Breaking news: Minx line canceled
Over at CBR, Andy Khouri reports that DC has canceled the Minx line, the much-talked-about line of GNs aimed at the female YA market, launched with much fanfare last year. Khouri's story doesn't go...
Virgin goes Liquid
Virgin Comics is no more...but Liquid has risen in its place. Virgin's management team has completed a buyout of Virgin's assets that they have renamed Liquid Comics. The new entity will have an emphasis...
Marvel news and notes
Yesterday, we mentioned Marvel's alll-new webcomics. Now, Todd Allen suggests that Marvel's current hiring pattern reveals this initiative is going to get a lot bigger:
These positions tell us Marvel is looking at their...
Diamond Retailer Summit news roundup
by Torsten Adair
• Diamond's new warehouse:
At Monday's breakfast, Cindy Fournier, Diamond Vice President of Operations, presented the new distribution warehouse moving from Memphis, Tennessee, to nearby Olive Branch, Mississippi. Six years ago, Diamond...
Land o’ the links
§ An Entrepreneur.com story on webcomics includes the fact that Chris Onstad makes $250K a year from ACHEWOOD-related activities:
Webcomics cultivate an underground rapport with readers that relies on word-of-mouth, so readers discover the comics--and...
ALL-STAR BATMAN #10 recall
Well, it looks like the slow news day may be ending, as DC is requesting that this week's shipment of ALL STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER #10 not be put on shelves....
Internet users remix CHROME
4chan hackers have been busily remixing Scott McCloud's comic about Google's new Chrome browser, with amusing results.
Related: Chrome has had a bumpy rollout with concerns over privacy and features.
"By submitting, posting or...
BUY: PictureBox sale
Starting today!
Beginning Monday, September 1 at noon PictureBox is having a one-week only massive Back-to-the-old-new-School Sale!Everything on the site is discounted from 30% to 70% off the retail price! ONE WEEK ONLY! Never again...
Requiem for a Virgin
Looking at my calendar for today, there was a single item, planned about a month ago:
12:00 -- Lunch with Virgin Comics
The meeting had already been postponed once -- it was a planned confab between...
Virgin: That’s all she wrote
Somewhere, Nicolas Cage is crying. Calvin Reid at PW gets the tale of the tape:
Although calls to Virgin Comics CEO and cofounder Sharad Devarajan (who is also president of Gotham Entertainment) have not been...
Virgin Comics: changes ahead
Rumors about Virgin Comics are flying fast and furious this weekend. Sources are telling me that the comics publishing is getting drastically reduced or eliminated and most of the New York staff has been...
DCU more important than ever to the studio
Given THE DARK KNIGHT's history-making box office performance, it's unthinkable for DC's superheroes to remain the wallflowers of the Warner universe. Not one but TWO stories in Variety on Friday pointed this out. The...
