Another industry legend is leaving a company to work on more personal projects: David Scroggy the 23-year veteran who was most recently Dark Horse's vice president of product development, is. stepping down effective July 1,...