Tag: eric stephenson
The Retailer’s View // Scheduling Issues
Navigating monthly orders is a bone-numbing pain. I feel as though this is something I write a variation of in most of these columns. The sensation clearly remains. It’s a thankless process that rarely...
The Beat Podcasts! More To Come: Eric Stephenson’s ComicsPro speech
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it’s More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat’s own Heidi MacDonald.
In this week’s podcast the More to Come Crew -...
ComicsPRO: Image’s Eric Stephenson addresses retailers “I want to make your stores stronger”
Image Publisher Eric Stephenson delivered a speech to retailers this morning and here's the text, courtesy of Image comics:
I hope you don’t mind if I deviate from standard practice, but instead of talking about...
The Beat Interview: Eric Stephenson “Our industry is in the midst of some pretty amazing...
The Beat: Eric, first off, congratulations. In comparing 2012’s Diamond year-end figures with 2013’s, I see Image rose in both dollars and units. Do you have any other Image statistics for the year you’d...
Image Expo: Digital Remaining DRM-Free
by Bruce Lidl
Last week’s 2014 edition of the ImageExpo has generated a large amount of coverage for both new title announcements, and for the dearth of diversity among the presented creators. From a practical...
Interview: Image Publisher Eric Stephenson on the year behind and ahead
As announced earlier today, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was decisively voted The Beat's Comics Industry Person of the Year by comics professionals. Stephenson graciously agreed to be interviewed on the big impact Image had on the industry in the past year and what's next for the publisher.
Announcing the 2012 Comics Industry Person of the Year: Eric Stephenson
This is the third year of our Comics Industry Person of the Year poll, and the winner was pretty much a landslide. Every year we ask the participants in our survey to name who they thought was the person who made an impact or set the pace, and to comment anonymously (or on the record) and it was a clear choice this time out. With many people saying it was the Year of Image, Image publisher Eric Stephenson was the runaway winner—and the Saga team of Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples were definitely the Team of the Year, with a significant number of votes.
Image at NYCC: New books from Gillen, McCann, Hickman, Asmus, Fraction, Chaykin, Diggle…..
Image have yet again taken to the stage at a major convention and revealed a number of high-profile titles, this time offering new books from Kieron Gillen and Ryan Kelly, Andy Diggle and Jock,...