Comings and Goings: Pohja, Weidenbaum
After a long search, DC has hired a VP for trade sales, Publishers Weekly reports. Sue Pohja, former v-p of trade sales for Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc. takes the post vacated by Rich Johnson, who...
Comics films updates: WHITEOUT, LOSERS, WANTED
So many comics. So many options. So many stories about comics being optioned -- but only a handful will ever be turned into films. Yet, with the average comic book movie doing fairly well...
How they do it: Brevoort and Jones
There are really only two blogs that give it to you straight on what its like to create comics. One is, on course, Tom Brevoort's over at Marvel.com. This is such a realistic day-to-day...
Hollywood’s franchise shortage
Over at Variety (which is now FREE for everyone to read, btw), a recent article captures studio exec fretting over the dwindling supply of potential mega-franchise properties, like LORD OF THE RINS and JAMES...
Jim Lee speaks
Jim Lee is one of the superstars of comics, both as an artist and a person. His 12 issue runs on BATMAN and SUPERMAN in recent years were important steps in getting DC's franchise...
TRANSMET reconfigured
DC has announced a new line up of TRANSMETROPOLITAN trade paperbacks which will reduce the series t0 nine scathing volumes.
Four key titles in Vertigo's TRANSMETROPOLITAN collected edition series will be reconfigured in spring...
Movie updates
Rich JohnsTon got a brief respone from Frank Miller on yesterday's SIN CITY 2 rumors:
This is patent nonsense. Cybercrap.
Okay then.
Meanwhile, Cinematical has two news items of interest to our kind. #1, one-time Frank...
Children think Batman thinks Robin doesn’t exist
A study to determine relative cognitive ability of children and grown-ups examines the relative levels of fantasy and reality that can be perceived. Many graphs and charts in the link, but the bottom...
DC announces trades for March and April
Led by the Absolute Edition of BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN, DC has listed their graphic novel and collected edition plans into March and April.
DC Comics continues the rollout of new collected editions for...
The world of…SHOWBIZ!
Here's what's happening in Hollywood, my homie hepcats!
Hot rumor of the week: Bruce Campbell WILL play a villain in Spiderman 3. The blog
film ick has the spoilerish and Mysterio-so details.
Jack Black is...
DC Month-to-Month sales: September 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
September was a relatively quiet month for DC Comics. The publisher's big direct market push for September occurred at the WildStorm imprint, where Jim Lee and company begun to relaunch some...
DC’s early 2007 collected editions line-up
DC just sent out a listing of the trades and GNs for early 2007 (Jan and Feb.)
The list is long -- we're happy to see a collection for THE AMERICAN WAY, John Ridley's...
