Editorial shuffle
Newsarama reports that C.B. Cebulski has gone back on staff at Marvel, even while pointing out that he never really left. Cebulski will be helping out with the X-office, whipping up some international licensing...
Wacker to Marvel
52 editor Steve Wacker is ankling DC for Marvel, Wizard Entertainment reports:
Capping off a tumultuous summer of editor swapping, DC editor and overseer of 52 Stephen Wacker is leaving his office for a new...
DC Month to Month Sales: August 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
With Marvel's Civil War #4 delayed by a month, DC Comics was August's biggest publisher in the North American direct market. DC claimed the top spot with crime novelist Brad Meltzer's...
Quotable Brad Meltzer
In a very long interview with Scott King the best selling author talks about doing creator owned material:
Scott: …I know you write comics but do you have any desire to do a creator owned...
A coupla links
-- The Miami Herald interviews Alison Bechdel, whose recent interviews have mostly been about the after-effects of writing a tell-all family memoir that gets enormous amounts of attention:
''I'm beginning to wonder if...
Are you older than 6? Do you have a spare $27k?
Have you been admiring the many stirring and awe-inspiring full-size Batmans made from Lego over the past year's convention season? Now one can be YOURS courtesy of FAO Schwartz:
At 6'6" tall, a Batman statue...
Linkage: Rosemann to Marvel
Newsarama reports on the latest cross town shuffle with the Phantom Stranger, a.k.a. Bill Rosemann going back to Marvel after a 4-year break:
In October of 2002, Rosemann left Marvel, and by early 2003, had...
Meltzer king of all media
Brad Meltzer has achieved what we suspect is an unprecedented double --- topping the NY Times Bestselller list AND the Diamond chart in the same month. Congrats to Brad. He's also in the midst...
Ennis makes rare appearance with Lloyd
That's at Jim Hanley's Universe this afternoon, 4 West 33rd St.. across the the cartoon museum-less Empire State Building.
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming back via the CMX imprint.
Long before the dawn...
BKV on NPR, AOK, more cartooners on radio
NPR darling Brian K. Vaughan (an earlier appearance is credited with spiking bookstore sales of Y THE LAST MAN trades) was back on Talk of the Nation to talk about PRIDE OF BAGHDAD yesterday....
