Comics media update: Comics Bulletin and ComicMix
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Will the now wholly owned Beat be the last comics website to turn out the lights? Ya never know
There was some private social media conversation this week about Comics Bulletin sort of dwindling into...
Greg Pak and Warren Ellis on newsletters and creators controlling platforms
If you're looking for the model of the modern, successful creative, Greg Pak is a good start. Multimedia (from making films to making comics), multi revenue stream - writing a lot of Marvel comics...
Tucker Stone joins TCJ.com as Nadel takes his harsh truths into the sunset
For the five people still interested in comics industry news, Dan Nadel is leaving tcj.com as co-editor; he'll be replaced by Tucker Stone. Stone recently left NoBrow to join the distributor Consortium so I...
Wizard World expanding to smaller markets and getting back into print
Wizard World has been making some long-planned announcements. Although I've heard a lot of people try to say they are losing altitude fast, they are still making moves and investing. In this case, two...
Must read: There’s no money in Tumblr and other internet culture outposts
Tumblr has just changed hands again, as part of Verizon's acquisition of Yahoo under the rebranded Oath umbrella (re that name - someone's definitely been watching Game of Thrones.) Although a here four years...
A Year of Free Comics: Liz Climo’s little world of cuteness
Okay a total no brainer cuz it's Friday: Liz Climo's ongoing tumblr comics are insanely popular because they are totally sweet and cute. Climo works as a character designer on The Simpsons and has...
Comics news site editor threatens to punch staff writer in face
We're living in savage times, and resorting to physical violence is becoming more and more common, as is using metaphors for violence to make a point.
Mark Waid did that, unwisely the other day in a...
Does San Diego need both San Diego Comic-Con and San Diego Comic Fest?
Once upon a time, there wasn’t a San Diego Comic-Con.
Some would mark this period as “The Dark Ages of Conventions” (those being myself). It was in this “long-long ago” (1970) that a collection of...
Breaking news: only 30% of the news on comics news sites is actually about...
Months ago, a comic book publicist and I were chatting about this and that and he suggested, rather ominously, "Have you ever tried counting how many stories on comics news sites are actually about...
More comics news site departures
A couple more long time comics journos have thrown their costumes into a trash can and walked away.
Gavin Dillinger is and Outhouser no more. He's leaving to spend more time with his family his...
Two new comics newsletters: Zainab Akhtar is back and the truth about MNT
It wasn't too long ago that everyone said the emailed newsletter was dead because people got too much email and social media was where it's at. Now that social media is part toxic tar...
What is…The MNT
The above image has been making the rounds, with a promised revelation that will either change the future...or perhaps just comics journalism.
Monday Night...Tennis? Monday Night...Twitter?
All that is known that there is a Twitter account and...
