More Marvel financials
You can read Marvels' entire press release on their Q1 results here. Here's the relevant portion on publishing:
Marvel’s Publishing Segment net sales declined by $1.0 million or 4% to $26.5 million in Q1...
Can Sparky Greene Change Comics?
The headline says it all: New comic book team faces challenge:
But Sparky Greene, a writer and film producer from Malibu, wants a piece of that market. He and a small group of designers and...
Platinum ‘s 2007
Now public Platinum has announced it's 2007 financial results:
For the year ended December 31, 2007, Platinum reported net revenues of $1.96 million compared to net revenues of $0.18 million for fiscal year 2006, representing...
The fate of Occidental comics
Despite the huge huge market for manga and things manga right now, comics shops, by and large haven't been able to sell them or capitalize on the boom. While Naruto sells in Watchmen-like numbers...
Economic Report #2: Books not so hot
Yesterday's announcement that Borders was having a tough time coming up with financing for expansion and was contemplating a potential sale led to a bad day on Wall Street, but the outlook for chain...
Economic report #1: Toys okay
The San Jose Mercury News asks if the shaky economy could lead to slashes in sales for all those movie spinoff toys that are coming out based on Indy, Iron Man, Prince Caspian etc...
Borders on the block?
Jim Milliot at Publishers weekly is reporting that the Borders book chain has hired J.P. Morgan and Merrill Lynch to help them look into a possible sale in order to get more cash...
February sales slump
The ICv2 charts same out yesterday, and for the second month in a row, things were down:
Comic and graphic novel dollar sales to comic stores dipped in February vs. the year ago period, the...
Jeff and Vijaya’s busy day
Jeff Smith's blog comments on the comics' move to Warner Bros:
The whole thing happened very quickly last Friday night. Warners called and made us a real offer, it was as simple as...
Cold Cut becomes Haven
Cold Cut Distribution, the largest comics-centric alternative to Diamond as a distributor, was recently acquired by a Chicago-based webcomics publisher, and the new owners are changing the name. PR:
Rogue Wolf Entertainment announced today a...
Bits o’ DC news: LIARS trailer, Canadian pricing
§ DC has created an animated trailer for the new David Lapham book YOUNG LIARS. No direct embed but its in there.
§ DC has also updated their Canadian pricing policy. With the Canuck...
Who has time to read 3,300 graphic novels?
In a promo for their new ICv2 Guide #52: Graphic Novels ICv2 offers a few stats:
...the number of graphic novels released in the North American market in 2007 was 3,314, a 19% increase...
