Buy Steve Geppi’s house!
A Baltimore real estate section scrutinizes the housing sales of the Diamond Comics CEO:
The CEO of Diamond Comic Distributors and minority Orioles owner is a collector, with enough comic books, animation cels and other...
More Comics and Games Retailer memories
The other day we mentioned the cancellation of the retailer giveaway mag COMICS & GAMES RETAILERS. Former editor John Jackson Miller has his own reminiscences.
The news that Comics & Games Retailer is heading online...
Fat lady sings for retailer magazine — UPDATE
Comics Worth Reading and ICv2 report that Comics and Games Retailer , the magazine for...well, retailers published by F+W/Krause (which also publishes CBG) will cease publication with the February issue. Over the last 15...
Pow, Sock, graphic novels are for people with $100
In one fell swoop the NY Times sums up the graphic novelization of comics, vis a vis big honking Omnibi. Along the way, David Gabriel, Paul Levitz, Kuo-Yu Liang, Eric Stephenson and Larry Reid...
Shamus exits IFL
Wizard Entertainment CEO Gareb Shamus has left his position at the IFL, the mixed martial arts league he co-founded in 2006. Jay Larkin, a former Showtime exec, takes over Shamus's positions.
The International Fight...
Egmont US to open
From Publishers Lunch today, announcement of an American arm for Egmont.
Following their discussion in August of plans for a US venture, the UK's largest children's book publisher Egmont has announced current group sales...
Marvel hypers remain bullish
The Motley Fool's Tim Beyers has always been bullish on Marvel stock, and he still is, based on increased profits without the need for ANY Marvel produced movies.
Yeah, I know, $132 million is...
Broken Frontier goes it alone
Broken Frontier began life as a volunteer collective of writers about comics that for a while was an excellent collection of columnists. A while ago, it was purchased by Platinum Studios, about a year...
Would cheering up sell more comics?
Retailer John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics has a piece at ICv2 called "Sharpening the Sword--Where Are The Villains?" which suggests that since we're living in grim times, the pervasive grimness of superhero comics...
Marvel gets online ad agency
Gorilla Nation, one of the more prominent online ad agencies, announces that they'll be selling as space for Marvel's website. not too much to be read into this except that if you are getting...
State of the Industry Alert!
A few disparate threads which, taken together, stick a thermometer straight up the rectum of the comics industry. Sales are good, but is the patient really healthy?
Over at Newsarama the cancellation of AMERICAN VIRGIN...
More on the Comics Press/Newsarama
Chris Butcher had a post on the state of comics journalism a few days ago that everyone should read. In it he basically echoed what I was saying a few weeks ago: the vast...
